Elas Il Kor + Lurrus EDH

by aezop31 on 09 April 2023

Command Zone (1 card)

Creatures (1)

Main Deck (96 cards)

Sideboard (13 cards)

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Deck Description

Lurrus Companion, low to the ground, mid range commander deck that isn't too broken but functions very efficiently and consistently. Super fun to play, especially in casual play groups that like to stall for time :). This deck gets everyone's clock rolling by turn 2.



How to Play

This deck's engine runs off of your companion, Lurrus's graveyard interaction paired with Elas's life drain to ensure creatures are coming in and out of the battlefield consistently. The goal is to get multiple drainers on the field with the sustained pressure and sacrifice outlets of your tokens. Plenty of token generators, sacrifice outlets and removal to ensure that cards are entering and leaving the battlefield every turn. Keeping Lurrus alive is priority one, especially in the early game (Lurrus can fetch back your commander) .

Don't be afraid to board wipe your own creatures if the situation gets sticky - plenty of mass graveyard recursion and low mana curve of your creatures makes it so you recover very quickly from removal (sometimes in the same turn). There are even instances where mass removing your own creatures cause players to lose more life than they have.

Deck Tags

  • Elas il - Kor
  • Aristocrats
  • Life Drain
  • EDH
  • Casual EDH
  • Lurrus Companion

Deck at a Glance

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Mana Curve

Mana Symbol Occurrence

4604200

Deck Format


Commander

NOTE: Set by owner when deck was made.

Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for Elas Il Kor + Lurrus EDH

You can't actually summon in Lurrus in this deck, because its Companion ability requires all your cards in deck to cost 2 or less. You have 10 cards in here that break that, therefore you can't actually get it in from outside the game.

Also, EDH is 99 cards in main. One Commander makes it 100 cards.

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Posted 10 April 2023 at 01:31

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You can cast Lurrus in this deck as your Companion, check the wording on Lurrus. Each PERMANENT in your starting deck cost two converted mana or less. Meathook massacre at X1(B) is even allowed because X = 0 converted mana regardless of how much you spend to cast it.

An extra plains snuck into the deck because this website is clunky sometimes.

P.S. Read the cards closely before you give your feedback!!!

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Posted 10 April 2023 at 17:49

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I missed one word on a card, amongst thousands that I know since starting back in Avacyn Restored. Maybe tone down the condescension.
If you had just said that is was permanents and I had misread the card, instead of all that explanation, then I might have actually said something like "Oops, all good!" and left it at that.

As for actually reading the cards, you want to cut Cut Down in favour of something like Anguished Unmaking or Utter End. Cut Down is far worse than you think in EDH since it is combined Power and Toughness, meaning that any actual threat that this deck wants to stop won't be dealt by it. That way you also hit powerful artifacts and enchantments, which deck will struggle to. Early game, you could deal with a decent 2/2 at best, but drawing that thing late game is such a dead card it isn't funny.

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Posted 11 April 2023 at 00:02

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hehe read your first comment with a tone of condescension.

Thanks for the suggestions. I love Cut Down in this deck. Out of all of the 1 mana removal spells in black and white, I like it the best for early interaction. Unlike Swords or Path, no advantage is given to your opponent. Fatal Push is a close second, but I find that typically creatures with power/tough equal to 5 usually cost 3+ mana.

Additionally, I have 3 board wipes for thick creatures exclusively + a meekstone, so I tend to only use spot removal for creatures that impede my engine, which are utility/value creatures that don't attack and are usually "cutdownable" ( i.e. Dranith Magistrate)

But thanks for the rec - I mean it. Open to any other low costing, instant removal suggestions in b/w that i might not be aware of.

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Posted 15 April 2023 at 04:09

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