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"Does this do anything"
"Shes just a beatstick with incedental gv hate?"
"Ok, but what is she getting you that Sidisi doesnt?"
I have gotten a lot of comments and questions surrounding pharika being one of my favorite commanders. I talk about them in addition to talking about how she made me grow as a magic the gathering deckbuilder.
P.S. Sorry if you love Keranos for some reason, I didn't mean it..
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Great, now do keranos
I actually strongly considered putting keranos in a deck that didn't run front-facing lands, but decided against it when I went for the zendikar party and ally stuff with the tazri that cares about them.
Great first vid! I'm excited to see what's next!
Finding niche Commanders and players who foster them with love like this is one of the things that has really been keeping my love for Magic up.
And with your soothing delivery and insights, you've absolutely earned yourself a long-term supporter.
Best of luck out there, I'll see about recommending you to friends I know will enjoy this too!
And love the sona! We appreciate silly little guys.
I recently got into magic and for a while just got by using precons. But after a friend of mine showed me his werewolf deck and after it absolutely kicked my ass, he suggested that I take a look into building my own decks to try out against our group. After searching around for a while I decided I wanted to do a Golgari deck and Pharika honestly resonated with me. So I made a snake themed deck with a lot of removal and deathtouch. I finished the deck just this week and it was extremely rewarding. Pharika is underrated, but not unloved.
I think for me, discovering Kagemaro, First to Suffer was my Pharika moment. I was trawling the depths of EDHrec's mono black page when I saw this commander with less than 100 decks in their database. This card, for a single black mana and at INSTANT speed can wipe the board provided you have a big enough hand, so I got to brewing with all the combat tricks that bring creatures back if they would be destroyed like Not Dead After All + black draw spells that have been printed in the 20 years since the card was released.
I took the deck apart somewhat recently as I wanted to brew other things (+ sell Sheoldred the Apocalypse) but it was a ton of fun whilst I had it! Fully endorse more people seeing what's possible with old jank
Rarely has a first video been so good. This primer really gave me an insight into how to build pharika, as well as making me reconsider my own deck building patterns. I wait with anticipation for your future videos. Automatic subscription.
Been brewing around Pharika for almost 6 years now!!! Started as a tiny leaders rock deck and grew into a deck that used a lot of instant speed constellation critters and creatures that sac/etb.
Also I think that you can do Umori with Pharika if you choose creatures instead of Enchantments!
I'm REALLY HAPPY that someone else has discovered this ridiculousy underrated commander
Absolutely you can do Umori if you choose creature instead of enchantment, but honestly i think Iâll miss wilderness reclamation, sol ring, tortured existence, and especially insidious roots too much. Not impossible though!
Trust me i want to be a believer, just too steep for me to rationalize at least for now.
literally started flapping my hands when u revealed that these were **enchantment** snakes... that's sick!!! and as someone who's mtgsona is also an animal (izzet leauge Minotaur) i respect ur elk
Yes the snakes being enchantments make for some super funny plays lmao
What is an mtgsona?
That's the absolute most autistic comment I've ever read in my life.
Super excited to build this! The second you pointed out each token was an enchantment I was in.
Your vids feel like a mtg Ted talk, something with your cadence is just right, great vids
Feel like I'm on the ground floor of a future great MtG channel! Nice video, loved your thoughts on an underrated commander. Cool sona, too.
I've got a Pharika deck too, built around the fact that her ability gives deathtouch snakes to any player so long as they have a stocked graveyard, allowing me to not only protect myself but to make deals with the other players by blunting attacks from enemies, and helping allies build up a board. The deck plays lots of effects that mill all players, so I can get to making snakes ASAP, as well as political cards like Shared Trauma (look that one up, it's comically bad) Tempt with Immortality/Discovery, and Incarnation Technique. It spends most of the game arranging the board in just the right way that I can take over the game when at least one player gets knocked out, typically with some sort of Overrun effect or a mass reanimate. This works great in my low-to-medium power playgroup, but this video has really made me curious what a less "cute" build of the deck could be.
