My primary deck is a Golgari dredge-semistax I've been tinkering with for years. Has a few routes to victory but easy mode is recycling living death for to reuse 187 triggers.
I have a 2/3 built Abzan enchantress thing that uses necromancy and friends to recur random large and or useful stuff while triggering enchantresses before casting replenish to trigger constellation stuff to take over the game. (Paper list unfinished MTGO list functioning as expected)
Leaning toward something along the lines of traditional control.... board wipes, counterspells and card draw... just can't resist the urge to go graveyard.
Perhaps Kess, Dissident Mage or Oloro, Ageless Ascetic. They are both in color combinations well suited for a control strategy. Oloro gives you white as opposed to red like Kess, but Kess can re-use instants and sorceries. Oloro gains you 2 life for free and if he is in play you can pay mana/life to draw cards.
You can also try going for artifact control. Oloro, Ageless Ascetic and Sydri, Galvanic Genius are good options for this. Esper tends to be the best colors for artifact control. Oloro is generically good by continuing to buff your life total while Sydri has some fun interactions with certain artifacts. If you want to go with artifact control but also want graveyard recursion than you can also try Sharuum the Hegemon or Hanna, Ship's Navigator.
Zedruu the Greathearted is an interesting option. Most people try donating cards like Flame Swathe but you can also play a more traditional control deck as well. A lot of the best control cards in EDH are artifacts and enchantments like Torpor Orb, Stony Silence, or Arcane Laboratory that be donated to other players while still hampering gameplay.
Dragonlord Ojutai. The issue with Ux control is winning the damn game. What better way than beating your opponents to death with a hexproof dragon that impulses. In fact it makes people help you with that whole wrathing thing.
I personally run Rest in Peace to force myself away from the graveyard... amoung other vicious hate cards.. since all I am doing it beating you to death with Ojutai. edit: its not actually voltron I just swing 4-5 times on each player.
ETB reuse has a very strong pull that can be hard to get from. But I think it may be more worthwhile exploring decks that have no way to endlessly recur the same card(s) from the graveyard. It feels like such a deck will have to have a high amount of card draw, redundant and flexible removal, and some way to win that isn't reliant on any single card, possibly using the commmander to do so. The Mimeoplasm feels like a good place to start when you've already accepted that there's no downside to exiling your own creatures and it puts you in a good combination for drawing cards and deploying standalone threats.
Ultimately, I suspect that zero-recursion decks would have to win with 1-shot kills / infinite combos or aggressive combat damage, perhaps like Skullbriar. Having to draw more cards to rebuild after boardwipes feels like a pretty big liability for a deck to have.
My primary deck is a Golgari dredge-semistax I've been tinkering with for years. Has a few routes to victory but easy mode is recycling living death for to reuse 187 triggers.
I have a 2/3 built Abzan enchantress thing that uses necromancy and friends to recur random large and or useful stuff while triggering enchantresses before casting replenish to trigger constellation stuff to take over the game. (Paper list unfinished MTGO list functioning as expected)
Leaning toward something along the lines of traditional control.... board wipes, counterspells and card draw... just can't resist the urge to go graveyard.
Savra, Queen of the Golgari (Green Black Control with Graveyard Advantages)
Standard
Probably Mono Red Sligh
Modern
Dredge
Legacy
Dredge
You can also try going for artifact control. Oloro, Ageless Ascetic and Sydri, Galvanic Genius are good options for this. Esper tends to be the best colors for artifact control. Oloro is generically good by continuing to buff your life total while Sydri has some fun interactions with certain artifacts. If you want to go with artifact control but also want graveyard recursion than you can also try Sharuum the Hegemon or Hanna, Ship's Navigator.
Zedruu the Greathearted is an interesting option. Most people try donating cards like Flame Swathe but you can also play a more traditional control deck as well. A lot of the best control cards in EDH are artifacts and enchantments like Torpor Orb, Stony Silence, or Arcane Laboratory that be donated to other players while still hampering gameplay.
I personally run Rest in Peace to force myself away from the graveyard... amoung other vicious hate cards.. since all I am doing it beating you to death with Ojutai. edit: its not actually voltron I just swing 4-5 times on each player.
Pioneer:UR Pheonix
Modern:U Mono U Tron
EDH
GB Glissa, the traitor: Army of Cans
UW Dragonlord Ojutai: Dragonlord NOjutai
UWGDerevi, Empyrial Tactician "you cannot fight the storm"
R Zirilan of the claw. The solution to every problem is dragons
UB Etrata, the Silencer Cloning assassination
Peasant cube: Cards I own
Ultimately, I suspect that zero-recursion decks would have to win with 1-shot kills / infinite combos or aggressive combat damage, perhaps like Skullbriar. Having to draw more cards to rebuild after boardwipes feels like a pretty big liability for a deck to have.
Older Magic as a Board Game: Panglacial Wurm , Mill