I'm pretty new to magic, I've been playing commander for just over a month now. I pretty much exclusively play 1v1 with my friend since he's the only other person I know who plays commander and isn't a dick. I picked up the Fae dominion precon and have slightly modded it with stuff I've pulled from packs but it's still mostly the same deck.
My friend plays Mono-white angels, he runs [[Sephara, Sky's Blade]] as his commander with [[Avacyn, Angel of Hope]] in the 99 and he seems almost unbeatable since his win-con is getting out 2 cards, one of which is his commander, and he has multiple artifacts and enchantments that tutor for angels, buff his angels and let him gain life like no tomorrow, and he can summon plenty of tokens which are then made indestructible. I can deal damage early game but he always just gains it back and gets his winning combo out right before I can deal lethal damage.
As I understand, there's not a whole lot I can do within Dimir to deal with his artifacts and enchantments but some tips on improving my deck or just links to better deck lists(which stay relatively cheap) would be appreciated. I'm not married to faeries but I do enjoy black so any deck lists would ideally include black, whether mono or mixed.
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/to-jmuG0s0GCFfRDLnPfgA
Thanks a ton mate. I played a game against him yesterday and took your advice, I added a few -X/-X spells to my deck and held up my counter magic/bounce spells for when he got close to having enough mana for the big threats while building up my board a bit early-game. He got his killer combo out but I immediately bounced them and whenever he tried to build his board I either countered, killed or bounced his stuff. I ended up winning with 40 health. He didn't seem best pleased lol.
That's awesome! Glad it was helpful even if it was generic advice. Don't be surprised if your friend starts coming back with some new techs to counter your play style. You have started the arms race in a very small meta lol.
Yeah, he's started doing it already lol He's been looking at better commanders and upgrading a bunch of stuff specifically to counter me lol. I suppose I'll just have to keep up by doing some upgrading of my own.