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Though 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Magic the Gathering's Sorin Markov created the archangel Avacyn to protect humanity from the monsters that lurk throughout Innistrad, she wasn't the only angel. Following her were the naturally-occurring Angels of the plane, the Flight of Goldnight led by Gisela, the Flight of Alabaster led by Bruna, and the Flight of Herons led by Sigarda. And yet, millennia ago, there was a fourth flight: the Flight of Dusk led by Liesa.
Liesa aimed to protect humanity the same as her sisters, but she did so in less conventional ways. She would often ally herself with the very monsters that sought to destroy the humans, under the justification of "know your enemy". This caused the other angels to distrust her, but it greatly enraged Avacyn. Avacyn's justice was as absolute as it was rigid, and she destroyed Liesa and her entire Flight as punishment.
Angels and Demons on Innistrad never die, they simply disappear and reform once their power has been built back up. It wasn't until thousands of years later, at the time of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Innistrad: Midnight Hunt, that Liesa finally reformed.
This week we're celebrating Liesa's return from the dead with an incredibly mean sacrifice deck. Killing our creatures for profit is one thing, but making your opponents kill their creatures is a whole other, and infinitely more funny, kettle of fish. With a few infinite combos and lots of ways to above death, this is a deck that's sure to make you the scariest person at the table. This week, we're building .
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Liesa, Forgotten Archangel is a 4/5 Orzhov Angel that costs two generic, two white, and one black. She has flying and lifelink, but her real power is in her other abilities: if another creature you control dies, it's returned to your hand at the next end step. If an opponent's creature dies, it's exiled instead. The plan is to not let our opponents have any creatures by making them sacrifice them while yanking our creatures back from the graveyard every turn.
Ramp
This deck isn't using too much in the way of ramp, simply because we have ways to churn through our creatures for quick and dirty mana production.
Gift of Estates lets us catch up with lands when we're behind, but our real drivers are going to be Ashnod's Altar, Phyrexian Altar, and Black Market. The first two let us 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:sacrifice creatures for two generic or one of any colour respectively, wh🍷ile Black Market gives us more and more black mana equal to the number of creatures who have died while it was out. With the plan being to make virtually every creature die at some point or another, Black Market is going to get big incredibly quickly.
Another decent card is Dire Fleet Hoarder, a creature that costs one generic and one black and makes a treasure token when it dies. Though on its own it isn't going to do much, combined with some other cards in the deck it could net us a lot of treasures for no cost to us.
We'll also be using a few mana rocks: Orzhov Signet, Sol Ring, and Thought Vessel. That last one is particularly useful, as we're likely to have a very big hand with how many creatures are coming back from the graveyard each turn.
Draw
Black's great at card draw, as long as the cost is paid – that cost often being a creature dying. Liesa makes death less of a pain for us, so let's abuse that for an absurd amount of draw.
Grim Haruspex, Midnight Reaper, and Harvester of Souls are three creatures that let you draw a card whenever one of your nontoken creatures die. They don't have ways built-in to sacrifice a creature and get that draw, but having them out will almost certainly give you a massive amount of card advantage. The one thing to keep an eye on is Midnight Reaper, because if you combo off with infinite death triggers, you're going to end up killing yourself at the same time.
Next, Bankrupt in Blood and Priest of the Forgotten Gods let you draw cards in exchange for sacrificing a creature. Priest of the Forgotten Gods also forces as many opponents as you want𒊎 to sacrifice a creature and gives you mana, making it an incredible part of this deck.
Outside of simple draw, Razaketh the Foulblooded is expensive to cast but allows you to sacrifice a creature to search your library for any card. With Vampiric Tutor, Demonic Tutor and Idyllic Tutor also being in this deck, it's more than enough to find all the combo pieces you need.
Forcing A Sacrifice
This deck revolves around using Liesa's ability to make us sacrificing our creatures a non-issue while making it devastating for our opponents. For that, we want our own sacrifice outlets, permanents that like things dying, and ways to make our opponents sacrifice their stuff as well.
To force sacrifices, we're running the creatures Fleshbag Marauder, Demon's Disciple, Merciless Executioner, and Plagecrafter, who all force a sacrifice when they enter the battlefield. Just sacrifice them to themselves, and you'll be able to re-cast them on the next turn thanks to Liesa for easy, repeatable sacrifices every turn. There's also Abyssal Gatekeeper, who does the opposite and requires opponents to sacrifice a creature when it dies.
