Welcome to another installment of Precon Power-Up! There's a few good utility lands here as well, with Krosan Verge ramping, Gavony Township adding counters to our creatures, and Nesting Grounds being a sweet new way to transfer counters from one permanent to another. $ 0.00 $ 0.00 $ 0.00 $ 0.00 $ 0.00 $ 0.00. Wizards of the Coast, Magic: The Gathering, and their logos are trademarks of Wizards of the Coast LLC. Creatures. What happens when Hollow One meets Storm? This is why the single best creature in the entire deck is actually Zetalpa, Primal Dawn, which is probably the first and last time anyone gets to say that about Zetalpa. My general ratio is: That's always my starting point, which is then tweaked to suit the individual deck's strategy and further tweaked with playtesting. See our privacy policy. Jeremy Noell and Jonathan Suarez give their Top 10 suggestions to upgrade the Symbiotic Swarm Commander 2020 precon deck! Build awesome Commander decks on a 20 tix budget. How about the reprint value? As I make these upgrades, I try to keep the creature/noncreature/land balance close to the balance in the original decklist. So this is my first EDH deck that isn't a tribal of some sort or an enchantress. This gives me a reference point to compare to the deck and see which areas may need improvement. 1 Graveyard Hate. 9 Graveyard Recursion. Let's check out the preconstructed list: Out of the box, Symbiotic Swarm is a solid creature-focused deck that does a good job supporting both Graveyard and Keyword strategies. Whee! Seriously, the Hawk is a pretty bad ramp card in general that might make the cut in some non-Green decks, by why in the world would a Green deck with land ramp run it? The ramp here is a bizarre mix of good and terrible options. If that plan fails then we just mass reanimate all the creatures in our graveyard and win with those instead. To tune Symbiotic Swarm into a more powerful, focused Keyword Graveyard deck we're going to make the following swaps: More self-mill; More ramp; Better keyword soup creatures; Tutors; Better removal; Lower average cmc; That's what we want to add to the deck. It should've been in any of the non-Green precons. You may opt-out at any time. The first part of this plan is our keyword soup creatures that will fuel Kathril from the graveyard. As I often explain in my Budget Commander articles, every time I build a rough draft of a deck, I make sure I have a certain ratio of mana, interaction, card advantage, etc. Deck. Deckcycle Deckcycle Feature Queue. All rights reserved. I'm pretty sure that of the new commanders in the precon, Tayam, Luminous Enigma is the strongest of the bunch, but more in a generic "oops I Combo'd" sort of way like a newer, better Ghave, Guru of Spores, running many variations of combos we've already seen before. Welcome, Guest! We've cycled through Timeless Wisdom, forked all the spells in Arcane Maelstrom, sacrificed our Humans to Ruthless Regiment, mutated all the creatures in Enhanced Evolution, and now we're covering the fifth and final precon from the set: Symbiotic Swarm, a grindy Keyword Soup Abzan deck that uses its graveyard to fuel our Keyword Soup strategy. Kathril, Aspect Warper is the face of Symbiotic Swarm and is the best representative of what the deck wants to do: fill your graveyard up with creatures that are loaded with useful keywords, then use your graveyard to pump up your army. Format: Freeform. Enhanced Evolution . Eventually, the deck wins by overloading our army with powerful keywords (Odric, Lunarch Marshal) or animating a giant beater to smash face with (Zetalpa, Primal Dawn). That wraps up the C20 series! As such, we're letting you know that we've updated our Privacy Policy to reflect the new rule set forth by the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
0 Flexible Tutors. Magic: The Gathering and its respective properties are copyright Wizards of the Coast. Maindeck 39. Kathril then gets a +1/+1 counter for each keyword counter you put on a creature with its ability, up to a whopping 11 +1/+1 counters! Deck List. Having mana-fixing lands that enter untapped is important, and Symbiotic Swarm offers some good ones such as Command Tower, Exotic Orchard, and Caves of Koilos, but not as many as I'd hope. Kathril does exactly that: when it enters the battlefield, Kathril puts up to 11 different keyword counters distributed as you choose on creatures you control based on what keywords the creatures in your graveyard have.