Najeela's Big Value Clearance House II

Commander / EDH Aggro Enchantment Ramp Tap/Untap Tokens Tokens Value Engine Warrior

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Land (34)

• 1x Access Tunnel
• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 6x Forest
• 1x Frontier Bivouac
• 3x Island
• 1x Jungle Shrine
• 1x Krosan Verge
• 3x Mountain
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 4x Plains
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Seaside Citadel
• 1x Sheltered Thicket
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Temple of Abandon
• 1x The World Tree

Instant (9)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Delay
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Fire Covenant
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Secure the Wastes
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

Artifact (7)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Bident of Thassa
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Helm of the Host
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring

Creature (20)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Curiosity Crafter
• 1x Derevi, Empyrial Tactician
• 1x Edric, Spymaster of Trest
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Faeburrow Elder
• 1x Knight of Autumn
• 1x Laelia, the Blade Reforged
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Lovisa Coldeyes
• 1x Mindblade Render
• 1x Mirror Entity
• 1x Oakhame Adversary
• 1x Ohran Frostfang
• 1x Purphoros, God of the Forge
• 1x Spark Double
• 1x Teysa Karlov
• 1x Toski, Bearer of Secrets
• 1x Zealous Conscripts

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Animist's Awakening
• 1x Austere Command
• 1x Collective Voyage
• 1x Doomskar
• 1x Genesis Wave
• 1x Harvest Season
• 1x Idyllic Tutor
• 1x Starnheim Unleashed
• 1x Tempt with Discovery
• 1x Wargate

Commander (1)

Enchantment (19)

• 1x Anointed Procession
• 1x Aura Shards
• 1x Bear Umbra
• 1x Beastmaster Ascension
• 1x Coastal Piracy
• 1x Cryptolith Rite
• 1x Druids' Repository
• 1x Fecundity
• 1x Felidar Retreat
• 1x Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip
• 1x Heartbeat of Spring
• 1x Impact Tremors
• 1x Mana Flare
• 1x Mirari's Wake
• 1x Overabundance
• 1x Parallel Lives
• 1x Primal Vigor
• 1x Raiders' Spoils
• 1x Reconnaissance Mission

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Creature (9)

• 1x Adrix and Nev, Twincasters
• 1x Combat Celebrant
• 1x Grenzo, Havoc Raiser
• 1x Jegantha, the Wellspring
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Selvala, Explorer Returned
• 1x Terror of the Peaks
• 1x Veteran Explorer
• 1x Zhur-Taa Ancient

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Cathars' Crusade
• 1x Dictate of Karametra
• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Intruder Alarm
• 1x Rites of Flourishing

Land (2)

• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage

Instant (3)

• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Crib Swap
• 1x Heroic Intervention

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Disrupt Decorum
• 1x Shamanic Revelation

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Hello! I'm a longtime commander player, and this is my new Najeela value brew. VERSION 2: The deck has pivoted away from Kiki-Jiki/Twin combos in favor of more tokens, big mana dumps and tribal synergies. This feels like a completely different deck so I gave it a new decklist.

Najeela's ability to pump out tokens is unrivaled, and many players turn to her to build powerful cEDH aggro decks, with hatebears and Blood Pod and tons of fast damage. Bah humbug. I wanted to build a Johnny aggro deck with big mana and tons of card draw, abusing effects like Coastal Piracy to take maximum advantage of Najeela's go-wide token efficiency. So I did! It's fun and less broken than your average Najeela deck, which makes everybody else at the table happy.

So what is this deck trying to do? Show

In a nutshell? Resolve Genesis Wave for 50 and kill everyone with Purphoros triggers.

There's a lot more subtlety to what's happening here. The basic concept of a value engine revolves around a sequence of cards and/or game actions that can be used repeatedly to gain resources and material advantages. Most players select commanders whose abilities help to set up a value engine: Thrasios, Triton Hero, Breena, the Demagogue, and Ghave, Guru of Spores are all great examples of popular commanders that fall into this category.

Najeela, the Blade-Blossom poops out tokens and takes a lot of combat steps. She's a threat and a win condition, not a value engine. But I want to use her to get tons of fast value anyway. How do we do it?

Step 1: Have a Najeela in play and get lots of mana. Example: Mana Flare.

Step 2: Swing Najeela, make some tokens, and pay for several combat steps using our big pile of mana.