That's a bit small-fry, though. Archfiend of Depravity makes opponents sacrifice all but two of their creatures on their end step, and Anowon the Ruin Sage makes everybody sacrifice a non-vampire on your upkeep. Anowon is a risky play, though, as it can't sacrifice itself, and could potentially force you into sacrificing Liesa if played too early.
The really useful ones are the mass sacrifice sources. Torment of Hailfire holds a gun to your opponents' heads and tells them to either sacrifice their permanents or lose three life several times. Dictate of Erebos and Grave Pact force sacrifices whenever a creature you control dies, and with how often we'll be burning up our forces, it could easily be the same as a board wipe if you let it.
Sacrifice Our Creatures
Next, we need ways to kill our stuff off.
The go-to creature for this is Viscera Seer, who can sacrifice a creature to let you scry one card. There's also the altars (Ashnod's Altar, Altar of Dementia, and Phyrexian Altar), Razaketh the Foulbooded, Woe Strider and Fleshtaker, who can serve as instant-speed sacrificial outlets.
It's worth mentioning Westvale Abbey. It starts out as a land but can sacrifice five other creatures to transform into 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Ormendahl, Profane Prince. Having a 9/7 with flying, indestructible, lifelink and has🔜te is ridiculous, especially when making it actually advances our game🌃 plan.
Creatures who can sacrifice themselves are also useful. Pawn of Ulamog makes Eldrazi tokens that can be churned for o🅘ne colourless mana, and Selfless Savior, Selfless Spi🐻rit, and Mother of Runes all add extra layers of protection.
Time To Win
Having lots of creatures dying every turn is great, but it isn't necessarily a way to win. For that, we want to use permanents with death triggers to drain our opponents of all their life.
Zulaport Cutthroat, Corpse Knight, Cruel Celebrant, Bastion of Remembrance and The Meathook Massacre all chip away at the table's life whenever a creature you control dies. Meanwhile, Syr Konrad, the Grim does it whenever a creature either enters or leaves the Battlefield – twice the number of triggers in a Liesa deck.
Though there's a good chance you can win just through there, there are a couple of infinite combos in here that can be used to really pour the fuel on the fire if you're feeling like it.
Luminous Broodmoth is an incredible card that immediately returns any dying creature without flying to the battlefield and gives it a flying counter. Combine that with Solemnity, which prevents counters being put on anything, and an instant-speed sacrifice outlet like Ashnod's Altar or Viscera Seer. The result is a creature dying, being brought back with Luminous Broodmoth, not being given flying thanks to Solemnity, and being sacrificed to repeat the loop over and over again.
There's also Gravecrawler, Phyrexian Altar and Corpse Knight. Gravecrawler costs one black mana, and can be cast from your graveyard if you control another Zombie, like Corpse Knight. You can endlessly sacrifice Gravecrawler to the Ashnod's Altar to make one black mana, and then use it to pay to cast Gravecrawler once again.
Outside of draining your opponents through death triggers, there are a few more ways to win. Sacrifice enough creatures to Ashnod's Altar to make a lot of colourless mana, and use it to cast a Torment of Hailfire. Make it big enough and each opponent will have to discard their entire hand, sacrifice all their nonland permanents, and then die anyway to the damage.
As a last-ditch resort, this strategy does clear the way for a combat approach, Liesa is big enough to deal with enemiꦬes fairly quickly, but Ormandahl, Profane Prince is the real heavy hitter for this. Focus on keeping your opponents open and hitting with your big creatures, and you could just smash them to pieces instead of trying anything fancy.
Power Down the Deck
Liesa is an inherently oppressive Commander, which makes playing her at lower power tables something of a challenge. She's definitely the kind of Commander that you'll want to discuss extensively in any rule zero discussion, and always make sure you take an alternative deck for if the other three players aren't feeling up to endlessly having their creatures exiled.
If you want to try and power it down, you could take out the tutors. Keep Razaketh, as he is𝓰 an expensive sacrifice outlet as well, but remove Demonic, Vampiric and Idylic Tutor to slow your strategy a bit.
You could also consider snipping the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:infinites. Gravecrawler and Solemnity are probably the safest cuts for this, as it keeps the benefits Luminou🎀s Broodmoth and Corp🦋se Knight give you without letting them do it indefinitely.
Finally, maybe remove the protection that keeps Liesa in play and make it so taking her out lets your opponents can buildﷺ up their board states a bit more. Swiftfoot Boots, Lightning Greaves, Mother of Runes, Selfless Spirit, and Selfle💃ss Savior can make touching your Commander difficult.
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