A Guide To Tuvasa and Kestia EDH / Commander - Double Deck Tech for Magic: The Gathering

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[@AffinityForCommander]

Woo! Commander content! Great video Professor! 😁

[@LegendaryCreaturePodcast]

We really appreciate the work you do. This video's next level with flexibility. Could easily do both these commanders in one big deck box. Then have two complete experiances playing either of them, while taking advantage of their shared card pool!

[@onewholeegg]

It's so beautiful to see Sigarda and Bruna together

[@kenfox261]

This is one of your best videos. Valuable, calm and focused. I prefer this format as it showcases your depth on knowledge.

[@kaiju_kun]

What is decking yourself out??? Just curious

[@Maejys]

OMG I love that Tuvasa deck. I've been looking into a enchantment build in commander for a loooong time and this is way too perfect haha. Great video Prof.

[@jellyemporer83]

Yesss! I was eyeballing both of these commanders, thank you for making the decision a lot easier!

[@AndrewWoodford]

Those peaceful and beautiful openings... Thank you Professor!

[@skimpos]

Love your commander videos prof! Always look forward to them!

[@jimbones5621]

My Tuvasa deck is my favorite commander deck i own, so it was pretty cool seeing some new ideas for it. Thanks!

[@Waka817]

I was literally trying to build a bant enchantress deck last night! I was going to use cards from my gw sigarda deck, which was based on yours, and I was having trouble putting it together. Thanks professor!

[@andrewdenne5459]

love this video Kestia has been my favorite since commander 18 dropped. always love it your deck techs prof. keep up the good fight

[@b_olson542]

Went to my LGS and bought the precon to have access to Kestia and an Arixmethes deck idea. Well done and very creative.

[@itssalem1]

I have had a deck with Tuvasa since I got the precon for christmas, and I went voltron style with it. It works well, but I am now modding the deck to use Kestia. Great video!

[@MilkshakeSkunkette]

love your commander deck techs! I'm doing the 32 deck challenge so new ideas for commanders are always welcome! :D

[@guydrinkstea]

Carpet of Flowers, Mystic Remora, Sylvan Library, and a handful of tutors - looks like you've taken some inspiration from the cEDH card pool! I think that's a good move; having those in there should help a lot with consistently executing your game plan. Great video!

[@joshchilders8953]

YEEEEES PROFESSOR IVE BEEN WAITING FOR SO LONG! I was building karametra, enchantress and then they dropped this deck. I've been waiting for a comprehensive review/strategy guide to compare my list! You have ALL of my support in this one 🙌🙌

[@ichhalt12345]

I really enjoy your videos prof :) I'm having a good time whenever I see them, thank you for that

[@JavierOrtizBultron]

Great video as always. I've been trying to build commander decks around the guild kits for Guilds of ravnica.

[@andrewlaverghetta715]

I love your deck techs, specially edh! Thanks for this! The two decks I’m thinking about right now include Brudiclad and Ezuri, Renegage Leader. The. Brudiclad is because my Saheeli deck seems too simple, and Ezuri because I like beatdown elves and want to try it out. Elves was my first actual deck I actually played a whole game with.

[@thecommandmaster4354]

I JUST BOUGHT THE PRECON FOR THIS YESTERDAY AND YOU POST THIS !!!! AWESOME!

[@nedgelord]

I recently built a Tuvasa deck that uses Tuvasa as a wincon just by being massive, but I do run a decent number of hate cards. Thank you for enlightening me with the knowledge of Opalescence, I see now that the card is double insane

[@gangrel1234]

Great Video Prof! I would love the next commander to be Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow

[@nabari7201]

I have to personally say thank you. Your present Tuvasa list with a refined mana base is beautiful. People hate it and I was told it's an un fun no friend having deck. Exactly my cup of tea! ;-)

[@sushimandaddi]

I played against a tuvasa deck and it was pretty good, I thought of building it and this video will surely help!

