The Legion of Doom

Commander / EDH Five Color Multiplayer Theme/Gimmick

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Land (37)

• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Eldrazi Temple
• 1x Eye of Ugin
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 2x Forest
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Safe Haven
• 1x Sanctum of Ugin
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Creature (26)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Avacyn, Angel of Hope
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Blightsteel Colossus
• 1x Conduit of Ruin
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1x Emrakul, the Promised End
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1x Kozilek, the Great Distortion
• 1x Kruphix, God of Horizons
• 1x Oblivion Sower
• 1x Pathrazer of Ulamog
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Sire of Stagnation
• 1x Soul of New Phyrexia
• 1x Surrak Dragonclaw
• 1x Sylvan Caryatid
• 1x Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
• 1x Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
• 1x Ulvenwald Hydra
• 1x Urabrask the Hidden
• 1x Void Winnower
• 1x Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger

Artifact (7)

• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Planar Bridge
• 1x Quicksilver Amulet
• 1x Sol Ring

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Nahiri, the Harbinger
• 1x Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker
• 1x Ob Nixilis Reignited

Commander (1)

Sorcery (12)

• 1x All is Dust
• 1x Austere Command
• 1x Beacon of Unrest
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Increasing Ambition
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Merciless Eviction
• 1x Reap and Sow
• 1x Show and Tell
• 1x Tempt with Discovery
• 1x Tooth and Nail

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x Defense of the Heart
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Sneak Attack
• 1x Survival of the Fittest

Instant (5)

• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Goryo's Vengeance
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Through the Breach
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

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This is the final revision to the Legion of Doom with help from my friends we have come up with a decent list with some interesting ideas. Only play testing will show if the deck can perform if at all function.So The Legion of Doom where do i begin the premise is very simple cheat out our large doomsday squad using cards like Through the Breach, Sneak Attack , and Show and Tell. Now seems simple well nothing is more fun than throwing a Blightsteel Colossus at your opponent when they have a open board but lets be real that may happen once if i am lucky. So how do i make them stick well some of our creatures have indestructible but not all so Avacyn, Angel of Hope helps maintain a resilient board state. But even then we do not solve the problem of cards like Sneak Attack that is where Safe Haven comes in being able to exile a Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre only to have him come back next turn avoiding the sacrifice clause of Sneak Attack is very good.Now for the hard truth not all creatures are created equal so how do we equalize the playing field for the folks at the table. Well one idea reanimator so being able to reanimate a card like Sheoldred, Whispering One or anyone of our other large and in charge creatures is key. This is where cards like Necromancy,Animate Dead, and Goryo's Vengeance come into play. While Goryo's has the creature exile we can make use of it with Safe Haven to avoid that nasty exile to potentially get another run at it. Now certain cards may seem a bit to multiplayer focused well my play group is multiplayer heavy so it works for me feel free to make changes to fit your EDH group and playstyle.

Multiplayer Cards. Show

Rhystic Study: A well hated card in most groups because it turns you into that guy at the table reminding everyone of this annoying enchantment with the wonderful phrase "You going to pay 1 for that". A excellent card in any deck that can afford to put it in having card advantage is always important in any commander game and magic in general.

Tempt with Discovery : A very group hug type of card one of the I will help you and also help me needless to say in EDH having the proper lands on the board can be the fine line of boom or bust. And you are always guaranteed that one person or maybe even second fellow will need that extra land as well so the cost tends to outweigh the risk vs reward.

Burgeoning: This card on its own can accelerate a game for you so quickly take a hand with 1 to many lands no worries as long as people play them you can too. A solid include to help us incase we tend to have a rather slow start.

So with these large creatures we need a way to get them out as soon as possible so we are going to play dirty and cheat them onto the field.

Cheat and Beat. Show

Defense of the Heart : A excellent enchantment if your opponents have an explosive start and gain a advantageous board state with multiple creatures. This enchantment at the beginning of your upkeep if your opponents control 3 or more creatures you can search for 2 creatures of your choice and put them into play. Quite handy for grabbing an Urabrask the Hidden and Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger to create an early or even late game threat.

