Big Boy

Commander / EDH Combo Competitive Five Color Loam Multiplayer

Thephelddagrif

Land (41)

• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cephalid Coliseum
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 4x Forest
• 1x Glacial Chasm
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x High Market
• 1x Island
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 3x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Tolaria West
• 1x Tranquil Thicket
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Vesuva
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Sorcery (19)

• 1x Conflux
• 1x Creeping Renaissance
• 1x Cruel Ultimatum
• 1x Dark Petition
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Disrupt Decorum
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Maelstrom Pulse
• 1x Seasons Past
• 1x Splendid Reclamation
• 1x Spoils of Victory
• 1x Supreme Verdict
• 1x Sylvan Scrying
• 1x Tempt with Discovery
• 1x Traverse the Ulvenwald
• 1x Unburial Rites
• 1x Wargate

Enchantment (11)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Dream Halls
• 1x Exploration
• 1x Mirari's Wake
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Squandered Resources
• 1x Sylvan Library

Planeswalker (6)

• 1x Chandra, Flamecaller
• 1x Kiora, Master of the Depths
• 1x Nahiri, the Harbinger
• 1x Nissa, Vital Force
• 1x Tamiyo, the Moon Sage
• 1x Ugin, the Spirit Dragon

Commander (1)

Creature (11)

• 1x Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• 1x Borborygmos Enraged
• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Karmic Guide
• 1x Knight of the Reliquary
• 1x Lotus Cobra
• 1x Omnath, Locus of Rage
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x The Gitrog Monster

Instant (9)

• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Intuition
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Return to Dust
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

Artifact (2)

• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Sol Ring

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My Child of Alara EDH deck. Suggestions are encouraged.

The deck can be very explosive, making some very powerful early game plays or keep alive until you can put together a combo.

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Ramp:

• Sol Ring-classic

• Exploration-Play extra lands

• Burgeoning-Play even more lands

• Azusa, Lost but Seeking-Play even even more lands

• Oracle of Mul Daya- Play even even even more lands

• Chromatic Lantern- Five color deck

• Farseek-Get a Shock out tapped

• Spoils of Victory-Get a Shock out untapped

• Tempt with Discovery-Get a lot of special lands

• Lotus Cobra-Get the mana you need

• Mirari's Wake-Double your mana production

• Squandered Resources-Sacrifice lands to get more mana

Reanimating:

• Animate Dead- Enchantment that reanimates

• Necromancy- Enchantment that reanimates and is great with Child of Alara

• Karmic Guide- Reanimation on a stick

• Unburial Rites- Reanimation that works twice and works with dredge

• Sun Titan- Reanimation for cheap permanents and beats in for more

• Volrath's Stronghold- Lots of Recursion on a land

Win Conditions:

• Borborygmos Enraged- Chuck lands at face

• Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite- Control the board while making it so much easier to win

• Knight of the Reliquary- Get the lands you want

• Omnath, Locus of Rage- Hard to deal with threat

• Cruel Ultimatum- Backbreaking on its own but when you can cast it infinite times it wins.

Lands:

• Command Tower,Mana Confluence,Reflecting Pool, Forbidden Orchard- 5 color lands

• Breeding Pool,Godless Shrine,Hallowed Fountain,Overgrown Tomb,Stomping Ground,Temple Garden,Watery Grave- The poor man's duals of the most prevalent colors

• Flooded Strand,Misty Rainforest,Polluted Delta,Verdant Catacombs,Windswept Heath,Wooded Foothills- Fetches to work with Life from the Loam, shocks, basics. They get multiple landfall triggers and thins the deck. They are great

• Cephalid Coliseum-Cycle through cards and dredge

• Glacial Chasm- Save yourself

• High Market- Sacrifice Child of Alara, or other things to gain life

• Lonely Sandbar,Tranquil Thicket- draw cards/ dredging

• Maze of Ith- Protection from big creatures

• Reliquary Tower- Keep your hand

• Strip Mine- Remove pesky lands

• Thespian's Stage- Copy your favorite land

• Tolaria West- Tutor for your favorite land

• Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth- When you need swamps

• Volrath's Stronghold- Lots of Recursion on a land

Tutors:

• Tolaria West- Tutor for your favorite land

• Enlightened Tutor- Get your enchantments or artifacts

• Gamble - Tutor any card and plays well with the graveyard synergy

• Knight of the Reliquary- Toolbox out your lands

• Demonic Tutor- Get anything

• Sylvan Scrying- Get a land you need

• Tempt with Discovery- Get a lot of special lands

• Wargate- Get a permanent

• Crop Rotation- Get a land

• Entomb- Get something in your graveyard.

