Low-Land Challenge

Commander / EDH Affinity Artifact BUG (Sultai) Value Engine

j_corvin

Land (29)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cryptic Caves
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 2x Forest
• 1x Inventors' Fair *f-pre*
• 2x Island
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Nurturing Peatland
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Waterlogged Grove
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Witch's Cottage
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Ancestral Vision
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Thoughtcast
• 1x Treasure Cruise

Planeswalker (5)

• 1x Ashiok, Dream Render
• 1x Narset, Parter of Veils
• 1x Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas
• 1x Tezzeret, Master of Metal
• 1x Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge

Artifact (23)

• 1x Barbed Sextant
• 1x Chromatic Sphere
• 1x Chromatic Star
• 1x Conjurer's Bauble
• 1x Darkwater Egg
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Web
• 1x Memory Jar
• 1x Midnight Clock
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mishra's Bauble
• 1x Mox Amber *f-pre*
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Mox Tantalite
• 1x Nihil Spellbomb
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Urza's Bauble
• 1x Winter Orb

Enchantment (10)

• 1x Mana Vortex
• 1x Mirri's Guile
• 1x Mirrormade
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Pernicious Deed
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Search for Azcanta  ^Flip
• 1x Survival of the Fittest
• 1x Sylvan Library

Commander (1)

Creature (21)

• 1x Archfiend of Depravity
• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Elvish Spirit Guide
• 1x Emry, Lurker of the Loch
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Faerie Macabre
• 1x Hedron Crab
• 1x Herald of Anguish
• 1x Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis
• 1x Merfolk Secretkeeper
• 1x Nether Shadow
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Prized Amalgam
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Sai, Master Thopterist
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One *f-pre*
• 1x Spark Double
• 1x Spore Frog
• 1x Street Wraith
• 1x Vengevine

Instant (5)

• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Ravenous Trap
• 1x Snuff Out
• 1x Surgical Extraction

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Maybeboard

Land (4)

• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Tree of Tales
• 1x Vault of Whispers

Creature (1)

• 1x Padeem, Consul of Innovation

Artifact (3)

• 1x Coalition Relic
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Tangle Wire

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Ancient Stirrings

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Copy Artifact
• 1x Mechanized Production

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A member of my playgroup once made a comment about never seeing a landless dredge-type EDH deck (because they really don't work, let's be honest with ourselves). I decided to accept the challenge in a sense, and see how low of a land count I could craft while having a deck still run perfectly fine. My aim isn't to go manaless, only to go low-land. This got me going with artifact mana sources and spells not requiring mana to cast.

I have a couple subthemes in the deck, mainly artifacts (birthed by the use of artifact mana sources) and land-focused prison effects. Since I commonly care about my lands less than anyone else at the table, these effects rarely degrade my plans as much as it does those of my opponents.


We're down to 18 mana producing lands (this includes ones such as Inventors' Fair and Nurturing Peatland , which really aren't in the deck for mana).
There are 12 lands in the deck which solely produce mana.

This deck is definitely in a state of flux, as I figure the right balances to get the list where I want and as low on lands as reasonably possible. Any ideas and recommendations are welcome!

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Exclude colors	WR
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 49 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.74
Tokens	On an Adventure, Thopter 1/1 C