It’s a Dilapidated Boat!

I can only deckbuild for so long before I have to make a meme list. This will be a lower power than my previous decks, by a fairly significant amount. It’s not that much cheaper either, so you need to make sure that your group is OK with you goofing around with boats. Got it? Cool.

Boats.

Decklist

Commander

It’s Skeleton Ship! It’s garbage, it’s old, and it’s not even a boat on paper, just a Skeleton. Don’t worry, we’ve got more than enough boats coming up later.

Mana

For a deck like this, you’re going to want to be landing decently expensive spells, plus activating abilities, so we can afford some of the bigger mana rocks. Some decks don’t need to go higher than Commander’s Sphere, but here, I think that going all the way up to Gilded Lotus and Thran Dynamo is perfectly reasonable.

Card Draw

You’ll see plenty of cards here that draw cards and also proliferate, since the commander puts counters on creatures and you want more counters. There’s also Canoptek Spyder and An Unearthly Child, which don’t seem to synergize with counters much. Hmmm…

Removal

This is probably what this deck does best, as far as useful things is concerned. The commander makes creatures smaller, and this section makes them even smaller, or spreads the damage, or in the case of Crumbling Ashes, directly blows stuff up. OK, done with that, here’s why we’re all here.

Winning the Game: BOATS

OK, this technically isn’t great at winning the game, but your goal is to clear away your opponent’s stuff, then hit them with boats. So many boats. Most of them aren’t super great. But that’s the goal of a meme deck. You get to show opponents cards they’ve never heard of, and sometimes even get to win with these unknown cards. Boats, ships, barges, skiffs, karves, galleons, schooners, even a submarine. All sorts of boats to kill people with.

There’s also a section of Boat Crew. One of them is a creature that goes to get a vehicle, and the rest specifically have untap abilities. Since you need to tap a creature to crew a vehicle, having creatures that can untap themselves means you can crew multiple boats with the same creature, or have access to their ability multiple times in a turn.

Misc Top 3

There’s so many boats, there’s only three cards in this section!

• Necroskitter. Kill your opponent’s stuff and take it for your own!
• Nest of Scarabs. Whenever you do what your commander does, get some tokens to drive boats or block damage.
• Spitting Dilophosaurus. Oh boy, a Jurassic Park card. But it’s a very good way to get creatures out of the way, making sure even big creatures can’t block.

Land

Nothing fancy, just make sure that you have enough islands for Pirate Ship.

$130 isn’t too bad, it might be a bit much for a meme deck, and I get that. I think it has potential, especially at a more casual table. Plus, getting to smack people around with boats is always fun.