THE 17 BEST

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INTRODUCTION
It’s hard to rank decks into tiers. This is difficult to do in any format: do you rank by
popularity or by win percent? How many decks can fit in the top tier? If a certain deck
is popular among new players, do you take that into account? However, in multiplayer
commander, where there are no big tournaments, there is no national or international
commander meta-game. So where do you even start?
Competitive communities exist, and these communities do tend to gravitate
towards a handful of established decks. No one can conclusively say these are the best

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 decks; there are no professional players grinding to find the
Please do not bring a best card in each slot, there are is no established gauntlet to
high-powered deck
test against, there is barely an established tournament format
into a low-powered
play group: it ruins for multiplayer commander. Yet, all of these things come
the fun for everyone. together somehow: a tight-knit group of players on
Seriously. Cockatrice, MTG Salvation and /r/competitiveEDH all have
come together to theorize, playtest, and deckbuild. And these
players have come up with some top decks in competitive
EDH.
Perhaps calling them top decks is a misnomer. Let’s call
them the most respected decks. Of all the most respected
decks, I’m going to present 20 of them in this document. I
won’t bother trying to rank them: how good each deck is
depends on the meta you bring it to. However, each deck does
come with the guarantee that it can preform, and do so
consistently.
But first a word of warning. Most of these decks can’t be
brought to the average commander table: no one will have
fun, many of these decks will win before many casual decks
will cast a single spell. So what are these decks for? If you are
in a playgroup that is more interested in playing
high-variance vintage than decks full of pet-cards, these decks
are for you. If you are entering a commander tournament or
competitive event, these decks are perfect for you. Or perhaps
you really hate a certain player at your local shop, and you
want to humiliate him. To each their own.
These decks should not be brought to an unsuspecting
commander table with no warning. Just don’t do it. You’ll win
a lot, it won’t be fair, and you’ll ruin the entire table’s fun.
With all that said, let’s dive into the first deck.

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ONE CARD KILL DECKS

When people think of competitive EDH,

these are the decks they think of.

Few things in magic is as elegant as the single-card-combo. Wait, did I say elegant? I
meant to say broken-beyond repair.
The following decks are decks centered around finding and casting a single card.
The most famous example of a one-card-kill is the hermit druid deck. However, the
following decks are harder to interact with and often faster. They combo with
Doomsday and Ad Nauseam.
Ad Nauseam gets the award for the most degenerate card in competitive
commander: with 40 starting life, typically under little immediate pressure, it often
lets you draw as many cards as you want. And with plenty of cheap or free artifact
mana, casting your spells after you draw them is rarely an issue.
Doomsday is one of the best ways to win in vintage. In EDH, where we have most
of the same broken artifact mana, and way too many game-winning piles to form for
each situation, it comes close to outshining it’s power in vintage.

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JELEVA STORM
Jeleva storm is one of the fastest decks you can play • Deck Tech
in the format. It wins by finding and casting a quick • Primer
Ad Nauseam, and winning with a storm card. • Game Play

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 LANDS
1 Command Tower
1 Mana Confluence
1 City of Brass
1 Sunken Ruins
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Flooded Strand
1 Polluted Delta
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Arid Mesa
1 Mistry Rainforest
1 Wooded Foothills
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Marsh Flats
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Badlands
1 Blood Crypt
1 Underground Sea
1 Watery Grave
1 Volcanic Island
1 Steam Vents
1 Underground River
7 Island
RAMP/RITUALS
1 Chrome Mox
1 Mox Diamond
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Opal
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Vault
1 Copy Artifact
1 Helm of Awakening
1 Talisman of Dominance
1 Dimir Signet
1 Grim Monolith 1 Intuition
1 Gilded Lotus 1 Dark Petition
1 Lion’s Eye Diamond 1 Brainstorm
1 Lotus Petal 1 Ponder
1 Candelabra of Tawnos 1 Preordain
1 Dark Ritual 1 Gitaxian Probe
1 High Tide 1 Sensei’s Diving Top
1 Cabal Ritual 1 Impulse
1 Hurkyl’s Recall 1 Night’s Whisper
1 Turnabout 1 Lim-Duls Vault
1 Mind Over Matter 1 Dack Fayden
INTERACTION 1 Wheel of Fortune
1 Pact of Negation 1 Timetwister
1 Swan Song 1 Windfall
1 Pyroblast 1 Necropotence
1 Red Elemental Blast 1 Frantic Search
1 Duress 1 Fact or Fiction
1 Thoughtseize 1 Notion Thief
1 Chain of Vapor 1 Future Sight
1 Vandablast 1 Gush
1 Cyclonic Rift 1 Time Spiral
1 Counterspell WIN CARDS
1 Mana Drain 1 Grapeshot
1 Remand 1 Doomsday
1 Toxic Deluge 1 Laboratory Maniac
1 Force of Will 1 Yawgmoth’s Will
TUTORS/DRAW 1 Past in Flames
1 Gamble 1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Imperial Seal 1 Ad Nauseam
1 Vampyic Tutor 1 Mind’s Desire
1 Mystical Tutor COMMANDER
1 Merchant Scroll 1 Jeleva, Nephalia’s Scourge
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Grim Tutor
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ZUR DOOMSDAY
Zur Doomsday functions similarly to Jeleva storm, • Primer
except it comes with an incredibly powerful backup
plan: casting Zur and tutoring Necropotence.
However strong that is, don’t be fooled, Zur is a
backup plan: there are only 3 enchantments in this
entire list.

