Unicorns! (My EDH Masterpiece) (Commander / EDH MTG Deck)

Unicorns! (My EDH Masterpiece)

Commander / EDH Casual GW (Selesnya) Multiplayer Theme/Gimmick Unicorn Weenie

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Creature (48)

Land (30)

Artifact (4)

Sorcery (1)

1x Primal Surge

Commander (1)

Enchantment (14)

Instant (1)

1x Kindred Summons

Planeswalker (1)

1x Garruk, Caller of Beasts

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Creature (8)

Planeswalker (2)

Enchantment (7)

Sorcery (3)

Artifact (3)

My Fabulous Unicorns will take over the world. The goal of the deck is to overrun my enemies with a stampede of unicorns (duh). This is by far my favorite deck, as it isn't combo focused, and it just feels so good to spam out as many unicorns as possible. People really tend to underestimate the power of this deck.

This deck focuses on card draw, and it uses some mana ramp in order to get out useful spells that overwhelm the board with creatures. Win conditions include Primal Surge, Kindred Summons, Moonshaker Cavalry, and Craterhoof Behemoth.

Other extremely good cards/borderline win conditions in the deck include Legion Loyalty, Lurking Predators, True Conviction, Coat of Arms, Cathars' Crusade, Blessed Sanctuary, Champion of Lambholt, Mirror Entity, Garruk, Caller of Beasts, Silverquill Lecturer and Beastmaster Ascension.

Here are the cards that make the deck work:

-The card draw/advantage engines: Beast Whisperer, Zendikar Resurgent, Soul of the Harvest, Guardian Project, The Great Henge, and Vanquisher's Banner.

-Top deck control: Path of Ancestry, Elven Chorus, Realmwalker and Eladamri, Korvecdal

-Mana Ramp: Smothering Tithe, Gaea's Cradle, Growing Rites of Itlimoc , Opaline Unicorn, Weathered Wayfarer, Earthcraft, Zendikar Resurgent, Mirari's Wake, Circle of Dreams Druid, Elven Chorus and, of course, Sol Ring.

-Other All-Stars: Aura Shards, Adaptive Automaton, Metallic Mimic, Loyal Unicorn, and oddly enough Wishmonger.

Also, it rarely ever happens, but there is a 5 card infinite combo in the deck with Emiel the Blessed, a basic land, Earthcraft, Mirari's Wake/Zendikar Resurgent, and Irregular Cohort/Valorous Steed. Basically I use the two creatures from the steed/cohort to untap a basic land twice and make 4 mana thanks to wake/resurgent. I use 3 mana to flicker the steed/cohort with my commander so that when it enters I have two more untapped creatures to repeat the process. It nets me infinite mana and infinite tapped creatures.

The very first commander I used for this deck was Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa without a partner. This was back when there were so few unicorns, pegasi, and playable changelings that I had to include a third creature type: knights. That didn't last long.

Then I had Dr. Julius Jumblemorph as the commander, but I changed it to Morophon, the Boundless, although really either one works for the deck. They are both changelings, which is the most important thing. The differences are that Morophon can include the two blue unicorns, costs seven mana, and has some sweet extra effects. The only thing Dr. Julius has going for him is that he costs 3 less mana (and costs less in regard to $). Costing less mana can still be important in this deck, because the more creatures you can get out, the better. I had however, settled on Morophon as the final choice. I've taken Dr. Julius out completely just because it is technically illegal in commander.

Then, all of a sudden after Jumpstart came out we had our first legendary unicorn (besides the two changelings mentioned above)! Not only that but Emiel the Blessed is pretty sweet. His on the spot flicker effect synergizes with my card draw engines and especially with Craterhoof Behemoth and his white counterpart, as well as several other cards in the deck. Not only that, but he cares if you play unicorns! So, of course I had to switch him with Morophon. I only wish I could play both Morophon, and the two blue unicorns, while still having Emiel be my commander, but I guess compromises must be made.

Commander Legends brought us the second legendary unicorn, and I briefly considered making Lathiel, the Bounteous Dawn the commander, but I feel like making Lathiel work as the commander would require a bit more life gain support (which could be done by removing the remaining changelings). Thus instead of going all in on Lathiel, I'd rather stick with Emiel who already synergizes with the deck. That being said, there is still a strong argument for Lathiel, and I'm sure a really good unicorn deck could be created with him.

I have now switched out every Pegasus in the deck for changelings. This is now a reasonably dedicated unicorn tribal, as about 90% of the creatures are, in fact, unicorns. I have now also made a Pegasus tribal deck which you can find here: The Second Best Tribal. My Pegasus deck is no longer being updated though, as I have disassembled it. No point in having the second best tribe if you have the best tribe.

Seriously though, you should try out this deck. If this deck interests you the you can also check out my other unicorn decks (Unicorns v2.0.... or is it??? which is no longer being updated and The "Nic" Deck (w/ Unicorns!) which has actually had several unicorns removed from it.)

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2 More Unicorns, and Modern Horizons Additions — June 4, 2024

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I love getting a new unicorn with each set! First, there was Seraphic Steed in Outlaws of Thunder Junction which has replaced Faceless Agent, and second there is now Nyxborn Unicorn in Modern Horizons 3 which will replace Guardian Gladewalker.

There are also several cards from Modern Horizons 3 that I am going to try out. They may get switched back sometime in the future. Eladamri, Korvecdal, Silverquill Lecturer, and Witch Enchanter ^Flip. The cards they have replaced for now are Primordial Sage, Approach of the Second Sun, and Reliquary Tower respectively.

I have been looking for a reason to cut Primordial sage and Soul of the Harvest for better card draw, as often I have played out my unicorns before I cast these 6 mana spells. The raw card advantage they give me is hard to beat though. So, I am trying this new card, as perhaps it will cheat out a Craterhoof while still giving me some sort of card advatage. I do prefer the Beast Whisperer effects over effects like Realmwalker, so this change may not last forever.

It's hard cutting something that I consider a win condition. Approach of the Second Sun is just that. My main win condition is to overwhelm my opponents with unicorns though, and not only does approach take away from that while simultaneously making Primal Surge less effective, but I believe Silverquill lecturer will help me run opponents over better than Approach. Perhaps giving an opponent unicorns will prove to be too powerful/dilute my strategy, in which case it will be switched back.

I don't intend on switching the last addition back. Reliquary tower is a colorless land that is only useful in some circumstances. I have found myself lacking a color of mana far more often than I have needed to have no maximum hand size. No only that, but I don't really need to have no max hand size, as I only need my win conditions to close out the game, and I have no problem discarding a unicorn or two if I happen to have 2 or 3 Beast Whisperers out. Witch Enchanter is a colored land, and it advances my game plan of playing creatures. My deck also runs very light on removal, so adding some removal that doesn't interfere with Primal Surge is something I consider a positive.

White Craterhoof, 2 Unicorns, and Card Advantage — March 16, 2024

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One Mana Unicorn and Myriad! — June 7, 2022

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Changes to Ramp and Basic Land Count — Feb. 28, 2022

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Overgrown Farmland — Dec. 23, 2021

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More Tribal Support — Aug. 23, 2021

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Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth — June 26, 2021

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Top Ranked	Achieved #49 position overall 4 years ago Achieved #21 position in Commander / EDH 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Casual 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH GW (Selesnya) 4 years ago
Date added	5 years
Last updated	1 week
Exclude colors	UBR
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 41 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 18 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.86
Tokens	2/2 W Token Creature Unicorn, Copy Clone, Emblem Garruk, Caller of Beasts, Knight 2/2 W w/ Vigilance, Shapeshifter 2/2 C, Treasure
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