Shalai and Hallar X Spell 1 Shot Primer

Commander / EDH Burn Counters Group Slug Hydra Infinite Combo Primer Proliferate RGW (Naya)

Bread-and-Butter-EDH

Counter generator (21)

• 1x Benevolent Hydra
• 1x Biophagus
• 1x Bright-Palm, Soul Awakener
• 1x Defiler of Vigor
• 1x Gavony Township
• 1x Guardian Scalelord
• 1x Halana and Alena, Partners
• 1x Inspiring Call
• 1x Mikaeus, the Lunarch
• 1x Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes
• 1x Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
• 1x Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
• 1x Rhythm of the Wild
• 1x Rishkar, Peema Renegade
• 1x Shalai, Voice of Plenty
• 1x Sword of Truth and Justice
• 1x The Great Henge
• 1x The Ozolith
• 1x Tribute to the World Tree
• 1x Uncivil Unrest
• 1x Vigor

X (12)

• 1x Apocalypse Hydra
• 1x Benevolent Hydra
• 1x Genesis Hydra
• 1x Hangarback Walker
• 1x Mikaeus, the Lunarch
• 1x Primordial Hydra
• 1x Shivan Devastator
• 1x Sporocyst
• 1x Steelbane Hydra
• 1x Stonecoil Serpent
• 1x Voracious Hydra
• 1x Walking Ballista

Cmdrx2 (8)

• 1x All Will Be One
• 1x Apocalypse Hydra
• 1x Chandra's Ignition
• 1x Fling
• 1x Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes
• 1x Soul's Fire
• 1x Strionic Resonator
• 1x Walking Ballista

Counter increaser (4)

• 1x Benevolent Hydra
• 1x Karn's Bastion
• 1x Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
• 1x Sword of Truth and Justice

Board wipe (2)

• 1x Chandra's Ignition
• 1x Damning Verdict

Land (33)

• 1x Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1x Bountiful Promenade
• 1x Command Tower
• 6x Forest
• 1x Gavony Township
• 1x Jetmir's Garden
• 1x Jungle Shrine
• 1x Karn's Bastion
• 1x Kessig Wolf Run
• 5x Mountain
• 1x Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
• 1x Overgrown Farmland
• 4x Plains
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rockfall Vale
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Slayers' Stronghold
• 1x Spire Garden
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Doubler (11)

• 1x Apocalypse Hydra
• 1x Branching Evolution
• 1x Bright-Palm, Soul Awakener
• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Kalonian Hydra
• 1x Primal Vigor
• 1x Solidarity of Heroes
• 1x Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
• 1x Unbound Flourishing
• 1x Uncivil Unrest
• 1x Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider

Card advantage (9)

• 1x Dusk Legion Duelist
• 1x Esper Sentinel
• 1x Garruk's Uprising
• 1x Guardian Project
• 1x Inspiring Call
• 1x Sporocyst
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x The Great Henge
• 1x Tribute to the World Tree

Protection (4)

• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Inspiring Call
• 1x Sword of Truth and Justice
• 1x Vigor

Recursion (1)

• 1x Guardian Scalelord

Commander (1)

Ramp (15)

• 1x Biophagus
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Defiler of Vigor
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Invasion of Zendikar  ^Flip
• 1x Jeska's Will
• 1x Kodama of the West Tree
• 1x Mana Geyser
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Rishkar, Peema Renegade
• 1x Shadow in the Warp
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Sporocyst
• 1x The Great Henge
• 1x Three Visits

Buff (10)

• 1x Garruk's Uprising
• 1x Halana and Alena, Partners
• 1x Kessig Wolf Run
• 1x Kodama of the West Tree
• 1x Rhythm of the Wild
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Shadowspear
• 1x Shalai, Voice of Plenty
• 1x Slayers' Stronghold
• 1x Uncivil Unrest

Removal (6)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Generous Gift
• 1x Steelbane Hydra
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

Tutor (3)

• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Genesis Hydra
• 1x Worldly Tutor

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Sideboard

Counter generator (2)

• 1x Invigorating Hot Spring
• 1x Invigorating Surge

Buff (1)

• 1x Invigorating Hot Spring

Ramp (1)

• 1x Kodama's Reach

Doubler (2)

• 1x Ascendant Acolyte
• 1x Invigorating Surge

Infinite combo (2)

• 1x Heliod, Sun-Crowned
• 1x The Red Terror

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Maybeboard

Other (11)

• 1x Abzan Falconer
• 1x Archangel Elspeth
• 1x Champion of Lambholt
• 1x Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1x Dromoka's Command
• 1x Jiang Yanggu, Wildcrafter
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Ohran Frostfang
• 1x Thundering Raiju
• 1x Xenagos, God of Revels *f-etch*
• 1x Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus

