Elenda, the Dusk Rose Deck Tech | Commander Tune-Ups #58 

13:16 Fighting a bauble is beneath me... I'll let my zombie minions take care of that.

Woah thanks for the shout out guys!

13:16 ^_^

My favorite card right now is The Ozolith. That card would make this deck so insane!

I Think "Gift Of Immortality" is great here, decent protection for your commander. If you have a sac outlet you're at a minimum getting a 1/1 each players end step.

I usually never struggle to make my deck higher power, but I always enjoy watching people make decks better through means that aren't making the land base more consistent or adding stuff like mana vault and crypt

I was planning on this being my next commander already, so this video came out with perfect timing! Thanks guys!

This is my favorite series you guys do. It helps me analyze my own personal decks and upgrade them. I struggle pushing the power level of my decks.

I may have missed it, but Animation Module with Elenda and Ashnod's Altar makes infinite sac triggers, colorless mana, and +1/+1 counters for Elenda, which can turn into infinite tokens if you want.

My favorite finds for this deck were Lifeline and Tombstone Stairwell. Getting Elenda back every player's turn and forcing dozens of deaths per turn cycle can get out of hand almost immediately.

I’ve been waiting for this commander to get a good deck tech after the rules change!!!!

Righteousness is a fun card to play with Elenda.

23:55 That is me! Thanks Beezy!

Already own a Elenda deck and now i have some inspiration for some improvments and upgrades. Thanks for that !!

Another great removal spell is Astarion's Thirst in this deck anything to beef up that commander! Also, I love killing elenda but do not like commander tax campfire and netherborn alter helps. My favorite combo is elenda and blade of selves it has a myriad effect but you have to sac due to the legendary rule but it triggers so much on your side!

I've been tinkering with an Elenda deck for a few months and had fun seeing you guys come to the same conclusions I did, ha! I chose to lean into Vampire synergies, but would also suggest: Blade of the Bloodchief, Mirror Entity/Coat of Arms, Teysa Karlov, and Together Forever. They all get pretty wild!

Love these tuneups

Love Elenda, the deck is so much fun!

Grave titan auto include makes zombie tokens all day, omg so good :)

I started playing at Ixalan she was my first Mythic pull and costed about like 5 bucks at the time. I been tuning her up ever since. I know it's not smart but I run exile removal. People get mad at me saying I'm not building right and i say "you mad your creature didn't hit the grave" lol

omg I want to take this deck and put Nethroi as the commander now... Such a great tune-up!

I just pulled her from the list. So im intrigued

Nice decklist, I was joking about the grave titan. I sometimes play casual edh and this would be a deck I would enjoy playing in that sort of pod. Great review, you did not mention teferi’s protection perhaps it was too costly. I would add it.

I have a dumb mono white combo that when someone swings for lethal I flash in selfless squire. On my turn I swing with it and entrapment maneuver on my giant selfless squire

I'm in the middle of building a Teysa deck, and wracking my brain trying to maximize it. This is extremely useful to me.

Awesome, I was planning on building her or teysa, both very cool decks that work well with each other.

Heraldic banner finally getting some love!

19:05 Anointed Procession and Pitiless Plunderer

So for splitting your basics and making some snow, I've found that having just one snow of each type is optimal IF you have the critical mass of fetches. Your fetch just becomes whichever you need. If you can't afford all the fetches then yeah 50/50 is better.

I have an Edgar Markov deck that has evolved into an aristocratic deck centered around the dusk 🌹. Red gives me access to impact tremors, Purphoros, and goblin bombardment.

One of my most beloved commanders ever. I originally built the deck however back when her ability wouldn't trigger if u chose to put her in the command zone instead of gy because i thought it was cool to have this sort of restriction that i had to build around by including several reanimation spells. I was actually kinda disappointed that wotc changed the rules cause i felt that it made the deck strategy too easy but i i guess to each their own.

