Kalemne Beats

Commander / EDH* Aggro RW (Boros) Tribal

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Creature (28)

• 1x Angel of Serenity
• 1x Archangel Avacyn  ^Flip
• 1x Aurelia, the Warleader
• 1x Borderland Behemoth
• 1x Brion Stoutarm
• 1x Bruna, the Fading Light  ^Meld
• 1x Bruse Tarl, Boorish Herder
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Desolation Giant
• 1x Fumiko the Lowblood
• 1x Giant Harbinger
• 1x Gisela, the Broken Blade  ^Meld
• 1x Godo, Bandit Warlord
• 1x Hundred-Handed One
• 1x Inferno Titan
• 1x Iroas, God of Victory
• 1x Jareth, Leonine Titan
• 1x Kalemne's Captain
• 1x Oathsworn Giant
• 1x Protector of the Crown
• 1x Puresteel Paladin
• 1x Stonehewer Giant
• 1x Stoneshock Giant
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Sunrise Sovereign
• 1x Taurean Mauler
• 1x Thundercloud Shaman
• 1x Victory's Herald

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Austere Command
• 1x Earthquake
• 1x Steelshaper's Gift
• 1x Wrath of God

Artifact (18)

• 1x Argentum Armor
• 1x Boros Cluestone
• 1x Boros Signet
• 1x Coldsteel Heart
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Godsend
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Helm of the Host
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Loxodon Warhammer
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Staff of Nin
• 1x Sunforger
• 1x Sword of the Animist
• 1x Urza's Incubator
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Instant (9)

• 1x Boros Charm
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Crib Swap
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Master Warcraft
• 1x Return to Dust
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Tithe
• 1x Wear / Tear

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Always Watching
• 1x Faith's Fetters

Commander (1)

Land (37)

• 1x Ancient Amphitheater
• 1x Battlefield Forge
• 1x Blasted Landscape
• 1x Boros Guildgate
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Drifting Meadow
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Forgotten Cave
• 1x Mistveil Plains
• 11x Mountain
• 1x Opal Palace
• 11x Plains
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Secluded Steppe
• 1x Smoldering Crater
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Wind-Scarred Crag

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Nahiri, the Lithomancer

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Enchantment (5)

• 1x Land Tax
• 1x Legion's Initiative
• 1x Reconnaissance
• 1x Stolen Strategy
• 1x War's Toll

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Wrath of God

Land (1)

• 1x Myriad Landscape

Artifact (5)

• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Hammer of Nazahn
• 1x Mind's Eye
• 1x The Immortal Sun
• 1x Thran Dynamo

Creature (2)

• 1x Adriana, Captain of the Guard
• 1x Emeria Shepherd

Instant (4)

• 1x Orim's Thunder
• 1x Rebuff the Wicked
• 1x Return to Dust
• 1x Teferi's Protection

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Nahiri, the Lithomancer

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When I was originally picking decks to upgrade, I skipped over this one. I ultimately went back and tuned the deck so that I'd have a combat-focused deck to hand to newer players that still has a chance. The major changes from the more linear combat focus of the precon are more utility from the Sunforger package along with better ability to close out games using Helm of the Host combos.

Main themes of the deck:

• Giants
• Angels
• Equipment
• Combat Control

Giants

Giants are not an incredibly deep tribe. There are a couple tribe-specific payoff cards like Borderland Behemoth and Thundercloud Shaman. We also have Sunrise Sovereign for a nice buff to our other giants. For the most part though, I steered towards only running giants that actually do something useful on their own rather than trying to keep the count high to feed two cards. I also steered away from other generic tribe-enablers like Door of Destinies and Stoneforge Masterwork since we don't necessarily have a high enough Giant density for them to do much and they're expensive enough that we're not usually going to have many at once anyway. I generally prefer each creature to be a big threat on its own.

Angels

The precon already has a subtheme on dragons and angels. We cut all the dragons, but the angels are a good secondary tribe since they give experience counters for Kalemne while also providing a flying board presence that giants lack. Our angels primarily give us utility such as graveyard recursion from Bruna, the Fading Light and Angel of Serenity, board protection from Archangel Avacyn   or simply win cons like Victory's Herald

Equipment

Rather than have a ton of equipments that we're trying to 1-shot with, we instead run equipment with more utility along with a handful of tutors to ensure we have the right pieces (with things like Godo, Bandit Warlord and Stoneshock Giant also allowing us to cheat on costs). If you have no budget, consider running Stoneforge Mystic.

• Sunforger gives a good boost in power along with the flexibility to fetch a variety of protection or removal spells at instant speed. Fetch Tithe to get Mistveil Plains and rebuy your instants or Enlightened Tutor to fetch other equipment.
• Helm of the Host gives infinite combat steps with Godo or Aurelia, but it also lets us recycle some other strong ETBs like the titans or Angel of Serenity.
• Sword of the Animist is a great ramp piece. The deck does basically nothing without 4 mana and very little without 6. So whatever extra lands or ramp you can get can make a big difference in the early game until the deck goes online.
• Godsend punishes gang blocking, which is even more helpful when your creatures are usually bigger than your opponents' blockers. It can be particular useful with Fumiko the Lowblood to exile your opponents' utility creatures.
• Lightning Greaves protects Kelemne, who is both incredibly important to have around and also extremely vulnerable.
• Loxodon Warhammer can provide trample to our many giants that otherwise lack evasion to break a board stall.
• Argentum Armor can remove almost any problem, albeit with pretty extreme expense.

A lot of these are expensive to equip, which can be a problem in R/W, where mana is tight. To facilitate that, we also have Puresteel Paladin to remove equip costs and Nahiri, the Lithomancer who can generate a token we can equip to for free every turn (particularly strong with Argentum Armor and Sunforger).

Combat Control

In addition to having Helm of the Host combos for infinite combat steps, if the game goes long, we have a janky combo to take over most of the combat in the game until we can win. You first need to have Sunforger and Mistveil Plains in play. Sunforger can be fetched with any tutor, and from there we can fetch Mistveil Plains with Tithe.

Once we have all of those available, we can fetch Master Warcraft on the most beneficial turn to wreck our opponents' boards (or life totals) once every turn cycle. You can control opponent's turns as a virtual fog while also attacking them into unfavorable blocks to cripple multiple opponents in a single turn. Note that this loop requires 7 mana per turn, so you won't be doing much else, opening the door to getting combo'd out.

List of adds as decklist for price check: Kalemne Precon Upgrades

Date added	6 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 33 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.89
Tokens	Copy Clone, Experience Token, Kor Soldier 1/1 W, Shapeshifter 1/1 C, Stoneforged Blade, Monarch Emblem
Folders	EDH