$10 EDH Deck - Taniwha

Commander / EDH* Budget Combo Control Mono-Blue Multiplayer Theme/Gimmick

nbarry223

Creature (5)

• 1x Dreamscape Artist
• 1x Fog Bank
• 1x Guard Gomazoa
• 1x Noble Benefactor
• 1x Walking Atlas

Land (37)

• 37x Island

Enchantment (11)

• 1x Captivating Glance
• 1x Dissipation Field
• 1x Dream Tides
• 1x Legacy's Allure
• 1x Lilting Refrain
• 1x Mana Breach
• 1x Mark of Eviction
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Overburden
• 1x Pendrell Mists
• 1x Teferi's Realm

Artifact (12)

• 1x Eye of Doom
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Moonring Mirror
• 1x Prismatic Lens
• 1x Quicksilver Fountain
• 1x Shrine of Piercing Vision
• 1x Sky Diamond
• 1x Star Compass
• 1x Storage Matrix
• 1x Storm Cauldron
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1x Worldslayer

Instant (30)

• 1x Boomerang
• 1x Cancel
• 1x Complicate
• 1x Curfew
• 1x Delay
• 1x Dismiss
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Disperse
• 1x Dream Fracture
• 1x Echoing Truth
• 1x Evacuation
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Hoodwink
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Into the Roil
• 1x Lat-Nam's Legacy
• 1x Long-Term Plans
• 1x Memory Lapse
• 1x Miscalculation
• 1x Negate
• 1x Peer Through Depths
• 1x Pulse of the Grid
• 1x Redirect
• 1x Reins of Power
• 1x Repeal
• 1x Rewind
• 1x Scattering Stroke
• 1x Stoic Rebuttal
• 1x Sunder
• 1x Three Wishes

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Devastation Tide
• 1x Eye of Nowhere
• 1x Mitotic Manipulation
• 1x Portent

Commander (1)

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Sideboard

Creature (1)

• 1x Taniwha

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This deck is currently retired, since once you win with it, it is pretty easy to see how to stop it.

As hard as it was to stick to the budget, this deck turned out really good. It tries to ramp and control early-mid game, until it builds up enough momentum to dominate the field with some commander shenanigans once you build up enough open mana (NEVER cast the general until you can win with it, you are effectively skipping every other turn if you do).

Some of the fun interactions in here are:

Taniwha + Worldslayer = Bye bye everything other than my phased out lands.

Taniwha + Sunder = Everyone's lands go to their hands right after mine phase out. Good luck recovering against a control deck with no lands.

Taniwha + Sway of the Stars = Reset the game and everyone has 7 life, oh wait I get a 7/7 trample next turn and nobody has any lands? (took this one out because I got tired of the "It's banned" comment. So now my deck is totally legal and under $10...even though we were allowed to used banned cards so long as it came out under $10 when we made up this challenge)

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The budget constraint was quite the challenge to build around, as I broke my last goal ($100) in my last "budget" deck. This brought a new meaning to the term "budget" for me. The rules of this build were basic lands are $0.03, then use the mid price for the commander, and the low prices for every other card on the deck, according to TCGplayer prices (in the cheapest printing of the card).

I'm $0.01 under budget as of 12/9/13, and I'm currently pretty happy with it how it is, but I might make a few swaps later on once I playtest some more (hopefully prices don't change too much if I decide to do so, since my cards magically jumped like $0.84 in 3 days as I was building this deck, forcing a bunch of cuts I didn't want to make). If anyone has any ideas for cuts/improvements, feel free to let me know.

All comments/suggestions are appreciated.

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Top Ranked	Achieved #11 position overall 11 years ago
Date added	11 years
Last updated	9 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	19 - 1 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 25 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.73
Folders	$10 Decks, EDH, edh, Single color madness, Cheap and good, EDH, EDH, Commander, edh, Wish list decks