Keranos Bolt and Durdle

So I know my last post wasn't Commander related, and for that I'm sorry. To make up for it, here's my latest deck that I've been fucking around with. I present to you: Keranos Bolt and Durdle.

It's got two of my favorite colors, Blue and Red. Together they become something weird and chaotic. I originally built this deck as some kind of weird side deck, but because I'm a constant brewer, I've been constantly finding better things to throw in this deck. As you're looking through the deck you may notice three cards stick out in terms of not just value, but power as well, those cards being the Torrential Gearhulk, Ugin, and Cryptic Command.

Like I said earlier, this was supposed to be a weird fun little side deck I built for when I was bored of playing Mono-Blue and Black, but now it's turned it to what it is now; a bit of a value sink. The story behind those three cards is the one I'll relate to you now because each one is an interesting one (I hope).

I got the Ugin in a trade. A very unlikely trade, but a trade no less. A few weeks back my buddy Ian and myself did a Two-headed Giant Event for pre-release, we both had a god pool (literally) and we built super powerful decks for the events. Ian pulled a foil'd Scarab God, so I used it for my deck, and in the end, because Ian is Ian, and Ian is awesome, he gave me the Scarab God (After he pulled a Slaughtering Pact from one of his prize packs). The Scarab God sat in my trade binder for about two weeks until I met a guy named John. I asked to see his trade binder, and in there I found the Ugin. We initially trade for some unrelated cards, but at the end, before I walked away I said to him, "Could I tempt you to trade your Ugin for my Scarab God?"

He looked at me, he looked at the god, he looked back at me, and then the god. My heart stopped for a few seconds as he looked back up at me, "Sure," he said. At the time Ugin was sitting at about $30 at low and the God was $28. I did not expect this trade to go through, but it did, and for that I am incredibly thankful to both John and Ian.

The next card is the Cryptic Command. It had been sitting in the case at my LGS for a while, at least a week. I was initially not interested in because it was foil and I thought to myself, "There's no way in hell I can afford it. The foil's gotta be ridiculously expensive." I was being lazy and indifferent, until one day while playing Commander I realized, "Why don't I look up the value of Cryptic Command?" So I did, and then I saw that there was barely a mark up on the price. I raided my binder of everything of value and managed to pick it up for some trades and about $7 cash. It is always nice to find out something you though was unattainable was actually more reasonable than you thought.

Lastly, there's the Gearhulk, which is actually the newest addition to the deck. Last night I bought seven packs of Kaladesh and actually pulled it, along with an Aether Hub, a Scrapheap, and a few other cards so I made my money back on packs.

That's the story of my durdly Keranos deck, check out the deck list and let me know what you guys think. Thanks for reading and sit tight for my next post.