Sram, Voltron Edificer

Commander / EDH* Voltron

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Pump (18)

• 1x Accorder's Shield
• 1x Argentum Armor
• 1x Armored Ascension
• 1x Assault Suit
• 1x Bone Saw
• 1x Cathar's Shield
• 1x Golem-Skin Gauntlets
• 1x Grafted Exoskeleton
• 1x Gryff's Boon
• 1x Hammer of Nazahn
• 1x Hyena Umbra
• 1x Loxodon Warhammer
• 1x Mask of Avacyn
• 1x Spidersilk Net
• 1x Spirit Mantle
• 1x Strata Scythe
• 1x Sword of the Animist
• 1x Sword of Vengeance

Draw (6)

• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Conviction
• 1x Infiltration Lens
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Smuggler's Copter
• 1x Unquestioned Authority

Haste (4)

• 1x Assault Suit
• 1x Haunted Cloak
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Sword of Vengeance

Indestructible (3)

• 1x Darksteel Plate
• 1x Hammer of Nazahn
• 1x Shielded by Faith

Double strike (2)

• 1x Battle Mastery
• 1x Fireshrieker

Politics (2)

• 1x Assault Suit
• 1x Prison Term

Damage double (1)

• 1x Inquisitor's Flail

Infect (1)

• 1x Grafted Exoskeleton

Lifelink (1)

• 1x Loxodon Warhammer

More attacks? (1)

• 1x Assault Suit

Unblockable (1)

• 1x Rogue's Passage

Protection (13)

• 1x Assault Suit
• 1x Dawn Charm
• 1x Flickering Ward
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Hyena Umbra
• 1x Inviolability
• 1x Leonin Abunas
• 1x Mother of Runes
• 1x Pariah
• 1x Rebuff the Wicked
• 1x Sphere of Safety
• 1x Spirit Mantle
• 1x Unquestioned Authority

Removal (8)

• 1x Argentum Armor
• 1x Darksteel Mutation
• 1x Disenchant
• 1x Oblivion Ring
• 1x Pariah
• 1x Prison Term
• 1x Return to Dust
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

Vigilance (5)

• 1x Accorder's Shield
• 1x Cathar's Shield
• 1x Haunted Cloak
• 1x Sword of Vengeance
• 1x Vigilance

Flying (3)

• 1x Armored Ascension
• 1x Gryff's Boon
• 1x Neurok Hoversail

Trample (3)

• 1x Haunted Cloak
• 1x Loxodon Warhammer
• 1x Sword of Vengeance

First strike (2)

• 1x Hyena Umbra
• 1x Sword of Vengeance

Utility (2)

• 1x Field of Ruin
• 1x Reliquary Tower

Land (30)

• 30x Plains

Reach (1)

• 1x Spidersilk Net

Commander (1)

Ramp (10)

• 1x Brass Squire
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Foundry Inspector
• 1x Hammer of Nazahn
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Paradise Mantle
• 1x Sigarda's Aid
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sword of the Animist

Tutor (5)

• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Heliod's Pilgrim
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 1x Open the Armory
• 1x Steelshaper's Gift

Recursion (4)

• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Gryff's Boon
• 1x Open the Vaults
• 1x Restoration Specialist

Wipe (3)

• 1x Day of Judgment
• 1x Fumigate
• 1x Wrath of God

Hexproof (2)

• 1x Mask of Avacyn
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Commander utility (1)

• 1x Helm of the Host

Flash (1)

• 1x Sigarda's Aid

Lifegain (1)

• 1x Inventors' Fair

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Sideboard

Utility (3)

• 1x Blackblade Reforged
• 1x Kemba, Kha Regent
• 1x Masterwork of Ingenuity

Ramp (1)

• 1x Auriok Steelshaper

Wipe (2)

• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Terminus

Protection (1)

• 1x Eight-and-a-Half-Tails

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Maybeboard

Other (13)

