Abandon all Hope

Commander / EDH Bracket 2 WU (Azorius)

mikethebike

Land (35)

• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Adventurer's Inn
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Daily Bugle Building
• 1x Edgewall Inn
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 3x Island
• 1x Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital
• 1x Lonely Arroyo
• 1x Mistrise Village
• 5x Plains
• 1x Port Town
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Public Thoroughfare
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Seachrome Coast
• 1x Sharlayan, Nation of Scholars
• 1x Skycloud Expanse
• 1x Temple of Enlightenment
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Thriving Heath
• 1x Thriving Isle
• 1x Tranquil Cove
• 1x University Campus
• 1x Vibrant Cityscape

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Angelic Chorus
• 1x Authority of the Consuls
• 1x Cleric Class
• 1x Forced Fruition
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Leyline of Hope

Creature (25)

• 1x Absolute Virtue
• 1x Aerith Gainsborough
• 1x Angel of Destiny
• 1x Brightmare
• 1x Cloudblazer
• 1x Dauntless Scrapbot
• 1x Dazzling Angel
• 1x Haliya, Guided by Light
• 1x Healer's Hawk
• 1x Kishla Trawlers
• 1x Manic Scribe
• 1x Medomai the Ageless
• 1x Minwu, White Mage
• 1x Rosa, Resolute White Mage
• 1x Ruin Crab
• 1x Sage of the Skies
• 1x Salvager of Secrets
• 1x Shadow Kin
• 1x Silent Arbiter
• 1x Sire of Seven Deaths
• 1x Soul Warden
• 1x The Mindskinner
• 1x Unsettled Mariner
• 1x Voice of Victory
• 1x Y'shtola Rhul

Artifact (10)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Bagel and Schmear
• 1x Celestial Armor
• 1x Elixir
• 1x Hot Dog Cart
• 1x Illvoi Light Jammer
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x The Water Crystal
• 1x The Wind Crystal
• 1x White Mage's Staff

Commander (1)

Instant (18)

• 1x Crush Contraband
• 1x Dawn Charm
• 1x Eerie Interlude
• 1x Ephemerate
• 1x Fleeting Flight
• 1x Lightfoot Technique
• 1x Magic Damper
• 1x Radiant Strike
• 1x Rebuff the Wicked
• 1x Reroute Systems
• 1x Restoration Magic
• 1x Reverse Damage
• 1x Revitalize
• 1x Reviving Dose
• 1x Silundi Vision  ^Flip
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Ultimate Magic: Holy
• 1x Visions of Beyond

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Austere Command
• 1x Space-Time Anomaly
• 1x Tasha's Hideous Laughter
• 1x Windfall

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Jace, Memory Adept

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Sideboard

Artifact (2)

• 1x Voltaic Key
• 1x Winter Orb

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Maybeboard

Creature (5)

• 1x Drowner Initiate
• 1x Rex, Cyber-Hound
• 1x Scrabbling Skullcrab
• 1x Sphinx of Forgotten Lore
• 1x Veteran Ice Climber

Artifact (3)

• 1x Ring of the Lucii
• 1x Specimen Freighter
• 1x The Book of Exalted Deeds

Instant (1)

• 1x Eerie Interference

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Personal Tutor
• 1x Tome Scour

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This deck will either not work, or will work once and I'll never be allowed to play it in my pod again

• Gain as much life as possible with lifelinkers like Aerith Gainsborough, Dazzling Angel, Healer's Hawk, etc.... powered up by The Wind Crystal and/or Cleric Class
• Y'shtola Rhul will add a second end step, which is really sweet for a commander that triggers on your end step, and Medomai the Ageless grants extra turns which means extra lifelink against an opponent whose blockers are down (it doesn't matter who you attack for the lifelink, everyone mills cards). Together that's basically 4 end steps, and if you also have The Wind Crystal and/or Cleric Class, it's not gonna be a long game for you, whether you win or get immediately targeted by everyone else at the table.
• With the massive life totals you'll presumably have, hit em with a Space-Time Anomaly. With the right setup, that just straight-up eliminates an entire player
• Protect the big pieces with Unsettled Mariner, Dawn Charm, Eerie Interference, Eerie Interlude, Epheremate, Fleeting Flight, Lightfoot Technique, Magic Damper, Rebuff the Wicked, Reroute Systems, Restoration Magic, Ultimate Magic: Holy
• Stall the game a little bit if you need to with Absolute Virtue, Silent Arbiter, Ghostly Prison, or if you want, throw in some tutors and try to get Ring of the Lucii + Voltaic Key + Winter Orb set up then for the small cost of 3 mana per turn, your opponents can pretty much never play the game again. (Accepting suggestions to replace Ring of the Lucii btw but honestly I just don't have another card that does the same thing)
• Some traditional mill as well, including, but not limited to The Mindskinner (be careful, I think his effect means your creatures wouldn't get lifelink, so this is kind of a plan B situation), Ruin Crab, and Scrabbling Skullcrab
• Speaking of plan B, with all this health, Angel of Destiny is a pretty nice alternate win condition. If I understand the card correctly, you don't even have to deal damage to the specific opponent. You just have to attack them with 55 life and even if they kill AoD they still lose the game. Kinda wild
• Some payoff for players other than you having a lot of stuff in the graveyard: Visions of Beyond, Shadow Kin, Manic Scribe
• Some payoff for you having a lot of stuff in your graveyard: Kishla Trawlers, Rex, Cyber-Hound, Elixir
• Just be annoying with Tasha's Hideous Laughter *list*, Windfall, Forced Fruition, Chancellor of Tales + Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital

I haven't actually played it yet, so let me know if you have any suggestions but yeah seems pretty annoying in concept so I'm looking forward to being asked not to ever play it again.

Date added	2 months
Last updated	11 hours
Key combos	Ring of the Lucii + Voltaic Key + Winter Orb Chancellor of Tales + Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 37 - 2 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 22 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.00
Tokens	Food, Hero 1/1 C, Lander, Warrior 1/1 R