Astral Forge

Commander / EDH

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Land (38)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Badlands
• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Battlefield Forge
• 1x Blasted Landscape
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Canyon Slough
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Drifting Meadow
• 1x Forgotten Cave
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x High Market
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Mistveil Plains
• 3x Mountain
• 3x Plains
• 1x Plateau
• 1x Polluted Mire
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Secluded Steppe
• 1x Smoldering Crater
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Vesuva
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Astral Slide
• 1x Cast Out
• 1x Lethal Vapors

Creature (20)

• 1x Anger
• 1x Archfiend of Ifnir
• 1x Ashen Rider
• 1x Cyclops of Eternal Fury
• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1x Eternal Dragon
• 1x Flayer of the Hatebound
• 1x Garna, the Bloodflame
• 1x Igneous Pouncer
• 1x Magus of the Wheel
• 1x Night Incarnate
• 1x Noxious Gearhulk
• 1x Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1x Runehorn Hellkite
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Stoneforge Mystic
• 1x Street Wraith
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Undead Gladiator
• 1x Wall of Omens

Artifact (11)

• 1x Alhammarret's Archive
• 1x Boros Signet
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Fluctuator
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sunforger
• 1x Viridian Longbow

Commander (1)

Instant (18)

• 1x Akroma's Blessing
• 1x Angel's Grace
• 1x Boros Charm
• 1x Comeuppance
• 1x Crackling Doom
• 1x Enlightened TutorGC
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Final Fortune
• 1x Forsake the Worldly
• 1x Lapse of Certainty
• 1x Oblation
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Rakdos Charm
• 1x Stunning Reversal
• 1x Teferi's ProtectionGC
• 1x Tithe
• 1x Utter End
• 1x Wild Ricochet

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Cathartic Reunion
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Grave Upheaval
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Steelshaper's Gift
• 1x Unburial Rites
• 1x Wheel of Fortune

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Astral Slide + Sunforger, with Queen Marchesa at the helm.

Astral Forge is a reanimator deck in a slight control shell. The goal is to dump creatures into the graveyard via selective filtering and cycling, with intent to reanimate them later. The namesake cards, Sunforger and Astral Slide help advance this plan by providing value and defense. Slide can blink creatures with ETB abilities, stall your opponents creatures, and be used to blank removal. Sunforger tutors up the deck's suite of tricky cards meant to stump your opponent: white counterspells, red redirects, etc.

Queen Marchesa gives us valuable card advantage and defense: she's perfectly suited to wield Sunforger, can send her assassins to Skullclamp, and becomes an Avatar of Woe if equipped with a Viridian Longbow.

Ideally, the game should end if you resolve a Living Death with a sizable graveyard. Flayer of the Hatebound and Cyclops of Eternal Fury are meant to make Living Death a OHKO.

There also exists a convoluted infinite turns combo, using Sunforger to continually tutor up alternating Final Fortune and Angel's Grace, with Mistveil Plains putting them back into the library. It's mana intensive, requires a lot of setup, and has a huge opportunity cost...but it's fantastic when it happens.

Upcoming Changes:

• Utter End --> Anguished Unmaking
• Crucible of Worlds --> Path to Exile
• Damnation --> Wrath of God

Date added	9 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 47 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.48
Tokens	Assassin 1/1 B w/ Haste, Monarch Emblem
Folders	make it, Commander deck options