Chromium TM

Commander / EDH Control Discard Enchantment Goodstuff WUB (Esper)

Arnoldzolid

Land (35)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arcane Sanctum
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Contaminated Landscape
• 1x Desert of the True
• 1x Detection Tower
• 1x Dimir Guildgate
• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Idyllic Beachfront
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 4x Island
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 3x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Tranquil Cove
• 1x Watery Grave

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Board the Weatherlight
• 1x Karn's Temporal Sundering
• 1x Notion Rain
• 1x Primevals' Glorious Rebirth
• 1x Treasure Cruise
• 1x Unburden
• 1x Yahenni's Expertise
• 1x Yawgmoth's Vile Offering

Enchantment (18)

• 1x Eel Umbra
• 1x Elspeth Conquers Death
• 1x Estrid's Invocation
• 1x Ever-Watching Threshold
• 1x Faith of the Devoted
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Land Tax
• 1x Mirrormade
• 1x Monastery Siege
• 1x Phyrexian Scriptures
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Spirit Cairn
• 1x Teferi's Ageless Insight
• 1x The Birth of Meletis
• 1x The Eldest Reborn
• 1x The Mirari Conjecture
• 1x The Phasing of Zhalfir

Creature (12)

• 1x Archfiend of Ifnir
• 1x Containment Construct
• 1x Demonlord Belzenlok
• 1x Dream Trawler
• 1x Hanna, Ship's Navigator
• 1x Jhoira's Familiar
• 1x Nezahal, Primal Tide
• 1x Raff Capashen, Ship's Mage
• 1x Rona, Disciple of Gix
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Thassa, God of the Sea
• 1x Torrential Gearhulk

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Teferi, Hero of Dominaria
• 1x Teferi, Time Raveler

Commander (1)

Instant (16)

• 1x Chemister's Insight
• 1x Countervailing Winds
• 1x Cryptic Command
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Dovin's Veto
• 1x Faithful Mending
• 1x Forsake the Worldly
• 1x Make a Stand
• 1x Mission Briefing
• 1x Mortify
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Rescue
• 1x Void Rend
• 1x Without Weakness

Artifact (8)

• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Darksteel Plate
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Vorpal Sword

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Sideboard

Artifact (4)

• 1x Abandoned Sarcophagus
• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Drake Haven

Instant (2)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Swan Song

Creature (1)

• 1x Grand Abolisher

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Cleansing Nova
• 1x Whispering Madness

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Maybeboard

Creature (1)

• 1x Kairi, the Swirling Sky

Artifact (1)

• 1x Library of Leng

Instant (1)

• 1x Frantic Search

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It's been a long time since I wanted to make a deck around Chromium, Dominaria and M19 was the time I came back into Magic and discovered EDH, I opened him up in a booster and I knew I wanted to do something with him. Going through my inventory I found that I had nice Historic cards and threw them all in there.

Edit: The deck evolved a bit, the "Maybeboard" is my buying list, I should get the cards soon and finally uprade it to it's final form.

Taxes

Chromium is a 7 mana commander ({4}{W}{U}{B}), so we're definitely not casting it early, this means we need to get ourselves comfortable until he comes out. Being this expensive we gotta tax the heck out of our opponents before (and after !) we cast him. Propaganda, Ghostly Prison and Sphere of Safety makes our opponents pay to attack us, Monastery Siege makes them pay for targeting our stuff. Rhystic Study so that if they don't pay we draw a card, and Land Tax is here so that we make sure we don't get left behind on ramp.

Ramp

Esper isn't the best at ramping so most of our ramp comes from artifacts, Chromatic Lantern fixes our mana, Darksteel Ingot gets around artifact removal and boardwipes, Gilded Lotus and Sol Ring for straight up ramp.

We also have Land Tax that makes sure we hit our land drops if an opponent is playing green, and Jhoira's Familiar to reduce the cost of all historic spells by 1, and Dark Ritual to cast Chromium on turn 4 or 5 at instant speed.

I don't want it !

The main goal of this deck is to make use of Chromium's ability to discard a card to get hexproof and unblockable. I first thought of stacking auras and equipments to make use of the unblockable but the rulings of "loses all abilities until end of turn" means he won't get the keywords of auras and equipments you put on him before using his ability. So let's throw stuff in the bin !

There's a few cycling cards in the deck Without Weakness, Forsake the Worldly, Unburden, Countervailing Winds (which taxes our opponents again !).

Along with our commander, Nezahal, Primal Tide and Dream Trawler allow us to discard cards to gain protection, both of them drawing us more cards, Nezahal is almost another rhystic studies with built-in protection and cannot be countered, what else could you ask of one dinosaure ?

Ok now how do we get this thing rolling ? Our most valuables payoffs are Containment Construct, Archfiend of Ifnir and Faith of the Devoted, the first allows us to play every card we discard with our beaters, the other one can act as a one sided boardwipe, and the last one drains our opponents of 2 life for just {1} each time we discard. We also have Just the Wind and Circular Logic (and again !) to take advantage of the madness ability.

Now I do !

To wrap around all of this, we have a nice combination of tutor and recursion to get our most valuables pieces where we want them, when we need them. Mystical Tutor and Rune-Scarred Demon allow us to get any answer we need to our hand, Arcanist's Owl to a lesser degree (but he's historic).

And the we have a lovely cocktail of recursion for almost every spell in our deck, the sagas The Mirari Conjecture, The Eldest Reborn and Elspeth Conquers Death, can get us instants, sorceries, creatures and planeswalkers. Sun Titan can get us any 3 CMC or less non-land permanent (almost all of our enchantments have a 3 CMC), and Hanna, Ship's Navigator and Rona, Disciple of Gix takes care of artifacts, enchantments, sagas and legendaries ! Meaning we can have this endless loop of creatures/sagas that constantly brings back threats back to our hands !

Wincons

Our main wincon will be Chromium, the Mutable with commander damage, but almost all of our creatures are big beaters, and Thassa, God of the Sea is here to make sure they get through.

On top of that we have a single extra turn spell with Karn's Temporal Sundering but by timing it right we may get two extra turns thanks to The Mirari Conjecture to finish off the game.

And if it's not enough Faith of the Devoted should finish the job for you while your opponents crumble in debt in front of my favorite elder dragon !

Date added	2 years
Last updated	6 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 1 Mythic Rares 41 - 5 Rares 25 - 3 Uncommons 17 - 1 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.45
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Drake 2/2 U, Emblem Teferi, Hero of Dominaria, Phyrexian 2/2 B, Spirit 1/1 W, Wall 0/4 C