Introduction

This deck is about giving Kelsien, The Plague deathtouch and pinging away opponents creatures then swinging for lethal. I am running Zirda, the Dawnwaker as a companion because I thought it would be fun deck building restriction and thought it was a cool idea thematically for a bounty-hunter and his loyal fox companion. Downside to running Zirda as a companion is that all my permanents have to have activated abilities. I think I addressed this issue very well. Zirda also fits the deck pretty well by letting me equip my equipment for cheap. I am not really interested in running infinite mana but have some ways of going infinite. . Scythe of the Wretched is awesome in this deck :)

> Strengths and Weaknesses of Deck

> Strengths

• Heavily controls boards filled with creatures
• Has a lot of tutor based effects to get you what you need
• Doesn't rely on the companion to win. It is there as a 6 mana creature that can help you go infinite with certain board states or help in the late game for reattaching equipment on a re-casted commander.
• A lot of ways of giving commander deathtouch to start racking up experience counters
• A lot of ways to have commander untap repeatedly at instant speed (once the untap artifacts are on the board of course)
• This deck doesn't care about being archenemy
• Decent comebacks after board-wipes
• Gets of hand very quickly if not interacted with

> Weaknesses

• Struggles against enchantment based artifact hate
• Your opening hand is critical. The deck has powerful engines but bad opening hands can make you fall behind to the point where it is difficult to comeback
• Struggles against non-creature based decks that don't require their commander to go off
• Tax based decks can slow you down to crawl
• This deck will make you archenemy if you care that you will be focused
• This deck hates lands that remove Kelsien, The Plague from combat (ie. Maze of Ith ) as your deck is fairly light on creatures it makes it hard to fight against unless you have swiftfoot boots or lightning greaves out.