Stinging Study might be a good fit too for card draw :)

You missed The Ozolith...that card is just value over and over again in this deck

Elenda is expensive now. My friends gave me a foil one for my Edgar deck and at the time it was like $13 foil. Then they changed the commander death rule and it now it’s like $40.

Love the content

One of the best decks I ever had. You know what? try Species Specialist for card draw, each vampire dying giving you cards at your hand, I also use Smothering Abomination

Hey guys, after giving this deck a tune-up, what would you say it's power level is now? based on a 1-10 scale. Thanks guys, love your content.

Great deck tech guys. I looked at building her at launch but never got around to it. With the rules change it looks less fun to play as im concerned games will turn into solitaire? Fantastic card recommendations tho. Keep it up

I hope Elenda gets a reasonable reprint sometime soon. That's one I would not mind having.

Don’t mind me, just taking all these suggestions for my Teysa Karlov deck 😁

Just a random question. Do you guys like the card an-zerrin ruins? I run it in zada and it does serious work

I like playing Orzhov a lot and a ramp card that I feel it's underappeciated, but constantly overperforms on my decks, especially if I have a lot of cheap dummies early on, is Explorer's Scope. It's cheap to play and equip, it is budget friendly, the floor is: gives you information on the upcoming card, while the ceiling is massive. When decks are roughly 1/3 lands, the chances of ramping are quite decent.

Might I suggest "promise of Loyalty"

Another good carddraw card for this deck is Species Specialist. Either name Vampire and watch all your token draw you a new hand or you could name another tribal that an opponent are playing. A really good boardwipe is also Tragic Arrogance. You choose what your opponents can keep and everything else is sacced. Also really good finisher for this deck is: - Hatred. Attack an opponent who has no blocks or that you suspect will not block, then play hatred and pay as much life you want. Finish of the opponent and then you get your life back, and also may sac your Elenda to swarm out with tokens ;) - Ashnod's altar + Nim Deathmantle. With Elenda on the board you can get infinity token and colorless mana (since it will be equiped on Elenda when she dies and give her +2/+2). - Divine Visitation. Really great finisher like Cathars' crusade, just sac Big Elenda in end phase and smash with the angels on your turn.

Ha the wayfarers bauble account made its way here. See them a lot over on the commanders quarters page for obvious reasons.

I am converting my Orah deck over to Elenda. I run a lot of these cards in Orah already, but clerics are just.... clerics. Its a fun deck if you can get an engine going but I find it to be pretty inconsistent.

Another good board wipe would be Divine Reckoning.

Pitiless Plunderer is legit just a non sac outlet phyrexian altar, but your mana even stays. If you're in black sac decks and need phyrexian altar but don't have a small fortune, try it instead

What do you think about Martial Coup in this deck? Also why isn't there a Ghostly Prison?

I just found an infinite combo for colored mana building my own elenda deck. Spawning pit+anointed procession+pitiless plunderer. Sac 10 creatures to pit, get 20 treasure tokens, use 5 to get 10 tokens off spawning pit, rinse and repeat. If you have artist, celebrant, zulaport or elenda its a win on the spot. It nets 15 treasures each time and I can't find it on any mtg reddit boards or commanders spellbook so if anybody is reading this I give full permission for you to run this combo and tell your buddies you came up with it.

Noob question about mdfc's. In the decklist, it says 32 lands, 36 with mdfc. Does that mean i can flip the card to the side I want when I'm playing it? Like it's in my hand in a sleeve, socery side to the front. And if I need a land can i just play it as a land instead? Sorry if it's obvious. I really don't know the answer.

I almist want to go like vampire purest with this.

Can you share your thoughts on Blade of the Bloodchief? You were mentioning how Pitiless Plunderer and a few sac outlets were close to breaking the deck and I feel like it is something that this card really pushes in ridiculous directions.

