Why You Should Play: Mono White in EDH | Commander 

For ramp: White's best ramp remains it's ability to reanimate permanents. Brought Back, Sevinne's Reclaimation, Sun Titan, and Serra Paragon are a way better package than the catch-up land cards. White's also the best mono-color to use equipment ramp, i.e. stuff like Sword of the Animist. Finally, white also has ways to fetch lands out of the library - I'm a huge fan of Tithe, but even something like Ambitious Farmhand is a very good card that synergizes with a lot of what white wants to do. There's also the oft-forgotten Endless Horizons and Oreskos Explorer. For draw: You missed out on Tocasia's Welcome for weenie draw. Again, white is happy to default to the equipment package here if it needs to, just like with ramp. Second, everyone wrote off the "you and target player draw a card" mechanic after Secret Rendezvous but there's actually been some solid cards released for that in recent history too: Cut a Deal, Tenuous Truce, and Loran of the Third Path are the main standouts but others exist (I'm trying out the new Teyo planeswalker in a couple decks). There's also a developing "when you attack with two or more creatures" draw package too, with Minas Tirith and Chivalric Alliance. I'll note as well that white is very well-positioned to introduce and maintain the monarchy and/or initiative into games. For removal: Yep, it's a very long list with enough decent cards that you can/should start picking based on theme and not just for effect. I'll keep it short with just two mentions I rarely see: Unexpectedly Absent and Soul Partition. Both are much better effects than people give credit for, both can be used in a pinch to protect your own stuff, and both can hit any nonland permanent. Wincons: Sigarda's Summons is fun. White also has some sneaky-good support for voltron auras (Unquestioned Authority, Mantle of the Ancients). Honestly I still think Moonshaker Cavalry is wildly overrated, white's had similar effects for ages (Mirror Entity, Goldknight Commander, Cathar's Crusade, Starlight Spectacular). There's also Brave the Elements-type effects that can serve double-purpose as overruns or as protective options. Graveyard: You forgot Emeria The Sky Ruin, Hall of Heliod's Generosity, Karmic Guide, and Sevinne's Reclaimation. More generally, everyone drastically underestimates white's recursion - there's a million cards to get back low-CMC stuff, but you can also get enchantments, creatures, and equipment at decent rates. Other Notables: The biggest thing that you haven't mentioned is that white is a great color for *defensive* interaction. Teferi's Protection is more-or-less unique, but if we're just looking to keep our things alive (as opposed to our face) there's things like Clever Concealment, Cosmic Intervention, or Unbreakable Formation as well as Brave the Elements that I already discussed. It's also got Reprieve, the "of Runes" family, Selfless Spirit, and several Brought Back-like effects.

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Until recently every single time I have tried to make a mono white deck I've failed. Not because they wouldn't be well designed but because honestly every other color in magic would accomplish the goal I was trying to do better and with less financial investment. Honestly it wasn't until I just decided to go full jank that I managed to make a mono white deck that feels powerful... and you know what? It still would have been stronger and cheaper as a green deck. The ramp is restrictive, the card draw is nearly non existent or forced group hug. About the only thing white does well is tokens and if we're all being honest here a token strat is still more powerful splashed with another color. White doesn't even have life gain anymore as green and black both have some really good options. I'm not sure why wizards seems to hate mono white.

Working on my Giada/Artifact deck and this has helped loads! Great video! Mono white will get the love we need....hopefully 🤣

Great video!

White is green's younger brother. I honestly dont understand why white needed land ramp. I mean the other non-green colors dont have land ramp. But i do think giving white more card draw is going in the right direction. White's power is in building a board state and board wiping. I think giving white more ways to protect their board/permanents is where they can improve on monowhite's power level. But idk im not a designer so what do i know lol 😅😂

Great video, thank you!

I want to play white because I love what it represents: love and community. 💛🏥

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Video was awesome dude. This video is a couple months old, but every deck I run has some form of White in it, wether it be Gishath for Gruul stompy with white's protection or Caesar for Mardu aristocrats strategies. A few of my faves that i run in Caesar are Grand Abolisher, Myrel, Shield of Argive, Ojer Taq, Divine Visitation, and Cathar's Crusade

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Great summary.

I am playing Light-Paws Emperor's Voice and every aura with flash becomes a tutor-like effect for auras for my commander that goes directly onto the battlefield.

I'm a bit late to the mono-white party. Really enjoyed your talk. I have been playing variants of Lin SIvvi, and Defiant Hero almost exclusively for the past ten years. One thing I'd like to add is how well WOTC has been at making distinct mono-white commanders that also have unique 99's to that commander. I took a quick look through EDHREC mono-white commanders. We have Giada, Light Paws, Elesh Norn/Preston, Heliod(s), Darien, God-Eternal Oketra, Oswald, Sram, Odric, Teshar/Gandalf, Mondrak/Bennie Bracks, Lin Sivvi, Celestine the Living Saint. As a mono-white player, I have enjoyed what WOTC has done and look forward to seeing what they will do with white.

