A Merman I Should Turn to Be

Commander / EDH Control Mono-Blue Pauper

Ruffigan

Control (23)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Cancel
• 1x Capsize
• 1x Convolute
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Dream Fracture
• 1x Exclude
• 1x Fade Away
• 1x Faerie Trickery
• 1x Flood
• 1x Inaction Injunction
• 1x Into the Roil
• 1x Jolt
• 1x Memory Lapse
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Oppressive Will
• 1x Repeal
• 1x Repulse
• 1x Rescind
• 1x Rhystic Deluge
• 1x Scent of Brine
• 1x Twitch
• 1x Volrath's Curse

Conversion (11)

• 1x Aquitect's Will
• 1x Convincing Mirage
• 1x Dreamwinder
• 1x Floodchaser
• 1x Jinx
• 1x Reef Shaman
• 1x Sea's Claim
• 1x Shimmering Mirage
• 1x Spreading Seas
• 1x Streambed Aquitects
• 1x Tidal Warrior

Draw (16)

• 1x Armillary Sphere
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Counsel of the Soratami
• 1x Courier's Capsule
• 1x Divination
• 1x Foresee
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Lat-Nam's Legacy
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Oona's Grace
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Portent
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Sigiled Starfish

Finisher (1)

• 1x Serpent of the Endless Sea

Land (33)

• 1x Desert
• 30x Island
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Remote Isle

Utility (15)

• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Breaching Hippocamp
• 1x Drift of Phantasms
• 1x Elgaud Shieldmate
• 1x Freed from the Real
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x Mage's Guile
• 1x Mnemonic Wall
• 1x Neurok Stealthsuit
• 1x Refocus
• 1x Scrivener
• 1x Stonybrook Angler
• 1x Tidewater Minion
• 1x Wall of Kelp

Commander (1)

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Other (11)

• 1x Cerulean Wisps
• 1x Gurmag Drowner
• 1x Perilous Research
• 1x Rewind
• 1x Sidisi's Faithful
• 1x Sigiled Starfish
• 1x Spell Syphon
• 1x Treasure Cruise
• 1x Twiddle
• 1x Vivisection
• 1x Wall of Kelp

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Beware the Seasinger 's haunting melody!

This is a Pauper EDH deck designed to steal the largest threat and control the board. Pauper EDH, as you may or may not know, features an uncommon creature as the commander and has 99 commons filling out the rest of the deck. Our commander, Seasinger , requires two things to successfully operate: your opponents controlling islands and being able to reuse her ability. To achieve this the deck has myriad ways to convert lands and to untap permanents. It also features a swath of responses to keep the board manageable. To make sure we don't run out of steam a majority of the cards are cantrips/cyclers and the deck sports a small array of card draw as well.

The deck contains two combos currently:

• Ashnod's Altar + Freed from the Real + Seasinger : This combo allows us to machine gun creatures for a a piece. In a pinch we can substitute Ashnod's Altar with Volrath's Curse but this is more convoluted; it requires enchanting our own creature and can ony be done once per turn.
• Archaeomancer + Ghostly Flicker + Seasinger : This allows us to blink a stolen creature, keep it permanently, and put Ghostly Flicker back in hand to do it again. Scrivener and Mnemonic Wall are interchangable with Archaeomancer

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The only real downside to the deck is its weakness to aggro. If you have any suggestions please leave them in the comments; I would like this to be as powerful as possible

Top Ranked	Achieved #16 position overall 9 years ago
Date added	9 years
Last updated	8 years
Key combos	Ashnod's Altar + Freed from the Real + Seasinger Archaeomancer + Ghostly Flicker + Seasinger
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Rares 7 - 0 Uncommons 61 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.63
Tokens	0/1 U Creature Plant Wall
Folders	Pauper EDH, commander, iDEAS, PEDH, Top Decks, later