The Crab Daddy EDH/Commander Deck

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thank you hello there everyone and welcome back to the crab tribe today is a very special episode I've been uh waiting a while to do this had to fix my mic and get organized but today we're going to talk about cherix the Raging Isle which is really uh you know the reason I have uh this YouTube name and all of my YouTube personas across the internet because I love cherix I think he's a you know funny unique guy and he's uh one of my favorite Commander decks uh just to have uh fun and do what I do with craps it's all about the crap man so uh here is a brief overview of the commander itself and my commander deck uh which I have entitled The Crab Daddy so cherix first of all has two Arts uh there's the one on the left and the right um I have the one on the right I think it looks pretty with the nice little orange uh Flair to it something to note here I think uh is that the left side has a very pronounced uh spikes on him almost like they're metal very sharp there uh while on the right uh they're not as sharp more Rocky and overgrown with uh moss and I would assume from that that uh maybe this is a different timeline or uh that he's seen some battles and he's a bit worn out a bit of erosion there but anyway those are the two Arts do what you will with them and let's just jump in and talk about the lore who is cherix where does he come from and what does he do so cherix the Raging isle is a leviathan crab from the Rubens of the tazim the sky clave from zindakar when Iona destroyed the tazim skyclave huge chunks of it fell into the ocean one particular piece of Ruin housing a powerful and forgotten core artifact landed on a clutch of crab eggs the eggs were all crushed except for one that egg hatched and denied normal food a gorged itself on the energy of the artifacts it grew larger and explored the surrounding ruins finding new artifacts upon which to feed when the sky Clays Rose once more many of the diseem ruins emerge from the ocean its lifestyle and food supply interrupted cherix has breached the depths in search of subsidence uh so reading that from the official wiki I would think that something to do with him has to do with artifacts like maybe sacrificing artifacts and you get some effect or some counter but weirdly enough that actually has nothing to do with him um because I guess like it says he's searching for a new substance not under the ocean anymore so here's a brief uh slide on his abilities so his first ability says spells your opponents cast that Target him cost two more to cast which today we would call Ward but it's not actually award because it doesn't include abilities so it's only spells so a little weird it's uh predates strict saving so I guess that's why uh and then his second ability there he can pay three generic mana and then he gets plus x minus X till end of turn where X is the number of islands you control uh so you can pump him up and he gets a very very tough or he gets very powerful but his toughness goes down uh it's something to note about that is if he if any creature has zero or less toughness they are sent to the graveyard as a state-based action and you can't respond to that and indestructible does not protect it uh so keep that in mind if you have an artifact build around equipment um you don't want to pump him too good you actually need to use a little bit of math here and it actually counts the islands you have as it resolves not on Activation so your opponent could strip mine an island if they really felt like it uh in response to activating it um and then it would be one less Island after that so if someone is mean enough to do that they have the option so right away uh what you probably are guessing here is if you build around cherix you want to have training grounds uh maybe Hearthstone uh because that reduces the activated ability cost of creatures uh so you can pay less for the same value and you don't need as many islands actually so you could also include the stormtite Leviathan which makes all lands Islands uh which also you need less islands for that but then you need Islander Walker flying to attack with him so you can kind of work around that and do what you will so if you did not want to use them as the commander though what could you do with them I think that there are two uh themes two kind of slots for him first of all you could put them in kind of a sea monster a theme because he he is a crab but he's also a leviathan so he would fit uh with canosis the Priestess of thasa which lets you dig for a kraken Leviathan octopus or serpent and then put it directly on the battlefield for Mana uh and then also the Lord at the Deep lets you copy him with his uh transformed side um and so that's one way you could do it also the new Kiora is very similar or you could do a toughness theme uh like the god of deception you can Mill someone equal to his toughness which is 17 which by the way I believe is the highest bass toughness in the game uh outside of uh Merit Lodge so he's actually even fatter than an eldrazi so you could use that to your advantage if you had the fugitive here and you had um like high alert or something like that that you can attack equal to your toughness um you could put them in arcades but he doesn't have Defender so if you can work around that he's still pretty good those are two um kind of themes I thought of but if you did want to use him as the commander I feel that there are two kind of extremes you could use you could go uh full on Meme and crab tribe hence the channel here and uh puts all of the crabs all of the crap effects in there um and sea monsters and kind of go with that theme um just for the sake of the meme you could include the horseshoe crab combo uh because that's obviously going to be the best thing you can do with that uh that theme or you could pour all of the artifacts all of the swords the Hammers the boots just put everything onto the crab um and just swing and hope to hopefully win by Commander damage that's kind of a Voltron idea so I started out with the more of the crab tribe um meme sense of it but I slowly converted uh to the Voltron um and I I would say I kind of have a mixed still um so it's it's competitive but it's also you know it's cherix so you can't really uh go that hard um so you have to have some fun with it and I think that having fun is what the idea of Commander is the social format so without further Ado here is kind of a breakdown of the deck itself so this is the Crab Deck The Crab daddy deck I've called it because it is all about one big crab cherix the Raging aisle and I've described it simply as one crab to rule them all equip everything to crab and swing what else do you really need to know um and the general idea is we have a bunch of equipments and they all go on to cherix and he does a lot of damage and I got right here a few ways make them unblockable uh protect him making him phase out and this is also kind of unique Vanishing because it phases out all of the equipments and auras under him that's kind of a neat way to protect him uh so just kind of generally talking about it uh it relies on three combos uh first of all we have all of these untappers uh iorith the healing house Kelpie guide and vizier of