just kill me lmao (Selenia PRIMER)

Commander / EDH Combo Infinite Combo Primer Suicide Black WB (Orzhov)

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Land (33)

• 1x Ancient TombGC
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Boseiju, Who Shelters All
• 1x Brightclimb Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Fetid Heath
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Kor Haven
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Orzhov Basilica
• 1x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Shattered Sanctum
• 1x Silent Clearing
• 1x Snow-Covered Plains
• 1x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Sunlit Marsh
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Field
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Vault of Champions
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath

Combo 1 (5)

• 1x Angel's Grace
• 1x Soul Echo
• 1x Phyrexian Unlife
• 1x Teferi's Protection
• 1x Ad NauseamGC

Ping (4)

• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Pestilence
• 1x Bolas's CitadelGC

Combo 3 (3)

• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Bolas's CitadelGC

Ramp (16)

• 1x Ancient TombGC
• 1x Chrome MoxGC
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Orzhov Basilica
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Mana VaultGC
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1x Black Market Connections
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Smothering TitheGC
• 1x Skirge Familiar

Protection (12)

• 1x Boseiju, Who Shelters All
• 1x Intervention Pact
• 1x Kor Haven
• 1x Mana Tithe
• 1x Silence
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Imp's Mischief
• 1x Mandate of Peace
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Opposition AgentGC
• 1x Ranger-Captain of Eos
• 1x Teferi's Protection

Tutor (9)

• 1x Enlightened TutorGC
• 1x Imperial SealGC
• 1x Vampiric TutorGC
• 1x Demonic TutorGC
• 1x Tainted Pact
• 1x Wishclaw Talisman
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Ranger-Captain of Eos
• 1x Dark Petition

Lifeloss (4)

• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Wall of Blood
• 1x Bolas's CitadelGC

Alt Win Con (2)

• 1x Wall of Blood
• 1x Near-Death Experience

Combo Finisher (2)

• 1x Sickening Dreams
• 1x Repay in Kind

Commander (1)

Draw (13)

• 1x Esper Sentinel
• 1x Land Tax
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Dark Confidant
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Black Market Connections
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Ad NauseamGC
• 1x Bolas's CitadelGC
• 1x Peer into the Abyss

Removal (9)

• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Damn
• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Generous Gift
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Pestilence
• 1x Farewell
• 1x Merciless Eviction

Lifegain (7)

• 1x Children of Korlis
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Vizkopa Guildmage
• 1x Oketra's Last Mercy
• 1x Tainted Sigil
• 1x Exquisite Blood
• 1x Axis of Mortality

Combo 2 (3)

• 1x Vizkopa Guildmage
• 1x Exquisite Blood
• 1x Sanguine Bond

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Maybeboard

Other (13)

• 1x Demonic Consultation
• 1x Hex Parasite
• 1x Orim's Chant
• 1x Scheming Symmetry
• 1x Abeyance
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Gideon of the Trials
• 1x Idyllic Tutor
• 1x Oblation
• 1x Vindicate
• 1x Obzedat's Aid
• 1x K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
• 1x Revival / Revenge

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Intro:

This is the latest version of the very first magic deck I ever built! What started as literally a $20 budget deck has slowly turned into my pimped-out pet deck. Selenia is a great commander to make people go “Huh?” This is high-powered?” when they first see her lol. The trick is you can hold priority and activate her ability as many times as you’d like to reduce your life total. This deck is a heap of jank combos + expensive cards. Couldn’t ask for more from an EDH deck.

Pregame

1. How does your deck win? The main gameplan is knocking yourself down to 0-1 life and swapping life totals with an opponent.