I actually put this card in my Myrkul, Lord of Bones deck; I know..I know but the white pip does help immensely with creature enchantment token creatures. Now if you add all the constellation effects and repeated token creatures, thats another way to ensure a dominate board state.
Love the vid also super cute sona. Hope to see more from you!
loved this video, great topic and well explained. Would have loved to hear more about green collect evidence mechanics in the murder at karlov manor set play into her gameplay to make the point about old decks not being a good place to start for this brew hit home more, but you got there in the primer. Bravo
I love building unpopular commanders and started building Pharika just a few days ago. Neither the EDHREC article nor any of the CZcams content about her was appealing to me at all for the build. So excited to get recommended this exactly when I needed it! Great video!
Pharika has been on my to-do list for a while. It's mostly just been enchantress/constellation synergies from leftover Legacy brews but I hadn't thought of using the snakes for combat politics! Also thank you for reminding me that Insidious Roots is a card that I keep forgetting to add to my carts. Snarling Gorehound is also a crazy card that I completely missed. Looking forward to future vids!
Coming out the gates with a great vid, gotta respect it. Hoping you grow quickly. â€
Celestial Kirin for me- we've gotten a lot more good spirits since it's release, including a couple of X-spells that can be used as mass land destruction with it out! The mass land destruction definitely isn't for everyone, but I really like it tbh.
Great first video and I canât wait to see more! I also have always loved the art on Pharika, but have never found a pile worth playing. Your revelation moment sounds so cool, and thank you for sharing this really cool deck!
Pharika was my first legendary creature I ever pulled back in OG Theros block and I tried to make her work in Commander for FOREVER as a teenager, and eventually consigned to run her in my 60 card golgari Constellation build me and a friend threw together with then only the OG Theros constellation cards so this is actually super validating. Loved this video, and looking forward to seeing more!
I run Pharika in my Glissa the Traitor deck as a graveyard hate piece that also gives my opponents creatures for additional Glissa triggers. It's nice to see her getting some love.
Very cool and good start to the channel!! Excited to see more :)
Love the deck's design! My favourite decks are ones that play on different axises (axi?) all at once. My Shigeki, Jukai Visionary is a landfall + enchantress + threshold deck that is slow as heck but actually works real smoothly, and I quite enjoy how it plays. This feels a lot like that, with the mill + enchantress + leave-graveyard all working harmoniously.
Keep up the good stuff!
amazing video, rlly happy to see some love for my favourite theros goddess!
i love theros and i love niche commanders so this video drew me in so much, AND YOUR PHARIKA ART IS BEAUTIFUL!!
I've been a Golgari fan since I got into MTG and Commander, and I've always looked at Pharika and been kind of puzzled by her. This definitely makes me interested in building her, since it sounds like she would be doing something a little bit different from my other Golgari decks.
As a long time lover of Pharika, I fully agree with you. She was the first Golgari commander I built after buying the Meren precon to learn how to play the game back in 2015. After quickly realizing Meren is way too good of a card and often drew tons of hate I switched things up. Often she is seen as weak, underpowered jank. A deck that is probably just Golgari Goodstuff. She is certainly a card that doesn't look like much compared to what other Golgari commanders can do. She makes for a unique experience. When I first read the card Desecrated Tomb when it came out in M19 I desperately wanted more cards like it. When we got Tormod I was elated lol. One of the first cards I found for Pharika that really made me fall in love is Eternal Scourge. It is so mana inefficient to do it but man do I love spending 5 mana I have lying around to make a snake and recast Eternal Scourge, especially when it triggers 4 or 5 pieces on my board. The Runes from Kaldheim are all pretty cool with the Theros gods because they do not fall off when switching between creature and noncreature. In that same vein, keyword counters are cool with her, I personally like the big cycling creatures that give deathtouch and trample. Cycling in general can be good with her. Chain of Acid becomes a 3 card combo with Witherbloom Apprentice when Pharika isn't turned on yet. Sure you could do it with Chain of Smog in a 2 turn combo win but why not run both lol. Pharika is great at committing crimes too, especially when those crimes are political. Pharika is a deck that I tinker with every few sets and I am always on the lookout for new tech. I find her level of shenanigans amusing and she always goes under the radar in games.
