Metallic Spite [PreDH]

[Oversoul]

In crossing the last few Legends legends off my to-do list, I considered Chromium. Technically, I'd already put Chromium at the helm of an EDH deck once, but it was merely as a placeholder commander for Eriette, the Beguiler. Once I acquired a copy of Eriette, Chromium was pulled from the deck. Deciding that I didn't want this to count, I thought about what kind of deck I should build in these colors. Well, I have been wanting to build a Barren Glory deck for many years. So I made it PreDH and put an eight-drop dragon with no synergies in the command zone.

I will either hate trying to make Barren Glory work in this deck and get it out of my system, or this will motivate me to build a Barren Glory deck that can operate at a meaningful power level. We'll see.

Commander:
1 Chromium

1 Academy Rector
1 Academy Researchers
1 Aether Spellbomb
1 Altar of Dementia
1 Ancient Tomb
1 Angelic Renewal
1 Arcane Denial
1 Arid Mesa
1 Ashnod's Altar
1 Aura Graft
1 Aura of Silence
1 Auriok Salvagers
1 Barren Glory
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Brainstorm
1 Cataclysm
1 Cho-Manno, Revolutionary
1 Claws of Gix
1 Conjurer's Bauble
1 Counterspell
1 Dark Ritual
1 Decree of Pain
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Enlightened Tutor
1 Exsanguinate
1 False Demise
1 False Prophet
1 Flooded Strand
1 Fool's Demise
1 Force of Will
1 Gilded Drake
1 Godless Shrine
1 Guilty Conscience
1 Hallowed Fountain
1 Hanna, Ship's Navigator
1 Idyllic Tutor
1 Intuition
1 Iridescent Drake
6 Island
1 Kaervek's Spite
1 Kami of False Hope
1 Karmic Guide
1 Kjeldoran Pride
1 Lion's Eye Diamond
1 Mana Drain
1 Marsh Flats
1 Maze of Ith
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Monk Idealist
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Necropotence
1 Oblivion Crown
1 Oblivion Ring
1 Pariah
6 Plains
1 Polluted Delta
1 Ponder
1 Pure Reflection
1 Rootwater Matriarch
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Scrubland
1 Shade's Form
1 Spirit Mirror
1 Strip Mine
1 Stuffy Doll
1 Sun Titan
7 Swamp
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Time Spiral
1 Treachery
1 Tundra
1 Underground Sea
1 Unnatural Selection
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Victimize
1 Volrath's Stronghold
1 Wasteland
1 Watery Grave
1 Wayfarer's Bauble
1 Windfall
1 Windswept Heath
1 Wrath of God

 

[Oversoul]

Well, this deck's first game went kinda OK, sorta. I was able to protect myself somewhat early on, but once two of my opponents had killed each other, I didn't have sufficient defensive capabilities to deal with the third. Cataclysm was the only board wipe I drew, and I didn't want to cast it, as it would only prolong my eventual defeat.

With only one actual game so far, I'm not going to leap to conclusions about the inadequacy of this deck.

 

[Oversoul]

After durdling for a while in a game where I should have lost, I was left to my own devices for long enough to draw into Demonic Tutor when I had Sun Titan and Altar of Dementia. I grabbed Angelic Renewal and milled my opponents out. One of them had Blighsteel Colossus in his library, but no way to get it back in once he drew it, and one turn wasn't enough for him to kill me.

I put those cards in the deck for multiple reasons, but I guess I was hoping to go for a Barren Glory win and not an infinite mill loop. Oh well. Might not have thought this deck through when I built it. I had a whole "These are a few of my favorite things" concept in mind initially, but by the time it came to actual deck construction, that had fallen by the wayside.