Timeshifted: Zurgo the Staxmasher

[Dudecore]

{Zurgo Helmsmasher} 100 cards 1 {Zurgo Helmsmasher} Commander 1 {Ancient Tomb} 1 {Arid Mesa} 1 {Badlands} 🚫 1 {Blood Crypt} 1 {Bloodstained Mire} 1 {Bojuka Bog} 1 {Command Tower} 1 {Flagstones of Trokair} 1 {Godless Shrine} 1 {Kher Keep} 1 {Kor Haven} 1 {Lavaclaw Reaches} 1 {Marsh Flats} 1 {Maze of Ith} 4 {Mountain} 6 {Plains} 1 {Plateau} 🚫 1 {Rix Maadi, Dungeon Palace} 1 {Sacred Foundry} 1 {Scrubland} 🚫 1 {Serra's Sanctum} 1 {Strip Mine} 6 {Swamp} 1 {Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth} 37 lands 1 {Erebos, God of the Dead} 1 {Mogis, God of Slaughter} 1 {Sun Titan} 3 creatures 1 {Boros Signet} 1 {Chromatic Lantern} 1 {Coalition Relic} 1 {Crucible of Worlds} 1 {Cursed Totem} 1 {Ensnaring Bridge} 1 {Mana Vault} 1 {Nihil Spellbomb} 1 {Orzhov Signet} 1 {Rakdos Signet} 1 {Sensei's Divining Top} 1 {Sol Ring} 1 {Talisman of Indulgence} 1 {Torpor Orb} 1 {Trading Post} 1 {WInter Orb} 16 artifacts 1 {Assemble the Legion} 1 {Aura of Silence} 1 {Contamination} 1 {Ghostly Prison} 1 {Goblin Assault} 1 {Humility} 🚫 1 {Impending Disaster} 1 {Karmic Justice} 1 {Land Tax} 1 {Leyline of the Void} 1 {Manabarbs} 1 {Moat} 🚫 1 {Nether Void} 🚫 1 {No Mercy} 1 {Oppression} 1 {Painful Quandary} 1 {Phyrexian Arena} 1 {Price of Glory} 1 {Seal of Cleansing} 1 {Sphere of Safety} 1 {Spreading Plague} 1 {Stranglehold} 22 enchantments 1 {Ajani Vengeant} 1 {Elspeth, Knight-Errant} ✨ Duel Deck Series 1 {Liliana of the Veil} 1 {Sorin, Lord of Innistrad} ✨ Duel Deck Series 4 planeswalkers 1 {Armageddon} 1 {Cataclysm} 1 {Crackling Doom} 1 {Demonic Tutor} 1 {Enlightened Tutor} 1 {Ill-Gotten Gains} 1 {Merciless Eviction} 1 {Path to Exile} 1 {Replenish} 1 {Ruination} 1 {Swords to Plowshares} 1 {Terminus} 1 {Utter End} 1 {Vampiric Tutor} 1 {Vindicate} 1 {Wildfire} 1 {Wrath of God} 17 other spells ✨ Denotes Foil 🚫 Denotes No Foil Version ✒️ Denotes Signed 🎨 Denotes Altered 📝 Deck Tech ⚠️ Updates and Revisions Storage: KMC Perfect Fits, KMC Hyper MAT (White). Leifkicker Skull Themed Deck Box

This is my attempt to show an alternate reality version of my Oloro deck. I dropped blue, and added red. I might want to do this in the future

[JordanCirk]

Love love love it!  What are your thoughts about  {Sorin, Solemn Visitor} In this style of deck, his plus will usually be irrelevant but te emblem would be nice to have. Also what about  {Assemble the Legion} Or even  {Fleshbag Marauder} That you can bring back with  {Sun Titan}?

[Dudecore]

Love love love it!  What are your thoughts about  {Sorin, Solemn Visitor} In this style of deck, his plus will usually be irrelevant but te emblem would be nice to have. Also what about  {Assemble the Legion} Or even  {Fleshbag Marauder} That you can bring back with  {Sun Titan}?