Counter increaser (1)

• 1x Hardened Scales

Infinite combo (1)

• 1x Heliod, Sun-Crowned

Wincon (1)

• 1x Mayael's Aria

Counter generator (11)

• 1x Ancient Bronze Dragon
• 1x Archangel of Thune
• 1x Cathars' Crusade
• 1x Death's Presence
• 1x Forgotten Ancient
• 1x Grumgully, the Generous
• 1x Heliod, Sun-Crowned
• 1x Managorger Hydra
• 1x Mayael's Aria
• 1x Predator Ooze
• 1x Taurean Mauler

Protection (1)

• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Ramp (5)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Goblin Anarchomancer
• 1x Hamza, Guardian of Arashin
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Sol Ring

Buff (4)

• 1x Basilisk Collar
• 1x Gorgon's Head
• 1x Hammer of Purphoros
• 1x Heliod, Sun-Crowned

Card advantage (2)

• 1x Armorcraft Judge
• 1x Rishkar's Expertise

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This deck is my sweaty attempt to one shot my opponents. The goal and theme of this deck is to make the table beg for your mercy while you cast giant x spells and benefit from doubling effects.

There are so many ways to gain double the value of the spells you cast in this deck. It will really make pumping something for 5 mana turn into 20 damage to someone's face really quick. If you want to go for more of a nasty pinger like effect, then check out my other build Shalai and Hallar Pinger Tribal.

playtest 1

I played this deck at the shop today without [three visits]. And it ran so well. I played [kodama's reach] instead. It won 2 of 3 games. Only lost the third to a board wipe and didn’t get to rebuild fast enough. It is possibly one of the best decks I’ve ever made. If you want to run infinite combos you can easily throw them in there. The card draw engines and the ramping has been great even with only 33 lands. It’s been super fun to play.

this deck absolutely murders.

Doublers

The goal here is to increase our value of our creatures and therefore our commander by pumping an x spell for example by 5 and gaining double the value and therefore double the damage to someone's face. You'll likely want to play these as fast as you can.

I opt'd for many counter doublers in this deck rather than what I call counter increasers: Harden Scales because I want to be able to cast something big when my commander is on the board, and get huge one shot potential / value from casting a single spell. Additionally, if our commander is dead, what's to stop us from casting it anyways just to have a giant beef stick on the table that your opponents need to deal with?

1. Doubling Season
2. Branching Evolution
3. Ascendant Acolyte - This doubles itself, however, if you have MULTIPLE creatures on the board this can have INSANE value.
4. Bright-Palm, Soul Awakener - This + an X creature on the board with trample + your commander = one swinging and fat pinging party. There's also multiple ways of giving haste in the deck so you shouldn't have a problem using this creatures ability immediately.
5. Kalonian Hydra - Doubles ALL creatures counters on the board? if our commander is out this is disgusting. Can absolutely end a game with this alone.
6. Solidarity of Heroes - Sweet instant that can really give us value with extra mana we have just before starting our next turn. I probably would only use this as a kill spell to take out an opponent or just as value engine to not waste mana going into our next turn.
7. Unbound Flourishing - Doubles our X spells so we can pump them even more. I opt'd for this spell since we're running 12 X spells. This deck is sudo X spell tribal. However, all we really care about is the fact that it cheaply gives us another double counter synergy. Otherwise, we could put in Primal Vigor here. But, keep in mind that works for opponents as well. I thought about adding it regardless, but i'd only feel like i'd want to play it if vorinclex is on the board.
8. Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider - no explanation necessary really.
9. Apocalypse Hydra - doubles on itself if you cast it high enough which should be easy to do.
10. Voracious Hydra - can double on itself. Which is what you'll likely choose everytime.
11. Solphim, Mayhem Dominus - doubles our commander's damage.
12. Uncivil Unrest - all our creatures will deal double damage. Instant include.

CMDRX2

This section is going to describe what I am calling commander x2. Basically, these are ways we can double our damage AGAIN for huge one shot potential through cards like: All Will Be One.

1. All Will Be One
2. Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes - We can sacrifice a creature and fling it at an opponent. Also works to give counters to creatures. We must make sure however, we swing with our creatures before we sacrifice them to get maximum value.
3. Chandra's Ignition - Same concept as before except hits ALL opponents and creatures which is nice because it can be a sudo board wipe. Gives us some flexibility of play.
4. Walking Ballista - we can basically cast this guy, then get our commander trigger, then remove all counters on this guy to do that much damage again to any target. If we have any doublers on the board or All Will Be One this gets very out of hand very quickly.
5. Strionic Resonator - Pay 2 to double our commander trigger.
6. Soul's Fire - Same as Fling but doesn't sac the creature.
7. Fling - cast big creature, shalai trigger, fling it at an opponent again for potential death blow.
8. Apocalypse Hydra - listed here since it has the capability of removing a counter and doing damage to any target. Basically weaker Walking Ballista.

