Alela, Artifact Provocateur

[ashep01]

Hello all,

This is my Alela deck that I have thrown together for EDH nights with some friends here and there.
The play group is quite casual and they strongly believe in "The Spirit of EDH" and so I have been trying to keep that in mind despite coming from a more cutthroat meta previously.

At the moment, I feel like I am pulling the deck in too many directions and need to focus it a little more. I like to play combo/control decks, but this playgroup isn't overly fond of combos... unless, they are 4+ card combos. So, no Mike and Trike type of stuff.

Here are my win conditions and combos:
Alela + Cranial Plating or All That Glitters
Storm off and use Aetherflux Reservoir
Karn Liberated + The Chain Veil + Manifold Key to exile Blightsteel Colossus, Darksteel Colossus or Serra Avatar and ultimate Karn.

I also have the ability to draw out my deck, gain infinite life, make infinite colorless mana and make infinite tokens (I should add a sac outlet so I can just win on the spot with the tokens).

Myr Retriever + Junk Diver + Etherium Sculptor + Foundry Inspector + Jhoira's Familiar + Phyrexian Altar. This is the backbone of the combo. From here I can do any of the above with different cards in my deck.

Alela Artifacts

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Lands

1 Academy Ruins

1 Arcane Sanctum

1 Bloodstained Mire

1 Command Tower

1 Esper Panorama

1 Evolving Wilds

1 Fetid Pools

1 Flooded Strand

1 Godless Shrine

1 Hallowed Fountain

1 Inventors' Fair

1 Irrigated Farmland

1 Myriad Landscape

1 Prairie Stream

1 Strip Mine

1 Sunken Hollow

1 Terramorphic Expanse

1 Wasteland

1 Watery Grave

1 Windswept Heath

3 Plains

3 Swamp

9 Island

Creature

1 Alela, Artful Provocateur

1 Artificer's Assistant

1 Chief Engineer

1 Etherium Sculptor

1 Leaden Myr

1 Myr Retriever

1 Silver Myr

1 Foundry Inspector

1 Hanna, Ship's Navigator

1 Junk Diver

1 Sai, Master Thopterist

1 Jhoira's Familiar

1 Vedalken Archmage

1 Steel Hellkite

1 Serra Avatar

1 Darksteel Colossus

1 Blightsteel Colossus

Ramp

1 Sol Ring

1 Azorius Signet

1 Dimir Signet

1 Fellwar Stone

1 Mind Stone

1 Orzhov Signet

1 Ashnod's Altar

1 Commander's Sphere

1 Phyrexian Altar

1 Seer's Lantern

1 Thran Dynamo

1 Gilded Lotus

Disruption

1 Dispeller's Capsule

1 Executioner's Capsule

1 Nihil Spellbomb

1 Path to Exile

1 Counterspell

1 Deprive

1 Dissipate

1 Dissolve

1 Hinder

1 Nevinyrral's Disk

1 Utter End

1 Wrath of God

Draw

1 Sensei's Divining Top

1 Demonic Tutor

1 Fabricate

1 Jalum Tome

1 Bident of Thassa

1 Diabolic Tutor

1 Thopter Spy Network

Utility

1 Manifold Key

1 All That Glitters

1 Bitterblossom

1 Cranial Plating

1 Hurkyl's Recall

1 Swiftfoot Boots

1 Etchings of the Chosen

1 Lightning Greaves

1 Mimic Vat

1 Mirrage Mirror

1 Staff of Domination

1 Aetherflux Reservior

1 Efficient Construction

1 The Chain Veil

1 Trading Post

1 Open the Vaults

1 Karn Liberated

Approximate Total Cost:

Here are some other relevant cards that I already own and could swap into the deck.

• Necropotence
• Liliana of the Veil
• Make a Stand
• Oblivion Ring
• Mirrodin Besieged
• Arcbound Ravager
• Sword of Vengeance

[RowanKeltizar]

A few cards that might be worth considering:

Skullclamp - insane draw power
Idyllic Tutor - budget tutor
Lightning Greaves - protection for key creatures
Whir of Invention - pretty decent tutor
Dance of the Manse - recursion in commander is always a good thing
Throne of the God-Pharaoh - helps get damage through in a token based strategy
Mystic Forge, Future Sight, or Bolas's Citadel - can give you a ton of card advantage
The Immortal Sun - buffs tokens, reduces costs, hoses planeswalkers

I'm not sure how your playgroup feels about Aetherflux Reservoir but that can be a very solid win-con for this deck. My friend runs a fairly competitive and streamlined build and that is one of his main win-cons. If you use cards like Paradoxical Outcome and cheap or free artifacts you storm out for a win pretty quickly.

[ashep01]

Thanks for replying! I was able to pickup a Lightning Greaves and some other things over the weekend. I thought I had ordered a Skullclamp, but looks like it was dropped from the order. So, I am in the market for one of those.
Also, Aetherflux Reservoir is fair game. Several other people run it, so I was able to pick up one of those as well.

I was able to get in a couple games over the weekend. The first game, I lost to a player dropping Impact Tremors pretty early on and him pumping out tokens as fast as I could.
The second game was against Lord Windgrace and Gorm the Great // Virtus the Veiled. This was a much better game for me. I was able to get out tokens to protect my life early on. And start swinging with Cranial Plating and Alela for the win.

A few cards that might be worth considering:

Skullclamp - insane draw power
Idyllic Tutor - budget tutor
Lightning Greaves - protection for key creatures
Whir of Invention - pretty decent tutor
Dance of the Manse - recursion in commander is always a good thing
Throne of the God-Pharaoh - helps get damage through in a token based strategy
Mystic Forge, Future Sight, or Bolas's Citadel - can give you a ton of card advantage
The Immortal Sun - buffs tokens, reduces costs, hoses planeswalkers

I'm not sure how your playgroup feels about Aetherflux Reservoir but that can be a very solid win-con for this deck. My friend runs a fairly competitive and streamlined build and that is one of his main win-cons. If you use cards like Paradoxical Outcome and cheap or free artifacts you storm out for a win pretty quickly.

Here is what I was able to pickup over the weekend:

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• In:
• 1 Manafold Key
• 11 Darksteel Colossus
• 12 Blightsteel Colossus
• 4 The Chain Veil
• 7 Karn Liberated
• 7 Serra Avatar
• 3 Lightning Greaves
• 2 Swiftfoot Boots
• 4 Aetherflux Reservior
• 4 Utter End
• 3 Hinder
• 3 Dissipate
• 3 Dissolve
• 1 Swamp
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 1 Prairie Stream
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Fetid Pools
• 1 Myriad Landscape
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 1 Hallowed Fountain
• 1 Esper Panorama
• 1 Windswept Heath
• 1 Irrigated Farmland


• Out:
• 1 Voltaic Key
• 3 Crucible of Worlds
• 3 Mirrormade
• 3 Rebuild
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 5 Temporal Fissure
• 5 Blinkmoth Urn
• 1 Disciple of the Vault
• 2 Baleful Strix
• 3 Shimmer Myr
• 3 Thada Adel, Acquisitor
• 5 Ethersworn Adjudicator
• 6 Sharding Sphinx
• 7 Sephara, Sky's Blade
• 1 Plains
• 1 Island
• 1 Vault of Whispers
• 1 Lonely Sandbar
• 1 Underground Sea
• 1 Barren Moor
• 1 Tranquil Cove
• 1 Dismal Backwater
• 1 Seat of the Synod
• 1 Buried Ruin

The goal was to stabilize and improve the mana base. Also, I wanted to include more clear cut win-conditions.