DragonTales v4

Commander / EDH Combo Control Midrange Necropotence UBR (Grixis)

TBraun95

Land (30)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Badlands
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 5x Island
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Steam Vents
• 5x Swamp
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Creature (11)

• 1x Deceiver Exarch
• 1x Jace, Vryn's Prodigy  ^Flip
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
• 1x Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Pestermite
• 1x Phyrexian Revoker
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Spellseeker

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Liliana of the Veil

Sorcery (22)

• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Dark Petition *f-pre*
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Inquisition of Kozilek
• 1x Personal Tutor
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Thoughtseize
• 1x Time Spiral
• 1x Timetwister
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Wheel of Fortune
• 1x Windfall
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will

Artifact (10)

• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Cursed Totem
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Ensnaring Bridge
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Sol Ring

Commander (1)

 ^Flip

Instant (20)

• 1x Ad Nauseam
• 1x Blink of an Eye
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Comet Storm
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Demonic Consultation
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Into the Roil
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Negate
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Stifle
• 1x Sudden Spoiling
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Chains of Mephistopheles
• 1x Leyline of the Void
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Splinter Twin

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This is my pet project Nicol Bolas, the Ravager   deck! Looking to control the game through hand disruption and good ol' fashion counterspells, with a nice smattering of wheel effects.

This is a bit of an EDH spin on 8 Rack, where you keep your opponents from having a hand from things like Thoughtseize , Inquisition of Kozilek , and Liliana of the Veil . This interacts nicely with Ensnaring Bridge and Leyline of the Void , as well as using Chains of Mephistopheles as a way to punish decks that look to draw many cards (which is most of them).

One of my favorite interactions in the deck is using a bounce effect like Cyclonic Rift into a wheel. These bounce effects allow for a wider target base than the typical single target removal spell and when used with a wheel works the same way, and gets around Indestructible for those moments where you would otherwise be unable to interact.

My meta sees a lot of activated abilities decks, which justifies the presence of Cursed Totem and Stifle . There are a number of meta call cards, so obviously tune it to your meta.

This deck is largely my attempt to find a nice midrange Grixis control deck that doesn't storm. I want to tune this as much as I can, hence the presence of cards such as Timetwister and Chains of Mephistopheles . I feel like there's more I can do and I'm going to do this as an ongoing project because I love Nicol Bolas the Ravager's ETB effect, as well as the planeswalker abilities.

The wincons:

Basalt Monolith + Rings of Brighthearth into Exsanguinate or Comet Storm

Wheel of Fortune , Timetwister , Jace's Archivist , etc. into Notion Thief to prevent opponents from having hands

Ulting Nicol Bolas, the Arisen and copying the effect twice with Rings of Brighthearth into a wheel effect

Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Splinter Twin combos with Pestermite and Deceiver Exarch

Please let me know what you think should go in! It's a pet project, so this first draft is from my mind and I'm sure there are things I am missing.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Key combos	Basalt Monolith + Rings of Brighthearth Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Splinter Twin
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	14 - 0 Mythic Rares 50 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.34
Tokens	Copy Clone, Emblem Jace, Vryn's Prodigy, Zombie 2/2 B