Vorosh, the Hunter Commander (EDH)
Ever since I first laid eyes on Nebuchadnezzar I was hooked. The idea that they could make a Magic card out of a specific character was awesome to a kid who played D&D regularly. The Babylonian king was my fist encounter with a Legend. I always get a big kick from new Legendary cards and somewhere along the line I decided to try and collect one of every Legend. I am happy to say that I own more than half of all the 532 Legendary cards out there. I wish I would have had some sort of income back when I started playing. There are definitely some glaring holes in my collection The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale being a bit pricey and the low print run of Portal: Three Kingdoms has been harsh, but I am pretty proud of my collection.
My wife wanted to make a new EDH deck since she kept forgetting which slivers to tutor for in her Sliver Overlord deck and I thought it would be fun for her and I (mainly I) to go through my Legend binder and check out what Generals would be interesting. My binder is currently in alphabetical order so we started with good ol’ Aboshan, Cephalid Emperor and worked our way from there. It was a great way for my wife to show interest in my favorite hobby and we had a blast making fun of Grandmother Sengir. My wife really got going once we finally came across Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon.
“Does infect work the same in EDH?”
“Yup, ten poison. You might want to go green and black for the best mix of infect guys.”
Finally, my wife settled on running Vorosh, the Hunter so she could get a good mix of infect and proliferate.
Creatures
My wife wanted ways to pump her guys and ways to get past blockers and came up with a nice mix.
Pump/Evasion
Then she added some removal and a few other cards that could break open any stalls. A few tutor spells round it out.
Good Stuff
The Mana base is pretty straightforward
Lands
The bad thing about this deck is that my wife and I play one-on-one a lot and she can poison me out pretty fast. Infect seems much more fair in a multi-player environment where it is way more difficult to poison out the whole table. NPH gave this deck a whole bunch of goodies my favorite being Viral Drake. I am really pumped by the new Legends in NPH and want to start building my Jor Kadeen, the Prevailer metalcraft deck.
Tags: Commander, deck building, EDH, EDH General, New Phyrexia, Vorosh
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June 7th, 2011 at 2:29 am
This looks like a really fun Commander pile. I believe I’ll build it in the near future and take it out for a spin. Thanks for the ideas
July 17th, 2011 at 12:03 am
Hi Justin. I am just now discovering this site (I’m pretty new to magic as well) but have been looking at your articles about EDH and it’s good stuff. I just wanted to say that I thought the same thing with infect and immediately wanted blue in my colors. However I think you would really enjoy Damia, Sage of Stone (one of the new legends printed in the “devour for power” deck) as your general. The ability to reload your hand every turn is amazing! With her on the field you will never run out things to ensure victory. I built mine and it’s almost too mean to play (almost). Just thought I might share my input.
August 24th, 2011 at 6:42 pm
Suggestions for your deck…
Glistening Oil + Hydra Omnivore = EDH Multiplayer own-age. =)
Molten-Tail Masticore with Phyresis also would be pretty bonkers too.
Sure, you’d be exiling creatures in the process, but, 4 direct infect damage is a pretty fair trade in my opinion.
And since you’re playing G-U-B, your opponents would more than likely never see it coming. It’s also a legal target for Glissa to return should she attack.
Speaking of Glissa, I see you’re not running Grappling Hook. Consider running it for Glissa.