Oversoul
The Tentacled One
My shenanigans over the past three months in the West Coast Commander League have placed a month-long bounty on me. As it happens, this also happens to be the month in which I find the point structure least interesting. Oh, I'll get over it. Maybe next week I'll even try to win or something. But this time I wanted to try something different. I've been missing my oppressive hard control decks. I wanted to try the new planeswalkers out and use them alongside controlling artifacts and enchantments.
One of the points for the whole month is going to be dealing 10 or more damage with elementals. So I wondered if there are any Legends legends that are elementals. Turns out there's just one...
So that's pretty bad. Here's what I came up with...
Commander:
1x Ur-Drago
1x Anvil of Bogardan
1x Arcane Denial
1x Arcane Laboratory
1x Ashiok, Dream Render
1x Basilisk Collar
1x Black Sun's Zenith
1x Brainstorm
1x Cabal Coffers
1x Cabal Stronghold
1x Capture of Jingzhou
1x Chains of Mephistopheles
1x Chromatic Lantern
1x Consume Spirit
1x Counterspell
1x Cryptic Command
1x Cyclonic Rift
1x Damnation
1x Dark Petition
1x Darkness
1x Decree of Pain
1x Demonic Tutor
1x Disallow
1x Dread
1x Dream Tides
1x Eldrazi Conscription
1x Elixir of Immortality
1x Endless Scream
1x Exsanguinate
1x Force of Will
1x Guile
1x Hatred
1x Icy Manipulator
1x Insidious Will
10x Island
1x Karn's Bastion
1x Kokusho, the Evening Star
1x Leyline of Anticipation
1x Leyline of the Void
1x Lim-Dul's Vault
1x Mana Drain
1x Mana Web
1x Maralen of the Mornsong
1x Maze of Ith
1x Mystic Remora
1x Mystical Tutor
1x Narset, Parter of Veils
1x Necropotence
1x Nevinyrral's Disk
1x No Mercy
1x Ob Nixilis, Unshackled
1x Overburden
1x Pendrell Mists
1x Polluted Delta
1x Prismatic Vista
1x Rhystic Study
1x Rogue's Passage
1x Search for Azcanta
2x Snow-Covered Island
2x Snow-Covered Swamp
1x Sol Ring
1x Spreading Plague
1x Stasis
1x Strip Mine
10x Swamp
1x Syphon Soul
1x Tainted AEther
1x Talisman of Dominance
1x Temporal Manipulation
1x The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
1x Time Elemental
1x Time Warp
1x Toxic Deluge
1x Trinisphere
1x Twilight Prophet
1x Underground Sea
1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1x Vampiric Tutor
1x Wasteland
1x Winter Orb
I did not get the most points out of the whole group this time (for which I'm kind of thankful). But I did well and the deck was fun. First game they ganged up on me a little and I was eliminated first. Third game was a bit of a weird one with two combo decks, both of which went infinite on the rest of us. I had an incredibly bad start and sat at three lands for what seemed like forever. Still, I was able to work with what I had and affect the game somewhat. But the second game got really interesting. I don't think my deck was especially strong, but all three of my opponents let me draw stuff off Rhystic Study, and that powered me into an eventual win. It was intense though, because they realized they needed to work together, so it became 3 vs. 1 at some point. My opponents tried a collaborative kill with Tainted Strike on Purphoros, God of the Forge. Almost worked too. Great game.
One of the points for the whole month is going to be dealing 10 or more damage with elementals. So I wondered if there are any Legends legends that are elementals. Turns out there's just one...
So that's pretty bad. Here's what I came up with...
Commander:
1x Ur-Drago
1x Anvil of Bogardan
1x Arcane Denial
1x Arcane Laboratory
1x Ashiok, Dream Render
1x Basilisk Collar
1x Black Sun's Zenith
1x Brainstorm
1x Cabal Coffers
1x Cabal Stronghold
1x Capture of Jingzhou
1x Chains of Mephistopheles
1x Chromatic Lantern
1x Consume Spirit
1x Counterspell
1x Cryptic Command
1x Cyclonic Rift
1x Damnation
1x Dark Petition
1x Darkness
1x Decree of Pain
1x Demonic Tutor
1x Disallow
1x Dread
1x Dream Tides
1x Eldrazi Conscription
1x Elixir of Immortality
1x Endless Scream
1x Exsanguinate
1x Force of Will
1x Guile
1x Hatred
1x Icy Manipulator
1x Insidious Will
10x Island
1x Karn's Bastion
1x Kokusho, the Evening Star
1x Leyline of Anticipation
1x Leyline of the Void
1x Lim-Dul's Vault
1x Mana Drain
1x Mana Web
1x Maralen of the Mornsong
1x Maze of Ith
1x Mystic Remora
1x Mystical Tutor
1x Narset, Parter of Veils
1x Necropotence
1x Nevinyrral's Disk
1x No Mercy
1x Ob Nixilis, Unshackled
1x Overburden
1x Pendrell Mists
1x Polluted Delta
1x Prismatic Vista
1x Rhystic Study
1x Rogue's Passage
1x Search for Azcanta
2x Snow-Covered Island
2x Snow-Covered Swamp
1x Sol Ring
1x Spreading Plague
1x Stasis
1x Strip Mine
10x Swamp
1x Syphon Soul
1x Tainted AEther
1x Talisman of Dominance
1x Temporal Manipulation
1x The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
1x Time Elemental
1x Time Warp
1x Toxic Deluge
1x Trinisphere
1x Twilight Prophet
1x Underground Sea
1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1x Vampiric Tutor
1x Wasteland
1x Winter Orb
I did not get the most points out of the whole group this time (for which I'm kind of thankful). But I did well and the deck was fun. First game they ganged up on me a little and I was eliminated first. Third game was a bit of a weird one with two combo decks, both of which went infinite on the rest of us. I had an incredibly bad start and sat at three lands for what seemed like forever. Still, I was able to work with what I had and affect the game somewhat. But the second game got really interesting. I don't think my deck was especially strong, but all three of my opponents let me draw stuff off Rhystic Study, and that powered me into an eventual win. It was intense though, because they realized they needed to work together, so it became 3 vs. 1 at some point. My opponents tried a collaborative kill with Tainted Strike on Purphoros, God of the Forge. Almost worked too. Great game.