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[KFC] Kaalia Friended Chickens

Commander / EDH Angels Casual Creature Cheat Dragons Jank Lifegain RBW (Mardu)

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Commander: Kaalia of the Vast

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Inspired by Above, Below, and Beyond and Kaalia's Treasure Trove.

The Deck

I enjoy Kaalia as a commander and would like to optimize it for fun yet casual play as I still want to have friends (or the little I have left since I play Kaalia). I will try to adhere as much as I can to my self imposed rules to create a fun experience in my table and avoid things like Master of Cruelties, as that will just make one of my friends go make a soup while the others keep playing. I am keeping a record of all recommended cards I have been giving insight on, as well as documentation on the journey of this deck.

Objectives

  • Have the deck succeed on its own after Kaalia dies the first few times.
  • Play as many cards as I can, whatever they might do.
  • Card Draw: Have lots of card draw to have a smooth experience.
  • Jank: Keep my friends after playing.

Self Imposed Rules

  • Keep the deck around $550 U.S. dollars.
  • No one shotting a single player with one card.
  • Little to no tutors. (*)(**)

(*)For people following this deck for a while, you might have noticed V.3's rule was "Little to no combos". This rule was a bit redundant with the second one so I have changed it to "Little to no tutors".

(**) "Little to no tutors?!?! Is this guy dumb?!?!" yeah, kind of. Truth is this Kaalia deck has always had some big threats for creatures, one free creature cheat and everyone is pointing their gun at you. Tutors were just making the hard focus on me more consistent, which felt like crap. We are getting rid of tutor consistency and focusing on card draw and survavility now.

If for whatever reason you are into winning, the overall strategy of the deck in V.5 is to gain life, draw cards, drop big threats, generate angels, and win by poking people for big chunks while trying to not draw the whole table aggro on you. That said, there are some ways to quickly end a match in the deck to stop your Green/Blue friend's eternal rampage with a "I win, let's go home", however you will need to draw it (remember, no tutors).

RNG: Dragon Tempest + Ancient Gold Dragon -> A bit of an RNG fest for fun that deals damage per dragons entering the battlefield from the Gold Dragon.

This needs an update for 2025.

Just recording cards I've been recommended and/or tried:

Interesting cards and card combos I might never try, but are here for the record:

Just cards and card combos I've found around other Kalia decks that seemed to be a tad too annoying to my table, fell free to try them at your own risk:

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V.5 Lifegain Reloaded — Dec. 15, 2024
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It is the season of joy, and with it comes my yearly (semi-anual???) update to this deck. V.4 was on a pretty interesting spot as a casual Kaalia deck, with good card draw, some mana problems, people seeing me less of a threat, but overall fun! clap clap clap. Now, I am trying to clean up the deck a bit to get rid of things I just don't use in most of my match ups due to various reasons, while also pivoting a bit more into white to take full advantage of angels and lifegain, while taking some of the protagonism from Kaalia away.

The important card going out here is Farewell leaving the deck with absolutely no sorceries. "What?! Why?!" you may ask, well, truth is this card is overkill and extends the match too long for my liking. If someone is up there in near unstopable mode about to finish the game, I'd rather have everyone die and start a new one over wiping the whole thing to struggle back (worth mentioning too, green players will always come back faster than you will). Other important cards going out here are Cradle of Vitality and Well of Lost Dreams that benefit from our lifegain, but I just never had enough mana I was willing to spend for the sake of those.

V.4 Lifelink for my brain — Jan. 4, 2024
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V.3 Friendship Was Never An Option — Sept. 30, 2023
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V.2 Increasing Consistency and Card Draw — Sept. 9, 2023
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V.1 Fixing Kaalia Survavility and Card Draw — Sept. 6, 2023
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91% Casual

Competitive

Date added 1 year
Last updated 1 week
Legality

This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)

17 - 0 Mythic Rares

48 - 0 Rares

16 - 0 Uncommons

7 - 0 Commons
Cards 100
Avg. CMC 3.66
Tokens Angel 3/3 W, Angel 4/4 W, Angel 4/4 W w/ Vigilance, Emblem Kaya the Inexorable, Faerie Dragon 1/1 U, Shapeshifter 3/2 C, Soldier 1/1 W, Spirit 1/1 W, Monarch Emblem, Treasure
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