Queza Lifegain Flyers

Commander / EDH Card Draw Matters Cycling Flying Lifegain WUB (Esper)

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Land (36)

• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cephalid Coliseum
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Demolition Field
• 1x Drifting Meadow
• 1x Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Irrigated Farmland
• 2x Island
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Mystic Gate
• 3x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Polluted Mire
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Raffine's Tower
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Remote Isle
• 1x Sea of Clouds
• 1x Secluded Steppe
• 1x Silent Clearing
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Vault of Champions
• 1x Watery Grave

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Akroma's Vengeance
• 1x Damn
• 1x Storm Herd
• 1x Unearth

Creature (24)

• 1x Alandra, Sky Dreamer
• 1x Angel of Vitality
• 1x Archangel of Thune
• 1x Attended Healer
• 1x Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim
• 1x Elenda and Azor
• 1x Esper Sentinel
• 1x Ethereal Investigator
• 1x Faerie Mastermind
• 1x Ghostly Pilferer
• 1x Gwaihir, Greatest of the Eagles
• 1x Karlov of the Ghost Council
• 1x Kwain, Itinerant Meddler
• 1x Ledger Shredder
• 1x Loran of the Third Path
• 1x Mangara, the Diplomat
• 1x Raffine, Scheming Seer
• 1x Resplendent Angel
• 1x Rona, Herald of Invasion  ^Flip
• 1x Soul Warden
• 1x The Council of Four
• 1x The Gaffer
• 1x Veinwitch Coven
• 1x Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator

Artifact (12)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Alhammarret's Archive
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Pristine Talisman
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Well of Lost Dreams

Commander (1)

Instant (13)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Countervailing Winds
• 1x Dihada's Ploy
• 1x Faithful Mending
• 1x Forsake the Worldly
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Mage's Guile
• 1x Neutralize
• 1x Occult Epiphany
• 1x Suffer the Past
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Teferi's Protection
• 1x Without Weakness

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Angelic Accord
• 1x Ashes of the Abhorrent
• 1x Astral Drift
• 1x Authority of the Consuls
• 1x Cast Out
• 1x Cleric Class
• 1x Drake Haven
• 1x Teferi's Ageless Insight
• 1x The Meathook Massacre

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Ajani, Strength of the Pride

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Creature (25)

• 1x Archivist of Oghma
• 1x Auriok Champion
• 1x Bloodthirsty Aerialist
• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Elenda and Azor
• 1x Enclave Cryptologist
• 1x Erebos, God of the Dead
• 1x Heliod, Sun-Crowned
• 1x Inquisitor Greyfax
• 1x Kambal, Consul of Allocation
• 1x Merfolk Looter
• 1x Nadier's Nightblade
• 1x Nykthos Paragon
• 1x Obsessive Stitcher
• 1x Oloro, Ageless Ascetic
• 1x Rhox Faithmender
• 1x Righteous Valkyrie
• 1x Rodolf Duskbringer
• 1x Senate Guildmage
• 1x Shabraz, the Skyshark  ^Flip
• 1x Soul's Attendant
• 1x Speaker of the Heavens
• 1x Valkyrie Harbinger
• 1x Vona, Butcher of Magan
• 1x Witch of the Moors

Enchantment (11)

• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Ever-Watching Threshold
• 1x Exquisite Blood
• 1x Greed
• 1x Griffin Aerie
• 1x Light of Promise
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Reconnaissance Mission
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Sunbond
• 1x True Conviction

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Approach of the Second Sun

Instant (7)

• 1x Akroma's Will
• 1x Ancient Excavation *list*
• 1x Azorius Charm
• 1x Expunge
• 1x Read the Runes
• 1x Sphinx's Revelation
• 1x Tolarian Winds

Artifact (2)

• 1x Paradise Plume
• 1x The Book of Exalted Deeds

Land (1)

• 1x Vault of the Archangel

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A prototype deck intended to take advantage of lifegain triggers to create an army of (mostly) flyers, especially in other player's turns. Queza, Augur of Agonies allows you to do this while also refilling your hand. Cycling and creatures which repeatedly draw cards on certain triggers are the current pillars, although the deck could perhaps lean more or one or the other, or just instant speed draw spells.

I've intentionally limited the lifedrain effects - Queza may be more than enough to annoy your opponents, and the strategy becomes much harder if you attract too much hostility. Likewise the usual infinite combos in Lich's Mastery or Drogskol Reaver. Maybe a Blood Artist effect would not go astray to take advantage of all those tokens, although that rather seems like an overcomplicated way to play Cliffhaven Vampire and kin.

I'm hoping the deck will be able to make enough angels etc. to eke out a victory. Aetherflux Reservoir and Storm Herd might be more conclusive finishers. Approach of the Second Sun is probably an obvious one given the mechanics of this deck, so I'll probably fit it in.

I worry the deck is very fragile and doesn't have adequate means to protect itself from interaction, but I'm keen to avoid it becoming too control-focused. Hopefully I can make it work, even at a low power level.

Date added	1 year
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 43 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 17 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.88
Tokens	Ajani's Pridemate, Angel 4/4 W, Angel 4/4 W w/ Vigilance, Bird 3/3 W w/ Grants Flying, Cat 1/1 W, Clue, Drake 2/2 U, Knight 2/2 W, Pegasus 1/1 W, Spirit 1/1 W, Vampire Knight 1/1 B