Of Gods and Tyrants (Draw-Go Control)

Commander / EDH Control Counterspell Infinite Combo UB (Dimir)

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Instant (28)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Baleful Mastery
• 1x Capsize
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cryptic Command
• 1x Curtains' Call
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Deprive
• 1x Desertion
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Disdainful Stroke
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Foil
• 1x Forbid
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Hagra Mauling  ^Flip
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Memory Deluge
• 1x Mission Briefing
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystic Confluence
• 1x Mystical Teachings
• 1x Negate
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Resculpt
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Enchantment (5)

• 1x As Foretold *f-etch*
• 1x Back to Basics
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Search for Azcanta  ^Flip

Land (35)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 1x Otawara, Soaring City
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 10x Snow-Covered Island
• 4x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 1x Tolaria West
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x War Room
• 1x Watery Grave

Artifact (9)

• 1x Arcum's Astrolabe
• 1x Codex Shredder
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Sapphire Medallion
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Thran Dynamo

Commander (1)

Sorcery (15)

• 1x All is Dust
• 1x Army of the Damned
• 1x Bond of Insight
• 1x Bribery
• 1x Crush of Tentacles
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Deep Analysis
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Necrotic Hex
• 1x Ravenform
• 1x Rise from the Tides
• 1x Sea Gate Restoration  ^Flip

Creature (7)

• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Hullbreaker Horror
• 1x Nezahal, Primal Tide
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Sphinx of the Second Sun
• 1x Tidespout Tyrant
• 1x Toxrill, the Corrosive

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Sideboard

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Shark Typhoon
• 1x Telepathy

Instant (2)

• 1x Forbidden Alchemy
• 1x Infernal Grasp

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Curse of the Swine
• 1x Finale of Revelation

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Control the game draw-go style until you can drop a Rise from the Tides, Army of the Damned, and/or Grave Titan to pair with The Scarab God's life drain ability. Alternatively, combo off by bouncing/replaying some combination of Mana Vault/Sol Ring/Mana Crypt/Codex Shredder/Arcum's Astrolabe using the abilities of Tidespout Tyrant or Hullbreaker Horror to mill your opponents out, draw your deck, and/or generate infinite mana to kill with Exsanguinate.

Be prepared to play politics with the table, as you realistically have no way of countering a concerted effort against you (although you'll be countering everything else). It's fun when it works, but this deck mostly exists as a test of player skill, a deck for demonstrating the stack to new players, and a homage to wincon-less control decks in other formats. On that last point, I only recently added win-cons to slightly boost the power-level (and it's waaaay way more fun to solely rely on token copies of your opponents' creatures).

The Scarab God is almost always used as a zombie tribal or reanimator commander, but he's my favorite dimir control commander of the dozen I've tried. Importantly, he is hard to get rid of and stays at 5 CMC, which allows us open mana to protect him on the turn he comes down. You'll always be representing counter-magic, and having an instant-speed mana sink compliments that plan. I mostly treat the first ability as trinket text. If you're interested in dimir control, give him a try!

Date added	6 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 1 Mythic Rares 41 - 2 Rares 19 - 3 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.74
Tokens	Bird 1/1 U, Bird 2/2 U, Boar 2/2 G, Copy Clone, Elemental 4/4 UR, Foretell, Manifest 2/2 C, Octopus 8/8 U, Shark X/X U, Slug 1-1 B, Zombie 2/2 B