Death and wine

Commander / EDH* Aristocrats Death and Taxes Goodstuff Humans Multiplayer Reanimator Sacrifice Theme/Gimmick Tokens WB (Orzhov)

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Creature (32)

• 1x Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
• 1x Athreos, God of Passage
• 1x Ayara, First of Locthwain
• 1x Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim
• 1x Battle Angels of Tyr
• 1x Bennie Bracks, Zoologist
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Braids, Arisen Nightmare
• 1x Cruel Celebrant
• 1x Doomed Traveler
• 1x Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
• 1x Elenda, the Dusk Rose
• 1x Elesh Norn  ^Flip
• 1x Erebos, Bleak-Hearted
• 1x Hanweir Militia Captain  ^Flip
• 1x Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
• 1x Luminous Broodmoth
• 1x Ministrant of Obligation
• 1x Mondrak, Glory Dominus
• 1x Nether Traitor
• 1x Ophiomancer
• 1x Pitiless Plunderer
• 1x Plaguecrafter
• 1x Priest of Forgotten Gods
• 1x Reassembling Skeleton
• 1x Suture Priest
• 1x Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1x Vraan, Executioner Thane
• 1x Woe Strider
• 1x Xathrid Necromancer
• 1x Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Land (34)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Fetid Heath
• 1x Field of the Dead
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 7x Plains
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Snowfield Sinkhole
• 10x Swamp
• 1x Tomb Fortress
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip

Artifact (9)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Bontu's Monument
• 1x Nim Deathmantle
• 1x Oketra's Monument
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Damn
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Resourceful Return

Commander (1)

Enchantment (13)

• 1x Agent of the Iron Throne
• 1x Anointed Procession
• 1x Bastion of Remembrance
• 1x Bitterblossom
• 1x Black Market Connections
• 1x Divine Visitation
• 1x Flowering of the White Tree
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Oversold Cemetery
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x The Meathook Massacre
• 1x The Restoration of Eiganjo  ^Flip

Instant (5)

• 1x Call the Coppercoats
• 1x Inkshield
• 1x Malakir Rebirth  ^Flip
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Teferi's Protection

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Liliana, Dreadhorde General
• 1x Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools

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Maybeboard

Creature (32)

• 1x Archfiend of Depravity
• 1x Archon of Cruelty
• 1x Body Launderer
• 1x Dauthi Voidwalker
• 1x Demon's Disciple
• 1x Desecration Demon
• 1x Doom Whisperer
• 1x Doomed Necromancer
• 1x Ebondeath, Dracolich
• 1x Edgar, Charmed Groom  ^Flip
• 1x Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder
• 1x Eradicator Valkyrie
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Geth, Lord of the Vault
• 1x Ghoulcaller Gisa
• 1x Great Unclean One
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Knight of the White Orchid
• 1x Kokusho, the Evening Star
• 1x Massacre Wurm
• 1x Merciless Executioner
• 1x Phyrexian Delver
• 1x Ravenous Chupacabra
• 1x Selfless Spirit
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Sifter of Skulls
• 1x Skyclave Shade
• 1x Stoneforge Mystic
• 1x Teysa, Orzhov Scion
• 1x Titan Hunter
• 1x Tithe Taker
• 1x Twilight Drover

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Entreat the Dead
• 1x Ghastly Conscription
• 1x Persist
• 1x Ritual of the Machine
• 1x Stitch Together
• 1x Storm of Souls
• 1x Unearth
• 1x Victimize
• 1x Zombify

Artifact (3)

• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Cauldron of Souls
• 1x Halo Fountain

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Kaya, Geist Hunter
• 1x Sorin, Lord of Innistrad

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Curse of Disturbance
• 1x Curse of the Restless Dead
• 1x Debtors' Knell
• 1x Dreadhorde Invasion
• 1x Kaya's Ghostform
• 1x Legion's Landing  ^Flip
• 1x Vampiric Rites

Instant (5)

• 1x Fracture
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Saw in Half
• 1x Soul Shatter
• 1x Sudden Spoiling

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Hi everyone,

i would like to present you my first complete self-brewed EDH-Deck.

When i startet playing Magic, i startet with an Vintage-Orzhov Humans-ish deck without any knowledge what i was doing. All the players i played with had EDH-decks, so i started to convert the 60-Card list into an EDH-Deck. One thing was clear from this point on: Teysa, Orzhov Scion - which was a gift of a friend - should be the helm of the deck.

