Ooh, Haakon, Stromgald Scourge is SPICY here. I never thought of that for my Elenda list! :)

Daedalus19876 AHHH it isn't ready yet!

I was going to tag you as soon as I was happy with it and had a description. Would appreciate your full thoughts when I have a more respectable deck put together :)

Daedalus19876 How could you have possibly guessed that's what I was referencing??? That gave me a great laugh!

Beautiful deck. You do great work as usual. I love Deathrender combos. You might like Mortuary

Suns_Champion

Great deck, I'll take a more thorough look over when I finish work! Accept my +1 upvote for now! ^^

griffstick thanks! Beautiful enough for an upvote? ;)

I do like Mortuary .. I'll add it to the list of possible recursion tools!

hkhssweiss Thanks! Look forward to your full thoughts!

Suns_Champion of course, beautiful enough for a feature. But I'm out of tokens.

Alright I'm back Suns_Champion!

Definitely a fun list I was play testing it for a bit as well. It does exactly as what you envisioned it to be, a restrained combo list. All the cards I would consider recommending is already in your maybe board but I highly suggest considering adding in Steelshaper's Gift to the main board. Reason why is due to Orzhov colors needing that extra boost in Card Advantage (CA) or mana. More often than not it would go for Skullclamp or Sword of the Animist , and utility wise it will go for your Nim Deathmantle / Deathrender .

On a side note, I wasn't entirely happy to see Cradle of Vitality all the times I drew into it, always felt a bit lack luster. Some more cards you can consider if you want to add in more creature heavy route would be Oversold Cemetery as a possible recursion engine, albeit a bit slow. Anguished Unmaking is also a great removal spell in Orzhov.

Hope that helps!

Your deck list has some really cool ideas, especially that Haakon, Stromgald Scourge and Ashes of the Fallen , I like it a lot! Also your deck's background is so beautiful!

I have Elenda deck too (Saint Elenda Reborn), check it out if you like to and tell me what do you think :)

I am just going to start by saying I love the deck, and I usually HATE Elenda decks because most people don't know about the replacement effect or don't care enough about recurring her.

Next I have some purposed cuts:

• Ashes of the Fallen: I get it, it combos with Haakon. But outside of Haakon what does that card do for you?
• Weaponcraft Enthusiast: I just don't get the point I'd much rather have Fleshbag here...
• Midnight Reaper: I just think Dark Prophecy is better, it's an enchantment so it's harder to remove and it says CREATURE not nontoken creature.

I came here to give thoughts, only to find a beautiful deck with beautiful formatting (seriously, I need to find out how to do this).

+1 from me kind sir!

hkhssweiss thanks for returning! I agree on your assessment of Cradle of Vitality and Steelshaper's gift, so I've swapped those along with a few other things.

Leonantti thank you! I will check yours out when I find some time!

DrkNinja thank you! I appreciate the cut suggestions!

• Ashes of the Fallen: It does nothing else, I know. But I want this deck to do this cool thing, and for the power level I'm aiming for I'm okay with a few niche cards.
• Weaponcraft Enthusiast: Is a substitute Elenda for my Nim Deathmantle + Ashnod's Altar combo. In the case Elenda sees too much hate, I need something low to the ground to step in. That said It is probably an easy cut if I need a slot.
• Midnight Reaper: Yeah this has been disappointing in play-testing. My problem with dark Prophacy is that it's not sac-able, so in the case of me comboing off it might kill me. I think I'll end up going with Harvester of Souls as a high cmc "best of both worlds" card.

Darkshadow327 thank you very much! Though I'd still love any feedback for the deck... don't be fooled by the formatting, I still need help with decks haha!

You can find the code I use in the description of my "drawing board" deck: Suns_Champion's Well of Ideas!

Ooo, ooo, pick on me! I have an idea! Martyr's Bond could be decent if you wanted to go with that. Phyrexian Tower and Miren, the Moaning Well are some good sack outlets that are hard to remove since they are lands.

Nice deck! Just one idea: Ethereal Absolution .

Imo Necropotence doesn't belong in a deck with haakon, especially since you're running discard tech like Tortured Existence and also Transmute cards like Dimir Machinations . Necro makes you exile stuff you discard and doesn't inherently synergize with your strategy. You have a ton of draw already, so I would run a high-value creature reanimation target like Ashen Rider in its place. Also, since you're playing the Haakon/Ashes of the Fallen combo, you should consider Crib Swap as it's another knight to cast from the yard like Nameless Inversion, and so is Mirror Entity to make your plethora of tokens into a massive army. Any particular reason why no Sun Titan ? Since both Haakon, Decaying Soil, and Ashes of the Fallen are all 3 mana or less and huge pieces of this deck, I would think running Sun Titan is a huge benefit that I wish I could have in my Haakon deck.

