Ayli\\Lurrus Aristokiddies

Commander / EDH* WB (Orzhov)

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Land (29)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Castle Ardenvale
• 1x Castle Locthwain
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Concealed Courtyard
• 1x Dakmor Salvage
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flagstones of Trokair
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Gemstone Caverns
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Mistveil Plains
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 1x Silent Clearing
• 1x Snow-Covered Plains
• 1x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold
• 1x Windswept Heath

Sorcery (11)

• 1x Armageddon
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Dusk / Dawn
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Return to the Ranks
• 1x Sevinne's Reclamation
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Unearth
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will

Creature (23)

• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Bloodghast
• 1x Dark Confidant
• 1x Drannith Magistrate
• 1x Ethersworn Canonist
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Karlov of the Ghost Council
• 1x Kataki, War's Wage
• 1x Leonin Relic-Warder
• 1x Magus of the Balance
• 1x Painter's Servant
• 1x Priest of Forgotten Gods
• 1x Selfless Spirit
• 1x Serra Ascendant
• 1x Soul Warden
• 1x Soul's Attendant
• 1x Spirit of the Labyrinth
• 1x Stitcher's Supplier
• 1x Stoneforge Mystic
• 1x Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Weathered Wayfarer
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Instant (12)

• 1x Ad Nauseam
• 1x Culling the Weak
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Faith's Reward
• 1x Flawless Maneuver
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Tainted Pact
• 1x Teferi's Protection
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Commander (1)

Artifact (18)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Codex Shredder
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Grindstone
• 1x Lion's Eye Diamond
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Meekstone
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Shard of Broken Glass
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1x Thorn of Amethyst
• 1x Winter Orb

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Authority of the Consuls
• 1x Bitterblossom
• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Legion's Landing  ^Flip

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Sideboard

Creature (1)

• 1x Lurrus of the Dream-Den

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Maybeboard

Creature (14)

• 1x Apprentice Necromancer
• 1x Basal Thrull
• 1x Blood Pet
• 1x Cauldron Familiar
• 1x Children of Korlis
• 1x Cruel Celebrant
• 1x Felidar Cub
• 1x Golgari Thug
• 1x Hangarback Walker
• 1x Hushbringer
• 1x Leonin Arbiter
• 1x Oathsworn Vampire
• 1x Shield Sphere
• 1x Suture Priest

Land (2)

• 1x Fetid Heath
• 1x Vault of Whispers

Instant (10)

• 1x Angel's Grace
• 1x Aura Blast
• 1x Brought Back
• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Flawless Maneuver
• 1x Heliod's Intervention
• 1x Kaya's Guile
• 1x Orim's Chant
• 1x Rain of Filth
• 1x Rally the Ancestors

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Blind Obedience
• 1x Hidden Stockpile
• 1x Land Tax
• 1x Seal of Cleansing

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Citywide Bust
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Fumigate
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Restore Balance
• 1x Sevinne's Reclamation
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Artifact (3)

• 1x Aether Vial
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Witch's Oven

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Welcome to the trashpile. This is an aristocrats/stax/combo deck built to abuse the Ayli and Lurrus value train. The goal of this deck is to take game actions and make it so your opponents can't take game actions. Then you win somehow.

Special thanks to Tazildayah for some inspiration on combo lines.

You will probably enjoy playing this deck if:

• You like to win by accruing incremental value over time.
• You like to play from the graveyard.
• You like to play with hatebears and prison pieces.
• You like "puzzle decks"

You will probably not enjoy playing this deck if:

• You want the most optimal combo build for cEDH
• You don't enjoy mass discard and land destruction
• You don't enjoy parsing complex board states
• You don't want to win with combos

What's the gameplan, you ask?

Good question! Maybe the answer is three cards deeper into your library. This is a deck built around sacrificing and recurring small creatures for value or stax. The goal is to durdle as much as possible every turn. Filling the graveyard, and eventually playing combo pieces from it to win the game.

Often times, you won't need to play Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim until the late game, if at all. The unnofficial commander of this deck is Lurrus of the Dream-Den. Lurrus lets us sacrifice our creatures for value and then replay them to do it all again. Also, Lurrus lets us treat our graveyard like our hand.

