Kydele & Ravos Cycling: The Two Tired Heralds

Commander / EDH Combo Control Four Color GWUB Theme/Gimmick

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Land (36)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Blasted Landscape
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Drifting Meadow
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 3x Forest
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Irrigated Farmland
• 4x Island
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 3x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Polluted Mire
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Remote Isle
• 1x Scattered Groves
• 1x Secluded Steppe
• 1x Slippery Karst
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Tranquil Thicket
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Astral Slide
• 1x Cast Out
• 1x Decree of Silence
• 1x Drake Haven
• 1x Faith of the Devoted
• 1x Mirari's Wake
• 1x New Perspectives
• 1x Sterling Grove
• 1x Sylvan Library

Artifact (4)

• 1x Alhammarret's Archive
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Fluctuator
• 1x Sol Ring

Creature (25)

• 1x Archfiend of Ifnir
• 1x Architects of Will
• 1x Chasm Skulker
• 1x Cloudblazer
• 1x Curator of Mysteries
• 1x Esper Sojourners
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Gonti, Lord of Luxury
• 1x Greater Sandwurm
• 1x Horror of the Broken Lands
• 1x Jhessian Zombies
• 1x Kefnet the Mindful
• 1x Krosan Tusker
• 1x Oketra's Attendant
• 1x Pale Recluse
• 1x Psychosis Crawler
• 1x Sanctum Plowbeast
• 1x Scion of Darkness
• 1x Shefet Monitor
• 1x Street Wraith
• 1x The Gitrog Monster
• 1x Tilling Treefolk
• 1x Vizier of Tumbling Sands
• 1x Wasteland Scorpion
• 1x Zur the Enchanter

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Akroma's Vengeance
• 1x Approach of the Second Sun
• 1x Decree of Justice
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Migratory Route
• 1x Sacred Excavation
• 1x Villainous Wealth
• 1x Wander in Death

Commanders (2)

Instant (14)

• 1x Ancient Excavation
• 1x Angelsong
• 1x Complicate
• 1x Djeru's Resolve
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Expunge
• 1x Forsake the Worldly
• 1x Hieroglyphic Illumination
• 1x Lull
• 1x Miscalculation
• 1x Radiant's Judgment
• 1x Shadow of the Grave
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Sylvan Reclamation

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Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix and Ravos, Soultender both make for a solid pair to lead a cycling themed deck. With Kydele, every card you cycle increases the amount of mana you can capitalize on when using her ability. This mana then can be used to fuel more cycling actions as well as paying for those cycling trigger costs from cards like Drake Haven and Faith of the Devoted. Ravos also helps keeps the momentum going by enabling you to bring back cycling creatures to your hand on each of your turns so you make it all the way to value town. ;-)

The idea is to find and get cards like Drake Haven, Astral Slide, and Archfiend of Ifnir out onto the battlefield in order to start controlling and slowing the game down, then drain your opponents life through cards such as Faith of the Devoted and Psychosis Crawler.

New Perspectives and Fluctuator will help facilitate large cycling chains and when paired with Alhammarret's Archive or The Gitrog Monster can allow you to setup a turn where you can render all of your opponents lifeless at the same time.

I'm working on acquiring 5 more fetch-lands and adding them in to help with the mana consistency and for the bonus card draws I can get if I have The Gitrog Monster on the field.

I'm open to suggestions and feedback on ways to improve the deck, so please don't be shy. :-P

UPDATE - 6/10/17

After doing some play-testing with the deck, I realized I needed some more win conditions in and I also adjusted some of the mana fixing cards as well.

Removed:

• Lay Claim

• Mind Over Matter

• Eternal Dragon

• Jhessian Zombies

Added:

• Villainous Wealth

• Invigorating Boon

• Approach of the Second Sun

• Pale Recluse

Mind Over Matter just didn't seem all that helpful during the times I drew it. It just felt awkward to use when I was just wanted to keep chain cycling cards, plus it's really difficult to cast being that it requires 4 blue mana, so that's why I replaced it.

UPDATE - 6/14/17

Removed

• Hanna, Ship's Navigator

• Titania, Protector of Argoth

• Splendid Reclamation

Added

• Mirari's Wake

• Gonti, Lord of Luxury

• Cloudblazer

Date added	7 years
Last updated	3 years
Exclude colors	R
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 33 - 0 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 29 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.98
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Bird 1/1 W, Drake 2/2 U, Oketra's Attendant 3/3 W, Soldier 1/1 W, Squid 1/1 U