Im building it CEDH with haunted one, the only problem with altar of the brood engine is that is quite bad against non-creature heavy decks. Mindcrank with duskmantle mage or syr konrad, wins more than the altar itself. Essentialy, the altar of brood is good when you have a ashnod's altar out. Even better with skull clamp or species specialist if you want a good 4 drop to draw out of your horror tokens... I recommend the following for draw: Remora Rhystic study Black Market Conections Insight (enchantment) Skull clamp Necropotence And at least 5 graveyard hate cards like Bojuka, Scavenger grounds, Tormond's crypt, soul guided lantern For combos: Thassa + tainted pact / demonic consultation / doomsday Mindcrank + duskmantle mage / syr konrad High sinergy: zelix + Altar of the brood with bruvac or copy artifact on altar of the brood. Add bunch of tutors and GG
While I have been running Zellix with Cloakwood Hermit, it’s actually a persistent petioners deck. The squirrels and horrors? Well thanks to the power of Arcane Adaptation and Maskwood Nexus, they’re now going to law school and becoming advisors.
Undead Alchemist is great as a backup if Zellix is getting sniped all the time. Also it can mill out faster, because it's ability triggers on EVERY creature card your opponent mills
YOOOO this is literally the same zellix im running, so hyped to see someone also noticed how strong my boy is :)))) he didnt get much love out of the legends in this set so thank you for spreading my boys good name!!! i also picked hermit because you can trigger brood an additional 2 times allowing you to be super consistent as well as the ramp, also heavy self mill protection!
I paired mine with Agent of the Iron Throne. You can do some nutty combos with Hell's Caretaker and intruder alarm or Faces of the past. Or Ashnod's Altar and Faces of the past. Can end the game with a Guile if you managed to mill yourself so far. Quite a few combos in blue black and the tutors are a massive plus.
I hate that I read Zellix wrong on my first build and thought I could get a bunch of tokens using cards like Traumatize and Fraying Sanity. It helps not to get too excited about an effect until you completely understand it. At first glace at it my mind just started thinking of combos😂
I love Zellix so much and I currently am trying him out with the Scion of Halaster. I definitely want to try your deck list as well, and I'm equally interested in seeing red/blue and blue/white deck list using the backgrounds you mentioned! :)
Great video - thanks! Also, blue gives us access to Mechanized Production, Clever Impersonator, Copy Artifact, etc. Why have one Altar of the Brood out when you can have THREE or more!? ;)
Its one token per instance, but its also per player. So if you mill everyone 2, and everyone mills at least 1 creature, you get 4 horror tokens, one per player that milled a creature.
Are Psychic Corrosion and Memory Erosion too slow? I think Endurance would be a good tool to combat reanimate and breach deck that mill strategy is unfortunately helping.
Im building it CEDH with haunted one, the only problem with altar of the brood engine is that is quite bad against non-creature heavy decks. Mindcrank with duskmantle mage or syr konrad, wins more than the altar itself.
Essentialy, the altar of brood is good when you have a ashnod's altar out.
Even better with skull clamp or species specialist if you want a good 4 drop to draw out of your horror tokens...
I recommend the following for draw:
Remora
Rhystic study
Black Market Conections
Insight (enchantment)
Skull clamp
Necropotence
And at least 5 graveyard hate cards like
Bojuka, Scavenger grounds, Tormond's crypt, soul guided lantern
For combos:
Thassa + tainted pact / demonic consultation / doomsday
Mindcrank + duskmantle mage / syr konrad
High sinergy: zelix + Altar of the brood with bruvac or copy artifact on altar of the brood.
Add bunch of tutors and GG
While I have been running Zellix with Cloakwood Hermit, it’s actually a persistent petioners deck. The squirrels and horrors? Well thanks to the power of Arcane Adaptation and Maskwood Nexus, they’re now going to law school and becoming advisors.
Same that’s what I’m going for. Do you have any tips
Undead Alchemist is great as a backup if Zellix is getting sniped all the time. Also it can mill out faster, because it's ability triggers on EVERY creature card your opponent mills
Can you do a Budget version for this commander? $50-$150
YOOOO this is literally the same zellix im running, so hyped to see someone also noticed how strong my boy is :))))
he didnt get much love out of the legends in this set so thank you for spreading my boys good name!!!
i also picked hermit because you can trigger brood an additional 2 times allowing you to be super consistent as well as the ramp, also heavy self mill protection!
I paired mine with Agent of the Iron Throne.
You can do some nutty combos with Hell's Caretaker and intruder alarm or Faces of the past. Or Ashnod's Altar and Faces of the past.
Can end the game with a Guile if you managed to mill yourself so far.
Quite a few combos in blue black and the tutors are a massive plus.
I hate that I read Zellix wrong on my first build and thought I could get a bunch of tokens using cards like Traumatize and Fraying Sanity. It helps not to get too excited about an effect until you completely understand it. At first glace at it my mind just started thinking of combos😂
I love Zellix so much and I currently am trying him out with the Scion of Halaster. I definitely want to try your deck list as well, and I'm equally interested in seeing red/blue and blue/white deck list using the backgrounds you mentioned! :)
Absolutely! I'm really coming around on backgrounds and I'd love to see if they have an impact in high power
I am using Zellix with The inspiring Leader. Azorius Mill is Amazing ^^
Great video - thanks! Also, blue gives us access to Mechanized Production, Clever Impersonator, Copy Artifact, etc. Why have one Altar of the Brood out when you can have THREE or more!? ;)
Altar of Dementia is nice with buffing the tokens
Very very cool. I wanna cedh this concept out. Seems potentially viable???
I feel like it’s obvious but Skullclamp
I'm Curious why you didn't include intruder alarm.
With any mana dork out and it can go wild really fast for milling.
That's a good call, might try and find room for it!
What background would you think be best for cephalid breakfast Zellix?
basically any of the 2-mana white ones works. However the breakfast combo is a little tougher to assemble in EDH w/o black or green
IsoRev combo can turn this into an infinite win con 🙏
Great deck. I can't find a single video or streamer with Zellix gameplay =(
Stay tuned - I’m going to play a Zellix list with Moderately Anonymous this week and they’ll have the gameplay on their channel afterwards!
@@CommanderMechanic awesome news. I hope it goes well for Zellix lol.
So is it that you only get 1 token during your turn whenever 1 or more creatures are milled or is it a token for every creature milled?
One or more, each time. If you hit 3 creatures at once you get only 1 token.
Its one token per instance, but its also per player. So if you mill everyone 2, and everyone mills at least 1 creature, you get 4 horror tokens, one per player that milled a creature.
Ez pz, just play a low cost blue commander. And run persistent partitioners as your creatures. :U it's big brain time
What an UNFUN and UNCRRATIVE way to build Zelix
>much more casual mindset
>$50 and $80 USD cards shown
huh
I don't think you caught that this is a cEDH deck.
Or you could buy proxies and make what ever deck you want. YOLO
Are Psychic Corrosion and Memory Erosion too slow? I think Endurance would be a good tool to combat reanimate and breach deck that mill strategy is unfortunately helping.
If there were an infinite draw loop they may be viable, but incidentally milling a couple of cards is more dangerous in higher power levels