GoLOS, Aperture Science Personality Core™

Commander / EDH Combo Five Color Lands

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Land (30)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 2x Forest
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 2x Island
• 1x Lotus Field
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Idyllic Tutor
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Throes of Chaos
• 1x Treasure Cruise
• 1x Windfall

Instant (27)

• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Banishing Knack
• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Dovin's Veto
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Expansion / Explosion
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x High Tide
• 1x Manamorphose
• 1x Memory's Journey
• 1x Mission Briefing
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Narset's Reversal
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Opt
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Retraction Helix
• 1x Silence
• 1x Turnabout

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Abundant Growth
• 1x Aggravated Assault
• 1x Fertile Ground
• 1x Jeskai Ascendancy
• 1x Mass Hysteria
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Wild Growth

Commander (1)

Creature (16)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Fatestitcher
• 1x Incubation Druid
• 1x Kiora's Follower
• 1x Kykar, Wind's Fury
• 1x Ley Weaver
• 1x Lore Weaver
• 1x Magus of the Candelabra
• 1x Noble Hierarch
• 1x Selvala, Explorer Returned
• 1x Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1x Vizier of Tumbling Sands
• 1x Voyaging Satyr
• 1x Zur the Enchanter

Artifact (6)

• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Prismatic Geoscope
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Jace, Wielder of Mysteries

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What if I told you... you can sidestep the Paradox Engine ban, defeat/lose your friends, and laugh in the face of the Spirit of the Format?

Golos says....

Strategy

This particular build of Golos uses the flexibility of his color identity and both of his abilities to great success, but unlike most Golos builds, the highest CMC spell in this deck is .

This deck seeks to abuse a very infamous mechanic... the ability to untap nonland permanents on cast triggers to generate obscene amounts of mana. Paradox Engine , recently banned, was the quintessential card for this strategy, but there is another...

Jeskai Ascendancy performs nearly the same job as Paradox Engine, while buffing your creatures to lethal potential and looting through your deck. This is the fundamental strategy of Aperture Science's newest and greatest concoction!

Read on, test subject!

The Deck Engine

Golos Ascendancy focuses on one land in particular, making Golos's first ability a key component of the deck. The recently printed Lotus Field seems unassuming at first, but it provides our deck with a substantial ramp package using creatures that untap it multiple times per turn.

Step 1: Play Golos, fetching Lotus Field

Step 2: Play untappers like Vizier of Tumbling Sands

Step 3: Use Lotus Field 2-4 times per turn for huge X spells and multiple activations of Golos's ability

This is the deck's fundamental mana engine. Jeskai Ascendancy and Aggravated Assault untap your untappers to provide arbitrarily large amounts of mana, letting you quickly close the game. In a pinch, creatures like Selvala, Explorer Returned or artifacts like Prismatic Geoscope work as big mana sources, too.

8 Beautiful Win Conditions

Golos isn't Thrasios. He doesn't even hang out with Thrasios. That's why Golos is packing eight beautiful win conditions, each more daring than the last.

1. Jeskai Ascendancy Beats: This is plan A. With every noncreature spell cast, your creatures get a +1/+1 boost. This can quickly push your mana dorks to lethal potential. Cards like Life from the Loam and Throes of Chaos can be cast over and over to bring your dorks up to killing size in a single turn.

2. Aggravated Assault: Take a page from the Najeela playbook and give yourself infinite combat steps.

3. Budget Twister Loops: The most seasoned cEDH veterans can kill you with the most mundane of spells. In this deck, Memory's Journey serves as a budget Timetwister to loop our spells indefinitely.

• Draw /cast your whole library
• Cast Assassin's Trophy on any target
• Cast Memory's Journey to shuffle Ass Trophy back into your library
• Cast Noxious Revival and put Memory's Journey back on top
• Rinse and repeat, shuffling Noxious Revival and Assassin's Trophy back into your library, until all your opponent's lands and permanents are dead. Repeat every turn at instant speed to keep their stuff dead until you can kill them with... anything? Birds of Paradise Beats?

4. Craterhoof Behemoth's Second Cousin: Finale of Devastation is a great spell for getting a land untapper onto the field. It's also a great way to end a game when you have 47 mana in your pool. Notably, this spell gives all your creatures haste, which can help you combo out if you draw into extra dorks and need to use them this turn.

5. The Twin Sisters: Ley Weaver and Lore Weaver might seem like draft chaff, but they're part of a beautiful compact infinite combo.

• Attack with Ley Weaver
• Untap Ley Weaver with Maze of Ith in your "Declare Attackers" step
• In the same phase, tap Ley Weaver to untap Maze of Ith and another land
• Repeat for infinite mana. Force everyone to draw their decks with Lore Weaver

6. Blue Sun's Zenith and Expansion / Explosion: Not just for drawing cards! These spells can also kill your opponents with infinite mana (or just a lot of mana).

7. Jace, Wielder of Mysteries: The world's favorite angsty alt teenager is this deck's copy of Lab Maniac. Draw your library and win!

8. Larry Birb: Kykar, Wind's Fury can grant you infinite spirits for a final combat step.

Don't Die!

Golos is likely to draw some hate once people figure out you're lambasting the spirit of the format by playing Jeskai Paradox Engine. You can keep them at bay with:

• Countermagic
• Golos tutoring for Glacial Chasm

• Just kill everyone

Unreasonable Upgrades

This list is fairly competitive, but not completely optimized. I've taken some liberties in pursuit of that tingly feeling you get in your hands when you're exercising complete jank. To push this list to the next level (and possibly compete in a cEDH meta), I would make the following upgrades:

Smooth out the ramp package with more fast mana rocks

Add more low-cost cantrips and xeroxing ( Faithless Looting , Abundant Growth , Impulse , etc.)

Cut the jank ( Throes of Chaos , Finale of Devastation , Ley/Lore Weaver)

Add Thrasios to the 99, you ANIMAL!!

Thanks for looking at my deck! If you're interested, check out my infamous [Fullmetal Narset deck] (https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/fullmetal-narset/?cb=1562819136)for more 20-minute turns!

Top Ranked	Achieved #1 position overall 4 years ago
Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 60 - 0 Rares 14 - 0 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.26
Tokens	Spirit 1/1 W
Folders	Golos, edh, cEDH, Cool Stuff, EDH, I, stolen lmao, Golos, Ideas, Saved Decks