[Primer] Life Investment Bank EDH

Commander / EDH WB (Orzhov)

kathor

Land (36)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Concealed Courtyard
• 1x Fetid Heath
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 11x Plains
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 11x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Field
• 1x Tower of the Magistrate
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

CardAdvantage (7)

• 1x Ad Nauseam
• 1x Alhammarret's Archive
• 1x Disciple of Bolas
• 1x Infernal Contract
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Read the Bones

Tutor (6)

• 1x Academy Rector
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Land Tax
• 1x Recruiter of the Guard
• 1x Weathered Wayfarer

DoublingStakes (5)

• 1x Alhammarret's Archive
• 1x Beacon of Immortality
• 1x Rhox Faithmender
• 1x Wall of Reverence
• 1x Wound Reflection

Removal (3)

• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Return to Dust
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

Token (3)

• 1x Luminarch Ascension
• 1x Mimic Vat
• 1x Phyrexian Processor

LifeGain (11)

• 1x Beacon of Immortality
• 1x Children of Korlis
• 1x Debt to the Deathless
• 1x Disciple of Bolas
• 1x Eternity Vessel
• 1x Intervention Pact
• 1x Oketra's Last Mercy
• 1x Rite of Consumption
• 1x Serra Ascendant
• 1x Tainted Sigil
• 1x Vizkopa Guildmage

Ramp (8)

• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Land Tax
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Weathered Wayfarer

LifeLoss (7)

• 1x Ad Nauseam
• 1x Hatred
• 1x Infernal Contract
• 1x Phyrexian Processor
• 1x Souldrinker
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Unspeakable Symbol

BoardWipe (5)

• 1x Austere Command
• 1x Dusk / Dawn
• 1x Elspeth, Sun's Champion
• 1x Hour of Revelation
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Recursion (5)

• 1x Athreos, God of Passage
• 1x Dusk / Dawn
• 1x Faith's Reward
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Sun Titan

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Elspeth, Sun's Champion
• 1x Sorin Markov

Commander (1)

Damage (10)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Dying Wish
• 1x Essence Harvest
• 1x Hatred
• 1x Rite of Consumption
• 1x Sanguine Bond
• 1x Sickening Dreams
• 1x Sorin Markov
• 1x Tainted Remedy
• 1x Vizkopa Guildmage

Protection (6)

• 1x Angel's Grace
• 1x Faith's Shield
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Intervention Pact
• 1x Oketra's Last Mercy
• 1x Teferi's Protection

Buff (5)

• 1x Cradle of Vitality
• 1x Souldrinker
• 1x Tree of Perdition
• 1x Unspeakable Symbol
• 1x Wall of Blood

Combo (4)

• 1x Ad Nauseam
• 1x Angel's Grace
• 1x Sickening Dreams
• 1x Teferi's Protection

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Sideboard

Damage (1)

• 1x False Cure

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Maybeboard

Other (42)

• 1x Alliance of Arms
• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Axis of Mortality
• 1x Bubble Matrix
• 1x Cauldron Haze
• 1x Chant of Vitu-Ghazi
• 1x Choice of Damnations
• 1x Circle of Affliction
• 1x Dark Petition
• 1x Dazzling Reflection
• 1x Deepwood Ghoul
• 1x Disciple of Griselbrand
• 1x Exquisite Archangel
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Glorifier of Dusk
• 1x Hallow
• 1x Honor the Fallen
• 1x Kokusho, the Evening Star
• 1x Lone Rider  ^Flip
• 1x Magus of the Mirror
• 1x Martyrs' Tomb
• 1x Mischievous Poltergeist
• 1x Order of the Sacred Torch
• 1x Orzhov Charm
• 1x Phyrexian Unlife
• 1x Proper Burial
• 1x Purgatory
• 1x Rebuff the Wicked
• 1x Renounce
• 1x Repay in Kind
• 1x Silence
• 1x Soot Imp
• 1x Soul Warden
• 1x Soul's Attendant
• 1x Survival Cache
• 1x Trespasser's Curse
• 1x Triskaidekaphobia
• 1x Utter End
• 1x Vindicate
• 1x Wall of Limbs
• 1x Words of Worship
• 1x Worthy Cause

Power (5)

• 1x Brace for Impact
• 1x Karlov of the Ghost Council
• 1x Minion of the Wastes
• 1x Serene Steward
• 1x Sunbond

Tax (4)

• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Fate Unraveler
• 1x Mindcrank
• 1x Painful Quandary

Prevent (2)

• 1x Brace for Impact
• 1x Righteous Aura

Removal (2)

• 1x Kuro, Pitlord
• 1x Retribution of the Meek

Investment (1)

• 1x Wall of Hope

LifeReaction (1)

• 1x Cliffhaven Vampire

LifeTrigger (1)

• 1x Zuran Orb

CardAdvantage (4)

• 1x Dark Tutelage
• 1x Pain's Reward
• 1x Tymna the Weaver *f-etch*
• 1x Well of Lost Dreams

LifeGain (4)

• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Simulacrum
• 1x Soul's Grace
• 1x Spirit Link

LifeLoss (3)

• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Kuro, Pitlord
• 1x Minion of the Wastes

Wall (2)

• 1x Wall of Essence
• 1x Wall of Souls

LifeSwap (1)

• 1x Arbiter of Knollridge

Reanimation (1)

• 1x Cauldron of Souls

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This deck will be compared to handling a small investment operation... I guess, since i have no plan what its like nor have i anything to do with it. The reference seemed like fun, which is the main point of this deck.