I wasn't into the witherbloom apprentice combo line because it felt like it had nothing to do with pharika and yeah eternal scourge is a bit too much mana and a synergy i originally missed, but the rest of this is definitely things are definitely cool things i saw and thought about for this deck haha. Glad to see someone else sees the potential!!
EDH deckbuilding made a video about old commanders and talked about how he used to play this deck, and all the new tools that have come out over the years. It was always very low on my list but after listening to what he had to say, and the first THREE minutes of this video it's really caught my attention. I definitely missed so many things when evaluating this card and is one of the rare times that I'm still interested in potentially building a deck after hearing someone else talk about it first (usually I like to be able to take credit for playing a cool, overlooked commander)
Excited for the rest of the video lol and waiting for more content!
Love this video she was the first mythic card I ever owned and she was in my deck for a good amount of time đđ»
This was cool I've considered building pharika for a while but haven't ever got around to it
The same happened to me with Karametra. When my playgroup saw my commander, they thought it was just another typical enchantress deck. Actually, the deck barely has any other enchantments, it's a ramping machine filled with lots of creature bouncing effects and creature based cascades, that pretty soon put all my lands on the field. And everybody knows that having so much mana can act miracles to make you win out of nowhere
Great video! Subbed. Pharika has been on my radar for a long time - she's just so thematically interesting. It was fun to see her broken down in so much detail.
Very well put together. I love the elk avatar!
I've been looking to Pharika for the longest time, but other decks have always taken priority since I couldn't find a way to build around her... well, this is just brilliant
Awesome vid dude, just rediscovered this commander and was blown away to see a recent vid about her
also dont forget targeting a card in opponents graveyards is committing a crime!!!
YAYYY love for pharika!!! the angle you take here is really interesting, and its cathartic to see pharika work so well! i pulled a foil pharika back in 2014 and built a snake deck around her, the deck was NOT lol good but i loved it to bits, such a beautiful card. ive always wanted to do smth with umori so i might give that doomed pharika build an attempt, though my current ideas for umori are either a rule zero BG shigeki+umori deck or umori egg combo.
i LOVE building around underrated commanders so its hard to pick a single Pharika Moment, but maybe my favorite deck i own right now is a Kels, Fight Fixer deck that's literally just an aristocrats shell and a control shell smashed together. it does a great job at keeping the table in check and being an invisible threat. looping kairi + dread return has been my favorite emergent synergy from the deck.
im really loving your channel so far, keep up the great work! :3
Long time Pharika player here and you hit it right on the money. Too many times I see Enchantment-centric lists but fail to realize her true potential with the snakes she makes--the creature count becomes far too low. Her ability is vastly underrated and Murders gave her a tremendous indirect buff.
Somewhat offtopic but I actually have a Keranos deck along with her. Its a Steal-Theft deck using Control Magic auras and enchantments to make Keranos "tangible" while making sure the best creature on the board is on my side. Still holds up, because theft decks tend to try and "blindly" steal top cards from decks when the randomness tends to work *against* the player. Keranos has that but its all upside for him with his first ability.
This is such a cool deck! I was just trying to build something with Tormod and Desecrated Tomb, Varolz felt too janky focusing on counters but Pharika with enchantment synergies sounds really cool!
Great video!
