An Artist of Pain

Commander / EDH Combo Control UR (Izzet)

Takno

Counters (16)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Counterflux
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cryptic Command *list*
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Foil
• 1x Forbid
• 1x Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1x Mindbreak Trap
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Spell Crumple
• 1x Summary Dismissal
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Venser, Shaper Savant

Tutor (7)

• 1x Burning Wish
• 1x Cunning Wish
• 1x Firemind's Foresight
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Long-Term Plans
• 1x Merchant Scroll
• 1x Mystical Tutor

Non Basics (4)

• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Spirebluff Canal
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfur Falls

Static Answers (4)

• 1x Dissipation Field
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Torpor Orb

Draw (10)

• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Deep Analysis
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Serum Visions
• 1x Tamiyo, the Moon Sage

Value (10)

• 1x Batterskull
• 1x Bribery
• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Metallurgic Summonings
• 1x Pyromancer's Goggles
• 1x Sphinx of the Final Word
• 1x Tamiyo, the Moon Sage
• 1x Vedalken Orrery

Recursion (5)

• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Call to Mind
• 1x Mystic Retrieval
• 1x Pull from the Deep
• 1x Shreds of Sanity

Spot Removal (4)

• 1x Capsize
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Scour from Existence
• 1x Venser, Shaper Savant

Basics (24)

• 18x Island
• 6x Mountain

Commander (1)

Effect Lands (8)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Boseiju, Who Shelters All
• 1x Kher Keep
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Terrain Generator

Wraths (7)

• 1x All is Dust
• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Chain Reaction
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Evacuation
• 1x Oblivion Stone
• 1x Vandalblast

Combo (3)

• 1x Comet Storm
• 1x Reiterate
• 1x Turnabout

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Sideboard

Other (10)

• 1x Acquire
• 1x Aethersnatch
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Gather Specimens
• 1x Hour of Devastation
• 1x Knowledge Exploitation
• 1x Past in Flames
• 1x Time Spiral
• 1x Time Stop
• 1x Volcanic Vision

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This is my Nin, the Pain Artist EDH deck. It's a control/combo deck and it's my first serious edh deck that slowly evolved from being a very silly Melek, Izzet Paragon spellslinger deck that didn't do anything to the deck it is today. It is probably the most powerful deck I have looking to card quality alone.

The deck is at heart a control deck that aims at controlling the game through a combination of countermagic and boardwipes as well as a healthy amount of politicking. Over the course of the game your aim is to slowly sculpt a hand before winning with the combo of Reiterate + Turnabout and then casting Comet Storm on whatever number you deem lethal enough.

In this deck, I run a lot of counterspells and I also run cards like Swan Song and Red Elemental Blast. This is because the meta I play in is dominated largely by blue decks and combo decks. Likewise this means that I need less anti-creature cards like wraths and spot removal because there are so few creatures around.

This is also the deck I have that most closely resembles a traditional "goodstuff" edh deck, including cards like Consecrated Sphinx, Clever Impersonator and Tamiyo, the Moon Sage based on the powerlevel and quality of the card alone.

A few of the soft locks you can set up with the deck are:

• Archaeomancer + Evacuation
• Archaeomancer + Cryptic Command
• Consecrated Sphinx + Forbid

Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Key combos	Archaeomancer + Evacuation Reiterate + Turnabout Archaeomancer + Cryptic Command Consecrated Sphinx + Forbid
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 1 Mythic Rares 32 - 9 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.30
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Construct X/X C, Emblem Tamiyo, the Moon Sage, Kobolds of Kher Keep 0/1 R, Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B