Glissa, the Traitor

For the past weeks I was trying to come up with an idea for a highlander deck. At first I was trying something with blue. I used to play UB control deck, but well such a deck can easily die to many other decks. So next I tried UG but that usually was ending up in planar portal + beacon combo and some really boring cards. In the end I build a silly aggro deck in Naya colors (see Mayael). I didn't like it at all ... even my mono green highlander was more fun and better toolbox than Mayael.

So now...Glissa comes in.

The deck should be able to be cycling artifacts that can take care of a lot. I was trying to figure out a creature recursion as well but not sure how much I want of it. The deck will need to be tested and I will need to figure out what I want and what's missing. There's 38 lands for the time being but I would want to play 35-36 and add maybe Genesis, Regrowth. But for the time being the deck plays nice.

This deck works as EDH deck, but as it can't generate blue mana it loses one of its 'abilities'. As a highlander deck it works with Academy Ruins instead of Glissa.

Glissa, the Traitor

Creatures [18]
1 Acidic Slime
1 Avenger of Zendikar
1 Duplicant
1 Eternal Witness
1 Fertilid
1 Fleshbag Marauder
1 Grave Titan
1 Indrik Stomphowler
1 Oracle of Mul Daya
1 Primeval Titan
1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
1 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Steel Hellkite
1 Sundering Titan
1 Sylvok Replica
1 Wurmcoil Engine
1 Yavimaya Elder

Planeswalkers [3]
1 Garruk Wildspeaker
1 Karn Liberated
1 Liliana Vess

Spells [40]
1 Armillary Sphere
1 Attrition
1 Beast Within
1 Black Sun's Zenith
1 Coalition Relic
1 Crop Rotation
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Cultivate
1 Damnation
1 Darksteel Ingot
1 Darksteel Plate
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Executioner's Capsule
1 Expedition Map
1 Exsanguinate
1 Genesis Wave
1 Gilded Lotus
1 Harmonize
1 Horizon Spellbomb
1 Krosan Grip
1 Lightning Greaves
1 Maelstrom Pulse
1 Mimic Vat
1 Mind Stone
1 Mindslaver
1 Mirrorworks
1 Nevinyrral's Disk
1 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Oblivion Stone
1 Phyrexian Arena
1 Phyrexian Reclamation
1 Profane Command
1 Putrefy
1 Sculpting Steel
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Sylvan Library
1 Umezawa's Jitte
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Wayfarer's Bauble

Lands [38]
1 Academy Ruins
1 Barren Moor
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Cabal Coffers
1 Evolving Wilds
8 Forest
1 Island
1 Llanowar Wastes
1 Mishra's Factory
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Strip Mine
8 Swamp
1 Breeding Pool
1 Tainted Wood
1 Tectonic Edge
1 Terramorphic Expanse
1 Tranquil Thicket
1 Tree of Tales
1 Twilight Mire
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Vault of Whispers
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Volrath's Stronghold