Dakkon Blackblade, Lord of the Lands

Commander / EDH Multiplayer WUB (Esper)

Dimlit

Instant (10)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Intuition
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Return to Dust
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Austere Command
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Merciless Eviction
• 1x Mind Grind
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Wrath of God

Enchantment (13)

• 1x Collective Restraint
• 1x Future Sight
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Hedonist's Trove
• 1x Land Tax
• 1x Leyline of the Void
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Overburden
• 1x Parallax Tide
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Soothsaying
• 1x Tainted AEther

Artifact (10)

• 1x Armillary Sphere
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Crystal Shard
• 1x Druidic Satchel
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Nihil Spellbomb
• 1x Oblivion Stone
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sword of the Animist

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver
• 1x Venser, the Sojourner

Creature (17)

• 1x Agent of Erebos
• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Fathom Feeder
• 1x Hedron Crab
• 1x Herald of Leshrac
• 1x Kor Cartographer
• 1x Oblivion Sower
• 1x Phenax, God of Deception
• 1x Pilgrim's Eye
• 1x Sire of Stagnation
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Thassa, God of the Sea
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Weathered Wayfarer

Land (39)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Bad River
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dust Bowl
• 1x Eye of Ugin
• 1x Flood Plain
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 4x Island
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 4x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Terrain Generator
• 1x Thawing Glaciers
• 1x Tolaria West
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold
• 1x Wasteland
• 1x Watery Grave

Commander (1)

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Dakkon Blackblade is an old-school cool Legend with a neat P/T potential and an awesome illustration by Richard Kane-Ferguson, but to me something has always seemed off about his flavor text:

"My power is as vast as the plains, my strength is that of mountains. Each wave that crashes upon the shore thunders like blood in my veins." Dakkon Blackblade, Memoirs

What is that? - an Esper colored legend that compares his strength to a land type that is not part of his own color identity? Why refer to plains, islands and mountains and yet not swamps, especially when he also costs B as part of his own casting cost and literally has the word BLACK in his name? Is this simply a flavor fail from the early days before the MTG color-pie consolidation, - or instead a hint at a greater destiny awaiting Dakkon beyond his native lands?

My inner Vorthos makes me choose to believe the latter, and with the recent printing of Oblivion Sower it all finally makes sense to me: Dakkon Blackblade is a legend who's destined for something far greater than the measly 39 lands of his own deck. Instead, we shall exile and then conquer more lands from our opponents! At last, Dakkon shall have mountains (and forests, and other lands) to draw his strength from and beat down on his foes with!

For this purpose, I've attempted to build the deck with a focus on early land ramp coupled with board control (my meta is very creature heavy and combo-light - hence my emphasis on board wipes over counterspells). Mid game it consolidates the position with some milling/exiling of opponents' graveyards and eventually follows up with cards like Oblivion Sower or Hedonist's Trove to boost the total available mana well into the double digits. Victory to be ensured late-game through commander damage with an unreasonably large-sized Dakkon Blackblade made unblockable with Thassa, God of the Sea, Rogue's Passage, or Venser, the Sojourner if needed.

I'm still exploring the various ways to abuse Oblivion Sower and so far I've found that coubling it with a well timed Parallax Tide can be especially brutal.

Work in progress. Of course, feel free to let me know what you think.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 50 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.21
Tokens	Emblem Venser, the Sojourner, Saproling 1/1 G
Folders	Liked decks, Decks to Playtest