[@mowdownjoe]

I did a quick search on Scryfall, and was surprised how few evasive creatures with Hexproof there are for Kestia. So, here's a few you didn't mention that might be worth including: Geist of St. Traft (not evasive, but still a solid hexproof beater even without auras), Dragonlord Ojutai (loses hexproof when he attacks, but he draws you cards, so it's a trade-off), Cloudform (actually an enchantment for your Enchantresses, and maybe you'll get some manifest card advantage), Ascended Lawmage (the pickings start to get slim here), Slippery Scoundrel (I warned you), Aven Fleetwing (I guess it does the job), Prognostic Sphinx (well, hope you have the cards to pitch to protect it), Soul of the Rapids (eww). So yeah... they don't do a lot of that, at all.

[@alexchu9]

I'm disappointed that you didn't include the BIGGEST BOGLE, Carnage Tyrant!

[@williamkorb8211]

Great DT Prof. On the note of bant Merfolk I’ve had some great results with Thrasios and Sidar partner, yes I know neither have Merfolk synergy other than Thrasios being a Merfolk, but tamp/card draw plus potential unblockable if you go low is nice.

[@ericcornish1983]

Holy crap Professor these decks are amazingly badass, i gotta build these and play these against my buddies! 😁👍😜🍻

[@Janlobbo]

Hey Prof! I'd love to see a video of the commander on the unque landcentered Lord Windgrace. Video great as always!

[@connorc1635]

I really love my Tuvasa deck, a recommendation from me for other people to try out is Abundance, it rally helps make all that card draw efficient and saves you from decking yourself out once you really get going (it has saved me from this fate a surprising number of times)

[@tristangronlie5298]

Your such a great commander professor

[@DCast59]

Awesome definitely picking up that bant deck now.

[@jamessmith4440]

So I love the content on your channel and how you speak your mind. You probably already have a video planned for this but if not I have a recommendation. The whole issue that's apparently coming up with the next prerelease and how it will affect many of the players in other countries

[@buamp8186]

Tuvasa is my favorite commander. I wasn't sold on the deck until I switched out the planeswalker for Tuvasa. Super fun.

[@WhitePhosAllOneWord]

Aura Shards is perfect for the Chosen+Enchanted Evening combo. It becomes a total board wipe for everyone but you and you can make as big a cat army as you need for next turn to swing lethal (Eidolon of Blossoms makes this a bit trickier, but you're more than likely able to still have lethal on board even if you almost deck yourself)

[@robbieh9873]

Parallax wavw + Opalescense broke my brain when I discovered it. I was so happy though, it's such a great combo

[@erichampton6492]

Great video. Thanks!

[@frigglegiggles]

Please keep doing Commander content, loved this vid!

[@tripledipped]

Im brewing my first every commander deck off your merfolk deck! As an actually professional River Guide your video just called to me!

[@IshoPlays]

Great video. I'd like to see a deck build around Kaervek, the Merciless.

[@tetrisgoat]

I play Estrid Ramp-and-taxes. It has low-key become my best and most competitive commander, easily beating out my Mizzix and Prossh decks - even Rhoon has met its match. The Estrid deck usually plays arch-enemy and does so surprisingly well, but is reliant on having one of either category on the board: mana doublers, oath of teferi/chain veil, a few land-auras or the new Smothering Tithe card to really cement the push. This is surprisingly easy to accomplish. Establishing a Dovescape lock, Solemnity/Aura of Silence-lock, Heliod, Thassa or a Opalesence/Starfield shenanigan are the major win-cons, but the deck just finds new ways to pull through all the time.

[@kaidimino9858]

Would love to see a hidden commander deck. Josh Lee Kwai talks about his 5-color Nekusar deck, and I wonder what commanders you would consider worth running for a similar effect. I myself am working on 5C Sen Triplets: Group Hug effects to load my opponent’s hands and then pivot into Sen Triplets where I turn off the symmetry and try to win from there. There are some back door combo wins as well.

[@ry7hym]

I love these poem-y intros !

[@MrEugene112]

Sick tech Prof. Alas, more cards I need to acquire :(

[@krvys7226]

That moment when mentioning parallax wave reminds me of parallax tide, and I want to be a horrible person as a result.

