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At any point, three opponents could sit down across from me with completely made up legendary creatures, and if the proxies were good enough, I wouldn’t question whether they were real cards.

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I’ve already built a Splinter/Raphael deck, and the lands are so sad until MARCH waiting. But I might replace my beat up old gold border lands for prereleases with the goop, too.

Isn’t Rendezvous just a hug card? 1:1, not 1:3? If we’re going for that category (something that helps me and one other opponent and I can politically choose them), may I introduce you to my favorite soft boi? He is always open for business.

Gev, Scaled Scorch w/ Warstorm Surge and a bunch of Dash/Warp/Evoke creatures and The Ozolith. B/R counters that can still occasionally beat down.

I’ve got Rhystic Deluge in a deck and announcing it kills every time.

I lose access to W/B and a command zone Zada tutor. But I gain a more reliable manabase and path to wincon(s), making the deck less fragile. That’s where we are today, testing Storm.

From mono red to five color to Temur Storm. Spiritually the same deck; vastly different path.

When Rad Storm dropped I realized I’m playing 0-cost cards and 1-drop cantrips — but only one Storm card (Ground Rift). I only need Rotpriest to get the Poison train rolling. I could Storm Proliferate my way to victory. Then lightning struck — why not use Storm as my commander?

Phyrexia (and subsequent sets) gave us Venerated Rotpriest and friends to synergize with Zada, making Infect a more viable wincon than combat. And the bans made casting Tazri harder. Ever since I’ve been optimizing the Infect lines, but lamenting how slow the deck became.

But we made it work. Some ramp here. A few cEDH staples there. Recruiters. We could reliably either cast Tazri or find Zada early enough. Then two things happened in 20234/24 that changed my trajectory: Jeweled Lotus and Dockside got banned, and the Phyrexia: AWBO set dropped.

So now we need a somewhat useful Commander in more colors. Could there be one with some strategy for helping my find my now secret commander Zada? Enter the general. Tazri gives us all five colors and tutors for Zada. One problem — she costs 4W. Oof. Five drops aren’t my bag.

At the time I combined my first Norin deck with a Krenko deck, so between mono red and Goblin strategies, Zada had too much overlap for my taste. I wanted to try something different. “What if I had access to more cantrips from other colors? One-drop instants that do two things?”

Nah.

Tale of Momo is gonna do so much work in my beloved five-color Zada deck. bsky.app/profile/deat...