An Epic Waste of Time

Commander / EDH

Pingvi

Land (36)

• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Battlefield Forge
• 1x Brushland
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x Celestial Colonnade
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Creeping Tar Pit
• 2x Forest
• 1x Hall of Heliod's Generosity
• 1x Hissing Quagmire
• 2x Island
• 1x Karplusan Forest
• 1x Lavaclaw Reaches
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Lumbering Falls
• 1x Mirrorpool
• 2x Mountain
• 1x Nantuko Monastery
• 1x Needle Spires
• 2x Plains
• 1x Raging Ravine
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Shambling Vent
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Stirring Wildwood
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Wandering Fumarole
• 1x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Instant (5)

• 1x Entomb
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Fury Storm
• 1x Increasing Vengeance
• 1x Reverberate

Enchantment (25)

• 1x Abundance
• 1x Curse of Echoes
• 1x Curse of Opulence
• 1x Earthcraft
• 1x Enchantress's Presence
• 1x Estrid's Invocation
• 1x Ever-Watching Threshold
• 1x Exploration
• 1x Fall of the Thran
• 1x Hive Mind
• 1x Imprisoned in the Moon
• 1x Luminarch Ascension
• 1x Mastery of the Unseen
• 1x Opalescence
• 1x Paradox Haze
• 1x Phyrexian Scriptures
• 1x Possibility Storm
• 1x Rule of Law
• 1x Search for Azcanta  ^Flip
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Song of the Dryads
• 1x Squirrel Nest
• 1x Starfield of Nyx
• 1x Swarm Intelligence
• 1x Titans' Nest

Creature (7)

• 1x Academy Rector
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Dimir House Guard
• 1x Dualcaster Mage
• 1x Erebos, God of the Dead
• 1x Jace, Vryn's Prodigy  ^Flip
• 1x Narset, Enlightened Master

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Chandra, the Firebrand
• 1x Ral, Storm Conduit

Commander (1)

Sorcery (17)

• 1x Chart a Course
• 1x Compulsive Research
• 1x Conflux
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Emergent Ultimatum
• 1x Endless Swarm
• 1x Enduring Ideal
• 1x Eternal Dominion
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Idyllic Tutor
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Mizzix's Mastery
• 1x Neverending Torment
• 1x Regrowth
• 1x Solve the Equation
• 1x Undying Flames

Artifact (7)

• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Scroll of Fate
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Twinning Staff
• 1x Whip of Erebos

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So way back in Kamigawa block, right? They made these strange spells with a unique triggered ability: Epic.

Epic (For the rest of the game, you can't cast spells. At the beginning of each of your upkeeps, copy this spell except for its epic ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.)

Now, not casting spells is generally a good way to lose the game. But, what if we go all-in?

This deck is, at its core, an Enduring Ideal deck. We are running a couple of enchantment combos to lock up the game on that axis, but that's boring as all heck. We need to go DEEPER.

So, when you copy a spell with an epic ability, you end up with two Epic triggers. Twice the fun! Still not cool enough.

Now, Ikoria gave us a nifty spell called Emergent Ultimatum . This lets us grab at least two epic spells and one copy spell, or three epic spells. Then an opponent gets to choose what nonsense they'd rather deal with. Slick and clean, but still pretty lame tbh.

Okay, but what if we give EVERYONE an epic trigger? Beautiful. A couple of Hive Mind effects let us turn the game into an absolute mess by forcing everyone to comply with our new rules of engagement.

But, in all honesty, we can do one better. Assemble all five pieces of E(pic)xodia in our graveyard and overload a Mizzix's Mastery ! How can our opponents contend with us putting FIVE effects (of admittedly varying power levels) on the stack EACH of our upkeeps? I don't know; it remains untested! But doesn't it sound like fun?

Note: For the love of god, do NOT cast Eternal Dominion over webcam magic.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 63 - 0 Rares 10 - 0 Uncommons 6 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.64
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Copy Clone, Emblem Jace, Vryn's Prodigy, Gold, Human Cleric 1/1 BW, Manifest 2/2 C, Snake 1/1 G, Squirrel 1/1 G, Treasure