Ikoria Man Steals Gorgon Head, Kills Local Eldrazi

Commander / EDH Artifact Control Counters Deathtouch Equip RBW (Mardu)

AndreasMunk

Land (36)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Arch of Orazca
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Castle Locthwain
• 1x Clifftop Retreat
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 3x Mountain
• 1x Nomad Outpost
• 9x Plains
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Savai Triome
• 1x Spectator Seating
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Malice
• 1x Temple of Silence
• 1x Temple of Triumph
• 1x Vault of the Archangel

Creature (11)

• 1x Athreos, Shroud-Veiled
• 1x Brash Taunter
• 1x Dream Devourer
• 1x Fell Stinger
• 1x General's Enforcer
• 1x Keeper of the Accord
• 1x Oreskos Explorer
• 1x Queen Marchesa
• 1x Stoneforge Mystic
• 1x Twilight Prophet
• 1x Void Beckoner

Instant (16)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Baleful Mastery
• 1x Boros Charm
• 1x Chef's Kiss
• 1x Deflecting Swat
• 1x Despark
• 1x Dire Tactics
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Fracture
• 1x Generous Gift
• 1x Inkshield
• 1x Lorehold Command
• 1x Sudden Spoiling
• 1x Teferi's Protection
• 1x Tibalt's Trickery
• 1x Utter End

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Austere Command
• 1x Cleansing Nova
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Merciless Eviction
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Open the Armory
• 1x Play of the Game
• 1x Reconstruct History
• 1x Ruinous Ultimatum
• 1x Steelshaper's Gift
• 1x Vindicate
• 1x Wrath of God

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Kaya the Inexorable
• 1x Sorin, Grim Nemesis

Commander (1)

Artifact (15)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Archaeomancer's Map
• 1x Basilisk Collar
• 1x Dowsing Dagger  ^Flip
• 1x Embercleave
• 1x Gorgon Flail
• 1x Gorgon's Head
• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Magewright's Stone
• 1x Quietus Spike
• 1x Shadowspear
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sword of the Animist
• 1x The Immortal Sun
• 1x Thornbite Staff

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Elspeth Conquers Death
• 1x Gift of Doom
• 1x Gift of Immortality
• 1x Profane Procession  ^Flip
• 1x Rune of Mortality
• 1x Sigarda's Aid
• 1x The Meathook Massacre

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Memes aside, this deck is built around a fairly simple control gameplan.

Use Kelsien's ability to ping creatures combined with deathtouch to keep the board under control, and rack up experience counters while doing so. The deck is outfitted with a myriad of answers to things which Kelsien's poisoned arrows can't deal with, and ways to keep yourself from running out of fuel. Your endgame is to punch everyone to death with commander damage bit by bit, or in one fell swoop once Kelsien has become enough of an absolute unit to do so.

The deck is built with the intent of allowing you to slowly accumulate value over time without overcommitting to the board, and without dunking so much power onto the field that everyone turns on you. Whether this gameplan is executable depends a lot on the other players, but more often than not someone else is going to be a bigger threat than you are all the way until you win.

The deck does at times struggle with staying healthy against opponents using a lot of burn, so make sure to value your health total and handle your few good sources of lifegain with care. Moreover, the deck rarely has a lot of blockers on board, so be extra careful with letting people build up wide boards. Kelsien does love opponents that makes lots of small things for him to kill, but overindulgence in this particular vice is a surprisingly quick way to die.

Also, while I don't think that is particularly hard to tell, this is NOT intended to be an even remotely competitive EDH deck. I just really, really like playing it.

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As of 25/11/2021, I figured I'd start noting what changes I make to the deck. Should probably have done so sooner (sorry!), but better late than never I suppose.

CHANGELOG:
25/11/2021:
-Replaced Read the Bones with Fell Stinger
Reasoning: While the Scy 2 on Read the Bones is not to be scoffed at, I value the option of having a 3/2 creature with deathtouch over it.

-Replaced Doomskar with The Meathook Massacre
Reasoning: While Doomskar is nice, and the ability to foretell it can come in handy against hand attacks, mana constraints and overdrawing, The Meathook Massacre is just too good. It does everything this deck wants its board control cards to do (gain life, damage opponents, bypass indestructible), and even has the added benefit of often not actually killing Kelsien since he tends to get rather large. The primary downside is that if you don't have enough mana it doesn't always do a full boardwipe, but I think it does far more for the deck than Doomskar nonetheless. And as an added bonus, The Meathook Massacre can be tutored by cards that fetch enchantments.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 52 - 0 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 4 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.28
Tokens	Assassin 1/1 B w/ Haste, City's Blessing, Elephant 3/3 G, Emblem Kaya the Inexorable, Human Soldier 1/1 W, Inkling 2/1 WB, Morph 2/2 C, Plant 0/2 G, Soldier 1/1 W, Spirit 1/1 W, Spirit 3/2 RW, The Monarch, Vampire Knight 1/1 B
Folders	Kelsien, Fun Decks