Blue is the new green : blue monsters freak show

Commander / EDH* Mono-Blue Multiplayer Theme/Gimmick

Seimbalir

Instant (24)

• 1x AEtherize
• 1x Aetherspouts
• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Capsize
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cryptic Command
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Daze
• 1x Desertion
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Dismiss
• 1x Dissipate
• 1x Dissolve
• 1x Engulf the Shore
• 1x High Tide
• 1x Illusionist's Gambit
• 1x Mana Leak
• 1x Mystic Confluence
• 1x Opt
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Rewind
• 1x Spell Swindle

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Imprisoned in the Moon
• 1x Training Grounds

Creature (22)

• 1x Aboshan, Cephalid Emperor
• 1x Archetype of Imagination
• 1x Chasm Skulker
• 1x Colossal Whale
• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Draining Whelk
• 1x Fog Bank
• 1x Guard Gomazoa
• 1x Guile
• 1x Kederekt Leviathan
• 1x Lorthos, the Tidemaker
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Nezahal, Primal Tide
• 1x Riptide Shapeshifter
• 1x Roil Elemental
• 1x Scourge of Fleets
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Sphinx of Magosi
• 1x Stormtide Leviathan
• 1x Thada Adel, Acquisitor
• 1x Torrential Gearhulk

Artifact (8)

• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Crystal Shard
• 1x Gauntlet of Power
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Quicksilver Fountain
• 1x Sapphire Medallion
• 1x Sol Ring

Commander (1)

Land (34)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Blighted Cataract
• 25x Island
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Terrain Generator
• 1x Tolaria West

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Crush of Tentacles
• 1x Curse of the Swine
• 1x Flow of Ideas
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x River's Rebuke
• 1x Serum Visions
• 1x Wash Out
• 1x Whelming Wave

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Creature (5)

• 1x Arcanis the Omnipotent
• 1x Frost Titan
• 1x Memnarch
• 1x Mindshrieker
• 1x Realmwright

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Omniscience
• 1x Telepathy

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Devastation Tide
• 1x Inundate

Instant (2)

• 1x Admiral's Order
• 1x Pact of Negation

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Welcome in the the Bluest of worlds ! A universe of cunning and treachery, where only the wittiest and the most huge of all can hope to be rewarded by the Mindful God himself : Kefnet, the flying library.

Why play Kefnet as a commander ? Show

Kefnet is a God, which is, by definition, a very good pre-requisite to command stuff. Kefnet is also indestructible, which is, by definition, annoying. Kefnet is a 3-mana 5/5 flyer, which is, let's not lie to ourselves, incredibly stupid and abslutely horrifying for anyone who does not have flyers or big spidery monsters. Five attacks and one player dies. Kefnet has a singular ability : he rewards you for not using cards in your hand, being patient, and conservative. The fact that you don't need to actually play him from your hand makes this happen very often : on turn 3, you have a 5/5 indestructible flying beater going directly at you opponents' faces. And guess what ? Your hand is filled with annoying cards that you didn't even have to play to get there. The clock starts ticking at turn 4. And once you reach 4 mana, your hand will never empty, EVER, and thus you will stay worth of Kefnet eternally.

Resume : Kefnet goes on the board easily turn 3, as a monstruous blocker, and starts being up turn 4. He only requires you to have 7 cards in hand, which he allows you to have for 4 mana. These 7 cards have a single purpose : prevent your opponents from stoping the divine clock. And that's what this deck is all about.

Also big-ass monsters.

COUNTERSPELLS Show

Blue is so good because blue doesn't care what color you play. Counterspells are absolute : no matter what it is, it doesn't come to existence. And the variety of counterspells available is dreamy.

Counterspell : Always perfect in any kind of hand. That's OP.

Cryptic Command : One of the best blue cards ever printed, absolutely gorgeous. A counterspell that replaces itslef. Kefnet has it, Kefnet loves it. The other mods are far from the by-the-way side, allowing a tempo strategy that goes perfectly well with the ticking clock of death that is Kefnet. You need only 5 turns to win, and this card brings you one turn, by itslef, in every situation.

