I have no idea why I haven't seen a deck built around him. I'm taking the challenge.
What I need: ways to tap Macar besides attacking. Black devotion cards I haven't heard of.
So far,
{Gray Merchant of Asphodel}
{Abhorent Overlord}
{Soul of Innistrad}
{Erebos, God of the Dead}
{Vampire Nighthawk}
{Nekrataal}
{Squelching Leeches}
{Spring Leaf Drum}
{paradise mantle} is a good one :) also, some good mono black cards that give devotion: {necropotence}, Any Liliana, {liliana's spectre}, {sorin markov}, {phage the untouchable}, {massacre wurm}, {animate dead}, {avatar of woe}. I built a mono black {erebos, god of the dead} edh deck recently so I know of a lot of fun things :p
{Paradise Mantle} and {Thornbite Staff} come to mind when I think of using him to tap.
I actually tried to make a deck around him when he first came out, using more of an artifact theme and tryed to abuse the artifact tokens he made by playing affinity cards, just an idea :)
But good black cards for devotion purposes are {Phyrexian Obliterator}, {Phyrexian Arena}, {Grave Pact}, {Vampire Hexmage}, {Reiver Demon}
Quote from: Gocougs509 on August 23, 2014, 05:13:27 PM
{paradise mantle} is a good one :) also, some good mono black cards that give devotion: {necropotence}, Any Liliana, {liliana's spectre}, {sorin markov}, {phage the untouchable}, {massacre wurm}, {animate dead}, {avatar of woe}. I built a mono black {erebos, god of the dead} edh deck recently so I know of a lot of fun things :p
{Paradise Mantel} is perfect. {Necropotence} is a card I wish for dearly. Sadly it's hard to come by. Two people in my play group have {Liliana Vess} but they're very attached to them. {Sorin Markov} is a beast. He's also frowned upon in commander for his middle ability, and I can't get my hands on one. (But when I do. 😈)
I realize that {Paragon of Open Graves} is an auto include. You should run one if you aren't already.
I have {Erebos, God of the Dead} however I thought {King Macar, the Gold Cursed} would be more fun. I am however worried about the amount of aggro he'll grab.
Quote from: JordanCirk on August 23, 2014, 05:15:21 PM
{Paradise Mantle} and {Thornbite Staff} come to mind when I think of using him to tap.
I actually tried to make a deck around him when he first came out, using more of an artifact theme and tryed to abuse the artifact tokens he made by playing affinity cards, just an idea :)
But good black cards for devotion purposes are {Phyrexian Obliterator}, {Phyrexian Arena}, {Grave Pact}, {Vampire Hexmage}, {Reiver Demon}
I have some {Thornbite Staff} like effects kicking around. I'll for sure run them. :)
How'd that go? I think I'm gonna focus on keeping my opponents off the board and building up devotion. Affinity is great but I own like three cards and they're in my {Muzzio, Grand Artificer} deck. (Also commander. :P)
Those are all disgustingly good cards. Sadly I own none of them but I shall be hunting cause {Reiver Demon}‽ Like holy crap. I do have {Dictate of Erebos} which is a not as efficient {Grave Pact}. I foolishly traded my {Grave Betrayal} and I'm gonna try and get it back.
Great suggestions guys, keep em coming.
So you piqued my interest about this guy and found two that utilise the obvious combo choice (so obvious I'm ticked off I hadn't twigged earlier) of Black Artifacts with Metalcraft and Affinity. Hope they help, they've definitely inspired me...
http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/the-golden-rule-of-king-macar/
http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/king-macar-the-gold-cursed-2/
So I threw a deck together. It ran black devotion, which I didn't draw any of. Hand disruption, which I didn't draw any of. And removal. Which I drew some of.
I had {Springleaf Drum} and {King Macar, the Gold Cursed} out on turn four. And promptly drew everyone's aggro. I got smashed by flying faster than Macar could exile it (Macar getting nailed by all the removal didn't help). In the end I ended up dead very quickly because everyone was too afraid of Macar. Despite the fact that all my ways to tap him were blown up, and that I was (for the most part) shutting down a {Krenko, Mob Boss} deck that was proven to win games unless it was controlled. Not a good run.
I'm planning on taking out the hand disruption in favour of more ways to tap and (if I can find anything) untap Macar. I also realize I put in morbid effects which are useless. I'm going to be running {Swiftfoot Boots} for sure.
My hope is that next time I can have /something/ to reactively untap Macar, sending all that aggro away for the fear of me exiling your stuff. (Which was the fear in the first place)
I checked out those artifact lists and they look epic, however I own only one big artifact and that's {Colossus of Akros} and I already have an artifact commander (Muzzio). I think I'm going to attempt devotion and control, as Macar isn't bad at either. I'll also keep an eye peeled for metal craft, which I completely forgot about.
Totally agree on those linked decks, amaaaaaazing ideas! I'm torn now as I wanna make one, but I often feel morally wrong stealing others' ideas! Creativity usually overrides this, however. Haha
I gotta say, I'm super interested also. I usually don't play Mono-black, but this seems like a bunch of fun and pretty powerful commander.
One card. Homelands:
{Koskun Falls}.
Check it
Quote from: IntoFire on August 24, 2014, 10:32:20 PM
One card. Homelands:
{Koskun Falls}.
Check it
Totally! It's in both the deck lists in my OP and when I saw it, a light switched on!
Quote from: IntoFire on August 24, 2014, 10:32:20 PM
One card. Homelands:
{Koskun Falls}.
Check it
Sick. It's {Propaganda} that works with the commander. That card completely redeems all of Homelands.
I'm shocked that none of those lists are running {Maze of Ith}. It basically makes sure Macar can tap safely each turn.
Quote from: Dudecore on August 24, 2014, 11:56:29 PM
Quote from: IntoFire on August 24, 2014, 10:32:20 PM
One card. Homelands:
{Koskun Falls}.
Check it
Sick. It's {Propaganda} that works with the commander. That card completely redeems all of Homelands.
I'm shocked that none of those lists are running {Maze of Ith}. It basically makes sure Macar can tap safely each turn.
I'm currently using {Witche's Eye}, {Springleaf Drum} and {Claim of Erebos} with the most effectiveness.
{Maze of Ith} would be the bomb in this deck. Sadly $20 is more than I'm willing to spend right now.
{Koskun Falls} I just wish I had one. xD It kinda sucks that it's at the upkeep but hey. I'm not complaining.
Just for suggestions sake, {Umbral Mantle} providing a spare {3}...
Quote from: Spikepit on August 25, 2014, 05:08:33 PM
Just for suggestions sake, {Umbral Mantle} providing a spare {3}...
That would be sweet. But hard to get my hands on.
Man, I feel you! I often feel the worst thing about deck builfing is not owning the cards you need.
And its only going to get worse now. Sigh.
Quote from: Spikepit on August 27, 2014, 08:01:29 AM
Man, I feel you! I often feel the worst thing about deck builfing is not owning the cards you need.
And its only going to get worse now. Sigh.
I have a $56 buy list. For one deck. And all the cards are old. T_T