Curses

Commander / EDH*

Realist31

Land (34)

• 1x Blooming Marsh
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Concealed Courtyard
• 1x Dust Bowl
• 3x Forest
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Grasslands
• 1x Grim Backwoods
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Krosan Verge
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 5x Plains
• 1x Razorverge Thicket
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Riftstone Portal
• 1x Sandsteppe Citadel
• 1x Serra's Sanctum
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Field
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Ramp (6)

• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Herald of the Pantheon
• 1x Magus of the Coffers
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thaumatic Compass  ^Flip

Wincon? (3)

• 1x Helm of the Gods
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Yavimaya Enchantress

Card (1)

• 1x Sensei's Divining Top

Curse (18)

• 1x Accursed Witch  ^Flip
• 1x Cruel Reality
• 1x Curse of Disturbance
• 1x Curse of Exhaustion
• 1x Curse of Misfortunes
• 1x Curse of Thirst
• 1x Curse of Vengeance
• 1x Curse of Wizardry
• 1x Exquisite Blood
• 1x Grim Guardian
• 1x King Macar, the Gold-Cursed
• 1x One Thousand Lashes
• 1x Overwhelming Splendor
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Polluted Bonds
• 1x Thoughtrender Lamia
• 1x Torment of Scarabs
• 1x Trespasser's Curse

Draw (7)

• 1x Argothian Enchantress
• 1x Eidolon of Blossoms
• 1x Enchantress's Presence
• 1x Kaya, Ghost Assassin
• 1x Mesa Enchantress
• 1x Verduran Enchantress
• 1x Vizier of the Menagerie

Boardwipe (4)

• 1x Fumigate
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Wave of Reckoning
• 1x Wrath of God

Pillowfort (4)

• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Koskun Falls
• 1x Sphere of Safety
• 1x Sterling Grove

Commander (1)

Recursion (12)

• 1x Auramancer
• 1x Crystal Chimes
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Faith's Reward
• 1x Karmic Guide
• 1x Magus of the Will
• 1x Monk Idealist
• 1x Open the Vaults
• 1x Ramunap Excavator
• 1x Reveillark
• 1x Second Sunrise
• 1x Sun Titan

Tutor (7)

• 1x Bitterheart Witch
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Knight of the Reliquary
• 1x Lost Auramancers
• 1x Sterling Grove

Control (2)

• 1x Darksteel Mutation
• 1x Solemnity

Fun! (2)

• 1x Choice of Damnations
• 1x Curse of the Cabal

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• Why Curses?

I like the flavor of curse decks, I enjoy piloting them, and I like the challenge of making an admittedly non-optimal strategy work.

• Weakness of curses in EDH

While fun (for me) curses are pretty weak in a multiplayer format for reasons that are immediately apparent to even newer players:

1. They target only one opponent.
2. While developing curses you neglect your board presence, leaving you open to your other opponents.
3. When the unlucky target of your curses dies, each and every one of your curses die with them.

That 3rd point is the biggest issue for a curse-themed deck in a multiplayer format. In a 4-player game, if you spread you curses around the board they have a very reduced effect, and they make you a target for the board. On the other hand, while focusing all your spite on dooming one player is effective, when they finally meet their end you are left with an underdeveloped board against two much stronger opponents.

• Why Karador?

A five-color curse deck wants it all, and while it's fun to be able to play every curse in the game, 5-color curse decks suffer from (dare I say it) too many curses and not enough focus. Does Curse of the Bloody Tome really belong in a deck with no other mill? Abzan has what I want, curses that weaken a target and make him/her an easier target for the other players, cards that make me a less appealing target, cards that keep my opponent boards in check, cards that let me recur an enchantment or two, and cards that bring my entire catalog of curses back from the graveyard so I can retarget my spite after the last unfortunate soul gave up the ghost.

That last bit is important. Playing a card like Second Sunrise the turn your cursed patsy dies can make the game yours.

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Date added	7 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 48 - 0 Rares 25 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.77
Tokens	Gold, Zombie 2/2 B