Najeela - To The Arena - Semi Budget

Commander / EDH Aggro Combo Five Color Tokens

kmnop

Land (31)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Battlefield Forge
• 1x Blooming Marsh
• 1x Botanical Sanctum
• 1x Cave of Temptation
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fiery Islet
• 2x Forest
• 1x Frontier Bivouac
• 2x Island
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Mogg Hollows
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Mystic Monastery
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Painted Bluffs
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Pinecrest Ridge
• 1x Plains
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 1x Survivors' Encampment
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Tranquil Garden
• 1x Unknown Shores
• 1x Vec Townships
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Authority of the Consuls
• 1x Bear Umbra
• 1x Breath of Fury
• 1x Curse of Verbosity
• 1x Druids' Repository
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Raiders' Spoils

Instant (24)

• 1x Apostle's Blessing
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Autumn's Veil
• 1x Boros Charm
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Into the Roil
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Negate
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Opt
• 1x Plunge into Darkness
• 1x Pyretic Ritual
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Shared Summons
• 1x Silence
• 1x Spell Pierce
• 1x Unified Will
• 1x Veil of Summer
• 1x Wear / Tear

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Bring to Light
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Driven / Despair
• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Neoform
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Windfall

Artifact (4)

• 1x Bident of Thassa
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Commander (1)

Creature (23)

• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Azra Oddsmaker
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Blood-Chin Rager
• 1x Boreal Druid
• 1x Bramblewood Paragon
• 1x Brighthearth Banneret
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Decorated Champion
• 1x Den Protector
• 1x Derevi, Empyrial Tactician
• 1x Edric, Spymaster of Trest
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Iroas, God of Victory
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Mardu Woe-Reaper
• 1x Mindblade Render
• 1x Rushblade Commander
• 1x Shanna, Sisay's Legacy
• 1x Tymna the Weaver

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This is my first run at a deck w/ Najeela, the Blade-Blossom .

I saw this commander run in some gameplay videos from The Spike Feeders (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGh7-4mDFssqhu_UpOwRzIA). Great content btw! I was very impressed by how Najeela, the Blade-Blossom can make an army of warriors all on her own, combo or not.

I know there are multiple ways to build her. I wanted to focus on using her ability to make a team of warriors and combat. The decklist here (http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/warrior-queen-najeela-midrangetempo-cedh-primer/) was a great source of inspiration, and 100% a much better deck than mine. I operate on quite a limited budget. However, that primer made it much easier to know how/when to use Najeela, the Blade-Blossom 's ability. There are more phases to combat than I realized, and without that knowledge, you can't take advantage of the best combo's she can create.

I won't spend much time discussing the gameplay or mechanics of the deck. The primer linked above already does a great job! I will note that my plan is to play Najeela, the Blade-Blossom on turn 2 and keep her protected. Sort of operating like a tempo deck, keeping mana up to counterspell any removal sent her way. I'm not playing her in a strictly competitive meta, and I've discovered that Najeela, the Blade-Blossom , Tymna the Weaver , and the like, who rely on an open board for free attacks in cEDH often need a little help getting through in a casual game. So the odd includes like Iroas, God of Victory and such are to help there. Apostle's Blessing and such do double duty providing unblockability, or protection.

A final note. You may think my mana base is crazy, and you would be correct! As a budget player, building a 5 color deck that needs to be making plays turn 1 and 2 was quite a dilemma to solve. I have no duals, no fetches, and little in the way of shocks. Yet I need lands coming down untapped. My solution thus far has been to use all the fast lands and pain lands I can get ahold of. In general, since I'm running mana dorks to get Najeela, the Blade-Blossom out on turn 2, I need untapped green mana ASAP. After that, I need to cast my commander. So red mana is the next highest priority. I built the mana base with that in mind, trying to put as many lands as possible that tapped for R or G with the other colors.

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Regarding early lines of gameplay...I've started adding a handful of 2-drop warriors to the deck. Sometimes asking my crazy mana base and mana dorks to get Najeela out turn 2 is asking a little too much. The 2-drop warriors still allow me to make my first warrior token when I cast Najeela and attack with them on turn 3. They aren't equivalent to better lands and fast mana, but they definitely help me to not fall behind. I've noticed a significant change in speed/consistency since adding them.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 31 - 0 Rares 30 - 0 Uncommons 28 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.07
Tokens	Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Morph 2/2 C, Warrior 1/1 W
Folders	Najeela