Oversoul
The Tentacled One
Haven't put this together physically yet and I'm not entirely satisfied with how it turned out. Showed up to my local EDH league yesterday with a hastily constructed Jhoira deck because it was the easiest option. This time around, I have more advance warning on the points. In addition to the usual nonrotating stuff about winning the game, scoring kill points on opponents, scoring a point for saving an opponent, negative points for quick kills or for too many extra turns, etc., we have some distinctive rotating points available for our next meetup...
-Points for never having chosen to block with a creature.
-Points for having a two-color commander on the battlefield alongside three other (nontoken) multicolored permanents.
-Points for eliminating someone with someone else's commander.
-Points for eliminating two opponents with combat damage on separate turns.
-Points for killing opposing creatures with "fight" effects.
-Points for making five creatures have higher power and toughness than their base stats.
That kind of lends itself to two-color decks with beatdown, beefy creatures, cards that make creatures fight each other, and cards to make creatures bigger. Bonus points for also managing to work in something to steal commanders and attack with them, but that might be a bit much for one deck. Anyway, the issue is, that's not really my style. Oh, I can be flexible when I want to, but nothing really piqued my interest here. And while a lot of people will not make much of an effort to build that sort of deck, the strongest opponents will probably be piloting something like a Simic deck with lots of +1/+1 counters and Control Magic, or perhaps Rakdos with "Unleash" creatures and Act of Treason.
If I'm not going to be doing that stuff and doing it better than everyone else, then my thought was, "How about I prey on the players who are playing beatdown/boosts/fight/aggro?"
This card was in my rough draft of my decklist, but I cut it.
I had a lot of different ideas for themes and engines. Pretty quickly came up with a list and it would have been like a 300-card deck. So I needed to trim it. I cut. I sacrificed various fun things I'd wanted to do. And finally, I made it the right size. But I'm not happy with it...
Commander: Savra, Queen of the Golgari
1x Abundance
1x Abyssal Gatekeeper
1x Agent of the Fates
1x Archetype of Finality
1x Arena
1x Barren Moor
1x Bayou
1x Beast Within
1x Black Sun's Zenith
1x Bloodstained Mire
1x Carrion Feeder
1x Cartouche of Strength
1x Constant Mists
1x Contamination
1x Crop Rotation
1x Damnation
1x Dark Ritual
1x Decree of Pain
1x Demonic Tutor
1x Eternal Witness
1x Fleshbag Marauder
6x Forest
1x Gaea's Cradle
1x Genesis
1x Glacial Chasm
1x Gnarlwood Dryad
1x Grave Pact
1x Icy Manipulator
1x Innocent Blood
1x Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
1x Lake of the Dead
1x Life from the Loam
1x Mana Web
1x Manabond
1x Marsh Flats
1x Maze of Ith
1x Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
1x Mind Slash
1x Misty Rainforest
1x Mox Diamond
1x Nether Void
1x No Mercy
1x Overgrown Tomb
1x Phyrexian Altar
1x Phyrexian Tower
1x Plaguecrafter
1x Polluted Delta
1x Pounce
1x Prey Upon
1x Regrowth
1x Savage Punch
1x Seasons Past
1x Setessan Tactics
1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
1x Skullclamp
1x Sol Ring
1x Spike Cannibal
1x Spike Weaver
1x Spore Frog
1x Squandered Resources
1x Status / Statue
1x Strip Mine
1x Survival of the Fittest
11x Swamp
1x Sylvan Library
1x Sylvan Safekeeper
1x The Mending of Dominaria
1x The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
1x Titania, Protector of Argoth
1x Toxic Deluge
1x Tranquil Thicket
1x Trinisphere
1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1x Vampiric Tutor
1x Verdant Catacombs
1x Victimize
1x Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger
1x Wasteland
1x Windgrace's Judgment
1x Windswept Heath
1x Winter Orb
1x Wooded Foothills
1x Worm Harvest
1x Zuran Orb
-Points for never having chosen to block with a creature.
-Points for having a two-color commander on the battlefield alongside three other (nontoken) multicolored permanents.
-Points for eliminating someone with someone else's commander.
-Points for eliminating two opponents with combat damage on separate turns.
-Points for killing opposing creatures with "fight" effects.
-Points for making five creatures have higher power and toughness than their base stats.
That kind of lends itself to two-color decks with beatdown, beefy creatures, cards that make creatures fight each other, and cards to make creatures bigger. Bonus points for also managing to work in something to steal commanders and attack with them, but that might be a bit much for one deck. Anyway, the issue is, that's not really my style. Oh, I can be flexible when I want to, but nothing really piqued my interest here. And while a lot of people will not make much of an effort to build that sort of deck, the strongest opponents will probably be piloting something like a Simic deck with lots of +1/+1 counters and Control Magic, or perhaps Rakdos with "Unleash" creatures and Act of Treason.
If I'm not going to be doing that stuff and doing it better than everyone else, then my thought was, "How about I prey on the players who are playing beatdown/boosts/fight/aggro?"
This card was in my rough draft of my decklist, but I cut it.
I had a lot of different ideas for themes and engines. Pretty quickly came up with a list and it would have been like a 300-card deck. So I needed to trim it. I cut. I sacrificed various fun things I'd wanted to do. And finally, I made it the right size. But I'm not happy with it...
Commander: Savra, Queen of the Golgari
1x Abundance
1x Abyssal Gatekeeper
1x Agent of the Fates
1x Archetype of Finality
1x Arena
1x Barren Moor
1x Bayou
1x Beast Within
1x Black Sun's Zenith
1x Bloodstained Mire
1x Carrion Feeder
1x Cartouche of Strength
1x Constant Mists
1x Contamination
1x Crop Rotation
1x Damnation
1x Dark Ritual
1x Decree of Pain
1x Demonic Tutor
1x Eternal Witness
1x Fleshbag Marauder
6x Forest
1x Gaea's Cradle
1x Genesis
1x Glacial Chasm
1x Gnarlwood Dryad
1x Grave Pact
1x Icy Manipulator
1x Innocent Blood
1x Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
1x Lake of the Dead
1x Life from the Loam
1x Mana Web
1x Manabond
1x Marsh Flats
1x Maze of Ith
1x Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
1x Mind Slash
1x Misty Rainforest
1x Mox Diamond
1x Nether Void
1x No Mercy
1x Overgrown Tomb
1x Phyrexian Altar
1x Phyrexian Tower
1x Plaguecrafter
1x Polluted Delta
1x Pounce
1x Prey Upon
1x Regrowth
1x Savage Punch
1x Seasons Past
1x Setessan Tactics
1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
1x Skullclamp
1x Sol Ring
1x Spike Cannibal
1x Spike Weaver
1x Spore Frog
1x Squandered Resources
1x Status / Statue
1x Strip Mine
1x Survival of the Fittest
11x Swamp
1x Sylvan Library
1x Sylvan Safekeeper
1x The Mending of Dominaria
1x The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
1x Titania, Protector of Argoth
1x Toxic Deluge
1x Tranquil Thicket
1x Trinisphere
1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1x Vampiric Tutor
1x Verdant Catacombs
1x Victimize
1x Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger
1x Wasteland
1x Windgrace's Judgment
1x Windswept Heath
1x Winter Orb
1x Wooded Foothills
1x Worm Harvest
1x Zuran Orb