Sweet child of mine.

As it so happens I cannot take credit for it. I found it from a comment made about Child of Alara on its page on The Gatherer. I thought it was such a funny, yet somewhat truthful, description of what it must be like to deal with such a dangerously volatile general in EDH.

There is actually a very specific reason I run those two swords in particular. The greatest annoyance I've faced with this deck is when people exile the Child to avoid the risk of 'detonating' it. The most prolific colour that exiles is White. After white, the two most troublesome colours for me have been red and black. So, with my sword selection, I have two sources of white protection, and one of each for red and black. In addition, Light and Shadow grants me recursion, which is always a boon for this deck.

What about adding in blood tyrant? its a pretty nice card for multiplayer games

Theres no reason to run darksteel colosus over blightsteel considering infect still kills @ 10 in edh, serra ascendant turn1 1cmc 6/6 flying lifeling is WRONG not to be played in any deck that runs white, sakishima the impostor & sakishimas student are the 2 best clones in the game (oh god the things ive done with those 2) & progenitus sereously send everyone scrambling for board wipes, now imagine child + akromas memorial..... , oh I realized u already have animate dead so instead I would swap reanimate for necromancy or beacon of unrest

Well, then we should resign to agree to disagree.

I might be able to work that in, it's a good idea and may come in useful.

I suppose we must, I will however interject that Paradise City was good.

Not so sure about Yavimaya Hollow, but Volrath's Stronghold sounds like an excellent idea.

Also darksteel mutation is imo thee best commander removal spell in the game right now (takes care of any abilities or p/t & makes it real hard to get them back)

Bribery is also another MASSIVE one that I would suggest & mind control, grave betrayal works so halariously awesome with child, sure the board gets wiped including grave betrayal but all creatures presently on the field each get a +1/+1 counter & become MINE XD

I would swap reanimate for animate dead in a heartbeat, the life loss could realy screw u and the drawbacks to animate dead are nothing in the grand scheme of things

Theres no reason to run darksteel colosus over blightsteel considering infect still kills @ 10 in edh, serra ascendant turn1 1cmc 6/6 flying lifeling is WRONG not to be played in any deck that runs white, sakishima the impostor & sakishimas student are the 2 best clones in the game (oh god the things ive done with those 2) & progenitus sereously send everyone scrambling for board wipes, now imagine child + akromas memorial..... , oh I realized u already have animate dead so instead I would swap reanimate for necromancy or beacon of unrest

Gilded drake u need gilded drake!!!

& surestrike trident to send dmd straight to the face, hell even just it giving your 6/6 child first strike is good but being able to send 6 commander dmg at the cost of 4mana & Tap is awesome, or u could go: 4mana equip & throw it then 4mana equip to another guy & throw it, just so cheaty

And oracle of mul daya gets u land sooo fast

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Dude...I realize you're eager to add advice, but like...Calm your tits =P

^Not trying to butt in but that response was the first i saw when scrolling down and it made me laugh

Im just realy realy eagar lol .....defense of the heart is amazing XD

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If a commander gets exiled you can decide to just send it to the command zone instead & platy it again