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Commander / EDH WU (Azorius)

Gabolicious

Land (37)

• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Ancient Den
• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Hall of Storm Giants
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 9x Island
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 1x Nimbus Maze
• 10x Plains
• 1x Razortide Bridge
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Restless Anchorage
• 1x Rivendell
• 1x Sea of Clouds
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Tolaria West

Enchantment (11)

• 1x Curator's Ward
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Indestructibility
• 1x Karmic Justice
• 1x Land Tax
• 1x Paradox Haze
• 1x Prison Sentence
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Shadow of the Second Sun
• 1x Shielded by Faith
• 1x Weakstone's Subjugation

Creature (19)

• 1x Alms Collector
• 1x Azor's Elocutors
• 1x Azorius Knight-Arbiter
• 1x Baird, Steward of Argive
• 1x Ballot Broker
• 1x Brago's Representative
• 1x Council Guardian
• 1x Custodi Squire
• 1x Flux Channeler
• 1x Hand of Justice
• 1x Lieutenants of the Guard
• 1x Lighthouse Chronologist
• 1x Linvala, Keeper of Silence
• 1x Messenger Jays
• 1x Minister of Impediments
• 1x Pippin, Guard of the Citadel
• 1x Stenn, Paranoid Partisan
• 1x The Council of Four
• 1x Thought Courier

Artifact (9)

• 1x Azorius Locket
• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Coercive Portal
• 1x Decanter of Endless Water
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Misleading Signpost
• 1x Model of Unity
• 1x Tamiyo's Journal
• 1x The Millennium Calendar

Commander (1)

Instant (16)

• 1x Dawn's Truce
• 1x Dovin's Veto
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Fall of the Gavel
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Fuel for the Cause
• 1x Galadriel's Dismissal
• 1x Hallow
• 1x Harsh Justice
• 1x Illusion of Choice
• 1x Narset's Reversal
• 1x Slip Out the Back
• 1x Split Decision
• 1x Steady Progress
• 1x Trap the Trespassers
• 1x Unsubstantiate

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Approach of the Second Sun
• 1x Council's Judgment
• 1x Decree of Justice
• 1x Expropriate
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Plea for Power
• 1x Supreme Verdict

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Creature (9)

• 1x Aysen Bureaucrats
• 1x Baral, Chief of Compliance
• 1x Drannith Magistrate
• 1x Faramir, Prince of Ithilien
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Minister of Inquiries
• 1x Traveling Minister
• 1x Vizier of Tumbling Sands
• 1x Weathered Wayfarer

Instant (6)

• 1x Jolt
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Permission Denied
• 1x Reality Ripple
• 1x Twitch
• 1x Union of the Third Path

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Aura of Silence
• 1x Consecrate Land
• 1x Mind Over Matter
• 1x Proft's Eidetic Memory
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Rule of Law
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Tocasia's Welcome
• 1x Vanishing

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Contentious Plan
• 1x Gaze of Justice
• 1x Minds Aglow
• 1x Order of Succession

Artifact (8)

• 1x Clock of Omens
• 1x Crawlspace
• 1x Haystack
• 1x Neurok Stealthsuit
• 1x Robe of Stars
• 1x The Magic Mirror
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Voltaic Key

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So there's a great story behind this deck. I have an advanced degree in political science and have always been interested in governance and bureaucratic processes. I now work for my state (don't @ me - my job is pretty awesome, I work with people with disabilities). So I told my husband, who helped run FNMs at a LGS in our city, that I wanted to make a deck that was "all about red tape" with creatures that were things like judges, arbiters, scholars - any type that could be tied to The State, as it were, and considered a "beureaucrat like me!" and such. And that I wanted it to capture "the soul-sucking nature of trying to get anything accomplished."

He then told me about stax and I about died. And he got me my commander, the revered Grand Arbiter Agustin IV, along with a good chunk of the cards here, for Christmas that year. Because he's the best.

And then I did nothing with it, because I am, in fact, the worst.

But we now have a group of friends that meet regularly to play EDH, and I've been able to cut back to ONLY one job, which means I have the time and reason to make and use more EDH decks. And I don't want to bog down games with them (sometimes 8 players in one game!), so I'm leaning away from full-on stax. It's more stax-lite. Instead, to generate interaction and increase shenanigans, I have basically every white or blue card that has anything to do with voting in here.

Anyway, I expect zero people aside from the aforementioned hubby to even look at this deck, so Buttface, this one's your fault.

Primary wincon: Azor's Elocutors. Paradox Haze, Flux Channeler, Shadow of the Second Sun, and a few instant-speed spells with proliferate help speed him along, while a few other cards are in the deck to give him protection.

Secondary wincon: Approach of the Second Sun. Paring that with Tamiyo's Journal, Narset's Reversal or Unsubstantiate allow me to win the game in one turn.

Date added	1 year
Last updated	1 month
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 34 - 0 Rares 14 - 0 Uncommons 24 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.27
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Clue, Knight 2/2 W, Map, Soldier 1/1 W