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 LANDS 1 Lotus Petal 1 Grim Tutor
1 Flooded Strand 1 Lion’s Eye Diamond 1 Trinket Mage
1 Arid Mesa 1 Dark Ritual 1 Dark Petition
1 Bloodstained Mire 1 Candelabra of Tawnos 1 Brainstorm
1 Marsh Flats 1 High Tide 1 Ponder
1 Misty Rainforest 1 Cabal Ritual 1 Gitaxian Probe
1 Polluted Delta 1 Turnabout 1 Preordain
1 Scalding Tarn INTERACTION 1 Sensei’s Divining Top
1 Verdant Catacombs 1 Tormond’s Crypt 1 Dark Confidant
1 Windswept Heath 1 Pact of Negation 1 Impulse
1 Scrubland 1 Dispel 1 Night’s Whisper
1 Tundra 1 Flusterstorm 1 Predict
1 Underground Sea 1 Mental Mistep 1 Frantic Search
1 Watery Grave 1 Nihil Spellbomb 1 Necropotence
1 Hallowed Fountain 1 Silence 1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Command Tower 1 Spell Pierce 1 Timetwister
1 Ancient Tomb 1 Swan Song 1 Windfall
1 Swamp 1 Swords to Plowshares 1 Notion Thief
10 Island 1 Chain of Vapor 1 Gush
RAMP/RITUALS 1 Counterbalance 1 Time Spiral
1 Chrome Mox 1 Counterspell WIN CONDITIONS
1 Mana Crypt 1 Cyclonic Rift 1 Pull from Eternity
1 Mox Opal 1 Mana Drain 1 Angel’s Grace
1 Mox Diamond 1 Negate 1 Doomsday
1 Mana Vault 1 Shadow of Doubt 1 Laboratory Maniac
1 Sol Ring 1 Snapcaster Mage 1 Yawgmoth’s Will
1 Azorius Signet 1 Oblivion Ring 1 Ad Nauseam
1 Dimir Signet 1 Toxic Deluge COMMANDER
1 Fellwar Stone 1 Force of Will Zur, the Enchanter
1 Helm of Awakening TUTORS/DRAW
1 Orzhov Signet 1 Mystical Tutor
1 Talisman of Dominance 1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Talisman of Progress 1 Demonic Tutor
1 Grim Monolith 1 Merchant Scroll

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WASTE NOT COMBO

While the name-sake card isn’t quite a one-card- • Primer
combo in this list, it does do some of the most
degenerate things. This list is just as capable of
winning off an early ad nauseam as the other two
decks, but this one is much happier casting the
commander, Nekusar, the Mindrazer and wheeling
until the table is drained.

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 LANDS 1 Everflowing Chalice 1 Impulse
1 Command Tower 1 Dark Ritual 1 Night's Whisper
1 City of Brass 1 High Tide 1 Plunge into Darkness
1 Mana Confluence 1 Mana Vault 1 Forbidden Alchemy
1 Forbidden Orchard 1 Sol Ring 1 Frantic Search
1 Gemstone Mines 1 Grim Monolith 1 Timetwister
1 Flooded Strand 1 Fellwar Stone 1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Polluted Delta 1 Helm of Awakening 1 Dark Deal
1 Bloodstained Mire 1 Hurkyl's Recall 1 Wheel of Fortune
1 Wooded Foothills 1 Izzet Signet 1 Windfall
1 Misty Rainforest 1 Talisman of Dominance 1 Ill-Gotten Gains
1 Verdant Catacombs 1 Talisman of Indulgence 1 Whispering Madness
1 Marsh Flats TUTORS/DRAW 1 Memory Jar
1 Arid Mesa 1 Entomb 1 Reforge the Soul
1 Scalding Tarn 1 Gamble 1 Ad Nauseam
1 Underground Sea 1 Imperial Seal 1 Treasure Cruise
1 Volcanic Island 1 Mystical Tutor INTERACTION
1 Badlands 1 Personal Tutor 1 Pact of Negation
1 Watery Grave 1 Vampiric Tutor 1 Duress
1 Steam Vents 1 Demonic Tutor 1 Inquisition of Kozilek
1 Blood Crypt 1 Lim-Dûl's Vault 1 Thoughtseize
1 Underground River 1 Merchant Scroll 1 Flusterstorm
1 Shivan Reef 1 Muddle the Mixture 1 Pyroblast
1 Sulfurous Springs 1 Tainted Pact 1 Swan Song
1 Graven Cairns 1 Beseech the Queen 1 Snapcaster Mage
1 Sunken Ruins 1 Cruel Tutor 1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Island 1 Grim Tutor 1 Mystic Retrieval
1 Volrath's Stronghold 1 Intuition 1 WIN CONDITION
RAMP/RITUALS 1 Gitaxian Probe 1 Waste Not
1 Chrome Mox 1 Brainstorm 1 Notion Thief
1 Lotus Petal 1 Faithless Looting 1 Laboratory Maniac
1 Mana Crypt 1 Ponder 1 Demonic Consultation
1 Mox Diamond 1 Preordain 1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Mox Opal 1 Serum Visions COMMANDER
1 Simian Spirit Guide 1 Sleight of Hand 1 Nekusar, the Mindrazer

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GRAVEYARD STRATEGIES

Winning out of your graveyard might

be easier than winning out of your
hand.

Almost every competitive EDH deck ought to abuse the graveyard somehow.
Recursion like Eternal Witness, mechanics like delve, card advantage engines like
Crucible of Worlds, etc. Without the graveyard, you’re passing up on a great amount
of card advantage, speed and consistency you can’t otherwise get very easily.
Graveyard decks exemplify this idea. Playing reanimation spells, casting
creatures from their graveyard, milling themselves: these decks each take several
angles to get graveyard value.
The most obvious is reanimation. Making a big creature before you have the
mana to cast it can be game winning, especially if that creature if Iona, or Void
Winnower.
The second is consistency. Cards like Buried Alive and Entomb make decks
considerably more consistent. Buried alive is nearly a one-card combo and it one of
the most efficient ways to win. Entomb allows some incredibly broken plays to happen
far too consistently as well.

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JARAD MIDRANGE
Jarad is a midrange deck with a reanimation • Primer
engine. This deck does a decent midrange
impression, but it wins with numerous combo kills.
The most common being Buried Alive into
Phyrexian Devourer, Triskellion, and Necrotic Ooze.