Value creatures:

• Dark Confidant: Extra cards are good
• Serra Ascendant: Lifegain on a flying stick that activates Ayli in 1-2 turns!
• Selfless Spirit: Who says Orzhov doesn't have counterspells? Combine this with Damnation for a good time.
• Stoneforge Mystic: A second copy of Skullclamp. If you can't get skullclamp, get Shard of Broken Glass for almost as much value.
• Stitcher's Supplier: It's a little known fact that they reprinted Ancestral Recall in black.
• Viscera Seer: A back up sac-outlet. Combine with Bitterblossom to dig deep.
• Weathered Wayfarer: A good way to search up Cabal Coffers + Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• Priest of Forgotten Gods: Ok this might not always be value. Use it when it's good, and not when it's bad.
• Bloodghast: Cheat on mana and cards. Sacrifice it a bunch.
• Karlov of the Ghost Council: Gets really big. Also, it's repeatable removal.
• Leonin Relic-Warder: Play this and sacrifice it in response to it's trigger. Permanent repeatable removal for 3 mana. Also it's a combo piece.
• Magus of the Balance: Combine this with Teferi's Protection for a one-sided Armageddon + Wrath of God . Combine it with Lion's Eye Diamond to make everyone discard their hand. (Optional: use the mana from LED to cast Lurrus and complete the lock.)

Honorary Mentions:

• Bitterblossom: Classic token generator. Use it to not die, or use it to generate value somehow.
• Legion's Landing  : A 1/1 creature that flips into a land? Combine this with Armageddon for a good time.
• Lotus Petal: Repeatable in our deck for a good time.

Hatebears and Prison Pieces:

Remember, the goal is to take game actions, but not let anyone else take game actions. Fun is a zero-sum game.

Bears:

• Drannith Magistrate: One-sided hate for a number of powerful strategies.
• Ethersworn Cannonist: Almost a 2 mana Rule of Law. Sacrifice this to Ayli or Skullclamp if you ever need to break the Law.
• Grand Abolisher: We get to do things, but they don't get to do things.
• Kataki, War's Wage: Taxes. Also, use this as a pseudo time-walk/board-wipe by playing it, passing turn and then sacrificing it to Ayli or Viscera seer before you untap.
• Spirit of the Labyrinth: We don't draw cards, so neither should our opponents.
• Thalia, Guardion of Thraben: Most of our good cards are creatures, but still be careful when you play this.

Prison:

• Authority of the Consuls: Slow them down and generate value for us.
• Meekstone: We don't have big creatures, so nobody should get to have big creatures.
• Thorn of Amethyst: Everybody slow down!*
• Winter Orb: See above.

*Except for us, that is.

Ok, but how do we win?

With a few combos, of course. There's a couple of criteria these combos need to fill. First, they should be playable from our graveyard. This makes them tutorable with Entomb, compatible with Lion's Eye Diamond, and recurable with Lurrus.

Primary wincon: Assemble Grindstone + Painter's Servant . This only kills one player at a time, so be careful who you choose, and use politics if necessary. Grindstone is great on it's own, and is a really strong tutor target in the early game.

Secondary wincon: Assemble Animate Dead + Leonin Relic-Warder with Zulaport Cutthroat in play. Sub in Dance of the Dead, Blood Artist, or Cruel Celebrant as necessary.

Things that totally wreck us:

Basically, grave-hate. Leyline of the Void and Rest in Peace are likely the worst culprits. The best option for this is to tutor up Leonin Relic-Warder and use it to get rid of the offending piece. (Then use it later to combo off and win!) You could alternatively gain enough life to cast Ayli and use her activated ability to get rid of the offending piece.

Another thing that totally wrecks us is people countering or removing Lurrus. Good luck with that :) Animate Dead and Dance of the Dead are your friends.

Budget Versions:

• $300 Version
• $100 Version coming soon

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Key combos	Grindstone + Painter's Servant Animate Dead + Leonin Relic-Warder Cabal Coffers + Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth Armageddon + Wrath of God
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 56 - 1 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	1.79
Tokens	Companion Zone, Faerie Rogue 1/1 B, Human 1/1 W, Vampire 1/1 W
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