The Cheese Stands Alone

Commander / EDH* Combo Discard WUB (Esper)

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Instant (30)

• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Chemister's Insight
• 1x Circular Logic
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Disenchant
• 1x Doom Blade
• 1x Dovin's Veto
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Faith's Reward
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Into the Story
• 1x Kaervek's Spite
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Negate
• 1x Nexus of Fate
• 1x One with Nothing
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Paradoxical Outcome
• 1x Rain of Filth
• 1x Read the Runes
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Renounce
• 1x Supreme Will
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Thirst for Knowledge
• 1x Thirst for Meaning

Creature (3)

• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Olivia's Dragoon

Land (36)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 1x Azorius Guildgate
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Concealed Courtyard
• 1x Darkslick Shores
• 1x Dimir Guildgate
• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 1x Emergence Zone
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Fetid Heath
• 1x Hall of Heliod's Generosity
• 7x Island
• 1x Mystic Gate
• 1x Orzhov Guildgate
• 6x Plains
• 1x Scoured Barrens
• 1x Seachrome Coast
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Tolaria West
• 1x Tomb of Urami
• 1x Tranquil Cove

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Akroma's Vengeance
• 1x Armageddon
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Devastation Tide
• 1x Hour of Revelation
• 1x Idyllic Tutor
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Treasure Cruise
• 1x Wrath of God

Commander (1)

Artifact (15)

• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Claws of Gix
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Lotus Bloom
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Tormod's Crypt

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Barren Glory
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Oblivion Ring

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Teferi, Time Raveler

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The meat, on the other hand, has many visitors.

This is my very rough, very budget, and very fun build of Barren Glory EDH.

The goal of the deck is to win using Barren Glory, which requires that, on your upkeep, you both control no permanents and have no cards in hand. A difficult task? Yes. But impossible? Absolutely not.

Why Chromium?

Chromium, the Mutable was chosen for a few reasons.

1. It runs white. Which is important.
2. It runs black and blue. The colors are great support as they both allow for card draw and card discard, as well as access to transmute, which can tutor for important pieces.
3. He is a discard outlet in the command zone.
4. Sometimes your wincon is elder dragon beats.

Winning the Game

O-Ring

NOTE: I have cut most of the support for this path to victory because of how card-intensive this package is. In a deck with such a specific win condition, we want as many live draws as we can get. Hitting a 2nd Oblivion Ring effect or Worldpurge when we'd rather have ramp or removal is bad. If your meta is slow enough for this, feel free to lean more heavily into this path.

Oblivion Ring, Detention Sphere, and Release to the Wind are all cards that can hold and contain Barren Glory in preparation for you winning combo. Once protected, you can play a board clear, hold priority to both sacrifice your lands and discard your hand, and then pray. Oblivion Ring and Detention Sphere will automatically return Barren Glory back into play, while Release to the Wind requires you to cast it again (albeit for free). Worldpurge and Kaervek's Spite are the best for this approach.

No-Ring

Construct your wincon arround Barren Glory. You can either do this in response to it on the stack or by selectively removing everything else on the battlefield. Casting Kaervek's Spite in response to Barren Glory will set you up right there, although you're left in the dust if opponents have removal. Building the win while Barren Glory is in play is a little more tricky. The best cards for the setup are Renounce and Claws of Gix, since they both have flexibility as to what you can sacrifice.

This is not a budgetless build obviously. The manabase needs some work and certain cards such as Vampiric Tutor and Lion's Eye Diamond definitely belong here but for now this is a template.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 34 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 24 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.81
Tokens	Manifest 2/2 C, Urami
Folders	Good ideas from random people