Shattered Hope and Broken Dreams

Commander / EDH

Calivess

Creature (33)

• 1x Avatar of Woe
• 1x Banshee of the Dread Choir
• 1x Big Game Hunter
• 1x Bloodgift Demon
• 1x Bloodhusk Ritualist
• 1x Butcher of Malakir
• 1x Cabal Interrogator
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Dread
• 1x Elvish Skysweeper
• 1x Engulfing Slagwurm
• 1x Glissa, the Traitor *oversized*
• 1x Hollowborn Barghest
• 1x Hypnotic Specter
• 1x Liliana's Reaver
• 1x Liliana's Specter
• 1x Lord of Extinction
• 1x Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
• 1x Nefarox, Overlord of Grixis
• 1x Nezumi Shortfang  ^Flip
• 1x Nyxathid
• 1x Rackling
• 1x Ravenous Rats
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Scythe Specter
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Sisters of Stone Death
• 1x Stuffy Doll
• 1x Vampire Nighthawk
• 1x Vulturous Zombie
• 1x Wight of Precinct Six
• 1x Xathrid Gorgon

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Garruk, Apex Predator
• 1x Liliana Vess

Land (36)

• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 6x Forest
• 1x Golgari Guildgate
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 24x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Twilight Mire

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Grim Feast
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Quest for the Nihil Stone
• 1x Shrieking Affliction
• 1x Words of Waste

Artifact (7)

• 1x Bow of Nylea
• 1x Geth's Grimoire
• 1x Quicksilver Amulet
• 1x Skullcage
• 1x The Rack
• 1x Wheel of Torture
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

Instant (5)

• 1x Disembowel
• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 1x Molder
• 1x Murder
• 1x Naturalize

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Choice of Damnations
• 1x Curse of the Cabal
• 1x Dark Petition
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Life's Finale
• 1x Nissa's Renewal
• 1x Praetor's Grasp
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Undercity Plague

Commander (1)

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Life is a series of choices between bad and worse.

Essentially, the deck plays relatively passively. The goal of the deck is to have all of your opponents slowly losing health throughout the course of the game. The deck has quite a bit of enchantment/artifact/creature removal to keep you alive, because once your opponents see what you start playing, they'll most likely gang up on you.

With all the various tutor-methods in the deck, your primary goal should be to get Painful Quandary onto the table as quickly as possible. Use Praetor's Grasp to fish through the most dangerous opponent's deck and get his win-condition combo card... if you can play it, even better. Barring that, try to remove one of their enchantment/artifact destruction spells.

If you're managing your spells correctly, even if you lose early on, your opponents should all be pretty crippled throughout the rest of the game. So, if nothing else, no one gets their "flashy win". Usually the rest of the players limp along until someone dies to a Llanowar Elf.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	8 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 37 - 0 Rares 14 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.95
Tokens	Beast 3/3 B, Copy Clone, Elf Warrior 1/1 G, Emblem Garruk, Apex Predator, Zombie 2/2 B