I've been running elenda as my main deck for years. Some suggestions Coat of arms over Cathod's crusade Dark privilege over carrion feeder Bastion of Remembrance over blood artist Gift of Immortality and lifeline are pretty epic Blade of the blood chief, and teysa And my personal favorite over performer Hatred

I disagree that deadly tempest was the worst. Sure, without the life gain, but the original person had life gain so the goal was originally to use it as a win con. Therefore it WAS an acceptable card pre-tuneup.

Came here to try and cut 2 cards to fit ones in Now I've watched this I have 5 more cards to add and nothing to cut...

Do you guys think feed the swarm is a bad card? I was under the impression that you did but I can't see why.

Great video, I have grown to love you snarky bastards

Plunderer, pit, procession. Badabing, infinite etb and death triggers

Why don't make room for Open the Armory? Is dirty cheap and tutor skullclamp, sword of the animist, by the way also why don't play animate dead (dance of the dead/necromancy) and Leonin Relic-Warder, great cards by itself and easily combo with a zulaport effect

Elenda, Pitiless Plunderer, anointed procession and spawning pit on the field. Sac Elenda to spawning pit get 2 vampires and 2 treasures Sac the vampires to spawning pit to get 4 treasures and spawning pit has 3 charge counters on it Use one treasure to make 2 spawn tokens which you then sac back to spawning pit to get 4 more treasures leaving you with 7 treasures and 3 counters on spawning pit Repeat for infinite treasures which you can use to infinitely cast and sac elenda for infinite vampires etc

What about grafted war gear?!?!

This is my favorite Ledgendary creature

What, no love? The hate is real.

What is an "up version"?

Myr Sire but no doomed traveler?? No Ozolith, no Blade of the Bloodchiedf? NGL this cant be right.

oh yeah, one of two ixalan carss worth money! this set wasnt beloved by fans but its aging well

i cant help but think that blade of the bloodchief is miles better than blackblade reforged also, nim deathmantle

I have a massively tuned Elenda deck and Elspeth is bonkers good. Her second ability is a wrath that hits most of the board but doesnt touch elenda. Or she makes tokens to sac to various things. Or God willing her ultimate gives your team a permanent plus 2 plus 2 and flying. Saying a card sucks because it's not as good as lili dreadhoard general is a logical blunder. I've been rocking those amazing boardwipes and there are so many good ones now. Single combat basically gives you two turns to beat face. It stops people from casting etb creatures which cant be underestimated. The free spell force of despair is just sick with Elenda out. Promise of loyalty has worked out the two times I've played it. Leaving opponents with creatures that cant swing at you is hilarious. Mace of the valiant and blade of the blood chief will win games. I have the ozolith in the deck but somehow have never drawn it. Not once. The thing about Elenda is she basically triumphs over aristocrats decks. She gains life accidentally, profits hugely off of opponents sacrificing critters and can give birth to giant litters of vampire babehs. In my playgroup there is usually 1 aristocrats deck at every game.

No more professional magic!..... nitpicking nerds: have you heard of our patrion?.... 😎

Wasn’t Elenda somewhat of a good guy in the lore? Like I think I remember she was disgusted at what the dusk rose had become since her death when she was resurrected

I like to imagine Elenda is a high school football coach; you're out of here! (Vampiric rites) get in front of this! (Blocks)

If sacrifice themes are called aristocrats, what deck archetype will we declare our underdog blue-collar proletariat?

I want a job so I can join the patreon. Until then ramen and free subscription and sharing the videos links with friends 😎

Sifter of skulls!... I have found my golden pig award winning card!....

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I hate aristocrats and sac outlets. What are the best ways to STOP this strategy when I play against it?

What if the only downvote on this video was the person who requested the tune up? :P

Anointed procession to double your tokens in this deck is disgusting

Phrexian arena is so bad!!! Even ik this xd why is it 20+ bucks

I was promised a view of view nitpicking by your channels name. Instead, all you guys do is actual legitimate well thought out big brain stuff. Where's the nitpicking?

Also... Is Joe single? A guy needs so know and that guy is me

Skullclamp should not be in deck. Too slow

Love love this series!