Step 3: Annoy opponents with lots of tiny hits in one turn. But draw tons of cards while doing it. Example: Edric, Spymaster of Trest.

Step 4: Continue steps 1-3 until we hit a big combat finisher. Example: Beastmaster Ascension. If our token army gets wiped out first, proceed to step 5.

Step 5: Invest our big pile of mana and cards into rebuilding via big mana dumps. Example: Starnheim Unleashed.

It's not an incredibly sophisticated game plan, but it's aggroey and fair, and it's more interesting than just dumping a turn 1 Najeela into a turn 2 Derevi, Empyrial Tactician like so many cEDH decks do.

Big mana and big spells to cast with it Show

So you want to spend 50 mana in one turn, do you? Well, there are a few ways to get there, but we're going primarily with doubler enchantments and big land ramp.

Doublers:

Mana Flare

Heartbeat of Spring

Overabundance Lifelink helps to combat the downside

Mirari's Wake Also an anthem

Big ramp:

Animist's Awakening

Collective Voyage

Tempt with Discovery We want to grab The World Tree whenever possible

Harvest Season

Other big mana plays:

Growing Rites of Itlimoc   How to Take Advantage of 20 Creature Tokens 101

Cryptolith Rite HTTAOTCT 102 (the second-semester course)

Faeburrow Elder

And of course we're running the typical pile of Llanowar Elves, Sol Ring and similar.

So once we've got the 20 mana, what do we do with it? The first answer is obvious:

--Go to combat with Najeela, pay WUBRG, take more combat steps.

But that CAN'T be the only thing our deck does. Najeela is too fragile. So here's some other ways to sink mana:

--Slam it all into a big Genesis Wave and shove a bunch of cards into play.

--Make a ton more Warrior tokens via Secure the Wastes or Starnheim Unleashed

--Pay a bunch of mana into Mirror Entity or Purphoros, God of the Forge and make our field SWOLE.

--Dump 20 into Animist's Awakening and ramp out even more lands because why the hell not?

--Draw 10 cards and play all of 'em for giggles.

Drawing cards because it's fun Show

Drawing cards IS fun. It's the best thing in Magic. You get to see all your pretty shiny cardboard squares you paid too much money for, AND you get to decide which one is the best one to play! Who doesn't love that?

Anyways, the single biggest gimmick in this deck is its abuse of mass Curiosity effects. Risk and reward: The risk is turning our flimsy 3/2 with no keywords sideways; the reward is a bunch of cards in hand.

Tokens become draw:

Coastal Piracy

Bident of Thassa

Edric, Spymaster of Trest Going for Mana Flare plus Edric often lets us act like a group hug deck.

Reconnaissance Mission

Toski, Bearer of Secrets

Ohran Frostfang The deathtouch is a nice bonus

Curiosity Crafter Downside: Only works on tokens. Upside: Uncapped hand size.

Raiders' Spoils Downside: Costs life. Upside: +1 combat power.

Fecundity Since we're not playing an Aristocrats deck directly, this is less abusable. But if we're playing into a locked-down board state where we can't connect with faces, Fecundity is a good backup plan.

Skullclamp Similar to Fecundity in purpose.

This is a good place to also talk about a couple of our Warrior creatures. While our deck isn't explicitly Warrior tribal, having a few Warriors around helps to keep our board resilient against the spot removal that inevitably snipes Najeela. And several of the nontoken cards are built for card advantage:

Mindblade Render

Oakhame Adversary

Laelia, the Blade Reforged

Finishers, combos and exponential growth Show

So we have to end the game somehow, yes?

Combos

Najeela has a few well-known infinite combat loops, and I've kept the simplest boarded into this deck for the sake of efficiency:

MOST COMPACT:

Druids' Repository simply needs a few creatures already in play. Attack with Najeela and 4 tokens, make 5 counters, use them for WUBRG, pay for another combat step, repeat.

Derevi, Empyrial Tactician needs only a Command Tower or similar. Attack with Najeela and a token, make more tokens and hit a player, point the untap triggers at Command Tower, make WUBRG, pay for another combat step, repeat.

