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<h6 style="text-align: right;">(<span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Thought Reflection" href="#" target="_blank">Thought Reflection</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> | Art by <a href="https://www.chrisseamanart.com/">Chris Seaman</a>)</h6>
<h1>Start Your Card Draw Engines!</h1>
<p>Welcome back to <em>The Monolith, </em>the series in which I try to convince the world to put down their multicolored obsessions and pick just a single color to build around for their next deck.</p>
<p>What better way to do that than to entice you with FOMO as we check out one of the freshly spoiled commanders, Vnwxt, from <em>Magic</em>'s next Standard legal set, <em>Aetherdrift</em>.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Vnwxt, Verbose Host"></div></div>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Vnwxt, Verbose Host" href="#" target="_blank">Vnwxt</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is brand new legendary hitting sleeves in <em>Magic's </em>latest set that'll cost you <span class="mana-container-container"><span class="mana-container"><i class="ms ms-cost ms-1" style="margin-left: inherit !important;"></i></span></span><span class="mana-container-container"><span class="mana-container"><i class="ms ms-cost ms-u" style="margin-left: inherit !important;"></i></span></span> for a 0/4 Homunculus. From the get-go, Vnwxt provides the benefit of removing your maximum hand size for as long as it's on the battlefield.</p>
<p>But on top of that, this slick cyclopean boasts one of the brand new mechanics in the <em>Aetherdrift</em> repertoire. <em>Start Your Engines!</em> is a, for my part rather corny, new ability popping up on <em>Aetherdrift</em> cards that gives you another new thing to track in Commander games: your speed.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards reverse"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Max Speed"></div></div>
<p>Speed starts at one whenever you play your first <em>Start Your Engines! </em>card and will increase only once on each of your turns whenever an opponent loses one or more life.</p>
<p>Doesn't matter how, you could hit them with a creature, you could burn them with a spell, they could tap one of their <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Caves of Koilos" href="#" target="_blank">pain lands</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> for colored mana. As long as it happens on your turn.</p>
<p>Once you hit a speed of four, you've reached 'max speed' which will usually unlock a further ability on those cards. In the case of our spotlight commander today, we'll unlock the ability, 'whenever you would draw a card, draw two cards instead'. Wait... is this a <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Thought Reflection" href="#" target="_blank">Thought Reflection</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> in the command zone??</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Thought Reflection"></div></div>
<h2>What If Vnwxt Drew Our Entire Deck?</h2>
<p>Vnwxt seems like the perfect leader for a deck that plays into one of my favorite mono-blue deck archetypes, "What if I drew my entire deck?".</p>
<p>There is simply nothing funnier to me in a game of Commander than when you put your hand face down in a pile next to your deck and it's genuinely difficult for someone to tell which is which.</p>
<p>In mono-blue decks it's easy to lean into Control archetypes full of counter spells, bounces and <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Baral, Chief of Compliance" href="#" target="_blank">cards that make your opponents groan</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>.</p>
<p>To mix things up, I recommend taking a page out of mono-green's strategy book and turning this big eyed pipsqueak and his gang of bookworms into a good old fashioned beat down deck.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Mordenkainen"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Hand of Vecna"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Body of Knowledge"></div></div>
<p>Our main objective for each game is to slap down a creature or equipment whose power reflects the overwhelming amount of cards in our hand and then swinging in for big damage. We'll be able to take advantage of blue's natural evasion to get around blockers and maybe even take out our opponents in a single blow. All the while, we'll have half our deck at our disposal to answer our opponent's attempts to halt us.</p>
<h2>Revving Up</h2>
<p>But first, we need to get our hand full and the easiest way to kick that off is using our commander's max speed ability.</p>
<p>As I referenced earlier, <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Thought Reflection" href="#" target="_blank">Thought Reflection</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is a very powerful card that allows you to double all your card draw. The downside of the card is that it costs a whopping seven mana for an enchantment that effectively does nothing when you play it.</p>
<p>By stapling that effect onto a two mana commander, we can do some serious shenanigans. But we have to jump through this 'max speed' hoop first. Luckily, we can get to our second gear right away on turn two by utilising some cheap flying creatures from our blue card pool.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Spectral Sailor" href="#" target="_blank">Spectral Sailor</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is a perfect example of a flying creature that we can flash in our opponent's end step and then force a loss of life after playing Vnwxt on turn two. But there's plenty of other options to perform a little chip damage.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Mausoleum Wanderer"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Merfolk Windrobber"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Sunscorched Desert"></div></div>
