Elenda with Looped Roses

Commander / EDH WB (Orzhov)

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Artifact (22)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Animation Module
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Blasting Station
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Defense Grid
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Lion's Eye Diamond
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Nim Deathmantle
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring

Instant (12)

• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Culling the Weak
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Disenchant
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Orim's Chant
• 1x Rain of Filth
• 1x Silence
• 1x Slaughter Pact
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Land (29)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fetid Heath
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Gemstone Caverns
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 3x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Scrubland
• 6x Swamp
• 1x Tarnished Citadel
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Cabal Therapy
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Fragmentize
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Steelshaper's Gift
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Commander (1)

Creature (20)

• 1x Academy Rector
• 1x Dark Confidant
• 1x Fiend Hunter
• 1x Gold Myr
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Hope of Ghirapur
• 1x Karmic Guide
• 1x Leaden Myr
• 1x Leonin Relic-Warder
• 1x Mentor of the Meek
• 1x Mother of Runes
• 1x Razaketh, the Foulblooded
• 1x Recruiter of the Guard
• 1x Reveillark
• 1x Stoneforge Mystic
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Tymna the Weaver
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Weathered Wayfarer
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Gift of Immortality
• 1x Land Tax
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Phyrexian Arena

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Loops

Loop with optional sacrifice outlet:

• Leonin Relic-Warder + Animate Dead/Dance of the Dead

Loops with any sacrifice outlet:

• Sun Titan + Gift of Immortality/Fiend Hunter
• Karmic Guide + Reveillark

Additional loops with Ashnod's Altar:

• Nim Deathmantle + Elenda, the Dusk Rose
• Nim Deathmantle + Karmic Guide + a creature
• Nim Deathmantle + Sun Titan + a creature with CMC 3 or less
• Animation Module + Elenda, the Dusk Rose

Additional loops with Phyrexian Altar:

• Animation Module + Elenda, the Dusk Rose

Payoffs

• Elenda, the Dusk Rose: Infinite 1/1 tokens.
• Blood Artist/Zulaport Cutthroat: Infinite life gain and life loss for opponents.
• Viscera Seer: Choose the top card of your library. Really only worth it to go off this way if you can then draw the card and win on the same turn.
• Altar of Dementia: Mill your opponents' libraries.
• Ashnod's Altar: Infinite colorless mana.
• Phyrexian Altar: Infinite colored mana.
• Blasting Station: Infinite damage.

Razaketh lines

Going for an early razaketh, the foulblooded is one of the most straightforward ways to win. Below are a few basic lines with this deck. Also note that assembling creatures for Razaketh lines is extremely easy for this deck. The base lines require just a couple creatures (or really only one if you have enough mana) and having your commander out already counts for at least two creatures.

Two creatures and access to a single :

1. Sacrifice your first creature to tutor for Lion's Eye Diamond.
2. Play it and crack for .
3. Sacrifice your second creature for Leonin Relic-Warder (LRW). Note that you can start here if you only had one creature but floating.
4. Cast it and exile something if you want to (ex: one of your tapped mana rocks).
5. Sacrifice it to tutor for Animate Dead/Dance of the Dead.
6. Use your floating to cast your reanimation spell, targeting LRW.
7. Use LRW to exile your reanimation enchantment. With its leave-the-battlefield trigger on the stack, sacrifice LRW to Razaketh.
8. LRW's leave-the-battlefield trigger will return your enchantment to play. Have it target LRW to iterate the loop.
9. Repeat steps 7 and 8 to obtain tutors up to Floor(Life Total / 2). For example, you could tutor for Lotus Petal, Dark Ritual, Zulaport Cutthroat, and Reanimate to win the game.
10. You can then end the loop at any time by reanimating something besides LRW.
11. Cast your spells to win the game. You can restart the loop by reanimating LRW.
12. Using the example in step 9, cast Lotus Petal, Dark Ritual, Zulaport Cutthroat and then Reanimate targeting LRW. Use LRW's trigger to exile your reanimation enchantment. Sacrifice LRW to reinitialize the loop and win with Zulaport.

The above lines gets even easier if Razaketh was reanimated with Animate Dead/Dance of the Dead. If this is the case, you only need two other creatures and no extra mana:

1. Sacrifice your first creature to tutor for Lion's Eye Diamond.
2. Play it and crack for .
3. Sacrifice your second creature for Leonin Relic-Warder (LRW).
4. Cast it and exile the Animate Dead/Dance of the Dead.
5. With your enchantment's leave-the-battlefield trigger on the stack, you can begin tutoring with the standard LRW loop.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	17 - 0 Mythic Rares 46 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	1.92
Tokens	Servo 1/1 C, Vampire 1/1 W
Folders	Other People's Decks