REQUIRES EVASION:

Bear Umbra needs WUBRG among your available lands. Attach Umbra to a creature, attack, untap WUBRG, pay for another combat step, repeat. Najeela is a comparatively mediocre 5/4 even with the Umbra, so I prefer to attach it to a creature like Toski, Bearer of Secrets or Curiosity Crafter. (Why am I not running Rogue's Passage yet? Because I can't find one in my collection dammit.)

Faeburrow Elder just needs a plan to connect the Elder with a player's face! With Najeela, the Elder and one blue & one black permanent, we can attack with Elder, tap Elder for WUBRG, pay for an extra combat step, and untap the Elder. We tap and untap Elder 100 times to take 100 combat steps. Since Elder has vigilance, it can now attack 100 times! Even if we don't have all 5 colors (black permanents are rare in this deck), we can still take 1 combat step per untapped black mana; with fixing that can easily get to 10+ combats, enough to kill multiple players.

ENABLED BY VIGILANCE:

Cryptolith Rite allows us to tap our tokens for the WUBRG needed to untap them. We can take a hundred combat steps, but we can only attack in one - unless we've given our tokens vigilance, in which case we can attack 100 times.

Mass Vigilance also fixes any issues involving setups like Faeburrow Elder and Birds of Paradise, since we no longer care to attack with anything but tokens on the remaining combat steps.

Vigilance enablers:

Teysa Karlov (also doubles up Skullclamp and Fecundity triggers)

Felidar Retreat (also provides spare tokens on a feeble board)

Double triple quadruple tokens

A ton of this deck's financial value comes from the token-doubling enchantments, which I had lying around and included due to how effectively they accelerate our aggro. Cloning Najeela lets us double up on the doubling and go for critical mass fast.

DOUBLERS:

Primal Vigor

Parallel Lives

Anointed Procession

CLONES:

Spark Double

Helm of the Host Probably the most explosive card in the deck. Paying for extra combats and then waiting until the final combat step to unleash a swarm of 3-5 Najeelas and a huge wave of 1/1 Warriors is brutal.

Combat buffs and burn

75% of the time this deck wins, it will win via finite damage plans. So it's good to pursue simple aggro strategies that allow us to finish the game smoothly. "Big creature punch face" is always a good wincon!

BIG CREATURES:

Mirror Entity Notably, a Warrior due to Changeling. Turning 20 tokens into 20/20s is pretty lethal.

Beastmaster Ascension We can stack this in one turn, easy.

Felidar Retreat Slamming a bunch of +1/+1 counters down onto 20 tokens lets us go for lethal quickly.

Lovisa Coldeyes The +2/+2 buff may look minimal, but across a bunch of tokens it is deadly. And the mass haste is a great bonus.

Mirari's Wake and Raiders' Spoils are value enchantments that also grant +1/+1 and +1/0 respectively.

FAST DAMAGE:

Impact Tremors Easily able to dish out 10-20 damage over a couple of combat steps or a big Secure the Wastes

Purphoros, God of the Forge Double Impact Tremors stapled to a god's body. The active ability is just frosting on the cake.

The rest of the toolbox Show

I have so far named approximately zero Instant spells, because this deck is mostly about slamming down permanents and punching faces. But we've got every card in Magic in our color identity, so it would be dumb not to play some of the good spot interaction in this game.

SPOT REMOVE:

Path to Exile

Swords to Plowshares

Chaos Warp

Knight of Autumn

Zealous Conscripts A utility Warrior that occasionally steals VERY interesting cards for us.

WIPES:

Austere Command

Doomskar

Fire Covenant

Aura Shards Given the rate at which this deck makes tokens, definitely a wipe effect.

PROTECT FROM WIPES:

Swan Song

Delay

Arcane Denial

OTHER IMPORTANT TOOLS:

Eladamri's Call This grabs Derevi, Toski, Faeburrow or Purphoros, depending on what we need.

Idyllic Tutor We're running almost as many enchantments as creatures! Typically we go for Mana Flare, Parallel Lives or Coastal Piracy, but there are a lot of options.

Wargate 3 mana to fetch World Tree or 8 mana to fetch any permanent card in the deck. Wargate is our flex-tutor.

Eternal Witness I'd like to get just a touch more recursion added to this deck, but for now, EWit is indispensable.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 51 - 0 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.03
Tokens	Angel Warrior 4/4 W w/ Vigilance, Bird 2/2 U, Cat Beast 2/2 W, Copy Clone, Foretell, Warrior 1/1 W