Secret Lair: From Cute to Brute [EDH]

[Oversoul]

I bought this precon and now I'm going to play it. This is the first time in several years that I'll be playing an unmodified precon. Might make my own revisions over time. We'll see. It seems that Esika is the default commander, but Sisay is the better option, so I put Esika in the maindeck.

Commander:
1 Sisay, Weatherlight Captain

1 Altar of the Pantheon
1 Arcane Signet
1 Archangel Avacyn
1 Arlinn Kord
1 Arlinn, the Pack's Hope
1 Azor's Gateway
1 Bala Ged Recovery
1 Barkchannel Pathway
1 Beast Whisperer
1 Beast Within
1 Blightstep Pathway
1 Bloodline Keeper
1 Branchloft Pathway
1 Brightclimb Pathway
1 Butcher of Malakir
1 Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh
1 Chromatic Lantern
1 Clearwater Pathway
1 Command Tower
1 Commander's Sphere
1 Cosima, God of the Voyage
1 Cragcrown Pathway
1 Darkbore Pathway
1 Dennick, Pious Apprentice
1 Diluvian Primordial
1 Dowsing Dagger
1 Elbrus, the Binding Blade
1 Emmara, Soul of the Accord
1 Esika, God of the Tree
1 Evolving Wilds
1 Exotic Orchard
1 Farseek
1 Fellwar Stone
3 Forest
1 Frontier Bivouac
1 Garruk Relentless
1 Guardian Project
1 Hadana's Climb
1 Hagra Mauling
1 Harmonize
1 Hengegate Pathway
1 Island
1 Jace, Vryn's Prodigy
1 Jolrael, Mwonvuli Recluse
1 Journey to Eternity
1 Jungle Shrine
1 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
1 Kolvori, God of Kinship
1 Kytheon, Hero of Akros
1 Legion's Landing
1 Liliana, Heretical Healer
1 Ludevic, Necrogenius
1 Meteor Golem
1 Mila, Crafty Companion
1 Mountain
1 Needleverge Pathway
1 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager
1 Nissa, Vastwood Seer
1 Ondu Inversion
1 Opulent Palace
1 Path of Ancestry
1 Plains
1 Plargg, Dean of Chaos
1 Pongify
1 Putrefy
1 Rhys the Redeemed
1 Rimewood Falls
1 Riverglide Pathway
1 Sandsteppe Citadel
1 Sandstone Oracle
1 Savage Lands
1 Scattered Groves
1 Search for Azcanta
1 Seaside Citadel
1 Shaile, Dean of Radiance
1 Sheltered Thicket
1 Sol Ring
1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
1 Swamp
1 Terramorphic Expanse
1 Thaumatic Compass
1 The World Tree
1 Time Wipe
1 Tireless Provisioner
1 Tovolar's Huntmaster
1 Treasure Map
1 Triplicate Titan
1 Urza's Ruinous Blast
1 Utter End
1 Valakut Awakening
1 Valentin, Dean of the Vein
1 Valki, God of Lies
1 Vivid Grove
1 Voldaren Pariah
1 Westvale Abbey
1 Woodland Chasm
1 Zetalpa, Primal Dawn

 

[Oversoul]

This deck didn't really get a fair shake because it and the rest of the table got pubstomped by a high-power blue deck. I guy who built that deck often plays with unmodified precons, and I guess it didn't register for him that I was piloting one here, even though I told him so. Oh well. Better luck next time.

I do think this deck has the weakness that it has trouble rebuilding and adapting in longer games. It's not egregious, especially not for a precon. But I might look into shoring the weakness up a bit.

 

[Oversoul]

Victory! I tried this deck out again. Got off to a slow start and eventually just used Ondu Inversion because everyone else was so far ahead of me. Built back from it, then set up Sisay alongside Kinnan and was able to fetch Esika. This causes the deck to operate pretty explosively. The card that ultimately struck the finising blows on my last two opponents was one I've never before succeeded in using, so this was a first for me...



Oh yes, that's right. I transformed Elbrus in a real game. I rule.

 

[Oversoul]

Since this deck is 100% unmodified, it doesn't really cost me anything to bring it with me. Well, there's the space it takes up, but that's about it. Still, not sure how long I'll keep going with it. I won my game last night, but it was a slog. My opponents weren't able to kill Sisay, and that let me build the resources to activate Sisay increasingly more times. But even though the deck popped off, it was several more turns before I could close the game out. Ormendahl finished off one opponent, then Withengar killed a second. Took out the remaining opponent by activating the -12 on Nicol Bolas, the Arisen and then the +2 on Tibalt, Cosmic Imposter.