Glissa the Traitor : Metal Rock Old V2

Commander / EDH Artifact BG (Golgari) Multiplayer Rock

Stefouch

Land (36)

• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 6x Forest
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Grim Backwoods
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Phyrexia's Core
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Strip Mine
• 5x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Tectonic Edge
• 1x Temple of Malady
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Tranquil Thicket
• 1x Tree of Tales
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Vault of Whispers
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Woodland Cemetery
• 1x Yavimaya Hollow

Instant (8)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Skeletal Scrying
• 1x Sudden Spoiling
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Creature (26)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Blightsteel Colossus
• 1x Bloodgift Demon
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Fangren Marauder
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Genesis
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Hangarback Walker
• 1x Meren of Clan Nel Toth
• 1x Metalworker
• 1x Myr Battlesphere
• 1x Nissa, Vastwood Seer  ^Flip
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Phyrexian Revoker
• 1x Pilgrim's Eye
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Sylvok Replica
• 1x Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger
• 1x Wood Elves
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Maelstrom Pulse
• 1x Traverse the Ulvenwald

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Garruk Wildspeaker
• 1x Vraska the Unseen

Commander (1)

Artifact (17)

• 1x Batterskull
• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Chromatic Sphere
• 1x Chromatic Star
• 1x Darksteel Plate
• 1x Executioner's Capsule
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Golgari Signet
• 1x Loxodon Warhammer
• 1x Nihil Spellbomb
• 1x Oblivion Stone
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Umezawa's Jitte
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Awakening Zone
• 1x Pernicious Deed
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Survival of the Fittest

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Artifact (14)

• 1x Codex Shredder
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Horizon Spellbomb
• 1x Jester's Cap
• 1x Memory Jar
• 1x Mesmeric Orb
• 1x Mimic Vat
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mindslaver
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Salvaging Station
• 1x Smokestack
• 1x Strionic Resonator
• 1x Trading Post

Creature (11)

• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Hermit Druid
• 1x Kokusho, the Evening Star
• 1x Kuldotha Forgemaster
• 1x Merciless Executioner
• 1x Rampaging Baloths
• 1x Spore Frog
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Terastodon
• 1x The Gitrog Monster
• 1x Woodfall Primus

Land (1)

• 1x Llanowar Wastes

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Ashes to Ashes
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Death Cloud
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Jarad's Orders
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Natural Order
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Tempt with Discovery

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Exploration
• 1x Sylvan Library

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Glissa the Traitor Metal Rock 2.0

This is an archived old version of my EDH deck

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Glissa the Traitor: Metal Rock

Commander / EDH Stefouch

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Types breakdown:

• 36 lands (+13 ramp cards)
• 27 creatures (11 artifact-creatures, 1 living weapon)
• 16 artifacts (+2 lands)
• 8 instants + 6 sorceries
• 4 enchantments
• 2 planeswalker (+1 sparker)

One quarter of the deck is of artifact type.

Lands

Mana Fixing & Rainbow Lands
Basics: 6x Forest , 5x Swamp . 11 in total is just enough for the ramp cards we are playing inside this deck. Do not go below that number, it is already tight.
Duals: Bayou, Golgari Rot Farm, Overgrown Tomb, Tainted Wood, Temple of Malady , Twilight Mire, Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth, Verdant Catacombs, Woodland Cemetery.
Rainbow: Forbidden Orchard, Command Tower.
I tend to not use any rainbow-land like City of Brass, Mana Confluence and Tarnished Citadel. I have enough fixing and need to keep a bunch of basics for my ramp cards. Exception for Forbidden Orchard. This land is very famous with Glissa: Gain friends by giving tiny tokens to opponents. Get value when that little 1/1 dies.

Artifacts Lands
Tree of Tales and Vault of Whispers.
Those lands are indeed more fragile than normal basic lands, but the artifact type is value here and are easily recurrable with Glissa. This is a protection against MLD (Mass Land Destruction).
If my meta was be even more oriented to MLD, I'll also add Darksteel Citadel.

Mana Acceleration
Cabal Coffers, Gaea's Cradle , Temple of the False God.

Utility Lands
Bojuka Bog: This grave-hate card interacts very well with Crop Rotation in order to remove a graveyard at instant speed.

Phyrexia's Core : A sac-outlet useful to protect my artifacts from exile.

Grim Backwoods : A sac-outlet paired with a drawing ability. It can help protecting our creatures from Exile effects. A little bit expensive to activate though.

Reliquary Tower: The tower that allows us to have a god-sized hand.

Tectonic Edge, Strip Mine: They help against nasty opponent's lands. Recurrable with Loam.

Yavimaya Hollow: Regenerate our creatures is a great advantage. It helps protect Glissa against opponents' sweepers and our Oblivion Stone. This is the reason I don't play Lightning Greaves because they would prevent me from targeting my Glissa with regeneration in case of a boardwipe.

Cycling Lands
Barren Moor and Tranquil Thicket: Secondary draw engine with Life from the Loam.

The Ramp Package

Moxes, Petal: not needed 'coz we don't need Glissa in the first turns.

(1) Sol Ring: True mana ramp.

(1+2) Wayfarer's Bauble : A Rampant Growth recurrable with Glissa.

(2) Golgari Signet : Much needed mana fixing, it can provide triple same colors off of a signet and a filterland (using the off-color to power the filterland).

(2) Sakura-Tribe Elder: Chumpblocker that ramps. Fodder for Birthing Pod and Skullclamp when not needed. Recurrable with Genesis.

(3) Wood Elves : He can fetch a dual land (Bayou or Overgrown Tomb) and put it into play untapped! Then he's a chumpblocker or fodder for Birthing Pod and Skullclamp. Recurrable with Genesis.