Tooth and Nail: A great sorcery with entwine allows you to dig through your library for two creatures or put them onto the field from your hand. A versatile spell with the added bonus of being able to do both abilities for a little extra investment. An extremely powerful spell in the mid to late game and the sooner you play it the better.

Nahiri, the Harbinger: Planeswalkers in general are a nuisance at the table and Nahiri is a very good choice in this deck her ultimate allows you to tutor for a artifact or creature and then after using it the card returns to your hand. As there are not to many enter the battlefield triggers in this deck it can seem lackluster but the offensive capabilities are there. And her other abilities are quite nice as well as being able to exile a opponents creatures or artifacts after they have been used can ruin their progress in the game.

Planar Bridge: A straightforward tutor that immediately places a permanent onto the field good for being used at the end of an opponents turn for a heavy hitting next turn. In this deck it is a slightly more costed Planar Portal but the upside to it is that we get what we want now instead of later.

Through the Breach: A great instant to get a threat onto the board the downside of having to sacrifice the creature at the end of the turn is a steep one but it can be negated by Safe Haven and exiling my own creature to get it back next upkeep. But even then with titans and other creatures that shuffle into my library it is not so heavy of a cost in this deck.

Quicksilver Amulet: With a same effect as Elvish Piper I preferred this over the option of the elf since it is an artifact which might be more resilient to targeting since it is not a squishy 1/1. The amulet is a good include to get my creatures out of my hand and into play.

Show and Tell: A staple of sneak and show decks this card helps everyone at the table but in all of the situations we will be using this it can benefit us more. The card has a political feel to it in EDH with the idea of "show me yours and I will show you mine" but 9/10 we will be on the upside.

So we have explained the multiplayer cards and the cheat into play ones but in order to stay on pace with attrition style themes we may need recursion so in comes the reanimation package.

Reanimation and Recursion Show

Animate Dead: A basic enchantment that lets us get back our creatures with less sticking power it is versatile good for grabbing creatures like Surrak Dragonclaw and any others that may get blown away from removal. Since not all of my creatures tuck away back into my library reanimation is a key factor.

Necromancy: This one has a bit more versatility to it being able to cast it at instant speed to reanimate a chump blocker if something goes wrong can make a huge difference. However if played on your turn it acts just like Animate Dead aside from the wall of text on both they work in very much the same manner one being only slightly more utility than the other.

Goryo's Vengeance : This card is good for reanimating one of our legendary creatures if one of our praetors buys the farm we can get them back for the turn to make some waves. A good synergy is this with Safe Haven the fact you can negate the downside of the card can mean another turn to wreak some havoc.

Phyrexian Reclamation : A valuable enchantment which allows us to dig our lost comrades up from the grave and back to our hand at a minor cost of 2 life and this can help us when Necromancy and the like are not a valid option.

Beacon of Unrest: A all around good reanimation spell this card does exactly what we need it to do we can get back our creatures and an added option of being able take one of our opponents creatures. This is a much more suitable alternative to cards like Living Death which may help our opponents more than ourselves.

Eternal Witness: A excellent creature which puts any card from our yard into our hand, if you are running green in a deck chances are you want this creature to help out in keeping our engines going.

Sheoldred, Whispering One: This Praetor does more than just reanimate she also makes our opponents sacrifice creatures reanimating her or getting her out early can hinder creature based strategies and buy us time to set up for the heavy slams.

So in summary this deck is my take on five color commander it may not be the most optimal but i wanted this to be a sort of thematic deck bringing in some of magics grand villains to do what they have for so long. As i despise using most combos in commander and prefer good old fashioned combat i wanted this to be as devastating as possible when the legion gets their act together. The rest of the cards are mostly there for the flavor of this specific deck such as Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker and Ob Nixilis Reignited and others i am sure are common staples in most play groups. This is not the be all end all five color commander deck I am sure everyone one of you who reads this can find little twists and niche cards that fit your playstyle and local meta and i welcome all critiques that you may give me thanks and hope you like it.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	29 - 0 Mythic Rares 47 - 0 Rares 11 - 0 Uncommons 6 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	5.11
Tokens	Emblem Ob Nixilis Reignited