During a darker time in my Commander career, I built a Narset chaos deck just to grief the table. Her ability can cheat costs on planeswalkers, making her a solid choice for a Superfriends deck. Players tend not to like playing against extra turn spells in general, and extra turn decks can be especially frustrating, since you might be left sitting there smoldering while the turns player takes 45 minutes to put together a win.Īside from extra turns, Narset can be responsible for other strategies that can leave opponents feeling burned. In case free spells off the top of your library isn't enough, Enlightened Tutor is there to put Omniscience on top of your deck just in case that Expropriate gets stuck in hand. Alongside top deck tutors like Mystical Tutor and Long-Term Plans, it's fairly simple to chain extra turns together as long as you can find a profitable attack, which is a lot easier with the removal and evasion provided by the color combination. It contains a whopping 11 extra turn spells, along with a sprinkling of extra combat spells. Unless you've been playing Commander under a rock, you probably already know what the problem in the average deck is. Let's take a look at her average deck to see what gets players steamed about her.īuy this decklist from Card Kingdom Buy this decklist from TCGplayer Finally, her colors give her some of the most powerful noncreature spells in the format, along with excellent protection spells and haste enablers to stoke the engine that much faster. First strike is the cherry on top, allowing her to come out on top of far more tussles than you would expect. While having a 3/2 body for six mana would have been a decent drawback, her native hexproof mitigates that quite a bit, as opponents need a board wipe to remove her. Her main appeal is her ability to cast, for free, any noncreature spells from among the top four cards of your library each time she attacks. Narset has had a long time to develop a bad reputation and her 2.07 salt score, and many players are happy to tell you stories of how the got burned playing against her.

She's the fourth most popular Jeskai commander, trailing some more recent arrivals to the scene who we will most definitely be discussing in future articles. Narset ranks 78th on EDHREC for most-built commanders, with 1,795 decks.

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