Mayael EDH - Forces of Nature

Commander / EDH* RGW (Naya)

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Lands (37)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Contested Cliffs
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 5x Forest
• 1x Forgotten Cave
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Jungle Shrine
• 1x Kessig Wolf Run
• 1x Krosan Verge
• 1x Mosswort Bridge
• 3x Mountain
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 3x Plains
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Scattered Groves
• 1x Secluded Steppe
• 1x Sheltered Thicket
• 1x Spinerock Knoll
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Temple of Abandon
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Tranquil Thicket

Spot Removal (5)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Return to Dust
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

Fatties (27)

• 1x Archetype of Endurance
• 1x Atarka, World Render
• 1x Balefire Dragon
• 1x Bogardan Hellkite
• 1x Celestial Force
• 1x Dragonlord Atarka
• 1x Dragonlord Dromoka
• 1x Etali, Primal Storm
• 1x Greenwarden of Murasa
• 1x Gruul Ragebeast
• 1x Hoard-Smelter Dragon
• 1x Ilharg, the Raze-Boar
• 1x Inferno Titan
• 1x Magmatic Force
• 1x Novablast Wurm
• 1x Purity
• 1x Regal Behemoth
• 1x Soul of the Harvest
• 1x Spearbreaker Behemoth
• 1x Spellbreaker Behemoth
• 1x Terastodon
• 1x Tyrant's Familiar
• 1x Utvara Hellkite
• 1x Vigor
• 1x Warmonger Hellkite
• 1x Xenagos, God of Revels
• 1x Zacama, Primal Calamity

Powerups (5)

• 1x Asceticism
• 1x Fires of Yavimaya
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Rhythm of the Wild
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Mass Removal (2)

• 1x Austere Command
• 1x Blasphemous Act

Commander (1)

Ramp (10)

• 1x Courser of Kruphix
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Mirari's Wake
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Ranger's Path
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Sol Ring

Value (9)

• 1x Aura Shards
• 1x Elemental Bond
• 1x Elvish Piper
• 1x Garruk, Caller of Beasts
• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Lurking Predators
• 1x Quicksilver Amulet
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Where Ancients Tread

Tutors (4)

• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Worldly Tutor

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Core Idea.

UBNBSH....or, as I prefer to call it, USUAL BRUTAL NAYA BIG STOMPY HORDE!!!

Let's jump into the main features:

1) Ramp.

2A) Take card advantages thanks to Mayael the Anima .

2B) Throw big fatties. (Actually not very different from point 2A)

3) Hit hard opponent's face.

End of features, currently building the deck. It desperately needs a point 2C or some cool interaction at affordable price.

Base Strategy.

1) Not so incredibly complicated: throw first lands and hope to play something like Sol Ring , Nature's Lore , Cultivate , Kodama's Reach , Ranger's Path , Skyshroud Claim , Krosan Verge (currently a land but still a good ramp card), Oracle of Mul Daya , Courser of Kruphix (those last two are a bit "special" and are better described later).

2A) Mayael the Anima : CMC 3, ACTIVATED ABILITY COST 6. Throw her on the battlefield as soon as possible, from 3rd to 5th turn to gain immediately advantage as soon as six mana are available on our side. If she does not survive up to turn 4/5 we have to options: to cast her again or some fatty ass with low CMC (a good percentage of the deck).

This is the probability to find a legal target.

Creatures	Probability
18	64.2%
19	66.4%
20	68.5%
21	70.5%
22	72.4%
23	74.2%
24	75.9%
25	77.5%
26	79.0%
27	80.4%
28	81.8%
29	83.1%
30	84.3%

(Data are taken from user:MaelstromHobo's deck Mayael EDH Primer)

My choice is to put 27 asses to obtain a discrete probability to get one in the first five cards of the library (80.4% supposing an uniform distribution). This imply that, ideally, we successfully get a target four times over five.

When to use Mayael the Anima ? When on the battlefield and we have not too many cards in our hand, in order not to waste anything.

2B) If point 2A does not provide results, we switch back to plan 2B that is, essentially, the same of 2A but with creatures/powerups casted from our hand :D What is very important is the choice of the aforementioned 28 asses! We want, for each of them, a impact on the battlefield in term of ETB triggers, protection, damage, recursion and removal.

Important characteristics.

Designed for a multiplayer playgroup from 4 to 6 people. Created with a sort of "Forces of Nature" theme (Dragons, Beasts, Elementals, Boars etc etc) Open to any kind of feedback.

Top Ranked	Achieved #27 position overall 6 years ago
Date added	6 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 46 - 0 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.78
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Dragon 6/6 R, Elephant 3/3 G, Emblem Garruk, Caller of Beasts, The Monarch
Folders	EDH, EDH (Battlecruiser), Comander~!~, EDH, THREE COLOR EDH, Mayael