Anthem: The Impossible Voltron Dream

Commander / EDH Battlecruiser Casual Five Color Primer Voltron

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Land (36)

• 1x Arcane Sanctum
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Cascading Cataracts
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Concealed Courtyard
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forest
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Murmuring Bosk
• 1x Mystic Monastery
• 1x Nomad Outpost
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Opulent Palace
• 1x Plains
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Sandsteppe Citadel
• 1x Scattered Groves
• 1x Seaside Citadel
• 1x Sheltered Thicket
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Artifact (16)

• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Boros Signet
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Coalition Relic
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Golgari Signet
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Planar Bridge
• 1x Prismatic Geoscope
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Relic of Progenitus
• 1x Selesnya Signet
• 1x Simic Signet
• 1x Spear of Heliod

Enchantment (15)

• 1x Always Watching
• 1x Collective Blessing
• 1x Crusade
• 1x Death Pit Offering
• 1x Dictate of Heliod
• 1x Gaea's Anthem
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Glorious Anthem
• 1x Honden of Cleansing Fire
• 1x Honden of Infinite Rage
• 1x Honden of Life's Web
• 1x Honden of Night's Reach
• 1x Honden of Seeing Winds
• 1x Light from Within
• 1x True Conviction

Instant (2)

• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Sylvan Reclamation

Commander (1)

Creature (15)

• 1x Ascendant Evincar
• 1x Ashenmoor Liege
• 1x Balefire Liege
• 1x Cephalid Constable
• 1x Cold-Eyed Selkie
• 1x Creakwood Liege
• 1x Crovax, Ascendant Hero
• 1x Deathbringer Regent
• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1x Glint-Eye Nephilim
• 1x Kongming, "Sleeping Dragon"
• 1x Mindwrack Liege
• 1x Murkfiend Liege
• 1x Stoic Angel
• 1x Wilt-Leaf Liege

Sorcery (15)

• 1x Bring to Light
• 1x Conflux
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Duneblast
• 1x Fumigate
• 1x Hour of Promise
• 1x In Garruk's Wake
• 1x Kirtar's Wrath
• 1x Martial Coup
• 1x Razia's Purification
• 1x Rout
• 1x Supreme Verdict
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Tragic Arrogance
• 1x Wrath of God

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Progenitus is a humongous commander at 10/10, but they still only kill via commander damage in 3 hits. And though their "Protection from Everything" makes them beyond evasive, it also prevents us from enchanting or equipping The Misty One the traditional Voltron way. However, if we found a way to give him +1/+1 through static effects, we can kill in two hits.

What this deck presupposes is, what if we gave Progenitus +11/+11 to kill in one hit?

Welcome to Anthem Tribal: The 5-Color Voltron Dream.

The Kingpin

Progenitus is more often than not the token head of any old deck that just needs 5-colors, but this deck is designed with the 10-mana fatty as its primary win condition. Our goal is such:

• Ramp hard
• Play anthem effects until we have at least +11/+11 to the whole "team."
• Play Progenitus
• Swing with a 21/21
• Repeat until won.

The Boosters

Anthem effects are our bread and butter, the ritual jigsaw puzzles that must be assembled before Progenitus can be summoned into the world. They come in many different flavors, from the dueling aspects of Crovax, Ascendant Hero and Ascendant Evincar , to the elemental liege cycle, to classic choices like Crusade or the namesake Glorious Anthem. Some can even tilt games on their own! Well, just Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite.

Overall, we play 20 anthem and anthemesque effects, the best among them being True Conviction, which grants a virtual +10/+10 on its own.

The Lackeys

Because this cheesy deck can't help being even cheesier, Progenitus brings a few friends that also naturally benefit from many of our anthem effects. Cold-Eyed Selkie and Glint-Eye Nephilim hit big when buffed to draw us lots of cards, and Cephalid Constable becomes a one-man Capsize on a stick.

Should any of the above plans fail for some unearthly reason, we still have a foolproof backup: Hondens. Lots of Hondens. This deck can, and will, cast Conflux and fetch all five of these legendary shrines at once, or maybe Planar Bridge for one at a time when we get flooded.

The Protection

Building around a 10 drop with very specific mana requirements means we have to actively slow the game down, give us some time to assemble our foolproof, absolutely logically sound plan. Here, we play Ghostly Prison and Stoic Angel to delay attackers. We also run wraths. Lots and lots of wraths.

Yes, Progenitus is weak to wraths (and only wraths), but they are necessary to control the game to the point that we can actually get the big hydra onto the battlefield. Once our literally golden god has arrived, some already-bonkers wraths like Duneblast and Tragic Arrogance become even more very bonkers. And have you read what Razia's Purification does? Yeah, we might have to lose a few anthems at that point, but who cares because we just resolved a Razia's Purification with Progenitus on the board.

The End

Is this the most consistent deck? Sometimes it can be. Is it the most competitive? Depends on your definition. But is it a unique and fun way to win with a commander who just plain gets tired of being a figurehead all the dang time? I say yes. It's got my +1/+1.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 58 - 0 Rares 26 - 0 Uncommons 5 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.25
Tokens	Soldier 1/1 W, Spirit 1/1 C, Spirit 1/1 W, Worm 1/1 BG, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Cool Stuff, Commander/EDH