The Over/Under - A Review of Brothers' War Predictions

<h6 style="text-align: right;"><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Stuffy Doll" href="#" target="_blank">Stuffy Doll</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> | Art by <a href="https://www.artstation.com/dave_rapoza">David Rapoza</a></h6>
<h1>Burning <del>Man</del> Dolls</h1>
<p>Hello, fellow brewer, and welcome back to <em>Brew for your Buck</em>, where we swap out the top 10 most expensive cards in a deck with 10 budget cards that add a unique twist. This time, we're building around our first mono-colored commander of the series! I had no idea this card existed as I was mashing the "random commander" button on EDHREC in search for inspiration.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Kumano, Master Yamabushi"></div></div>
<p>Turns out, the dude that <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Kumano Faces Kakkazan" href="#" target="_blank">faced Kakkazan</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> has a really cool card all to himself! Kumano lends himself to being built around turning your mana into damage, with lots of ways to amplify that damage to make the most of the two-mana investment. On the flip side, we have a bunch of ways in the deck to grant him deathtouch, so get him equipped and ping your opponents' creatures into sweet oblivion. And it is oblivion too, since we get the exile clause built in to stop all of the graveyard shenanigans. Kumano's average deck comes at an insanely high $451.97, especially for a mono-colored deck. Our cuts feature some mono-red staples and a few niche cards for our Master Yamabushi (anyone know what that is?).</p>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Deflecting Swat" href="#" target="_blank">Deflecting Swat</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> ($58.06)</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Dockside Extortionist" href="#" target="_blank">Dockside Extortionist</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> ($57.91)</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Ruby Medallion" href="#" target="_blank">Ruby Medallion</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> ($35.82)</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Neheb, the Eternal" href="#" target="_blank">Neheb, the Eternal</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> ($24.68)</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Fiery Emancipation" href="#" target="_blank">Fiery Emancipation</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> ($24.61)</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Repercussion" href="#" target="_blank">Repercussion</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> ($21.25)</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Shadowspear" href="#" target="_blank">Shadowspear</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> ($19.20)</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Goblin Sharpshooter" href="#" target="_blank">Goblin Sharpshooter</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> ($18.48)</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Jeska&#039;s Will" href="#" target="_blank">Jeska&#039;s Will</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> ($17.55)</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Braid of Fire" href="#" target="_blank">Braid of Fire</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> ($14.99)</li>
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<p style="padding-left: 200px; text-align: left;"><strong>Total Value of Cuts: $292.55</strong></p>
<p>Only one land would have made it into this list. I'm glad we don't cut lands anymore, because <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle" href="#" target="_blank">Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> ($21.60) is one of my absolute favorites. If you did just replace it with a basic, though, it would bring our total savings to <strong>$314.15.</strong></p>
<h2>Additions</h2>
<p>As I mentioned before, I had a bit of writer's block to come up with a deck for this one, but as soon as I saw Kumano it hit me like a freight train: <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Stuffy Doll" href="#" target="_blank">Stuffy Doll</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>s. Not only can we wreak havoc on our opponents' creatures but we can also ping our own for max value!</p>
<h3>Gobs and Dolls</h3>
<p>We'll start with the namesake card, of course. <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Stuffy Doll" href="#" target="_blank">Stuffy Doll</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> ($0.70) has been iterated on a few times, and we'll also add the newest one, <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Brash Taunter" href="#" target="_blank">Brash Taunter</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> ($1.00). The best part about these two are that they are indestructible. Even if we ping them while Kumano is wearing an Equipment that grants deathtouch, they won't die along the way. They also make great blockers in the face of anything with a big butt that will be hard to ping down. <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Coalhauler Swine" href="#" target="_blank">Coalhauler Swine</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> ($0.15) is able to simultaneously hit our opponents' life totals when we ping it, and if you're playing the deck right, the downside of us also getting bonked should be minimal.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Stuffy Doll"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Brash Taunter"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Coalhauler Swine"></div></div>
<h3><strong>RAGE!</strong></h3>
<p>Our next group of cards don't exactly work the same way as <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Stuffy Doll" href="#" target="_blank">Stuffy Doll</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>, but more like a better version of the <em>Enrage</em> mechanic from <em>Ixalan</em>. First up, <span class="edhrecp__link side-by-side"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Ill-Tempered Loner" href="#" target="_blank">Ill-Tempered Loner</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> ($0.36) will dole out damage like the dolls above, but this time to any target. When it flips, ALL of your permanents pass along the pings, which means you essentially double up any damage hitting one of the other dolls. The new <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Feldon, Ronom Excavator" href="#" target="_blank">Feldon, Ronom Excavator</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> ($0.23) can come down early for some quick hits but also can trade himself in for some good card selection later. <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Zalto, Fire Giant Duke" href="#" target="_blank">Zalto, Fire Giant Duke</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> ($0.12) can pack a big punch and can also speed through dungeons as each instance of damage dealt, which coincidentally is exactly what our commander wants to do.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Ill-Tempered Loner"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Feldon, Ronom Excavator"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Zalto, Fire Giant Duke"></div></div>
