White Ruby

Commander / EDH Casual GWU (Bant) Multiplayer

Babian

Land (38)

• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Brushland
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Coastal Tower
• 1x Drifting Meadow
• 1x Elfhame Palace
• 8x Forest
• 12x Island
• 4x Plains
• 1x Remote Isle
• 1x Safe Haven
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Slippery Karst
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Counter (6)

• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Daring Apprentice
• 1x Desertion
• 1x Hinder
• 1x Memory Lapse
• 1x Rewind

Wincon (5)

• 1x Dirtcowl Wurm
• 1x Rhox
• 1x Sacred Mesa
• 1x Thorn Elemental
• 1x Verdant Force

Tutor (2)

• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Mystical Tutor

ExtraTurn (1)

• 1x Time Warp

Protection (1)

• 1x Lightning Greaves

Ramp (12)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Fertile Ground
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Star Compass
• 1x Untamed Wilds
• 1x Wild Growth
• 1x Wood Elves

Removal (10)

• 1x Disenchant
• 1x Evacuation
• 1x Fodder Cannon
• 1x Intrepid Hero
• 1x Naturalize
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Nullmage Shepherd
• 1x Reprisal
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Wrath of God

Sac (5)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Fodder Cannon
• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Phyrexian Vault
• 1x Safe Haven

Untap (3)

• 1x Instill Energy
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Seeker of Skybreak

Recursion (1)

• 1x Regrowth

Commander (1)

Draw (10)

• 1x Archivist
• 1x Braingeyser
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Land Tax
• 1x Library of Lat-Nam
• 1x Phyrexian Vault
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Tidings

Steal (6)

• 1x Abduction
• 1x Binding Grasp
• 1x Bribery
• 1x Confiscate
• 1x Control Magic
• 1x Steal Artifact

Copy (3)

• 1x Clone
• 1x Copy Artifact
• 1x Vesuvan Doppelganger

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Sideboard

Other (2)

• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Tormod's Crypt

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An updated version of this deck can be found here: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/mpq4CA_a9U6gsHYrOlqKyw

White Ruby

When I look through the white-bordered cards up to the eighth and ninth edition, it's like flipping through an old beloved children's book.

I've been carrying this deck idea around with me for a long time, but now I've used the easter holidays and the corona lockdown to build a deck with white-bordered cards only, that can compete with established casual decks.

The biggest challenge in building this deck is the limited card pool, the lack of many EDH staples and the comparatively high mana costs for the alternative cards. But this deck should be able to keep up with the other decks at the table. The strategy in a nutshell:

• We copy and steal whatever we can get our hands on.
• We sacrifice the stolen stuff to our advantage.
• We do untap shenanigans to copy and sac repeatedly.
• We use old mechanics (super trample and regenerate) to push damage through superior creatures and boards.
• We take the best that the white-bordered editions have to offer in terms of ramp, draw, removal and control.

A more detailed description of the strategy and individual card choices will follow soon.

I am very happy about every comment, questions and suggestions! :)

Date added	4 years
Last updated	7 months
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	34 - 0 Rares 25 - 1 Uncommons 17 - 1 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.15
Tokens	Pegasus 1/1 W, Saproling 1/1 G
Folders	Commander, White Border