[EDH] Obzedat, Ghost Council

[Viridia]

So i figured i'd go ahead and build an EDH deck for casual multiplayer shit and gigglez.



Command Zone (1)

1 Obzedat, Ghost Council



Mainboard (99)

35 Lands
1 Cabal Coffers
1 Command Tower
1 Emeria, the Sky Ruin
1 Fetid Heath
1 Godless Shrine
1 Homeward Path
1 Isolated Chapel
1 Marsh Flats
1 Mishra's Factory
1 Phyrexian Tower
7 Plains
1 Scrubland
1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
1 Strip Mine
7 Swamp
1 Tainted Field
1 Tectonic Edge
1 Temple of the False God
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Vault of the Archangel
1 Volrath's Stronghold
1 Wasteland
1 Windbrisk Heights

20 Creatures
1 Angel of Despair
1 Angel of Serenity
1 Avacyn, Angel of Hope
1 Crypt Ghast
1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
1 Grave Titan
1 Kingpin's Pet
1 Lord of the Void
1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
1 Pontiff of Blight
1 Sepulchral Primordial
1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
1 Shriekmaw
1 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Sun Titan
1 Syndic of Tithes
1 Thrull Parasite
1 Tithe Drinker
1 Treasury Thrull
1 Twilight Drover



36 Other spells
1 Austere Command
1 Beseech the Queen
1 Blind Obedience
1 Bond of Agony
1 Chromatic Lantern
1 Coalition Relic
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Damnation
1 Death Denied
1 Death Grasp
1 Debt to the Deathless
1 Debtors' Knell
1 Decree of Pain
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Diabolic Revelation
1 Entreat the Angels
1 Expedition Map
1 Exsanguinate
1 Gilded Lotus
1 Increasing Ambition
1 Lingering Souls
1 Martial Coup
1 Oblation
1 Oblivion Ring
1 Orzhov Cluestone
1 Orzhov Keyrune
1 Orzhov Signet
1 Path to Exile
1 Profane Command
1 Return to Dust
1 Sol Ring
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Vindicate
1 White Sun's Zenith
1 Wrath of God

8 Planeswalkers
1 Elspeth Tirel
1 Elspeth, Knight-Errant
1 Gideon Jura
1 Karn Liberated
1 Liliana of the Dark Realms
1 Liliana Vess
1 Sorin Markov
1 Sorin, Lord of Innistrad



I've focused mainly on slowly extorting people and then draining them out.
There's some control elements, lots of drains and tutors and yeah, here it is. Lemme know what you guys think ;P

[FTW]

Looks like solid EDH cards in general. Since this is an Obzedat deck, for the life drain theme I would consider adding


Vizkopa Guildmage
Sanguine Bond


Either of those cards gets quite ridiculous with Obzedat triggers and extort. And then once running Sanguine Bond (and the enchantment tutoring power of a BW deck), you could easily add Exquisite Blood to immediately kill everyone as soon as you gain life off any extort or Obzedat trigger. Lifegain is usually just "cute", but since you're a controlling extort deck, these cards give you a win condition with reach or just a way to pad your life and stay alive while controlling things.

If you're playing mostly multiplayer, I would consider Bloodchief Ascension. It just gets counters anyway, but it's even easier to get counters if you are regularly extorting or blinking Obzedat. Once active, it goes nuts pretty quickly as stuff is always hitting the graveyard.

[Viridia]

Oh those are some spich cards indeed.

I do plan on playing multiplayer, but i havent actually build the deck yet. What would you suggest cutting to fit those cards in?

[FTW]

Hmmm... Here is how I would build Obzedat. Different strategy, but might be a source of card ideas for you?


//Commander: 1
Obzedat, Ghost Council

//Tutors: 8
Vampiric Tutor
Imperial Seal
Enlightened Tutor
Expedition Map
Demonic Tutor
Idyllic Tutor
Academy Rector
Increasing Ambition

//Card Draw: 7
Skeletal Scrying
Sign in Blood
Night's Whisper
Phyrexian Arena
Ambition's Cost
Ancient Craving
Promise of Power

