Budget-ish Agro/Combo Najeela

Commander / EDH*

Nitaisonnenfeld

Lands (36)

• 1x Battlefield Forge
• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 2x Forest
• 1x Frontier Bivouac
• 1x Gemstone Caverns
• 1x Grand Coliseum
• 1x Island
• 1x Jungle Shrine
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Opulent Palace
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Plains
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Rejuvenating Springs
• 1x Savage Lands
• 1x Seaside Citadel
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Spectator Seating
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Thriving Bluff
• 1x Thriving Grove
• 1x Thriving Isle
• 1x Training Center
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Vault of Champions
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Other (2)

• 1x Angel's Grace
• 1x Impact Tremors

Stack Interaction (12)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Delay
• 1x Dovin's Veto
• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Memory Lapse
• 1x Negate
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Perplex
• 1x Ricochet Trap
• 1x Swerve
• 1x Veil of Summer

Combo Stuff (9)

• 1x Bear Umbra
• 1x Bring to Light
• 1x Derevi, Empyrial Tactician
• 1x Druids' Repository
• 1x Song of Freyalise
• 1x Step Through
• 1x Summoner's Pact
• 1x Time of Need
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Evasion (7)

• 1x Aven Wind Guide
• 1x Blood-Chin Rager
• 1x Champion of Lambholt
• 1x Kargan Intimidator
• 1x Marisi, Breaker of the Coil
• 1x Reconnaissance
• 1x Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

Ramp (6)

• 1x Brighthearth Banneret
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Faeburrow Elder
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Harvest Season
• 1x Sol Ring

Protection for Najeela (2)

• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Wrap in Vigor

Commander (1)

Card Draw (9)

• 1x Bident of Thassa
• 1x Coastal Piracy
• 1x Distant Melody
• 1x Edric, Spymaster of Trest
• 1x Mindblade Render
• 1x Raiders' Spoils
• 1x Reconnaissance Mission
• 1x Species Specialist
• 1x Sylvan Library

General Warriors (9)

• 1x Alesha, Who Smiles at Death
• 1x Bramblewood Paragon
• 1x Changeling Outcast
• 1x Chatterfang, Squirrel General
• 1x Chief of the Edge
• 1x Decorated Champion
• 1x Honored Crop-Captain
• 1x Mist-Cloaked Herald
• 1x Rushblade Commander

Combat Stuff (3)

• 1x Beastmaster Ascension
• 1x Cathars' Crusade
• 1x Shared Animosity

Removal (3)

• 1x Hull Breach
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Path to Exile

Boardwipes (1)

• 1x Harsh Mercy

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Warriors (9)

• 1x Alesha, Who Smiles at Death
• 1x Brutal Hordechief
• 1x Grand Warlord Radha
• 1x Narnam Renegade
• 1x Ogre Battledriver
• 1x Radha, Heir to Keld
• 1x Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh
• 1x Rubblebelt Raiders
• 1x Shanna, Sisay's Legacy

Ramp (1)

• 1x Radha, Heart of Keld

Stack Interaction (4)

• 1x Annul
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Mana Leak
• 1x Red Elemental Blast

Board Wipes (1)

• 1x Necromantic Selection

Card Draw (1)

• 1x Azra Oddsmaker

Combo Stuff (1)

• 1x Dark Petition

Lands (1)

• 1x Caves of Koilos

Stax Stuff (1)

• 1x War's Toll

Removal (3)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Despark
• 1x Utter End

Protection for Najeela (2)

• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Combat Stuff (1)

• 1x Ankle Shanker

Other (1)

• 1x Gitaxian Probe

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A soon to be IRL Najeela deck.

Can win without a combo but leans towards winning through that tutoring out or finding either Derevi, Empyrial Tactician, Bear Umbra, Druids' Repository and if you have enough creatures, Song of Freyalise. There are a couple budget and efficient tutors for Derevi which I used in this deck - Time of Need, Step Through, Summoner's Pact (Which is especially useful since you hopefully win that turn and thus don't need to pay), and Bring to Light. This, combined with the explosive card draw, should allow you to combo pretty early on. There are a couple of counterspells to back up the combo and in general control the board and if needed, protect Najeela, but the deck could perhaps do with a couple (Maybe 4?) more. I am testing that right now.

The mana base is an attempt to nail a budget mana base that allows you access to most colors and hopefully by a certain point to all colors, but that doesn't slow down the pretty agro gameplan too much. The BFZ fetchable cycle is a bad but sadly (due to budget constraints) needed replacement for shocklands. I have 2 fetches in the deck, and soon perhaps 3, depending on how well a trade I am trying to do will go. They are not too good right now due to the lack of shocks. This might change in the future.

There are a couple cards that can end the game if you have 5-6 warriors and your opponents don't have enough blockers - Beastmaster Ascension, Cathars' Crusade and Shared Animosity. I have actually accidentally killed someone with shared animosity while testing the deck and trying to pull off a big Harvest Season. They are very strong in the deck.

There is some evasion, though the deck could do with a bit more. And that's pretty much it, I think. Would appreciate suggestions.

Date added	2 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 42 - 0 Rares 28 - 0 Uncommons 19 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.48
Tokens	Aven Wind Guide 2/3 W, Squirrel 1/1 G, Warrior 1/1 W