*Retired* The Ministry of Magic(al a**holes)

Commander / EDH* Casual UBR (Grixis) Wizards

Veghelia

Lands (37)

• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 9x Island
• 3x Mountain
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Riptide Laboratory
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Secluded Courtyard
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Temple of Epiphany
• 1x Temple of Malice
• 1x Watery Grave

Control (10)

• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Ertai Resurrected
• 1x Evacuation
• 1x Exclusion Mage
• 1x Flame of Anor
• 1x Galecaster Colossus
• 1x Portal Mage
• 1x Vandalblast

Support (14)

• 1x Conjurer's Closet
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Essence Flux
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Mirror March
• 1x Naban, Dean of Iteration
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Reflections of Littjara
• 1x Spellseeker
• 1x Teferi's Time Twist
• 1x Thassa, Deep-Dwelling
• 1x Tidal Barracuda
• 1x Vedalken Aethermage

Ramp (11)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Decanter of Endless Water
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Herald's Horn
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Skyclave Relic
• 1x Stonybrook Banneret
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Recursion (5)

• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Back for Seconds
• 1x Bloodline Necromancer
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Victimize

Commander (1)

Main Meat (13)

• 1x Aether Channeler
• 1x Anathemancer
• 1x Basalt Ravager
• 1x Champion of Wits
• 1x Cloudkin Seer
• 1x Docent of Perfection  ^Flip
• 1x Exhibition Magician
• 1x Impact Tremors
• 1x Merchant of Secrets
• 1x Purphoros, God of the Forge
• 1x Sea Gate Oracle
• 1x Vela the Night-Clad
• 1x Witty Roastmaster

Draw (9)

• 1x Azami, Lady of Scrolls
• 1x Big Score
• 1x Chemister's Insight
• 1x Deadly Dispute
• 1x Kindred Discovery
• 1x Liliana, Dreadhorde General
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Pull from Tomorrow

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Maybeboard

Support (14)

• 1x Archmage of Echoes
• 1x Displacer Kitten
• 1x Eccentric Apprentice
• 1x Master of Death
• 1x Molten Echoes
• 1x Outpost Siege
• 1x Plumb the Forbidden
• 1x Quasiduplicate
• 1x Sower of Temptation
• 1x Specimen Collector
• 1x Trophy Mage
• 1x Vedalken Orrery
• 1x Virtue of Knowledge
• 1x Watcher for Tomorrow

Ramp (2)

• 1x Mana Echoes
• 1x Phyrexian Altar

Draw (8)

• 1x Ambition's Cost
• 1x Deep Analysis
• 1x Foresee
• 1x Paradoxical Outcome
• 1x Quick Study
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Scour the Laboratory
• 1x The Immortal Sun

Main Meat (4)

• 1x Ghitu Journeymage
• 1x Oracle of Tragedy
• 1x Tomebound Lich
• 1x Viashino Pyromancer

Lands (3)

• 1x Haunted Ridge
• 1x Shipwreck Marsh
• 1x Stormcarved Coast

Control (6)

• 1x Bitter Triumph
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Kindred Dominance
• 1x Tishana's Tidebinder
• 1x Venser, Shaper Savant
• 1x Winter Eladrin

Recursion (6)

• 1x Feldon of the Third Path
• 1x Mission Briefing
• 1x Patriarch's Bidding
• 1x Raise the Draugr
• 1x Scholar of the Ages
• 1x Shipwreck Dowser

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Why

I think it's interesting to make a machine that slowly kills your opponents by just playing creatures, but by not (or barely ever) attacking.

How

It means that I have to balance:

• Building a machine that kills opponents by having creatures ETB
• Stop opponents from breaking the machine
• Stop opponents from killing me in the mean time/winning themselves

Any form of ETB doubling doubles the value I get, so that's good. Blinking or making temporary copies of creatures also create more ETB effects, so more good. Creature recursion also allows me to use my creatures defensively to block, rather than having to bounce them or otherwise save them so I can have them ETB again.

Giving my spells flash also allows me to more tactically choose when to use my ETBs to the greatest effect.

What

The deck just wants to start fast. It needs mana and cards to get the required combo pieces in play.

The deck is more likely to slowly whittle away at my opponents than to kill them outright. I think I need to fix that somehow, by either adding a way for the deck to do a big winning move (have a bunch of creatures ETB, or maybe something alternate that requires me to have a bunch of creatures), or by playing more politically and only dealing damage to one opponent at a time. I'm mostly writing that last option down because it currently both does and doesn't have Archenemy vibes, where it does kill everyone, but not in an obvious enough way that people do something about it. I'm also of course trying to not over-correct and become the enemy to such a degree that my opponents immediately go for Player Removal.

The side strategy is to buff my Wizards up and swing with them for the win. However, that's currently a very unlikely way for me to win, which I think is pretty much exactly how it's supposed to be.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	7 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 41 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 19 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.33
Tokens	Bird 1/1 W, Champion of Wits 4/4 B, Citizen 1/1 GW, Copy Clone, Human Wizard 1/1 U, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Retired