Johan's Aria [EDH]

[Oversoul]

Somehow, I hadn't already built a Johan deck. Oops. Well, I threw this together. Mostly, I just want to win with Mayael's Aria. That's the goal.

Commander:
1x Johan

1 Abundance
1 Academy Rector
1 Archangel of Thune
1 Arid Mesa
1 Bala Ged Recovery
1 Basri's Lieutenant
1 Beast Within
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Boseiju, Who Endures
1 Bright-Palm, Soul Awakener
1 Cankerbloom
1 Cleric Class
1 Colossification
1 Conclave Mentor
1 Conclave Sledge-Captain
1 Court of Garenbrig
1 Crystalline Crawler
1 Doubling Season
1 Dragon Broodmother
1 Entish Restoration
1 Esper Sentinel
1 Eternal Witness
1 Flooded Strand
4 Forest
1 Forgotten Ancient
1 Gaea's Cradle
1 Generous Gift
1 Genesis
1 Greater Good
1 Hamletback Goliath
1 Hangarback Walker
1 Hardened Scales
1 Harrow
1 Heliod, Sun-Crowned
1 Idyllic Tutor
1 Inspiring Call
1 Jetmir's Garden
1 Juniper Order Ranger
1 Kalonian Hydra
1 Kami of False Hope
1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
1 Kitchen Finks
1 Lathiel, the Bounteous Dawn
1 Managorger Hydra
1 Marsh Flats
1 Mayael's Aria
1 Mikaeus, the Lunarch
1 Misty Rainforest
5 Mountain
1 Nacatl War-Pride
1 Phytohydra
5 Plains
1 Plateau
1 Pledge of Unity
1 Regrowth
1 Rocco, Cabaretti Caterer
1 Roiling Regrowth
1 Sacred Foundry
1 Savannah
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Seasons Past
1 Serra Ascendant
1 Serra Avatar
1 Sol Ring
1 Spike Feeder
1 Spike Weaver
1 Spore Frog
1 Stomping Ground
1 Strip Mine
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Sylvan Library
1 Taiga
1 Taurean Mauler
1 Temple Garden
1 Terastodon
1 Terminus
1 Timeless Witness
1 Twilight Drover
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider
1 Wasteland
1 Wheel of Fortune
1 Wildwood Scourge
1 Windswept Heath
1 Wooded Foothills
1 Worldly Tutor
1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
1 Zendikar Resurgent

 

[Oversoul]

Played this deck twice. First game, I kept a two-land hand and took forever to find a third land, by which point I was so far behind that I couldn't do anything. Egregious mana screw.

Second game was a weird one. I never actually lost, but I wouldn't count it as a win either. One of my opponents was building toward an infinite combo with Ghave, Guru of Spores. I couldn't really stop him, and the other two players either couldn't or were oblivious to the danger. The Ghave player was able to make as many creatures as he wanted and to make them as big as he wanted. At this point all three of the other players started picking up their deck as though the game was over. I pointed out that I had Kami of False Hope and Spike Weaver. I also had cards in my hand to recur them both multiple times, but I didn't volunteer that information. Although I have limited experience with this exact list, I suspect that I could have essentially perma-fogged the Ghave player, and he had nothing on the board to break that lock. Not a winning game state for me, but it was a matter of which of us drew into something to break the stalemate. And with two other players both kept alive by my deck's engine, I liked our odds in this archenemy situation. But the other players were more interested in moving on to a new game and asked if we could "call it a draw." So yeah. Not a win. But as I said, I liked my chances.