• 1x Balan, Wandering Knight
• 1x Darksteel Forge
• 1x Divine Reckoning
• 1x Empyrial Plate
• 1x Fountain Watch
• 1x Hanna's Custody
• 1x Kemba, Kha Regent
• 1x Kor Spiritdancer
• 1x Leonin Shikari
• 1x Lifelink
• 1x Mesa Enchantress
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

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Deck Game Plan

The game plan of this deck is to cast Sram, Senior Edificer and then dump cheap equipment and aura cards onto the battlefield while sram's ability lets us keep our hand full of gas. We'll suit up sram and go for a commander damage kill. Our backups include infect damage (Grafted Exoskeleton) and a hybrid token/voltron strategy in Kemba, Kha Regent. We also have one game stalling combo Pariah + Darksteel Plate which prevents all damage except infect.

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Protection

As a voltron deck we are fragile to 3 different types of effects

Targeted Removal

This is pretty easy to deal with. We have 3 cards that make sram indestructible, 3 cards that can give him protection from certain colors, and 2 cards that give him hexproof.

Aggro Attacks

We won't have a lot of blockers, and in order to win we need to attack with sram (or whatever our voltron pieces are attached to) every turn. We have 5 cards that give vigilance and 2 cards that give protection from creatures allowing us to block without worry. Additionally Ghostly Prison and Sphere of Safety discourage attacks altogether. Pariah will also help because it redirects damage and creates a soft lock when placed on something indestructible.

Forced Sacrifice/Edicts

This most deadly thing that can happen to our deck is an opponent with a repeatable edict effect (Dictate of Erebos,Sheoldred, Whispering One). In this case we really want to find Kemba, Kha Regent to produce tokens we can sacrifice or Assault Suit which prevents our commander from being sacrificed. This is the place where the deck is the most fragile, and if you suspect your table is going to run an abundance of edict effects, it might be worth it to put Kemba, Kha Regent in as your commander.

NOTE: Whenever we use a card that gives sram protection from white as a means of protection, any white auras will fall off... This isn't optimal but acceptable in a pinch because if he dies they all fall off anyway.

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Ramp

Even though we are mono white we get to "ramp" a lot with cards that reduce the cost of artifacts and cards that equip for free or a reduced cost. I've went with a lot of 1 and 3 cmc mana rocks because there's really no way (within budget) to get sram out earlier than turn 2 and we plan on casting him on every turn 2.

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Board Wipes

The goal is to have board wipes where we can break the symmetry. For Wrath of God/Day of Judgment/Fumigate we can either make sram indestructible (3 cards) or we can enchant him with Hyena Umbra to abuse the totem armor effect. Nevinyrral's Disk is our panic button- it will hit us pretty hard but is less of a setback if we have an Open the Vaults in hand and/or Darksteel Plate on sram.

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Politics

Assault Suit is an interesting card because it gives us a bargaining chip with other players: they get an extra creature to attack other players with and we get some extra commander damage to other players. I would use it cautiously because a malicious player could deliberately swing into an player knowing a blocker will eat your commander.

Prison Term gives us pacifism that also fizzles activated ability combos! We can also use the ability to move it to other creatures as a bargaining chip with other players (I won't move the prison term to your big bad creature if you don't attack me the next 2 turns).

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Possible Upgrades

• Field of Ruin --> Ghost Quarter ... I already had this card so thought I'd throw it in before I bought a ghost quarter.
• Darksteel Ingot & Plains --> Extraplanar Lens & Snow-Covered Plains ... better mono color ramp
• Commander's Sphere --> Caged Sun ... more mono color ramp is needed more than the color fixing sphere provides but it should be tested at the higher CMC.
• Some of the sword cycle would be a welcome edition.
• Puresteel Paladin would help out in every place except the budget of this deck.
• Darksteel Forge would be a banger in this deck but alas it's expensive.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	19 - 6 Rares 40 - 1 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.40
Tokens	Cat 2/2 W, Copy Clone