EDH Life Swap

by mmmjkx2 on 03 May 2014

Main Deck (99 cards)

Sideboard (1 card)

Creatures (1)

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Deck Description

1st edh deck never even played edh. I took ideas off of 3-4 decks and to include my own thoughts.

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Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for EDH Life Swap

A good first build. Some thoughts: Ordeal of Heliod isn't good in this deck, ask yourself, what creature would you enchant with it? Something small? Let's be honest you're not going aggro with Soul warden/etc. The exception is turn one soul warden, turn two ordeal, but that's rare. Something big? CMC >5? The only legit targets I see are Sun Titan, Sunblast Angel, Baneslayer and Rhox Faithmender. Do you want a tasty target to become tastier? And finally is it likely that any creature is going to successfully accomplish the ordeal? I'm looking at the deck thinking, your not playing an aggro deck. Most of your attacks will be attacks of opportunity not the methodical beatdown of attack, attack, attack pop ordeal.

It mostly comes down to style of play, this deck is more combo/control. The only time this deck will see a lot of aggro is with tokens, and that's fine, but your not going to enchant a 2/2 cat with ordeal and expect it to attack repeatedly and live either. My suggestion would be to replace it with Chalice of Life/Death.

My second suggestion is about mana and curve. I think the 40 land is great. That's a land drop every turn for 4 turns 95% of all games and your curve is low enough that you'll have plenty of plays, I don't see that being a problem. What I might change is the nature of mana generation. I think you could drop 3-4 land and replace them with 3-4 mana accel. Creatures like Burnished Hart, or Solemn Simulacrum, artifacts like Manalith, Gilded Lotus, or Sol Ring. If you don't have those cards and/or don't want to spend money on them, or if you just really hate getting artifact accel. destroyed then I'd go with wayfarer's bauble, Darksteel Ingot, Armillary Sphere, Journeyer's Kite (it's not accel. but it's good fetch) and it thin land from your deck.

Since your only running two colors. I also think you could include a couple of spell like land. Bojuka Bog, Ghost Quarter. Sejiri Steppe.

My final suggest is about color weight you've got a lot of double white/double black cards. So I'd definitely diversify your land to include Evolving Wilds, Terramorphic Expanse, Esper Panorama.

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Posted 03 May 2014 at 09:14

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I appreciate your help. I don't even have the money or friends to play EDH with. lol. I was just bored at work. I will head your comments and change some stuff around when im back there.

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Posted 03 May 2014 at 17:19

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