Dawn of the First Day

Commander / EDH LeMonado

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Tuning my pet deck —April 7, 2020

Now having a Serra's Sanctum, personally, I decided to make a few changes to accommodate that and soften this deck's Achilles' Heel: Wasteland/Strip Mine.

• Kiora's Follower > Consecrate Land

• Abundance > Crop Rotation

• City of Solitude > Swan Song

• Eldrazi Conscription > Overwhelming Splendor

Consecrate Land girds our Achilles' Heel and puts the deck ever closer to hitting the threshold needed for the Chain Veil combo.

With the addition of Setessan Champion, I don't feel too guilty about cutting Abundance for Crop Rotation. Crop Rotation is here as a second copy of Serra's Sanctum, or any other useful land. Words of Wind also prevents decking, so Abundance isn't really needed.

City of Solitude prevents opponents from interacting with other opponents' combos. Sure, it protects our own, but we aren't ever going to have the best combo at the table. The combo is an option and we can win without it.

Eldrazi Conscription is a win-condition once the combo has been performed, a way to stabilize the board, and a way to beat down fairly, however it doesn't do any of those things particularly well. The two factors that influenced this change have been the impact of Curse of Exhaustion and Frogify effects. Overwhelming Splendor is simply better than Eldrazi Conscription in this deck. "Oh, are you awake? I guess that story was a little boring for Tortus, wasn't it? Don't give up. Try again sometime."

New cards, new art, a revamped primer, and an enchantress player who really wants quarantine to END! As always, I will end by encouraging artists to put more of Majora's Mask to canvas/layer/paper. There is so much more of this game to capture.