Sam Alpert is an EDH filthy casual who's enjoyed magic for the past 14 years. But while Edric bothers with chaining his turns as fast as possible, and Rashmi tries to maintain control over the entire board, Ezuri … Upvote 0. First draft of an optimized (cedh) Ezuri, Claw of Progress list. If you decide to skew this deck more heavily in favor of tokens, Doubling Season may need another look. This card is a perfect example of an effect that will come up a lot in this series which I will refer to as “precon syndrome”. Land (35) Planeswalker … But why? Saved by Matthew Miller. That being said, I’ve included other options for generating counters in case Ezuri becomes prohibitively expensive. If you haven’t figured it out yet (or the statistics have changed) the first card I’m talking about is Blighted Agent This guy isn’t in the majority of Ezuri decks, but he’s drastically overplayed compared to other Simic commanders. However, the Partner interaction between Pir, Imaginative Rascal and Toothy, plus Toothy’s “leaves the battlefield” trigger, make it more appealing to me. Need some help? I'm a Timmy that loves Green, Creatures, and Lands. For this first installment, we’re going to look at Ezuri, Claw of Progress. I prefer controlled smashing, and best associate with the Temur colors. Edit. Card Kingdom 2218.41 - 2673.79 . TCGPlayer 573.43 - 713.88 . At the beginning of combat on your turn, put X +1/+1 counters on another target creature you control, where X is the number of experience counters you have. Wild Beastmaster - Gatherer, MC, , edhrec [[cardname]] to call-not on gatherer = not ^^^fetchable View Entire Discussion (241 Comments) More posts from the EDH community Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), You can find an interactive version of my deck here. Her plus ability makes her one of our few token generators, and a free trigger for Ezuri each turn, while her minus is a counter-based anthem that will offer extra value once we’ve established a board presence. By Theme. I tend to limit my inclusion of mana dorks in my decks for fear of losing production following a board wipe, but in this deck the reward is worth the risk. Obviously, both of our potential combos are fragile and easily disrupted by removal, but in the right situation we might be able to steal a game that seemed out of reach. Thank you all for taking the time to read my article! The important question you always have to ask yourself is, “why is this card in the deck?” it sounds so simple, but actually answering that question is where most people get it wrong. Upvote 0. You see, for all his outward smiling, Ezuri is a pretty fragile elf, and our opponents are likely to take advantage of that. Taking the infect approach to building this Commander deck with Ezuri, Claw of Progress. Among the new cards released recently, Thought Sponge fills a similar role as Toothy, Imaginary Friend, and flash makes it a tempting inclusion. I recently took apart an Experiment Kraj deck I had and built what I think to be a more consistent and aggressive Ezuri deck. In addition to Spike Weaver, we’re also running Arachnogenesis, which can neutralize a lethal attack while generating experience counters with Ezuri. $16.99. Nissa, Voice of Zendikar was excellent in my Kresh deck, and she’s even better in this one. The last spell I want to highlight is wrath protection in the form of Inspiring Call, which will protect our board, doubling as a draw spell. Card Kingdom 161.59 - 191.83 . Since the average converted mana cost of cards in the deck will be generally low, and being in green means we have access to all the best ramp to make up for a couple of lost lands means that the downside is very easily mitigated. [[Temur Sabertooth]] + [[Wirewood Symbiote]] combos. Decklist: This is a deck I have put together from the precon. … Expensive. Playtest v1. Ezuri, Claw of Progress. So please, leave your comments in below, or reach out to me via email. He lacks the groan-factor associated with the, So how do we start analyzing a popular commander like this? Ezuri, Claw of Progress. Gatherer. Lately I haven’t been writing much about the ramp, draw, and removal I’m including in my decks. The power of this deck is in playing all the value creatures, like Mulldrifter and Solemn Simulacrum, and still have the scaling to work its way through the late game. For years I’ve tinkered with the idea of a blue-green counters deck, bouncing between Experiment Kraj