Lynde, Cheerful Tormentor EDH

Commander / EDH* UBR (Grixis)

Maximization

Enchantment (33)

• 1x Copy Enchantment
• 1x Cruel Reality
• 1x Curse of Bloodletting
• 1x Curse of Chaos
• 1x Curse of Disturbance
• 1x Curse of Echoes
• 1x Curse of Fool's Wisdom
• 1x Curse of Inertia
• 1x Curse of Leeches  ^Flip
• 1x Curse of Misfortunes
• 1x Curse of Obsession
• 1x Curse of Opulence
• 1x Curse of Shaken Faith
• 1x Curse of Shallow Graves
• 1x Curse of Stalked Prey
• 1x Curse of Surveillance
• 1x Curse of Thirst
• 1x Curse of Unbinding
• 1x Curse of Vengeance
• 1x Curse of Verbosity
• 1x Curse of the Bloody Tome
• 1x Curse of the Nightly Hunt
• 1x Curse of the Pierced Heart
• 1x Curse of the Restless Dead
• 1x Estrid's Invocation
• 1x Fraying Sanity
• 1x Infernal Tribute
• 1x Maddening Hex
• 1x Mirrormade
• 1x Paradox Haze
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Torment of Scarabs
• 1x Trespasser's Curse

Land (35)

• 1x Badlands
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Haunted Ridge
• 6x Island
• 1x Luxury Suite
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 3x Mountain
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Shipwreck Marsh
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 6x Swamp
• 1x Training Center
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Watery Grave

Creature (7)

• 1x Accursed Witch  ^Flip
• 1x Barrin, Master Wizard
• 1x Bitterheart Witch
• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Grim Guardian
• 1x Nightscape Familiar
• 1x Tavern Scoundrel

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Vandalblast

Commander (1)

Artifact (14)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Claws of Gix
• 1x Crawlspace
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Strionic Resonator
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Talisman of Creativity
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence
• 1x Thought Vessel

Instant (7)

• 1x Bedevil
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Negate
• 1x Perilous Research
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Terminate

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Maybeboard

Creature (4)

• 1x Doomwake Giant
• 1x Sphinx of the Second Sun
• 1x Stuffy Doll
• 1x Thoughtrender Lamia

Instant (3)

• 1x Cyclonic RiftGC
• 1x Infernal Grasp
• 1x Read the Runes

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Curse of Death's Hold
• 1x Curse of Oblivion
• 1x Infectious Curse  ^Flip

Artifact (3)

• 1x Cloudstone Curio
• 1x Crystal Chimes
• 1x Vedalken Orrery

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Lynde EDH deck; curses matter

After a couple plays the two big things I'm noticing are:

1. I really, REALLY need to keep Lynde alive in order to keep drawing cards. I especially need protection against sacrifice like Grave Pact et al.

2. This deck is terrible. It's definitely for a lower power level. It takes too long to get online, and even when it does it's slow to make a meaningful impact.

I really hope that more curses are made. The curses in the deck currently don't make much of an impact, especially when the games in my playgroup almost never go to 10+ turns.

Drawing an additional 2 cards per turn at most while also having to keep my commander alive the entire time just isn't very good, especially when the wincon is just death by curses.

BUT, the deck is fun to play. Playing curses on yourself and others and moving them around is fun, and moving a curse and drawing 2 cards at the start of your turn is like sweet heroin in the veins. So I'll keep playing it, I just need to find better ways to keep Lynde alive, and make sure that I'm not playing against decks that are too fast.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 42 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.00
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Day, Gold, Night, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie 2/2 B w/ Decayed
Folders	Current EDH decks