General Jarkeld: Banding for Everyone!

Commander / EDH Mono-White Multiplayer Soldiers Voltron Weenie

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Instant (5)

• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Ray of Distortion
• 1x Return to Dust
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Austere Command
• 1x Death or Glory
• 1x Steelshaper's Gift

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Cathars' Crusade
• 1x Concerted Effort
• 1x Land Tax
• 1x Martyr's Bond
• 1x Mobilization
• 1x Reconnaissance

Artifact (19)

• 1x Arcum's Whistle
• 1x Baton of Morale
• 1x Deathrender
• 1x Eldrazi Monument
• 1x Extraplanar Lens
• 1x Grappling Hook
• 1x Helm of Chatzuk
• 1x Infiltration Lens
• 1x Inquisitor's Flail
• 1x Leonin Sun Standard
• 1x Magnetic Web
• 1x Nim Deathmantle
• 1x Quietus Spike
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sword of Light and Shadow
• 1x Umezawa's Jitte
• 1x Veteran's Armaments

Creature (31)

• 1x Adarkar Valkyrie
• 1x Basalt Golem
• 1x Benalish Hero
• 1x Benalish Infantry
• 1x Darien, King of Kjeldor
• 1x Deftblade Elite
• 1x Eight-and-a-Half-Tails
• 1x Gustcloak Savior
• 1x Icatian Infantry
• 1x Icatian Skirmishers
• 1x Jareth, Leonine Titan
• 1x Kjeldoran Knight
• 1x Kjeldoran Skyknight
• 1x Masako the Humorless
• 1x Mentor of the Meek
• 1x Mesa Pegasus
• 1x Michiko Konda, Truth Seeker
• 1x Mother of Runes
• 1x Odric, Master Tactician
• 1x Patron of the Kitsune
• 1x Pikemen
• 1x Rune-Tail, Kitsune Ascendant  ^Flip
• 1x Shaman en-Kor
• 1x Shield Bearer
• 1x Stoneforge Mystic
• 1x Stonehewer Giant
• 1x Stuffy Doll
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Urza's Avenger
• 1x Wall of Nets
• 1x Weathered Wayfarer

Land (35)

• 1x Cathedral of Serra
• 1x Daru Encampment
• 1x Emeria, the Sky Ruin
• 1x Kjeldoran Outpost
• 1x Kor Haven
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Mistveil Plains
• 1x New Benalia
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Scrying Sheets
• 23x Snow-Covered Plains
• 1x Thawing Glaciers
• 1x Windbrisk Heights

Commander (1)

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Sideboard

Instant (2)

• 1x Condemn
• 1x Miraculous Recovery

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Marshal's Anthem
• 1x Sigil of the New Dawn

Artifact (5)

• 1x Bullwhip
• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Kusari-Gama
• 1x Pariah's Shield
• 1x Sword of Vengeance

Creature (6)

• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Commander Eesha
• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1x Field Marshal
• 1x Kjeldoran Royal Guard
• 1x Mikaeus, the Lunarch

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Maybeboard

Instant (7)

• 1x Brave the Elements
• 1x Exile
• 1x Gallantry
• 1x Pitfall Trap
• 1x Righteousness
• 1x Second Thoughts
• 1x Wing Shards

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Launch the Fleet

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Armistice
• 1x Mark of Asylum

Artifact (8)

• 1x Druidic Satchel
• 1x Godsend
• 1x Gorgon Flail
• 1x Illuminated Folio
• 1x Loxodon Warhammer
• 1x Spear of Heliod
• 1x Sword of the Meek
• 1x Worldslayer

Creature (28)

• 1x Abu Ja'far
• 1x Aegis of the Gods
• 1x Akroma, Angel of Wrath
• 1x Auriok Siege Sled
• 1x Aven Brigadier
• 1x Beast of Burden
• 1x Benalish Commander
• 1x Captain of the Watch
• 1x Dawn Elemental
• 1x Etched Champion
• 1x Eternal Dragon
• 1x Field Marshal
• 1x Gerrard Capashen
• 1x Glarecaster
• 1x Glory
• 1x Hero of Bladehold
• 1x Icatian Phalanx
• 1x Kjeldoran Escort
• 1x Kjeldoran Phalanx
• 1x Kjeldoran Skycaptain
• 1x Knight of Dawn
• 1x Knight of the Holy Nimbus
• 1x Loxodon Punisher
• 1x Reveillark
• 1x Soraya the Falconer
• 1x Suture Spirit
• 1x Swooping Talon
• 1x Urza's Engine

Land (2)

• 1x Eiganjo Castle
• 1x Kabira Crossroads

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Who doesn't love obscure mechanics? Nobody, that's who!

This deck uses banding, flanking, and (why not) provoke. Best of all, it combines them with General Jarkeld as its commander. Everyone knows what he does, right?

No? You haven't memorized every obscure general yet? Fine, he's The Artic Fox, the master strategist, and best of all he's in a bunch of flavor text from the Ice Age block. Sexy yeah?

So what does this deck do? The most important thing it does is mess with your opponents assumptions about how combat works. Literally everything in the deck works together to take combat to a weird place.

General Jarkeld is there to be the facilitator of strangeness, but the whole deck is fine without him. You will win by forcing people to make bad choices about what creatures they want to keep out of combat. Banding lets you throw all damage to whatever attacker/blocker you feel like sacrificing. Being mono-white, its got plenty of ways to make use of that poor little soldier.

There are sub-themes of Soldiers, Birds, Protection from X, and Equipment. In playtesting, they works well enough together that I dont' feel the urge to cut any of them yet.

Feedback is welcome!

Inspired by (and derived from):http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=196314

Date added	10 years
Last updated	10 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 1 Mythic Rares 45 - 9 Rares 17 - 5 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.03
Tokens	0/2 C Artifact Creature Wall, Soldier 1/1 W
Folders	deck ideas, Reference decks, Unique, edh, Decks for tts