[@orendiener8254]

Love your commander content

[@royal-wolf]

I would love to see a deck tech on Karn, Silver Golem. He is a very interesting commader that wouldnd be bad as a Voltron commander if done right.

[@xxhellspawnedxx]

I have a Tuvasa deck as well, made up from the leftover dregs of an old Jenara Enchantress Voltron deck I ran a couple of years back. It's quite fun, especially considering that I finished that deck for 20 dollars or so, and it still wins games. Still doesn't hold a candle to the apple of my eye, my Derevi Enchantress Combo deck. That shit is just wild :)

[@PandaSafadopudim]

Hello, I'm the Professor, and I've smoked old hay dayly for the last 50 years. Jests aside, great video Prof. Take care of that silky sweet voice of yours.

[@kylesavage4525]

Hey Prof i would love to see a Thantis the Warweaver deck tech using deathtouch creatures and forced attacks. I want to compare it to the one i made a couple days ago and get some new ideas.

[@rhysthered89]

I’m interested in the Kestia deck but not how it was built here. I’d like to build her around the Heroic mechanic from Theros. Those were some of the first cards I played with - my first deck was the Heroes of Khans of Tarkir deck you build a few years ago! So something like that with Kestia sounds really fun to me!

[@LipeSemFoco]

Would be awesome a new video updating these commanders with the new Theros Beyond Death collection ;)

[@dantesinferno1456]

The opening was awesome

[@ntsmith2000]

I played a Tuvasa Voltron deck in my play group last night; I won a heads up match doing 21 damage. Figured a cheaper mana cost commander helps with the race to the finish line.

[@HELLFIRExxIFRIT]

I love the Tuvasa deck. Oh my God..

[@ezekielgml]

Love the vids cardkingdon/tcc here I come. I'm building a Seraph of the Scales EDH and would love your thoughts on a build.

[@Mamadeira_]

Nice video prof!

[@montevideogaminghouse8654]

Keep up the commander theme decks!

[@rayrayramirez5860]

Ive always wanted to see a knight commander deck based around Aryel, Knight of Windgrace or maybe you could do a battle based deck around Aurelia, Thr Warleader

[@metalvisionsongcontest7055]

Yeah, upon having heard all the not-fun combos you suggest for Tuvasa, I’m happy to be playing her as Merfolk tribal, indeed. 😁

[@Error-4O4]

Hey TCC! Love your content! Can you please do a tech on new Tesysa? I’d love to see that!

[@CutThisCity]

He has a Tesysa deck tech out: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aKWplWaurriDfZY

[@MrEugene112]

His first Teysa deck tech made me a god for about a week. Then everybody else saw the vid :(

[@Error-4O4]

CutThisCity I mean Teysa Karlov

[@CutThisCity]

o i c

[@phears7435]

YAY ANOTHER EDH DECK TECH!!

[@shadowstargaming7186]

could you do a madness/hellbent deck tech focused around Malfegor? i wanna see how your version compares to mine.

[@Ewt3]

I made my degenerate Tuvasa deck as soon as I saw she got spoiled. It's easily my greatest deck lol. I pretty much had every card you reccommended in it already. I'm happy I got my sanctum, rector, and replenish years ago.

[@arzangofthebrothersoflightario]

Some upgrades for Kestia. Include thrun and Geist of Saint traft as "Super Bogles". AddRafiq Of the Many and Finest Hour as big forms of support for a big pants wearing bogle. Run a copy of Fumble along with Arcane Lighthouse to bounce opposing voltron commanders and take their goodies for yourself. Other cards worth looking into: Flickerform. Second Sunrise, faith's reward, Angelic Destiny, Auramancer's Ruse. Danitha, hero of iroas. Herald of the pantheon.

