Mono-White: Why Evra Why?

Commander / EDH Budget Jank Lifegain Mono-White Voltron

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Acceleration & Ramp (10)

• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Gauntlet of Power
• 1x Giada, Font of Hope
• 1x Heraldic Banner
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Pristine Talisman
• 1x Smuggler's Share
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Weathered Wayfarer

Angels (16)

• 1x Aegis Angel
• 1x Angel of Condemnation
• 1x Angel of Grace
• 1x Angel of Sanctions
• 1x Angel of Vitality
• 1x Avacyn, Guardian Angel
• 1x Deathless Angel
• 1x Firemane Commando
• 1x Giada, Font of Hope
• 1x Inspiring Overseer
• 1x Shattered Angel
• 1x Steel Seraph
• 1x Subjugator Angel
• 1x Sunblast Angel
• 1x Thraben Watcher
• 1x Victory's Herald

Anthem Effect (8)

• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Cradle of Vitality
• 1x Gauntlet of Power
• 1x Giada, Font of Hope
• 1x Heraldic Banner
• 1x Path of Bravery
• 1x Thraben Watcher
• 1x Victory's Herald

Card Draw (11)

• 1x Endless Atlas
• 1x Firemane Commando
• 1x Inspiring Overseer
• 1x Key to the City
• 1x Mangara, the Diplomat
• 1x Mazemind Tome
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Sigarda's Splendor
• 1x Smuggler's Share
• 1x True Love's Kiss
• 1x Well of Lost Dreams

Land Basics (36)

• 36x Plains

Land Colourless (4)

• 1x Access Tunnel
• 1x Escape Tunnel
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Thespian's Stage

Lifegain Effect (10)

• 1x Angelic Chorus
• 1x Axis of Mortality
• 1x Children of Korlis
• 1x Fumigate
• 1x Heliod's Intervention
• 1x Lunarch Veteran  ^Flip
• 1x Martyr of Sands
• 1x Path of Bravery
• 1x Sigarda's Splendor
• 1x Soul Warden

Removal Mass (5)

• 1x Fumigate
• 1x Heliod's Intervention
• 1x Single Combat
• 1x Subjugator Angel
• 1x Sunblast Angel

Removal Spot (7)

• 1x Angel of Condemnation
• 1x Angel of Sanctions
• 1x Banisher Priest
• 1x Fiend Hunter
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x True Love's Kiss
• 1x War Priest of Thune

Token Creation (3)

• 1x Luminarch Ascension
• 1x Sigil of the Empty Throne
• 1x Smuggler's Share

Tutors (3)

• 1x Escape Tunnel
• 1x Steelshaper's Gift
• 1x Weathered Wayfarer

Voltron Effect (16)

• 1x Access Tunnel
• 1x Deathless Angel
• 1x Dragon Throne of Tarkir
• 1x Escape Tunnel
• 1x Glaring Spotlight
• 1x Key to the City
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mother of Runes
• 1x Prowler's Helm
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Shadowspear
• 1x Steel Seraph
• 1x Sword of Vengeance
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Trailblazer's Boots
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

Commander (1)

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Our local Commander Group had a Jank Night (around the time that Battlebond came out) - Pick a Commander from a list of under-used commanders, with a maximum spend of $100 per deck and see what happens.

I picked Evra... why Evra why I don't know (okay, bad pun).

I also set myself the target of no alternative win conditions, because apparently I had decided to play on hard mode. Fun exercise, but not exactly an easy Commander to focus around for this (or so it seemed).

The end result has turned out to be surprisingly playable, it usually manages to at least alpha strike one player before everyone cottons onto the fact that it isn't quite the joke deck people thought it was. Game plan is get cards on the table to start bumping up your life ahead of a strike - or at least enough to protect you from other players - and to try to get some form of evasion on board and swing with Evra. Nothing too complicated, but it does catch people by surprise. Subsequent changes have been made, but I've tried to keep it below the $100 mark and it's a deck that often gets used against pre-cons as it's quite simple to counter.

There are also some nice tricks you can play swapping your life total with Evra and then using Axis of Mortality to swap your new (low) life total with them to almost take out two players in a turn.

Change List;
10/05/2022 - Changes once again made to bring the budget below $100, whilst bringing a little bit more acceleration & card draw has been brought in.
25/11/2022 - More card draw added as the deck was stalling with no way to refill it's hand.
20/09/2023 - A little more focus on the Voltron aspect, with less targetted removal (a lot of the creatures are quite beefy by themselves to block problem creatures).
13/02/2024 - More card draw has been added, and more creatures due to the uptick in the typical number of threats deployed in the local meta (where removal seems to a lower priority for many players). the deck has ticked over the $100 mark (it's closer to $150 now due to some cards increasing in value), but can still be thought of as a budget deck.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	6 days
Exclude colors	UBRG
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 31 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 6 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.37
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Angel of Sanctions 3/4 W, Treasure
Folders	Commander Decks, Budget Commander, Fun EDH Decks, Build