[EDH][Primer] Adeline Anthem Beatdown

Commander / EDH Equip Humans Mono-White Primer Tokens Weenie

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Lands (30)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Bonders' Enclave
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Deserted Temple
• 1x Emeria, the Sky Ruin
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Hall of the Bandit Lord
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Minas Tirith
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 9x Plains
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Three Tree City
• 1x Urza's Saga
• 1x War Room
• 1x Wasteland
• 1x Windswept Heath

Removal (10)

• 1x Cleansing Nova
• 1x Disenchant
• 1x Generous Gift
• 1x Godsend
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Return to Dust
• 1x Stroke of Midnight
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Thraben Charm
• 1x Wrath of God

Win-Cons (3)

• 1x Dragon Throne of Tarkir
• 1x Helm of the Host
• 1x Mirror Entity

Anthems (14)

• 1x Angel of Jubilation
• 1x Anointed Procession *f-pre*
• 1x Cathars' Crusade
• 1x Coppercoat Vanguard
• 1x Court Street Denizen
• 1x Dolmen Gate
• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1x Flowering of the White Tree
• 1x Goldnight Commander
• 1x Greymond, Avacyn's Stalwart
• 1x Honor of the Pure
• 1x Konda's Banner
• 1x Leonin Shikari
• 1x Sigarda's Aid

Mana Advantage (10)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Land Tax
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mox Amber
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sword of the Animist

Tutors (5)

• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Open the Armory
• 1x Recruiter of the Guard
• 1x Steelshaper's Gift
• 1x Stoneforge Mystic

Token-Generators (3)

• 1x Elspeth, Sun's Champion
• 1x Hero of Bladehold
• 1x Myrel, Shield of Argive

Recursion (2)

• 1x Sevinne's Reclamation
• 1x Sun Titan

Commander (1)

Card Advantage (12)

• 1x Argent Dais
• 1x Chivalric Alliance
• 1x Cut a Deal
• 1x Esper Sentinel
• 1x Mask of Memory
• 1x Memory Jar
• 1x Rumor Gatherer
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Tome of Legends
• 1x Trouble in Pairs
• 1x Welcoming Vampire

Protection (8)

• 1x Commander's Plate
• 1x Darksteel Plate
• 1x Dawn's Truce
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mother of Runes
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Teferi's Protection
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak *f-list*

Misc. Equipment (2)

• 1x Batterskull
• 1x Shadowspear

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Anthems (9)

• 1x Beregond of the Guard
• 1x Eldrazi Monument
• 1x Glorious Anthem
• 1x Legion Loyalty
• 1x Mondrak, Glory Dominus
• 1x Moonshaker Cavalry
• 1x Prava of the Steel Legion
• 1x Signal Pest
• 1x Spear of Heliod

Prison/Stax/Hate Effects (1)

• 1x Grafdigger's Cage

Card Advantage (5)

• 1x Bennie Bracks, Zoologist
• 1x Chivalric Alliance
• 1x Martyr's Cry
• 1x Rogue's Gloves
• 1x Tocasia's Welcome

Removal (4)

• 1x Austere Command
• 1x Erase
• 1x Fragmentize
• 1x Peace and Quiet

Protection (5)

• 1x Bastion Protector
• 1x Comeuppance
• 1x Fanatical Devotion
• 1x Martyr's Cause
• 1x Scapegoat

Mana Advantage (1)

• 1x Defiler of Faith

Misc. Equipment (1)

• 1x O-Naginata

Token Generators (1)

• 1x Darien, King of Kjeldor

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Please be aware that the primer is under construction.

A rather quick brew around Adeline, Resplendent Cathar. She's very similar to another general, Brimaz, King of Oreskos, who is one of my favorite legendary creatures in all of Magic. However, I think Adeline is a better general than Brimaz due to her explosiveness, and as such, this decklist could be considered an evolution of my Brimaz deck.

Adeline is a very powerful and incredibly explosive combat-based weenie commander, with the potential to do insane damage rather quickly due to her essentially making three tokens every time a creature you control swings. Despite being 1/1 tokens, with anthem effects these tokens can quickly grow out of control.

The deck is designed with zero infinite combos. It wins through beating the ever-loving shit out of our opponents by punching them in the face. Despite not having any infinite combos, the deck is still incredibly powerful and as I said can get out of control very quickly.

Win-Cons

The deck primarily wins through spamming multiple anthem effects to do large amounts of damage very quickly, or through commander damage.

Anthem Wins:

• Cathars' Crusade - The creatures made from Adeline, Resplendent Cathar all enter at once, and as such they each get three +1/+1 counters. Just one attack from Adeline with Cathars' Crusade out has the potential to deal 19 points of damage in an instant (Adeline would be a 7/7, the three tokens would all be 4/4s).
• Goldnight Commander - Basically identical to Cathars' Crusade, except the anthem effect disappears at the end of turn. Still very ridiculous though, as you can easily deal 19 points of damage off of just one swing (Adeline would be a 7/7, the three tokens would all be 4/4s).
• Mirror Entity - Let's just casually make all of our tokens 4/4s instead of 1/1s. The anthem effects still happen, so you could easily make your army of 4/4s into an army of 7/7s at instant speed. Adeline still gets her bonus power from the number of creatures in play, so you could easily go from swinging for 7 damage (4/4 Adeline, three 1/1 tokens) to swinging for 20 damage (8/4 Adeline, three 4/4 tokens) at instant speed for seven mana, if you include the casting cost of Mirror Entity. You could swing for way more if you pair Mirror Entity with either of the two above, or any anthem effect for that matter.

