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Balthor is the commander. You will cast almost all your deck by turn 7.
Get your six Shadowborn Apostles out and sac them to bring Rune-scarred demon into the battlefield and use that to search for Thrumming stone. Cast a Shadowborn Apostle and watch the fun begin. With 39 Shadowborn on the field start sacrficing away bring all your demons out. Harvester of souls would be nice to draw the rest of your deck. Reliquary tower will give you unlimited hand size. If that's not enough keep reading....Unlimited combo...Exquisite Blood and Sanguine bond will unlimited combo. Couple extra cards in hereThe tutor's to search if needed (could replace with Planar Portal)Gray Merchant of Asphodel and mass devotion isn't bad either. :-)The rest is protection from milling yourselfElixir of Immortality and Feldon's Cane shuffle your graveyard back inMirror of Fate will return things from exile if someone gets fancy on you and exiles your graveyard. Also Feldon's cane will be there if nothing else.
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I see what you are trying to do with this deck and it isn't bad. I would add more removal and wipes to help abuse your commander a bit more or try to add in some ramp. You are in black so Cabal Coffers + Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth with Deserted Temple should go in for sure.With the Shadowborn + Stone combo add in Profane Prayers, good amount of damage for a small price.Also Painter's Servant isn't legal in EDH.
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Thank you for the feedback. Damn no painters servant. BOOOO!!! What do you mean by abuse my commander? Why do you think I need more ramp? It's all one drops and then after they all ripple out I will be drawing almost all mana. Urborg doesn't hurt and can help a little. Remember I won't be casting those demons. They are free. I do like profane prayers so I added that.
Board wipes to destroy all creatures and then use your commander to pick them all back. Black Sun's Zenith, Damnation, Decree of Pain, Life's Finale, ect. Those are so good wipes to help you regain control of the board.Also you want to the mana ramp incase you an opponent stops you from using your Shadowborns. Then you can hard cast your demons if need be. You also need to have Cabal Coffers or Urborg is pretty pointless. Add in some more tutors so you have a good chance of getting Stone out.Patriarch's Bidding can help you get back your Shadownborns or demons.Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker can also help you get back your Shadowborns if he stays out long enough.You can abuse them more with a card called Conspiracy (choose Demon) then you can really search for any creature.I play a good amount of EDH so I'm just passing on what I've learned. It's to you how you really want to run this deck.
Ok I get it. I added cabal coffers and deserted temple. I will think about the board wipes. It would be nice to wipe them all and redump Gray Merchant but I need to play test some more. I am afraid to dilute the deck from it's primary purpose. The less apostles I have the harder it will be to draw the original 6. I could also potentially put in Illusionists Bracers and Strionic Resonator to double all the different effects going on between the apostles and the demons.
Dictate of Erebos could be a nice board wipe effect too for every time I sac 6 apostles.
Remove the two instants you have and put in Gravepact/Dictate of Erebos or those artifacts you mentioned. Also what does Mirror of Fate do for you?
I have Jeleva in my metagame thus end up with exiled cards all over the place. So if it all got exiled then I can mirror of fate to bring back creatures and elixir of immortality to save myself from getting milled out. Or even imagine if I used all my apostles to bring out all my demons, the board gets wiped, and graveyards get exiled. I'm done for the game. Ok I will throw those bad boys in and try it out. Thanks for all your help.
What do you think of using an Eldarazi so that when it dies my graveyard gets shuffled each time?
Demonic Hordes???? I've never tried to run them in commander.... or in the last 20 years for that matter.
Ok cool. Yea each play group is different but if that player can exile your library down that far I don't think adding 7 cards from exile to your library will be much help at all.If you can keep the mana up each turn Demonic Hordes could be useful. Eldarazi are always nice. I'd run them over that elixir anyday. They give you much more use.
I tried adding more apostles too just because doing to sample draws was leaving me taking too long to get enough apostles out.
How many you want to add is up to you. Most people I've seen running this type of deck or Relentless Rats only run around 25 to 30. However yours you want to hit more with ripple so thats fine.
I would add Abhorrent Overlord to this, like you said devotion is pretty easy to go nuts with and another demon to get out.
Oh and the title of this deck: aggro*
Good call on both. Thanks.
I am a little late to the party but I think you should add Dragon Throne of Tarkir as another win con. Throw Demon of Deaths Gate on the throne and all your apostles are 10/10 with trample. Yes I would include Kozilek Butcher of Truth instead of the Elixer of Life. He recycles the graveyard plus you get a body and card draw. I think you might want to run bloodgift demon as well. He is searchable with your apostles and starts your sanguine bond/exquisite blood combo. Fitting with your Demon Theme the flip card Elbrus the Binding Blade/Withengar unbound. You have enough flying evasion for it to go off plus you can always put it on Harvester of Souls to force a block on his deathtouch.