Something for Nothing

Commander / EDH Casual Protection WUB (Esper)

caesarsalad77

Creature (20)

• 1x Atemsis, All-Seeing
• 1x Bold Plagiarist
• 1x Cloudsteel Kirin
• 1x Defiant Bloodlord
• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1x Evra, Halcyon Witness
• 1x Kami of False Hope
• 1x Oloro, Ageless Ascetic
• 1x Ravos, Soultender *f-etch*
• 1x Seht's Tiger
• 1x Selfless Squire
• 1x Sengir, the Dark Baron
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Silent Arbiter
• 1x Sly Instigator
• 1x Teysa, Envoy of Ghosts
• 1x The Reality Chip
• 1x Vengeful Archon
• 1x Wandering Archaic  ^Flip
• 1x Windborn Muse

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Farewell
• 1x Invincible Hymn
• 1x Killing Wave
• 1x Merciless Eviction
• 1x Oketra's Last Mercy
• 1x Providence
• 1x Reverse the Sands
• 1x Temporal Mastery
• 1x Torment of Hailfire

Land (36)

• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x Choked Estuary
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkslick Shores
• 1x Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
• 1x Esper Panorama
• 1x Glacial Chasm
• 7x Island
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Otawara, Soaring City
• 7x Plains
• 1x Port Town
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Raffine's Tower
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 7x Swamp
• 1x Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1x Temple of the False God

Instant (12)

• 1x Aetherspouts
• 1x Cackling Counterpart
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Devious Cover-Up
• 1x Divine Deflection
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Psychic Spiral
• 1x Silence
• 1x Spell Swindle
• 1x Stunning Reversal
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Teferi's Protection

Commander (1)

Enchantment (13)

• 1x Blind Obedience
• 1x Dismiss into Dream
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Greed
• 1x Imprisoned in the Moon
• 1x Infinite Reflection
• 1x Leyline of Sanctity
• 1x Near-Death Experience
• 1x Phyrexian Unlife
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Sanguine Bond
• 1x Solemnity
• 1x Soul Link

Artifact (8)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Crawlspace
• 1x Ensnaring Bridge
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Soul Conduit
• 1x Thaumatic Compass  ^Flip
• 1x Unbender Tine
• 1x Vorpal Sword

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Enchantment (1)

• 1x Axis of Mortality

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This deck was born out of one idea: to use Lich effects to keep you alive with 0 or less life, and then swap that life for someone else's. There is almost certainly not enough direct support for this to actually work, but I wanted to get a skeleton of a deck up that I can keep tweaking. Why Merieke Ri Berit? Because I wanted the deck to be Esper. Should something better come along, I'll swap her for that. The deck necessarily needs these things:

1. cards that stop you from losing the game at 0 life.
2. cards that protect those cards.
3. cards that swap your life total for someone else's.
4. cards that manipulate your life total on demand.
5. cards that recur those cards when necessary.

Any and all suggestions will be considered! At the moment, I've stuck in a few alt-win conditions, such as Vorpal Sword, which is where I'll probably make my first cuts.

Date added	1 year
Last updated	4 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 54 - 0 Rares 9 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.11
Tokens	Copy Clone, Spirit 1/1 WB, Treasure