Doran shares the life! EDH

Commander / EDH BGW (Abzan, Junk) Group Hug Infinite Combo Lifegain

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Creature (31)

• 1x Ageless Entity
• 1x Angelic Protector
• 1x Arbiter of Knollridge
• 1x Aven Riftwatcher
• 1x Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim
• 1x Chronosavant
• 1x Citanul Woodreaders
• 1x Creakwood Liege
• 1x Daru Spiritualist
• 1x Deadwood Treefolk
• 1x Disciple of Griselbrand
• 1x Doomgape
• 1x Elvish Herder
• 1x Kheru Dreadmaw
• 1x Leonin Shikari
• 1x Mother of Runes
• 1x Oathsworn Giant
• 1x Rhox Faithmender
• 1x Seizan, Perverter of Truth
• 1x Serra Avatar
• 1x Shield Sphere
• 1x Silklash Spider
• 1x Standing Troops
• 1x Tangle Angler
• 1x Task Force
• 1x Trenching Steed
• 1x Trostani, Selesnya's Voice
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Vizkopa Guildmage
• 1x Wall of Junk
• 1x Wall of Shards

Land (33)

• 1x Blossoming Sands
• 1x Brushland
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Elfhame Palace
• 7x Forest
• 1x Graypelt Refuge
• 1x Jungle Hollow
• 9x Plains
• 1x Selesnya Sanctuary
• 8x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Wood

Enchantment (19)

• 1x Angelic Chorus
• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Arrest
• 1x Boon Reflection
• 1x Builder's Blessing
• 1x Castle
• 1x Cessation
• 1x Crackdown
• 1x Cradle of Vitality
• 1x Defensive Formation
• 1x Heartbeat of Spring
• 1x Prismatic Omen
• 1x Proper Burial
• 1x Seal of Cleansing
• 1x Seal of Primordium
• 1x Sigil of the New Dawn
• 1x Spidersilk Armor
• 1x Sterling Grove
• 1x Sylvan Library

Artifact (6)

• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Meekstone
• 1x Slagwurm Armor
• 1x Sword of the Paruns
• 1x Umbral Mantle
• 1x Well of Lost Dreams

Instant (6)

• 1x Argivian Find
• 1x Constant Mists
• 1x Invulnerability
• 1x Moment's Peace *list*
• 1x Tangle
• 1x Worthy Cause

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Army of the Damned
• 1x Idyllic Tutor
• 1x Kin-Tree Invocation
• 1x Serene Remembrance

Commander (1)

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Sideboard

Creature (7)

• 1x Archetype of Finality
• 1x Nomads en-Kor
• 1x Outrider en-Kor
• 1x Pulsemage Advocate
• 1x Salvage Scout
• 1x Wall of Nets
• 1x Warrior en-Kor

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Sanguine Bond

Instant (1)

• 1x Reclaim

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Remember the Fallen

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My First Commander Deck! Lots of fun here, The mechanic of the deck is to gain toughness to my life total from ETB (Angelic Chorus), from LTB (Proper Burial), and the sac (Worthy Cause and others like it). Shamelessly doubling that with a Boon Reflection and/or Rhox Faithmender.

Forgoing the En-Kor for a more challenging method of targeting, I use 0 cost equip to pump the 3 versions of Daru Spiritualist over and over then do my thing. ...to an arbitrarily large number. 'bouts to add a Leonin Shikari when I find one to crank up the 'infinite life' to instant speed.UPDATE: Leonin Shkari now added in maindeck. I'll caution anyone who makes this build that the Targeting that is the trigger event for the pump that eventually gains arbitrarily large life is not on the ink of these cards. It's either hiding in the definition of Equip or in the oracle for 2 out of the 3 en-Kors(SB). So unless play is extremely aggressive, it'll cause less confusion to inform other players what your cards really say before you use them. Then again I'm a goldfish player.

Trademark moves:

-Use Arbiter of Knollridge to bump everybody at the table up to an arbitrarily large life total, basically removing regular damage as a win condition and making players focus on other methods, perhaps cooperating to do so.

-Power Play: It's not a Zombie deck but, I can't resist running the Army of the Damned. Best case, Trostani and Angelic Chorus both see 13 2/10s enter the battlefield. and give me (after doubling) 520 life each. Now that's a deal for 8 mana.

-Draw 'em out by skipping my turns with the Chronosavant

(This isn't fool-proof. If someone sets my life total from one hundred billion to 10 or to 1, then I deserve to lose to them, I'm okay with that).

Recent changes: Benalish Commander and Deathbringer Liege are out. Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim is in. Wall of Nets, a good deterrant, swapped to SB for Wall of Shards.

[HISTORY]

Walls were always my pet creature type, hearbroken to only find room for 3 of them here. Castle is the flavor of the deck, and I spent some effort collecting all 4 cards that gave me the +0/+2 bonus, though they seem less cool the more I break this deck. Crackdown and Meekstone slow-up the Voltron opponent when the Pacifism effects can't. That buys time for the lifegain to get better established. I tinkered with the idea of +1/+1 counters for a bit, but I don't need my creatures affected by Meekstone. So just Cradle of Vitality remains, and that's to pump the opponents creatures to keep them big enough, and Deathbringer Liege went out for a little more recovery for the Meekstone/ combo pieces, in the way of Argivian Find.

In my heart, I feel that the En-Kor, also Sanguine Bond are too broken to be sporting, and needs to go to the sideboard. But to mimic the effect, I've seen Vizkopa Guildmage in tandem with a Silklash Spider end up taking a whole table of 13 people down :P

Sideboard now updated with cards that may make it a little less silly at a more competitive table.

Thoughts?

Date added	10 years
Last updated	8 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 26 - 3 Rares 29 - 3 Uncommons 16 - 4 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.16
Tokens	Spirit Warrior */* BG, Worm 1/1 BG, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	:) Huggy EDH :), EDH-BGW