Stargazing (Narset EDH)

Commander / EDH* Competitive Infinite Combo Multiplayer RUW (Jeskai, America)

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Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Jace, the Mind Sculptor

Land (31)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Battlefield Forge
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 2x Island
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Mystic Gate
• 1x Mystic Monastery
• 1x Nimbus Maze
• 1x Plains
• 1x Plateau
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rugged Prairie
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Dream Halls
• 1x Eldrazi Conscription
• 1x Furnace of Rath
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Mass Hysteria
• 1x Near-Death Experience
• 1x Need for Speed
• 1x Omniscience
• 1x Steel of the Godhead

Artifact (17)

• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Hammer of Purphoros
• 1x Helm of Awakening
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Lotus Bloom
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Proteus Staff
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thran Dynamo

Instant (13)

• 1x Angel's Grace
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Comet Storm
• 1x Crimson Wisps
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Expedite
• 1x Intuition
• 1x Long-Term Plans
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Peer Through Depths
• 1x Tolarian Winds
• 1x Valorous Stance

Sorcery (28)

• 1x Beacon of Tomorrows
• 1x Call to Mind
• 1x Day of Judgment
• 1x Enter the Infinite
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Idyllic Tutor
• 1x Inner Fire
• 1x Merchant Scroll
• 1x Mystic Retrieval
• 1x Mystic Speculation
• 1x Personal Tutor
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Show and Tell
• 1x Supreme Verdict
• 1x Temporal Manipulation
• 1x Temporal Mastery
• 1x Temporal Trespass
• 1x Terminus
• 1x Time Spiral
• 1x Time Stretch
• 1x Time Warp
• 1x Timetwister
• 1x Wheel of Fortune
• 1x Winds of Change
• 1x Winds of Rath
• 1x Wrath of God

Commander (1)

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Creature (3)

• 1x Academy Rector
• 1x Lost Auramancers
• 1x Trinket Mage

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Narset Transcendent

Land (1)

• 1x Strip Mine

Enchantment (10)

• 1x Aqueous Form
• 1x Archmage Ascension
• 1x Energy Field
• 1x Eyes of the Watcher
• 1x Future Sight
• 1x Gift of Immortality
• 1x Leyline of Sanctity
• 1x Phyrexian Unlife
• 1x Spirit Mantle
• 1x Wild Research

Artifact (4)

• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Vedalken Orrery
• 1x Voltaic Key

Instant (5)

• 1x Ajani's Presence
• 1x Apostle's Blessing
• 1x Ephemeral Shields
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Silence

Sorcery (4)

• 1x End Hostilities
• 1x Plea for Guidance
• 1x Recoup
• 1x Serum Visions

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So. This is a Narset, Enlightened Master EDH deck. Yeah. SO some of you might notice a similarity to a competitive Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind build, where the goal is to draw all the cards. In my mind this build is very similar, since it winds up drawing a LOT of cards. There are also white wrath cards.

WHY PLAY NARSET? Speed. Power. This deck can kill everyone at the table in one creature swing as early as turn three. The Jeskai are so powerful that they can infinitely control time itself. Also played if you like to make everyone your enemy.

WHY COMMANDER? Because Commander offers a mix of some very powerful cards (including ramp and tutors) with convenient access to Narset at any point in the game. Other formats, I think, can't justify her high CMC or have trouble finding her at the right time, but Commander can.

THE PLAN: The primary plan is to either combine Enter the Infinite + Omniscience or tutor Enter the Infinite to the top of the library and cast it off of a Narset activation, then cast Comet Storm + Inner Fire for ridiculous amounts of damage. You can then set up an infinite extra turns deal with Beacon of Tomorrows as the last card in the library. Dream Halls also works too.

THE BACKUP PLAN: Cast Eldrazi Conscription and pray.

Vs. INFINITE LIFE: Okay, so this is a problem. This is a damage based deck mostly, so a deck that ignores life totals is annoying. Fortunately, there's a plan for this too. You can play the normal plan, then shoot yourself with Comet Storm to one life, cast Near-Death Experience, then take an extra turn.

THE TECH: at least ten tutors, plus some of the strongest hand cyclers known to Magic. The dig cards are included to mess with opponents hands and search for a tutor, since only one is really necessary to grab ETI. There's also enough ramp to get Narset out by the time you have three lands. If ETI is cast without Omniscience, there's enough free ramp to cast Show and Tell for whatever, then proceed as planned. I also included some protection spells for Narset, but I might remove them for other spells such as Angel's Grace.

WHY NO EXTRA TURN PLAN? Well, this is a strong argument for a Narset deck. If you can cast a bunch of extra turn cards, then cast extra combat cards, then cast more extra turn cards, why not? Mostly redundancy; Narset doesn't have the huge physical power that other commanders possess, so without Eldrazi Conscription, I don't feel like she can do enough damage to kill people. She's also very frail, dying to something as simple as Pyroclasm. Even if someone managed to get a large creature out early, or she came down late, she's screwed. Extra combat phases are more important for more creature heavy decks, but this list only has one. And I'd rather do 270+ damage in one turn than 60 damage over many. Another thing to consider is CMC. Extra turn cards typically have very high CMC, and extra combat phases are dependent on creatures. Without Narset, those cards are dead in hand (or anywhere, for that matter). Hard casting them isn't really an option, since they chew up mana like nobody's business. So only the best of the best made their way into this deck.

I hope I didn't ramble too much! This is still a work in progress, so suggestions and comments are always welcome! I recognize that this deck costs $2000, so if you can't proxy where you play, I don't expect you to love this deck.

(PS: the inspiriation for this deck comes from Rowan's Niv-Mizzet deck which can be found here. Check it out too!)

Date added	9 years
Last updated	8 years
Key combos	Enter the Infinite + Omniscience Comet Storm + Inner Fire
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	19 - 0 Mythic Rares 50 - 0 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.19
Tokens	Enchantment Golem 3/3 C
Folders	Sounds Fun - EDH