EDH - Dralnu, Lord of Exile

Commander / EDH

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Instant (6)

• 1x Circular Logic
• 1x False Memories
• 1x Meditate
• 1x Tainted Pact
• 1x Time Stop
• 1x Tolarian Winds

Sorcery (13)

• 1x Ancestral Memories
• 1x Breakthrough
• 1x Bubbling Muck
• 1x Death Cloud
• 1x Deep Analysis
• 1x Doomsday
• 1x Drain Life
• 1x Ghastly Conscription
• 1x Paradigm Shift
• 1x Profane Command
• 1x Recall
• 1x Treasure Cruise
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Compulsion
• 1x Forbidden Crypt
• 1x Heightened Awareness
• 1x Nihilistic Glee
• 1x Strands of Night
• 1x Yawgmoth's Agenda

Artifact (14)

• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Claws of Gix
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Eye of Ramos
• 1x Immortal Coil
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mesmeric Orb
• 1x Mirror of Fate
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Skull of Ramos
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Vedalken Orrery
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

Creature (23)

• 1x Baleful Force
• 1x Body Double
• 1x Chainer, Dementia Master
• 1x Colossus of Akros
• 1x Divining Witch
• 1x Dreamscape Artist
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x Filth
• 1x Isleback Spawn
• 1x Kokusho, the Evening Star
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Magus of the Bazaar
• 1x Memnarch
• 1x Nezumi Graverobber  ^Flip
• 1x Phage the Untouchable
• 1x Phenax, God of Deception
• 1x Phyrexian Obliterator
• 1x Psychatog
• 1x Tromokratis
• 1x Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
• 1x Uyo, Silent Prophet
• 1x Volrath the Fallen
• 1x Wonder

Land (37)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Choked Estuary
• 1x Darkslick Shores
• 13x Island
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Shelldock Isle
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 13x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Watery Grave

Commander (1)

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This has been working far better than I expected it to.

This deck was born from a trade. "If I trade you this Doomsday ," he said, "you have to use it in an EDH deck, and it has to be jank." I agreed. I undertook the challenge of taking janky cards that no one in their right mind would play and making them a cohesive deck.

THE JANK

• Mirror of Fate - Whaaaaaaat the shit is this. It's one of the only ways to interact with the exile zone, that's what. I'll tell you, it's the MVP in this deck. Combine with Rings of Brighthearth and suddenly you have any seven cards tutored up, even the ones you've gotten exiled one way or the other. Bitches don't even know about O-Ringed shit. Someone Bojuka Bog'd your graveyard since you play with it? Who gives a shit. A voidy leyline resting in peace up in your hair? Your shitty fate is still gonna get reflected, son. It's even good buddies with Yawgmoth over here, because then it can grab itself. Speaking of...

• Yawgmoth's Agenda - Holy shit, it's Yawgmoth's day planner. Have you ever thought to yourself, "Damn, I wish I could always play things in my graveyard"? Of course you have. Everyone loves Yawgmoth's Death Wishes. Who cares about the one spell a turn restriction? Play a land, play a spell, pass. Get your damn Vedalken Orrey out and it's U/B's best impression of Prophet of Kruphix, jank style. Not janky enough for ya?

• Forbidden Crypt - We're tossing things back and forth from our hand, graveyard, and exile zone, and we're drawing plenty of cards while we do it. OH I'M SORRY, WE'RE ACTUALLY DOING OUR YAWGMOTH IMPRESSION WOOOOO! For bonus points, have out a Laboratory Maniac out with an empty graveyard and empty library. Watch your opponents cry as you stack triggers so you win the game before you lose it. That's why this shit is forbidden, son. You'll be laughing with

• Nihilistic Glee - This is just pure jank, but holy shit does it actually work. This deck throws shit in the graveyard faster than you'd believe, and the Glee does a great Greed impression when you need to refill.

• Immortal Coil - Remember that Mirror of Jank? Hell yeah. But that mirror doesn't touch the graveyard, unlike good ol' Doomsday, so maybe you want to toss some dead things into the exile zone.

• Paradigm Shift - EVERYTHING MUST GO

• False Memories - Two mana instant-speed draw seven? What the hell were you smoking, Wizards? Probably whatever I passed you, because I'm the beautiful bastard playing the damn thing. So many ways of getting specific jank back, and more often than not you'll just treat it like delve and toss away a bunch of lands. Nobody needs lands anyway.

• Ancestral Memories - Five mana sorcery-speed draw seven? Holy shit this is awful.

• Heightened Awareness - One with Nothing 's better looking older brother.

MAKING IT WORK

Alright, so it's a graveyard deck. I'd be really irritated with anyone that played a 'graveyard order matters' card, because I basically have to split my graveyard into three different piles to use it effectively. It has a heavy self-mill and discard theme, but Dralnu makes it work surprisingly cohesively. Mirror of Fate really is a very important card in the deck, getting back the stuff you flashback with Dralnu or tossed away in a Tainted Pact. Things bounce between the various zones in the game fairly often, and some of the best cards in black are supporting some of the worst.

Claws of Gix seems innocuous, but it's the emergency stop button for Immortal Coil, Forbidden Crypt, and Dralnu himself, and it lets you out of Yawgmoth's Agenda.

WIN CONDITIONS

• Laboratory Maniac is probably the easiest, either through a good Doomsday pile or just throwing your entire library away with Mirror of Fate.
• Bubbling Muck into Bubbling Muck, followed by Bubbling Muck and Bubbling Muck, and finally Bubbling Muck (Play, Dralnu, Mirror-then-draw, re-play, Yawg' Will) to get a massive amount of mana and Drain Life or Profane Command someone to death. I suppose, if you want to be complicated about it, you could also copy it with Uyo a few times. Bonus points if you draw the game with a massive Death Cloud
• Phage the Untouchable . There's a Whispersilk Cloak, but that's boring. What you really want to do is fill up your graveyard and then play Ghastly Conscription. Make your opponent play the lottery with an attack from a bazillion identical unidentifiable 2/2s!
• Mill people out with Phenax, Mesmeric Orb, and/or Newlamog! Though I admit, those first two are in there for self mill.
• I guess you can reanimate the other big dudes in there and swing a bunch of times. If you want to be boring.

Top Ranked	Achieved #26 position overall 8 years ago
Date added	8 years
Last updated	8 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 49 - 0 Rares 12 - 0 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.92
Tokens	Manifest 2/2 C
Folders	EDH, To Peruse, Wow. , Stupid combos, Yes. Just Yes., Idea, Yup