It's Always Willbender

Commander / EDH BUG (Sultai) Control Infinite Combo Multiplayer Theme/Gimmick

Enral

Land (37)

• 1x Alchemist's Refuge
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 5x Forest
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 5x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 1x Opulent Palace
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Tomb of the Spirit Dragon
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Ghastly Conscription
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Temporal Manipulation

Creature (26)

• 1x Ainok Survivalist
• 1x Bane of the Living
• 1x Brine Elemental
• 1x Chromeshell Crab
• 1x Den Protector
• 1x Echo Tracer
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Icefeather Aven
• 1x Ixidron
• 1x Kadena's Silencer
• 1x Kheru Spellsnatcher
• 1x Mischievous Quanar
• 1x Nantuko Vigilante
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Silumgar Assassin
• 1x Skinthinner
• 1x Stratus Dancer
• 1x Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
• 1x Temur Sabertooth
• 1x Thieving Amalgam
• 1x Thousand Winds
• 1x Unblinking Bleb
• 1x Vesuvan Shapeshifter
• 1x Voidmage Apprentice
• 1x Whisperwood Elemental
• 1x Willbender

Artifact (7)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Crystal Shard
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Scroll of Fate
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thought Vessel

Commander (1)

Enchantment (11)

• 1x Beastmaster Ascension
• 1x Earthcraft
• 1x Exploration
• 1x Gift of Doom
• 1x Guardian Project
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Primordial Mist
• 1x Secret Plans
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Trail of Mystery
• 1x Wilderness Reclamation

Instant (9)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Cryptic Command *list*
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Familiar's Ruse
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Mystic Confluence
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Ugin, the Ineffable
• 1x Vivien, Champion of the Wilds

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The Deck

Ever noticed a strange phenomenon that every time there's a morph in play, it's almost always Willbender? This is a pretty stock-list Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer that wants to deploy as many morphs as possible to gain a superior card and board advantage over everyone. Instead of focusing on combat as a finisher, I want to focus more on the control/combo aspect as I feel that going the combat route will weaken the deck's main strength significantly. This deck has proven to have the guns and resiliency to hang out in an optimized pod due to the difficulty in morph interaction and the variety of answers each morph can pack.

Notable Synergies

• Earthcraft = This card serves as an insane mana fuel for the deck. Casting a free morph that doubles as a hasted mana dork is just insane. Highly recommended to be included in every Kadena deck.
• Echo Tracer + Icefeather Aven = Forms a self bounce engine to draw-loop with Kadena.
• Tomb of the Spirit Dragon + Seedborn Muse = Gain a bunch of life per round and also makes Sylvan Library's additional draw pain free.
• Den Protector (face up) + Vesuvan Shapeshifter = Buyback anything from graveyard every turn (goes infinite with Temporal Manipulation or lockout the table with Cyclonic Rift every turn).
• Den Protector + Cryptic Command/Mystic Confluence/Familiar's Ruse = Counter and/or draw cards while bouncing protector back to repeat ad nauseaum forming a soft lock.

Win Conditions

• Brine Elemental (face up) + Vesuvan Shapeshifter = The infamous "pickle" lock.
• Den Protector (face up) + Vesuvan Shapeshifter + Temporal Manipulation = Infinite turns.
• Beastmaster Ascension: This card usually ends the game on the spot due to the number of creatures I usually have on board by late game and is another alternative win condition in case Temporal Manipulation gets exiled.

Notable Exclusions

• Cloudstone Curio/Equilibrium: They used to be in my deck but after playtesting several games it seems like having those cards either do nothing on the board or force me into wanting to overextend to gain more value from Kadena. They are significantly worse if Kadena is not in play as it hinges on Kadena's cost reduction ability to be effective. I think that Crystal Shard/Temur Sabertooth/Vesuvan Shapeshifter/Echo Tracer/Icefeather Aven/Mystic Confluence/Cryptic Command does a better job of giving me full control when to bounce/reuse my morphs while advancing my control/combo gameplan.

• Words of Wind: Another situational card that can even benefit my opponents. I often would rather draw cards then to bounce a morph back to my hand.

• Ezuri, Claw of Progress: This card fits better in a more aggro morph shell.

• Vedalken Orrery: The deck runs a redundant amount of cards that provides instant speed effects and I find that this card is just not good enough to make the cut from testing. Each card with a similar effect needs to be unique enough so that playing another one would still provide some value.

• Riptide Entrancer (and other morphs with combat damage triggers): This deck focuses on the control aspect of the morphs as I feel like it is the more superior theme to build around. Combat-centric morphs require an entirely different build altogether.

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Top Ranked	Achieved #1 position overall 4 years ago
Date added	5 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 54 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.14
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Manifest 2/2 C, Morph 2/2 C, Spirit 2/2 C
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