Not even joking, i stumbled upon this video after my playgroup just had an argument regarding the new precons with every one of them dumping on the phyrexian growing threat as "mediocre" and "not synergizing with old phyrexian strategies." I literally name dropped half of the adds in your video and then AFTER THAT, your video popped up in my recommends. SUBBED.
I'm surprised the upgrade lists lacks Mondrak - the same effect as Anointed Procession for the same mana value, for around half the monetary value at time of writing, and it's itself a 4/4 Phyrexian to trigger Brimaz, as well as a sac outlet (not a free one, sadly, but still useful!)
Played Brimaz today and he was incredible!!! I had so many counters and token baddies out... My last three Phyrexian tokens all had +5/+5 counters, Brimaz had +4/+4, and my other Phyrexians had at least +3/+3. Proliferate is incredible as I would use my low strength Phyrexians as blockers and proliferate upon their deaths. I am going to add the cards suggested in the video and make this deck lethal!!! I had 32 lives by the end because no one wanted to help me proliferate further.
You're one of the best EDH deckbuilders on UA-cam, you and Joey from EDHRECast know how to build a well oiled "Phyrexian pun intended" machine of a deck.
Bought this deck a few weeks ago and this thing smacks. Been smacking other precons and kinda keeping up with some of the other guys gnarly built-from-scratch decks.
This deck is awesome, yesterday i played with my playgroup and this deck is wild and so fast . I am gonna put this 10 cards inside becouse it just sound perfect then !!
So I am fairly new to commander (never build a deck, 15+ years not actively played the game but still somewhat watched stuff) and I was building my first theoretical deck - turns out my first Deck (Tayam) ended up being more of a tryhard cEDH instead of just for fun. So I was looking for another commander which would be fun to play.. and found Brimaz. First check was Glissa, Herald of Predation but I had the feeling that incubate was more of a white thing and didn't find as many potential in GB rather than WB Brimaz also very much benefits from incubating. Due to the fact that most of our creatures are either artifact or phyrexians and mostly incubated he works very well with elesh norn / the argent etchings. Basically it's a boardwipe every 3 turns. Additionally to that, there are some cheap spells and creatures that help you to keep proliferating ( Grim Affliction, Whisper of the dross, unbounded potential) and also there's Vraska, Betrayal's Sting regarding the poison counters... Let's look at Vraska's fall and the god tier creature for Brimaz - Blightbelly Rat... Phyrexian (incubate 2 through brimaz), Toxic1 , 2/2 body for 2 and when it dies proliferate
I've not seen any love for Skyboon Evangelist on these precon upgrade guides so far. 10 cards isn't a lot, but evasion for the team plus putting counters on up to 6 different creatures seems really solid!
I think Excise is getting underestimated. It gets around indestructible and exiling a permanent is way better than sending it to the graveyard. Also, the opponent has to spend mana to transform their incubator so the two white cost is a fair trade off.
White - and black/white even moreso - has SO MANY ways to exile permanents with much lower downsides. I don't think it's bad but I don't think it's GOOD, either. It can't be reused like Skyclave Apparition can, either.
I think the splicers and golem part of the deck isn't that great. Wouldn't adding cards with charge counters be more useful since you would be able to abuse the proliferate effect more?
Some very good choices. But I would put in a few more support cards like Drivnod and Teysa Karlov for more copies of Brimaz. Teysa will also give your tokens lifelink and vigilance which maybe the difference on a win. One last card I'm thinking about putting in is Biotransference turning all your non phyrexian creatures artifacts and giving you a 2/2 artifact creature on cast.
Drivnod and teysa do nothing with brimaz other than teysa giving the tokens vigilance Both of them are looking specifically for "Dies" triggers brimaz's second ability triggers at the end of your turn with an "if" clause
Great vid, though I disagree about removing Fractured Powerstone. It's a good 2 drop rock! I'd easily remove some of the other rocks over it if ya need to remove one.
weird, i kept the path of schemer because its a good reanimation tool for the deck and also the noxious gear hulk. but i cut pretty much everything else you listed off.
@@CommanderMechanic it's the mill two pick any gy that made me keep it tbh. Being able to possibly mill a strong creep and take it from them made me test it a bit and so far it's been a solid include
they technically do, even if they haven't been reprinted with the type update. Check Gatherer, Magic's online ruling source - many creatures have been updated to Phyrexian and not been reprinted as such yet
@@CommanderMechanic Also looking on tcgplayer the brothers' war version Has Phyrexian wurm on it. Love the Mention of Rock and his minions i always felt he should had been a phyrexian creature type . Glad after all these years it is . Thanks for the video as i picked this on up .
Your microphones constant peaking throughout this video makes it really difficult to listen to. Please fix that otherwise people will avoid your videos because of how bad the audio is.
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Not even joking, i stumbled upon this video after my playgroup just had an argument regarding the new precons with every one of them dumping on the phyrexian growing threat as "mediocre" and "not synergizing with old phyrexian strategies." I literally name dropped half of the adds in your video and then AFTER THAT, your video popped up in my recommends. SUBBED.
haha awesome
I love the art of Brimaz makes me wanna get the deck!! Thank you for the video!!
This - and all of the precons - are super solid as usual. Worth picking up!
I'm surprised the upgrade lists lacks Mondrak - the same effect as Anointed Procession for the same mana value, for around half the monetary value at time of writing, and it's itself a 4/4 Phyrexian to trigger Brimaz, as well as a sac outlet (not a free one, sadly, but still useful!)