<h3>Payoffs for Pinging</h3>
<p>Next we have two cards that pay us off for all this damage we're doing. <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Knollspine Dragon" href="#" target="_blank">Knollspine Dragon</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> ($0.46), while mana-intensive, can act as a giant one-sided wheel for us after we dome an opponent for a bunch of damage. With all of our damage-amplifiers, <span class="edhrecp__link side-by-side"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Toralf, God of Fury" href="#" target="_blank">Toralf, God of Fury</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> ($2.20) is hard not to include. If you've never seen this card go off, just get a little bit of excess damage (which also gets amplified), and it's very easy to snowball into dead opponents. Speaking of damage-amplifiers...</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Knollspine Dragon"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Toralf, God of Fury"></div></div>
<h3>Facilitating the Fire</h3>
<p>...<span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Fiery Emancipation" href="#" target="_blank">Fiery Emancipation</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> would be one of the best cards in this deck, it's just SO expensive. Fortunately, we just had a pseudo-reprint. Those of you paying close attention will notice we added eight creatures to the deck, making <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="City on Fire" href="#" target="_blank">City on Fire</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> ($3.77) a lot easier to cast. Once this hits the board, we're throwing <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Lightning Strike" href="#" target="_blank">strikes</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> (or <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Lightning Bolt" href="#" target="_blank">bolts</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> if we have <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Heartstone" href="#" target="_blank">Heartstone</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>) with Kumano like Mariano Rivera in the ninth inning, and once the game is over we can all sing a <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Rousing Refrain" href="#" target="_blank">Rousing Refrain</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> ($0.69) of "New York, New York". Yankees nostalgia aside, <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Rousing Refrain" href="#" target="_blank">Rousing Refrain</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is an underrated card, repeatedly giving us a burst of mana that can be used even outside of our upkeep. Looking at you and your hefty pricetag, <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Braid of Fire" href="#" target="_blank">Braid of Fire</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="City on Fire"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Rousing Refrain"></div></div>
<h2>Wrap Up and Savings</h2>
<p>How did we do on savings?</p>
<p><a href="https://edhrecstatic.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Picture1.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-99434 aligncenter" src="https://edhrecstatic.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Picture1.png" alt="" width="364" height="262" srcset="https://edhrecstatic.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Picture1.png 364w, https://edhrecstatic.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Picture1-300x216.png 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 364px) 100vw, 364px" /></a></p>
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<p>Nice! Yet again, we managed to cut the cost of the deck by 2/3 and gave ourselves a new angle of attack.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__deck mtgh"><span class="edhrecp__deck-s" name="Death by a Million Pings" site="edhrec" archidekt_link="" cards="[Commander]
*1 Kumano, Master Yamabushi
[/Commander]
[Artifacts]
*1 Arcane Signet
*1 Basilisk Collar
*1 Caged Sun
*1 Darksteel Plate
*1 Endless Atlas
*1 Fire Diamond
*1 Gauntlet of Power
*1 Gorgon Flail
*1 Gorgon&#039;s Head
*1 Heartstone
*1 Illusionist&#039;s Bracers
*1 Lightning Greaves
*1 Mind Stone
*1 Neko-Te
*1 Quietus Spike
*1 Sol Ring
*1 Staff of Nin
*1 Swiftfoot Boots
*1 Wayfarer&#039;s Bauble
[/Artifacts]
[Creatures]
*1 Angrath&#039;s Marauders
*1 Brash Taunter
*1 Burnished Hart
*1 Chandra&#039;s Incinerator
*1 Coalhauler Swine
*1 Embermaw Hellion
*1 Feldon, Ronom Excavator
*1 Goblin Engineer
*1 Godo, Bandit Warlord
*1 Heartless Hidetsugu
*1 Humble Defector
*1 Ill-Tempered Loner // Howlpack Avenger
*1 Knollspine Dragon
*1 Leyline Tyrant
*1 Silverclad Ferocidons
*1 Solemn Simulacrum
*1 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
*1 Soul-Scar Mage
*1 Stuffy Doll
*1 Toralf, God of Fury // Toralf&#039;s Hammer
*1 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
*1 Zalto, Fire Giant Duke
[/Creatures]
[Enchantments]
*1 City on Fire
*1 Dictate of the Twin Gods
*1 Fires of Invention
*1 Gratuitous Violence
*1 Mechanized Warfare
*1 Visions of Phyrexia
[/Enchantments]
[Sorceries]
*1 Blasphemous Act
*1 Chain Reaction
*1 Chandra&#039;s Ignition
*1 Faithless Looting
*1 Gamble
*1 Mana Geyser
*1 Reforge the Soul
*1 Rousing Refrain
*1 Vandalblast
*1 Wheel of Misfortune
[/Sorceries]
[Planeswalkers]
*1 Koth of the Hammer
*1 Koth, Fire of Resistance
[/Planeswalkers]
[Instants]
*1 Chaos Warp
*1 Seething Song
*1 Thrill of Possibility
*1 Tibalt&#039;s Trickery
*1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
*1 Wild Magic Surge
[/Instants]
[Lands]
*1 Arcane Lighthouse
*1 Buried Ruin
*1 Detection Tower
*28 Mountain
*1 Myriad Landscape
*1 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
*1 War Room
[/Lands]"></span></div>


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<p>Did I miss anything you would have liked to see? Are there any other cool, old legends that I don't know exist? Any cards you would have added to support the <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Stuffy Doll" href="#" target="_blank">Stuffy Doll</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> theme? Do you know what a Master Yamabushi is? Let me know in the comments! And if you want more content, follow me on Twitter @BrewForYourBuck. I'll see you next time when we brew for your buck!</p>
<p><em>Please note: card prices listed in this article are accurate at the time of writing, but prices can vary over time and between locations.</em></p>


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