Kelsien - Mardu Equip Control

[ISBPathfinder]

For a long time, I have been asking for a Lightning Angel commander. I guess this is getting fairly close now even if it doesn't have flying the growth over time and small ping removal are all really nice. When I saw this commander get spoiled I knew I wanted to build it but its a tricky one to build for sure.

Lets get into the build. When I looked at the commander the natural synergies I saw were:

• Equipment - Whenever I see a commander that is 3 or less mana I immediately start thinking about things like Sword of the Animist and Dowsing Dagger just because the natural curve options are really nice. I also saw some sweet synergy with a number of other equipment with this commander and we are in white red so I naturally started looking into some equipment options.
• Control / Removal - Instead of trying to get there fast, I wanted to play a more interactive gameplan given that given time we get more experience.
• Deathtouch - I ended up picking up a decent bit of deathtouch enabling because it makes the commander into actual removal. Beyond that though we want to kill things we ping so it changed the ping from a token killer to an anything killer. There are more means to give deathtouch but for now, I think I am deep enough to get some testing in.
• Lifelink - I lack flying and I have seen a decent number of decks going with some non combat damage wincons such as aristocrat drains or spellslinger pings. Given that my goal for this deck was more of a control concept I wanted some long game sustain which I felt gaining life was a good option for.
• Untap / Copy - If you can copy the commander's ping or untap her, its possible to put a lot of counters on fast. I used a little bit of this but I really tried to tone it back because I felt like in a lot of cases I wasn't really going to get value out of these effects outside of the commander. There were a few that seemed like good effects even outside of my commander which I included but as I started delving into things like Thousand-Year Elixir I quickly felt like those cards weren't effective enough.
• Evasion - the commander by default is terribly easy to chump block. I added some trample, protections, and a little fear stuff in. I really wanted to be more of a control deck than a voltron though so its possible I could bring this element up. It was more of a secondary concept behind the others.

So, I guess this is what I have for now. Its all untested and a rough draft as of right now. @Tryno and I were exchanging some notes as we were building our lists so we have a number of similarities in our builds.

Decklist

DecklistCMCManaPricesChartsDraw 7

COMMANDER (1)

1 Kelsien, the Plague

CREATURES (17)

1 Selfless Spirit

1 Stoneforge Mystic

1 Burnished Hart

1 Splendor Mare

1 Stinkweed Imp

1 Iroas, God of Victory

1 Kalemne, Disciple of Iroas

1 Olivia Voldaren

1 Palace Jailer

1 Queen Marchesa

1 Rekindling Phoenix

1 Snapdax, Apex of the Hunt

1 Solemn Simulacrum

1 Aurelia, the Warleader

1 Godo, Bandit Warlord

1 Sun Titan

1 Void Beckoner

ARTIFACT (16)

1 Basilisk Collar

1 Nihil Spellbomb

1 Shadowspear

1 Sol Ring

1 Wayfarer's Bauble

1 Arcane Signet

1 Dowsing Dagger

1 Illusionist's Bracers

1 Sword of the Animist

1 Thaumatic Compass

1 Tome of Legends

1 Umezawa's Jitte

1 Crucible of Worlds

1 Sword of Fire and Ice

1 Sword of Truth and Justice

1 Batterskull

ENCHANTMENT (4)

1 Reconnaissance

1 Ghostly Prison

1 Greed

1 Painful Quandary

INSTANT (14)

1 Tithe

1 Vampiric Tutor

1 Bile Blight

1 Bladebrand

1 Go for the Throat

1 Heliod's Intervention

1 Starstorm

1 Anguished Unmaking

1 Chaos Warp

1 Generous Gift

1 Kaya's Guile

1 Necrobite

1 Deadly Trick

1 Return to Dust

SORCERY (10)

1 Steelshaper's Gift

1 Demonic Tutor

1 Painful Truths

1 Read the Bones

1 Sevinne's Reclamation

1 Toxic Deluge

1 Fiery Confluence

1 Mythos of Snapdax

1 Tragic Arrogance

1 Austere Command

PLANESWALKER

LAND (38)

1 Arid Mesa

1 Badlands

1 Blood Crypt

1 Bloodstained Mire

1 Castle Locthwain

1 Clifftop Retreat

1 Command Tower

1 Dragonskull Summit

1 Fetid Heath

1 Flooded Strand

1 Forbidden Orchard

1 Godless Shrine

1 Graven Cairns

1 Isolated Chapel

1 Marsh Flats

2 Mountain

4 Plains

1 Plateau

1 Polluted Delta

1 Prismatic Vista

1 Rugged Prairie

1 Sacred Foundry

1 Scalding Tarn

1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse

1 Scrubland

1 Strip Mine

2 Swamp

1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

1 Verdant Catacombs

1 Volrath's Stronghold

1 Wasteland

1 Windswept Heath

1 Wooded Foothills

Approximate Total Cost:

[darrenhabib]

Not tempted by Daxos the Returned? Obviously going to get very little out of casting enchantments for experience with only 4 enchantments in the deck, but pumping out 5/5 or whatever for 1wb could be a thing.
Then the dream is more like 10/10.