My Pharika moment was building Tuya Bearclaw mith mostly bulk from my collection and some from my lgs to round out the list. The very first game I take down 2 people in the same turn and win the game.
really cool video and the deck on moxfield was super synergistic, i might actually brew her! For a first yt video this was really well done btw, keep it up and im sure you can reach more people :D
Tysm!!
first thing i thought of when you started talking about maximizing pharika's ability was tormod! i've never found a place for him in my black decks but i always wanted to make him work since pulling him in a commander legends draft.
nice video. hope to see more
Oh hey a Pharika deck! This is awesome, I somehow pulled like four of her when I first started playing back in Theros but I never found the right place to put her back then, really cool to see a deck using her now, she's always been a favourite. That's a sub from me.
I am so glad I found this channel, love the decks and commentary!
Insta-subbed! Excellent video, looking forward to your next!
great video hope to see more cool commander decks from you in the future
I believe ppl were detered from her do the general focus ppl put on keeping their things in EDH, and more so the graveyard in Black decks. This deck inspires me to try this new techs from karlov manor into making a gyrus deck, also a niche commader that feeds on its own graveyeard. Just in jund.
Spellweaver Helix was a straight up unplayable card in EDH before Dragon's Approach, but now it's an amazingly fun secret commander to build around (like casting Clone Legion every turn, or insta-winning with Worldfire)
I love this video. I'm glad it was brought to my attention.
I love the Theros Gods, even the bad ones like Keranos. It's probably my favorite cycle of cards. I had a kind of Pharika moment myself. I bought all the Theros secret lairs when them came out, and at first I just wanted to build a display to show them off in. But then I had an idea, why don't I make a deck with them? It would be turbo jank but it would give me an excuse to actually use the cards I bought. So I made a list with Child of Alara as the commander, but then what gets released? Kaldheim. And with it, The World Tree. The greatest God Tribal support piece we'll ever probably get.
I was immediately hyped with my decision to make this deck, and the new goal was finding the world tree and ramping to its ability so I could Slam all my fancy gods onto the table at once.
But whats the best way to find the world tree? Ah, look a five color commander who can tutor any land to play, Golos. So I made Golos the commander. Everyone groaned I built a Golos deck and they kept killing him on sight, exactly what I wanted. So I kept tutoring out lands till finally I cast him and found the world tree. Suddenly my playgroup realized what was up. It was glorious getting them all on the field with that.
Fast forward not very long and Golos gets banned for sins my deck wasn't committing. So I switch to Esika as the commander and put alot more land tutors in. My playgroup still fears the deck but it is certainly weaker without Golos as the commander.
But anyway, the new support piece of The World Tree was what made me actually build this janky deck and make it actually pretty good.
I honestly love my enchantress deck AND love graveyard decks, so Iâm tempted to steal this decklist outright! đ
But seriously, excellent video! Iâm loving all the new edh content creators coming out of the woodwork to post about much more enlightened and informed deckbuilding strategies and philosophies! I suffer from tunnel vision myself when brewing and it can lead to frustration when cutting cards or figuring out synergies so content like this can help refocus my mind.
Best of luck and hoping for your channelâs growth!
Theyâre not exactly niche, but playing Athreos, God of Passage as an aristocrat lifedrain style deck has paid huge dividends for me.
The trigger on such a cheap, inoffensive and resilient commander makes it to where he lingers for most of the game.
Additionally, heâs no teysa karlov, but he can put her in the deck. And then an opponent has to lose 3 life to put her in the graveyard every time she would be wiped. Thatâs not much, but some people really hate paying that cost, and later in the game 3 life is jussssst enough to cause people to second guess board wipes. Its great fun
Awesome video! You've inspired me to take another look at the golgari decks ive always shelved in the past
I always try to make Nazahn work while utilizing as much green artifact and equipment synergy as possible. Sadly wizards decided that WR is way better for equipment theme, so I take what I can get, but its fun to dig through a new sets to see if WOTC left me a present! I guess thats why he's even lower than Pharika on EDHREC with only around 511 decks.
