Out of the Blue

Commander / EDH* Combo Four Color Infinite Combo Ramp RGWU

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Land (36)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x Cephalid Coliseum
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Fire-Lit Thicket
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 2x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Mystic Gate
• 1x Plateau
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Taiga
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Tree of Tales
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Bastion
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Jeskai Ascendancy
• 1x Mana Reflection
• 1x Mindmoil
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Temur Ascendancy

Creature (19)

• 1x Aphetto Alchemist
• 1x Arjun, the Shifting Flame
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Eldrazi Displacer
• 1x Forgotten Creation
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Kiora's Follower
• 1x Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind
• 1x Psychosis Crawler
• 1x Riverwise Augur
• 1x Tandem Lookout
• 1x The Locust God
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Trophy Mage
• 1x Vizier of Tumbling Sands
• 1x Walking Ballista
• 1x Whirlpool Rider
• 1x Whirlpool Warrior

Artifact (17)

• 1x Alhammarret's Archive
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Library of Leng
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Memory Jar
• 1x Mycosynth Lattice
• 1x Paradox Engine
• 1x Simic Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Staff of Domination
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Teferi's Puzzle Box
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir
• 1x Umbral Mantle

Commanders (2)

Sorcery (11)

• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Shattered Perception
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Spoils of Victory
• 1x Time Reversal
• 1x Time Spiral
• 1x Tooth and Nail
• 1x Wheel of Fortune
• 1x Windfall
• 1x Winds of Change

Instant (10)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Plagiarize
• 1x Pull from Tomorrow
• 1x Tolarian Winds
• 1x Worldly Tutor

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The idea of this deck is to play powerful draw and untap effects to exploit Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix. Akiri, Line-Slinger was chosen just to splash red and white.

First of all, this is not a casual deck. Do not play this in a casual setting if you want to be invited to subsequent matches. That said, this deck is still a work in progress, so as it stands, it's not the worst thing in the world.

I've purposely left out the beloved Laboratory Maniac because if I'm ever in the situation in which I need him, I almost certainly already have what I need to win or I have a card that will allow me to shuffle my graveyard into my library. Plus, it seems like such a cheap win con. Note that this deck has zero removal and zero counterspells (which might come as a surprise); I decided to take the approach of going full throttle because I plan on this deck winning before others can have the opportunity to get to their win cons and because loading this with counterspells and removal would slow me down to a point that I could be going against some big late game stuff. That said, this deck is only ever three or four spells at most from winning the game.

All of these cards should be considered fair—well, the lands are objectionable perhaps. I deliberately excluded Bazaar of Baghdad and Timetwister because as great as they would be in this deck, they are just a kick in the balls to a person who's already down.

The win conditions can easily be reached via draw effects and tutors. The win conditions are as follows:

• Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind + infinite draw
• Psychosis Crawler + infinite draw
• The Locust God + infinite draw
• Walking Ballista + infinite mana

Honestly, you don't even need infinite draw. There are so many cards in this deck that cause you to draw cards that you can and likely could draw through your entire deck if you wanted. For example, having just Alhammarret's Archive and Psychosis Crawler out is enough to win by the end of your turn unless you're very unlucky.

Do not be afraid to wheel yourself without being able to tap Kydele during that turn. If you don't like your hand, wheeling yourself is absolutely the correct thing to do. Forget about that one good card in your hand. If the rest of your hand can't help you, get rid of it. There are plenty of other good cards in this deck that can help you. Don't get attached to any single card. Don't even worry much about discarding too much. In this deck, there are a number of cards (e.g. Library of Leng and Time Spiral) that will make discard effects nothing to fret over.

Infinite Mana Combos

• Eldrazi Displacer + Palinchron
• Isochron Scepter + exiled Dramatic Reversal + any number of nonland permanents that can tap for at least three mana
• Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix + Staff of Domination + five drawn cards (or three drawn cards with Mana Reflection)
• Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix + Sword of the Paruns/Umbral Mantle + four drawn cards (or two drawn cards with Mana Reflection)
• Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix + infinite draws (namely those that do not require infinite mana)

Infinite* Draw Combos

• Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind + Tandem Lookout
• Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind + Isochron Scepter + exiled Dramatic Reversal + any number of nonland permanents that can tap for at least two mana
• Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind + Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix + Staff of Domination + five drawn cards (or three drawn cards with Mana Reflection)
• Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind + Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix + Umbral Mantle + four drawn cards (or two drawn cards with Mana Reflection)
• Arjun, the Shifting Flame/Mindmoil + Isochron Scepter + exiled Dramatic Reversal + any number of nonland permanents that can tap for at least two mana
• Eldrazi Displacer + Riverwise Augur/Whirlpool Rider/Whirlpool Warrior + infinite mana
• Prophet of Distortion/Pull from Tomorrow/Staff of Domination + infinite mana
• Diviner's Wand + any creature that I control + infinite mana

There are probably some other infinite combos in the deck but I made quite a few changes since I last enumerated them, so I only removed the ones I no longer have and updated/added two or three.

* Most of the draw combos are limited by the size of the deck. That might sound obvious at first, but some cards allow you to put your hand back into your deck before drawing.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Splash colors	W
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 58 - 0 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.17
Tokens	Insect 1/1 UR, Morph 2/2 C