Child of Alarm

Commander / EDH Budget Five Color Loam

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Land (45)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Cephalid Coliseum
• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dakmor Salvage
• 1x Drownyard Temple
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 12x Forest
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Glacial Chasm
• 1x Grim Backwoods
• 1x Haunted Fengraf
• 1x High Market
• 3x Island
• 1x Kessig Wolf Run
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 2x Mountain
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Plains
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Raging Ravine
• 1x Slayers' Stronghold
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Tranquil Thicket
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold

Artifact (2)

• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Perilous Vault

Sorcery (29)

• 1x Angelic Purge
• 1x Banefire
• 1x Compulsive Research
• 1x Conflagrate
• 1x Creeping Renaissance
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Dark Petition
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Far Wanderings
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Life's Legacy
• 1x Merciless Eviction
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Pieces of the Puzzle
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Regrowth
• 1x Scapeshift
• 1x Seasons Past
• 1x Splendid Reclamation
• 1x Summer Bloom
• 1x Sylvan Scrying
• 1x Verdant Confluence
• 1x Whispering Madness
• 1x Windfall
• 1x Worm Harvest

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Seismic Assault

Commander (1)

Instant (16)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Burnt Offering
• 1x Capsize
• 1x Comet Storm
• 1x Constant Mists
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Epiphany at the Drownyard
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Forbidden Alchemy
• 1x Grapple with the Past
• 1x Naya Charm
• 1x Plunge into Darkness
• 1x Pulse of Murasa
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Utter End
• 1x Vicious Offering

Creature (6)

• 1x Disciple of Bolas
• 1x Lotus Cobra
• 1x Omnath, Locus of Rage
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Tatyova, Benthic Druid
• 1x The Gitrog Monster

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Sorcery (12)

• 1x Bonfire of the Damned
• 1x Descend upon the Sinful
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Hour of Promise
• 1x Innocent Blood
• 1x Mind Extraction
• 1x Mulch
• 1x Nissa's Renewal
• 1x Primal Growth
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Traverse the Ulvenwald

Creature (8)

• 1x Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Knight of the Reliquary
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Ramunap Excavator
• 1x Tasigur, the Golden Fang
• 1x World Breaker
• 1x World Shaper

Artifact (1)

• 1x Crucible of Worlds

Instant (6)

• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Firestorm
• 1x Forbid
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Read the Runes
• 1x Swan Song

Land (4)

• 1x Boseiju, Who Shelters All
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Diamond Valley
• 1x Miren, the Moaning Well

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Child of Alara "lands" deck. This deck does very well and has been very fun to play. It ramps really fast and has tons of card draw. You usually win via Child of Alara beatdown or with giant Exsanguinates or Banefires.

CARDS TO SACRIFICE THE CHILD: High Market, Disciple of Bolas, Grim Backwoods, Angelic Purge, Culling the Weak

*Ideally I would also be running Miren, the Moaning Well and Diamond Valley, but they are too expensive for me at the moment. I am interested in adding more non-permanent sacrifice outlets, and am still in the process of searching. Momentous Fall is probably going to make it in. I also might add Primal Growth, it's a weaker ramp spell, but the sacrifice option would probably come in handy. I'll probably add Burnt Offering once I acquire it. Read the Runes seems interesting, but most of the time you will only have Child of Alara to sacrifice to it, so it will end up being a giant looting spell. I'm not sure if the sacrifice option is worth it enough to run Read the Runes over something like Sphinx's Revelation or Stroke of Genius. I have a decent amount of tutoring and recursion to have reasonable access to the few sacrifice outlets I have so far, but I need to test things out some more to see how often I get stuck without one.

CARDS TO RETRIEVE THE CHILD: Grapple with the Past, Grim Discovery, Pulse of Murasa, Creeping Renaissance, Naya Charm, Verdant Confluence, Haunted Fengraf, Seasons Past, and Regrowth

The deck previously contained the Maze's End package, but I did not enjoy it so much. So many ETB tapped lands are pretty annoying and the deck feels like it doesn't need that win condition. I've been considering replacing them, in part, with creature-lands, but then you still have the issue with ETB tapped. I'm in the process of transitioning those cards into something else.

I'm considering adding some counterspells to the deck to help push through important plays. Still need to test a bit more, but I bet adding a few could go a long way.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 31 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 21 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.04
Tokens	Elemental 5/5 RG, Spirit 1/1 C, Worm 1/1 BG
Folders	Physical Copy