politics

Commander / EDH*

tygger7

Land (34)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Azorius Guildgate
• 1x Bant Panorama
• 1x Boros Guildgate
• 1x Cascading Cataracts
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crystal Quarry
• 1x Field of the Dead
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 2x Forest
• 1x Gateway Plaza
• 1x Golgari Guildgate
• 1x Gruul Guildgate
• 4x Island
• 1x Izzet Guildgate
• 1x Jund Panorama
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 3x Mountain
• 1x Opal Palace
• 4x Plains
• 1x Plaza of Harmony
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Selesnya Guildgate
• 1x Simic Guildgate

Artifact (9)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Gerrard's Hourglass Pendant
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Pendant of Prosperity
• 1x Prismatic Geoscope
• 1x Tempting Contract
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Wedding Ring

Creature (19)

• 1x Alms Collector
• 1x Anointed Peacekeeper
• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Containment Priest
• 1x Crystalline Crawler
• 1x Dawnbreak Reclaimer
• 1x Diviner Spirit
• 1x Dualcaster Mage
• 1x Dulcet Sirens
• 1x Empress Galina
• 1x Eon Frolicker
• 1x Faerie Artisans
• 1x Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1x Gwafa Hazid, Profiteer
• 1x Hushwing Gryff
• 1x Loran of the Third Path
• 1x Oracle en-Vec
• 1x Rubinia Soulsinger
• 1x Voidmage Husher

Instant (14)

• 1x Aethersnatch
• 1x Benefactor's Draught
• 1x Benevolent Offering
• 1x Comeuppance
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Cyclonic RiftGC
• 1x Domineering Will
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Illusionist's Gambit
• 1x Impact Resonance
• 1x Intellectual Offering
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Teferi's Protection

Commander (1)

Enchantment (17)

• 1x Act of Authority
• 1x Curse of Bounty
• 1x Curse of Chaos
• 1x Curse of Opulence
• 1x Curse of Verbosity
• 1x Energy Field
• 1x Flickering Ward
• 1x Frenzied Fugue
• 1x Grasp of Fate
• 1x Karmic Justice
• 1x Oath of Lieges
• 1x Prison Term
• 1x Psychic Impetus
• 1x Rest in Peace
• 1x Shielded by Faith
• 1x Shimmering Wings
• 1x Shiny Impetus

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Approach of the Second Sun
• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Devastating Mastery
• 1x Ingenious Mastery
• 1x Secret Rendezvous
• 1x Verdant Mastery

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Sideboard

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Fight or Flight
• 1x Web of Inertia

Artifact (1)

• 1x Navigation Orb

Instant (1)

• 1x Decoy Gambit

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Explore the Underdark
• 1x Huddle Up

Creature (1)

• 1x Zurzoth, Chaos Rider

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Maybeboard

Creature (3)

• 1x Archivist of Oghma
• 1x Mistcaller
• 1x Stalking Leonin

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Scheming Symmetry

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Song of Creation
• 1x Static Net
• 1x Verity Circle

Instant (1)

• 1x Obscuring Haze

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Deck Philosophy

Before anything else I want to talk about the idea behind the deck, and why I choose the cards I did. For a while I had wanted to build a politics deck with voting and everything, but I had trouble getting the deck to work. Often votes would end up not how I wanted or not favoring me. The epiphany came when I realized it was because to make a politics deck work you need to make a power politics deck, a "what can you do for me" deck. I realized that traditional politics cards often put the power in your opponents hands with them asking, "what I could do for them", and that allowing a Tooth and Nail to resolve could be one of the most powerful moves I could make.

After that I started to brew a control and punish deck with cards that I could gain political power to make deals with my opponents, and punish them for betraying those deals. The above deck is the first brew of that list. I look forward to seeing what you think and potential suggestion to make it better.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 51 - 3 Rares 17 - 2 Uncommons 16 - 2 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.38
Tokens	Copy Clone, Devil 1/1 R, Dungeon: Undercity, Gold, Morph 2/2 C, Skeleton 4/1 B, Spirit 1/1 C, Spirit 1/1 W, The Initiative, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B