Our resource is life. We use it in full to make the others suffer and gain benefits at the same time. Most of the times you need life to make life, but there are some cards to get back your resource of choice.

Step 1:Investments [Pay Life]

Play one of the following cards and keep them ready to pump them up. Some with your own life, like Wall of Blood or others life like Tree of Perdition or by gaining life yourself from Cradle of Vitality .

• Wall of Blood
• Unspeakable Symbol
• Souldrinker
• Hatred
• Phyrexian Processor
• Tree of Perdition
• Cradle of Vitality

You invested big time? Get it back big time! If you doubled the stackes with Wall of Reverence or Rhox Faithmender , then you might have hit it big.

Step 2: Return of Investements [Earn Life from investments]

Use Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim ability or one of the following spells on the pumped creatures. Most of the spells need the creatures to die ( Rite of Consumption , Swords to Plowshares , Dying Wish ), but some can make without it like Essence Harvest or Children of Korlis , Vizkopa Guildmage and some more.

• Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim
• Rite of Consumption
• Condemn
• Swords to Plowshares
• Disciple of Bolas
• Dying Wish
• Essence Harvest
• Children of Korlis
• Tainted Sigil
• Wall of Reverence
• Vizkopa Guildmage
• Eternity Vessel
• Beacon of Immortality

Everything is set up. Your big brokers are out there and are ready to reap the profits. Now there should be less competition left and you still sit on your resources.

Step 3: Hostile Takeover [Make them loose Life]

Time to reap what you sowed. When you have Vizkopa Guildmage or Sanguine Bond , just by gaining the life you can usually kill someone. Same goes with Wall of Blood and Rite of Consumption or Essence Harvest or some or the others.

Sorin Markov and Tree of Perdition reduce the life dramatically, soyou can finish it of with others uses. Aetherflux Reservoir our biggest broker and can take out anyone fast as hell.

• Debt to the Deathless
• Rite of Consumption
• Essence Harvest
• Dying Wish
• Sanguine Bond
• Vizkopa Guildmage
• Aetherflux Reservoir
• Condemn + False Cure /False Cure + Swords to Plowshares
• Sorin Markov
• Tree of Perdition
• Beacon of Immortality + False Cure or Beacon of Immortality + Tainted Remedy

They hit you hard? You need a second chance? Just get back on the road and start the business again with some new resources.

Side business: Embezzlement [Get Life from other sources]

• Debt to the Deathless
• Oketra's Last Mercy
• Serra Ascendant
• Tainted Sigil

The game doesn't want to end or they remove everything you need for the fun part? Feel free to end it, when you got the right cards.

Playing unfair [Combos]

If you got the first two steps on your hand, go for it, go for the profit. One of the first spells to prevent death and Ad Nauseam to draw as many cards as needed to find Sickening Dreams. Play Sickenings Dreams to finish it off. By normal casting you need 8 Mana for all cards.

• 1. Angel's Grace or Teferi's Protection
• 2. Ad Nauseam or Necropotence + Reliquary Tower or a big Disciple of Bolas
• 3. Sickening Dreams

Insider Knowledge [Card Advantage]

• Ad Nauseam
• Alhammarret's Archive
• Disciple of Bolas
• Infernal Contract
• Necropotence
• Phyrexian Arena
• Read the Bones

Reserve Funds [Ramp]

• Bubbling Muck
• Chromatic Lantern
• Crypt Ghast
• Expedition Map
• Land Tax
• Orzhov Signet
• Sol Ring

Doubling the Stackes [Doubling effects]

• Rhox Faithmender
• Wall of Reverence
• Alhammarret's Archive
• Wound Reflection

Insurance [Protection]

• Teferi's Protection
• Intervention Pact
• Angel's Grace
• Faith's Reward
• Selfless Squire
• Grand Abolisher

Sueing for Real [Removal]

• Austere Command
• Condemn
• Dusk / Dawn
• Elspeth, Sun's Champion
• Hour of Revelation
• Path to Exile
• Return to Dust
• Swords to Plowshares
• Toxic Deluge

External Advisers [Tutors]

• Academy Rector
• Enlightened Tutor
• Recruiter of the Guard

Here are some cards that i wont be including. Don't fit into our meta and they just don't seem enjoyable.

Banned from the company [Notable exclusions]

Some of them are not fun enough for me and i just do not enjoy winning with the cards!!

• Serra Avatar : too expensive
• Test of Endurance : don't like the win con
• Felidar Sovereign : don't like the win con
• Near-Death Experience : don't like the win con
• Exquisite Blood : don't like the combo with Sanguine Bond

Up for hire [Maybe inclusions]

Most cards that were considered before are in the maybeboard and do not find the play style.

• In: Preacher
• In: Weathered Wayfarer
• In: Volrath's Stronghold
• Out: False Cure
• Out: Intervention Pact

Date added	7 years
Last updated	4 years
Key combos	Beacon of Immortality + Tainted Remedy Beacon of Immortality + False Cure Condemn + False Cure False Cure + Swords to Plowshares Necropotence + Reliquary Tower
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	13 - 0 Mythic Rares 39 - 1 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.22
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Copy Clone, Emblem Elspeth, Sun's Champion, Minion X/X B, Soldier 1/1 W
Folders	Commander