Rashmi Draw Go

Commander / EDH Control Counters Counterspell GU (Simic)

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Instant (40)

• 1x An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Disdainful Stroke
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Ertai's Scorn
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Force of Negation
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Growth Spiral
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Joint Exploration
• 1x Memory Deluge
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystic Confluence
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Natural State
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Negate
• 1x Nexus of Fate *list*
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Pull from Tomorrow
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Reap
• 1x Resculpt
• 1x Rewind
• 1x Snap
• 1x Suspend
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Thassa's Intervention
• 1x Unwind
• 1x Voidslime
• 1x Wash Away

Land (34)

• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Demolition Field
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 1x Rivendell
• 12x Snow-Covered Forest
• 13x Snow-Covered Island
• 1x Vineglimmer Snarl
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Artifact (8)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Simic Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Curiosity
• 1x Thought Vessel

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Lorien Revealed
• 1x Merchant Scroll
• 1x Sea Gate Restoration  ^Flip
• 1x Seasons Past

Commander (1)

Creature (7)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Archmage Emeritus
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Glademuse
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Wavebreak Hippocamp

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Awakening
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Wilderness Reclamation

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Maybeboard

Creature (40)

• 1x Aboleth Spawn
• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Ambush Viper
• 1x Baral, Chief of Compliance
• 1x Brineborn Cutthroat
• 1x Coiling Oracle
• 1x Crafty Cutpurse
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Draining Whelk
• 1x Frilled Mystic
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Hullbreaker Horror
• 1x Ice-Fang Coatl
• 1x Illusory Ambusher
• 1x Kruphix, God of Horizons
• 1x Maraleaf Pixie
• 1x Mocking Doppelganger
• 1x Mystic Snake
• 1x Naiad of Hidden Coves
• 1x Nightpack Ambusher
• 1x Ornithopter of Paradise
• 1x Overcharged Amalgam
• 1x Portal Mage
• 1x Progenitor Mimic
• 1x Prophet of Kruphix
• 1x Pygmy Hippo
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Stunt Double
• 1x The Reality Chip
• 1x Thought Sponge
• 1x Thrasios, Triton Hero *f-etch*
• 1x Torrential Gearhulk
• 1x Venser, Shaper Savant
• 1x Voidmage Husher
• 1x Voracious Greatshark
• 1x Wildborn Preserver
• 1x Winged Coatl

Instant (37)

• 1x A Little Chat
• 1x AEtherize
• 1x Aetherspouts
• 1x Anticipate
• 1x Blessed Reincarnation
• 1x Blessed Respite
• 1x Delay
• 1x Engulf the Shore
• 1x Essence Flux
• 1x Essence Scatter
• 1x Evacuation
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x Harrow
• 1x Hour of Need
• 1x Illusionist's Stratagem
• 1x Incubation / Incongruity
• 1x Insidious Will
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x March of Swirling Mist
• 1x Memory Lapse
• 1x Mirror Match
• 1x Natural Connection
• 1x Perplexing Test
• 1x Plasm Capture
• 1x Polymorphist's Jest
• 1x Quandrix Command
• 1x Reclaim
• 1x Remove Soul
• 1x Rewind
• 1x Roiling Regrowth
• 1x Shared Summons
• 1x Siren's Ruse
• 1x Spell Snare
• 1x Sublime Epiphany
• 1x Supreme Will
• 1x Thought Scour

Sorcery (15)

• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Curse of the Swine
• 1x Devastation Tide
• 1x Drawn from Dreams
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Oversimplify
• 1x Polymorph
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Ravenform
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Treasure Cruise

Enchantment (10)

• 1x Arboria
• 1x As Foretold
• 1x Dictate of Kruphix
• 1x Dress Down
• 1x Insight
• 1x Kenrith's Transformation
• 1x Metallurgic Summonings
• 1x Omen of the Hunt
• 1x Omen of the Sea
• 1x The Phasing of Zhalfir

Land (3)

• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Castle Vantress
• 1x Field of Ruin

Artifact (2)

• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Oko, Thief of Crowns

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Strategy

The typical "Draw, Go" Simic shennanigans. You draw a card and pass the turn. Then you cast your spells in the opponent turns, mostly counter spells and removals to control the board.

Rashmi is the center piece of this combo. You do not use her to free cast whatever you flip of her except if it is a mana rock or ramp. Usually you just use her as a draw engine. This allows you to break parity. Counter spells and spot removals are trading 1:1 which is bad in a multiplayer format where you have more than one opponent. By drawing a card everytime you counter or remove something, you make sure to draw into more gas down the line.

Try to not play more than one card on each opponents turn to make the most of Rashmi's ability but don't hesitate to cast 2 or more spells if the situation requires you to.

Keep your draw and filter spells for the end of the last opponents turn if you have mana open.

Deck philosophy

As usual, I like to commit to the theme harder than probably necessary. The deck is 50 % cards that you can play at instant speed. The deck is designed to slow down opponents and counter their big combo pieces or remove them. It was pretty much a reaction to getting killed by one too many "hihi, I win" solitaire combo.

As most counter heavy decks, this deck is weak to wheenie decks. There is not really a big spell that you want to counter and they slowly flood the board with "insignificant" pieces that you don't want to waste a removal spell. This makes target assessment especially hard. Blue-Green instant board wipes are also few and far between, Cyclonic Rift of course being the best card here. Feel free to add Evacuation and similar cards to the deck if "Go wide"-decks are more prevelant in your play group.

Wincon

Ironically, there are not many good "fair" ways to win in this kind of decks. So in the end I opted for the classical Dramatic Scepter combo Dramatic Reversal + Isochron Scepter which produces an infinite amount of mana if you have mana rocks and creatures on the field that produces 3 or more mana. From there you win fairly easily by just casting Blue Sun's Zenith on yourself to draw your deck and then consecutively on everyone else to kill them. You can also go for some infinite turn shennanigans with Nexus of Fate and Seasons Past but I found this less commmon.

You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain... or something.

Date added	2 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 27 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 21 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.52
Tokens	Ape 3/3 G, Beast 3/3 G, Bird 2/2 U, Elemental 4/4 UR, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Manifest 2/2 C, Treasure