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Karona, True God

Commander / EDH*

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This is a casual-friendly, multiplayer-happy take on a Karona, False God EDH deck. The premise of the deck is to take advantage of Karona's ability to attack on all player's turns by making her a "Voltron" type commander, while making it impossible or unfavourable for your opponents to use her against you. This can be accomplished directly using Assault Suit or the 5 Vows, or indirectly through threatening to gain the life back (spirit link effects), take back control of Karona before she can hit (Homeward Path and friends) or bouncing/killing her (Animate Dead and Ghostly Wings effects will work through any amount of protection you put on her).

Further avenues for development once you have Karona down and totem armoured/hexproofed/indestructible are to force her to attack every turn, make her hard to block, and set up ways to benefit from her attacks even when not currently her controller.

Most of the deck focuses on Auras (because I like them), so there's a solid helping of the best related support cards as well as a handful of alternate targets for your aura-stacking should Karona be taken out of the picture. Equipment cards have been included where individual effects are powerful enough to overlook the lack of synergy.

The biggest problems for the deck are opponents sacrificing Karona while they control her, faster decks rushing you down or comboing out while you set up, and mass enchantment removal, in that order. The latter I don't see run terribly often, and there's enough recursion and redundancy in the deck that I think it can be played around. Fast combo decks are scarier than aggro since many bestow creatures and auras have decent impact against it even when played for utility, and the lifegain effects make you safe from non-commander combat pretty quickly. As for opponents with sac outlets, the only real defense I can see is to try and sneak in specific rattlesnake effects such as Death Watch, Creature Bond and Dying Wish to discourage people from killing the False God while she's in their custody, but even if Karona does die once or twice you shouldn't be out of the game.

Now I just need to fix the manabase

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Date added 9 years
Last updated 9 years
Legality

This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

4 - 0 Mythic Rares

32 - 0 Rares

33 - 0 Uncommons

37 - 0 Commons

Cards 111
Avg. CMC 2.96
Tokens Angel 4/4 W
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