Leovold

Duel Commander BUG (Sultai) Competitive Control Counterspell Flash Midrange

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Land (39)

• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Blooming Marsh
• 1x Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1x Botanical Sanctum
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Castle Vantress
• 1x Clearwater Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Creeping Tar Pit
• 1x Darkslick Shores
• 1x Deathcap Glade
• 1x Dreamroot Cascade
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 1x Island
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 1x Otawara, Soaring City
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Shipwreck Marsh
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Waterlogged Grove
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Yavimaya Hollow
• 1x Zagoth Triome

Instant (26)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Baleful Mastery
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cryptic Command *list*
• 1x Cut Down
• 1x Daze
• 1x Deadly Rollick
• 1x Drown in the Loch
• 1x Eliminate
• 1x Fatal Push
• 1x Force Spike
• 1x Force of Negation
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Leadership Vacuum
• 1x Lose Focus
• 1x Mana Leak
• 1x Memory Lapse
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Miscalculation
• 1x Spell Pierce
• 1x Spell Snare
• 1x Tainted Pact
• 1x Tale's End
• 1x Wash Away

Planeswalker (4)

• 1x Jace, the Mind Sculptor
• 1x Liliana of the Veil
• 1x Narset, Parter of Veils
• 1x Oko, Thief of Crowns

Artifact (2)

• 1x Anvil of Bogardan
• 1x Teferi's Puzzle Box

Commander (1)

Creature (14)

• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Brazen Borrower
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Endurance
• 1x Hullbreacher
• 1x Ledger Shredder
• 1x Opposition Agent
• 1x Questing Beast
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Spellskite
• 1x Subtlety
• 1x Tasigur, the Golden Fang
• 1x True-Name Nemesis
• 1x Vendilion Clique

Sorcery (14)

• 1x Bloodchief's Thirst
• 1x Collective Brutality
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Day's Undoing
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Duress
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Hymn to Tourach
• 1x Inquisition of Kozilek
• 1x Maelstrom Pulse
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Thoughtseize
• 1x Toxic Deluge

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A conventional build of Leovold control. Definitely not my build (except for a few minor changes).

Key interactions:

• Fun police (Leovold, Emissary of Trest, Hullbreacher or Narset, Parter of Veils) + Draw & discard (Day's Undoing, Anvil of Bogardan, Teferi's Puzzle Box or Geier Reach Sanitarium).
• Supposed that the opponent has no cards in hand, any no-extra-draw card + Anvil of Bogardan, Teferi's Puzzle Box or Geier Reach Sanitarium results in a soft lock (meaning that opponent can still play instants).
• Notice that Geier Reach Sanitarium activation in upkeep with Leovold, Emissary of Trest or Narset, Parter of Veils is actually a hard lock.
• The exception are cards that can be played from graveyard but these are pretty rare.

Notable exclusions:

• Forest - The deck needs a lot of colored mana, particularly blue and black so I want to minimalize the chance of multiple non-UB lands in the opening hand. There used to be a Forest but it was replaced by Boseiju, Who Endures because of it's utility and low opportunity cost. This makes Prismatic Vista a little worse and the deck can no longer fetch the Forest to fight a Blood Moon. However, the chance to win after a resolved Blood Moon was already extremely small.
• Mana Confluence - This may seem to contradict the previous statement but the life loss is too high of a cost over the course of a longer game. This wouldn't be a problem in a slower meta but since most of the decks are some kind of aggro it's important to try to save as much life as possible. There are already two horizon lands (Nurturing Peatland and Waterlogged Grove).
• Sylvan Library - For the same reasons as Mana Confluence. The card is a one mana more expensive Mirri's Guile against half of the field. But I am not sure so I plan to try it someday.
• Pernicious Deed - Too slow agains aggro, do nothing against control.
• Zendikar DFC lands (Bala Ged Recovery   and similar) - Comming into play tapped and providing only one color is too much of a cost.
• Other Pathways / Filter lands - They don't seem important because I already use all the UB ones. So I didn't even try them. I might one day though.
• Assassin's Trophy - The land is usually too much of a cost. The deck already contains a lot of universal removal.
• Oubliette - Can't deal with planeswalker commanders (which are currently a huge part of the meta). It is also wery weak vs. commanders with ward (Raffine, Scheming Seer, Tivit, Seller of Secrets), another form of protection (General Ferrous Rokiric) or just a very strong ETB trigger.
• Jace, Vryn's Prodigy   - Too often it happened to me that i had flipped Jace but there just weren't any good instants or sorceries worth casting again in the graveyard. So probably the best part was the looting itself, and there are much better alternatives.

Maybeboard:

• Endurance
• Ertai Resurrected
• Cut Down

Some results:

• split in finals / 80
• top 16 / 105
• top 4 / 50

Date added	2 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is not Duel Commander legal.
Rarity (main - side)	13 - 0 Mythic Rares 59 - 0 Rares 12 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.36
Tokens	Elk 3/3 G, Food, On an Adventure, Treasure