<p>Once we've hit max speed, that's it. It's effectively an emblem that can't be taken away from us, like the <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="City&#039;s Blessing" href="#" target="_blank">City&#039;s Blessing</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>. So don't worry about Vnwxt getting targeted, bringing him out for a second time will still see your double card draw active. Not to mention he's so lovely and cheap, too!</p>
<h2>Filling Your Hand, and Keeping it Full</h2>
<p>There is one thing you should be wary of when building this deck, and that's being too reliant on your commander's clause to break your maximum hand size.</p>
<p>Having an opponent destroy Vnwxt right as you transition to your end step could see you discarding an upsetting amount of cards. For that reason we should try and keep a good selection of cards in the deck that give us an alternative way to expand our hand size.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Decanter of Endless Water"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Reliquary Tower"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Thought Vessel"></div></div>
<p>Our deck will need a big hand size to perform properly so anything that helps us keep it big without Vnwxt's help will give us security and stop any nasty surprises.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Reliquary Tower" href="#" target="_blank">Reliquary Tower</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> provides a perfect way to do this as our mono-blue identity means we won't be struggling for color in our mana and it's safe from any board wipes that target creatures and artifacts.</p>
<p>Most importantly though, we need to draw a ton of cards to get this deck moving. Vnwxt's card draw doubling effect is super powerful when it's online but we can go even further by adding more replacement effects on top.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Teferi&#039;s Ageless Insight"></div></div>
<p>We already spoke about <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Thought Reflection" href="#" target="_blank">Thought Reflection</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>, and if you can afford to get one out then it combining with Vnwxt to turn every card you draw into four cards will absolutely do some work. You can get the same effect for a little cheaper by asking our good friend Teferi instead though. It just won't trigger on your draw step.</p>
<p>Much like with hand size breakers, it's good to have a few of these in the deck to either buff your commander's effect, or replace it when he's not around.</p>
<h2>The Backup Plan</h2>
<p>It's pretty obvious how to win with a deck like this. Once you've got a couple of huge creatures at your disposal, artificially inflated by your giant hand size, all you need to do is connect with an opponent to finish them off.</p>
<p>Pick on the player with no flyers to block yours, or make your commander unblockable with an <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Escape Tunnel" href="#" target="_blank">Escape Tunnel</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> then equip the <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Hand of Vecna" href="#" target="_blank">Hand of Vecna</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> and deal some lethal commander damage.</p>
<p>But if dealing damage the normal way is proving too tricky, for whatever reason, we might need a few backup options to close out our games.</p>
<h3>Flood the Board</h3>
<p>If tall doesn't work out for you, we can always go wide instead. <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Chasm Skulker" href="#" target="_blank">Chasm Skulker</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> will meet us in the middle by getting bigger every time we draw, but also exploding into a pile of potentially-unblockable squids if it ever gets destroyed.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Nadir Kraken" href="#" target="_blank">Nadir Kraken</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> will give the same effect as the card draw occurs instead, but for a cost. And if you don't mind spreading your card draw across your opponent's turns you can utilize my favorite new stupid card from <em>Foundations:</em></p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Homunculus Horde"></div></div>
<h3>Ping 'Em Down</h3>
<p>Who says mono-red has to have all the direct damage fun? Whilst you can expect it to act as a lightning rod for every removal spell in the 99 of your opponents' decks, Psychosis Crawler will massively punish their life totals for as long as it stays on the board.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Psychosis Crawler"></div></div>
<h3>Empty The Tank</h3>
<p>If those pesky opponents continue to refuse you wins by damage alone then it's time to start bringing out some alternative win conditions instead. When you draw as many cards as we're planning to in this build, two very niche cards (and one very overused one) become seriously dangerous wincons for you.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Jace, Wielder of Mysteries"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Laboratory Maniac"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Thassa&#039;s Oracle"></div></div>
<p>It'd be foolish not have at least one of these options available to you in your 99, and you can probably get away with just one or two as you'll likely get your entire deck in hand anyway.</p>
