Zedruu Tokens

Commander / EDH*

Moltenronrick

Creature (60)

• 1x AEthersnipe
• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Augury Owl
• 1x Belfry Spirit
• 1x Blade Splicer
• 1x Cryptic Annelid
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Duergar Hedge-Mage
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x Faultgrinder
• 1x Feldon of the Third Path
• 1x Flame-Kin Zealot
• 1x Flametongue Kavu
• 1x Flickerwisp
• 1x Frost Titan
• 1x Geist-Honored Monk
• 1x Hunted Dragon
• 1x Hunted Lammasu
• 1x Hunted Phantasm
• 1x Inferno Titan
• 1x Ingot Chewer
• 1x Iroas, God of Victory *list*
• 1x Karmic Guide
• 1x Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• 1x Knight-Captain of Eos
• 1x Kor Cartographer
• 1x Legion Loyalist
• 1x Luminate Primordial
• 1x Meadowboon
• 1x Mirror Entity
• 1x Mogg War Marshal
• 1x Molten Primordial
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Murder of Crows
• 1x Myr Battlesphere
• 1x Noggle Hedge-Mage
• 1x Omenspeaker
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Phantom General
• 1x Phyrexian Ingester
• 1x Pilgrim's Eye
• 1x Profaner of the Dead
• 1x Raven Familiar
• 1x Restoration Angel
• 1x Reveillark
• 1x Scion of Vitu-Ghazi
• 1x Sea Gate Oracle
• 1x Seht's Tiger
• 1x Sensor Splicer
• 1x Siege-Gang Commander
• 1x Silumgar Sorcerer
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Suture Priest
• 1x Urbis Protector
• 1x Venser, Shaper Savant
• 1x Wall of Omens
• 1x Warden of the Eye
• 1x Wing Splicer
• 1x Youthful Scholar

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Dictate of Kruphix
• 1x Followed Footsteps
• 1x Intangible Virtue
• 1x Leyline of the Meek
• 1x Mana Flare

Artifact (4)

• 1x Dowsing Dagger  ^Flip
• 1x Howling Mine
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Sundial of the Infinite

Instant (4)

• 1x Flying Crane Technique
• 1x Roar of the Kha
• 1x Rootborn Defenses
• 1x White Sun's Zenith

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Ajani Goldmane
• 1x Elspeth, Sun's Champion

Commander (1)

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Deploy to the Front
• 1x Martial Coup
• 1x Stolen Identity

Land (2)

• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Rainbow Vale

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Sideboard

Creature (34)

• 1x Abbot of Keral Keep
• 1x Adarkar Valkyrie
• 1x Akroan Horse
• 1x Angel of Salvation
• 1x Archon of Justice
• 1x Aura Thief
• 1x Aven Surveyor
• 1x Azorius Justiciar
• 1x Bearer of the Heavens
• 1x Chasm Skulker
• 1x Dualcaster Mage
• 1x Glimmerpoint Stag
• 1x Great Whale
• 1x Gryff Vanguard
• 1x Hallowed Spiritkeeper
• 1x Hissing Iguanar
• 1x Izzet Chronarch
• 1x Jeskai Sage
• 1x Keiga, the Tide Star
• 1x Mizzium Meddler
• 1x Noble Benefactor
• 1x Palace Familiar
• 1x Pia and Kiran Nalaar
• 1x Precursor Golem
• 1x Purphoros, God of the Forge
• 1x Reef Worm
• 1x Runed Servitor
• 1x Sawtooth Loon
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Sphinx of Lost Truths
• 1x Surveilling Sprite
• 1x Treasure Mage
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine

Instant (1)

• 1x Rally the Ancestors

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Maybeboard

Creature (8)

• 1x Daring Thief
• 1x Deceiver Exarch
• 1x Felhide Spiritbinder
• 1x Flamerush Rider
• 1x Midnight Guard
• 1x Pestermite
• 1x Village Bell-Ringer
• 1x Zealous Conscripts

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Flameshadow Conjuring
• 1x Mirror Mockery
• 1x Splinter Twin

Instant (1)

• 1x Stifle

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Donate
• 1x Juxtapose
• 1x Twinflame

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This deck is obviously a work in progress. This is more of a list of possibilities right now than a decklist. I also haven't started the landbase, but that will come when I am much closer to a finished decklist.

