better dead than red

Commander / EDH Artificer Creature Cheat Discard Dragons Mono-Red Reanimator Tokens

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Bombs (16)

• 1x Ancient Stone Idol
• 1x Balefire Dragon
• 1x Cavalier of Flame
• 1x Combustible Gearhulk
• 1x Drakuseth, Maw of Flames
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x Hellkite Tyrant
• 1x Ilharg, the Raze-Boar
• 1x Phyrexian Triniform
• 1x Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded
• 1x Ruin Grinder
• 1x Spawn of Thraxes
• 1x Triplicate Titan
• 1x Tyrant of Discord
• 1x Utvara Hellkite
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine

Wheel (10)

• 1x Cathartic Reunion
• 1x Daretti, Scrap Savant
• 1x Dragon Mage
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion
• 1x Ruin Grinder
• 1x Thrill of Possibility
• 1x Tormenting Voice

Cheat (8)

• 1x Anger
• 1x Daretti, Scrap Savant
• 1x Goblin Engineer
• 1x Goblin Welder
• 1x Ilharg, the Raze-Boar
• 1x Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded
• 1x Sneak Attack
• 1x Trash for Treasure

Ramp (11)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Cursed Mirror
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Extraplanar Lens
• 1x Fires of Invention
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Ruby Medallion
• 1x Skyclave Relic
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Thran Dynamo

Disruption (10)

• 1x All is Dust
• 1x Balefire Dragon
• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Drakuseth, Maw of Flames
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x Hellkite Tyrant
• 1x Meteor Golem
• 1x Spawn of Thraxes
• 1x Tyrant of Discord

Other (9)

• 1x Determined Iteration
• 1x Hoarding Dragon
• 1x Industrial Advancement
• 1x Jaxis, the Troublemaker
• 1x Nahiri's Wrath
• 1x Null Brooch
• 1x Patriar's Seal
• 1x Scourge of the Throne
• 1x Urza's Saga

Protection (2)

• 1x Commander's Plate
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Commander (1)

Shenanigans (11)

• 1x Battlemage's Bracers
• 1x Cursed Mirror
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Lithoform Engine
• 1x Magewright's Stone
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Sculpting Steel
• 1x Sundial of the Infinite
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir
• 1x Underworld Breach

Lands (35)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Great Furnace
• 1x Homeward Path
• 27x Mountain
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Terrain Generator
• 1x Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle

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Other (12)

• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Diamond Lion
• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Gauntlet of Might
• 1x Geosurge
• 1x Hanweir Battlements  ^Meld
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 1x Mana Geyser
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Seething Song
• 1x Valakut Exploration
• 1x Wheel of Fortune

Ramp (3)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Irencrag Feat

Wheel (10)

• 1x Firestorm
• 1x Grimoire of the Dead
• 1x Magus of the Wheel
• 1x Memory Jar
• 1x Mesmeric Orb
• 1x Nahiri's Wrath
• 1x Pirate's Pillage
• 1x Seize the Spoils
• 1x Wheel of Misfortune
• 1x Wild Guess

Shenanigans (4)

• 1x Manifold Key
• 1x Strionic Resonator
• 1x Trading Post
• 1x Voltaic Key

Disruption (6)

• 1x Blood Moon
• 1x Firestorm
• 1x Ingot Chewer
• 1x Nahiri's Wrath
• 1x Ruination
• 1x Starke of Rath

Bombs (4)

• 1x Avatar of Slaughter
• 1x Inferno Titan
• 1x Myr Battlesphere
• 1x Scourge of the Throne

Cheat (2)

• 1x Grimoire of the Dead
• 1x Hall of the Bandit Lord

Lands (1)

• 1x Hall of the Bandit Lord

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Mono red reanimator, Feldon style. This top heavy redhead is soaked in blood and dressed to kill. Fill the yard with fatties and make copies of them with Feldon. Duplicate his ability with the various untap/copy effects. Many of the creatures leave tokens behind when they die or just end your turn early with sundail of the infinite before you have to sac them.

It's been pointed out that Feldon's ability is a great example of storytelling through game mechanic. Feldon discovered The Third Path in a quest for a magic that could bring back his dead wife. He learned from a sorcerer to summon an illusions of her. A necromancer, in exchange for Feldon's Cane , taught him to reanimate her corpse. The Third Path taught him that he could never really get her back but he could summon a copy. He conjured a copy of his wife from memory but knowing that he could never truly bring her back to life, he said goodbye and let the summoned being go. Muy romantico. muy triste.

The unique thing Feldon offers as a reanimator strategy, aside from being mono-red, is that you're making artifact copies of creatures from your graveyard rather than bringing back the originals. This opens many different unexpected lines of play with artifact shenanigans. What I like about Feldon is that he's incredibly fair, yet incredibly fun. Of the 15 or so paper decks I play, this one's my fave.

Thoughts? I've yet to be blown out by a Vandalblast effect but I know it's coming. Should I run Scrap Mastery or something?

Date added	3 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	13 - 0 Mythic Rares 39 - 0 Rares 14 - 0 Uncommons 5 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.16
Tokens	Construct 0/0 C, Construct 6/12 C, Copy Clone, Dragon 6/6 R, Emblem Daretti, Scrap Savant, Golem 3/3 C w/ Flying, Golem 3/3 C w/ Trample, Golem 3/3 C w/ Vigilance, Phyrexian Golem 3/3 C, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Deathtouch, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Lifelink
Folders	ELDER DRAGON HIGHLANDER
Based on	Feldon of the Metal Animate Path DonaldFuck EDH