Daze: though it is not a hard counter, it's always unpredictable and keeps my hand full, something that Kefnet appreciates a lot.

Desertion : a little expensive but sooo funny to play, this card will wreck havoc in your opponents' moral. So many artifacts are incredibly strong in commander, and the power to counter-steal the other players' commanders is the bitchiest thing. In any situation, it is still a true counterspell, which is welcomed.

Disallow : probably the best 3-mana counterspell ever printed. So many possibilities... so much unpredictable power ! Goodbye planeswalker ultimates, goodbye powerful ETB effects... or even casting effects.

Dismiss : another counterspell that replaces itslef. Kefnet likes.

Dissipate : usually a normal true counterspell, the exile effect can still save you from some nasty graveyard users. Better counterspells exist, but this card is pretty fair and keeps your friends friendly.

Dissolve : scrying is a good mechanic, especially when combined with Kefnet's draw power. Nice and fair, this counterspell is a quality tool.

Draining Whelk : in French, a whelk is called "Bulot", and it has a strange taste. Connoisseurs who learn to appreciate this taste, however, are in for a treat, because whelks are easy to find, thick, and the can counterspell the hell out of anything and at the same time give you a potential flying beater. This card is heavy. It is able to reverse the balance of a game all by itself. Combine it with the best abuser of ETB effects Deadeye Navigator and that's it. You're a dick.

Force of Will : best counterspell ever.

Lost in the Mist : Lost in the mist has a super funny flavor to me. The opponent is... actually lost in a mist, and not being able to come out of it makes him lose his mind. "Hey George, you here ? Hey guys ! I'm gonna cast a spell to...fizzle oh shit i tripped on a root! And something fell from my pocket! God this mist is awful...". It's so laughable, in my head.

Mana Leak : One of my favourite counterspells in the game, this card had to be here. A good turn-2 play is not so common in EDH.

Mystic Confluence : a pumped up Cryptic Command, this card is almost as powerful, sometimes even better. I do prefer CC, but this one is like its slighlty slower big brother.

Rewind : extremly efficient counterspell in this deck with this commander, it allows you to at least activate Kefnet's ability to draw, and if not to play another counterspell from your hand. It has never failed to bring enormous value.

Which counterspells i don't want to play, and why Show

Mana Drain is too powerful. I love it, but it's too much. It's plenty unfair for my community. Mental Misstep : isn't so nice in EDH. Sure it will counter Sensei's Divining Top and Sol Ring but i dislike the idea to use this card only to counter some specific targets. I like my countering possibilities to be broad. This is also why i don't want to play Spell Snare, Negate, Essence Scatter and all the "specific" counterspells. Remand is nice since it replaces itself, but i prefer hard counters. Daze is really sweet and might get its place somewhere pretty soon, i just need to get the card itself :)

I could also play more counterspells, this strategy would actually be viable, but it would kill the fun of the deck. I really feel that 15 counterspells is the maximum i want to include here to keep the games fun and random, and have other ways to win than - Put Kefnet - Beatdown and counter.

RAMP IT. RAMP IT REAL GOOD. Show

What's more satisfying in Magic than being able to play whatever THE HELL you want ?I don't want to know the answer, because i don't want to change my mind.I want to play whatever the hell i want, and thus i want to ramp. But also i like blue monsters. They are huge, they have a ridiculous impact on the game, and also they are super cool. Green might have the most numerous big creatures, but blue definitely has the coolest ones.

Caged Sun: Now your commander is a 6/6, which usually means he needs 1 attack less to get to 21 damages.

Gauntlet of Power: Same purpose.

Gilded Lotus: a little expensive for sure, but it's basically a counterspell you've got on the board, so i'd say it's pretty worth the 5-mana.

Hedron Archive: one could say 4 to get 2 is not so good, but above all, i'm interested in the draw power of the card. Ramping is good, but cycling ramp is ever better.

Mind Stone: Same purpose.