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 LANDS
1 Ancient Tomb
1 Bayou
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Cabal Coffers
1 City of Brass
1 Command Tower
1 Dryad Arbor
1 Tarnished Citadel
3 Forest
1 Llanowar Wastes
1 Mana Confluence
1 Marsh Flats
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Phyrexian Tower
1 Polluted Delta
1 Reliquary Tower
1 Strip Mine
3 Swamp
1 Temple of Malady
1 Twilight Mire
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Windswept Heath
1 Wooded Foothills
1 Woodland Cemetery
ARTIFACTS
1 Gilded Lotus
1 Golgari Signet
1 Mana Crypt
1 Scroll Rack
1 Sol Ring
CREATURES
1 Baleful Force
1 Birds of Paradise
1 Crypt Ghast
1 Deathrite Shaman
1 Eternal Witness
1 Faerie Macabre
1 Sidisi, Undead Vizier
1 Graveborn Muse
1 Hermit Druid
1 Lord of Extinction
1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
1 Mindslicer
1 Necrotic Ooze
1 Phyrexian Delver
1 Phyrexian Devourer
1 Rune-Scarred Demon
1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
1 Triskelion
1 Void Winnower
1 Voyaging Satyr
1 Woodfall Primus
INSTANTS
1 Beast Within
1 Crop Rotation
1 Entomb
1 Krosan Grip
1 Wake the Dead
1 Murderous Cut
1 Putrefy
1 Slaughter Pact
1 Snuff Out
1 Sudden Death
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Wordly Tutor
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SORCERIES
1 Praetor's Grasp
1 Buried Alive
1 Damnation
1 Decree of Pain
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Dread Return
1 Exhume
1 Green Sun's Zenith
1 Jarad's Orders
1 Life // Death
1 Living Death
1 Nature's Lore
1 Reanimate
1 Tempt with Discovery
1 Tooth and Nail
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Victimize
1 Yawgmoth's Will
ENCHANTMENTS
1 Animate Dead
1 Dance of the Dead
1 Deathreap Ritual
1 Frontier Siege
1 Greater Good
1 Necromancy
1 Necropotence
1 Pattern of Rebirth
1 Phyrexian Arena
1 Survival of the Fittest
1 Sylvan Library
PLANESWALKER
1 Liliana Vess
COMMANDER
1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
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KARADOR REANIMATOR
Karador slows down the game with hatebears, until • Primer
it can win with boonweaver giant. This is one of the
most highly lauded decks in EDH: this exact list
makes nearly every tier list.

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 LANDS 1 Lotus Petal HATE
1 Arid Mesa 1 Mana Crypt 1 Aven Mindcensor
1 Bayou 1 Mox Diamond 1 Eidolon of Rhetoric
1 Bloodstained Mire 1 Sol Ring 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite

1 Brushland TUTORS 1 Gaddock Teeg

1 Command Tower 1 Altar of Bone 1 Hushwing Gryff
1 Flooded Strand 1 Birthing Pod 1 Iona, Shield of Emeria
3 Forest 1 Demonic Tutor 1 Kataki, War's Wage
1 Godless Shrine 1 Diabolic Intent 1 Peacekeeper
1 High Market 1 Eladamri's Call 1 Spirit of the Labyrinth
1 Isolated Chapel 1 Enlightened Tutor 1 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben

1 Llanowar Wastes 1 Entomb REANIMATION

1 Marsh Flats 1 Fauna Shaman 1 Animate Dead
1 Misty Rainforest 1 Imperial Seal 1 Apprentice Necromancer
1 Overgrown Tomb 1 Shred Memory 1 Dance of the Dead
1 Phyrexian Tower 1 Sidisi, Undead Vizier 1 Loyal Retainers
2 Plains 1 Survival of the Fittest 1 Necromancy
1 Polluted Delta 1 Vampiric Tutor 1 Reanimate
1 Savannah 1 Worldly Tutor 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One

1 Scrubland UTILITY WIN CARDS

1 Sunpetal Grove 1 Dark Confidant 1 Acidic Slime
4 Swamp 1 Eternal Witness 1 Altar of Dementia
1 Temple Garden 1 Grim Haruspex 1 Blood Artist
1 Verdant Catacombs 1 Harmonic Sliver 1 Academy Rector
1 Windswept Heath 1 Pernicious Deed 1 Boonweaver Giant
1 Wooded Foothills 1 Qasali Pridemage 1 Fiend Hunter
1 Woodland Cemetery 1 Reclamation Sage 1 Karmic Guide
RAMP 1 Sensei's Divining Top 1 Pattern of Rebirth
1 Avacyn's Pilgrim 1 Shriekmaw 1 Reveillark
1 Birds of Paradise 1 Skullclamp 1 Saffi Eriksdotter
1 Chrome Mox 1 Swords to Plowshares 1 Sun Titan
1 Elves of Deep Shadow 1 Sylvan Library 1 Carrion Feeder
1 Elvish Mystic 1 Viscera Seer
1 Fyndhorn Elves COMMANDER
1 Llanowar Elves 1 Karador, Ghost Chieftain

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CREATURE DECKS

Creatures may be dumb and slow, but

they’re fun and dumb and slow.

Unlike conventional wisdom, playing creatures in the most competitive EDH circles
does not mean you are playing a deck that wants to be attacking. Although attacking
with a bunch of creatures is a very strong plan B that most of these decks employ, each
of them are primarily looking to win with a fast combo too.
To make creatures worth the risks, the generals are very efficient: most of them
are a pretty strong source of card advantage, and they enable wins much faster than
attacking alone would.
Each commander is green too: mana acceleration is a key component to making
these decks fast enough to compete. Every deck in this list is playing 1-mana green
creature acceleration, such as Birds of Paradise and Llanowar Elves. Even though
conventional wisdom may tell you that these creatures are bad, they simply die to a
board wipe and leave no value behind, they are key to being fast enough to compete.

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FOOD CHAIN PROSSH

Prossh ramps really hard. It ramps harder than any • Primer
other deck in this list. Then it proceeds to make a
ton of creatures, and deal a ton of damage with
them somehow.

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1 Gaea's Cradle
1 Ancient Tomb
1 Command Tower
1 City of Brass
1 Forbidden Orchard
1 Tarnished Citadel
1 Dryad Arbor
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Twilight Mire
1 Grove of the Burnwillows
1 Copperline Gorge
1 Blackcleave Cliffs
1 Bayou
1 Taiga
1 Badlands
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Stomping Ground
1 Blood Crypt
1 Llanowar Wastes
1 Karplusan Forest
1 Sulfurous Springs
1 Polluted Delta
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Wooded Foothills
1 Windswept Heath
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Marsh Flats
1 Arid Mesa
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Snow-Covered Swamp
1 Snow-Covered Forest
1 Forest
RAMP/RITUALS 1 Crop Rotation
1 Birds of Paradise 1 Gamble
1 Deathrite Shaman 1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Elves of Deep Shadow 1 Demonic Consultation
1 Llanowar Elves 1 Imperial Seal
1 Fyndhorn Elves 1 Demonic Tutor
1 Elvish Mystic 1 Diabolic Intent
1 Boreal Druid 1 Tainted Pact
1 Arbor Elf 1 Divining Witch
1 Orcish Lumberjack 1 Cruel Tutor
1 Dark Ritual 1 Grim Tutor
1 Lotus Petal 1 Shred Memory
1 Mana Crypt 1 Dimir Machinations
1 Mox Diamond 1 Elvish Visionary
1 Sol Ring 1 Wall of Blossoms
1 Mana Vault 1 Dark Confidant
1 Elvish Spirit Guide 1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Simian Spirit Guide 1 Plunge into Darkness
1 Wall of Roots 1 Sylvan Library
1 Quirion Sentinel 1 Wheel of Fortune
1 Akki Rockspeaker 1 Ad Nauseam
1 Burning-Tree Emissary 1 Regrowth
1 Wood Elves 1 Eternal Witness
1 Priest of Gix WIN CARDS
1 Priest of Urabrask 1 Food Chain
INTERACTION 1 Goblin Bushwhacker
1 Nature's Claim 1 Purphoros, God of the Forge
1 Snuff Out 1 Chancellor of the Forge
1 Ricochet Trap 1 Flamekin Harbinger
1 Red Elemental Blast 1 Fauna Shaman
1 Pyroblast 1 Imperial Recruiter
1 Guttural Response 1 Goblin Matron
1 Autumn's Veil 1 Fierce Empath
TUTORS/DRAW 1 Skullmulcher
1 Summoner's Pact COMMANDER
1 Green Sun's
18 Zenith 1 Prossh, Skyraider of Kher
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MOMIR VIG
Playing Prophet of Kruphix as your general seems • Primer
good to me. This is one of the strongest toolbox
generals there is, no doubt about it. This deck is
highly consistent. It’s perhaps the most competitive
toolbox deck in the format.

