Usurpers of the Steel Legion

Commander / EDH* BGW (Abzan, Junk) Lifegain Tokens Toughness Matters

WizardWillem

Lands (37)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkbore Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 5x Forest
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Hall of Heliod's Generosity
• 1x Krosan Verge
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Orzhov Basilica
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 4x Plains
• 1x Sandsteppe Citadel
• 1x Selesnya Sanctuary
• 1x Sungrass Prairie
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Windbrisk Heights
• 1x Wooded Bastion
• 1x Woodland Cemetery
• 1x Kabira Takedown  ^Flip
• 1x Hagra Mauling  ^Flip

Removal (9)

• 1x Pest Infestation
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Aura Mutation
• 1x Despark
• 1x Martial Coup
• 1x Abzan Charm
• 1x Mythos of Nethroi
• 1x Entrapment Maneuver
• 1x Find / Finality

Tokens (15)

• 1x Haunted Library
• 1x Shadow Summoning
• 1x Skrelv's Hive
• 1x Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
• 1x Call the Coppercoats
• 1x Lingering Souls
• 1x Midnight Haunting
• 1x Scute Swarm
• 1x Court of Grace
• 1x Felidar Retreat
• 1x Release the Dogs
• 1x Sram's Expertise
• 1x Thalisse, Reverent Medium
• 1x Vivien, Monsters' Advocate
• 1x Beledros Witherbloom

Ramp (13)

• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Golgari Signet
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Three Visits
• 1x Awakening Zone
• 1x Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip
• 1x Harvest Season
• 1x Jaheira, Friend of the Forest
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Search for Tomorrow
• 1x From Beyond
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Mirari's Wake

Lifegain Abuse (5)

• 1x Vizkopa Guildmage
• 1x Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
• 1x Lathiel, the Bounteous Dawn
• 1x Sanguine Bond
• 1x Command the Dreadhorde

Toughness combat (4)

• 1x Assault Formation
• 1x Doran, the Siege Tower
• 1x Huatli, the Sun's Heart
• 1x Rasaad yn Bashir

Commanders (2)

Draw (11)

• 1x Idol of Oblivion
• 1x Rite of Harmony
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Dark Tutelage
• 1x Hunter's Insight
• 1x Painful Truths
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Deathreap Ritual
• 1x Minions' Murmurs
• 1x Ohran Frostfang
• 1x Shadrix Silverquill

Alpha Strike (4)

• 1x Scale Up
• 1x Behind the Scenes
• 1x Champion of Lambholt
• 1x Inspiring Leader

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Maybeboard

Other (15)

• 1x Tragic Slip
• 1x Mask of Memory
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Cadira, Caller of the Small
• 1x Doomed Artisan
• 1x Primal Growth
• 1x Queen Allenal of Ruadach
• 1x Stoneskin
• 1x Undercellar Myconid
• 1x Arasta of the Endless Web
• 1x Call to the Feast
• 1x Emeria Angel
• 1x Necrologia
• 1x Nykthos Paragon
• 1x Hour of Reckoning

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Strategy

With Prava and Ikra out, a 1/1 token becomes a 2/5 that gains 5 life when it deals combat damage to a player. If unblocked, Ikra and Prava already gain 11 life and then another 5 for each token. To turn those tokens into lethal weapons we need to:

1. Set up the basics: ramp, card draw and removal => where possible basics do double duty as token makers
2. Make tokens
3. Cast combat enablers: Prava first. Then toughnessmatters (Assault Formation, Huatlti, Doran, Ancient Lumberknot), evasion (Behind the scenes, Champion of Lambholt) or pump (Akroma's Will, Crown of Doom, Scale up)
4. Kill other players via combat
5. Cast Ikra to recover life total or abuse the lifegain (lifegain abuse cards need to have a big impact the same turn or be more or less game winning if they survive a rotation at the table)

Swaps

card comments

• does the deck have enough token makers?
• Vizkopa Guildmage yes this guy's second ability can be activated multiple times and will stack!

recently swapped out

• Corpse Knight (no more aristocrats)
• Poison Tip Archer (no more aristocrats)
• Nykthos Paragon (high CMC, requires too much setup, slow)
• Moldervine Reclamation and Necrologia are both 5 CMC and unable to help if I start missing land drops on T4 or T5

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 44 - 0 Rares 27 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.22
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Beast 3/3 G, Cat Beast 2/2 W, Copy Clone, Dog 1/1 W, Eldrazi 10/10 C, Eldrazi Scion 1/1 C, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Human 1/1 W, Human Soldier 1/1 W, Inkling 2/1 WB, Insect 1/1 G, Pest 1/1 BG, Phyrexian Mite 1/1 C, Saproling 1/1 G, Servo 1/1 C, Soldier 1/1 W, Spirit 1/1 W, Monarch Emblem