Donnie's Big Wishes and Clones

Commander / EDH* Casual Midrange RUG (Temur) Theme/Gimmick

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Manabase (37)

• 1x Alchemist's Refuge
• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 6x Forest
• 1x Frontier Bivouac
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 8x Island
• 1x Khalni Garden
• 5x Mountain
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Sanctum of Eternity
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Spire Garden
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Yavimaya Coast
• 1x Yavimaya Hollow

Clones (5)

• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Mirage Mirror
• 1x Phantasmal Image
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Stunt Double

Card Advantage (4)

• 1x Cold-Eyed Selkie
• 1x Guardian Project
• 1x Pollywog Symbiote
• 1x Sea-Dasher Octopus

Mutants (3)

• 1x Glowstone Recluse
• 1x Parcelbeast
• 1x Trumpeting Gnarr

Utility (13)

• 1x Cloudstone Curio
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Klothys, God of Destiny
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
• 1x The Great Henge
• 1x Vedalken Orrery
• 1x Vivien, Champion of the Wilds
• 1x Wilderness Reclamation

Ramp (9)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Ilysian Caryatid
• 1x Migratory Greathorn
• 1x Paradise Druid
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Sylvan Caryatid

Theft and Cheats (5)

• 1x Auspicious Starrix
• 1x Etali, Primal Storm
• 1x Mind's Dilation
• 1x Rashmi, Eternities Crafter
• 1x Souvenir Snatcher

Stax (4)

• 1x Silent Arbiter
• 1x Sphere of Resistance
• 1x Thorn of Amethyst
• 1x Trinisphere

Commander (1)

Mutate Targets (10)

• 1x AEtherling
• 1x Animar, Soul of Elements
• 1x Darksteel Myr
• 1x Gladecover Scout
• 1x Questing Beast
• 1x Silhana Ledgewalker
• 1x Slippery Bogle
• 1x Temur Sabertooth
• 1x Thornling
• 1x Troll Ascetic

Removal (6)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Gemrazer
• 1x Porcuparrot
• 1x Sawtusk Demolisher

Control (3)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Narset's Reversal

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Casual Illuna, Apex of Wishes Mutate Deck for Donnie B! Thank you for your support Donnie!

Mutate is a new and fun mechanic to build around. This iteration of the deck is designed to be an interactive creature-based deck, designed to be a 5-6 power level. There are several themes in this deck: Mutate, Clone, Theft, and Stax.

Let's talk Stax first. Mutate is an inherently slow mechanic. You need a non-human target for the mutate on the battle field. Illuna, Apex of Wishes is one of the few mutate creatures with a higher mutate cost than CMC. So, we need to buy ourselves time to set up. Because we're creature based, slowing down non-creature based decks let's us work on setting up a nice target for Illuna.

Mutate and Clone.

-Mutate. We've pretty much added all Mutate creatures that add value. We left out Lore Drakkis because we're not running that many Instant/Sorcery spells, and we lose them to Illuna's trigger.

Mutate is NOT Voltron. You're not looking to build the biggest baddest creature. You're looking to exploit a combo of one-three creatures. Find the right synergies. Once you establish a good mutate stack, begin building a new stack. Or hold mutants for mutate triggers.

Speaking of holding mutates for triggers, we've already noted that mutate is a slow mechanic. The other disadvantage of a mutate ability is that you're kind of restricted on when you can trigger a mutation. We've included as many Flash packages as possible; Leyline of Anticipation, Vedalken Orrery, Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir, and Vivien, Champion of the Wilds. These cards, coupled with Seedborn Muse and Wilderness Reclamation will empower you to abuse mutate triggers. Additionally, Cloudstone Curio and Temur Sabertooth give you the ability to bounce and reuse your mutants.

-Clone. We include a clone package for two reasons. First, so you can exploit the Mutate stack. A clone copies all abilities of a mutate stack. So it doubles your value, OR opens up possibilities to mutate using an opponent's creatures; (we carefully selected Clones that copy any target creature; not just ones you control). Secondly, and maybe more importantly, we include clones so that you're not going all in on a single creature. EDH loves removal. Mutate increases the value of your opponent's single target mutant spells exponentially. Use your clones to protect your value, and copy an existing stack. This is a good reason to perhaps place legendary creatures under non-legendary creatures.

Finally, Theft. Illuna's trigger is a bit fun but chaotic. What better way to embrace this than by extending the chaos to your opponents decks. Etali, Primal Storm and Mind's Dialation fit well here for that purpose. We've also added in Auspicious Starrix and Rashmi, Eternities Crafter to double down (kind of) on Illuna's free-cast effects.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 44 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.44
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Plant 0/1 G