Commander Damage:

• Stoneforge Masterwork - This is basically the same as Veteran's Armaments. All the tokens Adeline creates are humans, which share a creature type with her as she is a human. Plus, outside of tokens we run ~18 humans in the deck, so even if you aren't swinging with all your creatures odds are you'll be getting at least +4/+4 or +5/+5 from it. Note: does not count Adeline herself when adding to her power or toughness.
• Veteran's Armaments - This essentially gives Adeline +4/+4 every combat, as you will always swing with at least four creatures. If your tokens end up sticking around, you can easily give Adeline some insane numbers, easily allowing you to one-shot or two-shot players. Note: does count Adeline herself when adding to her power or toughness.

Cards Cut

These are cards I've cut from the deck before. Some cards might be added back in depending on further testing and if I desire to change the direction of the deck eventually.

• Akroma's Memorial - This card is great in token go-wide strategies like what I'm trying to do here with this deck, however, this is a very fast deck that wants to be aggressive early. I view it more of a "win-more" card in Adeline. Cut in favor of Court Street Denizen because it kind of allows us to do what Akroma's Memorial does in the first place - get around other people's creatures.
• Avacyn, Angel of Hope - I love Avacyn. She's one of my favorite cards in Magic. However, her CMC is a little much for what this deck wants to do, despite her phenomenal ability. Cut in favor of Mangara, the Diplomat because you can never have enough methods of card draw.
• Elspeth, Sun's Champion - This card could actually go back into the deck. Even though I really do not like planeswalkers because in my opinion they're quite slow, this is my 2nd favorite planeswalker card (the first being Garruk, Primal Hunter). Cut in favor of Coppercoat Vanguard as he provides a nice anthem effect for a lot cheaper.
• Expedition Map - This literally did absolutely nothing for me, as I find myself fine on lands and I'd rather use the mana I do have to cast other things. Cut in favor of Disenchant for artifact and enchantment removal.
• Gilded Lotus - I really like Gilded Lotus, but as I'm continuously trying to lower the average CMC of the deck, I don't need as many sources of mana. Cut in favor of Rumor Gatherer for more card advantage.
• Guardian of Faith - I initially had this in the deck to offer protection to Adeline, but it honestly hasn't done much beyond take up a card slot as I haven't found it very useful. Cut in favor of Metallic Mimic, as we run 18 humans in the deck, and the tokens Adeline creates are humans, allowing us to quickly build our board's power and toughness.
• Honor of the Pure - Legit only being replaced because powercreep. Replaced with Flowering of the White Tree because it's just a straight better version of Honor of the Pure.
• Odric, Lunarch Marshal - I do still like Odric, but I think Myrel, Shield of Argive's effect is much more powerful than Odric's. Cut in favor of Myrel, Shield of Argive because a method of protection and an additional token maker is always good.
• Oketra's Monument - In the grand scheme of things, this hardly does anything. Yes, it does reduce the CMC of our creatures by one generic and makes a token upon casting a white creature, but in the end it provides no real benefit. Cut in favor of Infiltration Lens, as I want to lower the CMC of the deck and add more methods of card draw.
• Soul Warden - I already cut all the lifegain synergistic cards out of the deck, so really no point in keeping Soul Warden in the deck. Cut in favor of Demystify for additional enchantment removal.
• Soul's Attendant - I initially had wanted a sub-theme of lifegain, however, I opted not to go too deep and include basically only Soul Warden and Soul's Attendant with little-to-no reward or payoff as Cosmos Elixir and Dawn of Hope didn't make the list. I still might put the sub-theme back in if I ever get my hands on an Archangel of Thune, but for now, there are better options. Cut in favor of Swiftfoot Boots because I'm stupid and forgot to put it in the initial decklist.
• Sword of Sinew and Steel - I have cut this due to the lack of red in my playgroup. Cut in favor of Honor of the Pure to add an additional anthem effect.
• Sword of Truth and Justice - I initially had this in the deck because most of the removal used by my playgroup is white and blue. It still might be added back in, but for now, the effect itself is kind of negligible and slow. Cut in favor of Anointed Procession, which can easily cause the game to spiral out of control in our favor the turn it comes down.

Cards Testing

I'm currently testing the following cards:

• Mondrak, Glory Dominus over ???
• Moonshaker Cavalry over ??? - I'm really iffy on this card. When it was spoiled everyone was super pumped for it; I was as well. However, after thinking about it, by the time I get to play this card, I've either already won the game or I've already lost. This is very much a "win-more" card in my opinion, and it honestly likely won't be added in. Still debating about it though.

Deck last updated 10/17/2024.

Description last updated 4/27/2024.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	1 week
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	23 - 0 Mythic Rares 49 - 0 Rares 14 - 0 Uncommons 4 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.64
Tokens	Construct 0/0 C, Copy Clone, Elephant 3-3 G, Emblem Elspeth, Sun's Champion, Human 1/1 W, Knight 2/2 WU, Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B, Soldier, Soldier 1/1 W, Treasure
Folders	Other peoples decks, Astro's Personal Decks