the tumbling Sands and those all can untap each other first of all um and that can help out the Wake Thrasher they can untap lands to give you more ramp however you can also equip uh or do an aura on one of them the freed from the real and then if you were to untap a Lotus field uh Coral atoll or any Island when you have high tide out you can net a mana and have infinite Mana that way so that is one combo the next one involves a pilipala and the grand architect Grant architect uh so the grand architect can turn something blue for one blue a artifact creature so we're gonna turn pillipala blue and then pilipala has an ability which we can pay to and untap him uh so this guy has a tap ability you can tap another creature and then it gives you two colorless Mana uh and that two colorless Mana is enough to activate pilipal's ability so you can do that in infinite number of times which again helps the weight Thrasher but it also gives you that extra Mana from visibility so that is infinite Mana and then finally we have the sands of time which is an old and unique card I think because it flips everything that is tapped to untap and everything that is tapped to uh untapped so it doesn't include enchantments or Planeswalkers uh those don't really matter anyway uh but anyway what you can do is uh tap all of your lands and uh Mana producing artifacts and creatures uh before it Triggers on the upkeep and then you can float some Mana that way and that is enough to activate the lithiform engine and then you can copy the trigger so that everything will untap including the form engine so you can do it again and again that is infinite mana on your upkeep so that doesn't really help you too much because you can't uh float Mana between phases it'll fizzle out but you can use that to pump up charix uh on your upkeep or uh what I really like this for is if you come down here we have the creature known as the empress Scalia who can uh pay to and gain control of a legend or a legendary permanent so using that infinite mana and then she will also untap uh in that whole process you can gain control of everything uh well all the legendary creatures and permanents and then you can make it everything if you include the Ley line of Singularity which makes everything a legendary which is also pretty good by itself because you can make all tokens disappear except for one because all those tokens will be legendary the stickers really make a lot of tokens um and that's even better if you have the arena of the Ancients which Taps all legends uh and you don't really care because you're gonna have yours untap anyway with all of our untappers let's not get ahead of ourselves so moving on from the combos we have counter spells uh these are both proxies for me uh you can just don't spend a ton of money just have fun I think That's My Philosophy uh padim is really good for protecting your artifacts because he says all artifacts you control have hex proof and then you can draw a card if you have the highest uh which is usually the case uh spawning Kraken is kind of a meme where uh cherix is actually a leviathan so he makes more leviathans when he does damage doesn't matter how much damage just as long as one damage goes through um and then the equipments is really the spice of the deck so here are some highlights the hammer of Nissan uh I think is the most important because it synergizes with the rest of the artifacts they can all be instantly equipped uh as long as this is out so my one tutor fabricate is what I would use to get that equipment uh argentium armor is really good although it costs a ton of Mana six to cast and six to equip so again you have to have the hammer route to help you out but you can also copy that triggered ability again with the lithiform engine and Destroy something and then something else uh you can also copy the triggered ability of feast and famine and then you can float Mana that way The Inquisitor fail I think is a unique item here uh it says if an equipped creature would deal damage it does double damage so that's good but it also takes double damage uh but that's okay because cherix's already has a super high bass toughness 17 so you need someone needs like uh nine power already to kill it uh and then if he has all these equipments on he's probably not going to die even from that um I guess that's about it I would want to upgrade this to uh the mithril armor which just came out so that is 100 better than dark steel plate and then moving on to our lands we have our lands that just produce Mana we have uh some ramp artifacts uh I have the ominous Seas which is kind of another you know Meme aspect of the deck however um I don't think it's that great there's not a ton of draw engine I draw potential in the deck except for a rustic study uh and then padim earlier so I might swap that out I haven't really got much use out of it so far uh some stack pieces here uh silent Arbiter you're typically going to only have cherix attacking and then cherix is a leviathan again so he works with the serpent of the Yanni depths uh and then we have our lands the lands uh the non-basic lands I call these the utility lands because they're not just non-basics they also do something else like rogue's passage is going to be the most important uh the microsynth gardens you can copy one of your artifacts like the sword of feast and famine or colossal hammer or whatever you want uh desert I just thought was funny because I mean crabs in a desert that's pretty weird uh the school of the water's edge uh you can untap your crab which is going to be important when you have uh like the arena out rivendale in weathertap are two of the newest Lanes here uh and weather top is good because you can untap this uh sanctum here so you can do the second ability the same turn otherwise this is still pretty good because you can give it a counter every turn um and that's about it for that and obviously the big win con of the deck is training grounds which you can then uh use Cherry stability for one Mana which means you need less Islands to have the same effect which means you can have more non-basics you don't need to rely on you know 36 Islands you can spice it up with a little less uh less Islands because you get more value for Less which is good so that is the deck in a nutshell uh chair X does things with some combos I don't have the Horseshoe combo which you would you might want if you want to be lean more on the meme side so we went instead with some untappers which do about the same thing so I hope you enjoy this uh and let me go ahead and move on um to question and answers comments uh whatever uh questions you have feel free to leave them in the comment section I will read and respond uh so do you lean more on the equipment side of cherix do you lean more on the crab tribe uh silly monsters the deck let me know and I'll get back to you have a good one
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Channel: Crab Tribe
Views: 179
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Keywords: TCG, Magic The Gathering, Gaming, Commander, EDH, Trading Cards, Hobbies, Crabs, Entertainment
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Length: 16min 48sec (1008 seconds)
Published: Fri Jul 14 2023
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