Innistrad's Bane

Commander / EDH* Cruel Control Multiplayer Theme/Gimmick UBR (Grixis) Voltron

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Creature (4)

• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Jace, the Mind Sculptor
• 1x Karn Liberated
• 1x Liliana Vess

Land (35)

• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Creeping Tar Pit
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 1x Grixis Panorama
• 7x Island
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 2x Mountain
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Tectonic Edge
• 1x Tolaria West
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Watery Grave

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Soothsaying

Artifact (5)

• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Relic of Progenitus
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Sword of Fire and Ice

Instant (23)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Capsize
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Counterflux
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Crosis's Charm
• 1x Cryptic Command *list*
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Far / Away
• 1x Hatred
• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 1x Hinder
• 1x Jace's Ingenuity
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Long-Term Plans
• 1x Memory Plunder
• 1x Mystical Teachings
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Opportunity
• 1x Reiterate
• 1x Steam Augury
• 1x Terminate

Sorcery (24)

• 1x Acquire
• 1x Ancestral Vision
• 1x Army of the Damned
• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Blatant Thievery
• 1x Bribery
• 1x Cruel Ultimatum
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Deny Reality
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Dreadbore
• 1x Knowledge Exploitation
• 1x Mystic Retrieval
• 1x Plague Wind
• 1x Promise of Power
• 1x Psychic Intrusion
• 1x Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1x Seize the Day
• 1x Spelltwine
• 1x Time Warp
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Unknown (1)

• 1x cabal coffer

Commander (1)

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This is a deck I've been working on pretty much since Jeleva was spoiled.

It is a Grixis Control deck that aims to win by casting huge spells and valueing people out. The main source of this value comes from Jeleva who lets you cast spells for free when she attacks. Because you cannot always be guaranteed to get something good from your opponents, the deck also has a very very high density of huge game winning spells. There is also

Pretty much the whole deck falls into one of three categories. Must have value spells, enablers and big stupid spells to cast off Jeleva.

==Must Have Value Spells==

Beseech the Queen, Demonic Tutor, Diabolic Tutor all help smooth the deck out and fetch specific answers. Generally you want to be fetch Swiftfoot Boots early game, and then later either the kill combo (Hatred + Seize the Day) or the Cabal Coffers + Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth ramp combo. It is also worth getting Reiterate when you want to start being aggressive so you can doublecast big spells.

Chaos Warp is removal for anything, including generals. Being able to tuck a general is mean, but it can stop decks in their tracks sometime. It also doubles as the decks limited enchantment removal.

Damnation, Decree of Pain, Toxic Deluge are our boardwipes. These also ain't too bad to cast off Jeleva as they do reset her.

Hero's Downfall, Terminate, Far / Away, Crosis's Charm are our main sources of removal. All of them can be recurred but generally we don't need much single target removal.

Burnished Hart is our form of mana ramp. I'm tempted to add an Academy Ruins just to recurr it, it is that good.

Bribery can be cast off Jeleva, but it is so powerful I consider it a must. Generally it is good to fetch a big dude, but in U/G deck, try and grab Prophet of Krupix.

==Enablers==

Long-Term Plans and Mystical Tutor help set up specific Jeleva topdecks. These can be answers or win cons like the Hatred combo.

Liliana Vess is another, slightly slower way to set up top decks. She can also help you grind out value versus control decks.

Date added	11 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 43 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	99
Avg. CMC	4.26
Tokens	Demon X/X B, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	EDH, EDH Grixis