At first, this deck was a collection of different orzhov-coloured cards, without any connection to each other. Over time it developed, stronger cards were added and it won a round here and there. After that, I lost focus on the actual intention of the deck and sometimes added cards that were strong on their own, but didn't really work together with the gameplan.

I had to rebuild, cut a lot of cards and focus on the origin intention of the deck. The result can be seen below. I hope you like it, leave a comment and an upvote.

Land & Ramp

I would deem the manabase as okay-ish. i had a lot of luck cracking some fetches with MH2, or drawing the Coffers and Urborg in the past. 35 Lands (MDFCs included) is okay with the ave cmc of the deck.

Well, actually the deck has not that many traditional ramp cards. But Dream Devourer and Priest of Forgotten Gods showed that they can accelerate pretty well. Verge Rangers and Keeper of the Accord aren't ramp, but can help you to keep up.

Ashnod's Altar is awesome in here as a sac-outlet and ramp piece. Pitiless Plunderer and Smothering Tithe can boost you to the moon manawise, too. As for now, i haven't had much mana-screws yet.

Draw and Card-Quality Section

We have a fine selection in here with black staples like Phyrexian Arena, Skullclamp (which is a WinCon on its own) or Liliana, Dreadhorde General. In an aristocrats-theme Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools will become a commander staple i guess. And Yawgmoth, Thran Physician is a powerhouse for itself, too. But i added unconventional quality-cards as well like Verge Rangers which grant you information of the topdeck and provides card-advantage in case your behind, landwise. The same is true for Keeper of the Accord. But cards like Path of Ancestry (Humans), Woe Strider can protect you to draw dead cards.

Control

Several spells (Damn, Fracture, Swords to Plowshares) trigger (Grave Pact, Plaguecrafter) and abilities (Eradicator Valkyrie, Liliana, Dreadhorde General, Teysa, Orzhov Scion, Priest of Forgotten Gods) erase the enemys board pretty effectively. The deck can control the opponents board almost always.

It lacks a little bit against aggro-themes or graveyard-hate (public enemies are Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet or similar effects), but if the opponent isn't fast enough or acts too hesitantly it will overtake the table for sure.

Win Conditions

WinCon 1: Drain to death

There are a lot of ways to drain your opponents to death, like classic Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, Bastion of Remembrance or Cruel Celebrant etc.Syr Konrad, the Grim is an absolutely powerhouse in this build due to the mass of token we produce and sac them for pinging or other advantage - best case is to already have your Grave Pact on the battlefield to gain even more board control. Each sacrifice is like a miniboardwipe. ;o) Kokusho, the Evening Star is a very welcome guest in this list and would double-hit if Teysa Karlov is on the board.

In most cases the drain causes incidental lifegain... life which we can use for Phyrexian Reclamation to get our sacrificed creatures back or simply get a protective buffer.

WinCon 2: Go Wide or go Home

It's also possible to win with sheer mass of tokens and smack them in our opponents faces. If there are dozens of weenies or due to Divine Visitation huge angels we should always have enough material to attack or just wait with a wall of weenies to start the grindy way of death of our opponents.

Other than that, we can use our little blood bags (tokens) to gain value from them due to the sacrifice to Teysa, Orzhov Scion -> control; Woe Strider -> card advantage; Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim -> control or lifegain; or [Priest of forgotten Gods] which grants a little bit of everything.

Call the Coppercoats is a well welcome combat trick to either flood the board for a massive attack (remember Divine Visitation), for protection or finally as sac fodder.

Otherwise, there ware some big hitters like Grave Titan, Ormendahl, Profane Prince   or Wurmcoil Enginge which can slap your opponent to death. ;)

Top Ranked	Achieved #26 position overall 3 years ago Achieved #15 position in Commander / EDH 3 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Lifelink 3 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH WB (Orzhov) 3 years ago
Date added	3 years
Last updated	10 months
Exclude colors	URG
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	17 - 0 Mythic Rares 40 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.89
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Angel 4/4 W w/ Vigilance, Copy Clone, Faerie Rogue 1/1 B, Goat 0/1 W, Human 1/1 W, Human Cleric 1/1 BW, Human Soldier 1/1 W, Incubator, Inkling 2/1 WB, Phyrexian 0/0 C, Shapeshifter 3/2 C, Snake 1/1 B, Spirit 1/1 C, Spirit 1/1 W, Spirit 1/1 WB, Thrull 0/1 B, Treasure, Vampire 1/1 W, Warrior 1/1 W w/ Vigilance, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie 2/2 B w/ Decayed
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