<p>Just be warned that <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Thassa&#039;s Oracle" href="#" target="_blank">Thoracle</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is widely considered to be a very boring way to end a game of Commander, by myself included. Especially if your opponents are used to CEDH.</p>
<p>It just doesn't feel quite as earned when you already have a big mono blue board providing plenty of Devotion!</p>
<p>Whilst we're chatting about intentionally emptying our own library, it's worth pointing out that it's a very easy way to get milled to death. I'd recommend having a safety piece out to protect you in case your wincon gets cleared before the final card is drawn.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Campfire"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Elixir of Immortality"></div></div>
<h2>Some Useful Tools</h2>
<p>So we have a strategy, and a few ways to still win the game if it doesn't go well. But there's still plenty of tricks we can hold up our sleeves to smooth the game in our favor.</p>
<p>If you're struggling to find key pieces to push you over the finish line, there's no better color to card select with than blue. Descendant of Soramaro allows you to rearrange the top X cards of your library where X is your hand size.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Descendant of Soramaro"></div></div>
<p>When your hand starts to get as big as (or bigger!) than your library, this effectively turns into an infinitely repeatable, instant speed, two mana tutor. Great to find a <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Counterspell" href="#" target="_blank">Counterspell</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> or Jace that's hiding at the bottom of your deck.</p>
<p>If you've had to abandon your combat damage strategy for whatever reason, maybe your opponent has a board as big as yours or they're able to prevent incoming damage, you can neutralize everyone else's creatures with this weird old tech.</p>
<p>This is definitely a nonbo in most situations though. Careful it doesn't eat up room in your hand. Use <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Oboro Envoy" href="#" target="_blank">Oboro Envoy</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> instead for a more targeted version.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Meishin, the Mind Cage"></div></div>
<p>If there's one constant in Commander<em>, </em>it's games that take way too long. How many matches have you been in that have outstayed their welcome? You can make your deck more survivable by adding a little life gain to your upkeep with Ivory Tower.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Ivory Tower"></div></div>
<h2>Go Forth and Draw!</h2>
<p>What do you think, is having a hand so big you can barely hold it worth the effort? If nothing else it's a hell of a good time. I'm seriously tempted to swap this guy in as the new commander of my current mono-blue deck with the same strategy. Currently fronted by big Jin:</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Jin-Gitaxias"></div></div>
<p>Let me know in the comments how you'd build around Vnwxt's crazy card draw. And most importantly, keep building those mono decks, and we'll see you next week for more of <em>The Monolith.</em></p>


The Monolith - Vnwxt, Verbose Host Deck Building Spotlight

Aetherdrift Set Review - Blue

<h6 style="text-align: right;">(<a href="https://scryfall.com/card/dft/364/kolodin-triumph-caster"> Kolodin, Triumph Caster</a> | Art By: <a href="https://scryfall.com/search?q=a%3A%E2%80%9CJohn+Stanko%E2%80%9D&amp;unique=art">John Stanko</a> )</h6>
<p>One often needs the fastest car and a steely resolve to win a race. We might not be racing for <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="The Aetherspark" href="#" target="_blank">The Aetherspark</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>, but we are racing to see who can finish first in a game of Commander.</p>
<p>There are a ton of great commanders in the upcoming set <em>Aetherdrift</em>, but one that emphasizes putting the pedal to the metal is <div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Kolodin, Triumph Caster"></div></div>.</p>
<p>Buckle up as we hit the <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Muraganda Raceway" href="#" target="_blank">Muraganda Raceway</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> and pump up the volume on our interplanar radio while we listen to <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Country Roads" href="#" target="_blank">Country Roads</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>.</p>
<p>Today, I will be your driver, and like always, my name is Nick. This deck might not be about family, but get ready to <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Start Your Engines" href="#" target="_blank">Start Your Engines</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> and enjoy another <em>Tech The Deck</em>.</p>
<h2>Pit Crew</h2>
<p>The first step to having a good racing team is having a good pit crew along for the ride. And what better way to introduce the crew than by talking about the commander of the deck, our crew chief, <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Kolodin, Triumph Caster" href="#" target="_blank">Kolodin, Triumph Caster</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>?</p>
<p>Why is Kolodin in charge of this deck over other classic vehicle cards like <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Depala, Pilot Exemplar" href="#" target="_blank">Depala, Pilot Exemplar</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>? To me, Kolodin is very special and interesting.</p>
<p>The ability to allow any vehicle (or mount) that enters to become crewed (or saddled) is a great way to get around the most annoying parts of a deck that wants to run vehicles (or mounts).</p>
