Tip Money Magic-$50 Selenia EDH

Commander / EDH Budget Casual Combo WB (Orzhov)

DrowZgam3r

Sorcery (21)

• 1x Ambition's Cost
• 1x Ancient Craving
• 1x Crux of Fate
• 1x Debt to the Deathless
• 1x Demonic Collusion
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Dimir Machinations
• 1x Fumigate
• 1x Hallowed Burial
• 1x Increasing Ambition
• 1x Merciless Eviction
• 1x Obzedat's Aid
• 1x Oketra's Last Mercy
• 1x Open the Vaults
• 1x Promise of Power
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Repay in Kind
• 1x Reverse the Sands
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Slaughter the Strong
• 1x Syphon Mind

Creature (10)

• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Children of Korlis
• 1x Cliffhaven Vampire
• 1x Defiant Bloodlord
• 1x Magus of the Mirror
• 1x Netherborn Phalanx
• 1x Resolute Archangel
• 1x Treasury Thrull
• 1x Vizkopa Guildmage
• 1x Wall of Blood

Land (35)

• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x Esper Panorama
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Forsaken Sanctuary
• 1x Orzhov Basilica
• 1x Orzhov Guildgate
• 1x Orzhova, the Church of Deals
• 1x Piranha Marsh
• 9x Plains
• 1x Scoured Barrens
• 1x Sunscorched Desert
• 12x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Field
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Vivid Marsh
• 1x Vivid Meadow

Instant (11)

• 1x Dark Bargain
• 1x Dawn Charm
• 1x Disenchant
• 1x Faith's Shield
• 1x Mortify
• 1x Necrologia
• 1x Razor Barrier
• 1x Succumb to Temptation
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Unmake
• 1x Utter End

Commander (1)

Artifact (14)

• 1x Charcoal Diamond
• 1x Cryptolith Fragment  ^Flip
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Marble Diamond
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Nihil Spellbomb
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Phyrexian Processor
• 1x Prismatic Lens
• 1x Pristine Talisman
• 1x Soul Conduit
• 1x Tainted Sigil
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Axis of Mortality
• 1x Greed
• 1x Near-Death Experience
• 1x Pestilence
• 1x Phyrexian Unlife
• 1x Sanguine Bond
• 1x Tainted Remedy
• 1x Triskaidekaphobia

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Creature (2)

• 1x Exquisite Archangel
• 1x Hex Parasite

Instant (1)

• 1x Angelsong

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Soul Echo

Artifact (1)

• 1x Staff of Nin

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Welcome to the first deck for Tip Money Magic, the deck series where I build fully functional commander decks for no more than what I make in tips. My goal is to help spread the message that commander is a format that you don't need to sell a arm and a leg to have fun. If you like this deck or my goal, be sure to leave a +1. But with that done, lets get on to the deck.

Isn't Selenia bad?

I'm not gonna lie, when I first saw Selenia I believed she was nothing more than another example of a old legendary creature that had been vastly outclassed because of magic's continual power creep. And who could really blame me? on the outside this creature looks like nothing more than a overcosted minion with a mediocre effect. But despite all outward appearances, Selenia has a unique effect that no other commander replicates.Selenia, Dark Angel reads "pay 2 life: return Selenia to it's owners had" with this ability on the stack we can respond to her returning to our hand by paying 2 more life to return her to our hand again. This means that Selenia can be used to drain our life total down to either 1 or 2 life at instant speed. While this would normally be a downside, we can use this effect for all kinds of shenanigans.

How to win

Step 1

The First step to winning with this deck is to lower our life total as low as possible. our primary way of doing this are:

• Phyrexian Processor- Also a great secondary Win-con
• Wall of Blood
• Necrologia
• Selenia, Dark Angel

Step 2

Once we have lowered our life total down far enough, we need to manipulate our opponents life total. Our primary ways of doing this are:

• Axis of Mortality
• Magus of the Mirror
• Reverse the Sands
• Soul Conduit
• Repay in Kind

Step 3

Once our opponents are down to 1 or 2 life all thats left is to ping them off with one of these cards.

• Cliffhaven Vampire
• Cryptolith Fragment  
• Debt to the Deathless
• Netherborn Phalanx
• Orzhova, the Church of Deals
• Pestilence
• Piranha Marsh
• Sunscorched Desert

Secondary Win Con's

Taking back our life

We run several effects such as Children of Korlis that gain back all of the life we lose. In combination with a card like Sanguine Bond or Defiant Bloodlord we can nuke our opponents. And as a upside, these effects work with our life swapping cards exactly how we want them to. If we are at 1 and a opponent at 40 when we swap lives with Defiant Bloodlord on the battle field, defiant blood lord sees us gain 39 life and thus deals 39 damage to a opponent of our choice.

Fear of the number 13

By far the most janky win condition is Triskaidekaphobia. It's really hard to pull off but oh so satisfying when it does happen.

living on the edge

Near-Death Experience can be quite risky, but with the ability to manipulate our life total at instant speed its very possible.

Big old Beaters

Phyrexian Processor can give us absurdly large creatures every turn which we can in turn use to beat our opponents down the old fashioned way.

Other Notable Card's/Interactions

Life Reset

• Children of Korlis
• Oketra's Last Mercy
• Resolute Archangel
• Tainted Sigil

General

• Phyrexian Unlife is just plain absurd in this deck
• Faith's Shield great protection
• Dawn Charm Great protection
• Razor Barrier Great protection

Notable Exclusions

• Hex Parasite, I didn't feel I needed any more redundancy in life draining effects
• Soul Echo, Maybe I'm reading it wrong but it just doesn't seem that good
• Exquisite Archangel, Honestly I'm on the fence here and will need more play-testing to decide if its worth the include.
• Sol Ring I tried to make this deck as budget as possible, so sol ring didn't make the cut for monetary reasons

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 26 - 0 Rares 32 - 0 Uncommons 19 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.80
Tokens	Demon X/X B, Minion X/X B
Folders	Selenia, Dark Angel EDH