Oversoul
The Tentacled One
My next concoction for the West Coast Commander League. I continue to resist the temptation to bring in the most vicious combo decks I can think of. Points I can go for with this deck...
-Cast two "creature wrath effects" (basically kill or exile all creatures, with some fine print for clarification).
-Gain at least 15 life from effects that caused opponents to lose life.
-Be the first player to deal damage to an opponent.
-Finish the game never having chosen to block with a creature.
-Your commander is exactly two colors, have it in play and control three other nontoken multicolored permanents at the same time.
-Eliminate an opponent with a different opponent's commander.
-Eliminate two opponents with combat damage on two separate turns.
I came up with about 250 cards before I started making cuts to turn this into a real deck and it was not easy! I think I have enough gold cards, enough life-draining cards, and enough board wipes to have a decent chance at those points, while also having a reasonably coherent deck that could actually win games.
Commander:
1x Ramses Overdark
1x All Is Dust
1x Arcane Denial
1x Arcane Laboratory
1x Black Sun's Zenith
1x Bloodchief Ascension
1x Cabal Coffers
1x Cemetery Puca
1x Chains of Mephistopheles
1x Command Tower
1x Consume Spirit
1x Counterspell
1x Damnation
1x Dark Petition
1x Dark Ritual
1x Dead Man's Chest
1x Death Watch
1x Decree of Pain
1x Demonic Tutor
1x Despondency
1x Dimir Doppelganger
1x Dragonlord Silumgar
1x Drain Life
1x Dream Tides
1x Elixir of Immortality
1x Evil Twin
1x Exsanguinate
1x False Demise
1x Force of Will
1x Hostage Taker
1x Icy Manipulator
1x Imperial Seal
10x Island
1x Launch
1x Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
1x Lim-Dul's Vault
1x Mana Drain
1x Mana Vault
1x Mana Web
1x Maze of Ith
1x Meekstone
1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
1x Mistvein Borderpost
1x Morphic Pool
1x Mystical Tutor
1x Necropotence
1x Nether Void
1x Nevinyrral's Disk
1x No Mercy
1x Oona, Queen of the Fae
1x Overburden
1x Pendrell Mists
1x Polluted Delta
1x Rhystic Study
1x Rishadan Port
1x Shipwreck Singer
1x Smokestack
1x Sol Ring
1x Sphere of Resistance
1x Spreading Plague
1x Static Orb
1x Strip Mine
12x Swamp
1x Sygg, River Cutthroat
1x Tainted AEther
1x Talisman of Dominance
1x Tangle Wire
1x Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas
1x Thawing Glaciers
1x The Abyss
1x The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
1x Torpor Orb
1x Toxic Deluge
1x Trinisphere
1x Underground Sea
1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1x Vampiric Tutor
1x Wasteland
1x Watery Grave
1x Winter Orb
-Cast two "creature wrath effects" (basically kill or exile all creatures, with some fine print for clarification).
-Gain at least 15 life from effects that caused opponents to lose life.
-Be the first player to deal damage to an opponent.
-Finish the game never having chosen to block with a creature.
-Your commander is exactly two colors, have it in play and control three other nontoken multicolored permanents at the same time.
-Eliminate an opponent with a different opponent's commander.
-Eliminate two opponents with combat damage on two separate turns.
I came up with about 250 cards before I started making cuts to turn this into a real deck and it was not easy! I think I have enough gold cards, enough life-draining cards, and enough board wipes to have a decent chance at those points, while also having a reasonably coherent deck that could actually win games.
Commander:
1x Ramses Overdark
1x All Is Dust
1x Arcane Denial
1x Arcane Laboratory
1x Black Sun's Zenith
1x Bloodchief Ascension
1x Cabal Coffers
1x Cemetery Puca
1x Chains of Mephistopheles
1x Command Tower
1x Consume Spirit
1x Counterspell
1x Damnation
1x Dark Petition
1x Dark Ritual
1x Dead Man's Chest
1x Death Watch
1x Decree of Pain
1x Demonic Tutor
1x Despondency
1x Dimir Doppelganger
1x Dragonlord Silumgar
1x Drain Life
1x Dream Tides
1x Elixir of Immortality
1x Evil Twin
1x Exsanguinate
1x False Demise
1x Force of Will
1x Hostage Taker
1x Icy Manipulator
1x Imperial Seal
10x Island
1x Launch
1x Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
1x Lim-Dul's Vault
1x Mana Drain
1x Mana Vault
1x Mana Web
1x Maze of Ith
1x Meekstone
1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
1x Mistvein Borderpost
1x Morphic Pool
1x Mystical Tutor
1x Necropotence
1x Nether Void
1x Nevinyrral's Disk
1x No Mercy
1x Oona, Queen of the Fae
1x Overburden
1x Pendrell Mists
1x Polluted Delta
1x Rhystic Study
1x Rishadan Port
1x Shipwreck Singer
1x Smokestack
1x Sol Ring
1x Sphere of Resistance
1x Spreading Plague
1x Static Orb
1x Strip Mine
12x Swamp
1x Sygg, River Cutthroat
1x Tainted AEther
1x Talisman of Dominance
1x Tangle Wire
1x Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas
1x Thawing Glaciers
1x The Abyss
1x The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
1x Torpor Orb
1x Toxic Deluge
1x Trinisphere
1x Underground Sea
1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1x Vampiric Tutor
1x Wasteland
1x Watery Grave
1x Winter Orb