{Assemble the Legion} sounds good. Thats a nice army-in-a-can card. {Sorin, Solemn Visitor} isnt good in a creatureless deck, and his ultimate ability is {The Abyss}. I don't love the effect enough to buy an {Abyss}, and not try to carry a planeswalker to getting that emblem. But thank you. It's all hypothetical. I have too many blue decks (5 of 5 EDH decks play Blue). Figure this would get me away from it. But my Oloro stax deck is like over 95% foiled...I don't know if I want to start over.

[JordanCirk]

Love love love it!  What are your thoughts about  {Sorin, Solemn Visitor} In this style of deck, his plus will usually be irrelevant but te emblem would be nice to have. Also what about  {Assemble the Legion} Or even  {Fleshbag Marauder} That you can bring back with  {Sun Titan}?

Aseemble the Legion sounds good. Thats a nice army-in-a-can card. {Sorin, Solemn Visitor} isnt good in a creatureless deck, and his ultimate ability is {The Abyss}. I don't love the effect enough to buy an {Abyss}, and not try to carry a planeswalker to getting that emblem. But thank you. It's all hypothetical. I have too many blue decks (5 of 5 EDH decks play Blue). Figure this would get me away from it. But my Oloro stax deck is like over 95% foiled...I don't know if I want to start over.

Fair enough, sounds sweet though, love your decks and that you give descriptive detail on all of them.

[Dudecore]

I mean...looking at my list it would only take a couple hundred to switch over. I need foil {Blood Crypt}, {Sacred Foundry}, {Arid Mesa}, {Bloodstained Mire}, 4 Zendikar full-art {Mountain} and some cheapo stuff. I could even possibly trade some of the stuff I have towards what I need....hmmm...

[JordanCirk]

I mean...looking at my list it would only take a couple hundred to switch over. I need foil {Blood Crypt}, {Sacred Foundry}, {Arid Mesa}, {Bloodstained Mire}, 4 Zendikar full-art {Mountain} and some cheapo stuff. I could even possibly trade some of the stuff I have towards what I need....hmmm...

Dooo iitt ☺️ then whenever you want you can use either or deck!

[Dudecore]

Well I'd use my Blue pieces to trade for the new stuff. But red is such a good Stax color....

[JordanCirk]

Well I'd use my Blue pieces to trade for the new stuff. But red is such a good Stax color....

I hope you don't mind, but I proxied this up and played against my friend (replacing a few things, nether void and moat with {Descent into Madness} and  {Assemble the Legion} as I know I won't be able to get the other cards.) and the deck performed amazingly! It was sweet to get assemble into play, then descent into madness, and cast  {Armageddon}. Slowly dwindled everyone's resources away, was beautiful!

[Dudecore]

{Descent into Madness} is a bit unstable for me. I prefer {Smokestack}. I might drop {Bitterblossom} for it, since blossom could outright kill me without Oloro. I do like this setup a bunch, I just have to convince myself it's really even worth it. My Oloro deck is already just so good that I barely play it anymore.

[Munchlax]

{Descent into Madness} is a bit unstable for me. I prefer {Smokestack}. I might drop {Bitterblossom} for it, since blossom could outright kill me without Oloro. I do like this setup a bunch, I just have to convince myself it's really even worth it. My Oloro deck is already just so good that I barely play it anymore.

Descent pairs well with {Assemble the legion}

[Dudecore]

So does {Smokestack}. Only you can control {Smokestack} and MUST have {Assemble the Legion} if you hope to get out in front of {Descent into Madness}

[Munchlax]

But descent also gives you card advantage where smokestack won't

[Dudecore]

Question while I have some of you here. Which is more swagged out:
{Zurgo Helmsmasher}: Khans Prerelease Promo or Duel Deck version?
{Utter End}: Prerelease Promo or GameDay Top 8?

[Munchlax]

For utter end top eight is more exclusive which makes it more swaggy
Prerealease zurgo because it is foily and shows you were at the Prerealease

[Dudecore]

I wonder how many {Utter End} Prerelease promos even exist though. Like it could potentially be the rarest version of the card, because it was 1 of 40 promos, 1 in 8 Mardu Prerelease decks. The card is virtually worthless post-rotation, so it's all relative. But each store that is permitted to run Prerelease are given 8 {Utter End} (some more) X thousands of stores.

Wizards doesn't release the numbers, but I wonder which is the more rare version.