Edric Politics (BUDGET)

Commander / EDH* Budget Casual Enchantment GU (Simic)

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Let's Be Friends (21)

• 1x Benefactor's Draught
• 1x Covenant of Minds
• 1x Crystalline Nautilus
• 1x Evolutionary Escalation
• 1x Forcemage Advocate
• 1x Forgotten Lore
• 1x Ghostly Wings
• 1x Hunted Phantasm
• 1x Hunted Troll
• 1x Intellectual Offering
• 1x Magus of the Vineyard
• 1x Nullmage Advocate
• 1x Phantom Wings
• 1x Sheltering Ancient
• 1x Shimmering Wings
• 1x Sylvan Offering
• 1x Tempt with Discovery
• 1x Tempt with Reflections
• 1x Vow of Flight
• 1x Vow of Wildness
• 1x Wurmweaver Coil

If You Wanna Be My Enemy (9)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Courtly Provocateur
• 1x Crown of Doom
• 1x Curse of Predation
• 1x Faerie Artisans
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Provoke
• 1x Seal of Primordium

Land (36)

• 1x Alchemist's Refuge
• 1x Botanical Sanctum
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 9x Forest
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 14x Island
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Simic Guildgate
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Thornwood Falls
• 1x Woodland Stream
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Pay Up (10)

• 1x Epiphany at the Drownyard
• 1x Expropriate
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Fortune's Favor
• 1x Nessian Demolok
• 1x Order of Succession
• 1x Selvala's Stampede
• 1x Siren of the Fanged Coast
• 1x Sphinx of Uthuun
• 1x Split Decision

Can't Touch This (5)

• 1x Constant Mists
• 1x Crawlspace
• 1x Dissipation Field
• 1x Elephant Grass
• 1x Propaganda

Commander (1)

A Little Chaos Never Hurt (12)

• 1x Betrayal
• 1x Chain of Acid
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Disappear
• 1x Diviner Spirit
• 1x Jolrael, Empress of Beasts
• 1x Perplexing Chimera
• 1x Sailmonger
• 1x Shared Fate
• 1x Telepathy
• 1x Vanishing
• 1x Zur's Weirding

Mana Stuff (6)

• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Simic Cluestone
• 1x Simic Keyrune
• 1x Simic Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thought Vessel

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Maybeboard

Other (12)

• 1x Collective Voyage
• 1x Farsight Mask
• 1x Ghirapur Orrery
• 1x Heartbeat of Spring
• 1x Jace Beleren
• 1x Manifold Insights
• 1x Minds Aglow
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Oblivion Stone
• 1x Perilous Vault
• 1x Ratchet Bomb
• 1x Wolfcaller's Howl

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Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer

This statement evokes the feeling of this deck in a single sentence. Edric is meant to be played in a playgroup with three or more other players so you have a good selection of people to swindle, persuade, cajole, and other fancy words politicians use. This is a budget brew, meaning there is room to improve (especially on the lands), but for what you are spending, you get a load of fun and a lifetime of treaties and favors.

Playstyle

The effectiveness of this deck heavily depends on how well you can make your opponents not want to kill you. a lot of playing this deck involves playing the other players at the table to find someone else to swing at, even if you have little or no defenses of your own. In fact, there is a good chance you will be the weakest one at the table. But fear not, with political tools Sylvan Offering and Intellectual Offering , you can turn your enemies to friends in an instant, and have them swinging into the other bigger threats at the table. Punishing players who may not be so easy to dissuade can be done with cards like Curse of Predation . If you don't like talking to other people and enjoy a fast aggro deck, Edric isn't for you. However, if you like manipulating your friends to kill each other, you found just the deck.

Modification

If you want you change up your games with Edric, you can swap cards in the 99 with one of the cards from the maybeboard for different match-ups and scenarios to play out. These cards fit the theme of the deck as well as fit the budget, so I highly recommend trying some of them out for yourself. The maybeboard also lists cards in these colors that can board wipe, allowing a more hostile approach to defending yourself. They don't fit the overall goals of Edric, which is to make friends, but sometimes desperate times call for desperate measures.

Category Explanations Show

-Let's Be Friends: Cards to sway public opinion to your advantage. Great for making favors late game.

-If You Wanna Be My Enemy: Some people refuse to change, so you just gotta change them yourself. Includes self-defense and cards to punish foes with.

-A Little Chaos Never Hurt: A little chaos never hurt. Right? Well hopefully they'll be too busy hitting themselves to realize you're in the corner.

-Mana Stuff: Generic ramp and company. Not to much to say other than that.

-Pay Up: "Hey remember that Treefolk I gave you from Sylvan Offering? Ya well I need you to put all these cards into one pile so I can have all of them."

-Can't Touch This: You don't want to attack me. I'm cool! Also, you can't.

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Date added	7 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 29 - 0 Rares 27 - 0 Uncommons 19 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.09
Tokens	Copy Clone, Elf Warrior 1/1 G, Faerie 1/1 U, Goblin 1/1 R, Treefolk X/X G, Wurm 6/6 G
Folders	commander, EDH