Rainbow of Hate

Canadian Highlander* Five Color Midrange

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Creature (32)

• 1x Anafenza, the Foremost
• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloodbraid Elf
• 1x Channeler Initiate
• 1x Courser of Kruphix
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Den Protector
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Geist of Saint Traft
• 1x Herald of Anafenza
• 1x Hero of Bladehold
• 1x Huntmaster of the Fells  ^Flip
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Mirran Crusader
• 1x Mirri, Weatherlight Duelist
• 1x Mother of Runes
• 1x Olivia, Mobilized for War
• 1x Qasali Pridemage
• 1x Rattleclaw Mystic
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Siege Rhino
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Sylvan Caryatid
• 1x True-Name Nemesis
• 1x Vendilion Clique
• 1x Voice of Resurgence
• 1x Wilt-Leaf Liege

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Bitterblossom
• 1x Sylvan Library

Land (36)

• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Creeping Tar Pit
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 3x Forest
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 1x Island
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Kessig Wolf Run
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Mountain Valley
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 3x Plains
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Raging Ravine
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Sandsteppe Citadel
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stirring Wildwood
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Vault of the Archangel
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath

Instant (15)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Abzan Charm
• 1x Ancestral Recall
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Boros Charm
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Fatal Push
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Kolaghan's Command
• 1x Lightning Bolt
• 1x Lightning Helix
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Punishing Fire
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Valorous Stance

Sorcery (11)

• 1x Bring to Light
• 1x Council's Judgment
• 1x Despise
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Maelstrom Pulse
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Raven's Crime
• 1x Thoughtseize
• 1x Wrath of God

Artifact (4)

• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Smuggler's Copter
• 1x Umezawa's Jitte

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Maybeboard

Creature (11)

• 1x Drana, Liberator of Malakir
• 1x Gisela, the Broken Blade  ^Meld
• 1x Grim Lavamancer
• 1x Knight of Autumn
• 1x Legion Loyalist
• 1x Noble Hierarch
• 1x Prowling Serpopard
• 1x Resplendent Angel
• 1x Tarmogoyf
• 1x Thorn Lieutenant
• 1x Thrun, the Last Troll

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Inquisition of Kozilek
• 1x Tribal Flames

Instant (1)

• 1x March of the Multitudes

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This is my Canadian Highlander deck. It started as a WUBG control deck but I've always wanted to play Bloodbraid Elf (in any format). So instead of building a second deck, I decided to turn this onto a five-colour midrange deck.

Deck Design

The concept of the deck is to use a combination of hand hate and removal alongside some of the most standalone efficient creatures to close the game out. In this aspect, it plays similar(ish) to a 4C blood deck. Because of the 5 colour nature of the deck though, it takes advantage of the 1 mana cantrips to help filter the deck for the pieces you need. It also gives access to Ancestral Recall , which the deck spends most of its points on and provides a disgusting amount of tempo, especially combined with Snapcaster Mage or Eternal Witness .

Despite running blue, the deck does not run a counterspell package - this was tested in a previous revision of the deck but was found to be lacking. Because this deck runs a wide sweep of efficient beater creatures, the counterspell package made the deck run too slowly and meant that the deck had a heavy reliance on blue mana sources. The current build instread relies on proactive hand hate in combination with a slew of removal pieces. Because of this, it reduces the requirement to always leave mana open so that the deck can be playing its own threats.

While this isn't the most competitive deck (I appreciate that 4C Blood is very optimised and adding a 5th colour probably dilutes rather than positively affects), it is a lot of fun to play. The mana base needs improvement, but this is an ongoing thing as ABURs are currently out of the price range of the deck.

Points Cards

My playgroup allows proxies but only for points cards.

The points cards the deck is running are as follows:

• Ancestral Recall (proxy) - 7 points
• True-Name Nemesis - 1 point
• Umezawa's Jitte - 2 points

The full points list can be found here.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	4 years
Card Score	9 / 10
Legality	This deck is Canadian Highlander legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 55 - 0 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.12
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Elemental */* GW, Faerie Rogue 1/1 B, Morph 2/2 C, Soldier 1/1 W, Warrior 1/1 W, Wolf 2/2 G