2. When does it tend to pop off? Often turns 5-7 if you have at least one tutor in your opening hand.

3. How long do people have to stop it? 0-2 turns. Many combos only kill one player at a time though.

4. What's it strong against? Any non-blue creature-based deck.

5. What's it weak against? Interactive control decks or counterspells in general.

7. Two-card infinite combos? Ad Nauseum and any Angel’s Grace effect is an insta-win.

8. Tutors? Every easily-cast tutor under 3-mana with minimal restrictions.

9. What's the deck's vibe? Overpowered jank with some unique win-cons.

Combo #1

Ad Nauseam + Angel's Grace/Soul Echo/Phyrexian Unlife will allow you to draw your whole deck. Teferi's Protection also works if you cast it the end step before your turn. It's pretty easy to win at this point in two different ways:

Main Plan Show

The safest win-con is dropping Skirge Familiar and discarding your whole deck to fuel a Repay in Kind or Pestilence. All in 5 mana. Also allows you to drop mana rocks to get access to white for Silence effects.

Backup Plan #1 Show

The easiest win-con is Sickening Dreams. Since it's dealing damage to everyone it will kill you with Phyrexian Unlife out. A way around this is casting Intervention Pact targeting Sickening Dreams while it's still on the stack. Everyone else will take the damage except you. All in only 2 mana.

Combo #2

The classic Exquisite Blood + Sanguine Bond/Vizkopa Guildmage. Just deal some damage or gain some life and you'll go infinite. I like using any of the Ping category cards, attack with Selenia, Dark Angel in the air, or use any of the Lifegain cards.

Combo #3

Bolas's Citadel + Sensei's Divining Top/Necropotence lets you draw/remove any card off the top of your deck for 1 life so you can churn through your deck quickly and get rid of all the lands off the top. All the Lifegain cards pretty much guarantee you can churn through your whole deck.

Combo #4

You can also use any Lifeloss card to go from <0-2 life. If you're at 1 or 2 life use Repay in Kind/Axis of Mortality and then finish them off with a Ping card. If you can go below zero with a Combo #1 piece it's an instant-win.

You can also use Sanguine Bond/Vizkopa Guildmage after gaining a bunch of life to kill any player with a lower life total than you.

A sneaky trick is to Swords to Plowshares your own Wall of Blood to gain a bunch of life.

Notable Exclusions

• Any Recursion: Sometimes . . . you gotta just move on with your life. If my combo gets shut down, I normally just go for another one.

• Solemnity + Glacial Chasm: I used to have this combo in. Both cards serve other functions for lifeloss or protection with Phyrexian Unlife. I just rarely found myself using them, and they don't do enough on their own.

• Tainted Remedy + Beacon of Immortality: This is pretty fun. But has a big all-in mana cost for just killing one player. Tainted Remedy also is terrible on its own.

• Reverse the Sands: This card doesn't play like it initially reads. You actually have to move life totals around as they are, no giving every player 1 life and yourself the rest. Axis of Mortality does this far better.

• Triskaidekaphobia/Tree of Perdition: It's a cute combo, but both are pretty dead cards otherwise.

• Soul Conduit/Magus of the Mirror: Just too expensive and derpy to surprise anyone with more than once.

• Stunning Reversal: It's difficult to hold up 4 mana when you spend every turn setting up for the big combo play.

• Lich's Mastery/Lich/Nefarious Lich: Thematically they all fit the deck, but the cards needed to support them are honestly an entirely different strategy.

• Leechridden Swamp: As you can see in the comments, I just found that the number of times I needed to ping everyone for one vs. the number of times I needed to have an untapped Swamp didn't compare.

Budget Build

My first build of this deck was Selenia, $20 Killing Machine made by the excellent trashpile.It's a little outdated, but the bones are still great for an ultra-budget build.

Also, apparently Mitch from Commander's Quarters did a $50 list a couple years ago: Selenia, Dark Angel | The Commander's Quarters

Future Changes

Date added	9 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	21 - 0 Mythic Rares 52 - 0 Rares 14 - 0 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.70
Tokens	Elephant 3-3 G, Shapeshifter 3/2 C, Treasure
Folders	Orzhov EDH, Commander, Deck Inspiration, Other EDH Decks, Chaotic, selenia, Buildable, EDH Ideas, EDH, edh
Based on	Selenia, $20 Killing Machine trashpile EDH