Angels: They're Just Like Us but Cooler and with Wings
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- Commander
- Gisela, the Broken Blade
- Cards
- 100
- Current value
- $682.39
- Grade
- A
How it grades
Fundamentals 95/100. Plays like Lifegain and Voltron.
This reads as Lifegain · Voltron, built around Gisela, the Broken Blade. Life total as a resource and a weapon: incidental gain triggers payoffs that grow creatures, drain opponents, or draw cards, and the drain pairs turn a fat life total into a clock. The deck must not be a pile of gain with no payoff: every gain effect should feed at least two engines. Its strongest fundamental is ramp (12 ramp effects (want 8+ for this curve for Lifegain, your cost reduction counted)); the first thing to tighten is land count: 39 lands. About 36 fits this curve for Lifegain, with your cost reduction counted.
- A+Mana reliability
- B+Land count
- A-Mana curve
- A+Ramp
- A-Card draw
- A+Interaction
- A+Commander synergy
- AWin conditions
- ACard quality
- A+Legality & size
Where it falls short
- B+Land count39 lands. About 36 fits this curve for Lifegain, with your cost reduction counted.
Strong on mana reliability, mana curve, ramp, card draw, interaction, commander synergy, win conditions, card quality and legality & size.
73 cards graded: A- 12, B+ 32, B 27, B- 1, C+ 1. The command zone is the plan, so it isn't graded.
Upgrades
Exemplar of Light2WW$0.91
In place of Arden Angel: weakest slot in the deck (56/100)
Pays off your lifegain engine (15 producers). Fuels your +1/+1 counter payoffs (3 in deck). Top-5% staple by play data.
Soul WardenW$3.41
In place of Thalia's Lancers: weakest slot in the deck (60/100)
Pays off your token engine (12 producers). Pays off your go-wide engine (18 producers). Fits the lifegain build players run with your commanders.
Soul's AttendantW$7.54
In place of Griffin Aerie: weakest slot in the deck (62/100)
EDHREC Lifegain staple. Pays off your token engine (12 producers). Pays off your go-wide engine (18 producers).
Restoration Angel3W$0.36
In place of Heirloom Blade: weakest slot in the deck (63/100)
Pays off your enters-the-battlefield engine (14 producers). Fits the commander's plan. Works with the commander directly.
Psychosis Crawler5$2.30
In place of Marble Diamond: enters tapped: the slow version of its job (63/100)
Pays off your card-draw engine (12 producers). Top-5% staple by play data. Fits the commander's plan.
Enduring Innocence1WW$3.15
In place of Search for Glory: weakest slot in the deck (64/100)
Fuels your lifegain payoffs (6 in deck). Pays off your go-wide engine (18 producers). Top-5% staple by play data.
Alhammarret's Archive5$10.49
In place of Urza's Incubator: weakest slot in the deck (64/100)
Pays off the commanders' lifegain plan. Pays off your lifegain engine (15 producers). Top-5% staple by play data.
Heliod, Sun-Crowned2W$22.03
In place of Entreat the Angels: weakest slot in the deck (65/100)
Pays off your enchantment engine (6 producers). Pays off your lifegain engine (15 producers). Top-5% staple by play data.
Charismatic Conqueror1W$23.89
In place of Angelic Accord: weakest slot in the deck (66/100)
Pays off your artifact engine (21 producers). Fuels your lifegain payoffs (6 in deck). Top-5% staple by play data.
Ocelot PrideW$41.70
In place of Shattered Angel: weakest slot in the deck (66/100)
Pays off your lifegain engine (15 producers). Fuels your lifegain payoffs (6 in deck). Top-5% staple by play data.
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Decklist
Commander 1
Creatures 26
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Planeswalkers 1
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Instants 3
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Sorceries 5
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Artifacts 20
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Enchantments 5
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Lands 39
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- B×7
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