Dralnu, Lich Lord EDH

Commander / EDH Control UB (Dimir)

Severijn

Instant (25)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Careful Consideration
• 1x Condescend
• 1x Consume the Meek
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Doom Blade
• 1x Eyeblight's Ending
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Foil
• 1x Forbidden Alchemy
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Hinder
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Memory Plunder
• 1x Mystical Teachings
• 1x Nemesis Trap
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Ray of Command
• 1x Recoil
• 1x Repulse
• 1x Spelljack
• 1x Thwart
• 1x Tribute to Hunger

Sorcery (19)

• 1x Ancestral Memories
• 1x Ashes to Ashes
• 1x Barrin's Spite
• 1x Barter in Blood
• 1x Blatant Thievery
• 1x Brainbite
• 1x Consuming Vapors
• 1x Curse of the Cabal
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Hex
• 1x Knowledge Exploitation
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Rise from the Grave
• 1x River's Grasp
• 1x Syphon Flesh
• 1x Tidings
• 1x Time Reversal
• 1x Twisted Justice
• 1x Windfall

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Seer's Vision

Artifact (3)

• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Oblivion Stone
• 1x Sphinx-Bone Wand

Creature (16)

• 1x Bloodgift Demon
• 1x Chancellor of the Dross
• 1x Chancellor of the Spires
• 1x Dralnu, Lich Lord
• 1x Dream Fighter
• 1x Echo Mage
• 1x Evil Twin
• 1x Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1x Lone Revenant
• 1x Reaper from the Abyss
• 1x Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1x Soratami Savant
• 1x Sphinx of Uthuun
• 1x Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
• 1x Vampire Nighthawk
• 1x Wrexial, the Risen Deep

Land (36)

• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Dreadship Reef
• 16x Island
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 1x Nephalia Drownyard
• 13x Swamp
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Vivid Creek
• 1x Vivid Marsh

Commander (1)

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A Dralnu, lich lord deck that buries target player(s) under massive card advantage and crushes their hopes and dreams under a wave of demons(with very few 'staples').

The deck operates by basically crushing the offence of any creature-based deck it encounters and disrupting the combo players long enough for its own finishers to quickly grind out your opponent.A regular game of dralnu starts with just playing out land after land per turn and clearing any early threats with an assortment of wrath-like effects and point removal for the bigger threats. It also plays a couple of creatures that are excellent blockers, like the vampire nighthawk and the dream fighter, and also some good disruption creatures, like the glen elendra archmage and the soratami savant. The early goal is to just play one land per turn, since I'm not running any mana artifacts(since I nuke those, and I need stable mana sources).

The suite of counterspells usually are there to stop the must-counter threats to this deck such as armageddon, lurking predators, or a planeswalker like nicol bolas. If they don't have those, you can also just protect your finisher if you don't have another one in hand.

I play relatively few lands. Instead I play a couple of cantrips. These fetch the lands I need early on and dig for spells later on. Also, the deck can easily win without dralnu, but with dralnu these cantrips will up me another free card. Dralnu himself is incredibly powerful if he sticks. He'll softlock your opponent usually. I advise to not play this against a burn heavy red deck though.

Finally, this deck is multiplayer focused and still somewhat casual. Feel free to change the less impressive cards like echo mage and lone revenant, hex, sphinx-bone wand if you're into a competitive deck. Though let it be known that lone revenant blocks like a king :)

Date added	11 years
Last updated	11 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 28 - 0 Rares 25 - 0 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	101
Avg. CMC	4.32
Tokens	Ape 3/3 G, Copy Clone, Zombie 2/2 B