Idea for a shadowborn apostle EDH
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Posted on Oct. 3, 2018, 6:15 a.m. by PowerElephant
So the idea for this deck is very simple. You get 6 Shadowborn Apostles out, sacrifice them to fetch a tutor demon like Rune-Scarred Demon, use it to get Bloodbond March, and then whenever you play a shadowborn apostle you simply pay one black mana to play any demon from your deck and possibly have a few apostles left over. The only things missing are a good draw engine and a few recursion cards so you can re-play Bloodbond March if it gets destroyed. Any suggestions?
Use, Karador, Ghost Chieftain as your commander. You get awesome cards like Remembrance and Enduring Renewal to really power out your clerics and turbo charge Edgewalker.
October 3, 2018 7:53 a.m. Edited.
PowerElephant says... #4
Karador, Ghost Chieftain sounds like a great idea, he would largely mitigate my need for card draw, as instead of drawing tons of Shadowborn Apostles I could simply re-play the same ones multiple times. As well as giving me accses to some aditional amazing cards like the ones you mentioned, Aven Shrine, Nantuko Shrine. The only thing that bothers me with that strategy is the fact that it needs 3 colours. With so many Shadowborn Apostles in the deck, would 3 colours be too much? With only 2 colours I could easily have every land in the deck give me black mana, but with 3 that would be too cluncky, not to mention that it would make the deck much more expensive.
October 3, 2018 8:33 a.m.
Typical apostle decks I have ran into use Karador, Ghost Chieftain or Athreos, God of Passage to get value out of there apostles. Thrumming Stone is an absolute work horse in that deck as well.
October 3, 2018 8:47 a.m.
Here is a Shadowborn Apostle deck in action, if you're interested.
October 3, 2018 8:54 a.m.
PowerElephant says... #7
Hmm. Meren of Clan Nel Toth can serve a simmilar purpose to all these other commanders, has only the 2 colours I need, and can bring back big demons should they get nuked.
October 3, 2018 9:40 a.m.
green really only offers you March and not much else for an apostle deck. The juicy cards are white - Edgewalker is particularly relevant, making all apostles free.
October 3, 2018 9:50 a.m.
WhatevWorks says... #9
Hey, here's an idea. I don't mean to completely change your idea, and you don't have to do this if you don't want to, but here it is:
- Oona, Queen of the Fae in the command zone
- 45x Shadowborn Apostle
- 45x Swamp
- Magus of the Coffers
- Umbral Mantle
- razaketh, the foulblooded
Play Apostles until you get 8 of them. Sac 6 for Razaketh. Sac the other 2 for Magus of the Coffers and Umbral Mantle. Get infinite black mana, which you use to play Oona and use her ability to mill everyone out.
Also, in preview, razaketh's card link doesn't work, because it's showing up as being lowercase. He's an 8 mana demon that lets you sacrifice a creature and pay 2 life to tutor for a card and put it in your hand,
October 3, 2018 6:26 p.m.
killroy726 says... #10
I use Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker it's not optimal by any means but it's fun: Something wicked this way comes
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #2
Use Izoni, Thousand-Eyed as your commander. This way, you'll have the needed colours and a great draw-engine that also combines great with your big amount of apostles.
October 3, 2018 7:41 a.m.