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Commander / EDH Battlecruiser Control Creatureless Ramp RUG (Temur)

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Instant (35)

• 1x Blink of an Eye
• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Capsize
• 1x Chemister's Insight
• 1x Comet Storm
• 1x Counterflux
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Dismiss
• 1x Early Harvest
• 1x Evacuation
• 1x Expansion / Explosion
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Fall of the Titans
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Learn from the Past
• 1x Mission Briefing
• 1x Moment's Peace *list*
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Overwhelming Denial
• 1x Pull from Tomorrow
• 1x Rewind
• 1x Sinister Sabotage
• 1x Spell Crumple
• 1x Starstorm
• 1x Steam Augury
• 1x Stroke of Genius
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Telling Time
• 1x Turnabout
• 1x Voidslime

Sorcery (26)

• 1x Banefire
• 1x Boundless Realms
• 1x Careful Study
• 1x Cathartic Reunion
• 1x Circuitous Route
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Decimate
• 1x Deep Analysis
• 1x Devastation Tide
• 1x Explosive Vegetation
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Far Wanderings
• 1x Incite Rebellion
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Merchant Scroll
• 1x Mystic Retrieval
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Ranger's Path
• 1x Recoup
• 1x Recurring Insight
• 1x Ruination
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Tormenting Voice
• 1x Treasure Cruise
• 1x Urban Evolution

Commander (1)

Land (36)

• 11x Forest
• 13x Island
• 11x Mountain
• 1x Reliquary Tower

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Blood Moon

Artifact (1)

• 1x Venser's Journal

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Enchantment (2)

• 1x Search for Azcanta  ^Flip
• 1x Wilderness Reclamation

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RUG Creatureless, featuring Riku with a unique and restrictive role: he's used exclusively for his instant/sorcery copying skill and literally nothing else.

There is no protection suite built in for him because of how little we need him; he usually attracts a fair amount of hate on his own due to silly copy-everything-riku decks that run around, so unless he's absolutely needed around for one or two more spellcasts, it's not worth throwing a counter or other spell out to protect him. Typically we will only cast him 1 or 2 times, rarely 3, and his ability is to purely outrun other draw engines/ramp engines/damage sources.

This deck plays control for a couple turns without losing card advantage, ramps hard, and then plays hard denial until it can win. It plays premium removal for both nonland permanents and nonbasic lands, two characteristics I find refreshing for my EDH experience. I just wish I could play more Ruination s, but From the Ashes proved too weak.

Our typical win condition is large bursts of damage via big copied damage spells like Banefire and Comet Storm , but we can also use things like Blue Sun's Zenith and Stroke of Genius if we can alpha-mill players later in the game when it's relevant. Damage is the typical route here because, unless the deck plays a significant amount of lifegain constantly, damage can be dealt in between untap steps as the player sees fit (and if a power-play like an ill-timed Gray Merchant of Asphodel shows up, we have a counter ready).

Please see the below updates for an active walkthrough of the deck's changes and explanations!

Date added	9 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 27 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 18 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.28
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Copy Clone
Folders	Creatureless Commander, Oathbreaker, EDH