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Blood for the Blood Avatar: An Extus Guide

Commander / EDH* Infinite Combo Persist RBW (Mardu) Storm Tokens

Alearin


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I believe Extus, Oriq Overlord   is one of the most powerful commander to come out in Strixhaven and is being overlooked in favor of flashy dragons, Simic things, and a better Boros. From what I have seen people think Extus, Oriq Overlord   is simply an aristocrat style commander; and while he can be built that way, I believe building him that way is trap. He is not as good as other commanders we already have for an aristocrat playstyle and his true strengths lay in properly using Awaken the Blood Avatar and the fact that no matter how many times it gets countered/cast you will always have access to it.

This deck may or may not be the best build for Extus, Oriq Overlord  , but the the style is way more powerful than simple value aristocrat. The current builds of this deck is super consistent and fast, often winning around turn 5; however, it can win on turn 1 with the correct hand.

If, after reading the below and trying it for yourself, you don't think Extus, Oriq Overlord   is powerful, I would love to hear your comments below.

The guiding idea of the deck is to get one of the infinite colored mana combos running, cast your commander sorcery a million times, and then win; either by declaring an attack with all your hasty tokens and doing 3x the number of tokens damage to each player or by having one of the cards under WinCons on the field or in hand to cast when you go off.

The deck originally was designed to create lots of tokens to sac to the Blood Avatar and then copy the cast as many times as possible. However, play testing showed that was too slow and unreliable for my meta. Since not everyone likes playing with infinite combos I have left the cards I was looking at for the original build of the deck in the Maybe board.

Please use whatever infinite mana combos that fit these colors for which you have the cards. The ones I have are explained below.

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Focus on of this deck is to cast Awaken the Blood Avatar as many times as you want and the win conditions of the deck focus on that game plan. The basic win condition of the deck is you just use the Blood Avatar tokens to attack for the win. However, there are a couple of cards included to help ensure the win without the combat step by using the cast of Awaken the Blood Avatar or the Blood Avatar token entering the battlefield to do damage to your opponents.

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As I stated earlier, with the correct hand you can win on turn 1. This is the hand and how to do it.

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Casual

95% Competitive

Date added 2 years
Last updated 2 years
Exclude colors UG
Splash colors WBR
Legality

This deck is Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

8 - 0 Mythic Rares

40 - 0 Rares

17 - 0 Uncommons

14 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 2.48
Tokens Avatar 3/6 BR, Copy Clone, Elephant 3/3 G, Treasure
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