The Stupidest Commander Deck I've Ever Built...

Let me take you on a journey through the silliest route possible.
Everytime I think you can't do something with a Magic card it turns out if you apply yourself and look to the memes you'll probably be surprised.
This budget brew features some fun new tools from Modern Horizons 3, a few neat cards from Tales of Middle Earth and a bunch of sticker sheets?
Yeah, this is Astral Slide like you've never seen it before!
The Unfinity cards might've been banned in Legacy and Vintage but we can still cook with them in Commander.
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[@HungryOnPlane]

What's your silliest Commander deck?

[@ThisAreOr]

I in a similar boat to you created the smoothest running Gimbal, Gremlin Prodigy deck using stickers for the name stickers on the Gremlin tokens.

[@Aedi]

I love taking a gimmick and building it out. I don't know if they're quite as stretched as this, but I have Morophon 5c elementals with only basic forests for lands (and every "so 5c but..." has a card that disproves it. It's a true 5c deck, in every sense you can argue). That's probably my silliest atm, but I'm also tinkering with Adamaro voltron wheels. They're a */* where * is greatest number of cards in an opponents hand, so you wheel, force draws, pump Adamaro exclusively through forcing people to draw cards

[@ericashmead4049]

Mardu Stax with Ghen. Its my lowest winrate because my playgroups hate it, which makes me love it! 4+ hour game is considered pretty quick

[@kingdedede933]

Clearly, its Arjan, The Shifting Flame wheel deck.. "YOU THINK I ONLY WANT TO SEE MY DECK ONCE?!"

[@Doki1880]

Built a deck that consistently wins by attacking with 90+ copies of Battle of Wits on turn 5-6

[@justinfarnes2291]

As someone who just put together a deck list based around Ball Lightning and Obosh the Preypeircer, I'm a huge fan of silly / stupid decks. This video was a great watch, and very high quality for such a small channel! I'll keep my eye out for more fun deck techs in the future!

[@HungryOnPlane]

Appreciate the kind words!

[@williamkeiser7562]

I have one deck that uses silver border cards and it's a deck where I kinda focus on dropping a gleemax. The commander is megatron, so megatron getting to chuck a gleemax at someone is always funny and an instant kill.

[@twilightwolf90]

I personally would run Folk Hero, Agitator Ant, and Orzhov Advokist to execute the gameplan and stall making eowyn impact more on etb. Goes along with the goad or can't hurt me theme. Crescendo of War is great too combined with a source of flash or instant flicker. Great deck!

[@HungryOnPlane]

Oh that's a cool angle, didn't consider them in my power buffing class of cards but those are great.

[@TheLovelyMedusa]

Oh my gosh now that I've watched this I *can* confirm that this deck SLAPS! Thanks for posting it on my thread!!!

[@colinfowler3021]

I don't know why the algorithm sent me here, and I fully expected to be disappointed by some run of the mill stupidity. But now that I've seen this, can confirm, this is extremely stupid. I'm impressed.

[@HungryOnPlane]

I have a PHD in Wizard nonsense.

[@colinfowler3021]

@@HungryOnPlane the moment that sealed in the stupidity is doubling down on needing to modify Eowyn's power as opposed to buffing opponents creatures.

[@HungryOnPlane]

We can do both! It's genius!

[@Aedi]

This isn't your average stupid. This is *advanced* stupid.

[@TribeWars1]

My silliest deck has Rocco, Cabaretti Caterer as its commander. Its main tutor target is Painter's servant to make all cards and permanents black. The deck then plays a number of niche colour hate cards that are surprisingly effective once painter is in play. For instance Pygmy Kavu draws cards equal to the number of black creatures my opponents control. You can easily end up drawing 20 cards with that. Also, since Rocco is a Naya commander it means that every coloured card in my deck is now multicoloured which makes some multicolour matters cards absurdly strong (e.g. Tome of the Guildpact makes every spell into a cantrip). My favourite part is that the deck also has a "sideboard" where I can switch out the black colour hate for blue colour hate (enabling pyroblast/reb, seedtime as a bad meme and making Chaotic Backlash a game-ending burn spell).

[@MinstrelSauce]

My fave personal deck is called "counters everywhere" because the "thing" I'm trying to do is put as many counters of as many types on as many permanents as possible. The actual goal is to make identifying cards difficult and tapping and untapping so time consuming that people quit

[@Aedi]

To bring some intelligence to the stupidity, we can use maths to see that we don't need 10 sticker sheets that give 1-power. We need 1 or more in the 3 we draw, so if we used 8 sheets with a 1-power sticker, we can guarantee we hit one, and have 2 sheets that may have other stickers that are nice to have on them (to take advantage of already having sticker stuff) 7 actually has less than a 1% chance of not hitting one of the 1-power sheets, so a pretty safe gamble. 6 has 3.33% 5 has ~8% chance, so realistically going to see misses but not often (and having one or more of the others having a 2-power sticker we can still get most of the same results on the chance we miss 4 gets it up to a 16ish % chance, which is ~1/8 games is a miss. Less so if we're comfortable using the 2-power sheets to buff these numbers. So, there's actually a lot of room to add other sheets with other effects. They won't generally be consistent, but can certainly add a lot of options. I'm going to have a look and see if there's any that seem worthwhile, but we can get 2 for free, and as many as 4 and still be fairly consistent

