Greven, Rakdos Death Knight (EDH / Commander)

PLAY GUIDE
Like a Death Knight, Greven will drain your life to hit your opponents HARD. And that's no exaggeration, if you get lucky this deck can knock a player out of the game on turn 4 or 5!
Greven is very aggressive, you can't afford to play it conservatively as he doesn't really do clean "one turn" knock outs. You can sometimes knock two players out at the same time (with the right cards), but if you want to win, don't feel bad about taking out the player who's the biggest threat to you first. Trust me, the game won't go long after you pick up some steam.
Long-game wise you've got a powerful card draw engine with Greven's sacrifice ability, and using it even once will likely give you the tools you need to win.
You've gotta go low (your life total) to get your opponents low with Greven, so I've supplemented the deck with a few life gain cards to pull you back from the brink and give the table another round of Rakdos chaos!
Greven is your boy, treat him right and he'll return the favor. Your opponents are gonna kill him.. A lot.. You can't really blame them for it, so be ready to protect him and revive him whenever you can.

CARD NOTES
-Whip of Erebos: Be careful with exiling Greven, you get maximum 2 or 3 recasts from the command zone. Once you're paying more than 10 mana for him, you're going to be very far behind!
-Final Parting: Discard Anger or in corner cases, one of your flashback cards (Seize the Day or Faithless Looting).
-Fire Covenant, Phyrexian Purge: Don't feel bad using these aggressively to drop your own life total, getting Greven into kill range is value enough without the removal effect.
-Killing Wave: The duality of this card plays incredibly well into your game plan, definitely hold it for a big X though, because it can win games.

MULLIGAN GUIDE

1. A protection spell (look after your Greven!)
2. Three mana sources (A five mana commander in an aggro deck is already slow enough, don't make it slower by mana screwing yourself)
3. Ramp/Haste enablers (Anything to get Greven going sooner).

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   STATS
   Win Con: 12
   Life Outlet: 13
   Life Gain: 11
   Sac Target: 12
   Protection/Revival: 12
   Speed Increase:10
   Card Advantage: 10
   Card Selection: 2
   Targeted Interaction/Interferance: 10
   Board Wipes: 3
   Ramp: 12
   Lands:36