Cobra Kai Til I Die *Updated, Come see!*

Commander / EDH Forceofnature1

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First time playing with a full table —Oct. 27, 2016

Well that was a success! This deck runs very well as built, but playing it against other people identified a few weak points:

1. Board wipes. I need at least one in my starting hand. My early game is slooooow so I need a well-timed Damnation to slow things down and let me move my game along. Pestilence is by far the best removal I have but when one guy drops a Dissipation Field I wished I had kept my Decree of Pain in here.

2. Spot removal: Using my planeswalkers works and using eldrazi works but dang it if I could use some early game spot removal that is cheeeeeeap. What I have now is flavorful, and thankfully

3. Who to take out: I really love all the cards in here... they all do something and most of it is good. I could take some suggestions on what to pull out to streamline it.

So this is how the game play went:

Game 1: not enough black mana to do what I needed to do. Wouldn't have been a problem but I was playing a mono green elves and mono white soldiers that made their weenies big quick. Since a lot of my card draw also makes me lose life Moonlight Bargain I was stuck and quickly eliminated.

Game 2: Had a Damnation in my opening hand. Spent the first few turns mana ramping with my Burnished Hart while everyone else built up their board state. Cast the Damnation and reset things, then popped out kalitas and a Crypt Ghast. mana doubling is great and I was able to pop out Ugin and start mass removing board threats with his exile ability.

The mono blue player had a ton of "put back in your hand" but that was fine for me as I was casting Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre and was able to bounce back pretty quickly as most of my mana ramp was land tutoring.

Between Ugin's exile ability, Kalitas' exile ability, and the eldrazi I kept dropping... the game went my way. One person rage scooped after used Pestilence to board wipe then swung at him with Ulamog causing him to sac lands. The other two quickly realized it was not going to go much better for them and after waiting a turn for an answer they conceded as well.

What I like:

I like that this deck has threats at every stage. Kalitas is a big threat early on and fairly cheap (turn two Dark Ritual) but without the sac engine in place causing others to sac too he is only a half threat. Late game I have a lot of fatties that are able to reap destruction wholesale. I ended up dumping a bunch of creatures into my graveyard at one point to Living Death which was very enjoyable.

Fun deck to play, could definitely be streamlined so I'll probably work on that a little then bling it out.