Deck # 8: The Ban Game (EDH / Commander) [Revision 27]

Dr. Kylie Moriarty's newest experiment with preventing the planeswalkers from continuing to do the damage they've done is by returning to the theory of Where Forgiveness is Found. But this time, she scarcely bothers with dragons beyond her dear friend Silumgar, favoring one of her favorite tactics instead: An air force of shroud and hexproof flying creatures.
How did this come about in the first place? Because Silumgar, the Drifting Death, asked Dr. Moriarty to make him a god. And the shocking this is, she agreed (after asking Pharika's permission first, that is). He dreams of becoming God of the Moon.

 Normally a card I would never run, the need for a blue/green legendary led me to the slightly medical and surprisingly good draw card Tatyova, Benthic Druid.  She generally would not leave the merfolk she protects, but she wishes to become the Goddess of Fresh Water to better safeguard her merfolk.  

 Muldrotha, the Gravetide, is also interested in becoming a God.  Goddess of Rebirth would suit her just fine.  

As usual, Dr. Moriarty's real game is that she's working on a Helix Pinnacle, having become convinced that Simic Ascendancy is too unstable after subjecting her work to peer review.

She is also crafting a contract that looks just like Liliana's Contract, but it isn't quite. This contract evolves artificially. Technically, the contract in Kylie's lab undergoes an Artificial Evolution, because only a fool or an American would make a contract with demons. Why bother, when you can make a contract with the gods? For this time, however, she makes clones, not merely of Pharika and Kruphix, but of Phenax, Bontu, Kefnet, Erebos, and Thassa.
Liliana's Contract remains her second win condition, but she knows how vulnerable it is to offended planeswalkers, so she's come up with a means of protecting it: First, use a Liquimetal Coating to turn the Liliana's Contract, or any other card she wants to protect, into an artifact until end of turn. Once that's done, she can use Lifecraft Awakening, which turns artifacts into vehicle creatures. With her ability to make her army hexproof and indestructible, working with what turns out to be Kylie's Contract should be much more fun.
The Artificial Evolution trick can also work with Silumgar, turning his -1/-1 effect on adversary creatures if dragons attack into any other creature he wants her to. Most frequently, this will be gods rather than creatures, but he can also make it work with cats or saprolings. Jade Mage is an effective creator of saprolings, but Artificial Evolution can easily change that to cat tokens. This matters if Qasali Slingers is around,
Pharika, God of Affliction, can also be convinced to make cat tokens rather than snakes. With all the mana Dr. Moriarty can raise, she can create tokens practically all the time. This is fine with Phenax, as well as the medical team of Essence Warden and Social Climber.

Bontu has already proven herself to be invaluable, for if either Gravewaker or Muldrotha are on the field, Bontu makes sacrificing any creature in the army easy, and giving slight scry and lifegain power while doing it. In practice, this means she sacrifices a land search creature, a creature kill creature, an anti-artifact/enchantment creature, or even most importantly, the Rune-Scarred Demon.
Because those two cards can bring creatures back from the graveyard, the results are that Dr. Moriarty can use Bontu to sacrifice any one of, bring them back, and immediately sacrifice them again. It seems useless, but Awakening, Bear Umbra, or a great deal of found basic lands from using this trick more than justify it.

The clone of Phenax challenges her, approving of her token-making and her magic-resistant flying force, but wonders how she'll utilize his milling power to the best extent.

It takes her two weeks in the lab, but after recreating a Bear Umbra which only halfway impress Phenax, she comes up with a serum that will awaken the land and everyone in it, an Awakening. Unfortunately, she made it too well and everything that touches it responds to its untapping powers. Phenax, however, is happy because he can mill endlessly now, and the tokens can keep on flowing.
As can the counterspells.

Awakening, Liliana's Contract, Leyline of the Void, or anything you choose to threaten can be protected by the Liquimetal Coating and the Lifecraft Awakening.

The peer review process has also convinced Dr. Moriarty to agree to Rune-Scarred Demon, the deck's only demon but easy for Gravewaker or Muldrotha to reclaim.
The peer review also reminded Dr. Moriarty of how vulnerable her non hexproof/shroud creatures are, and that even the gods are not ironclad. So she returned to one of her favorite tricks: Stolen Identity, Slippery Bogbonder and Elgaud Shieldmate, though the Stolen Identity will duplicate anyone, or any artifact.

This deck is now a creature-heavy deck, requiring a restoration of the medical team. And that's before either Bontu and Gravewaker together, or just Thassa alone, make creatures come in and out on a frequent basis.
The deck is also a counterspell deck, running nine counterspells with the ability to get them back again.

In addition, most of the lands that came in tapped have been replaced by a slightly improved amount of basic lands, a Command Tower, and a trio of lands she had in her reserve but ignored because the idea of paying two mana for one mana was offensive to her. But in this deck only, she's treating them as if they were jokers, wild cards, that enter untapped and allow emergency access to a color she's short on until the land search team can compensate. These three experimental cards are Hall of Oracles, Opal Palace, and Unknown Shores.

Temple of Deceit was added as it had been left out by mistake, while Temple of Malady and Temple of Mystery remain in the deck. This is a partial god tribal deck, and it will not do for the leading three to be bereft of their temples. Gateway Plaza and the three guildgates, Dimir, Simic, and Golgari, also remain, because of a discovery of a Gond Gate.

Muldrotha leads the army, adding with her assistant Gravewaker and the Scarab God the power to bring creatures back from the graveyard. She can also bring back artifacts such as the Elixir of Immortality, or lands such as Mirrorpool.

This is just a test for her, a theory. But it's an interesting premise.