Outfoxed! (Budget EDH) (Commander / EDH MTG Deck)

This deck would be a bit more than budget for me personally, but it is well within the range of most other decks in the hub. Ideas for budget substitutions would be very welcome!

Seeing the interesting character of fox creatures got me wondering what a fox tribal deck might look like, so I adopted a strict rule of limiting my creatures to foxes or foxes matter creatures. There is only one of the latter ( Patron of the Kitsune ), and I ended up passing on a few of the former.

Most all of the legendary fox creatures would make interesting commanders, and they might all work fine with this deck. I chose Rune-Tail, Kitsune Ascendant because it would be so easy to cast him in EDH when your life total is 30 or more, since you start with 40. By turn three, all of your creatures should be immune to damage.

So I thought about what it would look like to build a deck around a commander that prevents damage to all your creatures but does so by becoming an enchantment ( Rune-Tail's Essence ), removing any possibility of eliminating opponents with commander damage. That, and several of the other foxes' abilities (such as Eight-and-a-Half-Tails), led me in a Pillow Fort/Control direction. A good start, but no obvious wincon there.

I spent a lot of time sifting through possible cards, starting with about 200 good fits and working my way down from there. Even after getting to the 100 I liked best, I realized that I still had work to do. For example, Kitsune Mystic needs an aura-heavy deck list to be any good. But stealing auras from opponents after he transforms into Autumn-Tail, Kitsune Sage is a really interesting ability.

The life total requirement for Rune-Tail's Essence led me to look for cards that gain life. That combined with how much of a pain it should be for opponents to damage you, led me to a life-gain wincon, using either Aetherflux Reservoir or Celestial Convergence. I tried including more sources of vigilance so that creatures could be more offensive, but most of them just didn't make the cut. Other cards were needed more. That means, however, that while it isn't impossible to pump your foxes and attack, the deck leans heavy on its life-gain wincons. I especially like Celestial Convergence because while "you win" cards generally feel cheap, this one gives your opponents a chance to compete. It just adds a new wincon. It is also a good budget alternative to Test of Endurance.

I'm actually sort of hoping that Rune-Tail's Essence will become a target, so that opponents will waste their enchantment removal on it, giving your other enchantments a little insurance. Rune-Tail doesn't cost too much to cast in the first place, and he isn't all that easy to get rid of after he transforms, not being a creature anymore, so you should have plenty of mana to recast him if he is removed.

This is still a work in progress. I'm open to (budget) suggestions and always grateful for upvotes. Let me know what you think!

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Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	35 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 21 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.31
Tokens	Clue, Copy Clone, Goat 0/1 W, Knight 2/2 W w/ Vigilance, Soldier 1/1 W
Folders	EDH Favs
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