Magda's BBC - Big Bad Clock [PRIMER]

Commander / EDH Artifact Combo Competitive Dwarf Mono-Red Multiplayer Primer Stax Tap/Untap

Kineverence

Creature (26)

• 1x Academy Manufactor
• 1x Adaptive Automaton
• 1x Barkform Harvester
• 1x Battered Golem
• 1x Bloodfire Dwarf
• 1x Dwarven Armorer
• 1x Dwarven Bloodboiler
• 1x Dwarven Grunt
• 1x Dwarven Scorcher
• 1x Dwarven Trader
• 1x Enslaved Dwarf
• 1x Goblin Engineer
• 1x Liberated Dwarf
• 1x Magda, the Hoardmaster
• 1x Metallic Mimic
• 1x Professional Face-Breaker
• 1x Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
• 1x Reckless Fireweaver
• 1x Roaming Throne
• 1x Simian Spirit Guide
• 1x Skarrgan Hellkite
• 1x Spark Mage
• 1x Three Tree Mascot
• 1x Universal Automaton
• 1x Utvara Hellkite
• 1x Xorn

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Blood Moon

Artifact (24)

• 1x Clock of Omens
• 1x Clown Car
• 1x Cursed Mirror
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x God-Pharaoh's Statue
• 1x High-Speed Hoverbike
• 1x Liquimetal Torque
• 1x Maskwood Nexus
• 1x Memory Jar
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mirror of the Forebears
• 1x Mox Amber
• 1x Portal to Phyrexia
• 1x Sculpting Steel
• 1x Smuggler's Copter
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Soul-Guide Lantern
• 1x Sphere of Resistance
• 1x Spine of Ish Sah
• 1x Springleaf Drum
• 1x Tangle Wire
• 1x Thorn of Amethyst
• 1x Unlicensed Hearse
• 1x Winter Orb

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Rite of Flame
• 1x Shatterskull Smashing  ^Flip
• 1x Strike it Rich

Commander (1)

Land (34)

• 1x Barbarian Ring
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Emergence Zone
• 1x Holdout Settlement
• 1x Homeward Path
• 23x Mountain
• 1x Mutavault
• 1x Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep
• 1x Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Survivors' Encampment
• 1x Treasure Vault

Instant (11)

• 1x Abrade
• 1x Deflecting Swat
• 1x Galvanic Blast
• 1x Lightning Bolt
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Raze the Effigy
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Stoke the Flames
• 1x Tibalt's Trickery
• 1x Warping Wail
• 1x Wild Magic Surge

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Dwarf Tapping goes Brrrr

Primary Clock of Omens Combos

Creating Infinite Tapped Treasures

Assuming you have Magda, Brazen Outlaw, An artifact Dwarf (Example: Bloodline Pretender) and Clock of Omens in play:

• Tap Clock of Omens + Tap Bloodline Pretender to activate Clock of Omens ability targeting Bloodline Pretender
• trigger Magda, Brazen Outlaw : create a treasure, (treasure count: 1)
• resolve Clock of Omens ability, Untapping Bloodline Pretender
• Tap Bloodline Pretender + tap treasure to activate Clock of Omens ability targeting Bloodline Pretender
• trigger Magda, Brazen Outlaw : create a treasure, (treasure count: 2)
• resolve Clock of Omens ability, untapping Bloodline Pretender
• present a loop for infinite tapped treasures

Note: If you play Maskwood Nexus, you can search it into play via Magda, turning your vehicles in play into artifact dwarf vehicles, fulfilling that portion of the clock combo (Also note, while vehicles are not allowed to crew themselves, they can crew each other!)

Once 100k+ tapped treasures are in play, we can always respond by searching for artifacts into play, untapping and reactivating our combo. From this gamestate, you can continue to all additional steps listed in this combo guide at instant speed.

Additional Artifact Dwarves

Dwarf + Liquimetal Torque, Metallic Mimic, Adaptive Automaton, Bloodline Pretender, Universal Automaton, Mirror of the Forebears

Infinite Untapped Treasures from Clock

With our combo-piece-card-value goals in mind, there are a few fairly efficient ways to create infinite untapped treasures, which can provide infinite mana as well as infinite untaps with Clock of Omens. Here is the one I am playing, as well as a few favorites I am not playing:

Maskwood Nexus

• Find Maskwood Nexus
• Find Xorn
• Repeat Clock of Omens combo, except this time due to Xorn you will create two treasures each time,
• resulting in infinite untapped treasures

Grinding Station Not in deck

• Find Grinding Station
• Repeat Clock of Omens combo, but this time instead of using your new treasure to untap the Artifact Dwarf,
• tap your Artifact Dwarf and Grinding Station to untap your dwarf.
• When the treasure comes into play, Grinding Station will untap, allowing you to continue the Clock Combo without tapping your treasures, resulting in infinite untapped treasures

