The cheapest EDH deck ever

by PhyrexianPossum on 20 January 2014

Main Deck (99 cards)

Sideboard (1 card)

Creatures (1)

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Deck Description

The budget of budget!

How to Play

Basically, Maralen of the Mornsong searches for Ad Nauseam. Use Ad Nauseam to draw your whole deck. With your massive hand, you cast Dark Sphere and and Sickening Dreams for about 40. Dark Sphere keeps you alive and if your opponents didn’t gain a ton of life they should all lose in one swoop. If your combo gets disrupted in any way, you can use the Elixir of Immortality to restart everything. Maralen costs 3 life to fetch Ad Nauseam and Ad Nauseam would cost 3 life to get Dark Sphere, Sickening Dreams and Elixir of Immorality. The Elixir of Immorality gains you 5 life so you lose only 1 life every time you attempt the combo. If they kill your commander, it goes back to the commander zone and you just have to wait to cast it again (cost 2 more every time your commander dies). Also note that you can’t lose to decking when Maralen is on the board since you can’t draw cards.

Deck Tags

  • Budget
  • EDH
  • EDH
  • Budget
  • Mono Black
  • 90 damage

Deck at a Glance

Social Stats

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Mana Curve

Mana Symbol Occurrence

00300

Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for The cheapest EDH deck ever

You can only have one glacial chasm

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Posted 20 January 2014 at 02:07

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I like it, maybe fill it in with some other zero cost artifact creatures for defense just in case and I think are golden. (aside from the land thing that Freethescruff said above)

Also shifting wall would be nice as an artifact creature which is effectively zero cost for Ad Nauseam since it is X cost.

(edit) I just thought of something. Maybe a pithing needle or some cheap removal would be good since your opponent gets to get search for anything first. Probably picking a pithing needle if they catch on to your deck idea. Though definitely a great idea, especially against people for the first time.

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Posted 20 January 2014 at 02:19

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A quick search of zero cost artifacts found me Zuran Orb. Put out for 0 and has the ability for 0 sacrifice a land and gain 2 life. Fits pretty good if things get stalling until later in the game for whatever reason

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Posted 20 January 2014 at 02:44

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I was placing a singles order tonight, and threw Maralen, Sickening Dreams, Ad Nauseum, and Dark Sphere into the list. I'd never play the deck seriously, but three bucks is worth the lolz even if I just do it once.

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Posted 20 January 2014 at 02:25

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Three bucks was definitely worth it now that Ad Nauseum is six bucks a pop.

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Posted 18 March 2014 at 03:34

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Dryad arbor is green... .cannot be used in the deck

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Posted 21 January 2014 at 22:10

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Take out arbor for a spellbook to keep all those lands in your hand for the discard

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Posted 18 March 2014 at 03:31

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Love it. But add a venser's Journal let's you gain like 90 life each turn and you don't need to discard all your cards after you pick them.

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Posted 25 May 2014 at 06:29

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Or add Stuffy Doll that way if your opponent gain life it deals 2x the damage to him or her

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Posted 27 May 2014 at 01:02

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