Adun Oakenshield's Curious Creatures

Commander / EDH BRG (Jund) Combo Competitive Infinite Combo Storm

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Lands (30)

• 1x Badlands
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 4x Forest
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 1x Karplusan Forest
• 1x Kessig Wolf Run
• 1x Kher Keep
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 3x Mountain
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Taiga
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Discounters (6)

• 1x Cloud Key
• 1x Heartless Summoning
• 1x Helm of Awakening
• 1x Herald's Horn
• 1x Semblance Anvil
• 1x Thunderscape Familiar

Win Conditions (6)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Furious Assault
• 1x Impact Tremors
• 1x Kessig Wolf Run
• 1x Purphoros, God of the Forge
• 1x Walking Ballista

Tutors (14)

• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Imperial Recruiter
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 1x Signal the Clans
• 1x Survival of the Fittest
• 1x Sylvan Scrying
• 1x Traverse the Ulvenwald
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Generators (10)

• 1x Akki Rockspeaker
• 1x Burning-Tree Emissary
• 1x Carnival of Souls
• 1x Coal Stoker
• 1x Grinning Ignus
• 1x Hidden Herbalists
• 1x Mana Echoes
• 1x Priest of Gix
• 1x Priest of Urabrask
• 1x Quirion Sentinel

Draw (6)

• 1x Beast Whisperer
• 1x Elvish Visionary
• 1x Glimpse of Nature
• 1x Primordial Sage
• 1x Soul of the Harvest
• 1x Zendikar Resurgent

Haste (4)

• 1x Concordant Crossroads
• 1x Fervor
• 1x Fires of Yavimaya
• 1x Rhythm of the Wild

Recursion (2)

• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Reanimate

Commander (1)

Ramp (13)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Elvish Spirit Guide
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Priest of Titania
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Simian Spirit Guide
• 1x Zendikar Resurgent

Enablers (8)

• 1x Aluren
• 1x Cloudstone Curio
• 1x Crimson Kobolds
• 1x Crookshank Kobolds
• 1x Kobolds of Kher Keep
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Sneak Attack
• 1x Temur Sabertooth

Utility (3)

• 1x Bloodbraid Elf
• 1x Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip
• 1x Joiner Adept

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Maybeboard

Other (2)

• 1x Gaea's Herald
• 1x Seasons Past

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This deck was inspired by my own Zacama Curio build. I've realized that it's lacking in consistency so I opted out for black tutors instead of the white splash. If you're curious to see the difference here's the deck:

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Zacama Curio

Commander / EDH shadowbladedark

SCORE: 5 | 207 VIEWS | IN 2 FOLDERS

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What's Different? Show

I went with Adun Oakenshield for an extra way of getting key creatures back from graveyard. Plus it's a Legends card, so style points. Here is quick review of a few added spicy cards:

• Carnival of Souls for mana-positive ETB's
• Heartless Summoning for discounts, leading to mana-positive ETB's
• Sneak Attack same as above, paying instead of 2 or more
• Priest of Gix is just another Priest of Urabrask
• Bloodbraid Elf seems decent when it can hit most of the deck without much downside
• Eternal Witness for recursion, and the side effect of going nuts from grave once curio is out
• Other recursion cards such as Reanimate , Apprentice Necromancer , and Den Protector
• Demonic Tutor and Vampiric Tutor for more ways to get Curio
• Crop Rotation and Expedition Map to get Inventors' Fair or other lands...
• Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth , Gaea's Cradle being among those
• And a few other tweaks

How do?

The deck revolves around Cloudstone Curio and mana-generating ETB creatures ( Burning-Tree Emissary + Hidden Herbalists ) so you can keep re-casting them for various infinite triggers.

Mechanics

Core

These combos give us infinite casts and ETB triggers:

• (a) Cloudstone Curio + Burning-Tree Emissary + Hidden Herbalists
• (b) Cloudstone Curio + Any two Kobolds
• (c) Temur Sabertooth + Panharmonicon + Burning-Tree Emissary
• (d) Temur Sabertooth + Panharmonicon + Hidden Herbalists
• (e) Cloudstone Curio + Fervor + Priest of Titania + 3 creatures

Infinite Mana

Using either discounters such as Cloud Key or Semblance Anvil we can net positive mana for each iteration. This along with a few other neat cards we can now generate infinite mana.

• Discounter + (a/d/e)
• Mana Echoes + (a/b)
• Aluren + Cloudstone Curio + mana generator + any creature
• Sneak Attack + (a)
• Carnival of Souls + (any core) (! not strictly infinite)
• Discounter + Kobolds of Kher Keep + Grinning Ignus
• Discounter + Akki Rockspeaker + Priest of Urabrask

Win Conditions

• Infinite ETBs + Impact Tremors / Purphoros, God of the Forge
• Infinite Mana + Walking Ballista
• Infinite Mana + Kessig Wolf Run
• Infinite Casts + Aetherflux Reservoir
• Infinite Casts + Furious Assault

Spotlight Cards

These are all great cards for the deck

• Primordial Sage / Soul of the Harvest / Zendikar Resurgent / Glimpse of Nature all give us potentially infinite draw.
• Grinning Ignus can bypass things like Torpor Orb and Hushwing Gryff
• Aluren dangerous, but allows us to play our combo at instant speed.
• Imperial Recruiter allows us to get most of the creatures in the deck.
• Eternal Witness green staple for all the right reasons. Can get anything and everything back.
• Reanimate allows us to jump start our dead combo for a single black.

Closing Words

Let me know what you think and give suggestions to improve this build! Thanks!

Suggestions and Maybeboard

Genesis Wave : could be interesting, the only thing that worries me is achieving a critical mass of mana for it to be worth it. The other issue is losing the non-permanents, but with enough recursion it might not be that big of an issue.

Comet Storm : potential win-con with infinite mana.

Grapeshot : potential win-con with infinite casts.

Paradox Engine : I'm not a big fan of this card as it makes comboing off too easy, but with enough mana dorks out this can be a great addition for infinite mana lines.

Changelog

(March 8, 2019

• Added Beast Whisperer as a cheaper draw engine
• Added Rhythm of the Wild for pure value
• Added Survival of the Fittest as a second Fauna Shaman
• Added Cabal Coffers for Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth combo, as we have enough land tutors
• Removed Lotus Bloom and card:Immortal Sun due to being slow
• Removed Den Protector and Apprentice Necromancer making the deck more glass-cannon
• Updated Maybeboard

(April 16, 2018)

• Added Maybeboard
• Added Mechanics and description
• Added Custom Catergories

Top Ranked	Achieved #51 position overall 6 years ago
Date added	6 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 49 - 0 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 19 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.34
Tokens	Kobold 0/1 R
Folders	Others, commander, Cool Concepts, edh