Kin to Walls [EDH]

[Oversoul]

It had been over a year since I built a walls deck and apparently I can't help myself, even against my better judgment. Should Rolling Stones be in here? Probably. But it's not. We're not attacking. We're defending. Eventually, if no one kills us, I guess we win. If opponents somehow let this deck get a total of 40 toughness and its commander on the battlefield and Wound Reflection, then that probably wins. Well, that's the dream. Might never happen, though.

Commander:
1 Betor, Kin to All

1 Abundance
1 Ageless Sentinels
1 Arboria
1 Archers' Parapet
1 Arid Mesa
1 Bala Ged Recovery
1 Bayou
1 Beast Within
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Branch of Vitu-Ghazi
1 Burgeoning
1 Cavern of Souls
1 Conduit of Worlds
1 Crenellated Wall
1 Dark Petition
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Dread Return
1 Earthcraft
1 Enlightened Tutor
1 Ever After
1 Far Wanderings
1 Flooded Strand
5 Forest
1 Gaea's Cradle
1 Generous Gift
1 Glacial Chasm
1 Glyph of Doom
1 Glyph of Life
1 Glyph of Reincarnation
1 Godless Shrine
1 Hall of Heliod's Generosity
1 Harrow
1 Idyllic Tutor
1 Indatha Triome
1 Life from the Loam
1 Lightning Greaves
1 Marsh Flats
1 Mox Diamond
1 Overgrown Battlement
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Oversold Cemetery
1 Patriarch's Bidding
5 Plains
1 Polluted Delta
1 Portcullis Vine
1 Regrowth
1 Savannah
1 Scrubland
1 Seasons Past
1 Solitary Confinement
1 Sterling Grove
1 Strip Mine
4 Swamp
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Sylvan Library
1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
1 Temple Garden
1 Terminus
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Tranquil Thicket
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Victimize
1 Vine Trellis
1 Wall of Blossoms
1 Wall of Caltrops
1 Wall of Glare
1 Wall of Ice
1 Wall of Light
1 Wall of Limbs
1 Wall of Mulch
1 Wall of Nets
1 Wall of Omens
1 Wall of Putrid Flesh
1 Wall of Roots
1 Wall of Shadows
1 Wall of Shards
1 Wall of Shields
1 Wall of Souls
1 Wall of Swords
1 Wall of Tanglecord
1 Wall of Tombstones
1 Wall of Wood
1 Weathered Sentinels
1 Windswept Heath
1 Wooded Foothills
1 Wound Reflection

 

[Oversoul]

Although I didn't type up my list for this deck until earlier this week, I've actually been playing it for the past three weeks. It's been the deck I've played most in that time. It hasn't won a game or really even come close at all. Still, there's just something special about this classic walls. I should do an actually good Wall Tribal deck at some point. Technically, I suppose that I did that a while back with "99 Ranch."

Not that it really matters, but why is Glyph of Reincarnation so bad? Most of the glyphs are hilariously underpowered, but the green one seems to be on another level here (and not in a good way).

 

[Oversoul]

Played this deck last night. Somehow, I wasn't topdecking any walls at all. One of my opponents kicked Maddening Cacophony and another one immediately Bojuka Bogged me. I think that I was probably pretty doomed, but two of the players left the game to start a new one with their friend who'd just shown up to the store and we quickly replaced them with two more players, so I guess that game ended in a draw? Oh well.

Tried the deck again immediately in the next game, having not really gotten to do much in the aborted game anyway. This time I had a much better start, and really kept using Life from the Loam, which ended up being key. My opponents didn't even attack me, with Wall of Shards being big enough to tank the hits and also giving them free life anyway. One of my opponents started popping off with Purphoros triggers, so I knew that I needed better protection. I sacrificed Sterling Grove to tutor up a classic Oversoul maneuver: Solitary Confinement. Locking myself in jail, I still had Betor and Life from the Loam to generate card advantage. I used Hall of Heliod's Generosity to get Sterling Grove back, adding a hopeful layer of protection to the Solitary Confinement. The Purphoros player deployed Blood Moon, so I knew that trick couldn't keep working, but I was in a decent spot. Eventually, with it looking like my opponents were probably going to kill each other and bring this game into a 1-vs.-1 scenario, I cast Wound Reflection. One of my opponents hit the other two hard enough that Wound Reflection finished them off. To my amazement, I was able to Dark Petition for Patriarch's Bidding and actually hit that elusive 40-toughness mark. My final opponent was at 13 life, so Betor made him lose 7, then Wound Reflection made him lose another 7.

I honestly expected to probably never win a single game with this pile. Solitary Confinement is a Magic card.