$100 Clone Grand Arg! But? Er... Digustin' IV

Commander / EDH Budget Legendary Matters Tempo WU (Azorius)

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Creature (19)

• 1x Adric, Mathematical Genius
• 1x Alabaster Host Intercessor
• 1x Angel of the Ruins
• 1x Auton Soldier
• 1x Drift of Phantasms
• 1x Eagles of the North
• 1x Eternal Dragon
• 1x Glasspool Mimic  ^Flip
• 1x Lost Auramancers
• 1x Loyal Inventor
• 1x Monstrosity of the Lake
• 1x Moon-Blessed Cleric
• 1x Recruiter of the Guard
• 1x Sakashima the Impostor
• 1x Spark Double
• 1x Taigam, Ojutai Master
• 1x Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
• 1x Thalia's Lancers
• 1x Timeless Dragon

Sorcery (16)

• 1x Clone Legion
• 1x Dusk / Dawn
• 1x Expel the Interlopers
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Fell the Mighty
• 1x Irenicus's Vile Duplication
• 1x Personal Tutor
• 1x Plea for Guidance
• 1x Quantum Misalignment
• 1x Quasiduplicate
• 1x Replication Technique
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Saheeli's Artistry
• 1x Search for Glory
• 1x Sevinne's Reclamation
• 1x Wake the Reflections

Instant (19)

• 1x AEtherize
• 1x Cackling Counterpart
• 1x Complete the Circuit
• 1x Disenchant
• 1x Dizzy Spell
• 1x Foil
• 1x Forbid
• 1x Insidious Will
• 1x Long-Term Plans
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystic Confluence
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Rewind
• 1x Rootborn Defenses
• 1x See Double
• 1x Traumatic Visions
• 1x Twist Reality
• 1x Unwind
• 1x Urza's Rebuff

Artifact (8)

• 1x Amulet of Safekeeping
• 1x Cursed Totem
• 1x God-Pharaoh's Statue
• 1x Helm of the Host
• 1x Immovable Rod
• 1x Norn's Annex
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Stone of Erech

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Endless Evil
• 1x Extravagant Replication
• 1x Kismet
• 1x Mechanized Production
• 1x Restricted Office / Lecture Hall
• 1x Stasis
• 1x Storm of Saruman

Commander (1)

Land (30)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Glacial Floodplain
• 1x Irrigated Farmland
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Mirrorpool
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Port Town
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Razortide Bridge
• 1x Secluded Steppe
• 9x Snow-Covered Island
• 5x Snow-Covered Plains
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

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Instant (33)

• 1x Abolish
• 1x Artistic Refusal
• 1x Confounding Riddle
• 1x Ensnare
• 1x Fall of the Gavel
• 1x Get Out
• 1x Gush
• 1x High Tide
• 1x Last Word
• 1x Lazotep Plating
• 1x Mental Journey
• 1x Miscalculation
• 1x Offering to Asha
• 1x Ojutai's Command
• 1x Overrule
• 1x Overwhelming Denial
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Reverent Mantra
• 1x Silundi Vision  ^Flip
• 1x Snap
• 1x Snapback
• 1x Soul Read
• 1x Spellgyre
• 1x Sublime Epiphany
• 1x Supplant Form
• 1x Supreme Will
• 1x Swift Silence
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Three Steps Ahead
• 1x Thwart
• 1x Twincast
• 1x Whiplash Trap
• 1x Whir of Invention

Creature (22)

• 1x Clone
• 1x Copycrook
• 1x Cryptoplasm
• 1x Daggermaw Megalodon
• 1x Echo Mage
• 1x Ethereal Usher
• 1x Gigantoplasm
• 1x Malevolent Hermit  ^Flip
• 1x Mirror Image
• 1x Mirrorhall Mimic  ^Flip
• 1x Shepherding Spirits
• 1x Shoreline Ranger
• 1x Stunt Double
• 1x Sunblade Samurai
• 1x The Eighth Doctor
• 1x Tidal Barracuda
• 1x Tribute Mage
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Undercover Operative
• 1x Vedalken Mastermind
• 1x Visage Bandit
• 1x Vizier of Many Faces

Land (18)

• 1x Abstergo Entertainment
• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Deserted Beach
• 1x Emergence Zone
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Hall of Heliod's Generosity
• 1x Hengegate Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Hydroelectric Laboratory  ^Flip
• 1x Karoo
• 1x Nimbus Maze
• 1x Ruins of Trokair
• 1x Saprazzan Skerry
• 1x Sea of Clouds
• 1x Seachrome Coast
• 1x Skycloud Expanse
• 1x Svyelunite Temple
• 1x Trenzalore Clocktower

Sorcery (22)

• 1x Aether Gale
• 1x Austere Command
• 1x Baral's Expertise
• 1x Citywide Bust
• 1x Dance of the Manse
• 1x Dawn to Dusk
• 1x Harsh Mercy
• 1x Hour of Reckoning
• 1x Lorien Revealed
• 1x Merchant Scroll
• 1x Migratory Route
• 1x Mine Excavation
• 1x Profound Journey
• 1x Recall
• 1x Redress Fate
• 1x Sea God's Scorn
• 1x Shatter the Sky
• 1x Solar Tide
• 1x Stolen Identity
• 1x Tempt with Reflections
• 1x The Battle of Bywater
• 1x Winds of Abandon

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Blind Obedience
• 1x Case of the Shifting Visage
• 1x Followed Footsteps
• 1x Frozen Aether
• 1x Mirror Room / Fractured Realm
• 1x The Eleventh Hour

Artifact (6)

• 1x Feldon's Cane
• 1x Mirage Mirror
• 1x Mirror Box
• 1x Mirror Gallery
• 1x Pearl Medallion
• 1x Sapphire Medallion

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My pod has $100 decks, price on TCG low at the time of the last card change.

