Mayael Air Supremacy

Commander / EDH Angels Dragons Multiplayer RGW (Naya)

Salad_Thunder

Land (36)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Battlefield Forge
• 1x Bountiful Promenade
• 1x Brushland
• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x Clifftop Retreat
• 1x Command Tower
• 4x Forest
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Karplusan Forest
• 1x Kessig Wolf Run
• 2x Mountain
• 1x Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers
• 4x Plains
• 1x Plateau
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Slayers' Stronghold
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sunhome, Fortress of the Legion
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 1x Taiga
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Access (5)

• 1x Aid from the Cowl
• 1x Atla Palani, Nest Tender
• 1x Lurking Predators
• 1x Selvala's Stampede
• 1x Sylvan Library

ManaHelp (14)

• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury
• 1x Frontier Siege
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Land Tax
• 1x Mirari's Wake
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Tempt with Discovery
• 1x Wood Elves

Dragon (12)

• 1x Atarka, World Render
• 1x Balefire Dragon
• 1x Dragonlord Dromoka
• 1x Hellkite Charger
• 1x Hellkite Tyrant
• 1x Mana-Charged Dragon
• 1x Nesting Dragon
• 1x Scourge of the Throne
• 1x Skyline Despot
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Utvara Hellkite
• 1x Yosei, the Morning Star

Boost (8)

• 1x Aurelia, the Warleader
• 1x Dragon Tempest
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Rhythm of the Wild
• 1x Sarkhan Vol
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Urabrask the Hidden

Commander (1)

Angel (12)

• 1x Akroma, Angel of Wrath
• 1x Angel of Serenity
• 1x Angel of the Dire Hour
• 1x Angelic Arbiter
• 1x Avacyn, Angel of Hope
• 1x Baneslayer Angel
• 1x Dawnbreak Reclaimer
• 1x Exquisite Archangel
• 1x Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
• 1x Lyra Dawnbringer
• 1x Sephara, Sky's Blade
• 1x Sigarda, Host of Herons

Control (9)

• 1x Austere Command
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Council's Judgment
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Song of the Dryads
• 1x Stonecloaker
• 1x Teferi's Protection

Infantry (3)

• 1x Archetype of Endurance
• 1x Stonehoof Chieftain
• 1x Xenagos, God of Revels

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Other (10)

• 1x Akroma, Vision of Ixidor
• 1x Angel of Grace
• 1x Cream of the Crop
• 1x Drakuseth, Maw of Flames
• 1x Ilharg, the Raze-Boar
• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Quartzwood Crasher
• 1x Serra the Benevolent
• 1x Thundermaw Hellkite
• 1x Vivien's Arkbow

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75% deck with some bells and whistles. Designed for an environment with no quick wins, fast infinite combos, or mass land destruction - but with plenty of board wipes. Replacing the three ABUR duals and maybe the Arid Mesa with other lands does wonders for the price.

The goal is to start launching at least one huge Angel or Dragon a turn starting by turn 5. So there are lots of ramp and related cards, and also some control and utility cards to help get there.

The self constraint for the deck is that the big (5+ power) creatures are mostly Angels and Dragons, in equal numbers, with any other big ones needing to be non-flyers that directly support them. There are lots of more devastating creatures that could be added without the restriction (Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger, Blazing Archon, Terastodon, Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre, etc...) but it's nice to have people want to play EDH with you! Iona, Shield of Emeria might have crossed the line for some groups too... but I liked having it their when it was legal.

"Only" 27 of the cards can enter via Mayael, so you'll whiff once in a while - but you should have mana to hard cast them, and there are several cards to help either control the top of the deck, return the dead from the graveyard, or draw cards.

Tooth and Nail, Genesis Wave, and the like might be ok since none of the creatures are auto-win (and Defense of the Heart should certainly be ok), but I've opted to use non-tutor deck access. * * * **Cards to consider for your Mayael Deck** - A lot of the cards in the deck are the obvious ones that show up on EDHREC for Mayael, or are generic staples. Others are here because I've chosen to focus on Angels and Dragons and they might be on the chopping block if I threw out that restriction. Here are a few that don't come up with EDHREC that seem like they should: Aurelia, the Warleader - The downside of Aurelia is that it doesn't come out using Mayael and it's expensive for a 3/4 (RRWW2). On the other hand, it lets everyone attack twice, including the first turn it comes out. That's a pretty nice upside. Sarkhan Vol- Give Mayael or another creature haste, or take someone else's creature and attack with it (including on its first turn), or (if it lives that long) put five flyers on the field. What's not to love? Urabrask the Hidden - Your guys get haste, their's come into play tapped. So what if it costs five and Mayael can't bring it out. Yosei, the Morning Star - A great way to discourage wrath effects or attacking you with something big and blockable. * * * To shake things up, the following twelve Dinosaurs work pretty well in place of the Angels: Burning Sun's Avatar, Carnage Tyrant, Etali, Primal Storm, Ghalta, Primal Hunger, Gishath, Sun's Avatar, Polyraptor, Regal Behemoth, Silverclad Ferocidons, Thundering Spineback, Sun-Crowned Hunters, Wayward Swordtooth, and Zacama, Primal Calamity. (And now Apex Altisaur as a choice). * * * Playing around with alter ideas (electronically, not paper so far). This is Charles Vess's Sword of Dawn from the Cover of Dragon #134. Have also tried St. Cecilia from the rose window in the Church of the Gesu in Milwaukee.

Top Ranked	Achieved #38 position overall 5 years ago
Date added	8 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	21 - 0 Mythic Rares 52 - 0 Rares 13 - 0 Uncommons 4 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.81
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Dragon 2/2 R, Dragon 4/4 R, Dragon 5/5 R, Dragon 6/6 R, Dragon Egg 0/2 R, Egg 0/1 G, Elf Druid 1/1 G, The Monarch
Folders	commander decks, Mayael, EDH (Creature Based), Decks Edh, edh_to_build, EDH Gauntlet, Good ideas, Large monster, Commander Decks, Ideas