Ghen Makes Friends

Commander / EDH Casual Curse Enchant Enchantment Multiplayer RBW (Mardu) Theme/Gimmick

Primrose

Enchantment (29)

• 1x Blind Obedience
• 1x Blood Reckoning
• 1x Captive Audience
• 1x Court of Grace
• 1x Cruel Reality
• 1x Curse of Bloodletting
• 1x Curse of Chaos
• 1x Curse of Death's Hold
• 1x Curse of Disturbance
• 1x Curse of Exhaustion
• 1x Curse of Fool's Wisdom
• 1x Curse of Misfortunes
• 1x Curse of Opulence
• 1x Curse of Stalked Prey
• 1x Curse of Thirst
• 1x Curse of Vengeance
• 1x Curse of Vitality
• 1x Curse of the Nightly Hunt
• 1x Curse of the Pierced Heart
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Hissing Miasma
• 1x Marchesa's Decree
• 1x Oubliette
• 1x Overwhelming Splendor
• 1x Revenge of Ravens
• 1x Sphere of Safety
• 1x Tainted Remedy
• 1x Torment of Scarabs
• 1x Trespasser's Curse

Instant (4)

• 1x Crackling Doom
• 1x Deflecting Palm
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Thrill of Possibility

Land (32)

• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Foreboding Ruins
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hall of Heliod's Generosity
• 8x Mountain
• 1x Nomad Outpost
• 4x Plains
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Savai Triome
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Field
• 1x Temple of Malice
• 1x Temple of Silence
• 1x Vivid Crag
• 1x Vivid Marsh
• 1x Vivid Meadow
• 1x Wind-Scarred Crag

Sorcery (11)

• 1x Angelic Purge
• 1x Cathartic Reunion
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Mythos of Snapdax
• 1x Open the Armory
• 1x Open the Vaults
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Ruinous Ultimatum
• 1x Three Dreams
• 1x Vindicate

Commander (1)

Creature (14)

• 1x Accursed Witch  ^Flip
• 1x Aegis of the Gods
• 1x Auramancer
• 1x Baird, Steward of Argive
• 1x Bitterheart Witch
• 1x Celestial Ancient
• 1x Danitha Capashen, Paragon
• 1x Daxos the Returned
• 1x Heliod's Pilgrim
• 1x Hero of Iroas
• 1x Mathas, Fiend Seeker
• 1x Mesa Enchantress
• 1x Silent Sentinel
• 1x Xantcha, Sleeper Agent

Artifact (9)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Bloodthirsty Blade
• 1x Boros Signet
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Prismatic Lens
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence

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Maybeboard

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Doom Foretold
• 1x Dramatic Finale
• 1x Parasitic Impetus
• 1x Promise of Tomorrow
• 1x Shiny Impetus
• 1x Sigil of the Empty Throne

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Damnation
• 1x Thrilling Discovery

Creature (1)

• 1x Quintorius, Field Historian

Artifact (1)

• 1x Crystal Chimes

Land (1)

• 1x Axgard Armory

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Just a good ol curses deck with everyone's best friend Ghen providing the party tricks. Gently incentivize your friends to attack each other while you quietly amass power in order to swoop in and finish off the game. I do recommend playing this in a big group to avoid quickly becoming a target.

Incentivizing Players

There are 3 different ways to do this throughout the deck, I won't list every card but here are a few examples:

1. Rewarding attacks by either giving them resources (Curse of Opulence/Mathas, Fiend Seeker) or by making them better targets (Curse of Death's Hold/Curse of Bloodletting).

2. Dissuading others from attacking you by hurting them (Revenge of Ravens/Blood Reckoning) or charging them for it (Ghostly Prison/Baird, Steward of Argive).

3. Straight up coercion (Curse of the Nightly Hunt, Bloodthirsty Blade, Xantcha, Sleeper Agent, and the general threat of being cursed)

Keeping Control and Staying in the Game

Unfortunately curses and politics will only get you so far. We'll be finding ways to punish growing boards in the form of cards like Torment of Scarabs or Mythos of Snapdax, with a nice big Ruinous Ultimatum to reset things in your favour. Other handy cards such as Tainted Remedy, Curse of Exhaustion, and Blind Obedience keep your opponents in check by preventing life gain and slowing their pace.

As for what's keeping us going, we luckily find a fantastic enchantment reanimator in our commander, Ghen, Arcanum Weaver. Ghen, among our other enchantment reanimators, will keep things relatively consistent while also giving us the ability to switch things up on the fly. This also means we don't have to worry about what we end up discarding.

Ending opponents and the Game (Hopefully)

So if everything has gone well, how do we end this? Tokens and stacking curses heavily. Daxos the Returned and Court of Grace can provide a sizeable board presence (especially when they're all pumped from Celestial Ancient), then we dig in and let the curses do their work while attacking or defending with our angels/spirits. I don't know what else to say, there's really nothing excessively glorious about this victory. I mean...it's one big long con that ends with the realization that they should have finished you off sooner.

All-in-all I enjoy this deck, whether you're winning by any amount of force, or you're losing but feeding the chaos of the board. The one big con is that some of the support creatures only trigger on cast, when Ghen just shoves the enchants right on the board. I do think that what they lose in the late game, in terms of value, is made up for by the advantages they provide earlier on in order to keep you moving. If there are any suggestions I'd love the feedback!

Date added	3 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 30 - 0 Rares 34 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.34
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Enchantment Spirit */* WB, Experience Token, Gold, Spirit 1/1 W, Monarch Emblem, Zombie 2/2 B