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1 Alchemist's Refuge
1 Ancient Tomb
1 Breeding Pool
1 Cavern of Souls
1 City of Brass
1 Command Tower
1 Dryad Arbor
1 Flooded Grove
1 Flooded Strand
5 Forest
1 Gaea's Cradle
1 Hinterland Harbor
7 Island
1 Mana Confluence
1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
1 Polluted Delta
1 Riptide Laboratory
1 Strip Mine
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Windswept Heath
1 Wooded Foothills
1 Yavimaya Coast
1 Yavimaya Hollow
ENCHANTMENTS
1 Mystic Remora
1 Rhystic Study
1 Survival of the Fittest
1 Sylvan Library
ARTIFACTS
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Sol Ring
INSTANTS
1 Arcane Denial
1 Beast Within
1 Chord of Calling
1 Crop Rotation
1 Force of Will
1 Krosan Grip
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Pact of Negation
1 Rapid Hybridization
1 Summoner's Pact
1 Worldly Tutor
SORCERIES
1 Green Sun's Zenith
1 Natural Order
1 Time Warp
1 Tooth and Nail
CREATURES
1 Azami, lady of scrolls
1 Bane of Progress
1 Birds of Paradise
1 Bloom Tender
1 Body Double
1 Clever Impersonator
1 Coiling Oracle
1 Consecrated Sphinx
1 Deadeye Navigator
1 Edric, Spymaster of Trest
1 Elvish Mystic
1 Elvish Visionary
1 Eternal Witness
1 Fyndhorn Elves
1 Genesis Hydra
1 Gilded Drake
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1 Glen Elendra Archmage
1 Greenwarden of Murasa
1 Joraga Treespeaker
1 Kiora's Follower
1 Llanowar Elves
1 Mulldrifter
1 Mystic Snake
1 Oracle of Mul Daya
1 Palinchron
1 Phantasmal Image
1 Phyrexian Metamorph
1 Plaxmanta
1 Priest of Titania
1 Prime Speaker Zegana
1 Progenitor Mimic
1 Prophet of Kruphix
1 Reclamation Sage
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Seedborn Muse
1 Snapcaster Mage
1 Somberwald Sage
1 Soul of the Harvest
1 Sylvan Safekeeper
1 Temur Sabertooth
1 Trygon Predator
1 Venser, Shaper Savant
1 Voyaging Satyr
1 Wirewood Symbiote
1 Yisan, the Wanderer Bard
COMMANDER
1 Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
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ANIMAR COMBO
The multiplayer version of animar is relatively • Primer
unexplored. Should the deck run more of the fast
combo cards from the single player version? Should
the deck go bigger, and combo only as an
afterthought? This deck is closer to the latter
option; despite that, it’s obviously one of the most
powerful things you can be doing.

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 LANDS 1 Cloud of Faeries 1 Duplicant
1 Ancient Ziggurat 1 Den Protector 1 Prime Speaker Zegana
1 Breeding Pool 1 Dream Stalker 1 Soul of the Harvest
1 Cascade Bluffs 1 Elvish Visionary 1 Woodland Bellower
1 Cinder Glade 1 Rattleclaw Mystic 1 Palinchron
1 Command Tower 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder 1 Sphinx of Uthuun
1 Fire-lit Thicket 1 Stratus Dancer 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
1 Flooded Grove 1 Sylvan Ranger 1 Maelstrom Wanderer
5 Forest 1 Willbender 1 Artisan of Kozilek
1 Gaea's Cradle 1 Eternal Witness 1 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
1 Gruul Turf 1 Farhaven Elf 1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger

1 Hinterland Harbor 1 Fierce Empath ENCHANTMENTS

7 Island 1 Man-o'-War 1 Hardened Scales
1 Izzet Boilerworks 1 Raven Familiar 1 Earthcraft
1 Kessig Wolf Run 1 Sage of Fables 1 Evolutionary Leap
1 Llanowar Reborn 1 Wood Elves 1 Sylvan Library
1 Misty Rainforest 1 Ancestral Statue 1 Equilibrium
1 Mosswort Bridge 1 Fathom Mage ARTIFACTS
1 Mountain 1 Glen Elendra Archmage 1 Cloudstone Curio
1 Reflecting Pool 1 Mystic Snake 1 Birthing Pod
1 Rootbound Crag 1 Oracle of Mul Daya INSTANTS
1 Scalding Tarn 1 Phyrexian Metamorph 1 Stubborn Denial
1 Simic Growth Chamber 1 Purphoros, God of the Forge 1 Swan Song
1 Steam Vents 1 Solemn Simulacrum 1 Crop Rotation
1 Stomping Ground 1 Temur Sabertooth 1 Chord of Calling
1 Sulfur Falls 1 Venser, Shaper Savant SORCERIES
1 Winding Canyons 1 Kruphix, God of Horizons 1 Glimpse of Nature
1 Wooded Foothills 1 Mulldrifter COMMANDER
CREATURES 1 Peregrine Drake 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
1 Birds of Paradise 1 Prophet of Kruphix
1 Shrieking Drake 1 Xenagos, God of Revels
1 Ainok Survivalist 1 Vesuvan Shapeshifter
1 Beastcaller Savant 1 Zealous Conscripts
1 Bloom Tender 1 Draining Whelk

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redundant, and annoying to play against. Unlike the french deck, this deck relies on
draw engines to keep its hand full of action, where it can do a reasonable combo elf
impression, even with such a high curve.
Play animar if you love creatures, and love the feeling of an eldrazi cast-trigger
(many times a turn). If you like to plan out fairly complicated loops, this is the deck for
you.
Animar is not a deck that wins out of nowhere. Animar will get hated on more
than average because of this, even at competitive tables. Animar has a lot of triggers to
take, and also has very long turns.