High Tide: this card can lead to a very stupid, 1-turn immediate board advantage that can completely change the balance of power in a game. It's a surprising trick that very often leads to victory when nothing marked you as a threat. I know it also has a high combo potential but i don't want to play many immediate victory strategies, it's not friendly and anti-fun.

Sapphire Medallion: an obviously perfect way to reduce all the mana costs, which is extremly annoying when you play counterspells.

Sol Ring: commander on turn 2, here you go.

Thran Dynamo: an excellent ramp card that never fails to bring in monstrous threats.

Why don't i play card:Planar lens ? It is indeed an interesting card, but exiling 1 land in early game can prove to be a tough price. A green deck, which has many ways to fetch basic lands, clearly profits a lot of this card, but not a mono-blue deck. It's a hell of a dick move to steal one from your opponent with Thada Adel, Acquisitor though.

MAKE IT BOUNCE ! Show

Board bounces are awesome. Try to think of a way to prevent it.

Go on, try.

You can't prevent it.

Once the spell resolves, nothing can escape it. Indestructible, protection from whatever, regenerate, shroud, hexproof... you CAN NOT prevent board bounces. Thus it is perfection. Also it clearly does not generate as much hate as "true" board wipes, since nothing is destroyed. Every single player can continue playing stuff fair and square.

AEtherize: instant fog and tempo, here you go, this is a good card, and your opponents will hate it. You don't take damage and they are punished with a good mana waste for trying to mess with you.

AEtherspouts: exactly the same idea, but even better ! Putting a creature on the bottom of a library is almost like destroying it, and putting on top is a very potent delayer. I love this card and love to wait until people are forced into this dilemma. Powerful and fun.

Capsize: the ramp strategy of the deck makes this card simply OP.

Crystal Shard: this little artifact is like a bounce curscatcher. Once it's there your opponents are forced to play around or play for nothing. And as soon as they efficiently do, you can start to bounce your own stuff to abuse ETB ans/or activate Kefnet.

Crush of Tentacles: in a team-game, this card is awesome, but when everyone fights for himself it becomes a little more difficult to use the surge. A massive board bounce is still extremly powerful.

Cyclonic Rift: now THAT is powerful. Ramping makes the overload cost easy to reach, and as soon as you pay it... you might as well consider yourself as the N1 ennemy in your community, because you are now the most dangerous player in game, without a doubt.

Engulf the Shore: this card is not the most powerful bounce in the deck, since its obvious requirement to be efficient. It's however flavourful, and can make wonders when facing aggressive, full-of-small-creatures decks.Scourge of Fleets is obviously its perfect amelioration.

Kederekt Leviathan: wow, is this card a candy. You may boardbounce twice. That's truly radical.

Wash Out: this is one of my favourite bounces, since it allows you to decide the fate of one player, or of many. Selectivity and manipulations make the blue strategies much more efficient.

Whelming Wave: since our biggest beaters are Krakens, Leviathans and ONE Octopus, this very flavourful card is probably the best bounce of our deck, for a ridiculous 4 mana to pay. Fear the sea, for its fury is remorseless.

RELEASE THEM, AND LET THEM FIGHT Show

Breaching Leviathan: look at this thing. It's terrifying. I am not ready to face this in a game. Tap everything and go for the damages, baby. Almost certain victory awaits you, because when you can totalize 9 mana to summon this thing, you probably have other monsters ready to beatdown already.

Chasm Skulker: this deck generates a lot of draw, the commander itself is a draw engine. This little guy can become in a few turns an unbearable threat. Its ability to create a ridiculous amount of blockers is something that must be considered seriously by your opponents.

Colossal Whale: it is not good, but BOY IS IT FUN ! Let them all meet Geppetto in its colossal belly !

Consecrated Sphinx: an absolute must in commander, this is one of the few really OP cards i have let in. Its perfect synergy with Kefnet and Chasm Skulker makes it more than welcome, in any game.

Lorthos, the Tidemaker: Tidemaker. Just realize how awesome this is. How much power does this creature embodies. Once it hits the ground, they better deal with it, fast, for it is unforgiving.

