I will. Frankly, even if I do get stomped it'll still be nice to see another play-style than my "counter shit and chip away with a horde of faeries" or my mate's "make everything invincible then shit on you" strategy.

That's exactly what it. I don't want to win all the time, ideally every game could go either way because that's the kinda games I enjoy most but since he's upgrading his deck I have to try to stay on par by upgrading my own or I'll just constantly lose and that's no fun either.

I don't have the money to build a whole other deck from scratch but when I do I've been considering a mono-black vampire/zombie deck to shake it up a bit so I don't get tired of the faeries. Also, just because they're cool af.

It does get a wee bit same-y but it's not too bad. I'm going to my first commander night at my local game store tomorrow, hopefully the people won't be too bad.

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.

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.

Yeah, the power levels are definitely mismatched but he's the only person I can play with. Those cards seem like a good answer, I'll definitely pick some up. The issue with his tutors isn't that he gets Avacyn super quickly but that he's pretty much guaranteed to get her in the game at some point unless I can kill him fast which I normally can't because of the life gain. I'll definitely get some tutors of my own too, I need a bit more consistency in my deck.

Thanks for all the advice, I know I've not been playing optimally but I think I may have been getting a bit salty and blaming my deck when I seem to have enough tools to deal with the 2 main threats.

I was under the impression that because of the indestructible his creatures would survive negative counters unless they were permanent, indestructible seems a lot less daunting now as I thought my only options were to exile the big 2 or make him sac them.

Thanks for the card recommendations too, I'll definitely pick some of them up.