Edric for President

by Horse625 on 03 September 2014

Main Deck (99 cards)

Sideboard (1 card)

Creatures (1)

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Deck Description

Getting back into playing EDH via OCTGN. Haven't actually played Magic in a couple years, this is an update to what used to be my favorite EDH deck.

How to Play

Pretty simple. Turns 1 and 2, get cheap evasion guys out. Turn 3, play Edric, swing with dudes, draw some cards. Spread the damage as equally as you can among all opponents, and hopefully they'll attack each other to draw cards off of Edric. Try to stay on everybody's good sides until you can get off some kills via Overrun effects and/or extra turns. Above all, have fun.

Deck Tags

  • EDH
  • Simic
  • Creature-Based
  • Control

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Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for Edric for President

Granted Curiosity and Keen Sense are cheap to cast, but they set up you for a 2-for-1, and they'll only get you a single card. I'd much rather run Bident of Thassa and Coastal Piracy in those slots.

There's way, way, way to many indestructible Theros gods these days for Naturalize. Deglamer or Unravel the Aether are IMO much better choices.

Nature's Will absolutely KILLS in Edric decks. Tap out playing stuff, attack and draw six cards, untap all your land, play stuff again. It's become the number one kill target for my opponents in my meta, and it's so good that I run Bear Umbra and Sword of Feast and Famine to have more land untappers.

Druids' Repository can generate a ton of mana in this kind of deck.

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Posted 03 September 2014 at 22:04

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Bident and Piracy don't go infinite with Psychosis Crawler. Taking out Nissa for Nature's Will. Leaving Naturalize in until these enchantment gods seem to present a problem.

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Posted 03 September 2014 at 23:12

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Pyscosis Crawler causes a loss of life. Curiosity and Keen Sense trigger on damage, which isn't the same thing, so there's no infinite combo.

But even if there was I'm not sure going "I win" because you happen to draw a 1 cmc aura is remotely in the spirit of the game even if it did work. At that point you may as well just run Maralen, Ad Nauseum, Sickening Dreams and 96 swamps.

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Posted 03 September 2014 at 23:34

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Thought he did damage, my bad. Taking Curiosity and Keen Sense out for other things. Probably a Deglamer and a Jitte.

Also, I don't know about you, but infinite combos have been a part of this game for me since day 1. If that's a problem for you, look into better games.

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Posted 04 September 2014 at 13:44

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Infinite combos are fine for the most part. Easily tutored infinite combos that require a one mana aura is going to get you hated out at any place I've ever played simply for wasting everyone's time. But by all means, throw together a Niv Mizzet the Firemind deck filled with Curiousity, Ophidian Eye, etc. and see how many high-fives you get every time you dump and aura on him and win on turn four.

Like I said, if that's your idea of a good deck just roll Maralen.

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Posted 04 September 2014 at 13:49

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I have zero tutors and zero mana acceleration, so I'm not sure how you expect me to win on turn 4...

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Posted 04 September 2014 at 14:58

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