Destroy the Bureaucrats [EDH]

[Oversoul]

With just five of the "Legends legends" to go, I needed to figure out what kind of deck to build for Riven Turnbull. Based on his flavor text, he's not a big fan of the government, but that's not much to go on. Well, he's also a mana dork, but he's a horribly overcosted one by today's standards. Well, I needed a blue/black commander in order to enact my evil masterplan of using Nevinyrral's Disk with Guardian Beast, and Riven Turnbull seems like he might be into that sort of thing. So yeah, that's pretty much it. I love Guardian Beast.

Commander:
1 Riven Turnbull

1 Academy Ruins
1 Ancient Tomb
1 Arcane Denial
1 Baleful Strix
1 Basalt Monolith
1 Beseech the Mirror
1 Blightsteel Colossus
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Brainstorm
1 Bucknard's Everfull Purse
1 Coiling Rebirth
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Cyclonic Rift
1 Damnation
1 Dark Petition
1 Darksteel Forge
1 Darksteel Plate
1 Decree of Pain
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Ever After
1 Fabled Passage
1 Fabricate
1 Flooded Strand
1 Force of Will
1 Gilded Lotus
1 Grim Monolith
1 Guardian Beast
1 Helm of Kaldra
1 Imperial Seal
1 Inventors' Fair
7 Island
1 Kappa Cannoneer
1 Kuldotha Forgemaster
1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
1 Liquimetal Torque
1 Malakir Rebirth
1 Mana Drain
1 Mana Vault
1 Mana Web
1 Manifold Key
1 Marsh Flats
1 Maze of Ith
1 Metallurgic Summonings
1 Mishra's Workshop
1 Mox Opal
1 Mycosynth Lattice
1 Myr Retriever
1 Nettlecyst
1 Nevinyrral's Disk
1 Otawara, Soaring City
1 Phylactery Lich
1 Platinum Emperion
1 Polluted Delta
1 Prismatic Vista
1 Sai, Master Thopterist
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Scrap Trawler
1 Seat of the Synod
1 Shield of Kaldra
1 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Strip Mine
6 Swamp
1 Swan Song
1 Swiftfoot Boots
1 Sword of Kaldra
1 Talisman of Dominance
1 Tezzeret the Seeker
1 Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas
1 Tezzeret, Artifice Master
1 The Abyss
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
1 Thought Vessel
1 Time Spiral
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Transmute Artifact
1 Treasure Vault
1 Underground Sea
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Urza, Lord High Artificer
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Vault of Whispers
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Victimize
1 Volrath's Stronghold
1 Voltaic Key
1 Watery Grave
1 Whir of Invention
1 Wishclaw Talisman

 

[Oversoul]

Well, I brought this deck to my first game tonight. After mulligans finally got me lands, I couldn't find a source of black mana, so I was mostly unable to play anything. One of my opponents was totally popping off with a K'rrik deck, but he was directing damage at the other two players, as I posed no threat. Eventually, I was able to make 9 mana and cast Darksteel Forge, but still couldn't make black mana. A couple turns later, I used Whir of Invention to fetch Nevinyrral's Disk, then blew up everyone else's artifacts, creatures, and lands, casting The Abyss as an alternative method to hold them at bay. My opponents built back up and started looking for ways to deal with the indestructible Disk. I foolishly tutored for Phylactery Lich, hoping to initiate some beatdown, but they got rid of it with a -X/-X effect.

I topdecked Mycosynth Lattice and got rid of their lands, leaving Riven Turnbull as my kill condition to simply beat these landless opponents with commander damage. I wasn't expecting to win after so many lousy turns in a row. I also wasn't expecting this deck, which I built to mess around with Guardian Beast, to basically go straight for Darksteel Forge + Mycosynth Lattice + Nevinyrral's Disk. I mean, yeah, I tutored up the Disk, but the other two were drawn naturally.