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Commander / EDH* BGW (Abzan, Junk) Counters Voltron

Dazard

Land (34)

• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Deathcap Glade
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 4x Forest
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Krosan Verge
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Orzhov Basilica
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 3x Plains
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Sandsteppe Citadel
• 1x Selesnya Sanctuary
• 1x Shattered Sanctum
• 1x Snowfield Sinkhole
• 1x Sungrass Prairie
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Card draw (5)

• 1x Ancient Craving
• 1x Beast Whisperer
• 1x Guardian Project
• 1x Harmonize
• 1x Lifecrafter's Bestiary

Reanimate (4)

• 1x Ever After
• 1x Memorial to Folly
• 1x Soul of Innistrad
• 1x Unburial Rites

Keyword soup (11)

• 1x Akroma, Angel of Wrath
• 1x Akroma, Vision of Ixidor
• 1x Assault Intercessor
• 1x Bassara Tower Archer
• 1x Leyline Prowler
• 1x Odric, Lunarch Marshal
• 1x Oketra the True
• 1x Slippery Bogbonder
• 1x The Ozolith
• 1x Vampire Nighthawk
• 1x Zetalpa, Primal Dawn

Ramp (8)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Sol Ring

Flicker (7)

• 1x Cloudshift
• 1x Conjurer's Closet
• 1x Ephemerate
• 1x Flicker
• 1x Flicker of Fate
• 1x Mimic Vat
• 1x Teleportation Circle

Removal (6)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Deadly Rollick
• 1x Despark
• 1x Duneblast
• 1x Sunblast Angel
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

Protection (3)

• 1x Feldon's Cane
• 1x Obscuring Haze
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Commander (1)

Graveyard fillers (10)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Corpse Connoisseur
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Final Parting
• 1x Gravebreaker Lamia
• 1x Jarad's Orders
• 1x Oriq Loremage
• 1x Underrealm Lich
• 1x Vile Entomber

Combo (6)

• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Felidar Guardian
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Restoration Angel
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Trouble makers (5)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Hydra Omnivore
• 1x Majestic Myriarch
• 1x Old Stickfingers
• 1x Shadowgrange Archfiend

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Sideboard

Other (1)

• 1x Angel of Finality

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Maybeboard

Other (2)

• 1x Rishkar's Expertise
• 1x Survival of the Fittest

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After almost 8 years of a magic pause, Kathril, Aspect Warper was the first edh deck i got my hands on and i am still liking it a lot. I casually played with the precon version for almost one year until i dived into the magic: the gathering rabbit hole again and made some serious adjustments. Now I proudly present the result:

Most Kathril decks i've been looking at try to fill your own graveyard and work with numerous reanimate spells to profit from it. Fair enough. But actually i just need three creatures ( Zetalpa, Primal Dawn, Bassara Tower Archer and Vampire Nighthawk ) in my graveyard which give me overall 9 keyword counters and therefore 9 +1/+1 counters for my commander, which is enough for lethal commander damage thanks to double strike. So i want quality over quantity in my graveyard. Buried Alive, Jarad's Orders, Corpse Connoisseur, Gravebreaker Lamia, Vile Entomber and Fauna Shaman should help me to accomplish this.

So instead of using tons of self mill and reanimate cards i am utilizing the fact that Kathrils ability is an ETB effect, by putting in a lot of flicker mechanics like Teleportation Circle, Conjurer's Closet, Cloudshift, Flicker, Mimic Vat, Restoration Angel, Flicker of Fate or Ephemerate. To go completely bonkers with it there's also a The Ozolith luring in the deck.

With all the counter distribution going on i need more targets than just my commander. I don't like the idea of going voltron every single time as it tends to become quite repetitive and it usually puts a big target on you once that 12/12 indestructible, hexproof, double strike, lifelink... creature is on the table. So i try to develop my board a little more versatile and unobtrusive by giving all the counters primarily to supporting creatures like Old Stickfingers, Soul of Innistrad,Hydra Omnivore or Majestic Myriarch to turn them into an unstoppable force of a keyword army.

But my commander isn't my only flicker option. Based on the game situation i have creatures like Acidic Slime, Hornet Queen, Shadowgrange Archfiend (with Fauna Shaman this is my favorite combo in the deck), Slippery Bogbonder or Sunblast Angel that i am more than happy to flicker over and over again as well to give me all kinds of removals or additional blockers without taking to many card slots. If i manage to get the Restoration Angel+Panharmonicon+Felidar Guardian combo out, i can flicker endlessly to profit even more from etb effects.

Alternatively i can still go voltron with my commander at almost any stage of the game if the momentum seems right to me. On top of that, there's Akroma, Vision of Ixidor to pump up my creatures even more. To protect myself and above all my graveyard i have Enduring Angel  .

Fluffwise we have a deck where elves, zombies, vampires, humans, dwarves, monsters and even angels and demons are all being manipulated to work together and ultimately sacrifice themselves to be consumed, unified and reincarnated into one terrible insect nightmare to rule the plane. Now that's some sinister stuff!

So please let me know what you think about it or leave some advice if there are any cool cards that might fit the theme. As i want to keep this (kind of) a budget thing i won't be considering cards that cost more than 10€.

Special shoutout to bushido_man96 and Vessiliana for the great input and inspiration ;)

Top Ranked	Achieved #35 position overall 2 years ago Achieved #24 position in Commander / EDH 2 years ago Achieved #4 position in Commander / EDH Counters 2 years ago
Date added	2 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 45 - 1 Rares 27 - 0 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.55
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Copy Clone, Warrior 1/1 W w/ Vigilance
Folders	Kathril, Potential Commander Decks