[@LTJ]

I play a Tuvasa enchantress deck with the following combos, and managed to execute most of them today in a game where I was on 3 life and gonna die the next turn: 1. High Market/Academy Rector/Omniscience 2. Enchanted Evening/Aura Thief/High Market (EVERY perm becomes mine) 3. Enchanted Evening/Starfield or opalescence/mirari's wake (all lands become 0/0 creatures and except mine as they 1/1's) 4. Enchantresses/Omniscience/Abundance/thought reflection/Lab Maniac (mill yourself out and win due to lab man) 5. Tuvasa/Enchanted Evening/Protective bubble (shroud and unblockable) 6. Privileged Position/Sterling Grove (EVERYTHING is protected) and for the ultimate emergency there is of course Teferis Protection. There are other combos in the deck. My favourite though is milling myself out and winning with Lab man, never seen it done by anyone else in an Enchantress deck. None of these are infinite combos, but once they go off are REALLY difficult so stop...especially if you have City of Solitude of Grand Abolisher...

[@Twistedlittlesmile]

Id love to see your tech on something mono green stompy. Ghalta, Goreclaw, something like that

[@Squidxx-fg7ih]

I really like krond the dawn clad in kestia its definitely color intensive but it's super fun to get online and start exiling everyone's stuff muhaha

[@EDHCommander99]

Enchantments are something we've covered as well. The uniqueness that these two Commanders add to and enchantment strategy is blue. That added color provides for a lot of protection in a strategy that opponents already have a difficult time dealing with. It's interesting to see you bring two different enchantment strategies together to compare and contrast them like this. Love the Double Deck Tech and would be interested in seeing more from you.

[@drakeconsumerofsoulsandche5761]

Imo, rafiq is a better tuvasa

[@comradecameron3726]

Drake the troll not really. Tuvasa doesn’t want to attack all the time. She sits back drawing you cards until you can win. Rafiq doesn’t have the ability to draw anything you just play it then swing with creatures. Not a whole lot of thought goes into playing Rafiq.

[@MrLoowiz]

I'd like to see the best Rakdos generals or the best chaos decks in your opinion, professor!

[@zavesmith99]

Any chance you could do either an update tech or a video of you telling of some of the new cards you have added to your sliver overlord?

[@lesterb7151]

Great program as always. Would be nice to see the pricing for each deck

[@JavierOrtizBultron]

If you follow the deck list links it has it there.

[@Draven1895]

Brago Deck would be really cool to see

[@Theorak]

Kestia is extreme fun, always a full hand, just by attacking is great. I've added more hybrid cards and Exalted to the mix, since bant has great cards for that.

[@mariodemuth5634]

Great Video! How about a tech about Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive?

[@Scratch192]

Please do a Yuriko deck tech! Ninja-tribal, voltron, combo (infinite turns and/or doomsday), everything goes, I'd like to see your take on it!

[@xzakly]

Hey Prof, I'd love to see your take on a Teysa Karlov deck

[@filippoghisoni6569]

Thanks thanks thanks!

[@Syl50O5]

May I add a quick note that Ajani's Chosen and Enchanted Evening (with Opalescence) does create a X amount of tokens, but it doesn't end the game. You can say you repeat this effect X times to create X cats. If you happen to continue the creation of X cats the following hour, you shouldve been warned multiple times by your judge for slow play.

[@princepersona]

Defense of the Heart into Lost Auramancers + Suncleanser is also fun.

[@TimPoultney]

I'd love to see a Maelstrom Wanderer deck tech!

[@luffysh]

What a great deck and great video. Geez.

[@TheOnlyMisterC]

Prof! It would be awesome to have a Admiral Becket Brass deck tech next! Shes a tricky commander to build around as most of the pirates we have are...lets say sub uptimum? But Pirate Tribal is a very appealing deck...and I would welcome the help ahahah

[@Jeffxm003]

You should do Karazov Sengir Pureblood for the next deck tech. I recently made it so I'm curious to see what you do with it

[@adamloomos]

I’m still waiting for a Legendary creature in Abzan that has enchantment synergies. I like what black brings to the table: Grim Guardian combos with Parallax Wave and Opalescence for an instant win. You also get enchantment based board wipes in the form of Pernicious Deed and Phyrexian Scriptures. Add in Necropotence, Black Market, Pharika, and Agent of Erebos.

