Dante's Inferno - 9 circles of hell (Commander / EDH MTG Deck)

I usually build commander decks with a theme or a tribe but I usually tune the deck to me powerful enough to sit at most tables or to be the best I can make it sometimes sacrificing flavor for synergy and strength. This time I have been challenged to make a deck themed around a story or art and stick purely to flavor and I have chosen Dante's Inferno and his 9 circles of hell.

Each circle will have a nonland permanent representing that circle and the character met in that circle

Limbo - "The first circle contains the unbaptized and the virtuous pagans, who, although not sinful enough to warrant damnation, did not accept Christ" "the guiltless damned are punished by living in a deficient form of Heaven."

Lust - "the first of the circles of Incontinence – where the punishments of Hell proper begin. It is described as "a part where no thing gleams" In the second circle of Hell are those overcome by lust. These "carnal malefactors"[30] are condemned for allowing their appetites to sway their reason. These souls are buffeted back and forth by the terrible winds of a violent storm, without rest. " Dante meets Minos in this circle

Gluttony - "In the third circle, the gluttonous wallow in a vile, putrid slush produced by a ceaseless, foul, icy rain – "a great storm of putrefaction"[40] – as punishment for subjecting their reason to a voracious appetite." In this circle Dante meets Cerberus

Greed - "Those whose attitude toward material goods deviated from the appropriate mean are punished in the fourth circle. They include the avaricious or miserly who hoarded possessions, and the prodigal, who squandered them. The hoarders and spendthrifts joust, using as weapons great weights that they push with their chests" Here Dante meets Plutus

Wrath - "In the swampy, stinking waters of the river Styx – the Fifth Circle – the actively wrathful fight each other viciously on the surface of the slime, while the sullen (the passively wrathful) lie beneath the water, withdrawn, "into a black sulkiness which can find no joy in God or man or the universe" "

Heresy - "When reaching the Sixth Circle of Hell, Dante and Virgil see heretics who are condemned to eternity in flaming tombs" Dante sees Pope Anastasius II which today is highly contested and possibly condemned but I wont go into why I believe it is the Pope and I choose to believe it is.

Violence - "The Seventh Circle of Hell is divided into three rings. The Outer Ring houses murderers and others who were violent to other people and property, In the Middle Ring, the poet sees suicides who have been turned into trees and bushes which are fed upon by harpies,But he also sees here profligates, chased and torn to pieces by dogs. In the Inner Ring are blasphemers and sodomites, residing in a desert of burning sand and burning rain falling from the sky." Dante meets the centaur Nessus

Fraud - "The Eighth Circle is a large funnel of stone shaped like an amphitheatre around which run a series of ten deep, narrow, concentric ditches or trenches called bolge (singular: bolgia). Within these ditches are punished those guilty of Simple Fraud" Dante meets Malacoda leader of the Malebranch

Treachery - "At the base of the well, Dante finds himself within a large frozen lake: Cocytus, the Ninth Circle of Hell. Trapped in the ice, each according to his guilt, are punished sinners guilty of treachery against those with whom they had special relationships." Dante meets Lucifer

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Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 49 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.98
Tokens	Gold, Zombie 2/2 B
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