I love nazahn. Never built him truly but itâs cool he just gets you a sigardaâs aid.
I can relate to jank because I run thraximundar sac at my LGS
This is great. It really got my brewer's brain thinking!
yoo this is some top-notch quality video right there !
I'm still not convinced about the deck's strength until I've seen it in action (I'm worried it relies too much on its commander and its value pieces) but your presentation was super good and you gave me a lot to think about, thanks!
The conclusion is gonna have me retroactively look at way too many cards x3
I agree with you unironically. Most of the time I wouldnât build a deck that is this needy for its commander in play, but pharika is a theros god so out of 50 games with her (Iâm guessing) sheâs only actually gotten removed maybe 5 of those games because indestructible enchantment is hard to deal with. Even then the deck has good mana acceleration and so itâs not hard to recast her and activate her a couple of times if she does get killed for only 5 mana (and you might get some constellation triggers from recasting her too lol).
Against a drannith magistrate, gravehate, or pithing needle it gets slightly harder but remember the deck is black/green so any permanent you donât like isnât going to stay around for long.
I think the biggest thing Pharika has going against her is Hapatra who also makes deathtouch snakes. They are completely different decks but many Commander players are animal centric and a possible player base for Pharika would be attracted to her because of the snakes.
I don't think you're far off base with people looking at pharika and going "if i wanted a snake deck I'd play hapatra" without thinking about the finer nuance
We will be watching your career with great interest
Great video and an awesome deck. I was surprised by some of your choices of cuts and relative lack of enchantment cards, but it ran really well in the playtester and was a lot of fun.
I play Magic on a really tight budget (I'm broke and my playgroup doesn't allow proxies) and there were a lot of cards in the decklist that I can't splurge for: pieces like Yawgmoth and Finale of Devastation are unquestionably outside my constraints, and even really solid ones in the $8-10 range like Seedborn Muse and Six are priced too high for me. $4-5 is usually about as high as I go for singles and I try and keep those to a minimum. I've lucked into a handful of more expensive hits like Skullclamp and Takenuma that help smooth things out.
Additionally, lockout sorts of effects like Doomwake Giant and Thoughtrender Lamia are ones that my group members shy away from for being pretty salt inducing.
I like a lot of the directions you've gone in for your list and would really like to build something similar. Are there alternatives you'd recommend for some of the heavy hitters that would keep the engine running well but keep the cost and salt low?
at the bottom of my primer there is a list of cards that are âconsidering.â yawgmoth, six, and finale the cuts are simple, you can just run card advantage or mill engines like Fell Stinger, Mosswood Dreadknight, Old Rutstein, etc. Eternal witness and other cards can be good in the deck too to return cards milled. As for replacements for big game enders like lamia and doomwake giant, thatâs where things get a little harder. As much as I shy away from noncreatures for consistency (notice how all the replacements i list have been creatures) the best card would probably be overwhelming stampede which is still 4$ but thatâs way cheaper than finale of devastation, and can still kill players if pharika is a creature since then all your deathtouch snakes get +5/+5 and trample which basically makes them impossible to block effectively.
Hopefully that helps and you have fun playing her!
So, you could also do a fight theme where your snakes fight opponent's creatures and getting bonuses when opponents creatures die. But more in the theme of this video, you can combine her with eldrazi processors or Wilds of Eldrain enchantment dying theme or having enchantment creatures matter (ex. Weaver of Harmony) or even have her commit crimes in OTJ!
Yes these are all examples of things that are possible, that being said the enchantment dying cards are better as just normal aristocrats creature dying cards since they are all higher quality and i used to have weaver but cut it because a lord isnât exactly what the deck needs. Crimes donât have a loot of good payoff either versus exiling our own stuff but these mechanics are all things i am keeping my eye on in case of further development⊠Iâll need to look through some eldrazi processors but im not sure if any will get my goat
My "Pharika moment" was realizing a fun synergy with Norin the Wary and Maskwood Nexus. I know that Norin is not exactly an under-appreciated commander in the same way as Pharika is, but this was such a fun moment of realization for me that led to some of my favorite deckbuilding.
