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So here we are, this Vish Kal deck is my favorite of my EDH decks and I have invested many hundreds of hours in playing and retooling it over the years. The hallmark of in EDH is being able to deal with any permanent type more efficiently than any other color combo. This deck is packed with removal and strategies that amount to a cruel control system that should prevent anyone else from maintaining a stable board state. This is especially true for creature decks.

The genesis of this deck was in 2011 but over the years I have tailored it to be either more or less powerful depending on who I was playing with at the time. To that end I have removed the vast majority of the infinite combo payoffs such as Blood Artist or Bitter Ordeal. Of course, there's always the old stand-by of pounding 21 General damage down somebody's throat with Vish Kal, Blood Arbiter wearing some sweet, shiny Lightning Greaves out of nowhere.

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This deck is a little unique for black decks in that it actively doesn't want opponents to have access to their graveyards or even for their creatures to die. Ergo the avoidance of Massacre Wurm, Puppeteer Clique, Sepulchral Primordial, Bloodchief Ascension, etc. Through primarily Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet the idea is to keep opponents' creatures from dying at all, while constantly reanimating your own with Miakeus, the Unhallowed and Luminous Broodmoth so all board wipes or Grave Pact effects become asymmetric board control.

Plague of Vermin was an addition and one of my discoveries found on Tapped Out. I'm interested to see it play some politics and see if people get greedy or completely turn it down. Of course if I have Soul Warden out I can pay as much life as I want with impunity, gain it back and then abuse the 30-100 or so tokens I just got for the low low price of 7 mana. I want to put Abhorrent Overlord back in this deck eventually too as it has such a strong devotion theme and he is another great dude-generator like the plague but I haven't figured out where he would go either.

As of October 14, 2018: Plague of Vermin is out as the more or less single use wasn't as great as Abhorrent Overlord's potential to be reanimated repeatedly.

The cards in the sideboard are the cards I either want to slot in the most or cards I rotate in dependent on how degenerate the meta around me becomes.

I am not personally interested in making the most expensive deck possible; I much prefer making interesting and novel decks (which I think this is in many respects). This deck has been a personal art project really from 2011-present and was one of my first decks ever. The cards in it are chosen as much for their beauty and art as they are for the themes and functions. To further this goal, all of the cards that cannot be foiled have been altered.

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(4 years ago)

-1 Arid Mesa main
+1 Cartographer's Hawk main
+1 Cauldron Haze main
+1 Dance of the Dead main
-1 Dark Confidant maybe
+1 Desecrated Tomb main
+1 Land Tax main
+1 Luminous Broodmoth main
+1 Midnight Reaper main
-1 Plains main
+1 Prismatic Vista main
+1 Sidisi, Undead Vizier main
+1 Silent Clearing main
-1 Soul Warden maybe
-1 Springjack Pasture maybe
-1 Springjack Shepherd maybe
-1 Swamp main
+1 Temple of Silence main
+1 Verge Rangers main
+1 Wake the Dead main
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Date added 8 years
Last updated 4 years
Exclude colors URG
Legality

This deck is Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

18 - 1 Mythic Rares

50 - 3 Rares

15 - 1 Uncommons

1 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 3.59
Tokens Bat 1/1 B, Emblem Liliana, Defiant Necromancer, Faerie Rogue 1/1 B, Harpy 1/1 B, Human 1/1 W, Human Cleric 1/1 BW, Morph 2/2 C, Spirit 1/1 W, Monarch Emblem, Treasure, Vampire 1/1 W, Zombie 2/2 B
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