Ink, Quill and Politics

Commander / EDH Exile WB (Orzhov) Will of the Council

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Just Lands (34)

• 1x Brightclimb Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Concealed Courtyard
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Fetid Heath
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Shineshadow Snarl
• 1x Silent Clearing
• 7x Snow-Covered Plains
• 10x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Tainted Field
• 1x Temple of Silence
• 1x Vault of Champions

Answers (8)

• 1x Comeuppance
• 1x Mana Tithe
• 1x Mandate of Peace
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Silence
• 1x Sudden Spoiling
• 1x Teferi's Protection
• 1x Withering Boon

Lifegain (4)

• 1x Alhammarret's Archive
• 1x Heliod's Intervention
• 1x Poet's Quill
• 1x Survival Cache

Monarch (2)

• 1x Palace Jailer
• 1x Protector of the Crown

As All Things Should Be (1)

• 1x Restore Balance

This with Shadrix or Protector of the Crown (1)

• 1x Shielded by Faith

Draw (16)

• 1x Alhammarret's Archive
• 1x Bankrupt in Blood
• 1x Coercive Portal
• 1x Flumph
• 1x Howling Mine
• 1x Keen Duelist
• 1x Mangara, the Diplomat
• 1x Mentor of the Meek
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Plumb the Forbidden
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Secret Rendezvous
• 1x Silent Clearing
• 1x Survival Cache
• 1x Village Rites
• 1x Wandering Archaic  ^Flip

Spot Removal (14)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Baleful Mastery
• 1x Council's Judgment
• 1x Darksteel Mutation
• 1x Deadly Rollick
• 1x Despark
• 1x Doom Blade
• 1x Force of Despair
• 1x Gang Up
• 1x Generous Gift
• 1x Heliod's Intervention
• 1x Palace Jailer
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

Boardwipe (2)

• 1x Coercive Portal
• 1x Promise of Loyalty

The Flavour Text Says it All (1)

• 1x Brago's Representative

Tutor (1)

• 1x Scheming Symmetry

Commander (1)

Ramp (15)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Archaeomancer's Map
• 1x Charcoal Diamond
• 1x Culling the Weak
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Gold Myr
• 1x Leaden Myr
• 1x Marble Diamond
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Pearl Medallion
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1x Thought Vessel

Pillowfort (6)

• 1x Cunning Rhetoric
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Koskun Falls
• 1x Protector of the Crown
• 1x Teysa, Envoy of Ghosts
• 1x Windborn Muse

Win Con (2)

• 1x Approach of the Second Sun
• 1x Bolas's Citadel

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Any chance I can win a lawsuit against wizards of the coast for making me attracted to dragons in a weird way?

About this deck.

The lights are dim. The light smell of smoke gets increasingly more noticeable as you approach the Major Table. Just you, the Council Representative, and your commander deck, Shadrix, the Elder Dragon. Three other members are already waiting for you, with their cards spread out and their cigars hanging low. As you sit and light your own, the following words can be heard from you, in a tired, almost lazy and sore tone:

"Good evening gentlemen. I'm sure we are all eager to start today's Council Reunion and I excpect no more from my fellow Council members than the usual: Keep savagery at bay, and all shall be rewarded equally."

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I created this deck with the constant image in my head of a deck that could instigate my opponents to help each other further in their pursue to cut down those who tried to outstand. Not necessairily a control deck: A political deck. Maybe even slightly over-friendly in what you may approximate to group-hug theme. Answers, however, must exist in plenitude here or otherwise this deck's power of negotiation wouldn't be as effective.

I have built complex decks before, but perhaps none of them beat the complexity of playing mostly with politics rather than the game itself.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 42 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.86
Tokens	Elephant 3-3 G, Inkling 2/1 WB, Spirit 1/1 WB, The Monarch
Folders	Decks that I currently have built