Meletis Landfall - "We Built This City"

Commander / EDH Four Color RGWU

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Land (48)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 1x Boros Garrison
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Celestial Colonnade
• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dark Depths
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forest
• 1x Glacial Chasm
• 1x Grasslands
• 1x Gruul Turf
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Horizon Canopy
• 1x Irrigated Farmland
• 1x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Krosan Verge
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Mosswort Bridge
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Mountain Valley
• 1x Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
• 1x Plains
• 1x Plateau
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Raging Ravine
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Scattered Groves
• 1x Selesnya Sanctuary
• 1x Sheltered Thicket
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Taiga
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Tolaria West
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Creature (24)

• 1x Admonition Angel
• 1x Akoum Hellkite
• 1x Centaur Vinecrasher
• 1x Chasm Skulker
• 1x Dragonmaster Outcast
• 1x Emeria Angel
• 1x Emeria Shepherd
• 1x Guardian of Tazeem
• 1x Hushwing Gryff
• 1x Kefnet the Mindful
• 1x Knight of the Reliquary
• 1x Lotus Cobra
• 1x Oblivion Sower
• 1x Omnath, Locus of Rage
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Rampaging Baloths
• 1x Ramunap Excavator
• 1x Realm Seekers
• 1x Roil Elemental
• 1x Rubblehulk
• 1x Shattered Angel
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x The Locust God
• 1x Tireless Tracker

Instant (7)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Naya Charm
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Sylvan Reclamation

Commander (1)

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Dusk / Dawn
• 1x Explore
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Tempt with Discovery
• 1x The Great Aurora
• 1x Treacherous Terrain

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Collective Restraint
• 1x Exploration
• 1x Privileged Position
• 1x Retreat to Coralhelm
• 1x Retreat to Emeria
• 1x Retreat to Kazandu
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Stony Silence

Artifact (2)

• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Torpor Orb

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Instant (1)

• 1x Constant Mists

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Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis build their city on landfall. Use various land combos to build your fort and eventually win by attacking.

K&T help you make land drops while blocking and keeping opponents happy. This deck needs lots of turns to do its landfalls to gain incremental advantages - it won't win quickly or suddenly. Try to keep a low profile.

Enablers - These are you bread and butter that keep the lands flowing beyond the commander.

• Fetchlands - Primarily fix mana but also trigger other abilities.
• Bouncelands - These are perfect for K&T's ability.
• Crucible of Worlds or Ramunap Excavator or Life from the Loam - access graveyard lands
• Exploration - because Fastbond is banned.
• Oracle of Mul Daya - extra lands.
• Knight of the Reliquary - Powerful repeatable tutor, can play offense and defense, and even "taps for mana".
• Oboro, Palace in the Clouds - This land is stellar at always giving you landfall such as with K&T's trigger.

Payoffs - These give you rewards for the lands.

• Landfall - I'm using a large landfall package to give me advantage. Fetchlands can use them at instant speed.
• Emeria Shepherd - This is probably the strongest card in the deck when left unchecked. Try to deploy it when you can use it immediately. It will draw fire.
• Dragonmaster Outcast - We easily have 6 lands since our commander kindly jumps us from 4 to 6 early game.
• Rubblehulk - Usually a huge surprise pump effect. You can help one opponent kill another. Can be cast as a creature in a pinch but it's better bloodrushed.
• Kefnet the Mindful - The blue Amonkhet god can sometimes function as a spectacular blocker early game, but usually as a draw engine late game that also reuses utility lands like Mosswort Bridge. You must be careful about using this card too much or too little. Sometimes you can stop a Swords to Plowshares by casting an instant going below 7 cards in hand.

Control - We want the game to go long so our land theme powers up, but we don't want to die to infinite combos or damage along the way.

• Torpor Orb or Hushwing Gryff - We've eschewed ETB triggers in favor of landfall, so these two cards help prevent opponent's infinite combos.
• Stony Silence - Artifact ramp competes for the same deck slots as our land theme and doesn't really help K&T either, so we've cut them and run this hoser instead. It also stops some infinite combos. And yes, I don't have a Sol Ring on purpose.
• Maze of Ith - Extremely powerful, can be a surprise with Knight of the Reliquary. Just having this untapped is enough to keep multiple opponents from attacking you with their best creature because none of them want to "waste" an attack against you.
• Glacial Chasm - Stops you from being damaged but you can't attack. Could be Constant Mists instead.

Combos - these help kill your opponents much quicker than usual:

• Dark Depths + Thespian's Stage - If you copy a Dark Depths with a Thespian's Stage, the stage has no counters and dies creating a 20/20 Marit Lage token. This is the main offense of the deck and can be repeated.
• Knight of the Reliquary + Retreat to Coralhelm - This combo untaps and pumps the Knight many times as she fetches and sacrifices all your Plains and Forests while triggering landfall.

Tips

• Use full art or white bordered basic lands so you can quickly find them in your library. This deck searches for lands almost every turn so save everyone time. I also prefer Revised dual lands instead of beta because the revised duals have white borders which are quick to find in the black bordered deck.

Thanks and enjoy building your city!

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Exclude colors	B
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 57 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.94
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Beast 4/4 G, Bird 1/1 W, Bird 2/2 U, Clue, Dragon 5/5 R, Elemental 5/5 RG, Insect 1/1 UR, Kor Ally 1/1 W, Marit Lage, Squid 1/1 U