All's Fair in Pain and Taxes [Famine]

Commander / EDH Aristocrats Group Slug WB (Orzhov)

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Payment (28)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Ankh of Mishra
• 1x Blind Obedience
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Bontu's Monument
• 1x Chalice of Life  ^Flip
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Debt to the Deathless
• 1x Exquisite Blood
• 1x Falkenrath Noble
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Kambal, Consul of Allocation
• 1x Leechridden Swamp
• 1x Loyal Subordinate
• 1x Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath
• 1x Ob Nixilis, Unshackled
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Palace Siege
• 1x Polluted Bonds
• 1x Sanguine Bond
• 1x Soul Warden
• 1x Tattered Mummy
• 1x Teysa Karlov
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Twilight Prophet
• 1x Underworld Dreams
• 1x Wound Reflection

Ramp (9)

• 1x Black Market
• 1x Bontu's Monument
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Revel in Riches
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum

Basher (6)

• 1x Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath
• 1x Ob Nixilis, Unshackled
• 1x Phyrexian Processor
• 1x Skirsdag High Priest
• 1x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip
• 1x Yahenni, Undying Partisan

Land (36)

• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x High Market
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Leechridden Swamp
• 1x Mistveil Plains
• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Orzhov Basilica
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 6x Plains
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Scoured Barrens
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Secluded Steppe
• 8x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Field
• 1x Temple of Silence
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold
• 1x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip

Recursion (10)

• 1x Cadaver Imp
• 1x Doomed Necromancer
• 1x Hell's Caretaker
• 1x Mistveil Plains
• 1x Monk Idealist
• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 1x Palace Siege
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Victimize
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold

Sac (9)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim
• 1x Hell's Caretaker
• 1x High Market
• 1x Merciless Resolve
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Victimize
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Yahenni, Undying Partisan

Commander (1)

Fixing (16)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Erebos, God of the Dead
• 1x Mentor of the Meek
• 1x Merciless Resolve
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Secluded Steppe
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Temple of Silence
• 1x Twilight Prophet
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Wall of Omens
• 1x Well of Lost Dreams

Removal (10)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Fiend Hunter
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Karmic Justice
• 1x Kaya's Wrath
• 1x Leonin Relic-Warder
• 1x Mortify

Control (4)

• 1x Blind Obedience
• 1x Erebos, God of the Dead
• 1x Karmic Justice
• 1x Smothering Tithe

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Maybeboard

Other (50)

• 1x Agent of Masks
• 1x Alhammarret's Archive
• 1x Armillary Sphere
• 1x Attrition
• 1x Blood Funnel
• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x Cliffhaven Vampire
• 1x Contamination
• 1x Dash Hopes
• 1x Death Denied
• 1x Disciple of Griselbrand
• 1x Drana's Emissary
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Fetid Heath
• 1x Golgari Thug
• 1x Gravepurge
• 1x Greed
• 1x Harvester of Souls
• 1x Haunted Crossroads
• 1x Immortal Servitude
• 1x Isolation Cell
• 1x Karlov of the Ghost Council
• 1x Killing Wave
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Obzedat, Ghost Council
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Pious Evangel  ^Flip
• 1x Pitiless Plunderer
• 1x Priest of Forgotten Gods
• 1x Recurring Nightmare
• 1x Revival / Revenge
• 1x Roiling Horror
• 1x Rune-Tail, Kitsune Ascendant  ^Flip
• 1x Salt Flats
• 1x Scholar of Athreos
• 1x Smokestack
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Subversion
• 1x Suture Priest
• 1x Tainted Remedy
• 1x Thoughtpicker Witch
• 1x Tidehollow Sculler
• 1x Tymna the Weaver *f-etch*
• 1x Tyrant's Choice
• 1x Underworld Coinsmith
• 1x Vampire Neonate
• 1x Vizkopa Guildmage
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

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And lo! towards us coming in a boat

An old man, hoary with the hair of eld,

Crying: "Woe unto you, ye souls depraved!

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Hope nevermore to look upon the heavens;

I come to lead you to the other shore,

To the eternal shades in heat and frost.

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And thou, that yonder standest, living soul,

Withdraw thee from these people, who are dead!"

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Recently remodeling my old Athreos EDH deck / scrapping its Cleric Tribal for a pain(ment) approach.

We have what ramp we can get in Orzhov colors, or more specifically, the small amount we need with a low CMC, for what we wish to play.

We have removal for what we don't wish to see.

We have fixing for getting what we wish to get.

We have control for guiding the board-state to what we wish to have.

We have sac for the value we wish to receive.

We have recursion for the value we wish to return.

We have payment for those who wish to pay the cost of living.

And, just in case, we have bashers for those who wish they had paid the toll.

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Top cuts are:

Underworld Dreams (Is the damage worth it?)

Karmic Justice (Removal dissuasion)

Blind Obedience (Need to track extort # in average game + how much tap control has turned the tide)

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Top additions:

Tidehollow Sculler (Great hand removal but I didn't get enough value from it)

Alhammarret's Archive (Life gain increase and fixing)

Contamination (For more control)

Pitiless Plunderer (For more ramp - Can I get enough?)

Vizkopa Guildmage (Infinite with Exquisite Blood )

Karlov of the Ghost Council (If I need more removal)

Zulaport Cutthroat (If I need more payment)

Tymna the Weaver (If I need more fixing)

Haunted Crossroads (If I need more recursion)

Jet Medallion (If I need more ramp)

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Cards from new set are flagged as being "illegal." Just give it time and that will sort itself out.

Recurring Nightmare is banned in EDH (but legal in so many others..) and I run it in my personal play group as they allow it, but I've taken it out of the deck and put into "Maybes" as it's not always accepted. If you find yourself in the boat in which you can use it, swap a recursion, maybe Phyrexian Reclamation, and have at it.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 42 - 0 Rares 25 - 0 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.28
Tokens	City's Blessing, Demon 5/5 B, Emblem Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath, Human Cleric 1/1 BW, Minion X/X B, Treasure
Folders	Orzhov decks