Mid-range Karador

Commander / EDH BGW (Abzan, Junk)

ursogrizzly

Creature (38)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Archon of Justice
• 1x Bane of Progress
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Cataclysmic Gearhulk
• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Farhaven Elf
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Fiend Hunter
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Hermit Druid
• 1x Karmic Guide
• 1x Kokusho, the Evening Star
• 1x Leonin Relic-Warder
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Mindslicer
• 1x Ramunap Excavator
• 1x Ranger of Eos
• 1x Razaketh, the Foulblooded
• 1x Recruiter of the Guard
• 1x Reveillark
• 1x Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1x Saffi Eriksdotter
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Satyr Wayfinder
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Stitcher's Supplier
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Underrealm Lich
• 1x Weathered Wayfarer
• 1x Wood Elves
• 1x World Shaper
• 1x Yosei, the Morning Star

Land (35)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Fetid Heath
• 5x Forest
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x High Market
• 1x Krosan Verge
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 5x Plains
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 5x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Bastion

Artifact (6)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Oblivion Stone
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring

Commander (1)

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Aura Shards
• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Pattern of Rebirth
• 1x Pernicious Deed
• 1x Sylvan Library

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Bitter Ordeal
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Instant (5)

• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

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Just a good ol' fashioned midrange deck that can out value opponents through the best iteration one could make "The Rock" translate to EDH. This is my attempt to play a fair game of interactive magic, while keeping away from 2-3 card combos that end the game outright. Unfortunately, after many games of EDH, I've found that there are still a significant amount of infinite combos in this deck that can outright win the game. As much as I tried to curtail infinite combos, it just results in a bad deck that doesn't scale well. It's definitely more resistant than the run o' the mill glass cannon do-or-die combo deck, but significantly slower.

The general idea is, you want to control the board efficiently whilst presenting threats whenever you can and then recurring the same control/threat card you've been playing as that's how you can maintain card advantage. Do not dump too much into the graveyard lest your grave get exiled and you're left with nothing. Protecting your graveyard is a waste of time, don't bother trying to pillow fort it, instead, continuously recur the same removal/threat cards you've been playing until your opponents feel like it's getting out of hand and they feel the need to exile it (rule of thumb, keep 5-10 cards in a grave at all times and a sac outlet on the field open if you can). What I found with this deck is that over the course of a match, if all goes right, you're able to dictate the pace of the game by slowing it to a halt, and then pulling incremental advantage until it becomes insurmountable.

There's not much in the way of card draw in this deck, but we can remedy this by tutoring and sacing mindslicer, and wraths in the way of cataclysmic gear hulk bringing your opponents to have played effectively negative cards. Read up on some card advantage theory, it's not "Just" rhystic study that can net card advantage.

Win condition is overwhelm with value and Enter the battlefield and exit the battlefield effects.

(The high amount of basic lands is because of the non-basic punishment in meta, I might choose to up the count if it proves better to be a little less consistent vs. not having any lands working for me.)

Date added	5 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 50 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.32
Tokens	Morph 2/2 C, Zombie 2/2 B