Tighty Whiteys Redux: Rubinia

Commander / EDH GWU (Bant) Multiplayer

rco

Land (37)

• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Brushland
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Coastal Tower
• 1x Drifting Meadow
• 1x Elfhame Palace
• 10x Forest
• 9x Island
• 7x Plains
• 1x Remote Isle
• 1x Slippery Karst
• 1x Thalakos Lowlands
• 1x Vec Townships
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Beef (7)

• 1x Ancient Silverback
• 1x Mawcor
• 1x Rhox
• 1x Serra Angel
• 1x Thorn Elemental
• 1x Verdant Force
• 1x Vesuvan Doppelganger

Midgame (7)

• 1x Blinking Spirit
• 1x Clone
• 1x Instill Energy
• 1x Noble Purpose
• 1x Puppeteer
• 1x Seeker of Skybreak
• 1x Time Warp

Early Game (4)

• 1x Intrepid Hero
• 1x Loyal Sentry
• 1x Sacred Mesa
• 1x Soul Warden

Answers (11)

• 1x Boomerang
• 1x Broken Fall
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Creeping Mold
• 1x Disenchant
• 1x Disruptive Student
• 1x Evacuation
• 1x Memory Lapse
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Witch Hunter
• 1x Wrath of God

Ramp (10)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Fertile Ground
• 1x Land Tax
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Untamed Wilds
• 1x Utopia Tree
• 1x Wild Growth

Steal (7)

• 1x Abduction
• 1x Bribery
• 1x Confiscate
• 1x Control Magic
• 1x Copy Artifact
• 1x Desertion
• 1x Grinning Totem

Commander (1)

Cards (11)

• 1x Archivist
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Diminishing Returns
• 1x Fecundity
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Portent
• 1x Regrowth
• 1x Tidings
• 1x Verduran Enchantress
• 1x Windfall

Sac Outlets (5)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Fodder Cannon
• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Phyrexian Vault
• 1x Skull Catapult

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Sideboard

Other (18)

• 1x Book of Rass
• 1x Coastal Piracy
• 1x Dense Foliage
• 1x Hurricane
• 1x Lhurgoyf
• 1x Merfolk Looter
• 1x Pacifism
• 1x Polymorph
• 1x Ray of Command
• 1x Remove Soul
• 1x Safe Haven
• 1x Seraph
• 1x Soul Barrier
• 1x Spirit Link
• 1x Star Compass
• 1x Tariff
• 1x Thieving Magpie
• 1x Time Elemental

Card Engines (1)

• 1x Rowen

Lifegain (1)

• 1x Reverse Damage

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Maybeboard

Tap Plan (12)

• 1x Argothian Elder
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Browse
• 1x Concordant Crossroads
• 1x Fyndhorn Brownie
• 1x Fyndhorn Elder
• 1x Jandor's Saddlebags
• 1x Opposition
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Temporal Adept
• 1x Time Elemental
• 1x Weathered Wayfarer

Individual Cards (6)

• 1x Abu Ja'far
• 1x Alabaster Potion
• 1x Breath of Life
• 1x Dense Foliage
• 1x Kismet
• 1x Library of Lat-Nam

Beef (4)

• 1x Blinding Angel
• 1x Dirtcowl Wurm
• 1x Gang of Elk
• 1x Mahamoti Djinn

Ramp (3)

• 1x Gift of Estates
• 1x Mana Prism
• 1x Wood Elves

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This is my second attempt at an all-white-bordered deck. My original deck (with Nebuchadnezzar at the helm) was centered around discard and hand control and turned out to be bad and unfun.

The basic observation is that card draw and ramp are pretty good in white border sets, and that copy/steal effects scale nicely with power creep. So we have Rubinia as the commander, supported by a few untappers and some sac outlets. Some lifegain and good blockers to stay in the game, and some beefy dudes to provide pressure when there's nothing better to steal.

The Maybeboard includes cards that I've thought about including. Some were cut to get the list down to 100, and some (e.g. Greater Good ) are on there for budget reasons.

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I've played this deck a few times at my LGS's commander night, and it's a ton of fun. Broken Fall and Blinking Spirit are surprisingly strong, and the copy/steal effects scale nicely with the rest of the table. It's 1-2 right now, and given that it's a white-bordered deck, I'm pretty happy with that!

Date added	8 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	32 - 11 Rares 26 - 5 Uncommons 16 - 4 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.22
Tokens	Pegasus 1/1 W, Saproling 1/1 G
Folders	My bag, Sweet Decks, OLD, EDH, Favorite Commander Decks, White border EDH, Commander Shelf, White Border, Premodern, Other Decks
Based on	Rubinia Stuffs rco EDH