Rubinia Old School (Pre-Tempest)

Commander / EDH Casual Control GWU (Bant)

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Enchantment (17)

• 1x Aura of Silence
• 1x Binding Grasp
• 1x Concordant Crossroads
• 1x Control Magic
• 1x Copy Artifact
• 1x Dance of Many
• 1x Dense Foliage
• 1x Inheritance
• 1x Kismet
• 1x Land Equilibrium
• 1x Land Tax
• 1x Moat
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Reparations
• 1x Rowen
• 1x Steal Artifact
• 1x Sylvan Library

Land (34)

• 1x Bad River
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Flood Plain
• 7x Forest
• 1x Grasslands
• 11x Island
• 1x Mountain Valley
• 8x Plains
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Tundra

Instant (16)

• 1x Argivian Find
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Desertion
• 1x Disenchant
• 1x Dissipate
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Lat-Nam's Legacy
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Memory Lapse
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Power Sink
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Tithe

Artifact (10)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Marble Diamond
• 1x Meekstone
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Sky Diamond
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Winter Orb

Commander (1)

Sorcery (13)

• 1x Armageddon
• 1x Diminishing Returns
• 1x Dream Cache
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Portent
• 1x Regrowth
• 1x Retribution of the Meek
• 1x Seeds of Innocence
• 1x Sleight of Hand
• 1x Three Visits
• 1x Timetwister
• 1x Transmute Artifact
• 1x Wrath of God

Creature (9)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Lu Xun, Scholar General
• 1x Old Man of the Sea
• 1x Peacekeeper
• 1x Preacher
• 1x Quirion Elves
• 1x Vesuvan Doppelganger

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Rubinia Old School is a Bant deck that has two noteworthy restrictions:

1. It only includes cards originally printed before the Tempest block (until mid-97)
2. It follows the current EDH banned list, so no moxen, lotus, ancestral, etc.

The deck is meant to be as competitive as possible within those two restrictions. That said, the deck won't stand a chance against contemporary cEDH lists but can do fine against casual lists (see video demo for an example of how it usually win).

I recommend it for everyone who used to play magic back in the 90s or those who play other old school variants. It is more for the nostalgic value than anything else. I've also designed other old school EDH decks and I honestly think this Bant list is top tier among them.

Theme

Thievery is the general theme of the deck: The plan is to steal good spells from your opponents and then either try to close the game quickly or lock your opponents with resource denial. The latter strategy is more likely to work than the former because the deck lacks finishers.

Video demos

Date added	7 years
Last updated	5 years
Exclude colors	BR
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 33 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.38
Tokens	Copy Clone
Folders	EDH Old School