Five Color God Stuff

Commander / EDH ElendVenture

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Land Switch —June 14, 2014

I've decided to switch out the Guildgates/Maze's End for shocklands/City of Brass in an attempt speed up the deck.

Karametra, God of Harvests Can also use her ability to pull 7 out of the ten shocklands out of my deck and onto the battlefield. This makes for much quicker land grabbing than the previous Maze's End method.

electromancer says... #1

playing Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx can ramp and mana-fix. For example, you have one Deity of Scars on board and alot of green lands but you don't have the right mana to play Divinity of Pride , nykthos should fix this right up.

May 4, 2014 6:03 p.m.

ElendVenture says... #2

@Electromancer Thanks! I'll try that out. I also made a few other changes. Took out 4 planeswalkers that while good on their own, don't really help with the overall theme of this deck. Added Open the Vaults , Patriarch's Bidding , Darksteel Ingot , and Progenitus .

May 5, 2014 9:47 p.m.

jeffieog says... #3

May 6, 2014 10:22 p.m.

NOLAFrog says... #4

Door to Nothingness and Karona, the False God should have a home in this deck. Also, the Shards of Alara triple lands would be good in this deck.

May 7, 2014 3:23 p.m.

NOLAFrog says... #5

May 7, 2014 3:30 p.m.

apple41792 says... #6

Xenagos, The Reveler and Sylvan Caryatid can help with some of the mana issues

May 13, 2014 2:20 p.m.

Carnonos says... #7

I would throw in a Fist of Suns in there. It will make it much easier to cast those Spirit avatars and Nicol Bolas if you draw him.

May 15, 2014 4:36 p.m.

ElendVenture says... #8

@NOLAFrog Karona fits flavor wise, but I'm not a fan of the way she plays. It's hard enough getting the devotion for all of your gods, there's no need to throw her into the mix as well. As for the Door, it'll only work once if that. I am also not a fan of cheap wins.

@apple41792 I haven't really noticed any mana issues yet, I seem to get what I need by the time I need it.

@Carnonos Thanks! I will test that out and see how it goes.

May 16, 2014 3:36 a.m.

Amnesiac_ says... #9

See walkers' wake, has perfect 5 color mana base, just swap in your temples for flavor.

May 19, 2014 6:33 p.m.

ElendVenture says... #10

@essiga9 Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't want to drop money on the fetch lands, and I'm not sure if I want to run shock lands at the moment. I may revisit this if maze's end doesn't pay out as a mana search outlet, but the deck seems to play pretty well even without that function, so we'll see.

May 19, 2014 10:44 p.m.

electromancer says... #11

Looking back at this deck again I'd suggest Spear of Heliod over Dictate of Kruphix and/or Dictate of Karametra . With the spear you can discourage your opponents from attacking you (focusing their attacks elsewhere), where as the dictates just arm your opponents.
(4 person game = 3 extra cards drawn against your 1 extra card.)

May 20, 2014 2 a.m.

vroom918 says... #12

While Progenitus is a solid choice as a general, Child of Alara is also worth considering since your god creatures are all indestructible. If not for the general, then maybe somewhere in the deck.

May 21, 2014 11:02 a.m.

Mxyzptlk says... #13

@vroom918 the problem with Child of Alara as a commander is that it's basically a one-shot. You can either have it work ("when it's put into a graveyard from play") or you can get it back to the command zone. If you want to get it back and play it again, it would go to the command zone instead of the graveyard and its ability wouldn't trigger. Granted, you can use graveyard effects to get it back to your hand (and then not have to pay the extra command zone cost), but it won't go back to the command zone itself if you let it trigger. It's not bad for elsewhere in the deck, though, if ElendVenture wanted to put it back in.

May 21, 2014 3:47 p.m.

Sach_squatch says... #14

I would take out Kruphix, God of Horizons its controversially the most useless god unless you're drawing mad crazy. Which in this deck you are not.

May 25, 2014 12:44 a.m.

Sach_squatch says... #15

Also replace Vraska the Unseen with Liliana Vess Liliana's a better planes walker. plus if your short on good cards she can act as a tutor.

May 25, 2014 12:46 a.m.

Mordon327 says... #16

Above all, I would put Heroes' Podium in there. It is about a $0.50 card and would filter through the deck for the legendary cards that you want and give them a massive boost considering the number of legendary's that you already have. Other than that I really like this deck, looks nasty!

May 25, 2014 12:48 a.m.

Sach_squatch says... #17

If you wanted to add Liliana Vess you'd also probably consider adding Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth as well.

May 25, 2014 12:48 a.m.

woudelkazoie says... #18

I have one thing about this all the card are hard to get and stuff so but overall a very good deck

May 26, 2014 2:14 a.m.

holloway1 says... #19

I'd suggest Conjurer's Closet . Works great with whip of erebos, and i can imagine you don't exactly like the idea of your gods being exiled permanently.

June 9, 2014 11:45 p.m.

daemon_panda says... #20

Doomwake Giant

Eidolon of Blossoms

Grim Guardian

you have a lot of enchantments. these should help you plus off of them.

June 9, 2014 11:45 p.m.

daemon_panda says... #21

Also, Sorin Markov is great in commander. You can use his -3 ability to get rid of 30 life.

June 9, 2014 11:51 p.m.

Godhead of Awe it should be in this deck for 2 reasons, 1. FLAVOR 2. Its a good way to deal with decks that plan on having big ass creatures

June 10, 2014 2:23 p.m.

aznb01777 says... #23

I made one similar to this, I went with cromat instead though, I though progenitus would take too long to bring out... http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/devotion-to-cromat/

You should put obliterate, decree of annihilation, and/or jokulhaups in there for mass removal (keep ur gods, enchantments, and ur planeswalkers)

June 11, 2014 11:38 p.m.

ElendVenture says... #24

@holloway1 Good idea, I run it in a couple other decks. Don't know why I didn't think about it here.

@daemon_panda I am considering changing this deck to focus on the enchantment aspect, and if that happens I will most certainly make use of those cards. As far as Sorin Markov , I really like him and use him in my mono black deck, and he would certainly be deadly at certain points in this deck. But I'm not sure if I want him here. Maybe if I restructure.

@Chargingbadgerrrrrrrr Godhead of Awe is indeed awesome, but her ability isn't exactly right for the current format of this deck. It would be a fun combo with Anger of the Gods at some point.

@aznb01777 Nice! I'm a big fan of anyone trying a five color god deck. +1! Progenitus isn't as hard to summon as you would think. I can reliably have him out by turn ten due to the mana fixing I have, and sometimes early as turn five. As far as the board wipes, I am seriously considering switching up the deck to include them, but I haven't had enough playtesting with the current format to really judge it.

June 11, 2014 11:57 p.m.

Mxyzptlk says... #25

ElendVenture or holloway1, could one of you explain the Conjurer's Closet / Whip of Erebos combo for me? I'm not getting how it would work. The way I'm reading it, you'd want to use the Whip to bring a god back from the graveyard because your opponent somehow killed it, right? And then you want to use the Closet to bounce the god so the Whip doesn't exile it at the beginning of the end step?

What I don't understand is why the other part of the Whip's ability doesn't prevent that when it says "if [the creature] would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else." My thought was that trying to bounce it would trigger that on the Whip and put your god in permanent exile before bouncing it would resolve.

Correct me if I'm wrong about the way that would work or if it would be a different interaction entirely.

June 12, 2014 12:57 a.m.