Kraj Plus Plus

Commander / EDH* Counters GU (Simic) Infinite Combo Ramp

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Creature (33)

• 1x Aphetto Alchemist
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Devoted Druid
• 1x Fatestitcher
• 1x Fathom Mage
• 1x Fertilid
• 1x Gilder Bairn
• 1x Grim Poppet
• 1x Gyre Sage
• 1x Karn, Silver Golem
• 1x Kiora's Follower
• 1x Kruphix, God of Horizons
• 1x Leech Bonder
• 1x Master Biomancer
• 1x Memnarch
• 1x Plaxcaster Frogling
• 1x Predator Ooze
• 1x Prophet of Kruphix
• 1x Quicksilver Elemental
• 1x Sage of Fables
• 1x Sage of Hours
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Simic Guildmage
• 1x Simic Manipulator
• 1x Spike Tiller
• 1x Triskelavus
• 1x Tuskguard Captain
• 1x Vedalken Aethermage
• 1x Vigean Graftmage
• 1x Viral Drake
• 1x Viridian Joiner
• 1x Wickerbough Elder
• 1x Yisan, the Wanderer Bard

Land (36)

• 1x Arena
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 7x Forest
• 7x Island
• 1x Llanowar Reborn
• 1x Lotus Vale
• 1x Magosi, the Waterveil
• 1x Mosswort Bridge
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Scorched Ruins
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Simic Guildgate
• 1x Skyshroud Forest
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Thawing Glaciers
• 1x Vivid Creek
• 1x Vivid Grove
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Decree of Silence
• 1x Inexorable Tide
• 1x Opposition

Artifact (12)

• 1x Cauldron of Souls
• 1x Citanul Flute
• 1x Contagion Clasp
• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Oblivion Stone
• 1x Power Conduit
• 1x Ring of Evos Isle
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Staff of Nin
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Thornbite Staff

Instant (7)

• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Clockspinning
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Hinder
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Spell Crumple

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Creeping Renaissance
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Gaea's Blessing
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Praetor's Counsel
• 1x Primal Command
• 1x Tooth and Nail

Commander (1)

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Sideboard

Creature (6)

• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Mystic Snake
• 1x Nullmage Shepherd
• 1x Sphinx of Magosi
• 1x Vorel of the Hull Clade
• 1x Zameck Guildmage

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Intruder Alarm
• 1x Shielding Plax
• 1x Training Grounds

Artifact (1)

• 1x Gemstone Array

Instant (3)

• 1x Fuel for the Cause
• 1x Plasm Capture
• 1x Savage Summoning

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Maybeboard

Creature (31)

• 1x Bramblewood Paragon
• 1x Champion of Lambholt
• 1x Chasm Skulker
• 1x Cytoplast Manipulator
• 1x Djinn of Wishes
• 1x Forgotten Ancient
• 1x Helium Squirter
• 1x Mindless Automaton
• 1x Mistfolk
• 1x Musician
• 1x Mycoloth
• 1x Myr Welder
• 1x Novijen Sages
• 1x Orochi Leafcaller
• 1x Pili-Pala
• 1x Sapphire Drake
• 1x Scute Mob
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Serrated Biskelion
• 1x Simic Basilisk
• 1x Skill Borrower
• 1x Soul of New Phyrexia
• 1x Spike Breeder
• 1x Spike Feeder
• 1x Spike Weaver
• 1x Sporeback Troll
• 1x Tangle Angler
• 1x Thrummingbird
• 1x Utopia Mycon
• 1x Vedalken Anatomist
• 1x Workhorse

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Mana Bloom
• 1x March of the Machines
• 1x Ooze Flux
• 1x Parallax Tide
• 1x Rite of Passage

Artifact (7)

• 1x Bow of Nylea
• 1x Citanul Flute
• 1x Decimator Web
• 1x Magistrate's Scepter
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Planar Portal
• 1x Sword of the Paruns

Instant (8)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Capsize
• 1x Dismiss
• 1x Dream Fracture
• 1x Evolution Charm
• 1x Miscalculation
• 1x Mystic Genesis
• 1x Repopulate

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Biomantic Mastery

Unknown (1)

• 1x Ætherling

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This looked like an interesting commander to build for. It's a degenerate combo deck, with a focus on general counter manipulation.

