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WARNING Expect to become archenemy

After building and tearing apart dozens of commander decks over the years, one tends to accumulate quite a collection of cards from all reaches of the multiverse. I, like many other EDH players, felt the frustration of having so many powerful cards at our disposal yet weren't able to play all of them in a single, cohesive deck. That was, until Wizards decided to print Golos, Tireless Pilgrim in Core Set 2020.

A) Having a CMC of 5 generic mana enables consistent casting by turn 5 in every game.

B) Golos entering the battlefield and being able to ramp for ANY land in your deck makes casting color-specific spells easy as pie. This should go without saying that this extra land additionally serves as free tempo advantage.

C) Having a built-in mana sink that allows us to play 3 things per activation FOR FREE is bonkers (but I didn't have to tell you that).

D) Access to means we are unrestricted and free to play the very best and most powerful cards in the format.

E) Being the lord of interdimensional hiking and overall generic-ness that he is, Golos is one of the most flexible commanders I've ever seen printed. Meaning, if you don't own a bunch of cards in this list, you can still just sub in your own cards and still make it work decently.

The plan is simple. We will play lands and mana producing permanents in order to play Golos, Tireless Pilgrim by turn 5. From the next turn on, we will active Golos' ability to play multiple powerful spells for free off of the top of our deck. Rinse and repeat.
We will win in the following ways:

Beatdown - Using big creatures to bring our opponents' life totals down to zero. Blightsteel Colossus expedites this strategy via infect.

Planeswalker Ultimates - Most of them should put us far enough ahead to steal a win. Oath of Teferi makes our planeswalkers twice as potent.

Infinite Blinking Combo - Aminatou, the Fateshifter +( Spark Double , Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God )+ Oath of Teferi

Enslavement Synergy (Maybeboarded) - Muldrotha, the Gravetide + Mindslaver

Door to Nothingness - Got 2 mana of every color?

Storm - This seems crazy, I know. It turns out that when you run a bunch of cards that tap for mana, cards that untap them incidentally off of being cast for free like Turnabout and Treachery do A LOT of work. Alternatively, there have been games where I would have Ramos, Dragon Engine produce enough mana to be copied with Spark Double which itself would tend to passively accumulate enough +1/+1 counters to make it's own mana. One could theoretically slot in Isochron Scepter + Dramatic Reversal but, due to lacking tutors, I opted out of it.

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Date added 4 years
Last updated 3 years
Legality

This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

26 - 0 Mythic Rares

59 - 0 Rares

13 - 0 Uncommons

2 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 5.27
Tokens Copy Clone, Elk 3/3 G, Food, Monarch Emblem, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders COMMANDER
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