3drinks' Approved Multiplayer Option

Commander / EDH RBW (Mardu)

3drinks

Land (38)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Badlands
• 1x Battlefield Forge
• 1x Blackcleave Cliffs
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Canyon Slough
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Concealed Courtyard
• 1x Fetid Heath
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 1x Hall of the Bandit Lord
• 1x Inspiring Vantage
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Plains
• 1x Plateau
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Rugged Prairie
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Snow-Covered Mountain
• 1x Snow-Covered Plains
• 1x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Creature (22)

• 1x Abhorrent Overlord
• 1x Academy Rector
• 1x Archfiend of Despair
• 1x Bloodgift Demon
• 1x Butcher of the Horde
• 1x Dark Confidant
• 1x Defiler of Souls
• 1x Demonlord Belzenlok
• 1x Doom Whisperer
• 1x Kothophed, Soul Hoarder
• 1x Lord of the Void
• 1x Master of Cruelties
• 1x Rakdos the Defiler
• 1x Rakdos, the Showstopper
• 1x Razaketh, the Foulblooded
• 1x Reaper from the Abyss
• 1x Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1x Shadowborn Demon
• 1x Shivan Hellkite
• 1x Sire Of Insanity
• 1x Sower of Discord
• 1x Worldgorger Dragon

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Armageddon
• 1x Cataclysm
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Idyllic Tutor
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Obzedat's Aid
• 1x Patriarch's Bidding
• 1x Ravages of War
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Vindicate

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Liliana's Contract
• 1x Moat
• 1x Necromancy

Commander (1)

Instant (13)

• 1x Abrade
• 1x Aurelia's Fury
• 1x Boros Charm
• 1x Dismember
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Lightning Bolt
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Teferi's Protection
• 1x Tithe
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Artifact (10)

• 1x Boros Signet
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence

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For years and years the single biggest request I've received from posters coming into this primer, is a dedicated multiplayer list. And in those years, I never had a true answer. Well, towards the end of 2018, I started experimenting with a few dedicated archetypes - specifically you may remember the brief discussions MTGS user Shiroe the Enchanter and I had here about Dragonstorm and it's validity. You might also remember my epiphany I had over Liliana's Contract too. In the months that followed, I learned valuable things.

• Dragonstorm is not viable here. it requires a lot of other slots in order to storm off, and more slots devoted to the dragons I'm fetching and kill conditions to amplify the chain so I could actually make this effort a winning one. This resulted in me playing a deck with very few answers and adopting the mantra "remove players, not threats". I didn't like that, and it wasn't a high enough pay off to compensate the storm not actually going off the way it was intended in most games even though mathematically, it was sound and the numbers were right. I moved away from it.
• Though it's true in 1v1, it's doubly true in multiplayer with more opponents. Commander games are often won by combo because this is the most efficient way to eliminate all opponents at the same time. The simplest way to do this is to resolve some kind of "you win the game" effect. To this end, I was happy to put together Liliana's Contract with a slant towards demons in my creature base and a couple more lands to compensate losing some of my lower cost non-demon base creatures. I still believe in the validity of the alt win here, but in order to not be a one trick pony, I needed something more than Contract + Kaalia beats.
• I realized the last combo route wasn't directly related to Kaalia, but could be incorporated into the deck easily enough and enough of the other parts that make it work, also work with the deck in general. That idea was Worldgorger Dragon combo - which really only needs one other card to "go off" with. I mentioned this combo about a month ago from the date of this edit (5-20-2019), and until now, I hadn't made any real progress. Now, I believe between the Contract and protection of it, WGD and the couple of cards to go off with it, and the straight forward beat you up plan (and let's not forget we still have Master of Cruelties), I believe we have enough win chances here to set this up for multiplayer officially.

So here's what we can do; - Liliana's Contract is straight forward. You get demons on the board, four of them to be precise, and you keep them there. This is helped by Boros Charm and Teferi's Protection, and - in the event of someone wisely sweeping the board, Patriarch's Bidding (demon, of course) to rebuild effortlessly. There's also Obzedat's Aid to bring back the enchantment should someone try to get smart and take that away from you, and hey you'd even get another draw4 off that. - Worldgorger Dragon combo is a bit trickier, but this can savagely be done on someone else's end step which is much more rewarding to execute. I won't go into details of how "the loop" works, because if you're reading this far, you're probably familiar with the WGD combo anyway. So, once you've established the loop and have an "arbitrarily large amount of mana", I've chosen two options to kill. Either Aurelia's Fury to do it all from the stack and kill everyone else with a single spell, and Shivan Hellkite which makes for both a great end to your WGD chain (and as I recall, was the kill in the original version of this combo) but on it's own it's not so bad as it makes for a reaonable mana sink creature that often goes overlooked in the a-typical game of commander. Oh and he's compatible with our commander too. What a delightful coincidence. :D Both versions of this combo are three card I win the game combos and can all go off instant speed (if you used Necromancy in place of Animate Dead on WGD).

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	20 - 0 Mythic Rares 56 - 0 Rares 12 - 0 Uncommons 6 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.58
Tokens	Harpy 1/1 B