Anowon EDH

by raizieldragon on 25 February 2015

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  • Commander
  • EDH
  • Anowon

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Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for Anowon EDH

Good call on Myriad Landscape, it's swamp ramp without losing swamps. I'm adding it now.

I'd much rather have Thespian's Stage or Vesuva to copy Cabal Coffers than Leechridden Swamp. Doing so has flat out ended games for me, where as Leechridden Swamp is just a slightly useful land. Expedition Map is fantastic to find Coffers (or a way to copy it) too.

Not sure if you've played this deck yet, but at some point I'd suggest testing Drana as commander instead of Anowon. My vamp tribal played much better after the swap. Anowon generates a ton of hate because people don't want to be forced to sacrifice creatures, and since he hits everyone you've got three or so other players ALL holding removal for him. Plus he has to actually sit a full round before he impacts the board, and literally in the dozen of games I played him he forced a sac maybe twice. Drana on the other hand generates less hate just by virtue not forcing sacrifices, and because she doesn't have an ability that hits the entire table she doesn't have every single person gunning for her. Plus you can pump mana into her from Black Market or Coffers. Just something to consider if you, like me, find out Anowon just didn't get it done.

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Posted 03 March 2015 at 02:52

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I like Myriad Landscape in almost any EDH deck. Even if it's not a mono-color deck, it still thins two lands from your deck. That's a good deal to me. Only time I wouldn't run it is if I just have so many non-basics that there aren't enough basics to make it worthwhile.

Vesuva and Thespian's Stage aren't bad, and as you said, making more Cabal Coffers is nice. However, they are practically useless without first finding Cabal Coffers, and once you have Cabal Coffers, you don't really need another one. I find that unless it's super late game or you have Urborg out, it's not good to have too many other non-basics when using Coffers. Maybe if I were to switch it up as you recommend, all the extra mana would be worth it, since Drana is a bottomless mana dump.

On that front, Drana was of course a contender, being another Legendary Vampire. However, I went with Anowon for a couple of reasons. For one, he FEELS more "Vampire Tribal", which is what I was going for. For the second (and this will go against your main argument for Drana) his ability is more symmetrical and fair to the board. I'd much rather each person lose a creature of their choice than have a way of picking off their choicest targets. Anowon keeps the token population in check and makes people delay playing big threats until they have enough fodder to keep it alive for a couple turns. Lastly, Anowon is more interesting to build around. Drana say "play lots of mana pump and kill everything, then fill in with good stuff". Anowon strays a bit from black good stuff by not wanting to run a lot of non-vampire creatures. Sheoldred is pretty much a given in any EDH deck that runs black, but it ended up not making the list when I knew she would probably just get sacced.

That all having been said, I have not played the deck yet, but I imagine our metas aren't exactly the same either. And if a commander draws a lot of hate (and honestly, what doesn't?), then that must mean they are a good choice for a commander.

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Posted 03 March 2015 at 14:41

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