As Above So Below

Commander / EDH Bracket 4 WB (Orzhov)

SPIDABITE

Land (33)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Boseiju, Who Shelters All
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x Fetid Heath
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Mistveil Plains
• 1x Monumental Henge
• 6x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Shineshadow Snarl
• 6x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Silence
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath

Life Savers (8)

• 1x Angel's Grace
• 1x Children of Korlis
• 1x Exquisite Archangel
• 1x Herald of Eternal Dawn
• 1x Phyrexian Unlife
• 1x Platinum Angel
• 1x Resolute Archangel
• 1x The Golden Throne

Utility (5)

• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Debt to the Deathless
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Vedalken Orrery

Card Draw/Tutor/Advantage (14)

• 1x Bolas's CitadelGC
• 1x Dark Confidant
• 1x Darkstar Augur
• 1x Demonic TutorGC
• 1x Enlightened TutorGC
• 1x Esper Sentinel
• 1x Greed
• 1x Idyllic Tutor
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Vampiric TutorGC
• 1x Wall of Omens

Ramp/Land Drops (9)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Land Tax
• 1x Mana VaultGC
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Smothering TitheGC
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Weathered Wayfarer

Removal (8)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Damn
• 1x Disenchant
• 1x Generous Gift
• 1x Mortify
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Commander (1)

Protection (9)

• 1x Dawn's Truce
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Imp's Mischief
• 1x Lapse of Certainty
• 1x Rebuff the Wicked
• 1x Selfless Spirit
• 1x Teferi's Protection
• 1x Wall of Shards
• 1x Withering Boon

Instant Hemorrhage (8)

• 1x Ad NauseamGC
• 1x Lich
• 1x Necrodominance
• 1x Necrologia
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Pain's Reward
• 1x Plunge into Darkness
• 1x Wall of Blood

As above, so below (5)

• 1x Axis of Mortality
• 1x Magus of the Mirror
• 1x Repay in Kind
• 1x Reverse the Sands
• 1x Soul Conduit

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Maybeboard

Other (10)

• 1x Apostle's Blessing
• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Black Market Connections
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Morbid Opportunist
• 1x Phyrexian Processor
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Skeletal Scrying

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This deck trades life total for card advantage extremely aggressively. It's a glass cannon that can win games quickly and brutally. It performs fairly poorly against heavy control decks like stax or monoblue, and is pretty vulnerable to removal. If you plan on piloting this deck, remember the following order for tutors and card filtering:

Card advantage -> Ramp/Color Fixing -> Life Saver -> Life Reversal.

The deck wants to gain card advantage while ramping as fast as possible on turns 1-3. On turn 4-7, you want to have a way to prevent yourself from dying while nuking your life total to get a reversal card. In this process, you should find at least 1 card that will prevent you from dying on the turn you plan to swap.

Your ideal combo is something like Angel's Grace + Necropotence + Repay in Kind .

This deck needs 8 mana at least on a single turn to win, ideally the combo pieces are acquired over a period of 1-3 turns to lower the mana cost. Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff helps a ton with getting the mana you need to win, just be cautious on your turn to not drop your life total to 1 and lose to the triggered ability.

If you can't kill the entire table at once, kill the biggest threat (control / removal heavy decks), reset your life total, and draw a bunch of more cards to repeat the process with the remaining players.

An important concept to understand: Switching life totals or changing life totals directly is the same as gaining and losing life. This means if I have a card like Lich in play, and then use Soul Conduit to switch life totals with someone that has 80 life, I will gain 80 life, and that player will lose 80 life. Additionally, due to Lich triggering on life gain, I will then draw 80 cards and likely deck myself.

Any feedback or card suggestions is greatly appreciated. I don't want this deck to be CEDH level (and it likely can't), but I want it to stand up to other strong decks that exist just outside of CEDH.

Date added	1 month
Last updated	2 days
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	13 - 0 Mythic Rares 47 - 0 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.00
Tokens	Copy Clone, Darkstar Augur 1/1 B, Elephant 3/3 G, Treasure