Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir | Upping the Average



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  1. One thing that's important to remember, perhaps THE most important thing to remember, is that Jibari is the cards name, and Sidar is a title. Just like Sidar Kondo.

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  2. I added some blue counters to save my board like negate and spell pierce as well as bident of thassa, which triggers card draw on every creature attack. I go wide with tokens and the lords/anthems make them tall. The blue spells round out the lack of blue and you can save your precious army! I love this deck 😀

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  3. Kwende and Marshal of Zhalfir were both immediate adds to me. I also added in some counterspell cards. I mean it's blue and no counters? Not enough to constantly have, but one or two means I may be able to stop a board wipe or powerful creature hitting the field. I do want that battle, though. And you've given me some other cards to consider. Though I'm also trying to improve the other four new commanders.

    Actually, have it so that Tinker Time can make around 15 different named artifact tokens without having to make copies of other cards. Out of the box it could only make nine or so at most.

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  4. Since you're suggesting kwende in the budget version and you mentioned Wonder. I think a cool add is Valor as well giving the team permanent first strike, and with kwende turning that into double strike

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  5. Whenever I see a tridal deck, My first instinct is to look at the Changelings the deck has available. In this case, you have access to all 3 1 mana changelings, which Sidar which absolutely love to see as they get the looting going right away. Nameless Inversion is similar to crib swap in that Haakon can abuse it from the graveyard. Littjara Kinseekers is almost always going to provide card advantage, and Irregular Cohort is two knights for the price of one. And of course, Mirror Entity is a monster. I'm not saying that everyone of these cards should be in the deck, as there are more potent options, but I would definitely put them all into my initial maybeboard that I widdle down to the first draft of the deck.

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  6. one of the beneits of Kinsbaile Cavalier and Kwende, Pride of Femeref is that if you attack with your commander without double strike and they're in your grave, you can reanimate them as a bonus because they're reanimated in the first strike step and then grant double strike for the regular damage step, Silverblade Paladin is another knight that grants this benefit and is about .6$ ATM

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  7. Imma simp for signets rn. You can have 3 swamps and an azorious signet and STILL cast your commander on curve. Meanwhile a talisman will leave you high and dry in a 3 color deck.

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  8. Hello,
    Thank you for the video.
    I'm considering adding Elenda, the Dusk Rose and Breathless Knight as creatures, and True Conviction as enchantement…what do you think?

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  9. I'd say to grab Entomb and/or Buried Alive to tutor for whatever knight you need. Heck, you can entomb in response to Sidar's resurrection and put exactly the bomb you want to apply to the rest of your knights before they even deal damage.

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  10. I have a challenge the stats recommendation that discovered when researching the other precon commander. Energy Tap is a {U} sorcery that says "Tap target untapped creature you control. If you do, add an amount of {C} equal to that creature’s mana value." This card is in a total of 3 Zaxara decks, and only 1 Lucea Kane Deck, which seems insanely low for decks that want to hit huge X spell drops

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  11. I can't stress this enough, when I realized The Council of Four says "a player" and not "another player," my mind was blown. You can get both triggers yourself by drawing a card and double spelling on your turn, even the turn you play it.

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  12. I added Reparations to my version of the deck because I thought it was pretty flavorful, but as it turns out, this deck builds quite the board state that other players like to target so it turned into some ridiculous card draw.

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