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EDRIC
Edric just wants to draw a bunch of cards. A huge, • Primer
overwhelmingly, staggeringly large number of
cards. Edric starts the game by playing flying men,
and then ends the game by chaining a few time
walks and playing a Beastmaster Ascension. Yes,
this is a multiplayer deck, and yes, it’s very good.

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 LANDS 1 Flying Men ENCHANTMENTS
1 Breeding Pool 1 Fyndhorn Elves 1 Exploration
1 City of Brass 1 Galerider Sliver 1 Veil of Birds
1 Command Tower 1 Gudul Lurker 1 Beastmaster Ascension
1 Dryad Arbor 1 Hypnotic Siren INSTANTS
1 Exotic Orchard 1 Jace's Phantasm 1 Chain of Vapor
1 Flooded Grove 1 Llanowar Elves 1 Crop Rotation
1 Flooded Strand 1 Martyr of Frost 1 Flusterstorm
1 Gaea's Cradle 1 Merfolk Spy 1 Mystical Tutor
1 Gemstone Caverns 1 Mothdust Changeling 1 Spell Pierce
1 Hinterland Harbor 1 Sakura-Tribe Scout 1 Arcane Denial
1 Mana Confluence 1 Scryb Sprites 1 Counterspell
1 Misty Rainforest 1 Skyshroud Ranger 1 Daze
1 Polluted Delta 1 Spire Tracer 1 Delay
1 Reflecting Pool 1 Sylvan Safekeeper 1 Mana Drain
1 Scalding Tarn 1 Thought Nibbler 1 Mana Leak
1 Tarnished Citadel 1 Treetop Scout 1 Negate
1 Thran Quarry 1 Triton Shorestalker 1 Snap
1 Tropical Island 1 Wingcrafter 1 Unified Will
1 Verdant Catacombs 1 Wirewood Symbiote 1 Force of Will
1 Windswept Heath 1 Zephyr Sprite 1 Submerge
1 Wooded Foothills 1 Cloud of Faeries SORCERIES
1 Yavimaya Coast 1 Eladamri, Lord of Leaves 1 Notorious Throng
2 Forest 1 Lotus Cobra 1 Temporal Manipulation
1o Island 1 Priest of Titania 1 Time Warp
CREATURES 1 Spellstutter Sprite 1 Walk the Aeons
1 Arbor Elf 1 Spiketail Hatchling 1 Green Sun's Zenith
1 Cloud Pirates ARTIFACTS COMMANDER
1 Cloud Sprite 1 Chrome Mox 1 Edric, Spymaster of Trest
1 Cloudfin Raptor 1 Lotus Petal
1 Cursecatcher 1 Mana Crypt
1 Elvish Mystic 1 Mox Diamond
1 Elvish Pioneer 1 Winter Orb
1 Faerie Miscreant 1 Tangle Wire

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YISAN, THE COMBO BARD

Yisan is the EDH god of consistency: have a few • Primer
answers or he will win fairly early (turn four or five
with almost any hand). This version of Yisan is
meant to make him as consistent as possible, while
foregoing the stax artifacts other lists play.

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1 Cavern of Souls
1 Homeward Path
1 Wirewood Lodge
1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
1 Gaea’s Cradle
1 Ancient Tomb
1 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Yavimaya Hollow
26 Forest
CREATURES
1 Quirion Ranger
1 Sylvan Safekeeper
1 Wirewood Symbiote
1 Ulvenwald Tracker
1 Arbor Elf
1 Fyndhorn Elves
1 Elvish Mystic
1 Llanowar Elves
1 Boreal Druid
1 Birds of Paradise
1 Sakura-Tribe Scout
1 Skyshroud Ranger
1 Scryb Ranger
1 Priest of Titania
1 Seeker of Skybreak
1 Elvish Visionary
1 Wall of Roots
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Phyrexian Revoker
1 Wood Elves
1 Reclamation Sage INSTANTS
1 Eternal Witness 1 Chord of Calling
1 Elvish Archdruid 1 Beast Within
1 Fierce Empath 1 Worldly Tutor
1 Karametra’s Acolyte 1 Crop Rotation
1 Nullmage Shepherd ENCHANTMENTS
1 Oracle of Mul Daya 1 Sylvan Library
1 Temur Sabertooth 1 Quest for Renewal
1 Seedborn Muse 1 Concordant Crossroads
1 Acidic Slime 1 Exploration
1 Whisperwood Elemental 1 Burgeoning
1 Bane of Progress 1 Utopia Sprawl
1 Duplicant 1 Wild Growth
1 Brutalizer Exarch 1 Earthcraft
1 Woodland Bellower 1 Song of the Dryads
1 Avenger of Zendikar COMMANDER
1 Regal Force 1 Yisan, the Wanderer Bard
1 Craterhoof Behemoth
1 Terastodon
ARTIFACTS
1 Skullclamp
1 Umbral Mantle
1 Illusionist's Bracers
1 Rings of Brightearth
1 Birthing Pod
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Diamond
1 Chrome Mox
SORCERIES
1 Sylvan Scrying
1 Green Sun’s Zenith
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 Play this deck if you enjoy making many difficult decisions. You may be tutoring
your deck three times a turn. Finding out which cards win the game, or when to not
use Yisan to find the right answers can all be incredibly rewarding. The decision trees
branch exponentially. This deck can also be a very good budget option: the best cards
aren’t that expensive, save Seedborn Muse, and Craterhoof Behemoth.
Don’t play this deck if you don’t like searching your deck or taking long turns
(Yisan takes long turns on each opponent’s turn too). To play at a reasonable pace, you
need to get in a lot of reps, plan out a lot of turns in advance, and get really good at
craterhoof behemoth math. Don’t play it if you play singleton to enjoy variety: you’ll
often tutor the same creatures each game. Don’t play Yisan if your meta is all board
wipes.

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GHAVE
Ghave does everything really big. If you want to win • Primer
with infinite mana, infinitely many infinitely big • Deck list
creatures, ETB triggers, etc, you may want to play
Ghave.

