Fisty

Ygra is such an interesting card, probably one of the most interestingly designed cards in quite some time. There's so many ways to build it: Food, Control, +1/+1, Aristocrats... But that wide design space make it one of the most complicated commanders for me to build personally. My thoughts...

This leads to inconsistent gameplay. You need card selection from two different themes with little redundancy in either department. Also Golgari is notorious for lack of card draw which complicates the matter, especially since most of the draw options don't synergize well with Ygra as a commander.

Ygra is such an interesting card, probably one of the most interestingly designed cards in quite some time. There's so many ways to build it: Food, Control, +1/+1, Aristocrats... But that wide design space make it one of the most complicated commanders for me to build personally. My thoughts...

Go Control? Hope your opponents have plenty of creatures to feed off of and hope Ygra doesn't get removed (spoiler: it will) because almost all of your cards are one-and-done so if you have to start from scratch building it back up, it's going to be rough.

Ygra is such an interesting card, probably one of the most interestingly designed cards in quite some time. There's so many ways to build it: Food, Control, +1/+1, Aristocrats... But that wide design space make it one of the most complicated commanders for me to build personally. My thoughts...

This means you need to use a combo of these themes. And it definitely works; it just doesn't work consistently. Go foods? You'll play weaker cards to generate foods and then you still need a way to sac them since paying 2 mana per food is inefficient. Then you'll have to dip into Aristocrats.

Ygra is such an interesting card, probably one of the most interestingly designed cards in quite some time. There's so many ways to build it: Food, Control, +1/+1, Aristocrats... But that wide design space make it one of the most complicated commanders for me to build personally. My thoughts...

Aristocrats: This theme has good support in Golgari, though I think Orzhov does it better. Also Aristocrats typically involves a grindy group-slug kind of gameplay that directly opposes Ygra's theme of growing big and taking out people with Commander damage.

Ygra is such an interesting card, probably one of the most interestingly designed cards in quite some time. There's so many ways to build it: Food, Control, +1/+1, Aristocrats... But that wide design space make it one of the most complicated commanders for me to build personally. My thoughts...

+1/+1 Counters: Ygra is the only thing that cares about +1/+1 counters. Putting in things like Branching Evolution or Hardened Scales is great but the only thing it affects is Ygra. Also those cards do nothing by themselves, you need something to put counters on Ygra so you need foods to die.

Ygra is such an interesting card, probably one of the most interestingly designed cards in quite some time. There's so many ways to build it: Food, Control, +1/+1, Aristocrats... But that wide design space make it one of the most complicated commanders for me to build personally. My thoughts...

I also don't like infinite combos. Nothing's more boring than a game ending on turn 5 by someone saying "I win" while most people have near-full life and an established board state. That said, let's get on to why I find Ygra so interesting, but so difficult to build.

Ygra is such an interesting card, probably one of the most interestingly designed cards in quite some time. There's so many ways to build it: Food, Control, +1/+1, Aristocrats... But that wide design space make it one of the most complicated commanders for me to build personally. My thoughts...