Hey, look! I finally made a nonblue deck!
And there was much rejoicing, for Made_Compleat had finally stopped playing control and valuepile as their only archetypes.
Also, it has three boardwipes, several other cards with sweepers attached, an absurd amount of value, lots of removal, Doubling Season, Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider, Eugene, a surprisingly synergistic counters package, a game lock, and generally stupid Superfriends shenanigans.
And there was substantially less rejoicing.
Yay.
Yep, this is me playing... Superfriends?
Superfriends is an archetype built around getting out lots of Planeswalkers and building them up to their ultimate. Selsenya might seem like a bad color choice: only 155 decks on EDHREC, no Carth the Lion, no Atraxa, none of the fun proliferate synergies, and not even a Commodore Guff to be commander.
It turns out it's actually an amazing color combo! With white, we can run boardwipes, Djeru, With Eyes Open and a lot of pretty decent Planeswalkers. Green brings us Nissa, a weirdly large amount of card advantage, proliferate, and general counters synergy. The combo comes together with Huatli making a cameo, more proliferate/counters stuff, and Ajani, specifically the sleeper agent variety. Actually, most Ajani Planeswalker cards (conveniently in ) slot perfectly into a Planeswalkers deck.
All this seems dandy, but who will be our commander? There can't be many Selesnya legends that care about planeswalkers, right?
Actually... there aren't. Most counters commanders care about +1/+1 counters specifically. So to build a deck with a superfriends package in the command zone, we can't just have one commander. We're gonna need two.
Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion is a monowhite counters matter card. She acts like the bottom half of a Carth the Lion: making Planeswalkers ETB with additional loyalty and turning +1 into +2. She also has "Choose a Background," which lets us run a legendary enchantment with the background subtype as our commander. That background will be...
Master Chef! It supports the +1/+1 counters subtheme in the deck, as well as adding green to the command zone. It synergies perfectly with Lae'zel, who takes the +1/+1 counters from Master Chef and adds an additional counter. Spreading the love to creatures also gives proliferate more direct oomph on the board and can help us win after dominating the game with emblems.
However, in order to dominate the game with emblems, we need to, well, get emblems. The only way to do that is by ultimating our Planeswalkers. Sure, Lae'zel and proliferation helps a bit, but our opponents can still attack down our Planeswalkers on their turn. In order to stop this, we have pillowfort pieces like Onakke Oathkeeper and Djeru, With Eyes Open, boardwipes like Cleansing Nova, and Obscuring Haze which is only $2 for some reason. We also run cards like Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider, Urza Assembles the Titans, Doubling Season, and The Chain Veil. All of these can put a huge amount of loyalty on our Planeswalkers, especially with Lae'zel upping all plus abilities by 1. Finally, boardwipes can stop our opponents from being able to attack any of our planeswalkers and get an ultimate within a turn or two.
With all of the value from our Planeswalkers, we can win the game in a number of different ways:
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Deification + Gideon of the Trials
and a few ways to put more counters on Gideon is a platinum angel that's absurdly difficult to remove and makes our other Gideon Planeswalkers hexproof.
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With the +1/+1 counter synergies, we can build up an army of CHONK creatures which become unblockable with Abzan Falconer or Gideon, the Oathsworn's ultimate.
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Ajani, Sleeper Agent can infect kill an opponent with just five spells and gets even more absurd with proliferate.
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Read the emblem on Vivien Reid. Then realize that this deck can get that emblem within a few turns. Then read Conclave Mentor and Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider. Then read literally every creature in the deck. Then read Elspeth Resplendent's ultimate. Do the same for Ellywick Tumblestrum. Yeah, turns out that the deck can win with creature and +1/+1 counter synergies really easily.
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Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider or Doubling Season just might let us ultimate Eugene the turn we play him. Actually, they let us ultimate pretty much every planeswalker in the deck almost instantly.
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Just generally getting value off of planeswalkers and drawing a ton of cards is probably enough to win in one way or another.
So, yeah! That's this deck. Please leave an upvote if you enjoyed, comment if you have something to suggest, and check out my other decks. Thank you so much for reading, and have a great day!