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 LANDS
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Boseiju, Who Shelters All
1 Brushland
1 City of Brass
1 Command Tower
1 Dryad Arbor
1 Flagstones of Trokair
1 Forbidden Orchard
5 Forest
1 Gaea's Cradle
1 Godless Shrine
1 Mana Confluence
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Phyrexian Tower
3 Plains
1 Savannah
1 Swamp
1 Temple Garden
1 Temple of the False God
1 Twilight Mire
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Windswept Heath
1 Wooded Bastion
1 Yavimaya Hollow
CREATURES
1 Academy Rector
1 Avacyn, Angel of Hope
1 Aven Mindcensor
1 Bane of Progress
1 Birds of Paradise
1 Blood Artist
1 Devoted Druid
1 Eternal Witness
1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
1 Oracle of Mul Daya
1 Psychotrope Thallid
1 Qasali Pridemage
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Stoneforge Mystic
1 Triskelion
1 Utopia Mycon
1 Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger
1 Woodfall Primus
1 Yavimaya Elder
SORCERIES
1 Austere Command
1 Cultivate
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Diabolic Intent
1 Dread Return
1 Farseek
1 Genesis Wave
1 Green Sun's Zenith
1 Kodama's Reach
1 Merciless Eviction
1 Natural Order
1 Nature's Lore
1 Praetor's Counsel
1 Steelshaper's Gift
1 Sylvan Scrying
1 Tooth and Nail
1 Vindicate
1 Yawgmoth's Will
ARTIFACTS
1 Ashnod's Altar
1 Blade of the Bloodchief
1 Blasting Station
1 Chromatic Lantern
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1 Illusionist's Bracers
1 Selesnya Signet
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Skullclamp
1 Sol Ring
1 Talisman of Unity
INSTANTS
1 Chord of Calling
1 Crop Rotation
1 Eladamri's Call
1 Enlightened Tutor
1 Faith's Reward
1 Mortify
1 Secure the Wastes
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Unexpectedly Absent
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Worldly Tutor
ENCHANTMENTS
1 Aura Shards
1 Awakening Zone
1 Defense of the Heart
1 Doubling Season
1 Earthcraft
1 Fertile Ground
1 Land Tax
1 Mana Reflection
1 Phyrexian Arena
1 Sylvan Library
COMMANDER
1 Ghave, Guru of Spores
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STAX

The best way to control the game is to

stop everyone from casting their spells

True control is EDH often feels like an uphill battle: against three or four other
players, having answers for all their threats is a crazy proposition. So being able to
proactively control what can be cast is a powerful thing. Enter stax.
Every deck relies on mana, every deck relies on having untapped lands. If you
can interupt that, you can control the entire game: no need to pick and choose which
big spells can resolve, none of them can be cast. No need to play politics, that’s
overrated.
When you can make stax effects lop-sided, you’re doing something very
powerful. However, these decks don’t want to stop at lop-sided. Brago wants you to
sacrifice all your permanents, and it has all the time in the world to assemble it’s
combo after it locks everyone out of the game.
However, you’re also often making yourself public enemy #1. Everyone has to
gang up on the stax player because no one can accomplish their game plan if they can’t
cast their spells.

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BRAGO STAX
“You can’t cast that.” • Primer
“Sacrifice all your permanents.”
If these are things you want to say to an
opponent, you may want to play Brago. Brago plays
a huge amount of mana rocks, ramping as hard as
any UW deck can. Then it happily uses the mana
those rocks make, while you untap one permanent
per turn.
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 LANDS
1 City of Traitors
1 Command Tower
1 Cavern of Souls
1 Hall of the Bandit Lord
1 Adarkar Wastes
1 Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
1 Homeward Path
1 Glimmervoid
1 Mishra's Workshop
1 Tundra
1 Hallowed Fountain
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Windswept Heath
1 Polluted Delta
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Arid Mesa
1 Flooded Strand
1 Marsh Flats
1 City of Brass
1 Mana Confluence
1 Ancient Tomb
1 Gemstone Caverns
1 Seat of the Synod
1 Ancient Den
2 Island
2 Swamp
ARTIFACTS
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Azorius Signet
1 Grim Monolith
1 Mana Vault
1 Basalt Monolith
1 Fellwar Stone
1 Mox Diamond CREATURES
1 Chrome Mox 1 Aven Mindcensor
1 Mox Opal 1 Consecrated Sphinx
1 Gilded Lotus 1 Rishadan Footpad
1 Sky Diamond 1 Rishadan Brigand
1 Marble Diamond 1 Trinket Mage
1 Coldsteel Heart 1 Rishadan Cutpurse
1 Talisman of Progress 1 Lavinia of the Tenth
1 Chromatic Lantern 1 Slithermuse
1 Coalition Relic 1 Hokori, Dust Drinker
1 Mind Stone 1 Sphinx of Uthuun
1 Fractured Powerstone 1 Felidar Sovereign
1 Prismatic Lens 1 Sun Titan
1 Lotus Petal 1 Sphinx of Lost Truths
1 Tsabo's Web 1 Drogskol Captain
1 Neurok Stealthsuit 1 Luminate Primordial
1 Expedition Map 1 Grand Abolisher
1 Whispersilk Cloak 1 Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
1 Strionic Resonator 1 Frost Titan
1 Relic of Progenitus 1 Stoneforge Mystic
1 Imi Statue INSTANTS/SORCERIES
1 Tangle Wire 1 Ravages of War
1 Static Orb 1 Recurring Insight
1 Winter Orb 1 Cyclonic Rift
1 Cursed Totem 1 Mystical Tutor
1 Ring of Three Wishes 1 Enlightened Tutor
1 Skyship Weatherlight 1 Fabricate
1 Trinisphere 1 Armageddon
ENCHANTMENTS 1 Transmute Artifact
1 Stasis 1 Steelshaper's Gift
1 Mystic Remora 1 Timetwister
1 Embargo COMMANDER
1 Parallax Wave 1 Brago, King Eternal
1 Parallax Tide
1 Rising Waters
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TEFERI STAX
It’s really appealing to play a planeswalker as your • Primer
commander. It’s even more appealing to play it as
your commander in a deck that allows you to
protect him against creatures. Teferi makes Stax
effects uneven with his minus ability, while
threatening to win at anytime with The Chain Veil.

