Vela's Shadows ($80 Budget)

Commander / EDH Budget UB (Dimir)

M@gic_2016

Copy (17)

• 1x Blade of Selves
• 1x Cackling Counterpart
• 1x Clone
• 1x Deceiver of Form
• 1x Fated Infatuation
• 1x Followed Footsteps
• 1x Helm of the Host
• 1x Identity Thief
• 1x Infinite Reflection
• 1x Mercurial Pretender
• 1x Mirror Gallery
• 1x Mirror Image
• 1x Polymorphous Rush
• 1x Quasiduplicate
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Stolen Identity
• 1x Tempt with Reflections

Intimidate (5)

• 1x Artisan of Kozilek
• 1x Bane of Bala Ged
• 1x Colossal Whale
• 1x Stormtide Leviathan
• 1x Ulamog's Crusher

Enter Effects (3)

• 1x Kalastria Healer
• 1x Meteor Golem
• 1x Vengeful Rebel

Ramp (12)

• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Cryptolith Fragment  ^Flip
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Dimir Cluestone
• 1x Dimir Locket
• 1x Drake-Skull Cameo
• 1x Dreamstone Hedron
• 1x Fractured Powerstone
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Hedron Crawler
• 1x Manalith
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Blink (5)

• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Displace
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x Illusionist's Stratagem
• 1x Nephalia Smuggler

Chip Damage (4)

• 1x Chainer's Torment
• 1x Grim Guardian
• 1x Ill-Gotten Inheritance
• 1x Price of Knowledge

Leave Trigger (3)

• 1x Banshee of the Dread Choir
• 1x Broodbirth Viper
• 1x Day of the Dragons

Commander (1)

Draw (10)

• 1x Amass the Components
• 1x Ambition's Cost
• 1x Ancient Craving
• 1x Breakthrough
• 1x Brilliant Plan
• 1x Coastal Discovery
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Opportunity
• 1x Painful Lesson
• 1x Phyrexian Gargantua

Land (38)

• 22x Island
• 16x Swamp

Wrath (2)

• 1x Deadly Tempest
• 1x In Garruk's Wake

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Maybeboard

Ramp (5)

• 1x Black Market
• 1x Charcoal Diamond
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Sky Diamond
• 1x Sol Ring

Wrath (2)

• 1x Dread Cacodemon
• 1x Strionic Resonator

Chip Damage (1)

• 1x Archfiend of Despair

Enter Effects (1)

• 1x Sepulchral Primordial

Copy (4)

• 1x Blade of Selves
• 1x Helm of the Host
• 1x Mirror Gallery
• 1x Strionic Resonator

Finisher (2)

• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Torment of Hailfire

Draw (1)

• 1x Ancient Excavation

Life Gain (1)

• 1x Exquisite Blood

Blink (3)

• 1x Conjurer's Closet
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Voidwalk

Intimidate (3)

• 1x Blightsteel Colossus
• 1x It That Betrays
• 1x Thada Adel, Acquisitor

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The main focus of this deck is to use the LTB triggered ability on Vela the Night-Clad through the use of copying mechanics and the "legend rule" to defeat all of your opponents out of nowhere in an instant. So, there are many copying spells to create copies of Vela, which slowly chips away at an opponents life total. There are other tools as well in this deck for chipping at the other opponents' life totals while waiting for one of the bigger impact cards. For mid-late game purposes, there are a few creatures that use Vela's intimidate ability to get through unblocked and lower others' life totals. For finishing out the game, you want most, if not all, of your opponents to be at or below 30 life. Once there, you can use either Polymorphous Rush or Rite of Replication to create five copies of Vela. Since they all enter at the same time, they are all removed at the same time. So, they all trigger off of each other, and you get five LTB triggers for each of your six Velas. Besides these main themes, there is a fair amount of artifact ramp and card draw to play the larger intimidate creatures and find what you are looking for. The "maybe" section is cards that I found while building this deck that I thought would be useful, but were too expensive to incorporate in order to follow the budget.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 23 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.39
Tokens	Copy Clone, Dragon 5/5 R, Nightmare Horror */* B