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THE HOUR OF REVELATION

By Alison Luhrs

Invocation

The cacophony of voices fell as a massive, dark, and winged figure flew through the open Gate and past them on the banks of the river. Denizens ducked, then looked up, trying to catch a glimpse of the fleeting shadow. Excited cries and hails calling to the God-Pharaoh rang out.

But Djeru knew that thing was no God-Pharaoh.

He watched its path as the thing landed resolutely on an obelisk, gazing down on the people below him. He heard Samut draw her khopeshes behind him, heard her hiss a word that tasted like a curse, spat vile and angry from her lips.

"Demon."

A shiver of dread danced down Djeru's back. Demons were rare on Amonkhet. Djeru had only seen them in texts and in his studies, and as fleeting, dark shapes far outside the Hekma. Such creatures had no place in Paradisebut Djeru knew the legends of this demon.

The final test; the last inglorious death before the God-Pharaoh's return.

Doomsday

The demon stood high atop the obelisk and spread its wings to catch the warmth of the second sun. Djeru could make out a crocodilian form and a mad smile. Endless scales ending in a thick tail. Sharp wings leading toward a sharper grin.

The demon surveyed the assembled denizens. Its lips curled into a sneer, then it spread its wings and launched itself back into the sky, circling casually above the river and crowd before hovering just in front of the Gate. There, suspended in midair, the demon held out its right arm and raked its claws into the meat of its forearm. Rivulets of blood caught the light of the sun. The demon showed no reactions of pain, instead muttering an incantation, a low and abrasive rumble that echoed over the water. Djeru recoiled at the sight of blood magic, stepping back out of the river as demon blood fell drip, drip, drip into the water.

With each drop, the river slowed.

Then its current halted.

Broken reeds sliding downstream came to a sudden and utter stop.

And as the blood began to spread, leak, stain the brown-green-blue of the Luxa River, the brilliant wash of red began to eek upriver.

Shrill screams rang out from the people near the water, growing as many turned to flee, wading out of the river. Djeru watched as the now-stagnant water coalesced into a deep crimson. He felt a strange power pulse from the Luxa in waves.

The demon had turned the river into blood.

Capsize

The blood spread, choking reeds and suffocating everything swimming in its depths. Fish began to bob to the surface, mouths gasping and eyes wide. Upriver, dozens of hippopotamuses tried to crawl their way out of the sludge of blood and mud only to drown in the thick mire. An enormous crocodile breached the surface, coughing out red and audibly gasping through the thick liquid. It rolled and gnashed on the bank, its dying body squishing dead fish and eels further into the wine-colored mud beneath it. Everything in the river desperately wanted out. They hastened their deaths as they frantically writhed in the coagulating morass.

Samut grabbed Djeru's arm, a grim expression on her face.

"Do you still believe this is the act of a benevolent God-Pharaoh?"

Djeru shook his head, doubt flooding his mind. As he opened his mouth to answer, an abyssal voice reverberated in the air, booming deep, barbed with malice and filled with horror. On reflex, Djeru clasped his hands over his ears, but it did nothing to shut out the voice of the demon.

"Liliana," it rumbled.

Samut's eyes widened. "Why would the demon know the name of one of the interlopers?" She asked Djeru. He only shook his head in response.

Djeru peered up at the demon and felt the blood in his veins run cold. The demon smiled, razor teeth and fathomless eyes a portrait of power and despair. Its voice boomed out again across the river of blood.

"I know you are here, Liliana Vess. You cannot hide from me."

Welcome to my 1 v 1 Commander MTGO deck for Razaketh, the Foulblooded

When I read the above story in Magic Story, I was inspired to create a deck featuring Liliana's last demon to conquer.

His tutor ability is absurdly busted, so the plan with deck is to use as many Ramp pieces as possible to get him out while dropping Enablers to sacrifice, Life-gain pieces to raise our life from his ability and Control pieces so as to not fall behind and when ahead dropping any of the Finishers.

I am missing a few cards as they are a bit pricey on MTGO:

1x Bitterblossom

1x Black Market

1x Contamination

1x Ophiomancer

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Date added 6 years
Last updated 6 years
Exclude colors WURG
Legality

This deck is not 1v1 Commander legal.

Rarity (main - side)

11 - 0 Mythic Rares

42 - 0 Rares

20 - 0 Uncommons

5 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 3.87
Tokens 0/1 B Token Creature Insect, Copy Clone, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Emblem Liliana of the Dark Realms, Harpy 1/1 B, Human Cleric 1/1 BW, Serf 0/1 B, Thrull 1/1 B, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders EDH - MTGO - 1v1
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