If Only Lorehold Apprentice was Legendary

Commander / EDH Flying RUW (Jeskai, America) Spirits Tap/Untap

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Creature (23)

• 1x Blood Age General
• 1x Donal, Herald of Wings
• 1x Drogskol Captain
• 1x Drogskol Reinforcements
• 1x Empyrean Eagle
• 1x Ghostly Pilferer
• 1x Hanged Executioner
• 1x Hofri Ghostforge
• 1x Imperial Recruiter
• 1x Kira, Great Glass-Spinner
• 1x Lorehold Apprentice
• 1x Millicent, Restless Revenant
• 1x Nebelgast Herald
• 1x Patrician Geist
• 1x Plargg, Dean of Chaos  ^Flip
• 1x Rattlechains
• 1x Recruiter of the Guard
• 1x Selfless Spirit
• 1x Shacklegeist
• 1x Sky Hussar
• 1x Spectral Arcanist
• 1x Supreme Phantom
• 1x Welcoming Vampire

Artifact (8)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Bident of Thassa
• 1x Idol of Oblivion
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Talisman of Conviction

Land (40)

• 1x Battlefield Forge
• 1x Castle Embereth
• 1x Clifftop Retreat
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Irrigated Farmland
• 8x Island
• 1x Moorland Haunt
• 3x Mountain
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 9x Plains
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Raugrin Triome
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Sea of Clouds
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Spectator Seating
• 1x Temple of Enlightenment
• 1x Temple of Epiphany
• 1x Temple of Triumph

Instant (8)

• 1x Benevolent Offering
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Rally of Wings
• 1x Rally the Righteous
• 1x Release to Memory
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

Commander (1)

Enchantment (12)

• 1x Anointed Procession
• 1x Cathars' Crusade
• 1x Faces of the Past
• 1x Intangible Virtue
• 1x Intruder Alarm
• 1x Jeskai Ascendancy
• 1x Kindred Discovery
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Reconnaissance Mission
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Shared Animosity
• 1x Spirit Bonds

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Distant Melody
• 1x Flame Fusillade
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Insult / Injury
• 1x Ribbons of the Reikai
• 1x Sevinne's Reclamation
• 1x Time Wipe
• 1x Triplicate Spirits

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Listen. I'm not actually that tied to the rules regarding commanders in EDH. If someone wants to play a nonlegendary creature as their commander? Sure! All for it. I think it fosters creativity. If someone wants to take two terrible commanders without partner and give them partner? Again, I think that's cool. It makes a lot of strategies that normally would be pretty much unplayable in commander and makes them do alright. But to take two nonlegendary creatures and give them partner? That might be pushing it a bit.

All that is to say, I'd absolutely love to claim this deck's commanders were Lorehold Apprentice and Drogskol Captain. But I think I'm gonna stick with Kykar for now.

Basically, this is a combo deck posing as a tribal deck. Tutor for Lorehold Apprentice with like eight spirits on board, and use things like Rally of Wings to untap them all and ping each opponent eight more times. There are quite a few bad cards in the list specifically to win through lorehold apprentice. Many of these untap effects also double as ways to make spirit tokens very powerful and deal lethal damage on their own.

This deck is a combo deck but the combo is easily dismantled, especially when a playgroup knows the play pattern of the deck from seeing it multiple times before. Conveniently, this list also doubles as plain old spirit tribal that can win easily without the combo as well, and in my opinion it doesn't even get significantly less fun.

Please do leave comments! I'm sure the deck could be much more streamlined, and I'm always interested in finding fun new things to make Lorehold Apprentice work better.

Top Ranked	Achieved #20 position overall 2 years ago Achieved #15 position in Commander / EDH 2 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH RUW (Jeskai, America) 2 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Tap/Untap 2 years ago
Date added	3 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 51 - 0 Rares 10 - 0 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.07
Tokens	Copy Clone, Eldrazi 10/10 C, Spirit 1/1 C, Spirit 1/1 W
Folders	EDH Decks, Current EDH