Double Trouble

Commander / EDH* UBR (Grixis)

MasterSamurai

Creature (33)

• 1x Academy Elite
• 1x Adeliz, the Cinder Wind
• 1x Apprentice Necromancer
• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Aven Fogbringer
• 1x Azami, Lady of Scrolls
• 1x Bloodline Necromancer
• 1x Body Double
• 1x Champion of Wits
• 1x Dire Fleet Ravager
• 1x Docent of Perfection  ^Flip
• 1x Dualcaster Mage
• 1x Galecaster Colossus
• 1x Harbinger of the Tides
• 1x Havengul Lich
• 1x Izzet Chronarch
• 1x Kess, Dissident Mage
• 1x Marchesa, the Black Rose
• 1x Master of Waves
• 1x Merchant of Secrets
• 1x Naban, Dean of Iteration
• 1x Portal Mage
• 1x Puppeteer Clique
• 1x Sage of Fables
• 1x Sea Gate Oracle
• 1x Stonybrook Banneret
• 1x Stunt Double
• 1x Thalakos Deceiver
• 1x Timestream Navigator
• 1x Tribute Mage
• 1x Vela the Night-Clad
• 1x Venser, Shaper Savant
• 1x Vindictive Lich

Land (38)

• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 1x Grixis Panorama
• 10x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Jwar Isle Refuge
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Mystifying Maze
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Rakdos Carnarium
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Swiftwater Cliffs
• 1x Temple of Epiphany
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Vivid Crag
• 1x Vivid Creek
• 1x Vivid Marsh

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Clone Legion
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Distant Melody
• 1x Kindred Dominance
• 1x Rite of Replication

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Flameshadow Conjuring
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Mirror March

Commander (1)

Instant (11)

• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Crosis's Charm
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Displace
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Illusionist's Stratagem
• 1x Into the Roil
• 1x Paradoxical Outcome
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Terminate

Artifact (9)

• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Stoneforge Masterwork
• 1x Sundial of the Infinite

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Maybeboard

Land (16)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Fiery Islet
• 1x Luxury Suite
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Riptide Laboratory
• 1x Safe Haven
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Temple of Malice
• 1x Watery Grave

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Kindred Charge

Creature (15)

• 1x Anathemancer
• 1x Anger
• 1x Daring Apprentice
• 1x Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1x Mercurial Chemister
• 1x Merfolk Trickster
• 1x Metallic Mimic
• 1x Naru Meha, Master Wizard
• 1x Riptide Director
• 1x Sedraxis Alchemist
• 1x Sigil Tracer
• 1x Stormchaser Mage
• 1x Supreme Inquisitor
• 1x Vedalken Aethermage
• 1x Voidmage Prodigy

Artifact (8)

• 1x Conjurer's Closet
• 1x Cryptic Gateway
• 1x Door of Destinies
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Obelisk of Urd
• 1x Paradox Engine
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Faces of the Past
• 1x Fervor
• 1x In the Web of War
• 1x Intruder Alarm
• 1x Shared Animosity

Instant (1)

• 1x Dramatic Reversal

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The Game Plan: We take advantage of Inalla's Eminence in order to create many tokens and extract value via:

• Cards which double trigger and flicker effects
• Taking advantage of Wizard ETB effects and abilities from tribal cards
• Creating a large, aggressive board presence via trigger abuse
• Using 'tap wizard' outlets

The Wizards

• Bloodline Necromancer : Low on wizards? For , get 6 of them. In cloning Bloodline Necromancer with Eminence, you can get two wizards, who you can clone, respectively. The more cloning abilities you have, the more bananas it gets.

• Dire Fleet Ravager : What's not to love? A 4/4 for 5 with menace and deathtouch that hits everyone and drives up the competition. For one mere extra mana, you can get a temporary 4/4 menace deathtouch with haste and set everyone's life to about 4/9ths of what it was. That can sometimes be low enough for some kills! With even more copies and trigger copies, then everyone's life will be modeled by a recursive f(f(f(...f(x)))) where f(x) = floor((2/3)x), x is a person's current lifetotal and the amount of nested functions equals the number of triggers

• Galecaster Colossus : A very powerful ability on a sizeable body. With Inalla's ability, you get to bounce another non-land permanent or get in for 5. The fact that you can tap the colossus itself every turn makes for quite the annoyance. And of course, the more wizards you have, the more crazy this gets. I find myself cloning small wizards and using their copy to activate this ability.

• Master of Waves : Tokens! Cloning Master of Waves ensures that for 5 mana, you get 2n+3 elemental tokens, where n is your devotion to blue (increased by Master of Waves being on battlefield). Though the tokens do not have haste and only one Master of Waves will stay after your turn, they have strength in numbers.

• Stunt Double : A tricky, versatile wizard in his own right. You can use this to copy an existing wizard and squeeze extra value with Inalla, or this can copy a menacing threat to bolster your board state. As an added bonus, the flash allows for you to copy any creature at any time.

• Timestream Navigator : Who doesn't like taking extra turns? With Inalla's ability, you should have two in the bank, but flickering or duplication can get you even more. More turns, more trickery!

• Venser, Shaper Savant : An amazing trickster who can bounce whatever wizards and annoyances you want, with reusability value. For , combos with Inalla to bounce whatever you want and retrieve Venser:

  1. Cast Venser for
  2. Order the triggers on the stack so that Inalla's eminence ability resolves before Venser's ETB.
  3. Pay to make a copy of Venser, and have its ETB trigger go on the stack before the original Venser's
  4. The first ETB trigger will resolve, bouncing the original Venser back to your hand.
  5. Now, you can also bounce something else when the second ETB trigger resolves.
  6. You are left with the Venser token as a 2/2 wizard with haste, which you can swing with. I also like to think of Venser as appearing, casting an illusory clone of himself as a distraction, before fleeing.

Non-wizard Support Cards

• Leyline of Anticipation : Instead of holding mana for potential threats, only to not use any of it, Leyline allows us to be consistently mana-efficient, with some major upsides. Wizard shenanigans at instant speeds, board wipes at instant speed, and more!

• Sundial of the Infinite : Keep your tokens! While eminence's "exile it at the beginning of the next end step" trigger is on the stack, use Sundial of the Infinite to wipe the stack clean and permanently keep your tokens. The triggered ability won't reoccur on those tokens, ever.

Updates

v1

-1 Adeliz, the Cinder Wind : Not enough instants and sorceries to justify.

+1 Vedalken AEthermage : Tutoring for a wizard through an ability (nearly uncounterable) is powerful.

+1 Sedraxis Alchemist : With this deck, you will almost always have a blue permanent on hand. You can bounce an opponent's threats, or even your your own wizards. For 5 mana, you can use this card as a boomerang just as Venser, but without the flash.

+1 Endless Sands

+1 Cryptic Gateway

Date added	6 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 33 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 17 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.66
Tokens	Champion of Wits 4/4 B, City's Blessing, Copy Clone, Elemental 1/0 U, Human Wizard 1/1 U, Manifest 2/2 C