My first commander deck was a gift from a buddy of mine, a mono red Valduk Keeper of the Flame deck. Such a fun and super aggro voltron commander

Love my Light-Paws deck, with right hand I can start swinging for lethal by turn 3 or 4. Only issue is you are the tables target without question once they know how crazy fast she is.

Good video for the "better to look at colors rather than a specific creature in most cases in voltron" case Have a nice day

Great coverage of the different volition archetypes! I myself love to go for resilient commanders, since as you mentioned you gotta be able to protect yourself from incidental removal... but failing that I love to have backup beaters in the deck or some other win con to help finish the job. This is where black can excel for equipment based voltron, as marionette master plus an artifact sac outlet just nukes the table. Similar story for red and Hellkite Tyrant, except its on upkeep.

i recommend pako/haldan for this: it grows alone and gives card advantage, you have good protection and ramp on the colors, and it can be fast. You can also build it with sub themes of spellslinger, landfall, theft, or play from exile. A real fun and powerfull commander on a budget.

I run a pretty deadly, streamlined Balan, Wandering Knight build, but it certainly requires plenty of skill and knowledge of the deck to pilot properly. You can't just carelessly deploy your commander and start equipping things, you need the proper ammount of mana, protection spells and ctirical mass to start dropping opponents before they know what hit them. Great video, you did an excellent job in addressing the many shortcomings of this strategy.

could use vorpal sword and stuff that makes ur commander unblockable so you easily win

I’ve started building an esper voltron deck with Soundwave, SuperSonic Spy. Soundwave can generate two different token creatures, which makes damage distribution easier to manage. I might go legendary tribal as well

Zur the enchanter is good at using voltron tactics to finish the game after putting up its defenses.

I have a Voltron Etali deck that is a lot of fun Something about a flying dinosaur with double strike that makes you smile doesn't it? Lol

I don't know if it was a visual gag at 0:26, but kids: don't try at home to put both the Sword of Fire and Ice and Aqueous Form on your commander. It's gonna end bad

The memory I have of my most evil moment is putting a -1/-1 counter on a Skullbriar that was just played, turn 2-3. They never recovered from that

My first commander deck was a Daxos of Meletis voltron deck. That was made out of miscellaneous cards I had in my collection, but he's still my favorite Voltron commander! Being Azorius means there's a billion different ways to protect him. Stealing catds lets you focus more on control, removal, etc, as you'll be able to take value cards from your opponents. The lifegain helps against aggro decks which might otherwise pose an issue. He's a very unique commander, even among other voltron decks. I'd highly reccomend him

Kediss + Yoshimaru is a cool combo and allows you to hit everyone at once preventing the nemesis problem you describe. This means if anyone is open to attacks everyone is open to attacks. Also very good with damage doublers. They are my favorite Voltron deck

I have a wilson deck, running flaming fist as the background, colossus hammer is funny

My pet commander deck is a keleth, sunmane familiar and kediss, emberclaw familiar voltron deck. it is deceptively honest in its game plan. keleth puts a 1/1 on my commanders whenever they swing and kediss makes my commanders deal symmetrical damage to the other opponents. the first turn you swing with both on the board everybody takes 2 damage, the next turn everyone takes 3 damage. its incremental value builds fast that by turn 5 or so you're swinging for around 9 damage on top of the already dealt damage. the deck runs primarily defensive instants like teferis protection to give it resilience and board wipes like slash the ranks which hurt the other players substantially more than me. despite the deck being voltron, by having 2 commanders with low initial cmc (2 cmc each), low initial damage, and seemingly "simple" triggered abilities. the deck presents as weaker than people expect and they can get blindsided by the draw and combat tricks the deck uses (such as flashing in grafted exoskeleton using sigarda's aid to deal 10 damage to the board if somebody made the mistake of not blocking).

I'm working on making a Sevinne, the Chronoclasm voltron deck to take advantage of his natural ability to avoid damage and attack/block with impunity. All the stuff I'm running to play things from the graveyard can easily snag artifacts/enchantments as well, so that's just gravy 😊

Honestly, you play voltron style decks because they are fun and not because they are powerful. I am working on building two voltron decks in paper that is Umbris and Anzrag. Both only need 1 or 2 turns of combat to deal lethal damage to a player and have plenty of protection. A good voltron decks should be built around creatures that can boost themselves easily or already have high amount of damage. Red is good at giving creatures haste and first/double strike which is good for a voltron deck.

I love my Skullbriar deck. I have multiple sacrifice spells/creatures in the deck to help get value from his power if someone attempts to remove him.

I like Ruhan, It is a Fun commander

Just built indominus Rex voltron and boy is it good, I have 8 indescructable cards and 8 hexproof and it’s so useful to just beat people out of nowhere

My favourite semi-Voltron deck is Horde of Notions, which has an amalgamation of my usual mid-range deck building, enough relevant elementals, enough combo-nonsense and a powerful voltron subtheme. I just did not want to follow everyone and their mother and Horde of Notions has some spicy keywords.

I wanted a challenge so i built a voltron deck without white, decided on Izzet. I wanted red's damage multipliers and blue's protection. Decided on an Esior/Kediss combination. All equipment, and their equip costs, cost 3 or less. Counterspell package. Multiple damage doublers and extra combat spells. Esior's 'ward' and Kediss' trigger make it really fast/brutal. Dust Corona is insane if your commander has flying 🍻

Mirko Vosk Mind Drinker Voltron

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