Some Background

Despite being a degenerate deck, my play-style can sometimes be amusingly irrational. I aim for doing combos that look fun, and not always those that will win, but having the capacity to win is important.

My casual meta has a lot of degenerate decks, cruel control, and evasive beatdown. Most of them run a higher budget than I do. Having something that can compete, but be amusing to the group is important to me. Likewise, most of the decks I compete against have relatively amusing strategies.

I think the most fun aspect of piloting this deck will be trying to find ways to win using other player's activated abilities instead of my own. It's less consistent, but more fun and interactive.

Issues

I'm comfortable in saying this deck has excellent synergies. Unfortunately, it lacks early answers, and isn't in a great position for disaster recovery, or consistent prevention.

I'm rather fond of the synergies that currently exist, which makes deciding what to sub in and out difficult for me.

With the exception of wrath effects, all of the removal in this deck is rapidly repeatable spot removal using -1/-1 counters for creatures, and miscellaneous artifact/enchantment removal. This deck also focuses on turning non-creature permanents into creatures for subsequent removal.

This makes my capacity to handle threats proportional to the size of my battlefield. I'm thinking of subbing out some of the creatures for counterspells and recursion.

I greatly appreciate feedback and suggestions.

Combos

Commander Combos:

• Birds of Paradise + Experiment Kraj + Leech Bonder - Transfer any number of counters between creatures.
• Experiment Kraj + Gilder Bairn + Viridian Joiner - Infinite +1/+1 counters and infinite green mana.
• Devoted Druid + Experiment Kraj + Grim Poppet - Infinite -1/-1 counters on enemy creatures and infinite green mana.
• Devoted Druid + Experiment Kraj + Wickerbough Elder - Destroy any number of artifacts and enchantments.

Win Conditions:

• Arbitrarily large amounts of commander damage.
• Thornbite Staff shenanigans.
• Simic Manipulator shenanigans.
• Blue Sun's Zenith - the obligatory degenerate blue alt-win.

Other Neat Tricks:

• Experiment Kraj + Triskelavus is great for creating painful chump blockers.
• Experiment Kraj + Spike Tiller - Copy activated abilities of a land.
• Experiment Kraj + Karn, Silver Golem - Copy activated abilities of an artifact until end of turn.
• Experiment Kraj + Karn, Silver Golem + Memnarch - Copy activated abilities of target permanent until end of turn. That does, in fact, include Planeswalkers.
• Experiment Kraj + Quicksilver Elemental - Kraj gets stupid.
• Decree of Silence + Power Conduit - This is just obnoxious.
• Cauldron of Souls - The ultimate wrath-buster. Very few creatures in this deck have a toughness of 1. You can usually remove those -1/-1 counters after they re-enter, so anything short of two wrath effects in a row won't do the trick.
• More?

Review

Mechanics I focused on:

• Ramp
• +1/+1 and -1/-1 counter engines
• Generic counter manipulation

Mechanics this deck can also pull off:

• Infect
• Land Destruction
• Permanent Stealing

Mechanics this deck probably needs to survive, but doesn't have much of:

• Consistent Removal
• Counterspells

Date added	10 years
Last updated	9 years
Key combos	Experiment Kraj + Gilder Bairn + Viridian Joiner Decree of Silence + Power Conduit Devoted Druid + Experiment Kraj + Wickerbough Elder Devoted Druid + Experiment Kraj + Grim Poppet Birds of Paradise + Experiment Kraj + Leech Bonder Experiment Kraj + Triskelavus Experiment Kraj + Spike Tiller Experiment Kraj + Karn, Silver Golem Experiment Kraj + Karn, Silver Golem + Memnarch Experiment Kraj + Quicksilver Elemental
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 40 - 7 Rares 24 - 4 Uncommons 14 - 2 Commons
Cards	99
Avg. CMC	3.52
Tokens	Morph 2/2 C, Triskelavite 1/1 C