Creaky Wheel

Commander / EDH Control Stax

Aqveteig

Land (33)

• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Clifftop Retreat
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hall of Heliod's Generosity
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 9x Island
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Nimbus Maze
• 1x Plains
• 1x Port Town
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Raugrin Triome
• 1x Rocky Tar Pit
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Savai Triome
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Watery Grave

Removal (12)

• 1x Aura of Silence
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Disenchant
• 1x Drown in the Loch
• 1x Fire Covenant
• 1x Generous Gift
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Shred Memory
• 1x Surly Badgersaur
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

Tutor (5)

• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Long-Term Plans
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Shred Memory

Stax (15)

• 1x Alms Collector
• 1x Ashiok, Dream Render
• 1x Aura of Silence
• 1x Authority of the Consuls
• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Blind Obedience
• 1x Counterbalance
• 1x Drannith Magistrate
• 1x Grafdigger's Cage
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Narset, Parter of Veils
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Suppression Field

Draw (13)

• 1x Ad Nauseam
• 1x Alms Collector
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Opt
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Underworld Breach
• 1x Waste Not
• 1x Whirlwind of Thought

Wheel (9)

• 1x Burning Inquiry
• 1x Dark Deal
• 1x Echo of Eons
• 1x Molten Psyche
• 1x Time Reversal
• 1x Wheel of Fate
• 1x Whispering Madness
• 1x Windfall
• 1x Winds of Change

Combo1 (3)

• 1x Demonic Consultation
• 1x Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
• 1x Thassa's Oracle

Commander (1)

Ramp (14)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Surly Badgersaur
• 1x Talisman of Creativity
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1x Talisman of Progress
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Waste Not

Counterspell (9)

• 1x Counterbalance
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Dovin's Veto
• 1x Drown in the Loch
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Narset's Reversal
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Swan Song

Boardwipe (3)

• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Fire Covenant
• 1x Toxic Deluge

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Maybeboard

Other (4)

• 1x Damping Matrix
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Sentinel Totem
• 1x Teferi's Puzzle Box

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Ligth version of Opus Thief. Gain value from wheels, lock your opponents out of their hand, slow them down with stax and combo out to win. Not quite as strong nor as expensive, though not budget either. This deck is for high power casual play. It's mean and doesn't pull punches.

Game Plan:

We aim to win through the now classic combo Thassa's Oracle and Demonic Consultation. To accelerate us, we can use Ad Nauseam and wheels. We can also use Underworld Breach in conjunction with Windfall and Lotus Petal to assemble a bad LED combo that is a lot more conditional to go off.

The stax pieces supplement the control strategy and offer indirect protection to our combos by virtue of being lightning rods. Choose the stax pieces to suit your meta. To note, as a control deck, more often than not we will tutor for the stax pieces rather than the combo.

The commander was chosen for the colour identity. On the plus side, Breya allows to remove some of our artefact stax pieces when needed. I have a custom commander for the deck when allowed. concept-card-image:althjofr-thief-of-insight

Getting Mean:

Wheeling and playing nice isn't the whole game plan though. If we play the long game, we play to win. Notion Thief, Narset, Parter of Veils and Alms Collector will crush the parity of those wheels. Expect repercussion for playing those. Waste Not gives some added value on some wheels.

(Optional) An unlikely but complete lock we have is Narset, Parter of Veils or Notion Thief combined with Teferi's Puzzle Box. With it, we leave our opponents without hands and without a mean of getting an answer if they don't have any on the field or draw an instant speed removal on their first draw.

Making it even harder:

The stax pieces used aim to deter aristo/graveyard combos, a storm deck and a couple of superfriends. They were also chosen to impact us the least possible. And some were chosen just to be annoying. Counterbalance is one such card.

Here are which wincon each stax piece hoses (in my meta):

• Authority of the Consuls: many aristo loops, Kiki-Jiki combo (for a turn)
• Blind Obedience: Divining top combo (ex. Elsha), Kiki-jiki combo
• Damping Matrix: Top combo, some sac outlets of aristo, Balista combo. Optional if redundancy needed.
• Grafdigger's Cage: Graveyard and aristo combos
• Suppression Field: Superfriend, Top combos, some sac outlets, Balista combo

Proxy Upgrades:

• Echo of Eons --> Wheel of Fortune
• 2 Lands --> Mox opal, Mox diamond
• ??? --> mana crypt, LED, Chrome Mox
• ??? --> Force of Will, Force of Negation
• 6 Lands --> Polluted Delta, Bloodstained Mire, Marsh Flat, Scalding Tarn, Arid Mesa
• Hullbreacher
• Opposition agent
• Wheel of misfortune
• Tymna and kraum?

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Exclude colors	G
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 46 - 0 Rares 25 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.32
Tokens	Ape 3/3 G, Bird 2/2 U, Elephant 3/3 G, Thopter 1/1 U, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B
Based on	Wheel O Wisp Aqveteig EDH