Battlecruiser Etali

Commander / EDH Artifact Battlecruiser Budget Haste Mono-Red Ramp

Pscioed

Land (40)

• 1x Hanweir Battlements  ^Meld
• 1x Shatterskull Smashing  ^Flip
• 1x Valakut Awakening  ^Flip
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Forgotten Cave
• 1x Labyrinth of Skophos
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 24x Mountain
• 1x Guildless Commons
• 1x Bonders' Enclave
• 1x War Room
• 1x Flamekin Village
• 1x Maze of Ith

ExtraCombat (6)

• 1x Moraug, Fury of Akoum
• 1x Port Razer
• 1x Fury of the Horde
• 1x Relentless Assault
• 1x World at War
• 1x Seize the Day

Removal (6)

• 1x Tibalt's Trickery
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Scour from Existence
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Relic of Progenitus

Ramp (15)

• 1x Unstable Obelisk
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Dreamstone Hedron
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Skyclave Relic
• 1x Worn Powerstone
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Mana Geyser
• 1x Caged Sun

Draw (9)

• 1x Thaumatic Compass  ^Flip
• 1x Stolen Strategy
• 1x Tome of Legends
• 1x Sunbird's Invocation
• 1x Endless Atlas
• 1x Coveted Jewel
• 1x Ugin, the Ineffable
• 1x Mind's Eye
• 1x Jeska's Will

BoardWipe (4)

• 1x Chain Reaction
• 1x Star of Extinction
• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x All is Dust

Commander (1)

Haste (11)

• 1x Tuktuk Rubblefort
• 1x Bloodsworn Steward
• 1x Otepec Huntmaster
• 1x Ogre Battledriver
• 1x In the Web of War
• 1x Crashing Drawbridge
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Hammer of Purphoros
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Fervor
• 1x Anger

Utility (5)

• 1x Reverberate
• 1x Bolt Bend
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak
• 1x Strionic Resonator
• 1x Commander's Plate

Recursion (3)

• 1x Codex Shredder
• 1x Daretti, Scrap Savant
• 1x Scrap Mastery

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A relatively budget deck for under $200, with a strong focus on playing Etali early with haste, and replaying him again a few times after he inevitably gets killed. There's an emphasis on card draw, as my playgroup tends to play lots of planar cleansing effects, and the most reliable way to come back after all the mana rocks explode is to play new ones.

The name of the game is consistency, we want to make sure that every game we are playing Etali to get that sweet attack trigger. As a result, the commonly played theme of top deck manipulation and sneak attack style cheating of mana cost is entirely cut. No sensei's, scroll rack, ulamog, kozilek, etc. This is to make room for more cards which can allow recasting Etali for 12 mana with haste as soon as the 2nd turn after somebody resolved play of the game. That's a real goal of the deck, and compromises have to be made.

I own this deck in paper. Of course, it's not this exact list anymore, but within 5 cards.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 40 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.77
Tokens	Copy Clone, Emblem Daretti, Scrap Savant, Enchantment Golem 3/3 C, Spirit 2/2 C