• Intuition- Graveyard shenanigans

• Mystical Tutor- Get an instant or sorcery

• Dark Petition- Get anything. You normally have spell mastery online

• Intuition- Get three cards depending on the situation. An opponent of your choice chooses one of those cards for you to get. Works well with Life from the Loam and a cycling land and Unburial Rites and creatures

• Traverse the Ulvenwald- Delirium is typically online so we can grab any creature or land

• Conflux- Sets up a win. The turn after Conflux you typically win

Planeswalkers

• Doubling Season - Makes all of the planeswalkers amazing. We play very few planeswalkers but as you saw we run many tutors

• Chandra, Flamecaller - The 0 ability is amazing at filling our graveyard and giving more gas. The -X ability destroys aggro decks

• Kiora, Master of the Depths -The +1 ability ramps and gives one of our creatures a sort of vigilance. The -2 ability is amazing (I normally use this ability). This allows us to fill our graveyard and card advantage. The -8 ability we mainly get if we have Doubling Season but fills our board, destroys most nasty creatures the opponents have and forces a board wipe

• Nahiri, the Harbinger - The +2 fills our graveyard and draws. The -2 is removal. The -8 gets the Borborygmos Enraged on the battlefield

• Tamiyo, the Moon Sage - The +1 taps down something. The -2 draws an astounding amount of cards. The -8 is AMAZING. If we don't just win on the spot with this and Seismic Assault or Borborygmos Enraged we can get so much value out of it.

• Ugin, the Spirit Dragon - The +2 is removal. The -X is large scale removal. The -10 practically wins the game

Survive:

• Disrupt Decorum- A politics based insurrection for 4 mana

• Maelstrom Pulse- Destroy anything/token army

• Supreme Verdict- Backup Child of Alara

• Cyclonic Rift- One-sided boardwipe

• Path to Exile- Creature removal

• Return to Dust- Artifact/Enchantment removal

• Swords to Plowshares- Creature removal

• Glacial Chasm- Save yourself

• Maze of Ith- Protection from big creatures

Value

• Eternal Witness- Regrowth

• Phyrexian Arena- When one card isn't enough

• Rhystic Study- Draw cards

• Sylvan Library- Draw cards

• Creeping Renaissance- Return things and has flashback

• Life from the Loam- Return lands. Keypiece of the deck

• Splendid Reclamation- Return all the lands

Other Cards to Consider

• Ad Nauseam- Draws cards with life. Combos with Phyrexian Unlife

• Phyrexian Unlife- Helps against aggro decks. Combos with Ad Nauseam

• These are fine if you want a more combo based deck but I find it rather dull in a format focused on having fun with friends, so I prefer some more unique interactions and more intricate and difficult combos

• All of the dual lands- I just don't have them; the two life doesn't make much of a difference but i'm working on getting my hands on some because they are strictly better than shock lands

• Vampiric Tutor- It is a great card (don't get me wrong) but it is a little slow in here; the deck's worst matchups are hyperaggressive decks so the 2 life makes it worse than Mystical Tutor and Enlightened Tutor because you can search for Supreme Verdict or Collective Restraint, and the fact that it puts in on top makes it worse than Demonic Tutor. Basically, I just don't have a spot for it and it is relatively slow.

• Mana Crypt- Firstly, this is a bit out of my price range for now. Secondly, it is just a good card- I'm not trying to make it merely a goodstuffs deck; each card has its own unique interactions but mana crypt would just be a solid mana rock that buffs the one delirium card(Traverse the Ulvenwald). I can hear you typing "but what about Sol Ring". I would respond with "I don't need to hear your sass"

Turn 2 Win:

It hasn't happened yet but this is the dream

T1

1. Play land

2. Play Exploration (or Burgeoning)

3. Play another land

4. Play Sol Ring

T2

1. Play land

2. Play Dream Halls

3. Pitch some colored card to cast Conflux

4.

Get (in WUBRG order) Wargate, Cruel Ultimatum, Demonic Tutor, Borborygmos Enraged, and Seasons Past

5.

Pitch Wargate to cast Cruel Ultimatum. Pitch Borborygmos Enraged to cast Seasons Past to retrieve Conflux, Wargate, and Cruel Ultimatum. Pitch Demonic Tutor to cast Conflux. Grab Seasons Past and more things with colors and cast Cruel Ultimatum practically infinitely.

Date added	9 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	22 - 0 Mythic Rares 47 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 5 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.59
Tokens	Elemental 3/1 R, Elemental 5/5 RG, Emblem Kiora, Master of the Depths, Emblem Nissa, Vital Force, Emblem Tamiyo, the Moon Sage, Octopus 8/8 U, Spirit 1/1 C
Folders	Interesting EDH decks, Thephelddagrif's EDH Decks, Xmage, Alara EDH, Fun EDH decks, Cool Decks