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Horizon Breaker

Commander / EDH

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Simic goodstuff centered around breaking Kruphix, God of Horizons. So basically: Ramp into good stuff, draw lots of cards, and save up mana for large spells.

A few notes:

  • Focus early turns on ramping. Kruphix, God of Horizons should almost always be your first spell once you reach 5 mana - unless you've got Prophet of Kruphix, in which case play the prophet and flash out Kruphix on someone else's turn.

  • Mid-game, try to get reusable card-draw or just hold back for counterspells and save mana on Kruphix.

  • Try not to play any massive threats if someone else has a powerful board state and can probably kill you. Instead, focus on taking them down a notch first - bounce their permanents, destroy their artifacts/enchantments, and so on.

  • Don't try to go on the offensive - sit back and let others fight it out, keeping everyone from getting too out of hand. Counterspells, bouncing permanents, and so on are quite useful for this. Restrict yourself to mostly defensive value plays - don't Progenitor Mimic the Acidic Slime; use the Mimic on Solemn Simulacrum.

  • When you're ready, go for it. Play your Prophet, your Consecrated Sphinx, a massive Genesis Wave or Blue Sun's Zenith... Get that Doubling Cube going. I played a game once where I managed to use Cube 3 or 4 times in one turn by bouncing it to my hand and re-playing it. Then, play something like Hydra Broodmaster or use Rite of Replication on something big and dangerous that an opponent controls.

  • By the way, my favorite piece of super-secret tech in this deck: Riptide Shapeshifter . It's an amazing toolbox-searcher, and can get almost any of the creatures you would ever want just by choosing the right creature type. Choose "Boar" to get Archetype of Endurance. "Sphinx" gets Consecrated Sphinx, "Giant" gets Frost Titan, "Elephant" gets Terastodon, "God" gets Thassa, God of the Sea (or Kruphix if he's been tucked), and best of all you can choose "Wizard" to get an instant-speed, uncounterable Prophet of Kruphix. Here's a full list of what creatures you can get for each creature type in the deck:

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Date added 10 years
Last updated 9 years
Legality

This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

9 - 0 Mythic Rares

31 - 0 Rares

20 - 0 Uncommons

16 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 3.63
Tokens Copy Clone, Elemental X/X G, Elephant 3/3 G, Emblem Kiora, the Crashing Wave, Emblem Tamiyo, the Moon Sage, Hydra X/X G, Kraken 9/9 U
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