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 LANDS 1 Winter Orb 1 High Tide
1 Seat of the Synod 1 Chrome Mox 1 Frantic Search
1 Buried Ruin 1 Mox Diamond PLANESWALKERS
1 Flooded Strand 1 Mana Web 1 Karn Liberated
1 Mishra's Workshop 1 Ward of Bones 1 Tezzeret the Seeker
1 Misty Rainforest 1 Cursed Totem 1 Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
1 Polluted Delta 1 Mox Opal SORCERIES
1 Reliquary Tower 1 The Chain Veil 1 Fabricate
1 Scalding Tarn CREATURES 1 Merchant Scroll
1 Tolaria West 1 Snapcaster Mage 1 Reshape
1 Lotus Vale 1 Trinket Mage 1 Savor the Moment
1 Ancient Tomb 1 Consecrated Sphinx 1 Time Spiral
1 Academy Ruins ENCHANTMENTS 1 Time Warp
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale 1 Pendrell Mists 1 Timetwister
20 Snow-Covered Island 1 Rhystic Study 1 Transmute Artifact
ARTIFACTS 1 Rising Waters 1 Windfall
1 Basalt Monolith 1 Stasis 1 All Is Dust
1 Coalition Relic 1 Land Equilibrium COMMANDER
1 Fellwar Stone 1 Mana Vortex 1 Teferi, Temporal Archmage

1 Gilded Lotus 1 Power Artifact

1 Grafdigger's Cage INSTANTS
1 Grim Monolith 1 Arcane Denial
1 Lotus Petal 1 Cryptic Command
1 Mana Crypt 1 Cyclonic Rift
1 Mana Vault 1 Fact or Fiction
1 Mind Stone 1 Force of Will
1 Prismatic Lens 1 Intellectual Offering
1 Rings of Brighthearth 1 Intuition
1 Sensei's Divining Top 1 Mana Drain
1 Sol Ring 1 Muddle the Mixture
1 Static Orb 1 Mystical Tutor
1 Tangle Wire 1 Stroke of Genius
1 Thran Dynamo 1 Swan Song
1 Torpor Orb 1 Trickbind
1 Voltaic Key 1 Sunder

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ARTIFACT DECKS

Brown cards are the best cards.

Artifact decks run more combos than any other decks. Infinite mana combos, infinite
enter-the-battlefield combos, infinite card draw. These decks typically rely on an
abundance of combos since many of the pieces are so interchangeable. This makes it
hard to interact with the deck: so many of your cards are combo pieces, but which
ones will matter this game?
While Sharuum is the only deck listed, Nin and Hannah are both typically built
like this.

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SHARUUM ARTIFACTS
Infinite turns, infinite gravestorm, infinite fun. • Primer
Finding and assembling these combos often feels
like a puzzle more than the other decks, since so
many of them require three pieces to win, and every
card in your graveyard can be live.

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 LANDS
1 Island
1 Swamp
1 Mishra's Workshop
1 City of Traitors
1 Ancient Tomb
1 Command Tower
1 Mana Confluence
1 Glimmervoid
1 City of Brass
1 Ancient Den
1 Seat of the Synod
1 Vault of Whispers
1 Cephalid Coliseum
1 Flooded Strand
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Polluted Delta
1 Arid Mesa
1 Windswept Heath
1 Marsh Flats
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Underground Sea
1 Tundra
1 Scrubland
1 Hallowed Fountain
1 Godless Shrine
1 Watery Grave
1 Academy Ruins
1 Buried Ruin
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Reflecting Pool
1 Cavern of Souls
RAMP/RITUALS 1 Intuition
1 Dark Ritual 1 Muddle the Mixture
1 Orzhov Signet 1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Azorious Signet 1 Transmute Artifact
1 Dimir Signet 1 Demonic Tutor
1 Talisman of Dominance 1 Grim Tutor
1 Talisman of Progress 1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Mox Opal 1 Tezzeret the Seeker
1 Mox Diamond 1 Mystical Tutor
1 Chrome Mox 1 Tainted Pact
1 Lotus Petal 1 Artificer's Intuition
1 Mana Vault 1 Lim-Dul's Vault
1 Grim Monolith 1 Necropotence
1 Sol Ring 1 Memory Jar
1 Mana Crypt 1 Enlightened Tutor
INTERACTION 1 Dark Confidant
1 Pact of Negation 1 Fact or Fiction
1 Remand 1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Pithing Needle 1 Snapcaster Mage
1 Mana Drain 1 Frantic Search
1 Force of Will 1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Swan Song WIN CARDS
1 Vindicate 1 Sculpting Steel
1 Cyclonic Rift 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
1 Toxic Deluge 1 Phantasmal Image
1 Nihil Spellbomb 1 Copy Artifact
TUTORS/DRAW 1 Bitter Ordeal
1 Necrologia 1 Disciple of the Vault
1 Ad Nauseam 1 Lotus Bloom
1 Brainstorm 1 Thopter Foundry
1 Ponder 1 Sword of the Meek
1 Preordain 1 Time Sieve
1 Impulse 1 Thopter Assembly
1 Serum Visions COMMANDER
1 Imperial Seal 1 Sharuum the Hegemon
1 Gitaxian Probe
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CONTROL DECKS

Draw. Go.

Control decks in EDH all have two things in common: they’re secretly combo decks,
and they can draw insane numbers of cards. Without both to some degree, they simply
fall short.
The ability to win quickly is absolutely essential: no one can answer every
game-winning combo indefinitely. Azami turns the corner with Mind Over Matter. Niv
Mizzet with Curiosity. If you are playing a control deck in a pod of fast and
uninteractive combo decks, it is up to you to have an answer to everything each
opponent is doing. This is a heavy burden, and only a few commanders are up to task.
Counterspells are the best answers in EDH: they’re cheap, they can stop almost
any combo, and they can slow down any opponent who is getting off to too fast a start.
Beyond these similarities, these decks play quite differently.

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TASIGUR CONTROL
Tasigur relies on politics to approach his full • Primer
potential: it’s always in someone’s interest to give
you a counterspell out of your graveyard, especially
with a game winning spell on the stack. This infinite
snapcaster effect gives you exactly what you need to
keep answering threats. Avoiding commander tax is
nice too.

