Naru Meha Plays It Safe

Commander / EDH* Mono-Blue

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Interaction (18)

• 1x Brain Freeze
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Crafty Cutpurse
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Ertai's Meddling
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Memory Lapse
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Negate
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Release to the Wind
• 1x Supreme Will
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Unsubstantiate
• 1x Venser, Shaper Savant
• 1x Winds of Rebuke

Tutors (7)

• 1x Intuition
• 1x Merchant Scroll
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Spellseeker
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Whir of Invention

Utility (3)

• 1x Mission Briefing
• 1x Naban, Dean of Iteration
• 1x Riptide Laboratory

Dig (13)

• 1x Anticipate
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Jace, Vryn's Prodigy  ^Flip
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Opt
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Telling Time
• 1x Thirst for Knowledge

Stax (9)

• 1x Back to Basics
• 1x Cursed Totem
• 1x Grafdigger's Cage
• 1x Pithing Needle
• 1x Rishadan Cutpurse
• 1x Stasis
• 1x Storage Matrix
• 1x Tangle Wire
• 1x Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir

Mana Outlet (3)

• 1x Pestermite
• 1x Prosperous Pirates
• 1x Sailor of Means

Other (2)

• 1x Siren Stormtamer
• 1x Vedalken Aethermage

Commander (1)

Ramp (36)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Baral, Chief of Compliance
• 1x Battlefield Thaumaturge
• 1x High Tide
• 28x Island
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Reset
• 1x Sapphire Medallion
• 1x Sol Ring

Win Conditions (7)

• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Citanul Flute
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x Illusionist's Stratagem
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Nexus of Fate
• 1x Timestream Navigator

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Sideboard

Draw Outlets (2)

• 1x Azami, Lady of Scrolls
• 1x Sage of Fables

Other (2)

• 1x Static Orb
• 1x Transmute Artifact

Interaction (1)

• 1x Glen Elendra Archmage

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Maybeboard

Draw Outlets (7)

• 1x Augur of Bolas
• 1x Benthic Biomancer
• 1x Blink of an Eye
• 1x Pull from Tomorrow
• 1x Sea Gate Oracle
• 1x Whirlpool Rider
• 1x Whispers of the Muse

Win Conditions (3)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Master of Waves
• 1x Sunscorched Desert

Dig (4)

• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Paradoxical Outcome
• 1x Pulse of the Grid
• 1x Windfall

Interaction (3)

• 1x Capsize
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Wasteland

Other (2)

• 1x Spell Pierce
• 1x Twincast

Stax (4)

• 1x Frozen Aether
• 1x Null Rod
• 1x Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
• 1x Winter Orb

Tutors (3)

• 1x Drift of Phantasms
• 1x Long-Term Plans
• 1x Trophy Mage

Ramp (2)

• 1x Inspiring Statuary
• 1x Turnabout

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This is a Combo-Stax deck using Ghostly Flicker + Naru Meha, Master Wizard with High Tide and Stax packages, designed to win at instant-speed at any time your opponents' counter defenses are down or on the stack in response to a winning play from an opponent.

The Stax package is built to take advantage of a non-reliance on mana rocks and other activated abilities of artifacts and creatures, so we can run the awesome Null Rod and Cursed Totem , along with tap-to-deactivate effects like Storage Matrix and Static Orb that further punish rocks + dorks.

High Tide , Reset , Frantic Search and cost-reducers like Sapphire Medallion and Battlefield Thaumaturge let you combo off unexpectedly with less than 7 untapped mana.

Ghostly Flicker + Naru Meha, Master Wizard is the primary combo, which generates infinite blue mana by copying Flicker, tapping an island, flickering the island and Naru (the island re-enters untapped), using Naru's re-entry ETB to copy Ghostly Flicker, and repeating. Infinite blue mana and flickering of any artifact, land or creature lets us do a number of things:

• Cast Blue Sun's Zenith to draw your deck, then with your other dig spells like Whispers of the Muse you can repeatedly re-draw it and re-cast it to force your opponents to draw to death. This is the primary win condition, which happens at instant speed.

• Use Whispers of the Muse , Pull from Tomorrow or Flash of Insight plus unlimited mana to draw or search through your deck to pull Blue Sun's Zenith .

• Flickering a Spellseeker on the field can pull any one of the dig-through-your-deck cards.

• Flickering Sea Gate Oracle , Whirlpool Rider or Augur of Bolas sifts through your deck to find Blue Sun's Zenith .

• With Sage of Fables on the board, Naru enters (and re-enters) with a +1/+1 counter, which you can remove on every flicker using your infinite mana to draw your deck.

• If you have Sunscorched Desert out already, flickering it kills the table.

• Flickering Venser, Shaper Savant or using Capsize with unlimited mana can bounce all opponents' permanents including lands, which can be an indirect win.

• After flickering for unlimited mana, allowing Naru to go to the command zone lets you re-cast her for her ETB instead, enabling infinite storm for a Brain Freeze win when you let each opponent untap and draw off an empty deck.

• If, for some reason, Blue Sun's Zenith is exiled, you can use Nexus of Fate as an alternate payout for drawing your deck with unlimited mana. With Whispers of the Muse you can infinitely re-draw and re-cast it to generate infinite turns along with bouncing all permanents using Venser, Shaper Savant or Capsize to clear the field. At the end of your current turn, discarding your hand/deck with Nexus of Fate in hand triggers the reshuffle and you can attack across your unlimited turns for the win.

The Illusionist's Stratagem + Naru Meha, Master Wizard combo will let you draw your deck, but will also require at least two blue mana free to cast Reset to then enough mana to re-start the combo with Ghostly Flicker after allowing Naru Meha to go back to the command zone from exile instead of re-entering the battlefield. Alternatively, you can use this combo at the end of an opponents turn to draw as much of your deck as you want and then untap to win on your turn. In earlier versions of this deck I had land-untappers like Cloud of Faeries and Pestermite to let Strategem generate plenty of mana as well, but I don't feel like they're worth the slots for that corner case where you decide to combo off with Strategem.

Naru Meha, Master Wizard + Release to the Wind is another secondary combo with Brain Freeze . To generate infinite casts, we play Release and Naru, copying Release, target Naru with the copy and re-cast Naru on a loop. I wanted to include this as an entirely alternate line in case Ghostly Flicker was somehow removed from the deck. Release to the Wind has the advantage of being tutorable by the same methods as Ghostly Flicker and also has synergy with Stasis and the other Stax pieces to dodge their effects, and Brain Freeze has additional utility to burn off top of deck tutors/Doomsdays by opponents.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	3 years
Key combos	Ghostly Flicker + Naru Meha, Master Wizard Naru Meha, Master Wizard + Release to the Wind Illusionist's Stratagem + Naru Meha, Master Wizard
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 29 - 3 Rares 17 - 2 Uncommons 20 - 0 Commons
Cards	99
Avg. CMC	2.41
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, City's Blessing, Emblem Jace, Vryn's Prodigy, Manifest 2/2 C, Treasure