Dracogenius Resource Denial

Commander / EDH

Visanthcoe

Creature (2)

• 1x Keranos, God of Storms
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Dack Fayden
• 1x Saheeli Rai
• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker

Land (31)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Great Furnace
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 5x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 2x Mountain
• 1x Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Spire of Industry
• 1x Spirebluff Canal
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Copy Artifact
• 1x Frozen Aether
• 1x Impending Disaster
• 1x Rhystic Study

Artifact (27)

• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Clock of Omens
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Grafdigger's Cage
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Khalni Gem
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Paradox Engine
• 1x Sculpting Steel
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Staff of Domination
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Torpor Orb
• 1x Trinisphere
• 1x Unwinding Clock
• 1x Voltaic Key
• 1x Winter Orb

Instant (18)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Capsize
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Gush
• 1x Intuition
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Negate
• 1x Stroke of Genius
• 1x Sunder
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Whir of Invention

Sorcery (14)

• 1x Devastating Dreams
• 1x Epicenter
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Merchant Scroll
• 1x Mystic Retrieval
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Reshape
• 1x Thoughts of Ruin
• 1x Transmute Artifact
• 1x Treasure Cruise
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Wheel of Fortune
• 1x Wildfire
• 1x Windfall

Commander (1)

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I first built this deck as just a pile cards from my binders because I needed a weaker deck to start working on and I love Dracogenius from his time in standard. Lots of combos with no real game plan just play cards and see what happens. From there it evolved into copy/clone/steal with no real win conditions of it's own, just borrow your opponents. After cloning Gilded Lotus repeatedly I realized that was really all I wanted to be doing so I focused on that for a while until I had an epiphany. An opponent played a Winter Orb and I found myself protecting it from my other opponent's removal since it was giving me such a huge mana advantage with my rox. That led me down the path to the Dark Side (MLD) where I've been ever since. The idea these days is to play the most competitive Dracogenius deck I can despite the fact that he's not very good. I just love him too much to switch to Keranos, God of Storms or Nin, the Pain Artist who are both likely better Commanders. I love machine gunning down a table too much to want to find a different win condition.

Land some MLD with mana rox in play and grind out advantage. Things get real nutty once you have multiple Gilded Lotus or Khalni Gem in play thanks to the artifact clones (these are basically the only 2 things you ever want to clone). Find an untap effect (or 2) and go to town with Niv's activated ability. An Unwinding Clock with a couple Lotus (or more) and Niv on the table will put immense pressure on the table as you draw 4-8+ cards during EACH opponent's turn while they struggle to cast anything with their manabase wrecked.

The win condition is achieving infinite mana with either Isochron Scepter + Dramatic Reversal or Clock of Omens + 2 Staff of Domination + Gilded Lotus then Machine gunning the table out with Niv's activated ability.

The game plan is to chain mana rox T1-3 then wheel or MLD as early as is feasible. Play some stax pieces to continue denying your opponents resources and try to remove opposing mana rox from the equation. Follow up with more MLD to continue holding down your opponents resources while you build your own board up. Once you have the table ground to a halt start looking for combo pieces/untappers. Stick Niv to start drawing cards and snipe opposing utility creatures if your MLD wasn't of the Wildfire or Devastating Dreams varity.

Date added	10 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 49 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 18 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.72
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Copy Clone, Emblem Dack Fayden
Folders	Izzet, Ideas