Thank you all for the comments!

Darkshadow327 Bond is okay, but since I'm only really sacing creatures it's just a worse Dictate here. I like the lands!

DRmagic2017 neat card, but I demand more out of my 6+ cmc cards.

FenIsABasicSwamp Thanks for commenting! I have swapped Sun Titan and Necro, among other changes. I think when I was first picking recursion cards I only focused on Elenda, thus wrote Sun Titan out. I will consider Mirror Entity and Crib Swap, time will tell how heavy I want to lean into Haakon.

Thanks for the thoughts everyone! Keep up discussion!

Teysa and Elenda are girlfriends, thank you for acknowledging this
Also Mr Cortez is a hilarious off-the-wall card that I never would've expected to see in a list like this, but your explanation for him makes perfect sense. Bravo!

Silverdrake yeah Elenda and Teysa are for sure secret lovers.

Thanks for the comment :)

I don't have much time, and just saw your sweet message, but I will note that with the first listed Animation Module combo, Phyrexian Altar also gives infinite mana, because you can sacrifice Elendra, get infinite tokens, sacrifice half of those (infinite mana), then recast Elendra and combo out again or whatever too.

This deck looks very fun. I like the gameplan of comboing out without a finisher as I have a similar deck. One thing I can suggest is Mother of Runes for your combos that rely on Elenda to stick around. This card does wonders. She basically counters the first of any targeted removal or effects aimed at your creatures each turn and can protect herself.

On a different note, unless it's due to budget concerns, I'd definitely get a hold of the lands you have listed in your maybeboard and add them to your deck, especially Phyrexian Tower and Orzhov Basilica . Although, maybe your manabase has been working well despite the large amount of basics.

Furthermore, has your deck been consistent enough where you're able to get things done every game? One of the greatest challenges I find with deckbuilding is finding the right amount of consistency. Too little and you have no fun each game while doing nothing. Too much, and games quickly become too similar for you and your playgroup.

SynergyBuild good point, though since Elenda has to hit the graveyard to get the tokens I'd need some recursion to make that infinite as well. Would love for you to come back and give a full critique if you ever have time :)

Masterful thanks! Insta-win combos feel unfulfilling to me, so I like to give the table 1 turn to respond so I feel like I've earned the win.

I like Mother of Runes . Good suggestion. I'm torn because Elenda sort of has built in protection; the threat of token generation. But I do want to up my creature count and Lightning Greaves messes with all the stuff I want to target Elenda with, so I'll consider it!

Yeah the land base isn't fully done... been to busy to really hash it out. And I am trying to be budget conscious here so expensive lands are low on the priority list.

Good question, and one I always keep in mind when playtesting new decks. I have not been able to playtest this in real life yet, but I'm hoping the high amount of synergy and low amount of combo finishers will strike the perfect balance for me. Thanks for the comment!

Amazing deck and presentation! Looks really pleasurable to pilot. I love all the synergies you've built between Haakon and Elenda.

Here comes a few suggestions I've in mind :

• Bitterblossom > not the funniest card you could find, but it is a real powerhouse alongside Attrition , Anointed Procession , Skullclamp , Dictate of Erebos etc. / I was a bit surprised it wasn't included.

• Bloodghast > same note.

• Enduring Renewal > makes you a bit more vulnerable against control match-ups as they can see and play around what you're trying to do, but it has the potential of being extra spicy there - giving you a lift at building up your combos.

• Grave Pact / Martyr's Bond > don't know if they are needed (depends a lot on your meta I guess), but their absence is at least just worth mentioning.

• Academy Rector > absurdly good at tutoring some of your combos. Expensive (money speaking) nonetheless.

• Ethereal Absolution / Night of Souls' Betrayal / Tainted AEther + Akroan Horse / Infernal Genesis / Alliance of Arms > weird strategy to fuel Elenda. Could create an additionnal effective win con.

• Forbidden Orchard > fuel for Elenda against creatureless decks. Taps for any color.

• Grave Betrayal > greedy and expensive card that only works against decks running valuable creatures. Good fun, poor consistency.

+1 btw!

ShreddedByCrows thanks for the upvote and comment!

Most of your suggestions I have not included because of price. In the case of Grave Betrayal, too high cmc. Ethereal Absolution / Night of Souls' Betrayal / Tainted AEther + Akroan Horse / Infernal Genesis / Alliance of Arms etc, just not what I want to do I suppose, too much to work around.

Forbidden Orchard is nice, I'll consider it.

I do however, really like Enduring Renewal . It's a tough work around but combos with Deathrender at the cost of no mana... I will have to play around with it. Thanks again!

How competitive do you want this list? I could give a full list of switches and possible meta dependent inclusions I would make if I know. (budget could help too!)