I want to say right away, before I even talk about what I want to do with this deck, I want to talk about what I don't want to do.

I will not run the Zedruu griefer cards, like Illusions of Grandeur. That just isn't what I want to do with this.

I will run the parallel affect cards, like Mana Flare, and Howling Mine that I can give away, without losing their benefit. These I don't mind, but I will not grief people with big nasty stuff.

So the central thing that started what I actually do want to do with this deck was me discovering that a creature token that you are instructed to sacrifice at the next end step, don't actually die if you give them to someone else.

Which means I can use Zedruu the Greathearted and things like Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker for value.

This isn't enough to build a full deck out of, but it's more than enough to extrapolate into a deck.

So from there I first looked for other things to create creature tokens that copied this. Feldon of the Third Path was a natural include, his token function just like Kiki-Jiki's. Followed Footsteps, and Stolen Identity are both ways to create tokens that are copies that don't die.

From there I wanted to find good things to copy that weren't so bad to give away. So I found stuff with Enter the battlefield triggers, like Cryptic Annelid, Duergar Hedge-Mage, and Urbis Protector. Which leads me to creature tokens.

White in particular is very good at this, though red makes a real good effort as well, but creatures that make creature tokens when they enter the battlefield not only give me good ETBs to copy when I copy them, but also I can give away those dinky little creature tokens if I don't have a Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker or some other such engine online.

Another collection of creatures I found with ETBs are a group of creatures that go infinite with either Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker or Splinter Twin. Some of these I knew about, Pestermite and Deceiver Exarch are both paired with Splinter Twin in Modern, as are Kiki-Jiki, and Restoration Angel. I managed to find another 3 that fit this.

I like having 1 or 2 ways to combo out in a deck, it's a nice safety valve against the game going too long, but I don't want this thing flooded with ways to go infinite and end the game before people have a chance to do much.

So, to that end, the partial list for the deck includes only Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker, and Restoration Angel as the infinite. Both of those cards will do a lot of work in this deck on their own, and it gives me one instant, assuming it's not interacted with, way to win the game.

Related to that, I am using both the Sideboard, and Maybeboard lists to contain possible cards for the deck.

The maybeboard specifically contains alternate infinite cards, additional clone style-token cards, and alternate ways to give away my stuff.

The sideboard is more general cards that seem like they may be good.

A few other random notes: -A deck with a lot of ETB triggers, and no Deadeye Navigator just feels like a lot of wasted potential -I have a few dies, or leaves the triggers, because if I don't give the copies away, they die, so I get a trigger. Also if I end up using any of the exile copy cards, die triggers won't work, but leaves the battlefield ones will. -I have a number of whole team pump things to beef up the the Token strategy, like Intangible Virtue, and Flying Crane Technique, the former is nice value, while the later hopefully ends the game.

Date added	9 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 2 Mythic Rares 37 - 18 Rares 22 - 6 Uncommons 13 - 9 Commons
Cards	81
Avg. CMC	4.18
Tokens	*/* W Creature Avatar, Angel 4/4 W, Bat 1/1 B, Bird 1/1 W, Cat 2/2 W, Copy Clone, Emblem Elspeth, Sun's Champion, Fish 3/3 U, Goblin 1/1 R, Golem 3/3 C, Horror 4/4 B, Knight 2/2 W w/ First Strike, Kraken 9/9 U, Myr 1/1 C, Phyrexian Golem 3/3 C, Plant 0/2 G, Soldier 1/1 W, Spirit 1/1 C, Spirit 1/1 W, Squid 1/1 U, Thopter 1/1 C, Whale 6/6 U, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Deathtouch, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Lifelink
Folders	Commander - Step 1 - In Progress