Why?! Why would you do this?

Look, if you're heading to FNM with the aim of making friends then this is definitely not the deck but if your family's motto is "odium sit influunt per te", then Darth Caesar, this pile of "Really?" is going to ensure your family name lives in infamy for aeons to come. This is the lowest of low ground. If you enjoy playing Magic while an "audience" of three look on and heckle you, then look no further.

Winning!

The name of the game is cast Abe and copy him, then copy him again or one of the versions that is no longer legendary, and again, and again... I mean, what's more hated than one Grand Arbiter Augustin IV? Many of him, that's what. Given the deck is all in on Abe, you need to protect him before you can copy him, having him not on the field early will result in a hand full of pretty useless cards and dropping him too late will mean you are going to have a hard time gumming up the game.

While that's happening get Stasis and Immovable Rod out, with added yuks from Kismet. Those of you who are old enough to remember Legends will be familiar with this setup but back then it was Time Elemental, this is better, no recasting Stasis each turn but it's 5 mana ... totally worth it! With both Stasis and Immovable Rod on the field, at the end of the turn before your's, activate Immovable Rod targeting Stasis (4 mana), Stasis is blanked, you choose to untap Immovable Rod during your untap step (or should I say, the untap step because it is the only one from then on), pay the upkeep on Stasis (1 mana) and go about your turn. Don't forget to venture into the dungeon. When all this is on the field, no one, apart from you, will be casting anything. Sounds expensive but with all the cost reduction from your Odium of Abes it won't matter.

Once you pass turn, you will hear "turn", "turn, "turn", oh, and "moving to discard". That is all you need to listen to. No, your mother isn't a hamster and your father doesn't smell of elderberries, well maybe, but that's not relevant, you focus on making enough Abes that you overlap the number of lands in your opponents' decks. Good times!

The win condition is Mechanized Production (or a soul stealing concession). I had toyed with a Chronicles Feldon's Cane but nerd rage is real and even I know not to take things too far...

Anything Else?

The rest of the deck is counter spells, wraths and tutors. You may see a bunch of high MV cards but once Abe and friends are out, colourless costs cease to be a problem.

Counter Spells Most in the deck have the benefit of playing well with Stasis just in case you find you land it without Immovable Rod, you can untap or return tapped lands to your hand to play them untapped again, others just play nice with cost reductions and budget. Many of the interaction spells are modal, value is go wide rather than go broken, they are cheap $$ and, with cost reduction, cheap to cast.

Tap and Bounce both are killers with Stasis out, nothing like an opponent "saving up" untapped lands over turns to drop a big threat only to have it go back to their hand or be tapped immediately. Magic as Garfield intended.

Wraths They aren't full board wipes, you won't be hitting Abe and his clones. Wraths are not only there to kill creatures, they are really good at tilting players and, sure, there is a win con in the deck but you are more likely to win by concession. Wraths extinguish hope.

Tutors Sorcery tutors are first going for Quantum Misalignment to make those sweet non-legendary copies. Artifact tutors and Search for Glory are going for Helm of the Host. Moon-Blessed Cleric either the win con Mechanized Production or one of the cloning enchantments. Plea for Guidance is busted with your plan in action.

Legendaries This deck has a few that can be tutored for, mostly creatures and a couple of artifacts like Helm of the Host. Creatures each are worth tactically casting (or cycling). On best creature, it's a tough call between grabbing Sakashima the Impostor or Taigam, Ojutai Master. Taigam if your hand is strong on instants/sorceries and you have mana. Taigum is cheap and not only makes your instants and sorceries uncounterable, it gives them rebound, giddy-up! Go for Sakashima on an early fast game, it will get you into 6 cost spells, so most of the deck, and then just clone, clone, clone.

Mana Lands with a fair amount of fixing and some utility that plays toward the clone strategy rather than the Stasis line, which has some synergistic lands but they are too focused and surprisingly expensive. Ramp comes from land cycling creatures, I like these in budget decks instead of rocks because most fast mana rocks are expensive and really benefit from having a good concentration to make them crazy good. There is no big advantage in dropping just one rock in a turn over grabbing a land and if you don't need more mana, having a creature (or counter spell) instead is value.

(Also, if you "optimise" plains to advertised symbols you will end up not drawing white mana early enough to cast Abe, its teetering on the edge, don't shift islands to plains.)

Date added	2 years
Last updated	3 weeks
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 43 - 0 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 20 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.03
Tokens	Copy Clone, Dungeon: Dungeon of the Mad Mage, Dungeon: Lost Mine of Phandelver, Dungeon: Tomb of Annihilation, Goblin 1/1 R, Manifest 2/2 C, Skeleton 1/1 B, The Atropal, Timeless Dragon 4/4 B, Treasure
Folders	Realistic Commander Decks