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Vish Kal Wears His Sunglasses At Night | V-OJT

Commander / EDH Bracket 3 Combo Infinite Combo Lifegain Lifelink Multiplayer Sacrifice Voltron WB (Orzhov)

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Food For Vish (17)

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Big Mana (1)

Commander (1)

Commander: foil Vish Kal, Blood Arbiter

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Tutors (5)

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Protection (7)

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Lifegain (16)

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Other (5)

Lands (15)

Recursion (10)

Ramp (8)

Tutors (3)

Food For Fish (1)

Look at those fancy shades...

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That guy begs for a soundtrack

Hello there and welcome to my Vish Kal, Blood Arbiter list

Shady Business

I started this deck way back when stumbling upon an existing decklist that I just really liked for many reasons:

  • It was a list that balances paying life and gaining life, which I thought is a great W/B theme and a refreshing take on lifegain decks.
  • It was both a voltron and a combo deck at the same time, while also containing some cool synergies. I had not seen this combination of strategies before.
  • It contained cards that I like a lot for their nostalgia factor, like Su-Chi, Phyrexian Dreadnought and Hatred
  • It contained a lot of cards I had lying around, wanted to play, but had no purpose for yet.

I was exited to try it out, so I assembled a build close to that list and adapted away from it as time went on.

The alteration

I wanted the deck to rely less on the commander for success. If you can get Vish to stick to the board, it's great, but once people know what your deck can do they will just save a kill spell to deal with this guy. So I wanted the deck to be threatening without Vish as well.

My alterations include pushing the lifegain theme a little bit more, adding some of the broken lifelink angels (like Gisela, the broken blade) and more black draw spells. I also included new cards over time that fit the life balance theme.

Playstyle

At the basis, the deck now plays like a goodstuff deck, using lifelink creatures, staple etb & ltb creatures and powerful black draw spells to keep trucking. Later in the game, the deck either turns into an agressive voltron deck, by saccing creatures to Vish's ability, or a combo deck by hitting one of the infinite creature sac combo's to make vish infinitely big (these also work with Phyrexian Altar/Altar of Dementia):

Using these combo's, we can also get infinite life if we have Phyrexian Altar and Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim as sac outlets, or combo's including Sister Hospitaller. And although not infinite, these combos can also be more than enough with Vish:

Other notable interactions with Vish:

Intended Power level

Category (Jank - Low - Mid - High - Competitive)

Mid/High

Closing Comments

I eventually steered away from cards that seem really unfair given the EDH life starting total, like Felidar Sovereign. I tried a few, but I don't really like the reception in my playgroup. Fortunately there are enough other great likelink cards out there, so a great way to create some spots in the deck.

Thanks for checking out the deck, Upvote if you like it, and you can always leave a comment or suggestion.

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GL & HF

Beebles

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War of the Spark + MH1 + M20 + ELD Update — April 28, 2019
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Iconic masters pondering — Nov. 19, 2017
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A few more changes — July 6, 2017
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Creating a curve — May 22, 2017
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Some Kaladesh Tweaking — Sept. 21, 2016
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