[cEDH] Destined Devastation | Klothys MLD Prison

Commander / EDH Competitive Land Destruction Lands Prison RG (Gruul)

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Land (37)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Bazaar of Baghdad
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1x Boseiju, Who Shelters All
• 1x Cascading Cataracts
• 1x City of Traitors
• 1x Commercial District
• 1x Emergence Zone
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Fire-Lit Thicket
• 6x Forest
• 1x Forgotten Cave
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Gemstone Caverns
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 4x Mountain
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Smoldering Crater
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Taiga
• 1x Thawing Glaciers
• 1x Tranquil Thicket
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Artifact (4)

• 1x Chalice of the Void
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Null Rod
• 1x Pithing Needle

Sorcery (18)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Brotherhood's End
• 1x Decree of Annihilation
• 1x Devastating Dreams
• 1x Devastation
• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Jeska's Will
• 1x Jokulhaups
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Meltdown
• 1x Obliterate
• 1x Ruination
• 1x Shatterskull Smashing  ^Flip
• 1x Warp World
• 1x Wheel of Fortune
• 1x Wildfire

Instant (11)

• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Deflecting Swat
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Ricochet Trap
• 1x Seething Song
• 1x Tibalt's Trickery
• 1x Turn the Earth
• 1x Valakut Awakening  ^Flip

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Chandra, Torch of Defiance
• 1x Karn, the Great Creator
• 1x Wrenn and Six

Commander (1)

Creature (16)

• 1x Collector Ouphe
• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Elvish Spirit Guide
• 1x Jaya Ballard, Task Mage
• 1x Magus of the Moon
• 1x Orcish Lumberjack
• 1x Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
• 1x Sanctum Weaver
• 1x Shigeki, Jukai Visionary
• 1x Simian Spirit Guide
• 1x Soulless Jailer
• 1x Tinder Wall
• 1x Toski, Bearer of Secrets
• 1x Treasonous Ogre
• 1x Vexing Shusher
• 1x ________ Goblin

Enchantment (10)

• 1x Blood Moon
• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x Exploration
• 1x Frontier Siege
• 1x Lifeforce
• 1x Seismic Assault
• 1x Stranglehold
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Titania's Song
• 1x Underworld Breach

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Artifact (1)

• 1x Gerrard's Hourglass Pendant

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This is a Klothys, God of Destiny MLD (Mass Land Destruction) Prison list for cEDH. The main difference between this and the other Klothys MLD lists floating around the net is that this one is built around land-based acceleration as opposed to artifacts and dorks, which while less explosive ultimately benefits by allowing a higher land count (38/9) which naturally MLD-proofs the deck compared with the majority of competitive lists running 30 or fewer lands. We also run more hard MLD spells than most other Klothys lists (8 vs the usual 4-5). The land theme fits with the deck's strategy of board control through sweepers and stax; we want to minimize blowing up/shutting off our own sh*t. The core idea of the deck is to 'MLD-proof' yourself by using Klothys or other cards such as Life from the Loam, Thawing Glaciers, Shigeki, Jukai Visionary, Wrenn and Six, Ragavan, etc. which allow you to more easily recover after an MLD spell. Because this is the primary wincon, I really tried to max the amount of MLD+sweeper bombs, artifact hate, and anti-counterspell measures above all else. I also cut as much of the combo component as I could, to focus on MLD cards which provide '1-card-wins' with Kloth as opposed to 2-piece combos like Dualcaster Mage/Twinflame which may be dead cards when the combo is not fully assembled, and are also vulnerable to creature removal (same deal w Kiki). This makes room for some very spicy cards like Lifeforce, Seismic Assault, and Jaya Ballard, Task Mage. Still running Underworld Breach because it's so good and the breach line usually involves just digging for MLD using Jeskas/Wheel, then Finale of Devastation can be a hasty finisher on an empty board. Most of the time we kill players by grinding them down with Klothys over 10+ turns while preventing them from doing anything meaningful by shutting off all of their mana one way or another and exiling all their combo cards out of the yard. I have found this strategy to be surprisingly effective, as well as satisfying to play with a lot of strategic and political choices, and of course the fun of resolving massive uncounterable MLD spells (fun for you at least!)

tl;dr The deck is designed to punish the greediest top tier decks in the format by turning off their artifacts and nonbasic manabase. Some decks will of course be able to subvert this and you will lose some games, getting narrowly edged out or from a massive blowout like Teferi's Protection. Still, this deck is quite capable of bringing an entire table of tier 1 cEDH decks completely to their knees and slowly crushing the life out of them all, and I think that's pretty sweet.

Date added	1 month
Last updated	1 month
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 62 - 0 Rares 12 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.92
Tokens	Emblem Chandra, Torch of Defiance, Emblem Wrenn and Six, Treasure