Dark elfball

Commander / EDH

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Creature (28)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Boreal Druid
• 1x Dark Confidant
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Devoted Druid
• 1x Dosan the Falling Leaf
• 1x Duskwatch Recruiter  ^Flip
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Eternal Scourge
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Genesis Hydra
• 1x Great Oak Guardian
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Priest of Titania
• 1x Quirion Ranger
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Scryb Ranger
• 1x Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1x Shaman of the Pack
• 1x Temur Sabertooth
• 1x Voyaging Satyr
• 1x Wirewood Symbiote
• 1x Woodland Bellower
• 1x Yisan, the Wanderer Bard

Land (31)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 9x Forest
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 5x Swamp
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Concordant Crossroads
• 1x Earthcraft
• 1x Food Chain
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Survival of the Fittest
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Utopia Sprawl
• 1x Wild Growth

Artifact (8)

• 1x Altar of the Brood
• 1x Cloudstone Curio
• 1x Genesis Chamber
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Staff of Domination
• 1x Umbral Mantle

Instant (11)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Ad Nauseam
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Natural State
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Summoner's Pact
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Genesis Wave
• 1x Glimpse of Nature
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Natural Order
• 1x Reprocess
• 1x Sylvan Scrying
• 1x Tooth and Nail
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Commander (1)

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Creature (6)

• 1x Elvish Archdruid
• 1x Elvish Harbinger
• 1x Elvish Visionary
• 1x Great Oak Guardian
• 1x Heritage Druid
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Scout

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Lignify
• 1x Pernicious Deed

Artifact (4)

• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mox Diamond

Instant (1)

• 1x Dark Ritual

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My attempt at elfball. This is a blatantly derivative deck, borrowing card choices from cobblepot's Yidris elfstorm, asm's and tw0handt0uch's Selvala brostorm, and r/competitiveEDH's brewday Tasigur elfball brew.

The elfball strategy has caught my attention with just how intricate (and fun) the creature bouncing and lines are. I am a big fan of the mana-creating explosiveness and ingenuity of asm and tw0handt0uch's Selvala, Heart of the Wilds deck, but I also appreciate the flexibility that comes with adding another color. Cobblepot has a very fun Ezuri elfball build in simic colors so I thought I would try to use another elf commander at the helm and explore golgari. Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord moves elfball in the direction of consistency, rather than explosiveness- gaining black tutors and broken cards (hello Ad Nauseam and Necropotence). It forgoes blue, unfortunately, but that is the price to pay for having a commander chosen because he is an elf rather than for min-maxing purposes. Yes, believe it or not Jarad is a zombie elf, and sometimes he prefers hanging out with his pointy-eared bretheren to Necrotic Ooze.

This deck is very much a thought experiment and land/card choices still require work.

The strategy of this deck is to generate some combination of infinite mana, infinite bounce and/or infinite enter the battlefield effects.

Wincons are (1) flickering Shaman of the Pack for infinite damage. (2) flickering Great Oak Guardian for infinite pump and then either swinging with Concordant Crossroads on the battlefield, or (3) saccing the Great Oak Guardian to Jarad for infinite damage. (4) Deck milling with flickering while Altar of the Brood is on the battlefield. (5) Infinite tokens with flickering and Genesis Chamber.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 44 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.16
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Myr 1/1 C
Folders	my concoctions