For today's installment, we're going to try something a little different in celebration of the new Commander 2019 decks. Normally, I would talk about some weird deck built from scratch using hyper-underplayed cards, but today, I'll be starting with an already-assembled deck. Specifically, it's the newly-released Faceless Menace preconstructed Commander deck. The goal here will be updating the deck by adding in only cards that meet the hyper-underplayed requirement above.
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The hope is to increase synergy and potentially free up generally good cards for use in other decks. Step one in this process is selecting the theme, and through that, the commander. These preconstructed decks are designed to be capable of going many different directions, especially when looking at the new cards introduced in the set. As there are several hyper-underplayed cards in the Morph theme, I'm shaping Faceless Menace into a deck even more focused towards flipping creatures face-up. Morph has been one of those fan-favorite abilities to come back over and over again.
Personally, I know I'm a big fan from all the way back in Onslaught block. While the original Morph-er Ixidor, Reality Sculptor comes in at 451 decks on the site, his tool of choice, the Dream Chisel, is an eligible inclusion at only 228 decks. This artifact will help add some redundancy to Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer 's cost-reduction effect, potentially allowing us to squeeze in multiple face-down plays in a turn it's always an auto-include for me in this theme. Speaking of redundancy, Obscuring Aether is an excellent second Dream Chisel, reducing the costs of face-down creatures even further. It even has the added bonus of being able to flip face-down and turn into a 2/2 should removal come its way. Obscuring Aether only sees play in 195 decks right now, which to me seems low.īefore there was Ixidron, there was another card, from back in Legion, that had power and toughness that scaled with the number of face-downs in play. Seeing play in 149 decks, this card can become a real problem card if left unchecked. The best part is that it checks all face-down creatures, not just yours.
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