Ultimately, the idea is that Norin is a self-contained and very resilient blinking threat. He represents a very repeatable creature ETB effect. So, when combined with maskwood nexus, every time he ETB's basically every turn, you can get a benefit from multiple creature types. I try to put as many different creature types in the deck that all have separate ETB-based triggered effects, such as "every time a humen ETB's" or "any time a dragon ETB's" etc. The value really builds on itself, and I think that it's a fun take on the commander that not a lot of people have explored.
All that being said, I'm sure that I'm not the first to notice/build around this interaction, but it was something that I noticed on my own, and the fun of brewing around the idea was really memorable to me.
That does sound really funny LOL
And yeah with thousands ân thousands of magic players no idea is truly going to be unique but still finding something niche yourself makes it feel like yours which is like a peak feeling
Wonderful first video~~ love seeing another fur(I assume) in the community!
This is so cool! I enjoy enchantment strategies, graveyard decks and snakes (Shigeki from NEO is my favorite card), and I've never even considered building around Pharikađ Thanks for the deck!
Also you made me want to look at old, janky commanders to try and build
This is an amazing look at Pharika. I'm gonna have to take a look at your decklist.
Dismissed Pharika when she was released. Never gave her any thought. But now you bring her up, my immediate brew would be MillDrazi, utilising the eldrazi that return exiled cards to graveyard for additional effects
With 3 eldrazi? Nope!
Hey I loved this video! Iâm not sure how often you are targeting opponents graveyard, but Freestrider Lookout seems like an interesting fit here, ramping you on each pharika activation.
Youâre not alone in thinking about it. I havenât gotten around to trying it
Great video! Look forward to seeing more videos. Subbedđđ
Love love the amount of careful consideration you put into the way cards interact :3 I was awaiting insidious roots from the start of the video đ Subscribing even though EDH is far from my preferred way to play magic. Also, your voice is very nice âș
One of the decks I built recently was an Ever Changing 'Dane built around the fact he copies something AFTER hitting the battlefield. I built something like stiflenaught/lotus control with a theme around negative enters the battlefield triggers I can either avoid with torpor orb effects, or copy the creature before it probably exiles itself or something.
I built the shell of the deck before I stumbled on the perfect commander, but sadly its severely lacking draw so it hasn't done much in the games i played, so I'll have to revise it. Its still really fun and interesting to play, even if it bends a little too much in the unfun control direction.
Funny story though, I almost got reverse infinite'd with zara, renegade recruiter and wormfang manta, taking infinite turns and hitting me with my own creature until i died. Thankfully they only hit me once cause there was a bigger threat at the table.
Awesome v positive videos! Great voice. Please stay positive you will do great
This looks like so much fun
Very cool and cozy vid!! we need more Elk!!
I like the combat trick aspect of giving your opponents a surprise snake token. Can you think of another commander deck focusing around combat tricks?
I donât build these decks just for the channel. They are decks Iâve specifically been playing for awhile already. That being said, zada, feather, gargos (vicious watcher), ivy (gleeful spellthief); these are all cards that can make such a deck work really well.
One of my decks, built around Fain, the Broker, is really quite good at forcing my opponents to check for any tricks I can do. Sacrificing artifacts for surprise blockers, sacrificing creatures to flip a block in my favor, throwing away chump blockers, sometimes even putting counters on my opponent's creatures so they can win a combat unexpectedly. Plus he natively has the ability to untap to double down on the shenanigans when need be.
Pawsome video, Elk!
Sure, I'll subscribe to this 3/3 Elk, but only because it used to be a food token and I miss Oko.
Thanks for the deck, too âșïž
I used to go to a casual commander place, and only one person had a Pharika deck, maybe they shared your excitement for its janky potential.
