Pilgrimage of Tears - Ayli EDH

by anemonean on 01 April 2016

Command Zone (1 card)

Creatures (1)

Main Deck (99 cards)

Sideboard (1 card)

Enchantments (1)

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Deck Description


+Diamond Valley if ever in budget

How to Play

Tutor & Draw Effects:
Sidisi, Undead Vizier - Tutor Any (Tutor+Draw w/ Sm. Abomination & G.Haruspex)
Diabolic Intent - Tutor Any (Tutor + Draw w/ Sm. Abomination & G.Haruspex)
Lin Sivvi - Tutor Rebel Creatures - (Tutor Kor Outrider & Taskforce for inf life combo or combine with Conspiracy naming Rebels to tutor any creature into play/Recur any creature to library
Academy Rector - Tutor Enchantment into Play - Synergy w/ Spiritualist to Sac for life. Combo w/ kaervek's Spite & B.Glory
Idyllic Tutor - Tutor Enchantment
Stoneforge Mystic - Tutor Equipment - (Combo pieces for Task Force/Spiritualist or Sword for recursion, Clamp for more draw, deathrender to cheat creatures out, or blade of selves to abuse multiple sac outlets or multiple etb/ltb effects of gray merchant, academy rector, angel of serenity, stoneforge mystic, sun titan, etc.)
Stonehewer Giant - Tutor Equipment - (Combo pieces for Task Force/Spiritualist or Sword for recursion, Clamp for more draw, deathrender to cheat creatures out of hand, or blade of selves to abuse multiple sac outlets or multiple etb/ltb effects of gray merchant, academy rector, angel of serenity, stoneforge mystic, sun titan, etc.)
Skullclamp - Draw - Draw 2 with Smothering Abomination & G. Haruspex
g gttg Grim Haruspex - Draw on any contr. creature death - Synergy with Ayli like effects, Attrition, Token Gens, clamp & Tutors
Ad Nauseum - Draw - Combo w/ Phyrexian unlife for worry free draw, Synergy w tireless tribe (Draw as many cards as life can manage then discard to tireless tribe for +4 toughness per discard, sac tribe with ayli 1st ability to regain life lost. This combo usually leaves you with more life than you started with & a clutch of cards you want, assuming no interruption (interruption can be devastating)
Necrologia - End Step draw. Instant speed Yawgmoth's bargain. Less usefull w/o tireless tribe discard outlet or Reliquary tower. Can be used to prune hand. Like Ad Nauseum can be pitched to tireless tribe to gain stupid life with Ayli/ deal huge lifeloss with sanguine bond.
Phyrexian Arena: Draw on upkeep, extra padding
Burnished Hart: Basic Land tutor
Gift of Estates: Basic Land Tutor
Weathered Wayfarer: Basic land tutor
Buried Alive: Tutor 3 creatures into graveyard. use with Reanimate, Unearth, Sun Titan, Angle of Serenity, Victimize etc.
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Token Generators:
Sifter of Skulls - on non token death
Pawn of Ulamog - On nontoken death
Westvale Abbey - on paying cost & tap
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Sacrifice Outlets:
Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim: Ability 1 for Life, Ability 2 for repeatable Vindicate
Ayli-Like-Effects: Starlit Sanctum, Worthy Cause, Disciple of Griselbrand
Attrition: Sac to destroy (great synergy with Gravepact)
Westvale Abbey: Sac 5 to transform
Helm of Possession: Sac to gain control of opponent's creatures (which in turn can be sacced with Ayli
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En-Kor/Daru Spiritualist Infinite Life Combo and Variants (3 pieces- 4 pieces, modular)

