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Rainbow Superfriends

Commander / EDH*

dontpanic503


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The motive behind constructing this deck was simple: I had tons of planeswalkers & wanted to make a rainbow deck using as many of them as I could conceivably make work. Recently, people have been asking me why I haven't shifted to an Atraxa, Praetors' Voice build, but my reasons are threefold. 1) EVERYONE is doing an Atraxa build, and I don't want to just follow the herd. 2) My somewhat compulsive nature has dictated that this needs to be a five-color build, and I really want to keep the rainbow going. 3) While Red is clearly the worst and least-represented color in this deck, having it gives me access to Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker who is one of the best finishers in the deck, Daretti, Ingenious Iconoclast, who is one of the best turn-3 plays in the deck, and some of the surprisingly best value planeswalkers with Sarkhan Unbroken, Chandra, Torch of Defiance, and Nahiri, the Harbinger. So I'm sticking with 5-color.

As I do with many of my EDH decks, I also built this deck around an additional constraint of my own, which is that the deck must be entirely creatureless (except for the commander, of course). This has meant that I'm missing out on a number of utility creatures that often find their way into Superfriends builds, but the deck is a bit more interesting and creative for it.

Once I filled up the planeswalker spots, I decided a solid way to go was to throw in lots of board wipes as a form of protection against board-building deck types that would be easily able to wipe out my buddies before they had a chance to do much. That made the decision to go creatureless less of a liability than it otherwise would be. A little additional mana fixing, some synergistic enchantments & artifacts, and a few things thrown in just for flavor, and voila! We have a sorta deck.

It actually kinda works. Enough of the superfriends make creature tokens to have blockers on the board that it's not completely useless against any creature strategies. Some of the cards are not good in here, but my compulsions are too strong to beat, particularly the thought that I need to have every 2 color pair represented. Once they make a better R/G planeswalker, you can bet Sarkhan Vol is getting the axe. Many of the underplayed Planeswalkers are actually powerhouses here. Gideon, Champion of Justice has been my win more than once with this deck, and many opponents simply scoop as soon as they realize I have enough loyalty on him to ultimate and still leave him with a solid body.

Overall, it's a fun deck that is sometimes capable of unexpected comebacks and surprising wins. I'm still working on perfecting it, but it's one of my favorite decks for sure.

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