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I build colorless commander decks. I wanted a deck for Hope of Ghirapur, but I didn't want to go down the road of sticking equipment on it and swinging. My budget Traxos deck mostly goes in that direction. It's powerful (sometimes), but that box was already checked. For Hope, I wanted to try something different.
+1/+1 counters and proliferate.
Hope is a 1/1 flyer for 1 mana. The deck has a low curve. There isn't an unlimited budget, but it's not a low-cost deck, either. I'm trying to keep the cost it in the range of a typical EDHRec deck. For the first draft, I stuck in as many cards that have counters or care about counters as I could find to make the theme more obvious. The deck is lousy with cards that either get counters, give counters, or add counters. Modular creatures are everywhere.
I've only had the chance to play a few games with the deck. It's fine. It sometimes does things. It needs more testing, for sure. And card draw. It doesn't recover from a board wipe. I hesitate to think about going up against multiple opponents. There are some great colorless cards that didn't make it into the deck. But it's tough to start cutting "on theme" cards to fit in cards that are objectively better. At some point, the theme goes away.
