Murder She Float

Commander / EDH Budget Creature Cheat Exile Flying Phasing Voltron WU (Azorius)

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Answers (16)

• 1x Aetherspouts
• 1x Banishing Light
• 1x Blessed Reversal
• 1x Borrowed Time
• 1x Deputy of Detention
• 1x Detention Sphere
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Lawmage's Binding
• 1x Negate
• 1x Niblis of Frost
• 1x Oblivion Ring
• 1x Orim's Prayer
• 1x Seal Away
• 1x Supreme Verdict
• 1x Temporal Isolation
• 1x Time Wipe

Draw (9)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Careful Study
• 1x Compulsion
• 1x Consider
• 1x Faithful Mending
• 1x Mischievous Catgeist  ^Flip
• 1x Opt
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain

What's In Your Hand, Dorothy? (4)

• 1x Blackblade Reforged
• 1x Duelist's Heritage
• 1x Hero's Blade
• 1x O-Naginata

Save Dorothy Spells (16)

• 1x Alchemist's Retrieval
• 1x Cloudshift
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Displace
• 1x Eerie Interlude
• 1x Ephemerate
• 1x Essence Flux
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x Justiciar's Portal
• 1x Momentary Blink
• 1x Reality Ripple
• 1x Saving Grasp
• 1x Stifle
• 1x Tale's End
• 1x Teferi's Time Twist
• 1x Trickbind

Land (36)

• 1x Cathedral of War
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 14x Island
• 15x Plains
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

Commander (1)

 ^Flip

Save Dorothy Permanents (11)

• 1x Assault Suit
• 1x Brago, King Eternal
• 1x Gift of Immortality
• 1x Guardian of Faith
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Nephalia Smuggler
• 1x Portal of Sanctuary
• 1x Robe of Stars
• 1x Sundial of the Infinite
• 1x Teferi's Veil
• 1x Vanishing

Ramp (7)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Azorius Keyrune
• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Marble Diamond
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Sky Diamond

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Maybeboard

Other (3)

• 1x Illusionist's Gambit
• 1x Keep Watch
• 1x Mirror Match

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About the Deck

Meet Dorothy, the floating murdergeist. The idea here is to play Dorothy as soon as possible (almost always turn two) then begin slugging opponents for chunks of commander damage every turn thereafter. If you're familiar with my decks, you know I prefer flavor over power. Dorothy is no exception. With this build, Dorothy is going to flicker in and out of existence like a ghost in a dimly-lit hotel hallway and gouge her opponents with whatever sharp things she can find. If you like the way I build decks, you'll enjoy my new YouTube channel Won with Nothing. On the channel, I feature my highest rated decks from Tapped Out and shout-out all the helpful comments I receive that improve the deck.

Saving Dorothy From Herself

In order to keep Dorothy around for all her murdering, we have to address that pesky "sacrifice at end of combat" trigger. To do this, we play dozens of flicker/phasing effects that remove Dorothy from play before her sacrifice trigger resolves. Conveniently, these same spells also protect Dorothy from hostile effects that target her. Even counterspells like Stifle, Disallow or Trickbind can protect our own board or counter Dorothy's sacrifice trigger if we don't have a better option in hand. Let me be the first to tell you that stifling your own creature is hilarious and more people should do it.

Of course, Dorothy does best when she has a form of permanent evasion with her, such as Gift of Immortality, Teferi's Veil, Vanishing, Robe of Stars, or Assault Suit. We play a healthy suite of cheap, high value dig spells to find at least one of these pieces.

Magic Number 7

• Hero's Blade
• O-Naginata
• Duelist's Heritage
• Blackblade Reforged

We run these three equipment and heritage specifically for their low cost and to raise Dorothy's power to at least seven, putting a three turn clock on each of our opponents. This means a turn three Dorothy that swings for 7 will delete an opponent by turn five if all goes to plan. If all doesn't go to plan, well we had fun trying, didn't we.

You Seem Light on Creatures

Yes.

Well What are You Going to do About it?

While Dorothy can sometimes block, it's never a guarantee that we'll have the resources/effects to let her. Or she might be phased out. Or we might be facing creature swarm. Whatever the case, we run a fair number of answers to being commander killed ourselves:

• Banishing Light
• Borrowed Time
• Deputy of Detention
• Detention Sphere
• Lawmage's Binding
• Niblis of Frost
• Oblivion Ring
• Seal Away
• Temporal Isolation

And we run a handful of answers to creature swarm:

• Aetherspouts
• Blessed Reversal
• Ghostly Prison
• Orim's Prayer
• Supreme Verdict
• Time Wipe

Final Thoughts

Overall, this deck is a blast to play for two reasons. One, your opponents consistently chuckle when you burn cards like Stifle or Displace just to stop Dorothy from killing herself. Two, pretty soon after those early game chuckles, Dorothy becomes a real spooky ghost as she flickers in and out of play and swings for lethal chunks of commander damage.

See Dorothy on YouTube

If you like Dorothy and the way I build decks, you'll enjoy my new YouTube channel Won with Nothing. On the channel, I feature my highest rated decks from Tapped Out and shout-out all the helpful comments I receive that improve the decks. The channel is brand new. If we can get to 10 subscribers by February 7, 2022, I'll upload a video featuring Dorothy. Thanks for your support!

Top Ranked	Achieved #5 position overall 2 years ago Achieved #4 position in Commander / EDH 2 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Budget 2 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Creature Cheat 2 years ago
Date added	2 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	29 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 19 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.27
Tokens	Spirit 4/4 W
Folders	Sub-$100 EDH, Creative Budget Decks