Ravos, Soultender

Legendary Creature — Human Cleric

Flying

Other creatures you control get +1/+1.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Combos

• Noosegraf Mob + Ravos, Soultender

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (50)

Hexapod on Buns Clap Back

4 months ago

I enjoy that you are trying to go your own way with this. It is a nice theme and build.

During goldfish playtest, my hand was cluttered with many graveyard recursion cards in the early game. I would have liked more draw instead, which seems it would be a more reliable source of creatures to cast for this deck.

I would be curious to try Ravos, Soultender *f-etch* instead of Tevesh Szat as a Partner and having more early draw engines in the 99.

Some noticeable absentees from this list are Delney, Streetwise Lookout and Mondrak, Glory Dominus. I would understand Mondrak being prohibitive to acquire but Delney seems like an auto-include and great redundancy for Sidar Kondo. An Ocelot Pride would also do wonders in here.

My favourite white card is Reconnaissance, just mentioning it in case it is not on your radar.

For your specific questions, if you are looking to go full-on with Hare Apparent, you could go up to 28. Personally, I like keeping it where you are and having a bit more diversity of tactics.

34 lands is risky, and I would use 36.

Hope this helps!

Raven_of_Arella on

1 year ago

This seems like a really cool deck! It seems like a cool way to capitalize off of a strong life gain strategy. As much as I love Reya Dawnbringer I might consider looking at Ravos, Soultender for a cheaper cmc option. The only downside to him is that creatures return to hand instead of to the battlefield.

shock7123 on Queens of the damned (Vampire Tribal)

1 year ago

I'll make a few suggestions here, trying to keep in mind your budget considerations.

Suggestions for reanimator:

Palace Siege - either lifegain or reanimator, depending on what you need when you play it.

Ravos, Soultender

Debtors' Knell - high mana value, but returns a creature from ANY graveyard to the battlefield directly.

Suggestions for lifegain:

Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose - Highly recommend, as he goes infinite with Exquisite Blood.

Marauding Blight-Priest - Like Vito, also goes infinite with Exquisite Blood.

Tymna the Weaver - Lifegain and card draw.

Ajani's Welcome - cheap, consistent lifegain for playing creatures.

Ivory Tower - cheap, consistent lifegain each turn for having cards in hand.

Also, random one that you may want to consider: Pyre of Heroes. It'll let you sacrifice one of your creatures to find another with mana value equal to the sacrificed creature's plus 1.

shock7123 on Queens of the damned (Vampire Tribal)

1 year ago

I'll make a few suggestions here, trying to keep in mind your budget considerations.

Suggestions for reanimator:

Palace Siege - either lifegain or reanimator, depending on what you need when you play it.

Ravos, Soultender

Debtors' Knell - high mana value, but returns a creature from ANY graveyard to the battlefield directly.

Suggestions for lifegain:

Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose - Highly recommend, as he goes infinite with Exquisite Blood.

Marauding Blight-Priest - Like Vito, also goes infinite with Exquisite Blood.

Tymna the Weaver - Lifegain and card draw.

Ajani's Welcome - cheap, consistent lifegain for playing creatures.

Ivory Tower - cheap, consistent lifegain each turn for having cards in hand.

Also, random one that you may want to consider: Pyre of Heroes. It'll let you sacrifice one of your creatures to find another with mana value equal to the sacrificed creature's plus 1.

legendofa on Lets Shape the Spell

2 years ago

As a few more thoughts:

If you're set on using {W}, a partner pair with Ravos, Soultender will keep your discarded cards ready to be used. Maybe Thrasios, Triton Hero for the other?

Copying the abilities with cards like Lithoform Engine, Illusionist's Bracers, or Battlemage's Bracers, depending on budget, can improve their efficiency. Since the Spellshapers signature ability involves tapping and discarding, a way to untap them repeatedly and a big pile of draw effects would also help efficiency.

Gadianten on Divine Machinations (Cleric Tribal)

2 years ago

Thanks for the comment kookoo, I have thought about it in the past and the only reason it was not an auto include was because of the detriment of self exile in a reanimation deck. However, after looking it over again Deadly Vanity  ^Flip could be hilarious as repeatable board wipe every turn with Ravos, Soultender being spared to continue the abuse.

Kazierts on SKELETONS!

2 years ago

When I said Jund, I actually considered Tormod, the Desecrator and Tana, the Bloodsower. Mainly because Tormod just sinergizes very well with a lot of skeletons and some Skeleton support also supports zombies too (namely Death Baron and Death-Priest of Myrkul.

Another option, but 4 colored, would be still Tana, the Bloodsower now with Ravos, Soultender. You can still have Tormod in the deck, still have access to a lot o reccursion (even in your commander) and get a lot of good anthems, and tribal support, in white.

MrXilas on

2 years ago

I like the vibe you are going for here. I'm gonna throw three of my favorites at you and you can decide if it's worth it. Depending on budget, Tymna the Weaver is great in any creature based deck. Ravos, Soultender acts as an anthem, party member, and recursion for your creatures. FInally, if you are willing to veer off from the party and embrace your keyword soup, Odric, Lunarch Marshal is going to do WORK in this deck. I'd cut the Orator for him.