Monocolor EDH Deck #5: Did you know white can...

Commander / EDH Aristocrats Artifact Mono-White

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Creature (27)

• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Bygone Bishop
• 1x Cathodion
• 1x Fiend Hunter
• 1x Filigree Familiar
• 1x Giver of Runes
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Junk Diver
• 1x Knight of the White Orchid
• 1x Memnite
• 1x Mentor of the Meek
• 1x Militia Bugler
• 1x Millikin
• 1x Myr Battlesphere
• 1x Myr Retriever
• 1x Restoration Specialist
• 1x Reya Dawnbringer
• 1x Sandstone Oracle
• 1x Selfless Spirit
• 1x Shimmer Myr
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Thraben Inspector
• 1x Treasure Keeper
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine
• 1x Zetalpa, Primal Dawn

Artifact (11)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Blinkmoth Urn
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Parhelion II
• 1x Pendant of Prosperity
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Thran Temporal Gateway

Instant (11)

• 1x Crush Contraband
• 1x Disenchant
• 1x Dispatch
• 1x Generous Gift
• 1x Lapse of Certainty
• 1x Mana Tithe
• 1x Mandate of Peace
• 1x Rebuff the Wicked
• 1x Return to Dust
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Truce

Enchantment (4)

• 1x All That Glitters
• 1x Armistice
• 1x Fanatical Devotion
• 1x Smothering Tithe

Commander (1)

Land (38)

• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Field of Ruin
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x New Benalia
• 30x Plains
• 1x Shrine of the Forsaken Gods
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Thespian's Stage

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Angelic Purge
• 1x Board the Weatherlight
• 1x Dusk / Dawn
• 1x Fumigate
• 1x Open the Vaults
• 1x Phyrexian Rebirth
• 1x Ravnica at War
• 1x Sevinne's Reclamation

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With this final deck in my monocolored series, I tried as hard as I could to make it feel just as fun and powerful as any other deck with all the necessities. I had to do a lot of digging to find cards that drew cards, counter spells, and even creatures that ramp your land base. Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle is an aristocrat-style deck that wants to play lots of small value creatures and reanimate them. The main way that this deck generates card advantage is by using its graveyard as its hand.

Playing the Deck

With this deck, you're going to want to consistently cast Teshar by turn 4/5 or earlier, using cards like, of course, Sol Ring, Knight of the White Orchid, Smothering Tithe, and Burnished Hart. Then, you get some creatures into your graveyard, whether it's through a sac outlet such as Ashnod's Altar or Skullclamp and reanimate them by casting some more artifacts, like Treasure Keeper or Blinkmoth Urn. If your hand starts to get low, not to worry, just use cards like Armistice and Truce to get back into the game. Someone trying to mess with your stuff? I don't think so! You'll baffle your opponents with these (nonblue!) counterspells: Lapse of Certainty, Rebuff the Wicked and Mana Tithe.

Most of the fun in brewing these monocolored decks was figuring out how to get around each of their weaknesses to round them out, and in the process I found a lot of sweet cards.

Combos

So weirdly enough, when testing this deck (with no intended infinite combos), I came across a few infinite combos:

Combo 1: Sun Titan + Fiend Hunter + free sac outlet

So for this combo, you first want to play Sun Titan, then play Fiend Hunter, exiling sun titan. Sacrifice Fiend Hunter to return Sun Titan to the battlefield. Repeat. This loop can have various effects with different sac outlets; for example, if you used it with Ashnod's Altar, you would have infinite mana. If you used it with Altar of Dementia, you can mill everyone out. You also have infinite LTBs and ETBs.

Combo 2: Treasure Keeper + Junk Diver + Ashnod's Altar

In this combo, first play Treasure Keeper, then sacrifice it to Ashnod's Altar for 2 colorless mana. Then play Junk Diver, WITHOUT USING THIS COLORLESS MANA. Sacrifice Junk Diver for 2 colorless mana, using its effect to return Treasure Keeper to your hand. Use the total of 4 colorless mana you have floating to cast Treasure Keeper, then repeat. This will let you get all of the CMC 3 or less permanents from your deck onto the battlefield. While this won't win you the game, it will give you a huge advantage. It also does give you infinite ETBs and LTBs, but I haven't found a way to use those yet.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Exclude colors	UBRG
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 31 - 0 Rares 29 - 0 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.37
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W w/ Vigilance, Clue, Elephant 3-3 G, Myr 1/1 C, Horror */* C, Treasure, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Deathtouch, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Lifelink