Cursed Fate

Commander / EDH Death and Taxes Enchantment Hatebears Silver Bullet WUB (Esper)

Tenshi41

Land (36)

• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Fetid Heath
• 1x Field of the Dead
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hall of Heliod's Generosity
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 2x Island
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Mystic Gate
• 2x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Sea of Clouds
• 1x Snow-Covered Island
• 1x Snow-Covered Plains
• 1x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Watery Grave

Artifact (5)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Enchantment (26)

• 1x Aura of Silence
• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Copy Enchantment
• 1x Cruel Reality
• 1x Curse of Exhaustion
• 1x Curse of Fool's Wisdom
• 1x Curse of Misfortunes
• 1x Curse of Thirst
• 1x Curse of Verbosity
• 1x Estrid's Invocation
• 1x Grasp of Fate
• 1x Imprisoned in the Moon
• 1x Leyline of the Void
• 1x Mirrormade
• 1x Oblivion Ring
• 1x Overwhelming Splendor
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Psychic Possession
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Sigil of the Empty Throne
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Sphere of Safety
• 1x Tainted AEther
• 1x Torment of Scarabs
• 1x Trespasser's Curse

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Austere Command
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Echo of Eons
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Idyllic Tutor
• 1x Merciless Eviction
• 1x Replenish
• 1x Temporal Mastery
• 1x Time Spiral

Commander (1)

Creature (13)

• 1x Academy Rector
• 1x Accursed Witch  ^Flip
• 1x Archon of Sun's Grace
• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Bitterheart Witch
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Cloudblazer
• 1x Heliod's Pilgrim
• 1x Knight of the White Orchid
• 1x Mesa Enchantress
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum

Instant (10)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Mystic Confluence
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

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My favorite commander out of all pre-con decks I have seen so far with interesting mechanics and cool interaction. Always looking for suggestions and improvements, Feel free to leave comments.

About

I fell in love with the art and mechanics of Aminatou, I loved the flicker and top card mutilation effect that she provided. When I first got her I wanted to abuse the flicker effect with ETB Creatures to create tons of effect. My first list was very slow and clunky, but after refining the list I made it into flicker creatures to make infinite mana and draw my deck to get Torment of Hailfire and win.

But after I experienced this play pattern it was too fast and caused linear gameplay (especially with all the tutors) so I decided to play around with ideas I had. I finality ended up going curses, I thought it was neat that she can flicker them to move curses to other players (One time, an opponent threaten to counter said curse if it targeted him, so I cursed someone else and flicker it to him. To this day we both remember the reactions.) Curses allow me to play a weird Stax/Tax deck that allows me to silver-bullet opponent’s decks and grind out the game out.

Deck

Stats Show

• Draw(Cantrip = .5): 15
• Ramp: 11
• Control: 13
• Stax/Tax Effects: 13
• The Grindstone(Slow Win Con): 10
• Enchantment: 28
• Enchantment Synergy: 12

The goal of the deck is to Tutor or get into play Curse of Misfortunes, with this curse I can tutor every turn for other curses and place them on one players. I will use Aminatou to move the curses to other players as I see fit. This decks wants to play a Stax/Tax gameplay by silver-bulleting other decks. Overwhelming Splendor for big creature decks, Curse of Exhaustion or Curse of Fool's Wisdom for combo or storm, or Trespasser's Curse for token or go wide decks. This with other curses that grind my opponents allow me to control the board and manipulate their fate. Most of the wins are slow and grindy, and ether are slow damage effect or creature tokens. Here are the 5 Major supporting parts to the deck:

Draw Show

• Cloudblazer
• Curse of Verbosity
• Dig Through Time
• Echo of Eons
• Mesa Enchantress
• Mulldrifter
• Phyrexian Arena
• Psychic Possession
• Rhystic Study
• Time Spiral
• - Cantrip Effects
• Academy Rector
• Baleful Strix
• Commander's Sphere
• Demonic Tutor
• Enlightened Tutor
• Expedition Map
• Grim Tutor
• Heliod's Pilgrim
• Idyllic Tutor
• Temporal Mastery
• Vampiric Tutor
• Total(Cantrip = .5): 15

Ramp Show

• Arcane Signet
• Burnished Hart
• Commander's Sphere
• Knight of the White Orchid
• Myriad Landscape
• Smothering Tithe
• Sol Ring
• Solemn Simulacrum
• Temporal Mastery
• Time Spiral
• Wayfarer's Bauble
• Total: 11

Control Show

• - Single Target
• Anguished Unmaking
• Aura of Silence
• Counterspell
• Force of Will
• Imprisoned in the Moon
• Mystic Confluence
• Oblivion Ring
• Strip Mine
• Swan Song
• - Multi-Target
• Austere Command
• Cyclonic Rift
• Merciless Eviction
• Grasp of Fate
• Total: 13

Stax/Tax Effects Show

• Accursed Witch  
• Aura of Silence
• Cruel Reality
• Curse of Exhaustion
• Curse of Fool's Wisdom
• Curse of Misfortunes
• Leyline of the Void
• Overwhelming Splendor
• Painful Quandary
• Sphere of Safety
• Tainted AEther
• Torment of Scarabs
• Trespasser's Curse
• Total: 13

The Grindstone(Slow Win Con) Show

• Accursed Witch  
• Archon of Sun's Grace
• Bloodchief Ascension
• Cruel Reality
• Curse of Fool's Wisdom
• Curse of Thirst
• Field of the Dead
• Painful Quandary
• Sigil of the Empty Throne
• Torment of Scarabs
• Total: 10

Top Ranked	Achieved #13 position overall 3 years ago Achieved #10 position in Commander / EDH 3 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Enchantment 3 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Hatebears 3 years ago
Date added	4 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 56 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.69
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Bird 2/2 U, Pegasus 2/2 W, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	EDH