[EDH] Nebuchadnezzar

[Davran]

Here it is, my latest project: Nebuchadnezzar. I've been sort of burning out on finishing deck ideas lately, so I decided I'd give this whole 93/94 thing a shot and limit myself to only cards printed from Alpha - Alliances. I almost added in Mirage block because Ice Age and Mirage were where I really got my start, but I decided to give this a shot for now. The list isn't 100% what I want it to be, and there's a hell of a lot of white bordered cards in it due to the absurd prices on random stuff lately and what I had on hand...but I'm hoping that over time I'll be able to pick up some better stuff. There's also a bunch of cards I'd love to play that are way out of my current budget (see list at the end). Without further adieu, the list:

Commander:
Nebuchadnezzar

Creatures:
Air Elemental
Clone
Hypnotic Specter
Living Wall
Mahamoti Djinn
Prodigal Sorcerer
Royal Assassin
Seasinger
Sengir Vampire
Sorceress Queen
Time Elemental
Vesuvan Doppelganger
Wall of Bone

Instants:
Arcane Denial
Boomerang
Brainstorm
Counterspell
Dark Banishing
Hurkyl's Recall
Lat-Nam's Legacy
Lim-Dul's Vault
Memory Lapse
Power Sink
Ray of Command
Terror
Unsummon

Sorcery:
Ashes to Ashes
Braingeyser
Demonic Tutor
Library of Lat-Nam
Mind Twist
Portent
Recall
Reconstruction

Artifact:
Basalt Monolith
Bottle of Suleiman
Fellwar Stone
Howling Mine
Icy Manipulator
Ivory Tower
Jalum Tome
Library of Leng
Mana Vault
Nevinyrral's Disk
Rocket Launcher
Sol Ring
Tawnos's Coffin
Tormod's Crypt

Enchantments:
Animate Dead
Binding Grasp
Control Magic
Dance of Many
Dance of the Dead
Flood
Greed
Mystic Remora
Necropotence
Pestilence
Power Artifact
Steal Artifact
Zur's Weirding

Lands:
City of Brass
Glacial Chasm
Mishra's Factory
Snow-Covered Island
Snow-Covered Swamp
Soldevi Excavations
Strip Mine
Underground River
Urborg
16 Island
13 Swamp


The main plan here is to assemble Basalt Monolith, Power Artifact and either Rocket Launcher or Braingeyser to kill the table. Plan B is winning with Mahamoti Djinn and friends. I'm sure it'll be hard to pull off and very inconsistent, but hey, this is EDH after all. I've also got a couple of clones and control magic type cards which may randomly get me there depending on the quality of my opponent's decks.

I might end up adding Mirage block in eventually too as that gets me access to Vampiric Tutor and Mystical Tutor among other things.

Stuff I'd Play if I could Afford It:
Force of Will
Guardian Beast
Mana Drain
Underground Sea
Timetwister
Diamond Valley
Transmute Artifact

[Phreshdawg]

I don't really have much to add, but I'm mostly posting for moral support. The concept of running period friendly Commander decks appeals to me greatly from a stylistic point of view. The only thing keeping me from making one of my own is the fact that it would get owned at my lgs. In a perfect world, it would be great to rock them against other like decks.

[Davran]

I don't really have much to add, but I'm mostly posting for moral support. The concept of running period friendly Commander decks appeals to me greatly from a stylistic point of view. The only thing keeping me from making one of my own is the fact that it would get owned at my lgs. In a perfect world, it would be great to rock them against other like decks.

Thanks for the support. My meta is somewhat casual, so I should be OK with this pile in most games. I have plenty of other decks to play should I feel the desire to win, too. This is mostly just a fun little project to see if I can get there with 99 "bad" cards when everyone else is playing "good" cards. Not to mention a healthy dose of nostalgia.