//Profit Creatures: 25
Serra Ascendant
Thrull Parasite
Soul's Attendant
Soul Warden
Auriok Champion
Suture Priest
Tithe Drinker
Syndic of Tithes
Blind Screecher
Ajani's Pridemate
Kingpin's Pet
Vizkopa Guildmage
Ranger of Eos
Crypt Ghast
Nekrataal
Divinity of Pride
Reveillark
Shriekmaw
Felidar Sovereign
Treasury Thrull
Sun Titan
Wurmcoil Engine
Angel of Despair
Luminate Primordial
Angel of Serenity

//Combo: 2
Sanguine Bond
Exquisite Blood

//Profit Spells: 18
Bloodchief Ascension
Phyrexian Reclamation
Blind Obedience
Reckless Spite
Ashes to Ashes
Oblation
Wing Shards
Lingering Souls
Proclamation of Rebirth
Sorin, Lord of Innistrad
Elspeth, Knight-Errant
Liliana of the Dark Realms
Return to Dust
Rout
Elspeth Tirel
Decree of Pain
Austere Command
Debtor's Knell

//Mana Sources: 40
Sol Ring
Mana Crypt
Orzhov Signet
Darksteel Ingot
Volrath's Stronghold
Starlit Sanctum
Vault of the Archangel
Seraph Sanctuary
High Market
Phyrexian Tower
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
Shizo, Death's Storehouse
Flagstones of Trokair
Scrubland
Godless Shrine
//7 fetchlands
Fetid Heath
Isolated Chapel
Command Tower
8 Plains
7 Swamp


There's absolutely no reason not to max out on enchantment tutors when you have a 2-card enchantment combo. After that, you can also max out on life-for-cards card draw since you can mitigate that lifeloss through Extort and other drain, and you can also abuse Phyrexian Reclamation.

Soul sisters trigger off Obzedat blinking and just give you a lot of life in general in multiplayer games. Cards like Serra's Ascendant, Divinity of Pride and Felidar Sovereign are also kind of silly in games that start with 40 life, especially when you have a ton of ways to gain life back and to recur creatures...

Ajani's Pridemate also gets ridiculously huge off Extort triggers (each stacks separately), soul sister triggers (same) and Obzedat blinks.

[TsumiBand]

What a coincidence! :P heh

I wanted to ask about the Soul Sisters approach, because holy balls that's a ton of weenie creatures. Just the other day I was trolling some Top-8 decklist site somewhere and noticed that the first 3 or 4 decklists for EDH were chock-full of guys with 4cmc or less. I'm not used to that kind of deck panning out in EDH; is this strictly for lulz then, or is there some kind of paradigm shift in EDH that I'm just not hip to, and weenies are ok somehow. I was planning on playing *some* Extort in my Ghost Council of Orzhova list, but I wasn't going to go out of my way for it.

[kombatkiwi]

What a coincidence! :P heh

I wanted to ask about the Soul Sisters approach, because holy balls that's a ton of weenie creatures. Just the other day I was trolling some Top-8 decklist site somewhere and noticed that the first 3 or 4 decklists for EDH were chock-full of guys with 4cmc or less. I'm not used to that kind of deck panning out in EDH; is this strictly for lulz then, or is there some kind of paradigm shift in EDH that I'm just not hip to, and weenies are ok somehow. I was planning on playing *some* Extort in my Ghost Council of Orzhova list, but I wasn't going to go out of my way for it.

I think it's highly likely that you were looking at decklists for the french 1v1 format: Lack of insane artifact ramp and the 30-life total makes the decks look more like 100-card legacy singleton than "hurr durr here is my avenger of zendikar"

[TsumiBand]

I think it's highly likely that you were looking at decklists for the french 1v1 format: Lack of insane artifact ramp and the 30-life total makes the decks look more like 100-card legacy singleton than "hurr durr here is my avenger of zendikar"

Ha. That explains much. All right then.

[FTW]

Yeah, 1v1 EDH is very different.

I chose to run weenies because Extort is way more broken with low-cost spells. You want to hit all your extort triggers all the time, which becomes super mana-intensive. May have gone a tad overboard though.

To commit further to the weenie theme, would need:
Avacyn, Angel of Hope
Mentor of the Meek
Retribution of the Meek
Meekstone
and some other stuff (Eldrazi Monument? Ghostway?)

Otherwise, I might need some more bombs like
Sheoldred, Whispering One
Sepulchral Primordial
Baneslayer Angel
Admonition Angel
Batterskull
Blood Baron of Vizkopa