Elven Empire (+Budget Upgrades)
Commander / EDH
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Initial improvements (no card over $2 added) —June 2, 2021
The goal with these changes was to ensure I can rebuild a board if the elves get taken out, and to get onto the field faster. I was mainly looking for more cheap elves (Llanowar Elves & Co), card draw (Lifecrafter's Bestiary, Read the Bones, Primordial Sage), and board insurance (Skemfar Avenger, Species Specialist, Golgari Charm). When deciding on cuts, I took an extremely critical look at any cards that cost over 3 mana, and took out some Regrowth effects, as I'd rather draw elves than go fishing for them from the graveyard.
REMOVED
1x Bounty of Skemfar 1x Casualties of War 1x Crown of Skemfar 1x Elderfang Ritualist 1x Eyeblight Cullers 1x Eyeblight Massacre 2x Forest 1x Foul Orchard 1x Golgari Guildgate 1x Harvest Season 1x Jaspera Sentinel 1x Jungle Hollow 1x Lys Alana Scarblade 1x Myriad Landscape 1x Nullmage Shepherd 1x Pride of the Perfect 1x Return Upon the Tide 1x Rhys the Exiled 1x Roots of Wisdom 1x Serpent's Soul-Jar 1x Skemfar Elderhall 1x Swamp 1x Sylvan Messenger 1x Tergrid's Shadow 1x Twinblade Assassins 1x Voice of the Woods
ADDED
1x Arbor Elf 1x Bojuka Bog 1x Copperhorn Scout 1x Dwynen's Elite 1x Elves of Deep Shadow 1x Elvish Clancaller 1x Elvish Dreadlord 1x Elvish Visionary 1x Fyndhorn Elves 1x Gnarlroot Trapper 1x Golgari Charm 1x Grim Backwoods 1x Immaculate Magistrate 1x Lifecrafter's Bestiary 1x Llanowar Elves 1x Llanowar Visionary 1x Llanowar Wastes 1x Mortality Spear 1x Nadier's Nightblade 1x Nightshade Harvester 1x Poison the Cup 1x Primordial Sage 1x Read the Bones 1x Return of the Wildspeaker 1x Sign in Blood 1x Skemfar Avenger 1x Species Specialist 1x Tainted Wood 1x Temple of Malady