[@Aedi]

Had a look, the ones I like the most are: Night Brushwagg Ringmaster - it gives persist, which a) makes Nelly potentially a 0-power, but is also a 2-power sheet, meaning it can also make her a 1-power if she dies. And the sheer amount of flicker to remove the -1/-1 counter makes her nigh indestructible. Mostly like it for synergising with the other ones I like Deep-Fried Plague Myr - has artifact/enchantment removal on ltb (notably not dies, ltb) makes Eowyn a very well rounded source of removal. the scry on attack also seems useful in games where you're struggling with cards Giant Mana Cake - "when this creature dies, you may destroy target nonland permanent" - death is a bigger hoop to jump through but makes Eowyn a hilarious blocker, with noone wanting to kill her. With NBR you can kill her, she comes back, potentially as a 0-power, and you flicker her to reset. Remove a nonland, noncreature, and a 1-power creature and finally Yawgmoth Merfolk Soul - target player discards a card on ltb adds hand attack, which can add a remarkable amount of control. Force everyone else to sandbag some cards. It also has "make 5 1/1 tokens on ltb" which can be helpful for ending a game, or stalling out against an aggressive opponent. That's 4 of them, one is a 2-power sheet. Giving us a 99.2% chance of having a 1-power OR 2-power sticker sheet. and a 96.7% chance of a 1-power sheet specifically. Those odds seem pretty good, 3 good effects and 1`effect that adds a lot of resiliency and synergy for the other 2 effects. or go find your own set, but yeah, I highly encourage not just picking 10 1-power sheets. Play around and have fun with them

[@HungryOnPlane]

@@Aedi This is true! Thanks for all the maths. I knew this going in but truthfully I was too lazy to read all the sticker sheets LOL. Also turns out I misread one of them so we actually only have nine sheets that give one power. Your point stands though, we have a sticker slot we can optimize, appreciate the suggestions!

[@Joshimuz]

Ahahaha making use of the stickers in the silliest way possible was great.

[@canadianguy1578]

Night of soul's betrayal wouldn't help

[@HungryOnPlane]

I can't find the specific comp rule to address this but in the scenario I was describing it would help. NOSB is a static effect so it'll always effect Eowyn's power at the relevant time for her enters trigger. There's always a chance I'm wrong because Magic is very complicated but I'm fairly confident this one does work.

[@texier13]

@@HungryOnPlane It would not help cause ALL creatures are smaller, so it doesnt make a change to the target

[@KaiserChef]

Shade tribal, its Alesha who smiles at death. And the goal is to use a lot of the discard, draw effects and treasure ramp to bring a 1/1 from the graveyard have it unlockable then pumping them, then either flinging or sacing them for huge value.

[@aringrey]

my silliest deck is my Thantis the warweaver deck. Its called the moshpit because I give everyone tokens and then force everyone to attack. It is by no means good but it accelerates the game

[@sykestobeyou6175]

Would having the etb go on the stack, activating and resolving a -X/-0 ability, then copying the original etb that is still on the stack (via strionic resonator, lithoform or return the favor) work? Or am I fundamentally wrong lol (Assuming the first trigger has a legal target)

[@HungryOnPlane]

No that would work! That's actually really sweet. The trick there is Strionic saying (like all the other similar effects) "you may choose new targets for the copy". Now that Eowyn has a much lower power you have a much higher number of possible legal targets.

[@Aedi]

that would absolutely work, but feels like somehow far more hoops than stickers

[@MinstrelSauce]

Love this. I try and troll every game

[@sjrnr]

Did someone mention Momentary Blink's blue mana symbol yet? Great video btw!

[@HungryOnPlane]

Thanks! You're the first but it was just used for the example because I believe its the card either most or fully responsible for the slang term 'Blink effect'! (All the way back to Blink Riders back in Time Spiral Standard I think. Shoutouts to Shaheen Soorani)

[@simla5]

Thinking about it, I thought I don't have silly decks, but Jon Irenicus is kinda silly, it doesn't really win very often, I just like to piss people off with obscure creatures with horrible effects, so probably that one. I also thought that I'm building a meme deck when Yargle and Multani were introduced, but that deck is actually pretty nasty.

[@Eladnav1]

new to mtg, tf does boros even mean in this context, isn´t it a card?

[@Albinamo]

red and white color combo

[@Eladnav1]

@@Albinamo nice, thank you. Probably comes from a card named Boros something right?