Atris, Cousin of Tasigur

Commander / EDH Competitive Infinite Combo UB (Dimir)

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Instant (24)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Demonic Consultation
• 1x Displace
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Force of Negation
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x Gush
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Long-Term Plans
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Shadow of Doubt
• 1x Stifle
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Creature (11)

• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Nimble Obstructionist
• 1x Palinchron
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Spellseeker
• 1x Thassa's Oracle
• 1x Tribute Mage
• 1x Trinket Mage

Land (34)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Gemstone Caverns
• 11x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 7x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Watery Grave

Artifact (12)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring

Commander (1)

Sorcery (13)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Compulsive Research
• 1x Dark Petition
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Doomsday
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Paradigm Shift
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Praetor's Grasp
• 1x Scheming Symmetry
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Rhystic Study

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Ashiok, Dream Render
• 1x Narset, Parter of Veils

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Maybeboard

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Dead of Winter
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Mnemonic Betrayal
• 1x Mystic Speculation
• 1x Unearth

Instant (3)

• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Mystical Dispute
• 1x Spell Pierce

Creature (1)

• 1x Gonti, Lord of Luxury

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Back to Basics
• 1x Verity Circle

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Budget Cuts Show

Maybeboard

• 1x Back to Basics; Cut our Non-Basics and Mana Crypt/Moxes for Basics/Snow Basics. Leave Sol Ring and Fellwar Stone for the Isochron Scepter Combo.
• 1x Mneomonic Betrayal; Cut Yawgmoth's Will and win using our opponents card in their graveyard.
• 1x Mystical Dispute; Cut Force of Will/Force of Negation/Pact of Negation.
• 1x Spell Pierce; Cut Force of Will/Force of Negation/Pact of Negation.
• 1x Counterspell; Cut Mana Drain.
• 1x Unearth; Use this instead of Necromancy/Animate Dead/Reanimate.
• 1x Mystic Speculation; Cut Sensei's Divining Top for a re-curable Scry 3 spell.
• 1x Dead of Winter; Run Snow Basics instead of Toxic Deluge.
• 1x Gonti, Lord of Luxury; Cut Praetor's Grasp and Flicker this with Deadeye Navigator to steal your opponent's library.
• 1x Diabolic Tutor; Cut Demonic Tutor/Vampiric Tutor/Imperial Seal.
• 1x Beseech the Queen; Cut Demonic Tutor/Vampiric Tutor/Imperial Seal.
• 1x Verity Circle; Cutting Rhystic Study.

Budget cut Details and Amount Show

Prices used from TCGPlayer @ March 2020 Rounded Up to the Nearest US Dollar amount. Spells Cut $1,108 - Spells Added $26 = $1,082 saved

• Palinchron $28> Back to Basics $7
• Force of Will $73> Mystical Dispute $3
• Force of Negation $30> Spell Pierce $1
• Imperial Seal $649> Diabolic Tutor $1
• Vampiric Tutor $66> Beseech the Queen $6
• Reanimate $10> Unearth $1
• Rhystic Study $20> Verity Circle $1
• Sensei's Divining Top $36> Mystic Speculation $1
• Yawgmoth's Will $64> Mneomonic Betrayal $1
• Toxic Deluge $23> Dead of Winter $1
• Praetor's Grasp $5> Gonti,Lord of Luxury $1
• Mana Drain $104> Counterspell $2

31 Lands and 4 Rocks Cut @ March 2020 $1,274-35 for 35 Snow Lands = $1,239 saved for basics

• 11x Islands > 21 Snow-Covered Islands $21
• 7x Swamps > 14 Snow-Covered Swamps $14
• Ancient Tomb $28
• City of Brass $11
• Fabled Passage $18
• Forbidden Orchard $13
• Gemstone Caverns $23
• Mana Confluence $24
• Morphic Pool $16
• Polluted Delta $22
• Reflecting Pool $15
• Sunken Ruins $26
• Underground River $5
• Underground Sea $477
• Watery Grave $20
• Mana Crypt $202
• Mox Diamond $273
• Mox Opal $57
• Chrome Mox $44