And now I'm interested.
You have a very clever way of building decks. I have most of the cards for this deck and look forward to building it. Your Kura deck looks fun but would need too many proxies. But either way, very happy I stumbled upon your channel!
Yeah i plan for my first few videos to be about decks I literally own so nothing like âyou can build this deck for 20$!â where Iâve never played the deck or anything. Basically, I donât want to make a deck tech video about a deck Iâm not confident I at least have some experience in so youâre gonna see some wild fluctuations in deck quality and price because these decks are ones I actually play and upgrade in paper frequently. Like Iâm literally invested in their success haha. Also you may have noticed i talk about most cards in the deck pretty broadly/loosely because decks change overtime and I want this video to stand the test of time which is why i say âplease read the primer!â Cuz i can actually update that thing haha
I donât really have a gimmick after that. I have maybe 6 decks maximum I want to talk about. Maybe after them Iâll talk about my commander deck graveyard or touch on how building a cube has been a good way of finding a home for pet cards I really want to play but canât find a deck for because theyâre too weak. Thatâs right, imma make some cube propaganda and try to turn some players away from being commander only mwuhahahaha.
@@33elk wonderful to hear, elk! I believe players need to try other formats to understand magic better and honestly even just to have more fun.
Decks like High Tide, Manaless Dredge, even just good old fashioned Burn helped me start seeing lines of play I couldn't before. Evaluating board states and knowing when to buy time versus when to commit entirely is a skill best learned in 60 card formats.
Drafts helped with making the best of a bad situation and living by the phrase "make them have it." Real games aren't goldfished so expect the removal. Expect to be sandbagged or be a turn away from a combo loss. Have the removal and always push your opponents to need it for you. Bombs, removal, evasion, aggro. Drafting is deck building bootcamp and more players need to do it to break their habits of decks with not enough lands, card draw, or removal, just stuffed with bombs and pet cards that never get their value.
So I'll be down in the comments helping nudge people into cube too. Magic is too lovely a game to know only one of its faces.
Really cool video! I had a really similar moment with my syrix deck since it works well with a lot of the markov manor cards, really underrated set mechanically
I bet you're excited about that new MH3 collect evidence phoenix
@@33elk for sure! Itâs like they printed it just for me specifically lol
great build!
You say play test or read the primer, now Iâm just buying it
Thank you!
@@33elkim trying to budget it to 150 ish xd
This build looks super cool! i built her not too long ago as a soft stax deck using Grismold, Bereavement, Compost, Grim Feast, Liability and Dingus Staff as payoffs for me giving them snakes.
I RAN HER IN GRISMOLD too! I cut it from the video, but originally i had a grismold deck and pharika was just in it and i liked her play pattern a lot of gumming up ground attackers so much that i just built her as my golgari deck instead. It took a lot of work and luck but she got there..
â@@33elk Shes so open ended as a commander its hard to keep it to a single or few strategies.
Have you ever tried running Rofellos's Gift in the deck?
@@CromwellMTG My deck only runs 14 enchantments, I'm more in on the mill theme than the enchantment theme.
My hunt is over for a golgari snake commander deck
Banger
I am myself building a "graveyard burning" deck where I mill and then exile cards from graveyards to fuel abilities
And I am using amzu and other leave battlefield cards that you proposed with pharika
I just want to get rid of stuff in graveyards. Reanimator players have had it too good for too long
Not me forgetting that there are actually a non-zero number of ways to Populate in Golgari now
Pretty cool deck. Also fun way to use token generators that care about cards leaving your grave ^^
I used to have a pharika deck. I played about 40 creatures. All with abilities to sac them selfs for value or edict creatures like flwshbag marauder. Fill you gy this way an just keep mana open so nobody wants ro attack you. Its so cool to sueprise someone with a deathtouch blocker for an opponent. I rerired the deck because it was very removal heavy and my friends didnt have fun playing against. Nowadays I don't have fun with playing no rwmoval. Maybe i will put a new list together.
