Deck # 6: Where Forgiveness is Found (EDH / Commander) [Revision 35]

Pharika, God of Affliction, set the world to right by banishing Tiamat and her evil army to another real and banning them from ever coming to either Theros or to the realm of Planet Earth. Dr. Kylie Moriarty was left devastated after Pharika helped her realize that she had just given the evil Tiamat just what she wanted by making her an army of dragons and clones of dragons. Kylie repented of her wicked ways and performed a ritual of penance.

Pharika explained to Kylie that forgiveness can be found, if you are willing to pay the price. For most, that is lack of memory (that is, Pharika can take away your sins before death and make you pure by stripping you of your library). She would not subject the only doctor almost as good as she was to that. No, she demanded Kylie strip others of their memories of evil so that Pharika could erase their pasts and cleanse them before they came to Athreos. As she began practicing it, Kylie discovered that the forgiveness comes in the process, not the deed itself. And so the quest for redemption had begun.

Purphoros loves this token deck, and he convinces Erebos to help. To show the gods how the project worked, Kylie used the memory-erasing process to purify Oketra's soul. Erebos wanted to see it tested on Heliod, which Pharika and Oketra refused to allow. Pharika stopped the argument by giving Erebos snakes he could take his anger out on. Once the dispute was resolved, Kylie told the gathered company that the only thing that truly mattered was cleaning up time and space so the multiverse wouldn't collapse. All of the token creators are on Purphoros' team. Dr. Moriarty discovered that he does wonders, creating light damage at the arrival of creatures and tokens, especially if Mindcrank should happen to be around.

It was in that midnight moment when Pharika told her she had been forgiven at last for helping Tiamat, and that now she was free to resume her normal work.

The battle strategy is to use creature creation to force my opponents into milling. Which means making tokens works great for me, while doing light damage to my rivals with Purphoros. And this light pain triggers the Mindcrank, so that the pain forces milling. Syr Konrad enhances this and can speed it up.