Battlecruiser Etali

Commander / EDH Artifact Battlecruiser Budget Haste Mono-Red Ramp

Pscioed

Land (40)

• 1x Forgotten Cave
• 24x Mountain
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Labyrinth of Skophos
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Bonders' Enclave
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Flamekin Village
• 1x War Room
• 1x Guildless Commons
• 1x Hanweir Battlements  ^Meld
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Shatterskull Smashing  ^Flip
• 1x Valakut Awakening  ^Flip

ExtraCombat (6)

• 1x Port Razer
• 1x Fury of the Horde
• 1x Relentless Assault
• 1x World at War
• 1x Moraug, Fury of Akoum
• 1x Seize the Day

Removal (6)

• 1x Scour from Existence
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Relic of Progenitus
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Tibalt's Trickery

Ramp (15)

• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Unstable Obelisk
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Dreamstone Hedron
• 1x Worn Powerstone
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Skyclave Relic
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Mana Geyser
• 1x Gilded Lotus

Draw (9)

• 1x Coveted Jewel
• 1x Tome of Legends
• 1x Stolen Strategy
• 1x Sunbird's Invocation
• 1x Endless Atlas
• 1x Ugin, the Ineffable
• 1x Thaumatic Compass  ^Flip
• 1x Mind's Eye
• 1x Jeska's Will

BoardWipe (4)

• 1x Star of Extinction
• 1x Chain Reaction
• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x All is Dust

Commander (1)

Haste (11)

• 1x Tuktuk Rubblefort
• 1x Bloodsworn Steward
• 1x Otepec Huntmaster
• 1x In the Web of War
• 1x Ogre Battledriver
• 1x Crashing Drawbridge
• 1x Hammer of Purphoros
• 1x Anger
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Fervor
• 1x Lightning Greaves

Utility (5)

• 1x Reverberate
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak
• 1x Bolt Bend
• 1x Strionic Resonator
• 1x Commander's Plate

Recursion (3)

• 1x Codex Shredder
• 1x Daretti, Scrap Savant
• 1x Scrap Mastery

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A relatively budget deck for under $200, with a strong focus on playing Etali early with haste, and replaying him again a few times after he inevitably gets killed. There's an emphasis on card draw, as my playgroup tends to play lots of planar cleansing effects, and the most reliable way to come back after all the mana rocks explode is to play new ones.

The name of the game is consistency, we want to make sure that every game we are playing Etali to get that sweet attack trigger. As a result, the commonly played theme of top deck manipulation and sneak attack style cheating of mana cost is entirely cut. No sensei's, scroll rack, ulamog, kozilek, etc. This is to make room for more cards which can allow recasting Etali for 12 mana with haste as soon as the 2nd turn after somebody resolved play of the game. That's a real goal of the deck, and compromises have to be made.

I own this deck in paper. Of course, it's not this exact list anymore, but within 5 cards.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 40 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.77
Tokens	Copy Clone, Emblem Daretti, Scrap Savant, Enchantment Golem 3/3 C, Spirit 2/2 C