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As Above So Below

Commander / EDH Bracket 4 WB (Orzhov)

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Land (32)

Instant Hemorrhage (8)

Utility (4)

Ramp/Land Drops (13)

Card Draw/Tutor/Advantage (10)

Protection (8)

As above, so below (3)

Commander (1)

Commander: Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff

Removal (12)

Life Savers (9)

Maybeboard

Other (28)

Remove (9)

This deck trades life total for card advantage extremely aggressively. It's a glass cannon that can win games quickly and brutally. It performs fairly poorly against heavy control decks like stax or monoblue, and is pretty vulnerable to removal. If you plan on piloting this deck, remember the following order for tutors and card filtering:

Card advantage -> Ramp/Color Fixing -> Life Saver -> Life Reversal.

The deck wants to gain card advantage while ramping as fast as possible on turns 1-3. On turn 4-7, you want to have a way to prevent yourself from dying while nuking your life total to get a reversal card. In this process, you should find at least 1 card that will prevent you from dying on the turn you plan to swap.

Your ideal combo is something like Angel's Grace + Necropotence + Repay in Kind .

This deck needs 8 mana at least on a single turn to win, ideally the combo pieces are acquired over a period of 1-3 turns to lower the mana cost. Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff helps a ton with getting the mana you need to win, just be cautious on your turn to not drop your life total to 1 and lose to the triggered ability. K'rrik, son of yagmoth helps quite a bit with the mana intensive combo.

If you can't kill the entire table at once, kill the biggest threat (control / removal heavy decks), reset your life total, and draw a bunch of more cards to repeat the process with the remaining players.

An important concept to understand: Switching life totals or changing life totals directly is the same as gaining and losing life. This means if I have a card like Lich in play, and then use Reverse the Sands to switch life totals with someone that has 80 life, I will gain 80 life, and that player will lose 80 life. Additionally, due to Lich triggering on life gain, I will then draw 80 cards and likely deck myself.

Any feedback or card suggestions is greatly appreciated. I don't want this deck to be CEDH level (and it likely can't), but I want it to stand up to other strong decks that exist just outside of CEDH.

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