and Ezuri, Claw of Progress as potential commanders. With popular commanders, popular cards get pushed to the top spots in the list, which in turn means more people are more likely to include them in their lists and so on and so forth without ever actually answering this basic question. In his non-magic life he studies meteorites to descry the history of our solar system. And we don’t have to look farther than my second card: Crystal Shard. Ezuri has a lot to like; he’s a powerful commander that can still fly under the radar of most casual tables. If that wasn’t enough reason to include shard, it also allows you to save critical creatures from wrath effects; something which we can very much expect to see given our aggressive nature. Ezuri’s suite of abilities gives us several neat building restrictions, one of which is a focus on creatures with power two or less. Upvote 0. TCGPlayer 155.00 - 176.33 . The few token-makers I’ve included will tend to make a lot of bodies all at once. He likes to experiment new deck archetypes, explore new synergies and … He lacks the groan-factor associated with the Edric, “I’m going to take the next 6 turns now but who knows, I could whiff off these 9 cards I’m drawing so you should keep playing” decks. In most cases, targeting Champion with Ezuri will make our creatures untouchable. Similar Deck Space Auto-suggestions. Ezuri, Claw of Progress (Commander) - Token Theme. It’s cheap, both mana and dollar-wise. Luckily, Toothy has a “leaves the battlefield” trigger, so there will be few instances where we can’t cash in on our counters. Normally these cards are staples of Commander, and don’t warrant an entire entry of their own. It triggers Ezuri. I'm looking to more finely tune this Ezuri, Claw of Progress list. Speaking of slow creatures, why are so many (64% at the time of writing) of you playing Trygon Predator? The card is incredibly slow; so slow that it often won’t deal with a threat before that threat has a chance to get out of hand. Just because Rishkar’s Expertise and Prime Speaker Zegana don’t say the word “counters” doesn’t mean they won’t reward us for building giant monsters with Ezuri. War of the Spark reintroduced one of the classic mechanics for adding counters, Proliferate, and offered several potent new toys. 2.16 TIX. In Ezuri, Spike Weaver is our Spore Frog, making us completely unappealing as an attack target. Like Reclamation Sage, or how about Mulldrifter? He also has the benefit of being a primarily creature-based deck, which gives him plausible deniability that the Kruphix, “I swear I’m not going to do anything with this 256 mana I have” player lacks. In this series we’ll be turning a critical eye to deck’s statistics here on EDHREC. Scryfall. This card doesn’t even trigger Ezuri! With popular commanders, popular cards get pushed to the top spots in the list, which in turn means more people are more likely to include them in their lists and so on and so forth without ever actually answering this basic question. Our average converted cost for this deck is 3.21, and 42% of our spells cost between 2-4 mana. Similar Deck Space Auto-suggestions. The enters the battlefield creatures take front stage, alongside a few additional ways to reuse them. The deck also should be running Coastal Piracy effects since you’re already trying to get there in combat. $12.21. You can find an interactive version of my deck here. What Druid lacks in potential, however, it makes up for with a high floor: if we can put a counter on Druid from anywhere, it can make us three blue or green mana. Ezuri,Claw of Progress Commander / EDH Control Counters GU (Simic) Tokens. Additionally making this an enters the battlefield ability pairs more nicely with the other creatures we already want to play in the deck, meaning that we can add more cards that take advantage of these abilities. EDHREC. I’ve built this deck to be effective in a somewhat slower meta comprised of 75% decks. This is the card that should replace Trygon Predator. Sure it has the potential to blow up an artifact or enchantment, and it does trigger Ezuri, but as I’ve argued above, that’s not enough reason to play it in this deck. Because Ezuri can place a lot of counters on to one creature, we also want to consider creatures that reward us when they have lot of counters or a high power and toughness. Moxfield. It deals with all of the problem artifacts and enchantments that would normally throw a wrench in our plans.