(3) Pilgrim's Eye : Chumblocker that draws us a land. He's less effective than Sakura-Tribe Elder, but he chumpblocks better because he has flying (a weakness of this deck). He's fodder for Birthing Pod and Skullclamp. Recurrable with Glissa and Genesis.

(3) Metalworker: The Holy Hand Grenade of ramping for any artifact deck. This guy is insane and really shines here. He is usually a lightning rod, frequently killed on sight. Fortunately we can recurre him easily with Glissa. Now imagine a boardwipe, you get with Glissa all your artifacts back, then you cast Metalworker. Next turn you reveal your hand and show all that metal to cast again with all that mana. That is broken. I am happy that the EDH Rules Committee unbanned this card. It is strong, no doubt, but slow and fragile. Thus, balanced. Artifacts decks needed this kind of help.
If you can't afford its price tag, run instead Kodama's Reach or Cultivate. It isn't the same, but nothing else approach the Metalworker's power level.

(3) Awakening Zone : It is a multi-purpose ramp card. The Eldrazi Spawns created are also nice chumpblockers and are free fodder for Skullclamp.

(3) Nissa, Vastwood Seer  : Nissa's solid to dig extra forests out of the deck in the early game, and later on, she'll flip and draw cards and ramp. Testing in place of Garruk Wildspeaker.

(3+3) Burnished Hart: The Hart is a recurrable effective ramp card. Slower and less interesting than Sad Robot, it ramps yet better.

(4) Solemn Simulacrum: Sad Robot let us ramp, chumpblock and draw. Fodder for Birthing Pod. Best friend of Glissa and Genesis.

(4) Garruk Wildspeaker: This planeswalker is a polyvalent ramp card. We lose his value if he dies, but he's well protected by Glissa. His Ultimate can be game-ending with Avenger of Zendikar. Replace temporarely Skyshroud Claim (testing).

(4) Oracle of Mul Daya: RAMP! in uppercase!

The Tutor Set

(1) Expedition Map: We use a lot of utility lands in this deck. Not to mention we also play Urborg-Coffers and Gaea's Craddle for extra mana. This cog intends to help us find our key lands quickly. Not to mention it is recurrable with Glissa which convinced me to play this one over Sylvan Scrying.

(1) Crop Rotation: See above.

(1) Traverse the Ulvenwald: A ramp card early game. A great tutor mid/late game. Assuming we have Delirium (which shouldn't be difficult in this deck), we can tutorize a non-basic land or any creature for just one mana.

(1) Entomb: This is a great tutor within our strategy. Entomb an artifact to get it back with Glissa. Entomb Genesis to recurre your non-artifact creatures!

(1) Vampiric Tutor: The Mirage tutors are card-disavantage and I tend to avoid them. Exception for this one because you can fetch any card.

(2) Demonic Tutor: Best tutor ever printed. Should be played in any deck loading black mana.

(2+1) Survival of the Fittest: The most broken card in this deck. I think Survival of the Fittest is broken in any deck, but it shines here. Discarding artifacts, which will come back with Glissa, to tutor for a creature that you can discard again to loop the effect, this is strong. This card is so overpowered that I could understand its banishment if the EDH Rule Committee decides it.

(3/4+1/2) Birthing Pod: Test slot. The Pod is a reusable tutor that sacrifices creatures we could get back with Glissa if they were artifact.

(X3) Chord of Calling: Fetch for any creature in your library in put it directly onto the battlefield, at instant speed! Moreover, it has Convoke.

Regular Creatures

Artifact Creatures

(3) Metalworker, (3) Burnished Hart, (4) Solemn Simulacrum: See "The Ramp Package."

(2) Phyrexian Revoker

(3) Sylvok Replica: Reusable Naturalize.

(5) Batterskull

(6) Duplicant: Reusable exile effect.

(6) Wurmcoil Engine

(7) Myr Battlesphere

(XX) Hangarback Walker

(12) Blightsteel Colossus

Utility Artifacts

(1) Chromatic Sphere, (1) Chromatic Star: Draw engine with Glissa.

(1) Nihil Spellbomb

(1) Executioner's Capsule

(3+5) Oblivion Stone

Equipments
Glissa is the best creature in combat thanks to her abilities First-strike and Deathtouch. Thus, she loves holding equipments. Moreover, she can recur them if broken.

• (1+1) Skullclamp: Broken draw engine.

• (2+0) Lightning Greaves : Give shroud and haste. Shroud is very important for Glissa who is frequently a target. Haste is relevant with my big beaters. Chosen over Lightning Greaves because my creatures are still targettable with the boots, useful with Yavimaya Hollow.

• (2+2) Umezawa's Jitte: Polyvalent equipment. Removal and source of life gain.

Planeswalkers

(5) Vraska the Unseen

Notable Exclusions

Thornbite Staff: Favorite equipment of any creature with Deathtouch. I removed it because it was way too slow (mana hungry).

Mindslaver: I know I know, this is the best artifact to play with Glissa in conjunction with Forbidden Orchard. While it is a powerful combo, it will only neuter one opponent. Then you become the Archenemy and have multiple opponents to face now. It is also mana hungry, rendering you naked against the rest of the table. Moreover, I hate people playing extra-turn cards: multiplayer EDH rounds are long enough. Thus, I am forbidding myself to use such cards except if they allow me to win instantly.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 44 - 0 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 18 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.19
Tokens	Ashaya, the Awoken World, Assassin 1/1 B w/ Player Killer, Beast 3/3 G, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Experience Token, Myr 1/1 C, Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B, Plant 0/1 G, Spirit 1/1 C, Thopter 1/1 C, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Deathtouch, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Lifelink, Zombie 2/2 B
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