I don't think I have a deck like this, even though I spent a while trying to make Athreos, God of Passage work without the Apostle strategy. However, my absolute pet deck feels like it fell out of favour in recent years being Azami, Lady of Scrolls. I first built around her around 2017 and loved her since.
Did WotC do a pronunciation guide for this expansion like they did for the last Ixalan one? Because I always thought her name sounds like "fuh-REE-kuh." Love your channel's name!
Thanks for the compliment haha, I also considered 'burnished hart.' Fuhreekuh makes sense too its just that i got the stupid caliboy accent so fairehka is just easier to say for me. Plus then i don't gotta say "reek" all the time.
I'm going to give a like because of the cute elk guy
I rub Keranos as an earthquake tribal commander. I run plenty of cards that do damage to creatures and players symmetrically. I also run an artifact life gain package. You think that izzit is typically a fast paced archetype drawing and slinging spells at a pace that the value keranos gives just isnât worth it. Normally youâd be right, but if you focus on slowing the game down, you end up with an awesome indestructible value piece as you work to burn out your opponents.
I actually really like the Pharika/Umori list if you add in more enchantment creature cards like the Springheart Nantuko and Tricksterâs Elk from MH3
In time it can certainly become possible but as it stands there are far too few enchantment creatures even with the new ones in MH3 to make Pharika consistent as a companion deck. You'd have to sacrifice card quality a whole lot for a subpar companion. No seedborn muse, skullclamp, snarling gorehound, setessan champion, or doom whisperer either which is a huge gut punch. I think another two sets though and the deck can really start coming together, at least a little bit. I think anikthea currently is the better choice of commander for that strategy.
@@33elk Honestly, I donât feel as big of an issue when it comes to card draw and mill. The main thing that this version is weak in is more its ability to remove threats on the table as you do have some but majority of them work at sorcery speed
@@red_spect3r833 i would love a link to your list if you have one, the comment will get held but i can release it from comment prison for having a link
Desecrated Tomb!!! It was one of my first rares and it's been sitting in a box for years until I built a Quintoroius deck and now I can run it! Could work for you too and this might be just bc my playgroup has fairies and dragons but the fliers put in worl
I used to have desecrated tomb but no longer run it because i heavily scrutinize non-creature cards in this deck. I replaced it with insidious roots.
@@33elk fair enough tbh, insidious roots just produces soooo much extra value it gives tomb a rub for its money
Athreos is my favorite Theros god, cause Charon is my favorite Greek god... but Pharika is a close second! I wish she had more synergy with Hapatra cause they seem cool together.
Have you tried or thought about running Gift of the Deity?
6 mana athreos looks super interesting to me. Its a matter of when rather than if for building that one.
hello, im also a big pharika fan, i would also want to bring your attention to landcycling cards such as Generous Ent and Troll of Khazad-dum. I also find Street Wraith very strong for surprise snake plays.
Yes they're very good for this deck but I hate the way the universes beyond card border looks so I don't run them. It's petty I know LOL
I do run faerie macabre. wraith i couldn't justify the space for.
Take a shot every time he says Pharika
Nice vid! Have a sub
I love pharika as well. Such a cool legend and the small tricks like plucking snake to make random blocker are definitely my jam.
Have you considered both Neverwinter Drayd and Diligent Farmhand? Theyâre like Wayfarerâs Bauble but stapled on a body. Might be they could be interesting as fodder for pharika?
Yeah Iâm familiar with them. I donât run either because the deck already has so many dorks and ways to turn creatures into mana
Hey 3/3 Elk.
I challenge you to make a deck based on Shameless Charlatan. Find what commander best partners up with it.
I had my own Pharika moment with it. I want to see someone else's take.
While i dont like you hate on my big blue and red daddy. I respect your opinion. And I like your deck idea
This video does pyschic damage