This is my new rehashing of my old Kaalia of the Vast deck. No dragons, because they're in my Ur-Dragon deck and I'm already having trouble cutting cards without needing to cut even more to make room for dragons.

It's designed to be fun, which is always a bit of a task with an aggro deck, because you don't wanna win on turn 4, but you also don't want to fizzle out and lose.

As such, in the name of fun, there are many cards that are Sub-optimal, like Rakdos the Defiler and Rakdos the Showstopper, but that introduce an element of chaos into the game, that can turn the tide of a game.

It also has relatively few tutors, with notably no diabolic tutor or tutors of that description, because I feel like a lot of the fun of an EDH match comes from seeing so many different cards, and tutors kinda ruin a lot of that fun, especially when they're used to fetch game-winning combos.

Also, no Master of Cruelties. He's a fantastic card for a Kaalia deck, and him, Kaalia and a Rogue's Passage will kill someone. But that doesn't strike me as "fun", by my personal definition. I want to make a deck that puts constant pressure on people, but not one that backs them into a corner.

Additionally, almost every instant can be fetched by Sunforger. Probably the most useful to grab with that is Rakdos Charm, which is a fantastic Combo ruiner (Stops Kiki-jiki, graveyard shenanigans, and can break an oppresive/threatening combo engine).

It's not gonna win every game, and indeed it's gonna lose a lot of games, especially with the kind of reputation that Kaalia of the Vast decks have and the heat they bring, but I feel like it's a fun deck that works well with my playgroup, which is very much focused on fun and strange over actual competitive viability.

(Also, I know that the landbase is pretty thin for a deck that needs those early land drops, but sometimes it's fun to live life on the edge of total failure)

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Date added 4 years
Last updated 1 year
Exclude colors UG
Legality

This deck is Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

24 - 0 Mythic Rares

46 - 0 Rares

17 - 0 Uncommons

4 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 4.74
Tokens Angel 4/4 W w/ Vigilance, Emblem Serra the Benevolent
Folders Finished EDH Decks
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