Serve your God-Pharaoh

Commander / EDH

Herald_of_Eldrazi

Land (35)

• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Canyon Slough
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 2x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
• 3x Mountain
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Rakdos Carnarium
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 6x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Temple of Epiphany
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Vivid Crag
• 1x Vivid Creek

Artifact (9)

• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Geth's Grimoire
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Manalith
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thran Dynamo

Creature (19)

• 1x Archfiend of Depravity
• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Cunning Lethemancer
• 1x Dimir Doppelganger
• 1x Dragonlord Silumgar
• 1x Etali, Primal Storm
• 1x Fell Specter
• 1x Gonti, Lord of Luxury
• 1x Hell's Caretaker
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Magus of the Wheel
• 1x Neheb, the Eternal
• 1x Nekusar, the Mindrazer
• 1x Nicol Bolas
• 1x Sangromancer
• 1x Sepulchral Primordial
• 1x The Locust God
• 1x The Scarab God

Enchantment (11)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Dictate of Kruphix
• 1x In Bolas's Clutches
• 1x Liliana's Caress
• 1x Megrim
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Patient Rebuilding
• 1x Raiders' Wake
• 1x The Eldest Reborn
• 1x Waste Not

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Liliana Vess
• 1x Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh
• 1x Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker

Commander (1)

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Sorcery (16)

• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Cruel Ultimatum
• 1x Dark Deal
• 1x Dark Intimations
• 1x Dreadbore
• 1x Extract from Darkness
• 1x Fraying Omnipotence
• 1x Hour of Devastation
• 1x Languish
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Slave of Bolas
• 1x Syphon Mind
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Wheel of Fate
• 1x Windfall
• 1x Yawgmoth's Vile Offering

Instant (6)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Crosis's Charm
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Domineering Will
• 1x Dream Salvage
• 1x Go for the Throat

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This deck seeks to win using a three pronged approach:

The first uses abilities like those on Jace's Archivist and Magnus of the wheel with cards like Liliana's Caress or Megrim to do some serious damage directly to people's life. This also gives disrupts game-pans by forcing players to discard those special spells my opponents have been holding onto in hopes of winning (insert bolas laugh). The added bonus of strategy 1 is that it fills the graveyards with fun little beasties and planeswalkers that I can reanimate.

This brings me to strategy 2. Using cards like a transformed Nicol Bolas, the Ravager  , Yawgmoth's Vile Offering or Animate Dead I can cheat some seriously threatening creatures or planeswalkers into play from graveyards. This has worked a few times for me because it is quite adaptable and I can pull whatever I might need to defend my bolas planeswalkers, protect myself or smack people in the face. If all that fails and some scary creatures manage to pop up on the field, we use strategy 3, THIEF! Using cards like In Bolas's Clutches, I can pull anything threatening on the field over to my side of the table and use those cards to end the game for me. The biggest issues this deck faces is with the high-cost of cards I need fairly early so I use a lot of ramp cards like Burnished Hart and Thran Dynamo to get the leg up on the mana situation really quickly.

Anyway, that's my plan. It focuses on being adaptable and being able to switch between strategies very quickly to keep my opponents on their toes. If one strategy stops working, I simply switch and adapt faster than the poor sucker I am smacking with their own creatures.

Thoughts and upvotes are always appreciated. Thanks guys!

Top Ranked	Achieved #48 position overall 5 years ago
Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 46 - 0 Rares 25 - 0 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.95
Tokens	Copy Clone, Insect 1/1 UR, Zombie 2/2 B