I suppose i don't need to extoll how good xiahou dun is as a commander in EDH, I found him in one of my old binders together with some of my old P3K cards so i decided to make an EDH deck out of him since my previous attempt at a baron sengir tribal vampire EDH deck got slaughtered in my playgroup.
Some of the choices are based on the Generals i regularly face. I have minimal discard in my deck and quite a bit of graveyard hate because i regularly face Mimeoplasm and you don't really want to discard a Mimeoplasm player's hand and not having stuff to remove cards from the graveyard can be fatal against Mimeoplasm.
I put in quite abit of reanimation to abuse Xiahou Dun, and have quite a number of tutors which i would use xiahou dun to recur to set up my board position. The creatures i chose almost all are potent threats so i force my opponent to kill them or counter them leaving them open to Xiahou Dun + whatever later on. The Edict style sacrifce cards are because targeted removal is not very effective in my playgroup since almost everyone runs swiftfoot boots and lightning greaves and there are alot of shroud hexproof indestructible creatures running around. I also don't run Necropotence because it spells insta death if i get mindslavered which happened alot more times than i care to experience ever again
I would welcome advice on how to improve the deck. I am thinking of changing the swamps to snow covered swamps and add in a scrying sheets but i am having difficulty finding enough foil snow covered swamps so until i can get the foil snow swamps i suppose i will leave the swamps in.
Btw how do i make the name of cards in the decklist link to gatherer etc?
Hmm. You should try Rings of Brighthearth + Basalt Monolith for Corpse Dance with Xiahou Dun. Recur everything eh? Then maybe if you decide that build, have Tendrils of Agony be a finisher.
It's a tad bit risky, but I think Mimic Vat could be just a complete blowout with Xiahou.
I think you'd benefit as well from mana doubling effects such as Extraplanar Lens, Gauntlet of Power, Caged Sun. Being able to just +2 Xiahou without too terrible of mana repercussions could just be sick.
Some of the choices are based on the Generals i regularly face. I have minimal discard in my deck and quite a bit of graveyard hate because i regularly face Mimeoplasm and you don't really want to discard a Mimeoplasm player's hand and not having stuff to remove cards from the graveyard can be fatal against Mimeoplasm.
I put in quite abit of reanimation to abuse Xiahou Dun, and have quite a number of tutors which i would use xiahou dun to recur to set up my board position. The creatures i chose almost all are potent threats so i force my opponent to kill them or counter them leaving them open to Xiahou Dun + whatever later on. The Edict style sacrifce cards are because targeted removal is not very effective in my playgroup since almost everyone runs swiftfoot boots and lightning greaves and there are alot of shroud hexproof indestructible creatures running around. I also don't run Necropotence because it spells insta death if i get mindslavered which happened alot more times than i care to experience ever again
1 Cabal Coffers
1 Vesuva
1 Urborg
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Thawing Glaciers
1 Homeward Path
1 Volrath's Stronghold
26 Snow Covered Swamp
1 Scrying Sheets
1 Avatar of Woe
1 Visara the Dreadful
1 Coffin Queen
1 Gatekeeper of Malakir
1 Cao Cao, Lord of Wei
1 Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief
1 Magus of the Coffers
1 Withered Wretch
1 Puppeteer Clique
1 Abyssal Persecutor
1 Korlash, Heir to Blackblade
1 Myojin of Night's Reach
1 Nezumi Graverobber
1 Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni
1 Graveborn Muse
1 Nirkana Revenant
1 Street Wraith
1 Chainer, Dementia Master
1 Grave Titan
1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
1 Sundering Titan
1 Butcher of Malakir
1 Bane of the Living
1 Diabolic Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Cruel Tutor
1 Beseech the Queen
1 Profane Command
1 Reanimate
1 Promise of Power
1 Ancient Craving
1 Cruel Edict
1 Black Sun's Zenith
1 Mutilate
1 Damnation
1 Overwhelming Forces
1 Decree of Pain
1 Drain Life
1 Sign in Blood
1 Beacon of Unrest
1 Diabolic Edict
1 Geth's Verdict
1 Go for the Throat
1 Dark Ritual
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Hero's Demise
1 Tendrils of Corruption
1 Corpse Dance
1 Phyrexian Arena
1 Animate Dead
1 Necromancy
1 Dance of the Dead
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Expedition Map
1 Rings of Brighthearth
1 Sol Ring
1 Caged Sun
1 Sword of Feast and Famine
1 Liliana Vess
1 Karn Liberated
I would welcome advice on how to improve the deck. I am thinking of changing the swamps to snow covered swamps and add in a scrying sheets but i am having difficulty finding enough foil snow covered swamps so until i can get the foil snow swamps i suppose i will leave the swamps in.
Btw how do i make the name of cards in the decklist link to gatherer etc?
To make the links work on gatherer you have to have a number of copies of each card.
Ex:
Damnation (will show up in just bold font)
1 Damnation (will show up as a link - assuming you've put deck tags around your list)
Edric | Skithiryx | Merieke | Talrand
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Well except for pauper EDH
Garruk's Packleader | Inkfathom Witch | Gelectrode | Sigil Captain | Glider Barin | Sludge Strider | Paragon of the Ameshsa
EDH
BWG Doran Suicide Tempo BWG
BUW Sharuum Midrange Control BUW
KAALIA SMASH!
Intet dreams of times ahead
and more
I think you'd benefit as well from mana doubling effects such as Extraplanar Lens, Gauntlet of Power, Caged Sun. Being able to just +2 Xiahou without too terrible of mana repercussions could just be sick.
Also, look into straight return to hand effects. Tortured Existence, Grim Harvest, Oversold Cemetary and Sword of Light and Shadow all have pretty sweet synergy with Xiahou as well.