Braids, our Lord and Master

Commander / EDH Mono-Blue Tempo

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BoardAdvantage (17)

• 1x Archetype of Imagination
• 1x Artisan of Kozilek
• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Cultural Exchange
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Frost Titan
• 1x Keiga, the Tide Star
• 1x Nephalia Smuggler
• 1x Riftwing Cloudskate
• 1x Sakashima the Impostor
• 1x Soul of New Phyrexia
• 1x Sphinx Ambassador
• 1x Uyo, Silent Prophet
• 1x Venser's Journal
• 1x Void Winnower
• 1x Voidmage Prodigy
• 1x Ward of Bones

CardDraw (19)

• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Azami, Lady of Scrolls
• 1x Bident of Thassa
• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Deep Analysis
• 1x Dictate of Kruphix
• 1x Diluvian Primordial
• 1x Dream Cache
• 1x Looter il-Kor
• 1x Mnemonic Wall
• 1x Noble Benefactor
• 1x Planar Portal
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Rush of Knowledge
• 1x Sphinx of Magosi
• 1x Sphinx of Uthuun
• 1x Treasure Mage
• 1x Ugin's Insight

Land (39)

• 1x Coral Atoll
• 1x Dust Bowl
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Glacial Chasm
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 32x Island
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Tolaria West

Ramp (7)

• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Dreamstone Hedron
• 1x Energy Tap
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Sky Diamond
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sword of the Animist

Removal (13)

• 1x Commandeer
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Curse of the Swine
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Disdainful Stroke
• 1x Dissipate
• 1x Dissolve
• 1x Draining Whelk
• 1x Dream Fracture
• 1x Kederekt Leviathan
• 1x Negate
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Scourge of Fleets

WinCondition (4)

• 1x Blightsteel Colossus
• 1x Clone Legion
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Temporal Trespass

Commander (1)

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This deck started out as just something to have fun with. The idea was to use Braids to make everybody have a good time by playing all their most powerful cards, then I would play cards that allowed me to manipulate and control the board and (hopefully) win! The deck is a lot of fun to play, and what's interesting is that their doesn't seem to be much it can't handle. The deck is a slugger. It hits hard, can take hits and keep coming, and it never seems to run out of steam. The deck works by introducing a new set of rules different from how the game is normally played (you can play stuff for free). It then takes advantage of these rules to play big stuff without needing to rush, and strikes when it senses weakness. Everybody gets great stuff but nobody is allowed to have better stuff than me. If someone pulls ahead, you piggy-back off them with clones, or just outright rob them with something like Commandeer or Cultural Exchange . If the rest fall behind, there's easily enough power in the deck's board advantage suite to just run over them. In the late-game board stall, the deck has a nice removal suite to ensure it won't lose to combos, and a could set of big threats like Blightsteel Colossus and Clone Legion to clutch out the game. Ain't she something?

Date added	8 years
Last updated	8 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 29 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.59
Tokens	Boar 2/2 G, Copy Clone, Manifest 2/2 C, Morph 2/2 C