To be or not to be... "that" guy...

Commander / EDH* BUG (Sultai) Control Cruel Control

Zephakia

Creature (16)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Grand Architect
• 1x Great Whale
• 1x Hex Parasite
• 1x Lotus Cobra
• 1x Palinchron
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Pili-Pala
• 1x Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Thopter Assembly
• 1x Trygon Predator

Land (36)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 5x Forest
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 5x Island
• 1x Jungle Hollow
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Opulent Palace
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Tectonic Edge
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Thornwood Falls
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Vivid Marsh
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Decree of Silence
• 1x Elfhame Sanctuary
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Training Grounds

Artifact (11)

• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Conjurer's Closet
• 1x Crystal Shard
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Golgari Signet
• 1x Mindslaver
• 1x Planar Portal
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Simic Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Time Sieve

Instant (19)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Cancel
• 1x Capsize
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Dissipate
• 1x Dissolve
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Mystical Teachings
• 1x Plasm Capture
• 1x Putrefy
• 1x Rewind
• 1x Spell Crumple
• 1x Stubborn Denial
• 1x Swan Song

Sorcery (13)

• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Curse of the Swine
• 1x Demonic Collusion
• 1x Diabolic Revelation
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Increasing Ambition
• 1x Profane Command
• 1x Recollect
• 1x Regrowth
• 1x Rhystic Tutor
• 1x Tooth and Nail

Commander (1)

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That is the question!

And with this deck you can be! Be the guy who everyone hates! With cruel control, with evil evasion, with maniacal mastery, with diabolic destruction, with... okay I think you get the point. This deck is, most of the time, quite cruel.

As always, +1's welcome, help improving preferred! Also, if you do suggest a card, try to keep it on the lower side. Money might be made from trees, but not any trees that I have!

~USE AT OWN RISK~

COMBOS

INFI-MANA POWER

-Deadeye Navigator+Palinchron = Assuming you have 1 and U open.

-Deadeye Navigator+Great Whale = See above.

-Deadeye Navigator+Peregrine Drake = See above.

-Grand Architect+Pili-Pala = U to make pili blue creature, tap pili for 2 via Architect, use that floating to make any color mana.

-COLORLESS MANABasalt Monolith+Rings of Brighthearth =

1) Have 2 mana floating.

2) Tap monolith (5 floating).

3) Pay 3 to untap monolith (2 floating).

4) Use 2 floating to stack activated ability (0 floating).

5) Rings ability resolves first (0 floating).

6) Tap monolith again (3 floating).

7) Monolith ability to resolve (3 floating).

8) Tap Monolith again (5+ floating).Now every time these 8 steps happen you gain 1 additional colorless mana floating. Therfore, Infinite Mana. :D

LOCK-DOWN POWER

-Infinite Mana+Capsize = Bounce all the things of my choosing! (Thx Buyback!)

-Decree of Silence+Hex Parasite = Cruel spell lockdown. (mana/life permitting)

-Mindslaver+Academy Ruins = TRUE control. What more needs to be said?

INFI-TURN POWER

-Thopter Assembly+Time Sieve+6 mana open = Just play him before the extra turn begins. For turn after turn after turnafter turn.

DRAW/SEARCH POWER

-Damia, Sage of Stone+Elfhame Sanctuary = Draw to 7 (set stack for damia to resolve 1st), and still search for a land.

-Deadeye Navigator+Rune-Scarred Demon = Search over again for 1 and U extra.

-Deadeye Navigator+Coiling Oracle = Top card drawing/playing for 1 and U.

-Diabolic Revelation+Infi-mana = Infi-Search!

RETRIVAL POWER

-Deadeye Navigator+Eternal Witness = Graveyard fishing for 1 and U.

-Deadeye Navigator+Archaeomancer = Instances and sorceries only.

LAND/ARTIFACT/ENCHANTMENT-DESTRUCTION POWER

-Deadeye Navigator+Acidic Slime = 1 and U can go a long way

INSTA-WINS (POWER)

-Blue Sun's Zenith+Infi-mana = Make him or her draw his or her whole deck.

-Exsanguinate+Infi-mana = Infi-loss for them, infi-gain for you.

-Profane Command+Infi-mana = Infi-loss for them.

Got your own ideas on how to make this deck crueler? Say it!

Want to give my deck a go? Play it!

Got a hose that needs feeding? Hay it!

Date added	9 years
Last updated	8 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 31 - 0 Rares 36 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.53
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Bird 2/2 U, Boar 2/2 G, Thopter 1/1 C
Folders	EDH Ideas, Good Decks Not Made By Me, Commander/EDH