Destined Devastation (Klothys MLD Prison)

Commander / EDH Competitive Land Destruction Lands Prison RG (Gruul)

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Land (37)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Bazaar of Baghdad
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1x Boseiju, Who Shelters All
• 1x Cascading Cataracts
• 1x City of Traitors
• 1x Commercial District
• 1x Emergence Zone
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Fire-Lit Thicket
• 5x Forest
• 1x Forgotten Cave
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Gemstone Caverns
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 4x Mountain
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Smoldering Crater
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Taiga
• 1x Thawing Glaciers
• 1x Tranquil Thicket
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Chandra, Torch of Defiance
• 1x Karn, the Great Creator
• 1x Wrenn and Six

Sorcery (18)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Brotherhood's End
• 1x Decree of Annihilation
• 1x Devastating Dreams
• 1x Devastation
• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Jeska's Will
• 1x Jokulhaups
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Meltdown
• 1x Obliterate
• 1x Ruination
• 1x Shatterskull Smashing  ^Flip
• 1x Thieves' Auction
• 1x Wheel of Fortune
• 1x Wildfire

Instant (12)

• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Deflecting Swat
• 1x Delayed Blast Fireball
• 1x Force of Vigor
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Ricochet Trap
• 1x Seething Song
• 1x Tibalt's Trickery
• 1x Valakut Awakening  ^Flip

Artifact (3)

• 1x Chalice of the Void
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Null Rod

Commander (1)

Creature (16)

• 1x Collector Ouphe
• 1x Elvish Spirit Guide
• 1x Jaya Ballard, Task Mage
• 1x Magus of the Moon
• 1x Orcish Lumberjack
• 1x Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
• 1x Sanctum Weaver
• 1x Shigeki, Jukai Visionary
• 1x Simian Spirit Guide
• 1x Soulless Jailer
• 1x Tinder Wall
• 1x Toski, Bearer of Secrets
• 1x Treasonous Ogre
• 1x Vexing Shusher
• 1x Vorinclex  ^Flip
• 1x ________ Goblin

Enchantment (10)

• 1x Blood Moon
• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x Exploration
• 1x Frontier Siege
• 1x Impending Disaster
• 1x Stranglehold
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Titania's Song
• 1x Underworld Breach
• 1x Virtue of Courage

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Enchantment (4)

• 1x Living Plane
• 1x Seismic Assault
• 1x Undergrowth Recon
• 1x Viridian Revel

Creature (1)

• 1x Rootpath Purifier

Artifact (1)

• 1x Pithing Needle

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This is a Klothys, God of Destiny MLD (Mass Land Destruction) Prison list for cEDH/high power. The main difference between this and other Klothys MLD lists I've seen floating around the net is that this one is built around land-based acceleration as opposed to more traditional artifact turbo, which while slightly less explosive ultimately benefits our strategy by allowing a higher land count which naturally MLD-proofs the deck compared with most competitive lists running fewer lands. This also lets us cards like Collector Ouphe and Null Rod free of consequence, which is great. We also run more hard MLD spells than most other Klothys lists I've seen (8 vs the typical 4-5). The land theme fits with the deck's strategy of board control through sweepers; we want to minimize blowing up/shutting off our own sh*t and maximize our recovery potential when we inevitably do blow up lands. The core idea of the deck is to 'MLD-proof' yourself using Klothys and other recovery cards such as Life from the Loam, Thawing Glaciers, Shigeki, Jukai Visionary, Wrenn and Six, Ragavan, etc. which allow you to quickly reestablish after an MLD spell. Because I wanted to make the MLD and Klothys herself to be the primary wincons, I really tried to max the amount of MLD+sweeper bombs, artifact hate to slow our opponents, and anti-counterspell measures above all else. I cut any unrelated combos to focus on MLD cards which provide '1-card-wins' with Klothys out as opposed to 2-piece combos like Dualcaster Mage/Twinflame which are more likely to be dead by themselves, and which are also vulnerable to creature removal (same deal w Kiki). I am still running Underworld Breach because it's really good outside of combo situations and usually it just helps us dig+ramp into MLD or a big Finale of Devastation. Most of the time we kill players by grinding them down with Klothys over 10+ turns while preventing them from doing anything meaningful by shutting off all of their mana and exiling their combo cards out of the yard. I have found this strategy to be surprisingly effective, as well as satisfying to play offering lots of strategic and political choices, and of course the fun of resolving massive uncounterable MLD spells (fun for us at least!)

tl;dr The deck is designed to punish the greediest top tier decks in the format by turning off their artifacts and nonbasic manabase. Some decks will of course be able to subvert this and you will lose some games, getting narrowly edged out from unlucky draws or perhaps massively blown out by a Teferi's Protection. Even so, this deck is quite capable of bringing an entire table of tier 1 cEDH decks completely to their knees and slowly crushing the life out of them all, and I think that's pretty sweet.

For reference:

MLD Spells:

Decree of Annihilation, Devastating Dreams, Devastation, Jokulhaups, Obliterate, Ruination, Wildfire, Impending Disaster

Good MLD I wish I had slots for:

Burning of Xinye, Destructive Force Tectonic Break, Thoughts of Ruin, Epicenter

Other Sweepers:

Blasphemous Act, Brotherhood's End, Meltdown, Delayed Blast Fireball, Jaya Ballard, Task Mage

Thieves' Auction is a bit of a cheeky include but it provides a second way to deal with scary indestructible permanents or planeswalkers which we otherwise have trouble removing, so aside from being a fun card I think it's actually quite good.

Other Artifact Hate:

Null Rod, Collector Ouphe, Karn, the Great Creator, Titania's Song

MLD-proofing:

Klothys, God of Destiny, Thawing Glaciers, Life from the Loam, Chandra, Torch of Defiance, Wrenn and Six, Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer, Toski, Bearer of Secrets, Frontier Siege

Date added	7 months
Last updated	5 days
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 61 - 0 Rares 10 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.06
Tokens	Emblem Chandra, Torch of Defiance, Emblem Wrenn and Six, On an Adventure, Treasure