Vintage Cube: The Commander Deck | Storm

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Jan 31, 2023

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Today I am happy to present to you |||Drumroll, Please!|||

Vintage Cube: The Commander Deck | Storm Edition!

This is a super fun deck! The original stipulation was to use only cards available in the current MTGO Vintage Cube card list!

I sat down on a stream day to start deckbuilding with a few decks in mind.

But this one jumped out of my memory! I’m happy I remembered it and I have since then followed the practice of writing down deck ideas, for they are many.

This last holiday season I played my first Vintage Cube games on MTGO.

When the drafting began, I did the only thing I felt like I “knew” how to do - Force Storm.

I explored many archetypes along the way through multiple drafts. But Storm, of course, won my heart.

This deck is essentially the sweetest Storm deck imaginable from the Vintage card pool.

I decided to go Grixis High Tide Storm.

There are no Legendary Grixis Commanders in the Vintage Cube right now so our commander is the one and only Progenitus - ending up being a completely untastable card for the deck unfortunately.

The one card that this gives us access to is pretty great.

Manamorphose can fix our mana and draw our tutor targets.

It’s also really fun to run a Gruul colored card in essentially a Grixis deck.

There could definitely be a more Izzet Storm deck but when I was considering that route I quickly dismissed it for not being resilient enough.

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We are running a lot of tutors and fast mana which makes the deck feel really strong and consistent.

I dubbed it a “Resilient Glass Cannon” in the MTG Goldfish Article and Primer.

I quickly discovered that the deck fits in a lot better at CEDH tables haha.

Although, because of the limited card pool, I feel like it is somewhere between a strong infinite combo Commander deck and optimized CEDH.

I think the stipulation really makes the deck super fun to play. Highly reminiscent of Vintage Cube. And allows me to set aside some Commander/CEDH staples to make room for fun includes like Kolaghan’s Command as a versatile artifact removal piece. And Arcane Proxy as a non-staple piece (Not yet, anyway). I think this card is an outlier - being worthy of its mythic rarity.

The main goal of the deck is to cast High Tide with a lot of Islands on the board and use that big mana boost to tutor up combo pieces and win the game in one shot with infinite Storm!

The infinite combo linchpin is (to my surprise) Hullbreaker Horror!

With Hullbreaker Horror on the battlefield you can create loops that generate infinite mana and infinite storm.

Having at either Mana Crypt or Sol Ring is key as they make 2 mana. This allows you to cast one picking up either the other or a signet to make colored mana. Mana Crypt is best as you can cast it for zero and net mana with Sol Ring but generating the colored mana with Signets can be done by first looping Crypt and Sol Ring or Crypt and Mana Vault or Grim Monolith creating an excess of colorless mana that you can then use to activate the Signets.

Adding Unlicensed Hearse into the mix allows you to exile all graveyards.

With a Birgi you get infinite Red mana.

Metamorph copying Hullbreaker allows you to do the infinite mana infinite Storm loop while simultaneously bouncing the entire board.

Other cards that are very convenient to be able to pick up or copy are

Palinchron and Treachery can untap your lands if needed.

Snapcaster and Spellseeker get the spells you need.

Mulldrifter can draw your tutor target. (a good reason to hard cast mully and not evoke)

Venser to then pick up something else is also pretty spicy.

The high density of Tutors and graveyard recursion gives the deck a lot of consistency.

I decided to run Entomb + Reanimate after my first couple games. There are several good targets for these cards if you happen to have both in hand and Reanimate ends up working well during Yawg Will Turns.

The deck runs only 13 creatures and very little interaction outside of counterspells so you just have to take the early attacks.

I originally had Kiki combo in the deck as I thought there might be room for both, and who knows, maybe it could work but in the end I leaned into the High Tide - Storm plan.

I think virtually every archetype from Vintage Cube could be turned into a Commander deck so let me know which one you’d like to see next!

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