lonis lantern

Commander / EDH GU (Simic) Lantern Control Prison Theft Top Deck Matters

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Creature (37)

• 1x Adrix and Nev, Twincasters
• 1x Cathartic Adept
• 1x Coiling Oracle
• 1x Dakra Mystic
• 1x Dream Stalker
• 1x Elvish Harbinger
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Elvish Visionary
• 1x Erdwal Illuminator
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Farhaven Elf
• 1x Fog Bank
• 1x Frilled Mystic
• 1x Kiora's Follower
• 1x Lore Broker
• 1x Loyal Inventor
• 1x Memnite
• 1x Ornithopter
• 1x Phyrexian Walker
• 1x Prime Speaker Vannifar
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Sarinth Steelseeker
• 1x Screeching Sliver
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Shrieking Drake
• 1x Silent Arbiter
• 1x Skullwinder
• 1x Springbloom Druid
• 1x Temur Sabertooth
• 1x Timeless Witness
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Vendilion Clique
• 1x Wall of Blossoms
• 1x Wirewood Symbiote
• 1x Wizened Snitches
• 1x Wood Elves
• 1x Yisan, the Wanderer Bard

Instant (14)

• 1x Blur
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Displace
• 1x Disruption Protocol
• 1x Essence Flux
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x Illusionist's Stratagem
• 1x Memory Lapse
• 1x Negate
• 1x Planar Incision
• 1x Resculpt
• 1x Siren's Ruse
• 1x Stoic Rebuttal
• 1x Teferi's Time Twist

Artifact (6)

• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Codex Shredder
• 1x Ghoulcaller's Bell
• 1x Lantern of Insight
• 1x Pyxis of Pandemonium
• 1x Temple Bell

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Anchor to the Aether
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Follow the Bodies
• 1x Neoform
• 1x Reshape
• 1x Time Ebb

Commander (1)

Land (34)

• 1x Command Tower
• 9x Forest
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 15x Island
• 1x Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
• 1x Quandrix Campus
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Simic Guildgate
• 1x Tangled Islet
• 1x Tanglepool Bridge
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Thornwood Falls

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Elfhame Sanctuary
• 1x Jace's Erasure

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Lonis, Cryptozoologist is a really cool commander that almost never gets his second ability utilized, this deck is an attempt to build around that ability instead of only his first, as most people who build lonis do.

the goal is to get out Lantern of Insight or Wizened Snitches as soon as possible and utilize the mill rocks (Ghoulcaller's Bell, Codex Shredder, etc.) and Temple Bell effects to control the top of your opponents libraries so that you can steal or get rid of relevant threats. if you have enough mill rocks and are confident no one has anything to interact with your boardstate or damage you, you can find Seedborn Muse and lantern lock the entire table, which will probably get you sent to some obscure Buddhist hell for doing in commander. (but is funny enough to justify the punishment)

also there's a whole Birthing Pod/Prime Speaker Vannifar package in here for hitting Wizened Snitches and various toolbox creatures like Eternal Witness, Reclamation Sage or Vendilion Clique with more consistency, Memnite and the other 0 drops let you grab creatures that act as mill rocks like Cathartic Adept, and all of the pod activations are going to trigger lonis' first ability, giving you more gas to steal things.

this is by no means a competitive list, it would be much easier to win games with lonis by using Mechanized Production or some other "artifacts matter" synergies. what this is is an attempt to translate what i believe is the funniest deck archetype of all time into commander, and also use lonis' second ability, which is too fun to be ignored as much as it is. as a result i have no interest in putting a "real" win condition into the deck, as doing so would lead playing it away from lantern locking the table and stealing wincons, and towards whatever "real" wincon i put in.

Date added	4 months
Last updated	3 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 15 - 0 Rares 25 - 0 Uncommons 31 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.36
Tokens	Clue, Elemental 4/4 UR, Timeless Witness 4/4 B