The Rani - Fight Amongst Yourselves (in progress)

[DirkGently]

The Rani does a lot of work for a 4-drop. It goads, it provides draw, and it's very resilient to removal - the auras it creates persist even if The Rani is removed, and it creates another one on ETB as well as attack, so avoiding Mark of the Rani is all but impossible.

That said, I think most EDHrec lists are pretty trash. They all go 100% in on goad, which seems doubly pointless - one, many decks either are strong against goad and/or won't often have many creatures to bother goading, and two, the only payoff The Rani has for extra goad is extra clues, which means you're going to be throttled on mana to take advantage of them (without extra support).

Anyway, I've got a couple of angles I want to come at this from. One angle is that effects that limit how many creatures can attack can be used in tandem with goad to completely control combat.

The other angle is to focus on clues primarily as artifact tokens, along with a bunch of ways to trigger on things that care about artifacts, tokens, etc. Having them as draw is a nice bonus but the main gameplan for winning is to use large numbers of artifact tokens in various ways.

Current status (in progress)

Ronny

DecklistCMCManaPricesChartsDraw 7

Commander (1)

1 The Rani

Artifact Exploitation

1 Rise and Shine

1 Ghirapur Aether Grid

1 Karn, Living Legacy

1 Nadier's Nightblade

1 Mirkwood Bats

1 Mechanized Production

1 Monumental Corruption

1 Universal Surveillance

1 Shimmer Dragon

1 Indomitable Creativity

1 Hellkite Tyrant

1 Karn, Scion of Urza

1 Academy Manufactor

1 Krark-Clan Ironworks

1 Tamiyo's Journal

1 Treasure Map

1 Tezzeret, Artifice Master

1 Tezzeret, Betrayer of Flesh

1 Storm the Vault

1 Tezzeret the Schemer

1 Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge

1 Mayhem Devil

1 Cranial Plating

1 Galazeth Prismari

1 Urza, Lord High Artificer

1 Agent of the Iron Throne

1 Marionette Master

1 Disciple of the Vault

1 Cyberdrive Awakener

Artifact token production

1 The Reaver Cleaver

1 Olivia's Attendants

1 Treasure Nabber

1 Noble's Purse

1 Shiny Impetus

1 Beamtown Beatstick

1 Visions of Phyrexia

1 Descent into Avernus

1 Dockside Extortionist

1 Curse of Opulence

1 Forsworn Paladin

1 Zhentarim Bandit

1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon

1 Ancient Copper Dragon

Combat Control

1 Silent Arbiter

1 Propaganda

1 Crawlspace

1 Bothersome Quasit

1 Disrupt Decorum

1 Maze of Ith

1 Caverns of Despair

1 Bedlam

1 Collective Restraint

Commander Protection

1 Mask of Riddles

1 Displacer Kitten

1 Winged Boots

1 Cunning Evasion

1 Alora, Merry Thief

1 Aqueous Form

1 Whirler Rogue

1 Crystal Shard

1 Sword Coast Sailor

1 Sword of Hearth and Home

1 Erratic Portal

1 Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar

1 Tawnos's Coffin

1 Whispersilk Cloak

1 Nephalia Smuggler

Removal

1 Visions of Ruin

1 Blood Money

1 A bunch of other normal stuff

Ramp

1 some 2-drop rocks

Tutors

1 Stuff

Lands

1 Sanctum of Eternity

39 A bunch of stuff

Approximate Total Cost:

[Haman]

U r quite right about too much goad..
I have a testing rani deck, and
A. Some players just proceed to cast their fatty
B. Trying to kill my rani
C. Not casting creatures to avoid being goad
D. Keep attacking me relentlessly.

My game last night, fought a ghired player who cheatily have paralel life every game.... i keep goading his rhino , redirecting 16 damages and keep eating 8 from combat trigger despite having propaganda and weeping angels, while the rest if the table tries to kill my rani..
I did not run as much goading creatures.. i ran about 4 blink 4 counters 4 unblockable equipment 1 x swiftfoot...

So have you tested yr listing? Is runnung 40 lands bwtter than 37 with 6 rocks?