Malevolent Ancient

Commander / EDH* Bracket 5 Descend Mill Surveil Tempo Theme/Gimmick UB (Dimir)

Andramalech

Creature (23)

• 1x Angel of Suffering
• 1x Barrier of Bones
• 1x Cruel Somnophage
• 1x Dark Confidant
• 1x Deranged Assistant
• 1x Doom Whisperer
• 1x Faerie Dreamthief
• 1x Foul Watcher
• 1x Hedron Crab
• 1x Horrid Shadowspinner
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Ledger Shredder
• 1x Likeness Looter
• 1x Master of Death
• 1x Millikin
• 1x Mirko, Obsessive Theorist
• 1x Nightveil Sprite
• 1x Orcish Bowmasters
• 1x Shadow of Mortality
• 1x Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
• 1x Souls of the Lost
• 1x Stitcher's Supplier
• 1x Zellix, Sanity Flayer

Sorcery (13)

• 1x Dark Deal
• 1x Demonic TutorGC
• 1x Exhume
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Glimpse the Unthinkable
• 1x Imperial SealGC
• 1x Mnemonic Betrayal
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Stitch Together
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Wail of the Forgotten
• 1x Windfall
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will

Land (33)

• 1x Ancient TombGC
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Clearwater Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Darkslick Shores
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 6x Island
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Restless Reef
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Shipwreck Marsh
• 6x Swamp
• 1x Undercity Sewers
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Watery Grave

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Black Market Connections
• 1x Enhanced Surveillance
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Rhystic StudyGC
• 1x Training Grounds

Artifact (2)

• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Waterlogged Hulk  ^Flip

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Ashiok, Dream Render

Commander (1)

Instant (21)

• 1x Curate
• 1x Cyclonic RiftGC
• 1x Deadly Rollick
• 1x Drown in the Loch
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Fatal Push
• 1x Fierce GuardianshipGC
• 1x Force of Negation
• 1x Force of WillGC
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Long Goodbye
• 1x March of Swirling Mist
• 1x Mission Briefing
• 1x Otherworldly Gaze
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Return to Action
• 1x Stubborn Denial
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Tainted Indulgence
• 1x Vampiric TutorGC

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This deck is a gnarly construction centered around the Surveil Mechanic and Milling, a Dimir ({U}{B}) colored build with The Ancient One at the helm.

I'm hellbent on showcasing why this card is nuts. I'm infatuated with the creature itself and it's art is gorgeous.

Theme

The Ancient One really represents (imo) what Cosmic Horror and Elder Gods should represent to the common mortal- just absolutely mind-melting insanity. Something so incomprehensibly big or dangerous that your mortality falls limp in the space you stand and you just kinda.. collapse. This deck is explosively strong and that's really made more relevant by how abusable our Commander is.

I love each individual piece of the deck by itself, yes, but together they paint a very un-healthy aesthetic. The deck is built to a razor's competitive edge, but the concept is that the God themselves would've been more.. I dunno, menacing as a whole? The context the deck paints doesn't provide a lot of cool aesthetic alignment in my opinion but the effectiveness of the spells and the efficacy of the game-plan is without question- we're gonna win and it's gonna hurrrrrrrt.

Construction

As I described in the Theme tab, this deck has no room for excuses, slack, or non-performing cards. Each slot is truly optimized and I can hardly think of a card worth replacing, without calling into question roughly 10 or so slots. It comes down to how one chooses to build at that point, so I digress.

Our entire build revolves around Surveil Mechanic, and Self-Mill exploitation. I think if one would RTFC they could amass why The Ancient One is the chosen ringer for such as deck, and I'm not talking about the HOD premiere mechanic.

Discussion

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Date added	10 months
Last updated	3 days
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 48 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.34
Tokens	Ape 3/3 G, Bird 2/2 U, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Horror, On an Adventure, Orc Army, Shapeshifter 3/2 C, Treasure