Academy Manufactor

Find Academy Manufactor

• Repeat Clock of Omens combo, except this time due to Academy Manufactor you will also create clue and food tokens.
• Repeat Clock of Omens combo, except this time use your clues instead of your treasures
• Repeat Clock of Omens combo, except this time use your foods instead of your treasures or clues, resulting in infinite treasures, clues and food

Winning The Game

Main Combo's With Clock

Reckless Fireweaver (my current go-to as plan A)

• Find Maskwood Nexus
• Find Reckless Fireweaver
• Repeat the Clock of Omens + metal dwarf loop to create infinite tapped treasures dealing "infinite damage"

Simple/clean and avoids graveyard loops now so we don't need to work about that form of stax with this

Skarrgan Hellkite

• Find Maskwood Nexus
• Find Xorn or academy manufacturer
• Repeat the Clock of Omens + metal dwarf loop to create infinite tapped treasures and infinite untapped treasures (since Xorn will create an extra treasure each time)

Generate Infinite Untapped Treasures

• Find Skarrgan Hellkite, choose to put the +1/+1 counter on him with the Riot Trigger
• Spend 80+ mana per player to assign lethal damage, win the game. If opponents respond, kill them again in response.

Combos when Clock is Gone (or have pieces ready)

Battered Golem Our Clock Replacement

• Find Maskwood Nexus
• Find Battered Golem which is now also a dwarf (and I guess a dragon)
• Find a dwarf tapper like Clown Car tapping Battered Golem generating a treasure off Magda's trigger which triggers Battered Golem untapping him
• REPEAT for infinite untapped treasures

Cloudstone Curio

• Find Maskwood Nexus (this is not necessary if we have Dockside Extortionist in play, hand or a way to tutor it)
• Find Dockside Extortionist to generate treasures (hopefully enough to tutor again)
• Find Cloudstone Curio using its ability to alternate casting and bouncing Dockside Extortionist and another non artifact creature card such as a dwarf or even Magda
• Repeat as long as we are treasure gen positive generating infinite untapped treasures (Xorn can also help but only gives 1 additional)
• Using Magda, Brazen Outlaw we can sac 5 treasures to tutor for Bogardan Hellkite dealing 5 damage to any target
• We can now loop Bogardan Hellkite and any nonartifact creature card using Cloudstone Curio dealing 5 damage to any target each time This combo is sorcery speed but Emergence Zone allows us to combo on anyone's turn at flash speed

Cloudstone Curio NOTE: Can also use Cloudstone Curio and a dwarf tapper to convert turn our untapped lands mana into treasures by responding to the bounce trigger by tapping the dwarf

Absolute Beatdown

This can be a go to if we run into an unanswerable Null Rod effect or a Collector Ouphe preventing us from using our clock combos: In mono Red, the best form of removal is player removal

• Find Utvara Hellkite before our turn
• Find Maskwood Nexus or Cursed Mirror if we want to cause an explosive boardstate
• Profit into a game winning or palyer removal position that needs to be answered - Maskwood Nexus out does allow our "dragons" to generate treasures from swinging

Note: Before you tutor up Utvara Hellkite you can fit in Dockside Extortionist (which is now tutorable through Maskwood Nexus and make a copy of him through Cursed Mirror to net a bunch of treasures allowing you to fetch up either more functional dragons to untap with or stax pieces to protect your Utvara Hellkite

Combo's not used anymore

These combos have been replaced with ones that don't crumble to graveyard hate

Memory Jar Combo (Combo Removed from deck as LED is mainly a dead card outside of combo and graveyard loops are becoming more difficult to pull off due to stax)

• Find Lion's Eye Diamond
• Find Elixir of Immortality
• Find Memory Jar
• Activate Memory Jar
• Sacrifice Lion's Eye Diamond for {R}{R}{R}, discarding your hand
• Activate Elixir of Immortality, shuffling Lion's Eye Diamond,Elixir of Immortality, your previous hand and Memory Jar back into your deck profiting net positive {R} Mana

Repeat above until players have drawn out their libraries. This combo can be completed without Xorn, Maskwood Nexus, slobad, Skarrgan Hellkite or Bogardan Hellkite. If trying to be a purely aggressive combo deck, these would be the only combo pieces I would choose to include

Alternate Loop: Draw your deck one card at a time.