<p>But sometimes, people want to cause problems for our crew chief, who must rely on the team he has assembled to help win the race.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Depala, Pilot Exemplar"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Astor, Bearer of Blades"></div></div>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Hotshot Mechanic"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Interface Ace"></div></div>
<p>First up, the former crew chief of the vehicle archetype is <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Depala, Pilot Exemplar" href="#" target="_blank">Depala, Pilot Exemplar</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>. She allows us to drive a bit beefier of a machine thanks to giving all vehicles +1/+1 and can allow us to dig deeper into our deck whenever she becomes tapped.</p>
<p>This means we do not even have to attack with Depala, and thanks to having three power, she does a good job at driving most of the vehicles we have at our disposal.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Astor, Bearer of Blades" href="#" target="_blank">Astor, Bearer of Blades</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>, has some text that is thoroughly irrelevant to us in this deck. What they do have is a great way to grab whatever vehicle in the top seven cards of our deck and take some of these hard-to-handle machines with large crew requirements and simplify them so that anyone or anything in our deck can sit nicely behind the wheel.</p>
<p>The best racers out there owe much of their success to a group or sometimes one single <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Hotshot Mechanic" href="#" target="_blank">Hotshot Mechanic</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>. This card looks unassuming, but once the other racers (our opponents) catch on to how vital Kolodin is to this deck running smoothly, a one-drop creature that can crew anything costing Crew 1 - Crew 4 can keep our wheels turning.</p>
<p>Occasionally, a driver might face a tough choice of which car to take for a spin around the track. That is when <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Interface Ace" href="#" target="_blank">Interface Ace</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> comes in to save the day.</p>
<p>This creature allowed you to crew up two vehicles simultaneously on all your turns. If the worst part about this card is that I can only crew one car on another racer's turn, they are welcome on my crew any race day.</p>
<h2>High Octane Racing</h2>
<p>A part of racing that is never discussed is that sabotage is one of the greatest dangers to a racing team—sabotage in the form of our opponents sending our vehicles to the scrapyard, aka... the graveyard.</p>
<p>When that happens, we have a few ways to get our team back on track. The first thing to do is to give one of our vehicles a bit of a <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Tune Up" href="#" target="_blank">Tune Up</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>.</p>
<p>After we do some work, we will never need to get behind the wheel of that vehicle ever again.</p>
<p>If our entire garage gets sent to the junkyard, then as a crew, we only have one option: cross the finish line first. That one trick is to <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Push the Limit" href="#" target="_blank">Push the Limit</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> on what we know as racing.</p>
<p>All joking aside, this is an all-star card in this deck. Mass reanimation is something that many decks look for when constructing their 99.</p>
<p>On top of bringing all your vehicles and mounts back to the battlefield, it turns them into creatures and gives all creatures you control, NOT just the ones you got back, haste for a turn.</p>
<p>Finally, if we get stranded on the mid-race track, we must remember to re- <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Start Your Engines" href="#" target="_blank">Start Your Engines</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>.</p>
<p>If we find ourselves without a crew to drive, pilot, or steer any of our various vehicles, this card will let them run wild. The +2/+0 is a nice bonus that I won't scoff at.</p>
<h2>Cards We Run So We Don't Crash</h2>
<p>A good racer must know that being out on the track can get dangerous. But the first thing a racer needs to be aware of is how much life they have left to use for fuel. To help with this, we run <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Armed and Armored" href="#" target="_blank">Armed and Armored</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> to let us surprise our opponents with a massive board of blockers or as a way to finish them off at instant speed.</p>
<p>It will be no surprise to us that our vehicles will be the first thing that the rest of the table attempts to get rid of, and rightfully so.</p>
<p>So we need some ways to protect them from a removal spell. I choose to outfit the pit crew with <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Blacksmith&#039;s Skill" href="#" target="_blank">Blacksmith&#039;s Skill</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> and <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Clever Concealment" href="#" target="_blank">Clever Concealment</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>. These allow us to save key vehicles or the entire fleet from our opponents' attempts to slash your tires.</p>
<h2>Sick Whips</h2>
