Command the Angels

Commander / EDH* Angels Goodstuff GW (Selesnya) Lifegain Ramp Tribal

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Land (38)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Bant Panorama
• 1x Brushland
• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Emeria, the Sky Ruin
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 6x Forest
• 1x Gavony Township
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Naya Panorama
• 8x Plains
• 1x Razorverge Thicket
• 1x Scattered Groves
• 1x Selesnya Sanctuary
• 1x Stirring Wildwood
• 1x Sungrass Prairie
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Temple of Plenty
• 1x Unclaimed Territory
• 1x Warped Landscape
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Bastion

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Defy Death
• 1x Entreat the Angels
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Primal Command
• 1x Time of Need

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Ajani Unyielding
• 1x Vivien Reid

Creature (21)

• 1x Angel of Serenity
• 1x Angelic Arbiter
• 1x Angelic Skirmisher
• 1x Archangel of Thune
• 1x Archangel of Tithes
• 1x Avacyn, Angel of Hope
• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Baneslayer Angel
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Dragonlord Dromoka
• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1x Elvish Piper
• 1x Emeria Shepherd
• 1x Herald of War
• 1x Iona, Shield of Emeria
• 1x Lyra Dawnbringer
• 1x Resplendent Angel
• 1x Selvala, Explorer Returned
• 1x Shalai, Voice of Plenty
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Thalia, Heretic Cathar

Artifact (11)

• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Herald's Horn
• 1x Lifecrafter's Bestiary
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Moonsilver Spear
• 1x Pearl Medallion
• 1x Selesnya Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Commander (1)

Enchantment (12)

• 1x Angelic Accord
• 1x Cast Out
• 1x Colossal Majesty
• 1x Conclave Tribunal
• 1x Descendants' Path
• 1x Elemental Bond
• 1x Luminarch Ascension
• 1x Mirari's Wake
• 1x Mirri's Guile
• 1x Rancor
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Zendikar Resurgent

Instant (9)

• 1x Dromoka's Command
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Kindred Summons
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Worldly Tutor

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Maybeboard

Creature (5)

• 1x Armada Wurm
• 1x Copperhorn Scout
• 1x Linvala, Keeper of Silence
• 1x Linvala, the Preserver
• 1x Spike Feeder

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Moat

Artifact (1)

• 1x Door of Destinies

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This is my entry deck to EDH. So yea, I guess.

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Strategies and the cards used for it.

Angel Tribal

As this is an Angel Tribal deck, this deck's mean focus is Angels. There are some cards that reward you from playing a certain creature type (ie. Angels in my case):

• Herald's Horn makes everything in my tribe cheaper and can get an Angel on top of my library into my hand.

• Descendants' Path lets me get through those grindier games by allowing me to cast some free Angels.

• Kindred Summons allows me to go wide then get lots of Angels for free.

• Herald of War makes my Angels cheaper to cast.

• Cavern of Souls and Unclaimed Territory both allow me to use a mana of any color to cast Angel Spells.

• Lyra Dawnbringer pumps up all of my Angels

And how do I get Angels out onto the board?

• All creatures with the subtype Angel

• All my ramp

• Elvish Piper

• Angelic Accord gives an Angel token.

• Resplendent Angel also gives an Angel token.

• Luminarch Ascension gives me Angels if I don't lose life.

• Defy Death allows me to get an Angel back from the graveyard with a power toughness boost.

• Entreat the Angels gives me lots of Angels.

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Lifegain

The other main theme, apart from Angel tribal, is Lifegain and there are a few cards that give you a reward for gaining life each turn. Here they are:

• Angelic Accord gives an Angel token.

• Resplendent Angel also gives an Angel token.

• Archangel of Thune puts a +1/+1 counter on each creature I control.

Now, we must gain the life! How do we do that?

• Lyra Dawnbringer gives all my Angels +1/+1, and, most importantly, Lifelink.

• Angelic Skirmisher is an extremely good card for when Lyra is not around. She can also give creatures Lifelink, and if that is not needed, then she can give either First Strike or Vigilance.

• Swords to Plowshares can give me life, but I'd rather use it on an opponent's creatures.

• One of Primal Command's modes is to give 7 life.

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Go Wide

Another main strategy is to produce lots of Angel tokens and "Go Wide". So what are our payoff cards?

• Lyra Dawnbringer is a payoff card because she gives a buff to all Angels.

• Shalai, Voice of Plenty and Archangel of Thune both can out a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

• Elemental Bond gives me cards, as most of my creatures have power three or greater.

• Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite, again, gives a buff to all Angels (and other creatures too!).

• Kindred Summons allows me to go wide then get lots of Angels for free.

So how do we get so many Angels?

• Angelic Accord and Resplendent Angel both give Angel tokens when I gain a certain amount of life.

• Entreat the Angels also gives me Angels, but I have to pay mana for it.

• Elvish Piper allows us to cheat Angels into play.

• Herald's Horn makes everything in my tribe cheaper and can get an Angel on top of my library into my hand.

• Descendants' Path lets me get through those grindier games by allowing me to cast some free Angels.

Ramp and Manabase

I based my manabase off of the Prof's Two-color Manabase guide but made some changes in order to fit the deck.

Commmander and alternate Commanders

Right now, I have Sigarda, Host of Herons as my default commander. However, if I need to, I have a few other different commanders if I want to change things up. Here is my list of all other possible commanders for this deck, in my deck.

• Dragonlord Dromoka

• Selvala, Explorer Returned

• Shalai, Voice of Plenty (I can use her as my commander as she has green in her text box.

Maybeboard

• Spike Feeder can go infinte with Archangel of Thune, but I haven't put it in the deck yet as I don't know if it really would work.

• Moat might be useful as most of the guys I want to attack with have flying.

• Copperhorn Scout gives psudo-vigilance.

• Both Linvalas I am still thinking about.

Big Thanks to...

I would like to say a big huge thanks to all the people who helped me make this deck

• FancyTuesday

• Homelessguy

• jordybear2002

• StevTheRenegade

• enpc

• Firegriff

• BlackyMTG

• multimedia

• bushido_man96

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Exclude colors	UBR
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	15 - 0 Mythic Rares 42 - 0 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.69
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Angel 4/4 W w/ Vigilance, Emblem Vivien Reid