Elephant tribal (Commander / EDH MTG Deck)

Elephant tribal

Commander / EDH GW (Selesnya)

Chrizz

Elephant (26)

Buff (5)

Protection (1)

1x Djeru's Resolve

Land (36)

Ramp (6)

Tribal (5)

Commander (1)

Card advantage (9)

Removal (7)

Other (4)

Maybeboard

Other (20)

Potentially swappable from main (6)

Elephant tribal

The commander Selvala, Explorer Returned handles mana and card draw, and also gains you live. This is further improved by Wirewood Lodge, Thousand-Year Elixir, Quest for Renewal and Djeru's Resolve.

The elephants are buffed by artifacts like Door of Destinies, Obelisk of Urd, Vanquisher's Banner and Icon of Ancestry.

I proxied Elephant Graveyard with a custom art because of its price and because I don't like playing old frame cards (pre-Mirrodin).

Some considerations I have made:

Brawn because it looks like an elephant. However, unfortunately it doesn't count as one, so it won't get buffed by all the tribal artifacts, so I left it out.

Coat of Arms because it buffs elephants, however it also buffs all other creature types. Our playgroup has a sphinx deck, a faerie deck, and a demon deck. I don't want to buff them, so I left it out.

Mammoth Umbra is of course very flavorful in this deck, however, the extra mana probably isn't worth it compared to Boar Umbra, Bear Umbra Hyena Umbra and Spider Umbra.

Furthermore, I'm still considering the cards in the maybe board.

After playing 2 games I'm considering the following things:

Remove Reliquary Tower and Thought Vessel since you usually only get one extra card per turn, and usually play more than one, so your hand doesn't actually get that full.

Remove Bow of Nylea since big creatures don't really need deathtouch.

Remove Loxodon Anchorite because it's just not very good.

Add Loxodon Warhammer, Benefactor's Draught, Garruk's Uprising, Primal Rage

Replacing Blossoming Sands, Graypelt Refuge, Stirring Wildwood and Grasslands with basic lands, because having too many tapped lands is annoying.

Changelog

Swapped Bow of Nylea for Loxodon Warhammer

Swapped Loxodon Anchorite for Primal Rage

Swapped Reliquary Tower for Garruk's Uprising

Swapped Thought Vessel for Benefactor's Draught

Swapped Loxodon Partisan for Shamanic Revelation

Swapped Loxodon Warhammer for Magewright's Stone

Swapped Blossoming Sands, Graypelt Refuge, Stirring Wildwood and Grasslands for 2 Forest and 2 Plains

Swapped Ghalma's Warden for Day of Judgment because there were no boardwipes in this deck. (Why not Wrath of God? Because I have a full art Day of Judgment and there are two regeneration effects in this deck.)

Swapped Bastion Mastodon for Kazandu Mammoth

Consider Heirloom Blade

Replaced Loxodon Stalwart and Woolly Loxodon with Rally the Ranks and Battle Mammoth

Replaced Civic Stalwart with Lulu, Loyal Hollyphant

Replaced Frontier Mastodon with Well of Lost Dreams

Replaced Heroic Intervention with Three Visits because I needed it more in another deck.

TODO add better ramp

Consider Conclave Sledge-Captain

Note to self: This deck is currently not complete because I used some cards for another deck, namely: Temple of Plenty, Eladamri's Call, Sundering Growth, Arcane Signet, Canopy Vista, Three Visits, Sol Ring 3x Plains.

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Third game — Aug. 6, 2020

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This four player game was quite fun. I had a good start with a Sol Ring and a Selesnya Signet. On turn four I was able to play Thorn Mammoth as well as Greenbelt Rampager thrice, clearing some small creatures as well as a Sun Titan. Next turn, I played Marshal's Anthem kicked once to return Thorn Mammoth which was then able to clear a Rakdos, Lord of Riots.

One of my opponent's decks had quite a few bounce effects, but this actually turned out quite well, because after the bounce, I played Door of Destinies after which I was able to cast Greenbelt Rampager three times again, giving Door of Destinies three counters. Two turns later, everything was bounced again, and I could do the same, and play another elephant. Now I had 7 counter on Door of Destinies. Next, I played Selvala's Charge which gave me three elephants, which were now 13/13 each, because of the 7 counters on Door of Destinies, Marshal's Anthem and Obelisk of Urd.

Unfortunately, by this point, one of my opponents was getting out of control. He had quite a big board, a lot of lands, Zendikar Resurgent, True Conviction and Thunderfoot Baloth. He played Mirror Entity and activated its ability for x=24 after which he swung, trampling right over my elephants, and killing everyone.

Second time playing — Aug. 2, 2020

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First time playing — July 25, 2020

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92% Casual

Competitive

Date added	3 years
Last updated	1 week
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 46 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.61
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Elephant 3/3 G, Knight 2/2 W w/ Vigilance
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