The Immortal Machine - Glissa, the Traitor (Commander / EDH MTG Deck)

The Immortal Machine - Glissa, the Traitor

Commander / EDH BG (Golgari)

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Planeswalker (1)

1x Ugin, the Ineffable

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My first pet deck, unless my graveyard or board are exiled, this deck can crawl back again and again.

The deck has gone through many changes - including rebuilding from theft of part of the deck, including my Darksteel Forge and Rise of the Dark Realms - but Glissa has survived regardless.

(Now, I just need to figure out what to cut to get Forge back in...)

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1.5 Years of Deck Change (ft. Theft Rebuilding) — March 26, 2020

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A lot of cards have come in and out of Savra since my last update; some were due to natural changes, some were filling the deck back out after ~15 cards got stolen in a Long Story I'm not going into right here.

Since I might be doing a notable change soon, I figure I should revise the changelog (and decklist, for that matter) to reflect the full set of growth.

If adds and removals don't add up, I'll not I'm not counting basics added to replace some of the removed Weird Lands; plus, I'm focusing more on what was removed and why than what was added.

Added

Ugin, the Ineffable: Love me that static artifact discount, and the choice of card+body advantage or removal is very fun.
Bojuka Bog: Love me a bog, especially in a graveyard-heavy meta.
Forge of Heroes: Minor fun Voltron aid; plus, it can target other people's commanders too!!
Geier Reach Sanitarium: Card advantage is always fun, especially when I can just pitch an artifact and get it back on the next death.
Nykthos: Might not do enough devotion to make it worthwhile, but other decks don't need it at the moment, so why not?
Rogue's Passage: Political voltron tech.
Spire of Industry: Replaced Jungle Hollow, I think.
Woodland Cemetery: Better than random Weird Land I removed.
Black Sun's Zenith: Took out some wipes, added others in; equivalent exchange.
Steel Hellkite: Added back in following the theft and the need for filler cards.
Unravel the Aether: Added for Naturalize, since circumventing indestructibility is always nice in my mind, especially if it stymies their recursion or reanimation.
Nighthowler: Added for Bonehoard.
Darksteel Ingot: Added for Mind Stone.
Phyrexian Scriptures: Added for Silverskin Armor.

Removed

Arcane Lighthouse: Not enough hexproof or shroud in meta to be worthwhile
Golgari Rot Farm: I ramp enough that the bounce portion of the card is more annoying than the benefit itself
Jungle Hollow: Realized I'm two color and not color intensive, so just replaced with something else
Phyrexia's Core: Replaced with Geier Reach for a different type of card advantage.
Reliquary Tower: Another deck needed it more, and Glissa doesn't tend to worry about handsize.
Sanctum of Ugin: Edgecase enough it got removed at some point, I think? Or maybe it was also one of the stolen cards...
Temple of the False Gods: Not how I want to gamble with my mana.
Tomb of the Spirit Dragon: Don't tend to have enough creatures out at once to be relevant.
Moldervine Cloak: I've started shying a bit away from dredge, in general. Too many cases of milling something I want yet can't get back.
Pernicious Deed: Only own one copy, and realized my Meren deck didn't have enough wipes, so she nabbed it from this deck.
Rancor: Casualty of moving away from a more voltron strategy; might be rethinking that soon...
Culling Mark: Funny, but too edge for the amount of responses and the density of creatures in my meta.
Decree of Pain: Nabbed by another deck.
Genesis Wave: Nabbed by my Selvala, Explorer Returned deck, which is much more horrifying with it.
In Garruk's Wake: Hard to cut, but this deck's curve needed to drop. Replaced with Nevinyarral's Disk, so honestly maybe a trade-up.
Rise of the Dark Realms: Ok, just realized when looking through the list this was a theft casualty and I didn't notice. RIP.
Darksteel Forge: This was the big-money theft I had been aware of; RIP again.
Etched Champion: Why is this still in the decklist? I noted its removal in the last update??
Heartwood Storyteller: Not the type of group-hug this deck wants, even if this card is a baller in my meta.
Golden Guardian ^Flip: I found out fighting does damage at the same time, so it would kill Glissa if she's not suited up; yikes.
Naturalize: Removed for Unravel the Aether.
Bonehoard: Removed for Nighthowler.
Chimeric Mass: Fun, but not powerful enough for my meta.
Jester's Cap: Too resource-jntensive to make looping a priority, and kinda feels-bad as a one-off.
Lightning Greaves: Stolen; RIP this fucking deck.
Mind Stone: Replaced with Darksteel Ingot.
Planar Bridge: Large, intensive to operate, too much of a target, and nothing in my deck really does 'wins on ETB'; I'm too much of an attrition deck.
Silverskin Armor: Replaced with Phyrexian Scriptures.
Trailblazer's Boots: Voltron package fatality.

Better Birthing Pod Curve — Oct. 11, 2018

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Date added	6 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 38 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 19 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.28
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Goat 0/1 W, Myr 1/1 C, Pentavite 1/1 C, Spirit 2/2 C, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Deathtouch, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Lifelink
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