Leovold's Undiplomatic Finesse (EDH)

Commander / EDH* BUG (Sultai) Combo Discard Elves Infinite Combo

Roan

Creature (28)

• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Coiling Oracle
• 1x Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Archdruid
• 1x Elvish Champion
• 1x Elvish Harbinger
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Elvish Visionary
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Gilded Drake
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Jagged-Scar Archers
• 1x Kira, Great Glass-Spinner
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Nullmage Shepherd
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Priest of Titania
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1x Shaman of the Pack
• 1x Trophy Mage
• 1x Wirewood Symbiote
• 1x Wood Elves

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Aluren
• 1x Beastmaster Ascension
• 1x Concordant Crossroads
• 1x Exploration
• 1x Rhystic Study

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury

Land (31)

• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 4x Forest
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x High Market
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 3x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Wirewood Lodge
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Instant (10)

• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Intuition
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Putrefy
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Commander (1)

Sorcery (15)

• 1x Damnation
• 1x Day's Undoing
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Genesis Wave
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Harmonize
• 1x Patriarch's Bidding
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Time Spiral
• 1x Timetwister
• 1x Triumph of the Hordes
• 1x Whispering Madness
• 1x Windfall

Artifact (9)

• 1x Anvil of Bogardan
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Cloudstone Curio
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Teferi's Puzzle Box

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Maybeboard

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Expropriate
• 1x Regrowth

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Sylvan Library

Instant (1)

• 1x Krosan Grip

Creature (1)

• 1x Riftsweeper

Artifact (1)

• 1x Paradox Engine

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker

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Leovold, Emissary of Trest has insane potential. Not only is he a three drop with two incredible mechanics, allowing him to give you an early advantage - but the cards he works in combination with are plentiful. I recently retooled this from a rather one-direction stax deck into something that combines Leovold's synergy with wheels along with the power of being an Elf Tribal deck.

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How it Works

The name of the game is wheels. Using cards like Windfall, Time Spiral, Time Reversal, or a static Teferi's Puzzle Box with Leovold in play can help you strip your opponent's hands, accelerate yourself through your deck and maintain your own card advantage.
This doesn't win you the game in of itself, but it puts you firmly on the path if you can get the combination off. The next step is to take advantage of your sudden dominant position and set up a board state to go off for a complete victory.

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Win Conditions

The deck employs a few different ways with a few pieces to win the game. The central way to win is with Cloudstone Curio and Aluren. With these two you can chain-bounce any Elf with an ETB trigger, be it Coiling Oracle or Elvish Visionary or Shaman of the Pack. It's a pretty solid way to ensure your own victory, provided one of the combo pieces isn't blown up.
Additionally, you have something more late-game oriented with Shaman of Forgotten Ways and Cyclonic Rift to set opponent's life totals to 0.
And finally, there's the solid Craterhoof Behemoth and Triumph of the Hordes for a less gimmicky, beatdown approach to achieving victory.

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Noteworthy Combos

1. Leovold, Emissary of Trest + Windfall This is the key combo that makes the deck work, as stated in an above paragraph. Wheeling gives you card advantage while denying it to your opponents.
2. Aluren + Cloudstone Curio With this you can play Leovold whenever, and use him to bounce any elf with an ETB trigger, and use their ability as many times as you need to.
3. Wirewood Symbiote + Shaman of the Pack/Elvish Visionary a good way to untap mana dorks like Priest of Titania and bloomtender while getting you a second ETB trigger.
4. Cloudstone Curio + Concordant Crossroads Without Aluren, going infinite is tougher, but not impossible. Having a mana dork that'll provide enough mana to keep recasting cards as you bounce them to your hand will get you there however.
5. Joraga Warcaller + Immaculate Magistrate these two can beef up your elves like it's noone's business.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 51 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.55
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Elf Druid 1/1 G, Manifest 2/2 C
Folders	Xmage