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If Only Lorehold Apprentice was Legendary

Commander / EDH Flying RUW (Jeskai, America) Spirits Tap/Untap

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Listen. I'm not actually that tied to the rules regarding commanders in EDH. If someone wants to play a nonlegendary creature as their commander? Sure! All for it. I think it fosters creativity. If someone wants to take two terrible commanders without partner and give them partner? Again, I think that's cool. It makes a lot of strategies that normally would be pretty much unplayable in commander and makes them do alright. But to take two nonlegendary creatures and give them partner? That might be pushing it a bit.

All that is to say, I'd absolutely love to claim this deck's commanders were Lorehold Apprentice and Drogskol Captain. But I think I'm gonna stick with Kykar for now.

Basically, this is a combo deck posing as a tribal deck. Tutor for Lorehold Apprentice with like eight spirits on board, and use things like Rally of Wings to untap them all and ping each opponent eight more times. There are quite a few bad cards in the list specifically to win through lorehold apprentice. Many of these untap effects also double as ways to make spirit tokens very powerful and deal lethal damage on their own.

This deck is a combo deck but the combo is easily dismantled, especially when a playgroup knows the play pattern of the deck from seeing it multiple times before. Conveniently, this list also doubles as plain old spirit tribal that can win easily without the combo as well, and in my opinion it doesn't even get significantly less fun.

Please do leave comments! I'm sure the deck could be much more streamlined, and I'm always interested in finding fun new things to make Lorehold Apprentice work better.

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91% Casual

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Revision 11 See all

(1 year ago)

+1 Donal, Herald of Wings main
+1 Drogskol Reinforcements main
+1 Gamble main
+1 Island main
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Date added 3 years
Last updated 1 year
Legality

This deck is Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

7 - 0 Mythic Rares

51 - 0 Rares

10 - 0 Uncommons

10 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 3.07
Tokens Copy Clone, Eldrazi 10/10 C, Spirit 1/1 C, Spirit 1/1 W
Folders EDH Decks, Current EDH
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