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The Masquerade of the Night-Clad Queen

Commander / EDH Aggro Casual Combo Tempo UB (Dimir)

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Artifact (1)


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The beautiful queen of the night has arrived with her sinister band of the unseen. The only choices you have is to die at the hands of her narcotizing ninjas or let the sweet embrace of the night overwhelm your poor soul.

Vela


Welcome to Vela's Dark Gala

The one of the ways the deck deals damage with Vela's second ability. Also, each ninja has a relevant ability when they deal combat damage, and so, making them unblockable is also relevant.

Higure, the Still Wind

Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni

Mistblade Shinobi

Ninja of the Deep Hours

Sakashima's Student

Silent-Blade Oni

Throat Slitter

Walker of Secret Ways

They are the main creatures that will be replaced by ninjas through ninjitsu. They allow the deck to function with or without Vela on the field and have other useful abilities (minus Tormented Soul ). Types of unblockable abilities featured here: Fear, Flying. Horsemanship, Intimidate, Shadow, and Plain Unblockable.

Archetype of Imagination

Baleful Strix

Dimir Infiltrator

Filth

Glen Elendra Liege

Invisible Stalker

Looter il-Kor

Lord of the Void

Necropolis Regent

Nightveil Specter

Shadowmage Infiltrator

Shrieking Drake

Sphinx Ambassador

Sun Quan, Lord of Wu

Thalakos Deceiver

Tormented Soul

Dimir Keyrune

Faerie Conclave

Vela the Night-Clad

Cards that bounce/flicker/persist/RTB creatures as pseudo-removal, or for Vela's LTB effect or other ETB effects.

Deadeye Navigator

Shrieking Drake

Walker of Secret Ways

Cauldron of Souls

Crystal Shard

Nim Deathmantle

Umbilicus

Equilibrium

Devastation Tide

Familiar's Ruse

Vela's Private Chamber: Riptide Laboratory

Non-bounce removal and the counterspells

Throat Slitter , Doom Blade, and Decree of Pain

Deny Existence , Dissipate, and Familiar's Ruse

This is the utility in the deck.

Card Draw: Baleful Strix, Looter il-Kor , Ninja of the Deep Hours, Solemn Simulacrum, Bident of Thassa, Phyrexian Arena, Rhystic Study, and Decree of Pain

Tutor: Dimir Infiltrator , Higure, the Still Wind , Solemn Simulacrum, and Night Dealings

Recursion: Hell's Caretaker, Cauldron of Souls, Nim Deathmantle, Midnight Recovery, and Mortuary Mire

Mana Rocks: Ashnod's Altar, Caged Sun , Dimir Keyrune , Everflowing Chalice, Sol Ring, and Thought Vessel

Other Utility: Glen Elendra Liege (lord effect), Grave Titan (token production), Ashnod's Altar (sacrfice outlet), Blade of Selves (myriad shenanigans), Caged Sun (lord effect), Lightning Greaves, Thought Vessel (no hand size), Whispersilk Cloak (shroud), Dissipation Field (pillow fort), Propaganda (pillow fort), Wound Reflection (damage compounding), Rite of Replication (combo), Halimar Depths (deck stacking), Reliquary Tower (no hand size), Skyline Cascade (super-tap), and Winding Canyons (flash)


I've liked the artwork of Vela the Night-Clad for a while now, and I've been wanting to build a deck around her. However, I decided to build my chaos deck first, and though it was extremely fun to play (at first). It quickly became tiring to play with, so I shelved it and continued playing my Intet Dragon deck. Now that deck is becoming a little stale for me, so I've built this deck in hopes that it will be as fun as my dragon deck is.

In my eyes, there are three ways to build around Vela the Night-Clad. There is the more controlly sacrificial build that focuses on producing tokens with cards like Oona, Queen of the Fae , Abhorrent Overlord, and Grave Titan and sacrificing them for Vela's secondary effect and other sac effects. Another way is similar to this build with its bounce, but it focuses on controlling the board and slowing it down so that it can find one of its infinite combos, like those that involve Time Sieve or Cloudstone Curio, and win the game instantly.

I feel this build is a more natural build for Vela that focuses on using both of Vela's abilities. Vela's abilities work extremely well with the ninjas. And so, this deck focuses on dealing unblockable damage, triggering various effects, and self-bouncing creatures with ninjas and other abilities for Vela.


Any input is appreciated as I'm pretty inexperienced with building decks. Feel free to note any card that should be replaced or suggest other cards.

One stipulation I put on myself is not to purposefully put in two card kills, so no Palinchrons (Palinchron + Vela = Insta-kill lol).

The sideboard consists of cards I believe should go into the deck, but I don't know where I should add them. The maybeboard shows the cards I'm not sure about and cards that used to be in the deck.


Also, Danny's f**king beautiful.NSP!!!

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Revision 2 See all

(7 years ago)

+1 Blue Sun's Zenith main
-1 Coalition Relic main
-1 Everflowing Chalice main
-2 Island main
+1 Polluted Delta main
+1 Thran Dynamo main
+1 Vela the Night-Clad main
-1 Void Shatter main
-1 Voidmage Husher side
-1 Walker of Secret Ways main
+1 Watery Gravefoil main
Date added 8 years
Last updated 7 years
Legality

This deck is Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

10 - 0 Mythic Rares

38 - 3 Rares

25 - 2 Uncommons

14 - 1 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 3.94
Tokens Copy Clone, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders a IRL, Ninjas, Sounds Fun - EDH, Vela, EDH, a EDH, Edh
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