Field to Plowshares

Commander / EDH* WB (Orzhov)

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Land (34)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Concealed Courtyard
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Fetid Heath
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Orzhov Basilica
• 1x Plains
• 1x Plains
• 1x Plains
• 2x Plains
• 1x Plains
• 1x Plains
• 1x Plains
• 1x Scoured Barrens
• 1x Shineshadow Snarl
• 1x Silent Clearing
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Field
• 1x Vault of Champions

Instant (5)

• 1x Argivian Find
• 1x Body Count
• 1x Cosmic Intervention
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Mausoleum Secrets

Creature (30)

• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Butcher of Malakir
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Doomed Necromancer
• 1x Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
• 1x Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Harvester of Souls
• 1x Hoarding Broodlord
• 1x Jirina, Dauntless General
• 1x Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
• 1x Karmic Guide
• 1x Mondrak, Glory Dominus
• 1x Mother of Runes
• 1x Nether Traitor
• 1x Pitiless Plunderer
• 1x Razaketh, the Foulblooded
• 1x Reassembling Skeleton
• 1x Reveillark
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Smothering Abomination
• 1x Soul's Attendant
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Teysa Karlov
• 1x Thalisse, Reverent Medium
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Whisper, Blood Liturgist
• 1x Yahenni, Undying Partisan
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Beseech the Mirror
• 1x Blot Out the Sky
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Lingering Souls
• 1x Revoke Existence
• 1x Season of Loss
• 1x Victimize

Commander (1)

Enchantment (13)

• 1x Bastion of Remembrance
• 1x Bitterblossom
• 1x Black Market Connections
• 1x Cathars' Crusade
• 1x Darkest Hour
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Fallen Ideal
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Martyr's Bond
• 1x Martyr's Cause
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x The Meathook Massacre *pp*

Artifact (9)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Blasting Station
• 1x Glaring Spotlight
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Phyrexian Altar *f-etch*
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1x Thought Vessel

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Elspeth, Sun's Champion

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Creature (3)

• 1x Leonin Relic-Warder
• 1x Massacre Wurm
• 1x Phyrexian Delver

Instant (1)

• 1x Culling the Weak

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Soundtrack: Show

A great song from a game I enjoy (Let it Die).

Plowshares: Origins Show

Back when I ran Athreos, God of Passage, I was always getting my face kicked in by agro, and was not able to remove problem creatures. I wanted to keep the Orzhov colors, but needed to find a way to get creatures to leave the battlefield.

That's when I noticed her, a cool, collected professional, in a black, yet slightly revealing, Orzhovian garb. Her loyal follower Diabolic Tutoring in her ear.

Sacrificing 3 {W} creatures for an exile? Not bad, combos well with Grave Pact and Dictate of Erebos.

Whenever a {B} creature dies you get a 1/1 {W} spirit? I already loved tokens, anthems, sacrificing, swarming, right up my alley.

Breakdown:

Primary Directives:

Summon Teysa, Orzhov Scion. Acquire sac outlets. Get {B} creatures and/or {W} token stream, preferably {WB} tokens. Exile fields.

Optional Directives:

Enforce the Dictate of Erebos, get assistance from Elspeth, Sun's Champion, or Blot Out the Sky. Do what it takes to Eliminate the Competition.

Getting fodder for the slaughter: Tokens

Teysa, Orzhov Scion matches the donation of each black creature's soul (that dies) with a 1/1 white, flying, spirit token.

Elspeth, Sun's Champion: +1 exile a turn, can fatty wipe, looks damn fine. As a token generator, 5 stars.

Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder: brock breeds Pokémon. Turns 1/1 thrulls into 1/1 spirits with a sac outlet. Overall, 4.5 stars.

Bitterblossom: easy black enchantment with aggressive cost. Pay 1 life for a 1/1 flier each turn. Overall, 4 stars.

Darkest Hour essentially acts as infinite black 1/1 spirits as long as Teysa is around. Overall, 5 stars.

Rites of Sacrifice - {10} total:

Outlets (8) Show

Carrion Feeder: sac to eat. {2} cheaper than Bloodflow. Overall, 4 stars.

Viscera Seer: sac to legally cheat, great utility. Overall, 4.5 stars.

Fallen Ideal: sac to eat. Buffs enchanted creature. Secret Teysa voltron power. Overall, 4.5 stars.

Martyr's Cause: sac to laugh at burn spells and fatties, useful and simple. Overall, 3.5 stars.

Ashnod's Altar: sac to get {2}. Simple execution, infinite implementation. Overall, 5 stars.

Card Advantage and Recursion - {16} total:

Tutors (5) Show

Beseech the Mirror has great synergy here, its very easy to sac a token.

Draw (9) Show

Black Market Connections and Phyrexian Arena: Stuff your face with more cards than you can play, beware of life loss. 4.5 stars.

Body Count and Liliana's Standard Bearer: A card for each casualty, such a shame. 4.5 stars.

Harvester of Souls: a classic from Innistrad. Any non-token dies? Hit the bank. Overall, 3.5 stars.

Smothering Abomination: true tentacles of value. Sacrifices = Draws. Overall, 4 stars.

Skullclamp: {1} to rend a 1/1 and pull two cards from its mind. Superb. Overall, 4.5 stars.

Reassembling Skeleton: With a sac engine, this guy creates easy tokens for {B}{1}. As recursion, 3.5 stars.

Recursion (7) Show

Argivian Find: get any artifact or enchantment in the yard. As recursion, 3.5 stars.

Doomed Necromancer: sac to pull something good from your yard, also spawns a token. As recursion, 4 stars.

Karmic Guide + Reveillark: a classic combo

Sun Titan: get a 3 or less cmc permanent when ETB or attacks. As recursion, 4 stars.

Victimize: sac something worthless to get two nice things back.

Death and Dying - {9} total:

Grave Pact and Friends - (6) Show

Grave Pact, Dictate of Erebos, and Martyr's Bond are all in the deck to make my opponents lose out more when I sac.

Wipes Show

Elspeth, Sun's Champion: -3 wipes all creatures above 3 power. Easy and efficient. As a wipe, 3.5 stars.

Lifegain - {10} total:

Consistent Lifegain (8) Show

Blood Artist: a creature dies, steal 1 life from an opponent.

Crypt Ghast: Extort for a spell, also doubles mana.

Pontiff of Blight: Everyone can extort for mana.

Sorin Markov: Has the option to sap life from an opponent or creature.

Soul's Attendant: Creature Enters, get 1 hp, pt. 2.

Zulaport Cutthroat: your creature dies, opponents lose 1 life and you gain 1.

Strengths and Weaknesses:

WIP

Date added	9 years
Last updated	1 month
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 37 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.24
Tokens	Copy Clone, Emblem Elspeth, Sun's Champion, Faerie Rogue 1/1 B, Foretell, Human Soldier 1/1 W, Inkling 2/1 WB, Shapeshifter 3/2 C, Soldier 1/1 W, Spirit 1/1 W, Thrull 1/1 B, Treasure
Folders	Decks Owned