Shipbreaker Kraken: this guy is mostly here for its awesome illustration and flavor. He is big and scary, and has the potential to become bigger and scarier than anything else we have. Its ability to paralyze up to four creatures when becoming monstrous is super relevent in a duel. In multiplayer is it a little trickier to use correctly...

Sphinx of Magosi: i really love this guy for its synergy with Kefnet and Chasm Skulker. It can become pretty huge and is also a combo enabler, since we have the possibility to create infinite mana in this deck. Draw your library, attack a player for lethal, and use Blue Sun's Zenith to mill out everybody else.

Stormtide Leviathan: this guy is terrible. The lockdown it offers is absolutely insane. Combine it with Archetype of Imagination for a rapid conceding.

Tromokratis: he is powerful, hard to get rid off, and hard to block. A perfect beater.

GOOD STUFF IS ALAWAYS WELCOME Show

Aside from the abyssal horrors that i unleash upon my opponents, i use several powerful blue creatures and blue-flavored cards to mess with them.

Aboshan, Cephalid Emperor is just AMAZING. His locking power is insane, this guy is a win condition almost all by himslef. Combined with Archetype of Imagination the game is pretty much settled.

Archetype of Imagination: maybe the least impressive monster we have in stock, it is nonetheless a superb win condition, when combined with our many huge beaters.

Deadeye Navigator: abuses ETB effects like nothing ever did before nor after him. My best favourite is in combination with Draining Whelk : 2-mana counterspell, forever. He allows infinite mana with Great Whale. Graveyard use with Snapcaster Mage and Torrential Gearhulk. Permanent bounce with Scourge of Fleets, permanent taping with Breaching Leviathan. Long story short : it is a fantastic card. I could make an even better use of it, in a combo-wise way, but it was not my goal designing the deck. This is just an perfect draw in almost any situation.

Fog Bank and Guard Gomazoa are invincible walls that can buy you an incredible amount of time, at least if you don't face huge trampling or unblockable foes.

Illusionist's Gambit is a seriously messed up card, that is here solely for multiplayer. It means "i'm not dead, instead someone else is dead". In a duel though, that's a costly fog, even worse than the original.

Imprisoned in the Moon : what a nice EDH card. The ennemy commander can't get out of this, it's fantastic. It's the blue version of Darksteel Mutation.

Phyrexian Metamorph is a 3-mana clone of artifacts or creatures, i take it. My own creatures are worth copying, and any badass that my opponent might play can also be mine.

Quicksilver Fountain : get ready for the funniest card i have ever seen. You WILL mess with your opponents in the biggest, most hate-generating way possible ! Infinite Sea's Claim ! The best in this is if you bounce this baby with something like Capsize, or if you play an Oboro, Palace in the Clouds (you may return it to your hand in response to the fountain's trigger), and you permanently flood the whole board !

Snapcaster Mage and Torrential Gearhulk : no blue deck can do without these beasts, and we are no exception. Just imagine. Bounce. Gearhulk - Bounce, Gearhulk gets back to my hand. Another bounce. This is blue hell. BLUE HELL !!!

Thada Adel, Acquisitor: this little merfolk is sometimes able to acquisite real treasures. Okay, all the time. Sol rings will shine upon your board, and fury with glow with a flaming light in your opponents' eyes. You may also remove some good artifacts from their decks, no need to play them, just focus on hating them.

Riptide Shapeshifter : the only "tutor" of the deck, he allows you to get some of the unique creature types you possess to create a favorable situation. You can also play leviathan/kraken roulette :D

YOU DID NOT EXPECT THAT Show

True blue removals aren't many, aren't used very often, and are less efficient than removals in other colors. It is therefore almost impossible to anticipate them. Only 4 are used in this deck, and i feel like it is very enough.

Curse of the Swine is the most powerful of the 4, for it allows the highest possible level of selectivity. Hexproof and protections make it less efficient, but it can wreck real havoc on the opponent's sides. The tokens are absolutely irrelevent for them, considering our bounce arsenal.

