Upgraded Bedecked Brokers - Perrie, the Pulverizer

That time of the year is here again! The Commander 2022 pre constructed decks are here and we have a lot of awesome new cards and strategies to choose from! Today we’ll be looking at my personal favorite from the New Decks: Bedecked Brokers! In this article, we will explore how to effectively upgrade this deck to make it more focused and fun!

Cards to Add:

When Perrie, the Pulverizer was first previewed, I thought the design space for his ability was very interesting and opened up a pool of cards for us to use. In order for us to get the most use out of his triggered ability, we need to have an array of permanents with different types of counters. Let us first look at some Enchantments that give us different types of counters. Firstly, let’s add a permanent that will also help us win the game. Simic Ascendancy lets us pump our Creatures, while also adding to our variety of counters for Perrie’s ability, and also winning us the game if we get lucky! Mystic Remora gives us a good option for early card draw and the way the Cumulative Upkeep mechanic works, it will put an Age Counter on Mystic Remora when we pay its cost. Ominous Seas is another excellent option as it will put Foreshadow Counters on it when we draw cards and then we can eventually start making Kraken Tokens to pressure our opponents life totals. Quest for Renewal and Bounty of the Luxa are also good options as the former lets us keep our Creatures up to block if necessary and the latter will give us Mana and Card Draw throughout the game!

We are also adding a bunch of Creatures that either add new counters or care about us having counters on our creatures. Faithbound Judge is an interesting addition that I have been wanting to try out since it was revealed last year. We don’t necessarily care if it is able to attack as we primarily want it for the backside that can enable us carry out our strategy, while making an opponent lose the game. One other Creature I would like to touch on is Luminous Broodmoth. This card helps enable our strategy while also protecting our board from being wiped by Wrath effects and spot removal. The last Creature we’ll discuss is one of my favorite EDH cards for Creature strategies: Vigor. This card is essential for Creature based strategies. It protects our Creatures from damage based removal and grows them to become even stronger threats to our opponents.

Lets touch on some more support cards that will help focus our deck and bring it to the next level. The Ozolith has been one of the most important cards for counter themed decks printed in the last few years. Being able to save all of the counters that our creatures leave behind is essential for us to rebuild a board state after it has been set back. A unique card that came out of last year's preconstructed decks that we can use is Promise of Loyalty. This card in my opinion hasn’t seen enough play and I’m happy to put it in the upgrade for this deck. Being able to have our opponent’s sacrifice most of their Creatures, being safe from the ones they keep AND adding a new counter to fuel our strategy seems extremely strong for us.

Other cards we are adding that I did not mention above are: Cultivate, Tome of Legends, Investigator’s Journal, That Which Was Taken, Hex Drinker, Kodama of the West Tree, Champion of Lambholt, Yisan, the Wanderer Bard and Instrument of the Bards.

Cards to Cut:

Let’s now take a look at some of the cards from the precon that we can cut!

• Grateful Apparition: We don’t necessarily care about the number of counters we have. We’d like to focus on the different kinds of counters we can make.

• Skyship Plunderer: Again we want to focus on different kinds of counters and not having more of the same kind.

• Wingspan Mentor: We get more out of Luminous Broodmoth for the effect we want.

• Wickerbough Elder: Five mana to remove one Artifact or Enchantment can be rather slow.

• Planar Outburst: Promise of Loyalty is a better board wipe for us than this.

• Hoofprints of the Stag: We get a better version of this effect from Ominous Seas.

• Primal Empathy: We can get more out of a card like Bounty of the Luxa than we will form this card.

• Ajani Unyielding: Ajani is an ok Planeswalker, but doesn’t really help our strategy as much as I would like it to.

• Fathom Mage: Only adds +1/+1 counters and won't necessarily draw us a card every time.

• Declaration in Stone: This card is super narrow and is at Sorcery speed so we can do much better than that.

• Together Forever: This card can be good but is kind of mid. I’d rather play a card like That Which Was Taken as it better protects our key permanents.

• Swiftfoot Boots: This is an ok option that you could keep in if you want but isn’t as important to our strategy.

• Everflowing Chalice : I’ve never really seen the appeal of this card. It does add counters yes, but we want to ramp early and we can do that better with a card like Cultivate.

• Power Conduit: We don’t really want to be removing counters from our permanents so this one gets the axe.

• Kros, Defense Contractor: We aren’t really going to be putting counters on our opponents Creatures so this card's Triggered Ability only really matters when it Enters the Battlefield.

• Angelic Sleuth: Not really looking to have our permanents leave the Battlefield for an effect so minimal as this one.

• Bant Charm: I believe that Brokers Charm is better than this card and is already in the deck so it’s easy to take this one out.

• Park Heights Maverick: This is a well designed card but again we aren’t looking to Proliferate our counters.

• Vorel of the Hullclade: Same reason as a few other cards we are taking out. Not looking to add more counters of the same kind.

• Jenara, Asura of War: This card is ok but doesn’t really affect other permanents on the board like Champion of Lambholt or Vigor would.

Bant/Brokers has been my favorite three color combination ever since I bought the Estrid, the Masked precon back in 2018 and now I’m excited that we get a new way to play these colors in 2022! It's always exciting to see color strategies evolve and fill a niche for some players that don’t get to play their favorite strategies in their favorite colors, so kudos to Wizards for giving us 5 new precons that push the boundaries on what we expect from these color combinations! I very much hope this upgrade gives you an idea of how to strengthen the power level of these fantastic precons!