Removal Package

This deck does not focus on heavy control / removal.

You've got your standard spells here focusing on ones that remove any permanent or doesn't allow them to ramp b/c Path to Exile sucks. Any recommendations here would be nice.

1. Beast Within
2. Boseiju, Who Endures - if you draw this early game feel free to use as land instead of removal.
3. Chaos Warp
4. Generous Gift
5. Steelbane Hydra
6. Swords to Plowshares

Ramping!

This deck has an extremely low average CMC

Since this deck is filled with X spells the average CMC is actually quite low. However, most of the time you will want to be using those spells for huge effect. This is going to rely on a few things. 1 A lot of ramp potential, and 2, a lot of card draw. Even if you draw only 2 lands on your starting turn you'll want to be able to cast some sort of ramp spell ASAP turn 2. So, i've tried to fill the deck with as much ramp or cost reduction as possible to make sure we get consistency from our play. We will want to be playing any doubling effects whenever possible. Don't be afraid to cast X spells early just to have a board presence because you can always draw into them later / tutor for what you need.

1. Biophagus - any color ramp + gives counters. Great for this deck.
2. Cultivate
3. Defiler of Vigor - reduces green mana we pay and gives us +1/+1 counters for all creatures on our board? Digusting.
4. Farseek
5. Jeska's Will - to make sure we can end games by really pumping our creatures. - Although I am unsure whether I will keep this and Mana Geyser because our commander can only target 1 person. We may not get huge value out of this unless we have other permanents on the board like All Will Be One or Strionic Resonator
6. Kodama of the West Tree - make sure we're grabbing lands
7. Rishkar, Peema Renegade - Gives counters and allows our creatures to tap for mana. - this may be replaceable though.
8. Shadow in the Warp - cost reduction for us, stax for our opponents.
9. Sporocyst - great for our theme, allows us to potential kill an opponent by casting a big x spell and dumping all our lands onto the battlefield.
10. The Great Henge - great for ramp, card draw, and counter generation.
11. Three Visits
12. Mana Geyser - potential game ender.

Card Advantage

This could probably use some work. However, I believe between the ramp & the card draw, we should be in a pretty good spot to ensure we always have something to play.

1. Dusk Legion Duelist - can allow us to draw once every turn
2. Esper Sentinel - can allow us to draw once every turn
3. Garruk's Uprising - great for giving us trample and card draw on our creature's ETBing
4. Guardian Project - great for creature ETB
5. Inspiring Call - protection + card draw + counters
6. Sporocyst - cast it large enough we get a card :)
7. Sylvan Library - card draw engine
8. The Great Henge - creature etb engine
9. Tribute to the World Tree - possible creature etb engine.

Buffs

This section details the possible buffs we can give to our creatures to ensure they're always high value on the board even if our commander isn't in play.

1. Garruk's Uprising - gives trample
2. Halana and Alena, Partners - gives counters and haste.
3. Kessig Wolf Run - pumps and gives trample
4. Kodama of the West Tree - gives trample and ramp
5. Rhythm of the Wild - gives either counters or haste
6. Rogue's Passage - straight up makes it unblockable
7. Shadowspear - will probably go on our commander, make your opponents creatures destroyable and they lose hexproof? Also gives pump + trample + lifelink? Super good on our commander. Put this on Shalai and Hallar and then cast 1 x spell and you'll be in business boys.
8. Shalai, Voice of Plenty - gives counters and hexproof to all our creatures
9. Slayers' Stronghold - gives haste
10. Uncivil Unrest - gives counters or haste also doubles damage.

Combo Baby

There's actually a few cards which can combo off with Shalai and Hallar.

I am only running the Red Terror to end games that take too long. My play group doesn't particularly like infinite combos but I bought them so when I go to the store I can flex on some scrubs. but these are easily replaceable with something else.

1. The Red Terror Trigger your commander once with this on the board or just swing with a red creature and you'll have infinite damage to your opponent's face.
2. Heliod, Sun-Crowned - give your commander life link, swing with it and then you just ping your opponents down forever until they die.

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Date added	1 year
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	15 - 1 Mythic Rares 50 - 2 Rares 14 - 2 Uncommons 6 - 1 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.96
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