Athreos EDH

by raizieldragon on 22 March 2016

Main Deck (99 cards)

Sideboard (1 card)

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Deck Description

Always wanted to do an orzhov cleric tribal deck because of Starlit Sanctum and Edgewalker. Saw some of the cleric support (specifically black/white clerics) in SoI and decided to go ahead and put something together. I chose Athreos as the commander because it's a lot of small insignificant creatures. In case of board wipe, you can ask the player with the least amount of life to give you your creatures back or lose a large chunk of life. You might still lose a threatening creature here or there (Crypt Ghast, Nirkana Revenant, Magus of the Coffers, etc.), but you'll at least get back some of the less threatening clerics. The main intent of the deck is to keep your life total up higher than anyone else while you gradually drain them. You can win by life loss/damage/drain, or you can eventually win with your high life total and Felidar Sovereign/Test of Endurance. You can also win if someone is really hating on you and a lot of your creatures are in the graveyard and you drop an unsuspecting Mortal Combat. Lastly, with SoI, we have another win condition in Triskaidekaphobia, which is just a fun card. Use all your little life manipulation methods to get someone to 13, and then they lose on your turn. Or once they are that low, a well timed Exsanguinate, Debt to the Deathless, or Profane Prayers could finish them off. Ayli can also be a decent backup commander if you want to switch it up a bit. She offers some additional life gain options and some extra removal in case of something like an Erebos or Leyline of the Void/Rest in Peace/etc. You lose out on some recursion, but once you find Athreos, he probably won't go away anyway, so you still end up with the recursion.

Deck Tags

  • Athreos
  • EDH
  • Commander

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Card Legality

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

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