Part 1A: En-kor pieces: Shaman En-Kor, Nomads En-Kor, Outrider En-Kor(Tutorable by Lin Sivvi), (each has 0 cost targeted ability)
Part 1B: 0 equip cost equipment: Shuko, Ligtning Greaves (both Stoneforge Mystic & Stonehewer Giant tutorable)
Part 2: Daru Spiritualist (makes Any cleric into part 2 combo piece), Task Force (Tutorable by Lin Sivvi), Angelic Protector
Part 3: Ayli (Ability 1, any Group B), Starlit Sanctum (B Cleric only), Worthy Cause (Any Group B), Animal Boneyard (any Group B), Disciple of Griselbrand (Any Group B)
Part 4 (optional): Sanguine Bond, Vizkopa Guild Mage, Defiant Bloodlord

Take any combo piece from group 1A or 1B and use it to target any combo piece from group 2 . Then Sac to any combo piece from group 3 to gain infinite or arbitrarily large life. Optionaly use any piece from group 3 to also deal infinite or arbitrarily large life loss to opponent. Almost always a game ender but requires 4
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Ad Nauseum & Tireless Tribe Combo (needs 3-4 pieces)

Group 1: Tireless Tribe
Group 2: Ad Nauseum, Necrologia
Group 3: Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim (Or comparable effect like Disc. of Griselbrand)
Group 4 (Optional): Sanguine Bond, Vizkopa Guild Mage, Defiant Bloodlord

Resolve group 1, Cast group 2 for as many cards as needed, sac to group 3, group 4 provides lifeloss to weaponize combo
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Beacon of Immortality/ Sanguine Bond Combo (needs 2 pieces)

Group 1: Sanguine Bond, Vizkopa Guildmage, Defiant Bloodlord
Group 2: Beacon of Immortality

Resolve group 1. Cast group 2 to double life and usually hit for lethal lifeloss
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Academy Rector/Kaervek's Spite/Barren Glory Combo (Needs 1 piece on field, 1 piece anywhere in deck, one piece in hand)

Cast and resolve Academy Rector with Kaervek's Spite in Hand and Barren Glory still in library. Cast Kaervek's spite at end of opponent's turn, paying extra cost of discarding hand and destroying all your permanents (even if spell is countered cost is still paid and the combo still activates) Academy Rector's ability triggers on her death searching up Barren Glory into play. Barren glory's requirements are met at next upkeep, winning the game.
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Using Blade of Selves to maximum effect (multiplayer):

Sun Titan - in a 4 player game attack w Titan to return 1 Permanent to the battlefield from the original attack, 2 permanents from the ETB trigger of token copys, 2 permanents from attacking triggers of the 2 copys. Return 5 permanents total in one attack.
Gray Merchant - in a 4 player game attack with grey merchant for 2 etb triggers dealing life loss of your black devotion twice to every other player and gaining the sum of that life loss. An attack with devotion at 6 would drain 3 players for 6 netting 18 life. This happens 2 times for a total of 12 life lost per opponent and a net gain of 36 life.
Stoneforge Mystic - in a 4 player game attack with Mystic to search library for 2 equipments and put them into play
Angel of Serenity - In a 4 player game attack with angel of serenity to exile 6 creatures from the battlefield or from a graveyard (or any combination of the two). At the end of the attack step the tokens die and the ltb trigger happens for both exiled creatures come back to owners hands. That means you can return 6 creatures from the graveyard to your hand, bounce 6 creatures to opponents hands, or bounce creatures you own but no longer control due to steal spells to your own hand. Can also be used to permanently get rid of tokens.
Sidisi, Undead Vizier - In a 4 player game attack with Sidisi (you must have 2 creatures you want to exploit(sac)) to exploit 2 creatures and tutor 2 cards to hand.
Entomber exarch - In a 4 player game attack with Exarch to either force opponent to discard 2 non-creature cards or get 2 creatures back to hand from yard (or do 1 of each)
Serra avatar - In a 4 player game attack with Avatar then, before combat ends, sac the 2 tokens with ayli or Disciple of Griselbrand to triple your life total. Hell, sac the original avatar too to quadruple it, why not.

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Deck Format


Commander

NOTE: Set by owner when deck was made.

Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Not Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Not Legal in Legacy

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