Pongify & Rapid Hybridization: pretty much twins that decided to make themselves distinguishable, these cards do a perfect job at unpredictability and immediate impact. If in normal formats a 3/3 is not something you can ignore, you can consider the token twice less threatening in EDH. That difference makes these two removals very good.

Reality Shift: this card is a little more playful than the two other removals. Instant exiling is absolutely gorgeous, but versus creature-flooded decks you might end up with something even worse than what you wanted to get rid of... Or not ! I think it is always worth the risk, just for fun, and you can most of time inflict an excellent denial of a non-creature card. My personal favorite is to deny an important land draw :)

DRAWING IS THE KEY TO THE TRIAL Show

Playing Kefnet means that you need to get your hand full. Hopefuly, blue is the best color for that.

Ponder, Preordain and Serum Visions are the best cantrips available, and for this deck. Brainstorm isn't so cool here, because i don't want to play Sensei's Divining Top and i don't have shuffling effects.

Flow of Ideas is perfect in this deck, it has never been a bad draw and probably never will.

Blue Sun's Zenith: this card is both an excellent cantrip and a potential win condition.

Mulldrifter is perfect with Kefnet, since no matter what you do you'll get 2 cards for 1.

WHAT COULD GO IN Show

The problem with EDH is that 99 cards is not enough. So many intersting stuff could possibly go in, but i just need more playtests to decide what's best to keep the deck fun and efficient !

Arcanis the Omnipotent: a hell of a draw engine, for sure, but so expensive and weak !

Telepathy: i can just imagine how stupidly awesome this card is in multiplayer.

Omniscience: is it even worth ?

Overbeing of Myth: strange and rarely cited card, i do however like its perfect synergy with our deck's mechanics, since he's a Kefnet enabler. He goes nicely with other creatures likes Chasm Skulker and can become himself a nice beater since we will often stay at 7 cards in hand for the combat phase.

Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur: though its power is absolutely uncontestable, his mana cost is a bummer. I am not sure he will have more impact than a Breaching Leviathan or Omniscience.

Daze: counters a spell & adds a card in my hand for Kefnet... but it's such a bad draw in late game :(

Mindshrieker is a hell of a fun card. The ramp that we can set up allows him to wreck player's libraries super fast and become a terrifying beater, every single turn.

WHAT WILL NEVER GO IN Show

Simply to prevent fun killing, some very popular and powerful cards will never see a play in this deck, not always because i don't like them, but mostly as a compromise to keep good relationships.

Sensei's Divining Top is a no-no. It's too powerful, too time-consuming and i hate that. Also it has a place is in every deck, so you're basically playing with 99 cards, which means it sucks. I prefer to remove this constant from the games i play, to increase variety. Sol Ring is almost as infuriating to me, but its impact is slightly less important, so for now i'll keep it... but it's on the edge.

Mana Drain is too powerful, won't get to be played as long as i'm playing casualy.

Treachery is too infurating for opponents. It is powerful and i love the idea of stealing stuff but it is a generator of hate, which i want to avoid. Bribery, Mind Control-like effects and Chromeshell Crab are in the same category.

Time Walk and any other +1 turn cards. Although they ARE good and most of time balanced, they are not funny to play, and not so efficient unless you get to play all of them.

Mystical Tutor and card:merchant's scroll : tutors are not fair in EDH, and are kind of against the concept of the format. Fun comes from variety and unpredictability. A deck can be solid and resilient in its strategy, but tutors only make them constant, which is, according to me, unwanted in EDH.

Combos are not welcomed either. I got one infinite mana that can potentialy become infinite draw and 1-shot, but it's only for duels and i don't have many ways to set it up. I reveal this combo to my opponents and ask them if it is okay with them, everytime i play. It shall stay this way.

Date added	9 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 37 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.97
Tokens	Ape 3/3 G, Boar 2/2 G, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Manifest 2/2 C, Octopus 8/8 U, Squid 1/1 U, Treasure
Folders	Commander
Based on	Thassa's OverWhelming Wave FeralKitten EDH