Clear the Field! (Athreos)

Commander / EDH

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Instant (8)

• 1x Dispatch
• 1x Fated Return
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Pillar of Light
• 1x Silence the Believers
• 1x Spoils of Blood
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Unmake

Sorcery (18)

• 1x Angelic Edict
• 1x Catastrophe
• 1x Consuming Vapors
• 1x Crux of Fate
• 1x Day of Judgment
• 1x Deadly Tempest
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x End Hostilities
• 1x Fell the Mighty
• 1x Gild
• 1x Iona's Judgment
• 1x Life's Finale
• 1x Martial Coup
• 1x Necromantic Selection
• 1x Planar Outburst
• 1x Righteous Confluence
• 1x Rout
• 1x Wrath of God

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Journey to Nowhere
• 1x Liability
• 1x Oblivion Ring
• 1x Planar Collapse
• 1x Shadows of the Past

Artifact (18)

• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Charcoal Diamond
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Jayemdae Tome
• 1x Magnifying Glass
• 1x Marble Diamond
• 1x Mercadian Atlas
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mind's Eye
• 1x Orzhov Cluestone
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Tower of Fortunes
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Planeswalker (4)

• 1x Elspeth Tirel
• 1x Liliana Vess
• 1x Ob Nixilis Reignited
• 1x Sorin, Grim Nemesis

Creature (11)

• 1x Avacyn, Angel of Hope
• 1x Banisher Priest
• 1x Colossus of Akros
• 1x Fiend Hunter
• 1x Harvester of Souls
• 1x Lord of the Void
• 1x Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1x Stuffy Doll
• 1x Transcendent Master
• 1x Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
• 1x Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre

Land (35)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Eye of Ugin
• 1x Forsaken Sanctuary
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Orzhov Basilica
• 1x Orzhov Guildgate
• 10x Plains
• 1x Polluted Mire
• 1x Sanctum of Ugin
• 1x Scoured Barrens
• 1x Secluded Steppe
• 1x Shambling Vent
• 9x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Silence
• 1x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip

Commander (1)

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This is a deck I've wanted to create for a while. EDH is very much a pick and choose format of MTG. You have to be diplomatic. But this deck allows you to be aggressive with very little drawback. It combines two of my favorite elements of magic: good stuff decks and group slug.

The main focus is indestructibility on your side combined with as many spells that "destroy all creatures" as possible (I call them Napalm Spells). The focus is on the phrase "destroy all" because it gets around specific hexproof/shroud your opponents' creatures may have. I'm running 15 cards that can be used to clear the field. Arcane Lighthouse can help with that too.

For creatures that have indestructibility, we're focusing on exiling them. 12 cards can exile one or more creatures. These are good for spot removal as well if I'm not drawing into my napalm cards. In the rare case they have both, I run Consuming Vapors and Chainer's Edict to force a sacrifice. If your opponent has hexproof and has a hexproof, indestructible creature, you're probably toast anyway.

I want to be able to get to these cards and play them quickly, so some card draw and mana ramp is included as well. If my opponent is playing removal, I fall to my planeswalkers to make magic happen.

Finally, with all of this creature hate, I want to get some advantage from it somehow. Liliana Vess can be a win condition, and Fated Return helps me steal something gamebreaking from an opponent (thinking of my local meta, that could be a Sheoldred, Whispering One, Master of Cruelties, Sage of Hours, or Archfiend of Depravity).

There are several win conditions in this deck. A Catastrophe that destroys all lands combined with any napalm spell usually will be a win considering how many mana generators I have. Liliana Vess, Colossus of Akros, or Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre can win games by themselves. Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger and Lord of the Void can attack life gain decks effectively as well as dredge, reanimation, and heavy token generation decks. Sorin, Grim Nemesis is one of my personal favorites against life gain decks and is also the only planeswalker hate in the deck. Athreos, God of Passage can win with commander damage if you keep the devotion up.

This deck is weak to artifact-based strategies, but otherwise playtests fairly consistently. Hope you enjoy it!

Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 35 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.12
Tokens	Clue, Emblem Ob Nixilis Reignited, Gold, Horror */* B, Human Cleric 1/1 BW, Knight 2/2 W w/ Vigilance, Soldier 1/1 W, Vampire Knight 1/1 B