Giant Among Men

Commander / EDH Discard Lifegain Pillow Fort

Fireymonkeyboy

Instant (4)

• 1x Crypt Incursion
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x Perplex
• 1x Suffer the Past

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Cabal Conditioning
• 1x Debt to the Deathless
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Minions' Murmurs
• 1x Plague of Vermin
• 1x Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1x Storm Herd
• 1x Syphon Mind
• 1x Unnerve
• 1x Vindicate

Enchantment (15)

• 1x Angelic Accord
• 1x Angelic Chorus
• 1x Black Market
• 1x Boon Reflection
• 1x Celestial Mantle
• 1x Dire Undercurrents
• 1x Exquisite Blood
• 1x Helm of the Ghastlord
• 1x Liliana's Caress
• 1x Megrim
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Sanguine Bond
• 1x Words of Waste

Artifact (7)

• 1x Conjurer's Closet
• 1x Geth's Grimoire
• 1x Mask of Avacyn
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Venser's Journal
• 1x Well of Lost Dreams
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

Creature (26)

• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Ashen Rider
• 1x Auramancer
• 1x Butcher of Malakir
• 1x Cao Cao, Lord of Wei
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Drogskol Reaver
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Harvester of Souls
• 1x Hopeful Eidolon
• 1x Liliana's Specter
• 1x Michiko Konda, Truth Seeker
• 1x Myojin of Night's Reach
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Oloro, Ageless Ascetic
• 1x Pontiff of Blight
• 1x Rhox Faithmender
• 1x Sadistic Hypnotist
• 1x Sangromancer
• 1x Scythe Specter
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Siren of the Silent Song
• 1x Soul Warden
• 1x Treasury Thrull
• 1x Vizkopa Guildmage

Land (38)

• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 1x Azorius Guildgate
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Dimir Guildgate
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 6x Island
• 1x Orzhov Basilica
• 1x Orzhov Guildgate
• 8x Plains
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 11x Swamp
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Transguild Promenade
• 1x Vault of the Archangel
• 1x Watery Grave

Commander (1)

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Instant (6)

• 1x Azorius Charm
• 1x Dromar's Charm
• 1x Esper Charm
• 1x Ghostway
• 1x Moonlight Bargain
• 1x Sphinx's Revelation

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Duress
• 1x Mindculling
• 1x Sudden Disappearance

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Cradle of Vitality
• 1x Honden of Night's Reach
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Vigil for the Lost

Artifact (1)

• 1x Pristine Talisman

Creature (8)

• 1x Archangel of Thune
• 1x Bloodhusk Ritualist
• 1x Confessor
• 1x Duskmantle Guildmage
• 1x Erebos, God of the Dead
• 1x Reveillark
• 1x Talrand, Sky Summoner
• 1x Urborg Syphon-Mage

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This started as a bang-together of two mechanic pods, one for lifegain and the other discard, but it's taken on a life of its own. At this point, it's some sort of attrition frankenstein.

What it's heading towards is a ort of a darkside version of mechanics I like, such as lifegain / discard. Looking to work in redundant interactions where I gain life, then use it to punish opponents, where I gain advantage by forcing discard, then punish them for discarding. Multiple interactions are even better, where I can say, gain life from Debt to the Deathless, which forces opponent life loss with Sanguine Bond, which gains me more life with Exquisite Blood, or pumps out tokens, which gain life. There's other similar chains that trigger off discard punishers.

Still very much a work in progress. One obvious gap is removal. Very much WiP, so comments and suggestions welcome / appreciated.

Date added	10 years
Last updated	10 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 33 - 0 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 20 - 0 Commons
Cards	101
Avg. CMC	4.46
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Pegasus 1/1 W, Rat 1/1 B