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Upgrading Commander Deck: Riveteers Rampage
A breakdown of the Streets of New Capenna: Riveteers Rampage preconstructed deck commanded by Henzie "Toolbox" Torre, with suggestions for upgrades.
By Eduardo, 05/08/22, translated by Humberto - 0 comments
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Stompy
using large and powerful creatures with the value generated by the exchanges and sacrifices of theAristocrats
, a very efficient strategy adopted since Shards of Alara, more specifically in its parallel to theJund

The Commander: Henzie "Toolbox" Torre
Blitz
ability (You can choose to cast that spell for its cost If you do, it gains haste and “When this creature dies, draw a card.” Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end phase.
), creating a bold cadence and great dynamism in the game. Its lean mana cost ensures its early presence at the table and a high return capability from the command zone.
About the Upgraded Deck
Riveteers Rampage
deck has theBlitz
ability as its main theme, and its creatures mostly generate value under certain conditions, when entering or leaving the battlefield and when attacking, in an aggressive strategy. The use of Henzie "Toolbox" Torre already allows the use ofLTBs
(abilities triggered when leaving the battlefield
) triggered when creatures die. However, the possibility of using these same ones to pay the cost of other permanent spells and abilities is more attractive. The deck is well-built, has well-developed interactions, consistent draws and accelerations, and has a very linear game plan, but adjustments can be made to fine-tune some non-synergistic options that clash with the others. Check out the suggested upgrade list: Among the possible lines for this deck, I chose to keep the default configuration centered around ETBs, LTBs, and combat triggered abilities. Other constructions are possible, the most typical involve Voltron, counters, reanimate and sacrifice.Lands
Riveteers Rampage
has a pretty solid manabase, even too much in some ways, justified by the creatures' high mana cost. The land options are excellent, so keeping the manabase as proposed by the development team is possible. However, for a more cadenced play, we chose to remove the Thriving Lands cycle and replace it with theZendikar Rising
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Accelerators
Among the different accelerators, the deck in its primary constitution had fifteen cards dedicated to mana in addition to lands. Rain of Riches, although a great card advantage generator, only generates two treasures when entering, that is, it spends mana, so it wasn't considered among the mana sources. Turf War, on the other hand, although it manipulates lands with counters, can be considered a special form of targeted removal. Henzie "Toolbox" Torre has a cost-cutting role, Overgrown Battlement is a mana dork with defender, Jolene, the Plunder Queen asymmetrical treasure generator and the classic Solemn Simulacrum. Of these, some are inefficient outside specific strategies like Overgrown Battlement, which within an exclusive deck of defenders is powerful, but we have only two creatures in this category and amidst the 99 cards it becomes a poor choice. The case of Jolene, the Plunder Queen is similar, as we are not in a deck optimized for creation and interaction with treasures, being underused and often being harmful, especially when our opponents are in the beatdown roleOut

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Card Advantage
The card advantage package has an expressive number of 16 cards, in case we have counted the commander. The group of creatures has Henzie "Toolbox" Torre that generates draws through blitz, the synergistic Etali, Primal Storm and Mezzio Mugger generate a massive advantage when they attack, after all, they give you four cards per attack, and Treeshaker Chimera that draws up to four cards with blitz. Disciple of Bolas offers plenty of cards while interacting with the sacrifice theme. Life's Legacy draws cards in the same way.Ad
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Recursions
In this deck, we have 5 recursion cards, which is considered a high number. They are: Greenwarden of Murasa, for any card, Artisan of Kozilek and Victimize for creatures, and World Shaper and Riveteers Confluence for lands. Adding Riveteers Ascendancy that lets you revive a creature every time we sacrifice a creature is an obvious, some say must-have, addition to this deck. Since I learned about Cauldron Dance, it ranks among my favorite combat tricks, given its versatility and great impact when played.In

Removals
This deck's removal package is numerous and versatile. For this reason, we will group them into types for better understanding: targeted removals, sweepers and graveyard removals. The spot removal group is the biggest, containing an arsenal of possibilities. Stalking Vengeance, deals damage to a player or planeswalker whenever one of our creatures dies, and its counterpart, Warstorm Surge deals damage to any target whenever a creature enters the battlefield in a brutal interaction with theBlitz
ability. Inferno Titan is also versatile in dealing damage by hitting any target. Noxious Gearhulk is an efficient removal for creatures, antagonistically Woodfall Primus destroys non-creature permanents. Restricted to artifacts and enchantments, we have Indrik Stomphowler. Available spells also hit a wide range of targets, such as Chaos Warp for any permanent, Riveteers Charm forces a target opponent to sacrifice the creature or planeswalker with the highest converted mana cost, and Terminate is simple and practical, terminating a creature. We have the addition of Khalni Ambush and Kazuul's Fury spells complementing our one-off removals.Out

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Winning the Game
Big creatures and combat are already a pretty honest way to win, but to further strengthen this way we added Homura, Human Ascendant, which grants flying and +2/+2 to all our creatures on death. We have solutions to solve those stax and pillowforts that prevent us from attacking, through the aforementioned Stalking Vengeance and Warstorm Surge. We also added Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord, plus a very synergistic option that deals damage when sacrificing creatures.In

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