Played Brimaz today and he was incredible!!! I had so many counters and token baddies out... My last three Phyrexian tokens all had +5/+5 counters, Brimaz had +4/+4, and my other Phyrexians had at least +3/+3. Proliferate is incredible as I would use my low strength Phyrexians as blockers and proliferate upon their deaths.
I am going to add the cards suggested in the video and make this deck lethal!!! I had 32 lives by the end because no one wanted to help me proliferate further.
You're one of the best EDH deckbuilders on UA-cam, you and Joey from EDHRECast know how to build a well oiled "Phyrexian pun intended" machine of a deck.
Haha high praise thanks!
Thank you very much!!! indeed you are one of my favorite deckbuilders out there.
Bought this deck a few weeks ago and this thing smacks. Been smacking other precons and kinda keeping up with some of the other guys gnarly built-from-scratch decks.
Feel like incubation tokens a sneaky good! Need to play around with them some more to weight in fully. Nice tech!
This deck is awesome, yesterday i played with my playgroup and this deck is wild and so fast .
I am gonna put this 10 cards inside becouse it just sound perfect then !!
So I am fairly new to commander (never build a deck, 15+ years not actively played the game but still somewhat watched stuff) and I was building my first theoretical deck - turns out my first Deck (Tayam) ended up being more of a tryhard cEDH instead of just for fun.
So I was looking for another commander which would be fun to play.. and found Brimaz. First check was Glissa, Herald of Predation but I had the feeling that incubate was more of a white thing and didn't find as many potential in GB rather than WB
Brimaz also very much benefits from incubating. Due to the fact that most of our creatures are either artifact or phyrexians and mostly incubated he works very well with elesh norn / the argent etchings. Basically it's a boardwipe every 3 turns. Additionally to that, there are some cheap spells and creatures that help you to keep proliferating ( Grim Affliction, Whisper of the dross, unbounded potential) and also there's Vraska, Betrayal's Sting
regarding the poison counters... Let's look at Vraska's fall and the god tier creature for Brimaz - Blightbelly Rat... Phyrexian (incubate 2 through brimaz), Toxic1 , 2/2 body for 2 and when it dies proliferate
I've not seen any love for Skyboon Evangelist on these precon upgrade guides so far. 10 cards isn't a lot, but evasion for the team plus putting counters on up to 6 different creatures seems really solid!
Blight Titan is actually sun Titan I think
I think Excise is getting underestimated. It gets around indestructible and exiling a permanent is way better than sending it to the graveyard. Also, the opponent has to spend mana to transform their incubator so the two white cost is a fair trade off.
White - and black/white even moreso - has SO MANY ways to exile permanents with much lower downsides. I don't think it's bad but I don't think it's GOOD, either. It can't be reused like Skyclave Apparition can, either.
Blight Titan is purrfect for my Orzhow selfmill deck
Excise the Imperfect literally saved my skin yesterday during a game when my opponent tried to hit me with a 78/78 with Menace.
I think the splicers and golem part of the deck isn't that great. Wouldn't adding cards with charge counters be more useful since you would be able to abuse the proliferate effect more?
Yeah, think astral cornucopia or overflowing chalice
Some very good choices. But I would put in a few more support cards like Drivnod and Teysa Karlov for more copies of Brimaz. Teysa will also give your tokens lifelink and vigilance which maybe the difference on a win. One last card I'm thinking about putting in is Biotransference turning all your non phyrexian creatures artifacts and giving you a 2/2 artifact creature on cast.
Drivnod and teysa do nothing with brimaz other than teysa giving the tokens vigilance
Both of them are looking specifically for "Dies" triggers brimaz's second ability triggers at the end of your turn with an "if" clause
I actually planned on using exise the imperfect on my own creature that someone was killing giving my self the token
Great vid, though I disagree about removing Fractured Powerstone.
It's a good 2 drop rock! I'd easily remove some of the other rocks over it if ya need to remove one.
Im running 1 tainted strike just for flavor :p
weird, i kept the path of schemer because its a good reanimation tool for the deck and also the noxious gear hulk. but i cut pretty much everything else you listed off.
There are other reanimating spells at the same mana value with better upsides that are always relevant!
@@CommanderMechanic it's the mill two pick any gy that made me keep it tbh. Being able to possibly mill a strong creep and take it from them made me test it a bit and so far it's been a solid include
does a phyrexian creature need to have the phyrexian keyword in their creature type?
they technically do, even if they haven't been reprinted with the type update. Check Gatherer, Magic's online ruling source - many creatures have been updated to Phyrexian and not been reprinted as such yet
@@CommanderMechanic any way to see a list of recent changes? Or do we have to look at each one individually on Gatherer?
No graft butcher or norn inquisitor?
did you know it's impossible to put every card in every deck?
Wait so wtf makes wurmcoil engine and the germ tokens into phyrexians??
a ruling overhaul. Per gatherer these are all Phyrexians now.
@@CommanderMechanic Also looking on tcgplayer the brothers' war version Has Phyrexian wurm on it. Love the Mention of Rock and his minions i always felt he should had been a phyrexian creature type . Glad after all these years it is . Thanks for the video as i picked this on up .
Your microphones constant peaking throughout this video makes it really difficult to listen to. Please fix that otherwise people will avoid your videos because of how bad the audio is.