Some other notable mentions for boardwipes are Mass Calcify which wipes all nonwhite creatures and Phyrexian Rebirth that wipes the board but gives you an X/X Phyrexian Horror in return where X was the amount of creatures that died. For card draw, there's also Tocasia's Welcome from Brother's War that works the same as Welcoming Vampire

White is my fave mono color in edh. Ive got a Greymond humans deck, and a Delney Streetwise mentor deck.

jazal goldmane: card draw? where we're going we won't need card draw! *puts on time traveler goggles and steppes into his delorean 88x88 army of white soldier tokens* jokes aside still very much love my jazal goldmane on a stick, its just a craterhoof behemoth/moonshaker cavalry in the commandzone. a killer combo is secure the wastes for x=7 just before your turn and then drop jazal and pop his ability and swing in for a bajillion damage

My fav color is white. I use Darian King of Kjeldor as my mono commander. It always gives my enemies pause when they realize attacking me just increased my soldier army count, and thanks to the Soul Sisters, I've even increased my life total 😁

I build a mono-White EDH deck about five years ago and still run it on a consistent basis, granted it isn't anywhere near a CEDH deck, but it's something I've enjoyed over the years of playing Magic. I remember the biggest issue with mono-White was the complete lack of reliable card draw, so much of that time I dedicated various kinds of artifacts and enchantments that allowed me to filter out lands or get an additional draw. Today mono-White has a much easier time drawing cards, which has made mono-White way more viable than before. It's an old statistic, but White has/was considered the weakest color of the color wheel when it comes to EDH. That was the main reason I built a mono-White EDH deck, out of spite. (I man: Oketra, God- Eternal and main theme anthems with an angel/cleric sub-theme.)

As a White Mage, giving Mono White is so powerful it almost shouldn't be given card draw. It does so good protecting itself AND YOU! i.e. Healing Salve was the meme of the og 3for1 but it was the only one that kept you alive for one more turn, perhaps the final turn you needed to win. I built a (99%) mono white Heliod Radiant Dawn deck pillowfort heavy enchantment followed by instants then artifacts and some support creatures. Approach of the 2nd sun win con My opponents absolutely hate the fact how hard it becomes to kill me And get rid of my wincard Approach. I got big beaters for 1v1 endgame. Imagine robe of stars on kozilek butcher phased out, instant speed board wipe while my commander is swiftly reconfigured as an vehicle surviving creature hate and protected by greater auramancy. Replenish all my dead enchantments n start all over again. Throw in all the new white counter magic: Aven Interruptor and Reprieve then lapse of Certainty, warping wail, mana tithe stopping a force of will lol oh and Boromir, Warden of the Tower. Point is shown that Mono White is very powerful, azorius is not my style. I dont want to control or stax the board. It's better to have your opponents fight thru the battlefield killing each other vs being the 3v1 Azorius enemy. Any white paring gives that protective and removal support. Now go on and build the Best (or worst, evil, degenerate) Mono-White deck and make the bullies cry lol

Few other Wilds of Eldraine cards for mono white that I think are pretty good: Stroke of Midnight (a second copy of Generous Gift), Court of Ardenvale (similar to Sun Titan), and Discerning Financier (ramp and card draw with some politics for good measure)

I have 2 mono-white decks and an Orzhov aristocrat deck for EDH. I want to add that hatebears are one of the best things Mono-white has to offer to let you play the game. All the other colors usually have an answer to anything, but with cards like Grand Abolisher and Dranith Magistrate solve and equalizes board state problems. My group hates it, only because they're combo players in which they deserve it lmao

Dispatch has always been a personal favourite, just a better path/swords in any artifact themed deck.

I don't play edh, but in Vintage I play mono Colorless with a splash of wubrg.

Mono white land ramp has fun tricks with fetch lands, prismatic vista, myriad landscape, and lotus vale/field. It has a bunch of cards that return low MV permanents to the battlefield that entered the yard this turn. Crack your fetch, get your land, cast a return permanent spell to bring the fetch back, do it again. Lotus vale/field works that same way except you return the 2 lands you just sacrificed to the battlefield. [Brought Back, Cosmic Intervention, Court of Ardenvale, Faith's Reward, Invoke Justice, Jailbreak, Samwise the Stout, Shepherd of the Cosmos, Sudden Salvation] Some of these are too expensive to be exclusively ramp focused but they are all modal. Cosmic Intervention is the all-star with these tricks as you can trigger it again in the end step with proper trigger stacking. Sevinne's Reclamation and Sun Titan can get any low MV permanent back to the battlefield with no time restriction. Finally, I regularly run both Paths to Exile and Settle the Wreckage against my own creature tokens as primary ramp in white token decks with their backup being removal if needed.

Love my King Darien deck.

The gaffer is good card draw in life gain, rumor gatherer and Bennie bracks for token decks, and tocasias welcome and dawn of the new age are good too.

My mono white h Heliod deck always does well. I can either win with walking ballista, I can add +1+1 counters and beat everyone down, or I can win with life total with test of endurance or felidar sovereign.

I've been playing monowhite and regreting for years, but let's take a look at this video and see if it changes my mind.

I pulled Greymond, Avacyn’s Stalwart out of an eldraine pack and I’m going to build mono white human tribal deck

Use lotus field and lotus vale in mono white to have less lands than your opponents

Id actually say my best commander deck is my mondrack token pile

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What best cause mondrak and elesh norn…dont @ me 😂

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White really is one of the best support colors in the game. Really specialized into control, like any permanent removal, full on wipes, and literally the best protection spell in the game bar none, but frankly beyond a few cards powerful wincons, white just isn't good enough to play as a mono colored deck. It has none of the explosiveness that others colors have in a mono colored deck, and generally plays the tempo game while every other color storms off and does mana cheating shenanigans. I always love when white is a suplementary color, but frankly mono white seems unplayable.

I'm curious about this video, but let's face it; I'd rather play MTG than watch an (almost) hour-long video

Use lotus field and lotus vale in mono white to have less lands than your opponents