Blood Sisters

Commander / EDH* Budget Competitive Hatebears Stax Toolbox Twin

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Land (32)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 4x Forest
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 2x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Tarnished Citadel
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Tutor (8)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Reanimation (5)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Karmic Guide
• 1x Life / Death
• 1x Reanimate

Stax/MLH (20)

• 1x Anafenza, the Foremost
• 1x Armageddon
• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Blood Moon
• 1x Contamination
• 1x Eidolon of Rhetoric
• 1x Ethersworn Canonist
• 1x Kataki, War's Wage
• 1x Linvala, Keeper of Silence
• 1x Null Rod
• 1x Rule of Law
• 1x Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Sphere of Resistance
• 1x Stony Silence
• 1x Stranglehold
• 1x Tangle Wire
• 1x Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
• 1x Trinisphere
• 1x Winter Orb

Ramp (11)

• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Sol Ring

Win Con (6)

• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1x Felidar Guardian
• 1x Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• 1x Splinter Twin
• 1x Village Bell-Ringer

Commanders (2)

Spot Removal (9)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Fire Covenant
• 1x Manglehorn
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Phyrexian Revoker
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Shriekmaw
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

Utility (7)

• 1x Dark Confidant
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Quirion Ranger
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Yisan, the Wanderer Bard

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Maybeboard

Other (15)

• 1x Anafenza, the Foremost
• 1x Brushland
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Faerie Macabre
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Life / Death
• 1x Linvala, Keeper of Silence
• 1x Mizzium Mortars
• 1x Ob Nixilis, Unshackled
• 1x Peacekeeper
• 1x Qasali Pridemage
• 1x Splinter Twin
• 1x Tarnished Citadel
• 1x Toxic Deluge

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This list is the product of my initial experiments with making a 4C Protean Hulk shell without blue. Unfortunately for the Hulk, I found that the sac outlets and Hulk took up too much real estate in the deck where I could be running more hate pieces/answers, so I finally took the advice of many expert edh players and cut hulk to dedicate the deck to Kiki wins.

Gameplan

The early game consists of running out a dork or two and then slamming a relevant early hate piece like Rule of Law or Stony Silence, or simply casting Tymna and trying to draw into the stax pieces you need to control the game. In the mid game, you usually cast Tana and start gaining tokens to swing with, play the more devastating stax pieces/land destruction pieces like Blood Moon or Armageddon, depending of course on if your aim is to win via Pod/Yisan or through Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite beats. In the late game, you are either continually smacking face with creatures until you kill someone, or you have a Yisan at 2 counters at the start of your turn/Pod with any 3 cmc creature on board.

Winning

The actual wins of this deck are pretty straightforward. The Birthing Pod line is one of the easiest to accomplish because Tymna the Weaver is an always-available 3-drop that you can sack to Pod to win the game. The line is activate Birthing Pod sacking some 3cmc creature, tutor for Felidar Guardian who will bounce Pod. Sack the Guardian to find Karmic Guide, who will bounce Pod again. Sack the Guardian a third time to tutor for Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker, copying Karmic Guide to get back Guardian. Guardian bounces Kiki, and you make infinite cats. Meow.

The Yisan, the Wanderer Bard line is also pretty simple. Your first activation gets you some sort of mana dork. The second activation grabs Bloom Tender. So long as Tender taps for 2 mana and you keep your first dork, your third activation wins the game if uninterrupted. Tap Tender and Dork 1 to activate Yisan and find Village Bell-Ringer, who then untaps all your dudes. Activate again to find Felidar Guardian to flicker Bell-Ringer. Then you go for Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker, and you know the drill. Make humans or cats, whichever you prefer. Or both.

Lastly, you have the Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite line. This line is the smash line, and it is usually plan B to the Kiki plan unless you simply draw it. Elesh and Tana, the Bloodsower provide excellent synergy that helps you net advantage in the attack game, even in creature heavy metas. In competitive EDH, however, this line can close out a game quite quickly since not too many creature lists exist in the current meta game.

Tech

Depending on your meta, you may need to swap stax pieces in and out for other more prevalent ones. Right now, the meta I play in is enamored with Protean Hulk, so Faerie Macabre provides an excellent answer that helps circumvent Grand Abolisher from ruining my day. Ruric Thar and Sire of Insanity are very good in my meta since a lot of the remaining decks are combo/control decks, but Sire could be quite bad in a meta filled with a lot of reanimator strategies. Ultimately, pick your pieces based on the decks in your area.

Special Thanks

I owe a deep gratitude to IMOC, neosloth, AstralCodex, Shaper, StrawberryMilkshake, and the cedh community as a whole for helping me create this budget list and to test it against them repeatedly until arriving at one that feels powerful.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 54 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.37
Tokens	Copy Clone, Saproling 1/1 G
Folders	CMD Decks to build, Good ideas, Neat