Reyhan and Ishai: Face-Wreckers

Commander / EDH* Four Color

Voidraven5829

Creature (29)

• 1x Abzan Falconer
• 1x Archangel of Thune
• 1x Atraxa, Praetors' Voice
• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Blighted Agent
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Coiling Oracle
• 1x Corpsejack Menace
• 1x Crystalline Crawler
• 1x Fertilid
• 1x Gyre Sage
• 1x Ivorytusk Fortress
• 1x Kalonian Hydra
• 1x Master Biomancer
• 1x Mikaeus, the Lunarch
• 1x Nylea, God of the Hunt
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Prime Speaker Zegana
• 1x Sage of Hours
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Shinewend
• 1x Skullbriar, the Walking Grave
• 1x Spike Feeder
• 1x Spike Weaver
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Vorel of the Hull Clade
• 1x Winding Constrictor
• 1x Zameck Guildmage

Instant (8)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Inspiring Call
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Mortify
• 1x Putrefy
• 1x Solidarity of Heroes
• 1x Sudden Spoiling
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

Land (34)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 5x Forest
• 1x Gavony Township
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 1x Inkmoth Nexus
• 4x Island
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 3x Plains
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Asceticism
• 1x Aura Shards
• 1x Cathars' Crusade
• 1x Hardened Scales
• 1x Hunting Grounds
• 1x Inexorable Tide
• 1x Primeval Bounty
• 1x Retribution of the Ancients
• 1x Rites of Flourishing

Artifact (6)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Blade of Selves
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Sol Ring

Commanders (2)

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Divine Reckoning
• 1x Explore
• 1x Give / Take
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Merciless Eviction
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Reanimate

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Ajani, Caller of the Pride
• 1x Ajani, Mentor of Heroes

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Creature (30)

• 1x Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• 1x Bloodspore Thrinax
• 1x Champion of Lambholt
• 1x Cruel Sadist
• 1x Custodi Soulbinders
• 1x Dauntless Escort
• 1x Drana, Liberator of Malakir
• 1x Elite Scaleguard
• 1x Etched Oracle
• 1x Fathom Mage
• 1x Festercreep
• 1x Forgotten Ancient
• 1x Genesis Hydra
• 1x Ghave, Guru of Spores
• 1x Ghoulcaller Gisa
• 1x Hangarback Walker
• 1x High Sentinels of Arashin
• 1x Hooded Hydra
• 1x Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
• 1x Mephidross Vampire
• 1x Mother of Runes
• 1x Necropolis Regent
• 1x Rishkar, Peema Renegade
• 1x Simic Manipulator
• 1x Triskelion
• 1x Undergrowth Champion
• 1x Verdurous Gearhulk
• 1x Vinelasher Kudzu
• 1x Vulturous Zombie
• 1x Walking Ballista

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Gaea's Bounty
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Three Visits
• 1x Wrath of God

Instant (4)

• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Hindervines
• 1x Hunter's Insight
• 1x Steady Progress

Artifact (5)

• 1x Bow of Nylea
• 1x Cauldron of Souls
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Nemesis Mask
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Bred for the Hunt
• 1x Rancor

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Nissa, Voice of Zendikar

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A partner deck revolving around Reyhan's ability to move +1/+1 counters for the benefit of many cards while providing a large beatstick in the form of Ishai.

My first draft was just beatsticks with a side order of beatsticks with no real recovery if someone at the table played wrath or other board wipes.I was able to get Ishai to 138 counters but my opponent had an ensnaring bridge and goblin welder so I was rather stuck just sitting there.

After consulting my friends, i started adding in some more techy cards to gain flexibility, this comes from my creatures that let me remove +1/+1 counters to do stuff, as well as continuing to buff the creatures that have counters on them.

Some concerns I have for the deck is the lack of sac outlets and token generators. Ashnod's Altar isn't going to be very useful to me if I have no real need to use it, and Gisa, Hooded Hydra, and Ghave aren't in the current iteration of the deck so I have limited access to chump blockers. another concern is the lack of search. In a previous build, I had Increasing ambition and that was it besides Green sun's and what I thought felt like a lot of potential draw power (though I wasn't able to pull any recurring draw effects in any test game I had). Now that it's currently just Green sun's and a little less draw power,I'm nervous about not having enough power in my hand. My third biggest concern is the lack of counter spells and other protection abilities. I didn't have any in my first draft and felt the pain of every boardwipe and spot removal ability on the board because of how quickly I was becoming a threat.

Some strengths of the deck, however, is the ability to reliably be able to tempo out almost any hand and be able to play just about anything with 4 or 5 lands of varying colors available. My low mana curve definitely helps with this and any draw spell I cast is almost guaranteed to be something else I can play right away in the same turn. I also am able to get gigantic creatures on the board relatively quickly for a multi-player EDH deck, with Ishai most often coming in turn 4, sometimes turn 3 if I'm lucky, and Reyhan coming either right after or before her so I'm able to hold onto any counters pretty safely. With these two strengths,I can very quickly get some early hits and show myself to be a future threat if left unchecked... But that goes back to being singled-out and losing my board state regularly; my third game with the first draft, I was not able to keep a single creature on the board for an entire turn-round as everything I played was just removed at each turn, which led to an un-fun game which is totally against the spirit of EDH!

Thanks for checking out my deck, and for reading this far if you did, questions and comments are welcome, as are solutions for the weaknesses here. any suggestions for replacing cards in the main board with maybe board cards are welcome too.Thanks again!-Voidraven

Date added	6 years
Last updated	2 years
Exclude colors	R
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 37 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.08
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Cat 2/2 W, Copy Clone