Pointy ears and pointy sticks

Commander / EDH Artifact Casual Enchant Equip GWU (Bant) Multiplayer Scry Voltron

Phantomias

Land (36)

• 1x Ancient Den
• 1x Bant Panorama
• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Castle Vantress
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flood Plain
• 8x Forest
• 1x Hashep Oasis
• 5x Island
• 1x Overgrown Farmland
• 5x Plains
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Seaside Citadel
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Skycloud Expanse
• 1x Study Hall
• 1x Sungrass Prairie
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

Draw / Tutor (7)

• 1x Chart a Course
• 1x Kor Spiritdancer
• 1x Open the Armory
• 1x Snake Umbra
• 1x Sram, Senior Edificer
• 1x Steelshaper's Gift
• 1x Stonehewer Giant

Library Manipulation (6)

• 1x Armored Skyhunter
• 1x Jace, Mirror Mage
• 1x Mystic Speculation
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Serum Visions
• 1x Soothsaying

Evasion (10)

• 1x Aether Tunnel
• 1x Aqueous Form
• 1x Indomitable Might
• 1x Maul of the Skyclaves
• 1x Prowler's Helm
• 1x Skyblade's Boon
• 1x Spirit Mantle
• 1x Steel of the Godhead
• 1x Trailblazer's Boots
• 1x Winged Boots

Protection (10)

• 1x Alpha Authority
• 1x Eel Umbra
• 1x Flawless Maneuver
• 1x Guardian Augmenter
• 1x Mask of Avacyn
• 1x Robe of Stars
• 1x Shalai, Voice of Plenty
• 1x Shield of the Oversoul
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Timely Ward

Ramp (8)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Explorer's Scope
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Noble Hierarch
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sword of the Animist
• 1x Utopia Sprawl

Wrath (3)

• 1x Cataclysmic Gearhulk
• 1x Divine Reckoning
• 1x Winds of Rath

Commander (1)

Utility (9)

• 1x Belt of Giant Strength
• 1x Colossus Hammer
• 1x Mantle of the Ancients
• 1x Masterwork of Ingenuity
• 1x Moonsilver Spear
• 1x Nettlecyst
• 1x Seraphic Greatsword
• 1x Sword of Fire and Ice
• 1x Sword of Kaldra

Interaction (8)

• 1x Imprisoned in the Moon
• 1x Kasmina's Transmutation
• 1x Kenrith's Transformation
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Negate
• 1x Return to Nature
• 1x Stubborn Denial
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

Other Enchantments (2)

• 1x Finest Hour
• 1x Sterling Grove

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Maybeboard

Cheat / Cost Reduction (9)

• 1x Ardenn, Intrepid Archaeologist
• 1x Balan, Wandering Knight
• 1x Danitha Capashen, Paragon
• 1x Halvar, God of Battle  ^Flip
• 1x Hammer of Nazahn
• 1x Jukai Naturalist
• 1x Sigarda's Aid
• 1x Sovereigns of Lost Alara
• 1x Starnheim Courser

Protection (6)

• 1x Bastion Protector
• 1x Bear Umbra
• 1x Destiny Spinner
• 1x Gift of Immortality
• 1x Hyena Umbra
• 1x Shielding Plax

Galea Substitutes (3)

• 1x Bronze Guardian
• 1x Fleecemane Lion
• 1x Sagu Mauler

Graveyard Hate (1)

• 1x Lion Sash

Removal (1)

• 1x Generous Gift

Other (9)

• 1x All That Glitters
• 1x Dowsing Dagger  ^Flip
• 1x Grafted Exoskeleton
• 1x Leonin Shikari
• 1x Nylea's Colossus
• 1x Rafiq of the Many
• 1x Rootwater Shaman
• 1x Song of the Dryads
• 1x Storvald, Frost Giant Jarl

Boardwipe (4)

• 1x Austere Command
• 1x Doomskar
• 1x Single Combat
• 1x Slash the Ranks

Draw / Tutor (4)

• 1x Hunter's Insight
• 1x Sage's Reverie
• 1x Snake Umbra
• 1x Sythis, Harvest's Hand

Ramp (1)

• 1x Paradise Druid

Evasion (8)

• 1x Aether Tunnel
• 1x Angelic Destiny
• 1x Favor of the Overbeing
• 1x Godsend
• 1x Skyblade's Boon
• 1x Stoic Angel
• 1x Thassa, God of the Sea
• 1x Trailblazer's Boots

Library Manipulation (6)

• 1x Calix, Destiny's Hand
• 1x Mystic Forge
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Psychic Impetus
• 1x The Reality Chip
• 1x Vizier of the Menagerie

Counterspells (3)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Bant Charm
• 1x Counterspell

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Took the Aura of Courage Precon Decklist with Galea, Kindler of Hope as Commander and tried to make it a playable Voltron Deck, without spending too much money. Just for casual playing.

Recommendations and input always welcome =)

Why Galea?

I first came in touch with MtG during the Mirrodin Block. Naturally I got an affinity (pun intended) for artifacts and equipments. So since I started playing EDH I wanted to build an equipment based deck. So when Galea came out I saw my chance to do so (combining them with Auras gives an extra touch). Furthermore I like that Galeas ability doesn't go the usual Voltron / Equipment way, but nevertheless can be quite strong I think (in casual playing).

Lands and Ramp

As with most precons the manabase is ok for mana fixing, but slow. So I cut out some of the multicolor lands for basic ones. Nevertheless, with 3 colors, mana fixing is a important point. Therefore I included more fetch lands and ramp that also gets us basic lands out. With that comes another good effect for this deck: the less lands there are in our library, the greater the chance that an Equipment or Aura will be on top.

No blue without manipulation

Before this deck really can work, we need to get Galea out (obviously). Being able to look at the top card of our library is nice, being able to play it even more so. So we need to try to get Equipments and Auras on top of our library when we need them. As mentioned, we can reduce the chance of the top card being a land a bit by land fetch like Nature's Lore or Sword of the Animist. But we need more control about the top deck, so cards like Serum Visions or Soothsaying help us to manipulate our library. Sensei's Divining Top of course is the non plus ultra here.

Always use Protection!

Although Galea may not be the typical Voltron Commander, she still is a Voltron Commander. And what she lacks is protection. That's why we need cards like Robe of Stars or Shield of the Oversoul (doubling as Evasion).

Why so evasive?

The second thing Galea lacks is Evasion. So we need to include cards like Aqueous Form or Steel of the Godhead. Kusari-Gama is not classic Evasion, but I think it does an equal job, because no one wants all their creatures to die...and if so - good for us too!

Open the Armory

Of course Galea wants to be well equipped for battle. Belt of Giant Strength or Colossus Hammer can increase strength massively, while Moonsilver Spear and Seraphic Greatsword give us flying 4/4 creatures, which I think can come in handy in a lot of situations. Sword of Fire and Ice stands for itself I guess - although with it we can't use blue enchantments anymore.

Sometimes it's ok to cheat

Last but not least, we won't be able to get all Equipments and Auras onto the battlefield by playing them from the top of our library. In those cases cheating them onto the battlefield or at least reducing costs is a nice option. Here we have cards like Armored Skyhunter, Danitha Capashen, Paragon. Puresteel Paladin doubles as card draw (which I saw as his main task in this deck). Mantle of the Ancients is our joker here, if we already lost some Equipments / Auras.

Recent Changes

Out // In

13.06.22:

Slash the Ranks // Divine Reckoning

Worldslayer // Winds of Rath

Date added	2 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 34 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 20 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.39
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B
Folders	Might build this one galea, Comander