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Master Blaster

Commander / EDH

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Planeswalker (1)

Enchantment (1)

Artifact (2)

Sorcery (1)


Jeleva is a deck I never thought I would be able to get working..but it's surprisingly reliable. The ability to play huge cost instants or sorcery cards early in the game allows you to take early control of the board, no matter what cards you are given! And sometimes you even happen to get a few fun cards from your enemy's decks. This version of Jeleva wins through direct damage, thus the name, and often accomplishes this through copying large damage spells multiple times and killing your opponent. Doing 60 damage and gaining 60 life will not only kill one player for you, but will often get others to just scoop.

Deck Strategy:

You want to get Jeleva down early as possible, preferably with some way to have her hasted and just immediately swing with her turn 3-4, blasting someone or clearing the board if you didn't get the cards you liked. Remember, if you don't get anything interesting? Just kill Jeleva! She's there to die, she'll only come back with more cards, hopefully better ones! Then when she starts swinging multiple times or you take multiple turns and then copy a thing or two? You basically start getting turns where you use 30 mana+ worth of spells to demolish your enemies. It's also nice late game that when you hit turn 8-10 you can just start dropping huge sorcery cards from your hand and then swing to drop another. Hard to make headway against a Jeleva deck who starts blowing stuff up. And hey..if someone is playing a mill deck or a deck that plays from their graveyard? You interfere with both of them, maybe milling out the miller, and exiling cards so the people never get to see win conditions again!

Notable Combos:

Jeleva + Strionic Resonator = You can swallow up twice as many cards, or use two cards on a swing!

Jeleva + Haste = Any cost spell for 4 mana! (Jeleva's cvc)

Jeleva + Mystical or Vampiric Tutor = You just set up 1 card for Jeleva!

Jeleva + Insidious Dreams = You just set up potentially all of Jeleva's cards!

Jeleva + Scroll rack = You just set up potentially all of Jeleva's cards AGAIN! But from your hand this time.

Breakdown:

Draw: 1x Syphon Mind, 1x Promise of Power

Tutors: 1x Personal Tutor, 1x Insidious Dreams, 1x Mystical Tutor, 1x Vampiric Tutor

Removal: 1x Phthisis, 1x Sever Soul, 1x Crosis's Charm, 1x Fissure, 1x Grixis Charm, 1x Fissure Vent, 1x Barter in Blood

Mass Removal: 1x Plague Wind, 1x Evacuation, 1x Inferno, 1x Alpha Brawl, 1x Devastation Tide

Blasters: 1x Fiery Gambit, 1x Lava Axe, 1x Lightning Surge, 1x Liquid Fire, 1x Violent Eruption, 1x Mindblaze, 1x Scorching Missile, 1x Searing Flesh, 1x Volley of Boulders, 1x Sorin's Vengeance, 1x Explosive Impact, 1x Fireblast, 1x Searing Wind, 1x Sudden Impact, 1x Sulfurous Blast

Ruiners: 1x Wake of Destruction, 1x Cruel Ultimatum, 1x Army of the Damned

Fun Stuff: 1x Sins of the Past, 1x Slave of Bolas, 1x Puffer Extract, 1x Galvanoth, 1x Scroll Rack, 1x Blatant Thievery, 1x Deja Vu

Extra Casters (Via Extra Turn/Extra Phase/Etc): 1x Time Warp, 1x Walk the Aeons, 1x World at War, 1x Strionic Resonator, 1x Aggravated Assault

Haste Makers: 1x Anger, 1x Hammer of Purphoros, 1x Fervor

Copy Stuff: 1x Mirari, 1x Echo Mage, 1x Nivix Guildmage, 1x Uyo, Silent Prophet, 1x Chandra, the Firebrand

Land + Mana Artifacts: 1x Akoum Refuge, 1x Bad River, 1x Blinkmoth Nexus, 1x Bloodstained Mire, 1x Bojuka Bog, 1x Crumbling Necropolis, 1x Dimir Guildgate, 1x Evolving Wilds, 3x Island, 1x Izzet Boilerworks, 1x Izzet Guildgate, 1x Meteor Crater, 1x Molten Slagheap, 4x Mountain, 1x Rakdos Carnarium, 1x Rakdos Guildgate, 1x Riptide Laboratory, 1x Rootwater Depths, 1x Rupture Spire, 1x Salt Marsh, 1x Sulfurous Springs, 3x Swamp, 1x Tainted Isle, 1x Tainted Peak, 1x Terramorphic Expanse, 1x Urborg Volcano, 1x Vivid Creek, 1x Vivid Marsh, 1x Basalt Monolith, 1x Chromatic Lantern, 1x Dimir Signet, 1x Obelisk of Grixis, 1x Izzet Signet, 1x Rakdos Signet, 1x Sol Ring,

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Date added 11 years
Last updated 3 years
Legality

This deck is Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

4 - 0 Mythic Rares

32 - 7 Rares

34 - 2 Uncommons

20 - 1 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 4.57
Tokens Demon */* B, Elemental 1/1 R, Enchantment Golem 3/3 C, Zombie 2/2 B
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