[@jacobg109]

I would love to see a brago, king eternal commander deck, using flicker or blink. Or another great one id like but I'd understand if not because they are planes walkers, but will, and rowan kenrith. I like them but they cost a lot to cast. Another cool option for a weird coin flip one, could be zndrsplt, eye of wisdom and okaun, eye of chaos.

[@muhdafiq3329]

Have a similar Tuvasa deck that basically just plays a lot of enchantments & draw me tonsss of cards. The only combo I played in the deck is Enchanted Evening, Ajani’s Chosen & Aura Shards. But i’m always careful to keep aura of silence around or some removal since it goes into a loop.

[@sw0rdhunter]

you don't need any kind of removal for that combo. aura shards is you removal.once you have completely eliminated your opponents boards you just target your ajani's chosen or enchanted evening with the aura shards trigger and you stop the loop. at that point you should have enough to kill your opponents next turn.

[@muhdafiq3329]

Sword Hunter OH RIGHTTT!! thanks a lot man i forgot that i could target my own enchantments!

[@comradecameron3726]

Muhd Afiq just be sure not to have sterling grove out when you go off

[@sw0rdhunter]

Goroto Jr. that would just be one more thing to get rid of before stopping the combo. sterling grove gives your other enchantments shroud but not itself so you can kill it with aura shards or just sac it to its own ability.

[@comradecameron3726]

Sword Hunter I realized that just after I said

[@nightshade2313]

Id love to see a Chainer, Dementia Master deck tech

[@eliaproietti3633]

Wow, Thanks professor... It helped really a lot. Can you try to help me with my kaalia of the vast?

[@bookstooge5294]

I'd like to see you build an Exalt deck built around Rafiq of the Many. (if you haven't already done that)

[@segaahomies]

I'd like to see your take on a kess storm edh deck

[@lahojaqueflota]

I use Tuvasa as a Voltron commander. Blue lets me stall out until I can stack her with totem armor or ancestral mask. The other creatures I use usually protect her or draw me cards. I like mother of runes in here, or umbra mystic.

[@addambarcelos]

good to see commander on the show xD. new jhoira would be nice

[@guidocampostrini]

Helo prof, could you make a video talking about flavor texts you like or that you consider "flavor wins" please?

[@AarhgYouTube]

I'd like to see a deck tech on Licia, Sanguine Tribune as an equipment voltron.

[@DarkwingDidi]

Equipment Voltron is fun!I love Thassa equip voltron.

[@namename8004]

Totally thought Prof was wrong about Bestow spells resolving as creature spells if their target is removed. I looked it up when I didn't see anyone in the comment section correcting him. I understand it fully now, but wow that's an unintuitive interaction. The rules reminder text mentions nothing about this additional exception in how Bestow works compared to usual Auras. I understand that card space is a factor. It just seems like a fairly important interaction that works the opposite of how you'd expect it. I'm glad it works the way it does, however. Removes that feels bad of getting 2-for-1'd out of the equation. I just wish it was more explicit about it.

[@thezombiefan777]

Well the bestow effect does mention that if it becomes unattached it reverts back to a creature

[@NotYourAverageNothing]

Senior Copter But it never became attached in the first place, so it couldn't "become unattached."

[@thezombiefan777]

@@NotYourAverageNothing not really unattached just means something isn't attached to anything, if you have a shirt in your closet it's unequipped regardless if you've put it on or not. If you never attached a flashlight to your belt that flashlight was always unattached

[@NotYourAverageNothing]

Senior Copter If I bought you a shirt, but you died before I could give it to you, where does the shirt go?

[@wileypeeper4941]

The shirt gains sentience, picks itself up and starts walking around. Everyone knows that.

[@cinderstar6634]

Tuvasa is so fun. Also can you do a deck tech on Kozilek, the Great Distortion?

[@animetheory2572]

I would like the Professors Take on Judith the Scourge Diva

[@DJMigrane]

I believe the two commanders in the wrong roles. Tuvasa,, I believe, is more suited to Voltron beats Tuval, while Kestia could be back up. That's how I built them and im having a blast. Your enchantment combo deck is sweet!

[@TalonKarrde03]

Hey Professor I’ve always been fond of the card Aurification what’s your opinion on it especially for these two decks ?