However, I find these cards often have the "Cycling Problem" where your hand ends up full of too many lands because you have few ways to get rid of them because your cantrips offer no selection. Crash Through, Warlord's Fury, Rile, etc., are all cards I see other deckbuilders of Birgi to be heavy on. other players is I eschew most of the "free cycling" cantrips. What I consider to be the most striking difference between how I approach building Birgi in cEDH vs. The more restrictive condition for getting the mana rebate from Urabrask cannot be ignored, however, and will have a dramatic impact on how our Storm deck will differ during construction. Given the effectiveness of Mnemonic Betrayal, I am optimistic that resolving the third chapter of The Great Work will have a high conversion rate to victory. The Great Work allows you to use your floating mana from the last spell you cast to transform Urabrask, immediately stymie some of the aggression that could pressure you on the first chapter, rebuild mana on the second chapter, and go for a Storm turn again with the help of your opponents' graveyards, your graveyard, and Urabrask ready to go. With the lack of stack-based interaction that mono-red has access to, it's relatively risky to combo off in the face of potential counter magic, outside of inherent risks of fizzling if your Wheel of Fortune hand is underwhelming, you discard the card you Gamble for, etc. What appeals to me as the most dramatic upside that Urabrask has over Birigi is that he sets you up excellently to try again after a failed Storm turn via The Great Work. However, given his similar abilities to Birgi but more expensive casting cost and more restrictive conditions for granting mana, it's important to nail down what you are doing differently to leverage the unique aspects of Urabrask so that he does not play out as a strictly weaker Birgi. View this decklist on Archidekt Urabrask in the Command Zoneīut the most exciting card of the new options, Urabrask, is special because he has potential in the command zone. All these options have clear upsides that have been discussed via numerous set reviews on Commander's Herald, and trimming down on the weakest cards in the deck landed my updated Birgi list looks something like this: My take on the deck varies fairly dramatically from other takes I have seen discussed, and there is a surprising amount of range to work with when building Birgi given the single color identity, and quite a few more tools were added to the mix with the release of March of the Machine.Īmong the list of cards I was excited to work with are Into the Fire, Path of the Pyromancer, and Urabrask, the latter of which I immediately tweeted about the second I saw the preview and got to work updating Birgi, God of Storytelling. Storm strategies have been my preferred decks in cEDH for my entire time playing the format, and lately my weapon of choice on a multitude of Playing With Power videos has been Birgi, God of Storytelling. This love extends to cEDH and is part of what enamors me with the format. To those that know me, it is common knowledge that I love the Storm mechanic with all my heart. Urabrask // The Great Work by Campbell White
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