• Find Lion's Eye Diamond
• Find Elixir of Immortality
• Sacrifice Lion's Eye Diamond for {R}{R}{R} discarding your hand
• Activate Elixir of Immortality, shuffling Lion's Eye Diamond and Elixir of Immortality back into your deck, profiting {R} mana each time

Repeat above until you have 100k+ floating {R} mana

• Find Elixir of Immortality
• Find Soul-Guide Lantern
• Sacrifice Soul-Guide Lantern to draw a card
• Activate Elixir of Immortality, Soul-Guide Lanter and Elixir of Immortality back into your deck

Repeat as many times as you like, drawing one card at a time

Underworld Breach Combos

Lion's Eye Diamond, Underworld Breach, Wheel of Fortune or Jeska's Will, Underworld Breach, Wheel of Fortune

NOTE: Many Combo lines come from Elixir of Immortality but graveyard hate with Dauthi Voidwalker type effects made me rethink these alternate loops

Tutor-able Toolbox Cards

Memory Jar - To be searched up after Demonic Consultation/Tainted Pact has resolved but Thassa's Oracle ETB is still on the stack, drawing out the player attempting to win

Soul-Guide Lantern and Unlicensed Hearse - To be searched up if an Underworld Breach or other graveyard line is threatening to win (be mindful of timing, if you wait too long it can sometimes be too late to interact with Brain Freeze)

Winter Orb - If getting into the midrange and beginning to lose out to Kraum or Tymna, Winter Orb can be one-sided and potent since we don't use our lands for much past turn 4 or so.

Bogardan Hellkite - Coming in to kill someone else's creature-based wincon or block Kraum is pretty great.

Utvara Hellkite - When playing with one or two additional stacks decks, games often digress into beatdown plans, during which there is no one better than Utvara Hellkite. this card is definitely a secret MVP of the list.

Liquimetal Torque - I try to keep an instant-speed Shatter effect in hand so that I can respond to unknown permanent interactions by finding this card turning their problematic permanent into an artifact and then shattering it.

Sculpting Steel - This can come into play as a copy of any artifact in play. such as academy manufacturer or Cursed Mirror copying something

Cursed Mirror - ETB as any creature even our opponents creatures! I like targeting Dockside Extortionist be it ours or an opponents. It can also be a surprise blocker for a Kraum/Tymna or a wild Najeela

The One Ring - New card! Also dummy good! Neat draw engine with some protection if we cast it

Cavern-Hoard Dragon - Another New Card I am playtesting around. Might be a good way to have constant ramp or spend 5 mana to tutor this out and make 6+ as a pseudo ritual as well as if we are on a beatdown plan.

High-Speed Hoverbike - can tap down a Najeela as a secondary use

Spine of Ish Sah - Instant speed Destroy any permanent? Very useful for dealing with permanent based wincons or stax

Portal to Phyrexia - this card is neat, if we can grab this early on against certain decks, we basically wipe our opponents boards setting them far behind in board state, ramp or card draw based on the decks we are against and each turn we get the bonus of reanimating for any graveyard. Including our own if we want to send Magda to the graveyard over the command zone to avoid that pesky tax...

No clock of Omens Example

This is the gamestate I expect to live my life within. As before, the first decision is to be reactive or proactive. If we are reactive, we are going to make sacrifices to prevent opponents from winning, while building a stronger gamestate. If the gamestate is one in which we are happy to deploy stacks (we have a few dwarves in play and a safe way to accrue treasures each), then grabbing some stacks while we get our beatdown ready is a great option. Depending on gamestate, for stacks-searches I would first consider Tangle Wire, Trinisphere, Winter Orb, Sphere of Resistance and Sculpting Steel. My goal-gamestate for stacks (without Clock of Omens) would be working a Goblin Welder or two (Sculpting Steel-->Goblin Welder) with tanglewire and Winter Orb to keep my opponents locked out of the game.

If we are being proactive, I firmly recommend Maskwood Nexus, as it will allow us to generate 3/2 dwarf dragons that will apply damage pressure while increasing our treasure flow. Maskwood also increases our search options, and primes the board for an Utvara Hellkite swing.

** For example: ** Imagine a gamestate where we have 4-5 creatures (three are dwarves, one vehicle and dockside); Clock of Omens was exiled to Force of Negation; our dwarves are tapped down, we have 4 mana open, and 5 treasures. Somewhat typical right? No clock, no artifact dwarf, nothing too threatening. Until...

• At opponent's end step, we search up Maskwood Nexus, still in their end step we create a 2/2 shapeshifter for 3 mana.
• Now we untap, draw, use maskwood to create another 2/2, use 3x dwarves, the summoning sick 2/2 and dockside to crew (+5 treasure, count 5), sac (-5 treasure, count 0) to find Utvara Hellkite.
• Now we swing with the changeling we created at endstep + vehicle to create two 6/6 flying dragon tokens and two more treasures (+2, count 2).
• Opponent casts thoracle or win creature to win, we crew with Utrava and our two dragons (+3, count 5) and sac to search (-5, count 0) Memory Jar or Bogardan Hellkite to keep them from winning.

Date added	2 years
Last updated	4 weeks
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 30 - 0 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.38
Tokens	Clown Robot 1/1 W, Clue, Dragon 6/6 R, Eldrazi Scion 1/1 C, Food, Scorpion Dragon 4/4 R, Shapeshifter 2/2 U, Spirit 1/1 C, Treasure
Folders	My actual decks