<p>The most important part of the deck outside of our commander is our litany of vehicles and the "mods" we have for them. The deck runs 27 vehicles, and instead of talking about each and everyone, I will show off a few of my favorites.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Reaver Titan"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Midnight Crusader Shuttle"></div></div>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Mobile Homestead"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Mechtitan Core"></div></div>
<p>To me, <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Reaver Titan" href="#" target="_blank">Reaver Titan</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is one of the most underrated vehicles in the game. It's a massive 10/10, blasts everyone for five damage on the attack, and is hard to get off the board thanks to its <em>Void Shields</em>.</p>
<p>Understandably, it was not a card many people would have seen because it was in <em>Warhammer 40,000 Commander.</em> At Crew-4, this card is reasonable even if we do not have Kolodin on the board, but it gets so much better when he is.</p>
<p>Another vehicle from a <em>Universes Beyond Commander</em> product, this time courtesy of <em>Doctor Who</em>, the <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Midnight Crusader Shuttle" href="#" target="_blank">Midnight Crusader Shuttle</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> makes an opponent face a villainous choice.</p>
<p>Either option will give them one less blocker to try and stop us with, but they at least get to decide if they loan us a creature or if it gets sent to their scrapyard instead.</p>
<p>A Vehicle that cares about Mounts, <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Mobile Homestead" href="#" target="_blank">Mobile Homestead</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> might not significantly damage our opposition, but it will help us keep playing on a curve and not go off the track as we take another left turn at high speeds.</p>
<p>Cheap and efficient is the game's name with this mobile home, and sometimes, that's just what a good racing team needs.</p>
<p>Lastly, the <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Mechtitan Core" href="#" target="_blank">Mechtitan Core</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is just one of the most fabulous cards around regarding Vehicles. We should have plenty of other vehicles to send inside our deck to do their best impression of a transformer.</p>
<h2>The Mods</h2>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Siege Modification"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Aerial Modification"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Nahiri&#039;s Resolve"></div></div>
<p>We only have two modifications that we can give to any of our various "rides" in this deck. Whether it be siege or aerial, the purpose is another way to let a vehicle circumvent the need to be crewed or have a way to function without our commander.</p>
<p>One reason I wanted to take a closer look at this deck outside of <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Kolodin, Triumph Caster" href="#" target="_blank">Kolodin, Triumph Caster</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is a card that I thought was junk. That card is <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Nahiri&#039;s Resolve" href="#" target="_blank">Nahiri&#039;s Resolve</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>. It might have been the decks that I played or looked at for different articles.</p>
<p>It might have been the standard environment where this five-mana "do nothing" enchantment premiered, or maybe it was a multi-year plant.</p>
<p>I am not sure if I could have made a more perfect card for this deck without making it too strong if I tried.</p>
<p>Pumping our creature's power and giving them haste are two of the most important things when playing an aggressive strategy and, in our case, running an aggressive race.</p>
<p>The timing of when your artifacts return to the battlefield synergizes so well with Kolodin. As long as we can keep our commander alive, the resolve will let us swing with all our Vehicles and Mounts every single turn without needing them to be crewed. It is by far my favorite card for this deck.</p>
<h2>Crossing The Finish Line</h2>
<p>Sometimes, the best way to win a race is to drive faster than the competition. It's nothing fancy, just good old-fashioned racing. That is precisely what we are trying to do with <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Kolodin, Triumph Caster" href="#" target="_blank">Kolodin, Triumph Caster</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> behind the wheel.</p>
<p>It is a straightforward RW aggressive strategy, but instead of using creatures in the traditional sense, we are using things like the <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Thunderhawk Gunship" href="#" target="_blank">Thunderhawk Gunship</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>.</p>
<p><em>Aetherdrift</em> looks like an exciting set of cards for all commander players, but I want to hear if you share that thought or if you think this set will spin out at the starting line.</p>
<p>Let me know what you think of Kolodin, the set as a whole, or your favorite vehicle, even if it did not make the list. Maybe you feel the deck should focus on Mounts instead.</p>
<p>Either way, let me know, and try not to get run over by a speeding <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Bomat Bazaar Barge" href="#" target="_blank">Bomat Bazaar Barge</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> or a <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Spire Mechcycle" href="#" target="_blank">Spire Mechcycle</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>. I have been and will continue to be Nick; this has been another deck we have teched.</p>


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