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 LANDS
1 Ancient Tomb
1 Bayou
1 Bazaar of Baghdad
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Breeding Pool
1 Cabal Coffers
1 Cephalid Coliseum
1 City of Brass
1 Command Tower
1 Dryad Arbor
1 Flooded Grove
1 Flooded Strand
2 Forest
1 Island
1 Mana Confluence
1 Marsh Flats
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Phyrexian Tower
1 Polluted Delta
1 Reflecting Pool
1 Strip Mine
1 Sunken Ruins
2 Swamp
1 Tropical Island
1 Twilight Mire
1 Underground River
1 Underground Sea
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Watery Grave
1 Windswept Heath
1 Wooded Foothills
1 Yavimaya Coast
ARTIFACTS
1 Isochron Scepter
1 Mana Crypt
1 Scroll Rack
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Sol Ring
1 Sword of Feast and Famine
INSTANTS
1 Abrupt Decay
1 Arcane Denial
1 Beast Within
1 Crop Rotation
1 Death Rattle
1 Delay
1 Dig Through Time
1 Entomb
1 Force of Will
1 Intuition
1 Krosan Grip
1 Lim-Dul's Vault
1 Momentous Fall
1 Murderous Cut
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Pact of Negation
1 Reality Shift
1 Slaughter Pact
1 Snuff Out
1 Sultai Charm
1 Summoner's Pact
1 Swan Song
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Voidslime
1 Worldly Tutor
CREATURES
1 Birds of Paradise
1 Consecrated Sphinx
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1 Crypt Ghast
1 Deadeye Navigator
1 Deathrite Shaman
1 Eternal Witness
1 Faerie Macabre
1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
1 Kiora's Follower
1 Oracle of Mul Daya
1 Palinchron
1 Phantasmal Image
1 Prophet of Kruphix
1 Seedborn Muse
1 Snapcaster Mage
1 Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger
ENCHANTMENTS
1 Necromancy
1 Phyrexian Arena
1 Rhystic Study
1 Sylvan Library
1 Training Grounds
1 Underworld Connections
SORCERIES
1 Decree of Pain
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Dread Return
1 Green Sun's Zenith
1 Reanimate
1 Temporal Trespass
1 Tempt with Discovery
1 Tooth and Nail
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Windfall
COMMANDER
1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang
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AZAMI CONTROL
Azami is a name that strikes fear into the hearts of • Primer
many players, and for good reason. She often draws
3+ cards per turn, and ends the game by drawing
her entire deck. The unprecedented card draw lets
Azami draw out the game almost indefinitely.

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 LANDS INSTANTS 1 Sage of Fables
1 Academy Ruins 1 Blue Sun's Zenith 1 Sea Gate Oracle
1 Lonely Sandbar 1 Capsize 1 Snapcaster Mage
1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge 1 Commandeer 1 Sower of Temptation
1 Misty Rainforest 1 Counterspell 1 Stonybrook Banneret
1 Mutavault 1 Cryptic Command 1 Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
1 Riptide Laboratory 1 Dissipate 1 Temporal Adept
1 Scalding Tarn 1 Fact or Fiction 1 Trinket Mage
1 Scrying Sheets 1 Forbid 1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
28 Snow-Covered Island 1 Force of Will 1 Vedalken AEthermage
ARTIFACT 1 Long-Term Plans 1 Venser, Shaper Savant
1 Basalt Monolith 1 Mana Drain 1 Voidmage Prodigy
1 Diviner's Wand 1 Muddle the Mixture COMMANDER
1 Grim Monolith 1 Mystical Tutor 1 Azami, Lady of Scrolls
1 Mana Crypt 1 Negate
1 Mana Vault 1 Pact of Negation
1 Memory Jar 1 Remand
1 Mycosynth Lattice 1 Swan Song
1 Pithing Needle 1 Remand
1 Rings of Brighthearth ENCHANTMENTS
1 Sapphire Medallion 1 Future Sight
1 Sensei's Divining Top 1 Mind Over Matter
1 Sol Ring 1 Power Artifact
1 Staff of Domination 1 Treachery
1 Temple Bell CREATURES
1 Vedalken Shackles 1 Ethereal Usher
SORCERIES 1 Fallowsage
1 Fabricate 1 Glen Elendra Archmage
1 Merchant Scroll 1 Jace's Archivist
1 Ponder 1 Laboratory Maniac
1 Time Spiral 1 Magus of the Future
1 Timetwister 1 Patron Wizard
1 Phyrexian Metamorph
1 Sage of Epityr

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NIV MIZZET
What Niv Mizzet, the Firemind lacks in raw card • Primer
advantage, he makes up for it with cheap and
redundant combo pieces. As controlling as a deck as
this is, it can easily win on turn 5 or 6.

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1 Bloodstained Mire 1 Grim Monolith 1 Reforge the Soul
1 Polluted Delta 1 Helm of Awakening 1 Mindmoil
1 Flooded Strand 1 Thran Dynamo 1 Time Spiral
1 Wooded Foothills 1 Inner Fire 1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Arid Mesa INTERACTION 1 Brainstorm
1 Misty Rainforest 1 Comet Storm 1 Faithless Looting
1 Scalding Tarn 1 Cyclonic Rift 1 Impulse
1 Volcanic Island 1 Chaos Warp 1 Izzet Charm
1 Steam Vents 1 Evacuation 1 Frantic Search
1 Cascade Bluffs 1 All is Dust 1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Command Tower 1 Pact of Negation 1 Fact or Fiction
1 Reflecting Pool 1 Remand 1 Future Sight
1 Sulfur Falls 1 Counterspell 1 Curiosity
1 Shivan Reef 1 Muddle the Mixture 1 Rhystic Study
1 City of Brass 1 Mana Drain 1 Consecrated Sphinx
1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge 1 Counterbalance 1 Alhammarret's Archive
1 Oboro, Palace in the Clouds 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Enter the Infinite
1 Cephalid Coliseum 1 Cryptic Command 1 Recoup
1 Tolaria West 1 Force of Will 1 Call to Mind
1 Academy Ruins 1 Snapcaster Mage 1 Mystic Retrieval
1 Reliquary Tower TUTORS/DRAW EXTRA TURNS
1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea 1 Mystical Tutor 1 Temporal Manipulation
1 Ancient Tomb 1 Gamble 1 Time Warp
1 Strip Mine 1 Personal Tutor 1 Temporal Mastery
1 Riptide Laboratory 1 Merchant Scroll COST REDUCTION
6 Island 1 Fabricate 1 Show and Tell
4 Mountain 1 Intuition 1 Dream Halls
RAMP 1 Long-Term Plans 1 Omniscience
1 Mana Crypt 1 Winds of Change COMMANDER
1 Chrome Mox 1 Tolarian Winds 1 Niv Mizzet, the Firemind
1 Mox Diamond 1 Scroll Rack
1 Mox Opal 1 Timetwister
1 Sol Ring 1 Wheel of Fortune

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 THANKS

Thanks for checking out this book. It was a lot of work to compile, and it’s constantly a
work in progress. If you have any ideas, or any resources about the decks listed, go
ahead and share them with me @landdestruction on Twitter or with
jfrondorf@gmail.com.



—Jake Frondorf
landdestruction.com


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