MTG Salvation

So, I was just reading through some of MaRo's color pie articles again because my roommate wants to get into magic and wants to look into putting together an edh deck he will enjoy playing.

I was reading the Boros one and he mentioned in a paragraph about the goals of each color that there are two philosophical options for the colors to work together. Both of them are with one color choosing the goal and the other choosing the means to reach that goal. If white chooses the goal, then they are striving to reach order "with a moral center using whatever it feels is necessary to get the job done". With the other option being "a group bent on creating anarchy that uses careful planning to bring it about."

Here is the article: http://archive.wizards.com/Magic/magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/mr205

The second option sounded really interesting to me from a deck building standpoint. We all know about the mono-red chaos deck that is fun once or twice but easy to get tired of. I don't want to build that, but I think it would be fun to build a more schemey version of that deck.

So, the idea is to use careful planning in the form of tutors and some early deterrences to plot for eventual chaos in the form of the usual red chaos effects.

What are your thoughts on how to build this deck and the general etc. Even maybe adding in black for a darker twist to the scheming idea.

A couple of notes, no this is not the deck I would be helping my roommate build before you ask, and I know that the deck will get hate etc. It would be mostly a thought experiment and maybe something I build for a rainy day.

Oh sure, if you want tutors outside of equipment and enchantments you'll probably going to need black. Kaalia of the Vast would be the classic choice, and a mad cleric plotting vengeance against her enemies using chaotic forces seems like it would fit the theme you're looking for. Its a pretty straight forward deck to build. Just a bunch of fatties and Armageddon effects if you're going Try Hard mode.

I like the idea of the mad cleric plotting revenge, but I think for this I would be more thinking about a mad cleric who has become jaded with the world and is plotting complete chaos for everything.

And because of that, I am not interested in the idea of dropping giant fatties so much as the idea of warping the world.

I don't really plan on building the deck because I have too many decks put together or on the cookers right now already, I just want to think about it.

What about Tariel, Reckoner of Souls? I would use stuff like Grand Melee, Angel's Trumpet, Fumiko the Lowblood, Bedlam, etc. to force people to attack recklessly - and then have stuff like No Mercy, Lightmine Field, Powerstone Minefield, Death Pits of Rath, etc. to make those attacks suicidal for most creatures.

Then Tariel gets to (randomly) reap the fruits of the carnage.

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Oh sure, if you want tutors outside of equipment and enchantments you'll probably going to need black.

Artifacts. Enlightened Tutor is disappoint.

RW does have the best boardwipes. So there's that. Also, the artifact synergy, and artifacts are already used a lot in Commander.

For clerics spreading the truth as the world collapses, you can't find much better than False Prophet and Mad Prophet.

Burn at the Stake and Bonfire of the Damned would be suitable for purging heretics. There's a ton more, of course, but those just were the first things that came to mind.

While they tend to be looked down on when compared to most other Boros options, Razia, Boros Archangel & Basandra, Battle Seraph are better equipped to handle this kind of combat/board warping shenanigans, while also not attracting as much worry as Aurelia/Gisela/etc. might.