Total Saved $2,321

Alternative Combos for This Deck Show

Dusk Till Gone 1x Duskmantle Guildmage 1x Mindcrank

1. Activate Guildmage's First Ability
2. Activate Guildmage's Second Ability with Mindcrank in play.
3. Profit

Truth and Dare 1x Inverter of Truth 1x Thassa's Oracle

1. Cast Inverter of Truth
2. Cast Thassa's Oracle with an Emptied library

Description: Our key goal in this deck is drawing our library using Atris's ETB effect. We do this by gaining infinite mana with Deadeye Navigator or Isochron Reversal combo and by abusing Atris's ETB we make our opponents choose piles that we take until our Library is in our hand. (Hint: That's why I called this Cousin of Tasigur) We will eventually need to shuffle our library if our opponent decides to give us trouble by splitting the piles. We use Kozilek, Butcher of Half-Truths and Entomb to do this or Franatic Search and Compulsive Research to discard it. We have plenty of ways to scry our top 3 to always ensure we get the best pile for our current situation. Any feedback is Welcome as this is my 3nd Draft of the deck. May the top deck luck be with you EDH Player! Weaknesses: The deck really suffers under hate pieces such as Rest in Peace and Leyline of Void. It's ramp in mana rocks makes it weak to Collector Ouphe and Stony Silent pieces. Worst of all are effects such as Torpor Orb or Hushbringer really make our Creatures useless. If you can think of ways to help please leave a suggestion below so I can improve the deck before MagicFest Charlotte. Thank You for reading my version of Atris, Oracle of Half-Truths.

What combos to expect.

The key combos in this deck are Deadeye Navigator + Peregrine Drake , Demonic Consultation + Thassa's Oracle , Dramatic Reversal + Isochron Scepter , Aetherflux Reservoir + Bolas's Citadel + Sensei's Divining Top and a Doomsday line if none of those can work.

Deadeye Navigator and Peregrine Drake/Archaeomancer and Ghostly Flicker

To assemble this combo we use Entomb and Buried Alive or Atris's ETB to dump them and Archaeomancer in our grave. Afterwards we can use several methods or reanimation effects to bring them onto the battlefield. We must have a minimum of 3 lands in play for our Drake to untap and net 1 mana each time we blink it with Deadeye. Eventually we'll have more than enough mana to start and blink Atris enough times to get our library into our hand. We can achieve the same results using Archaeomancer and Ghostly Flicker alongside Drake to gain infinite mana with 4 lands on the battlefield each time flickering Drake and Mancer until desired mana is reached. Then we cast our commander and begin using Flicker on Atris and Mancer each time retrieving Flicker.

Isochron Scepter and Dramatic Reversal

If you are not familiar with the Isochron Reversal combo it's essentially one of many way to generate infinite mana. First start off by finding both Isochron Scepter and Dramatic Reversal to hand. We have several ways to do this first the Scepter. We have a variety of tutors creatures/sorcerys/instants/transmute like Tribute mage/Demonic Tutor/Lim-Dul's Vault/Muddle the Mixture. Dramatic Reversal also uses the same type of tutors to search for it except for the creature being Spellseeker instead. All we need now is to cast Isochron and imprint it with Reversal. You must have 2 mana left over after casting Isochron so we can cast a copy untapping our mana rocks. For Example say we had Mana Crypt and a Dimir Signet out tap both to generate 1UB use 1U on Scepter to untap now you have netted a B mana you may do this for a lot then tap for U generating infinite UB mana.

Thassa's Oracle and Demonic Consultation

This combo is pretty simple tutor for Thassa's Oracle and Demonic Consult. Be sure to cast Oracle first before you exile your library. Before Oracle's ETB trigger resolves cast Demonic Consultation to exile your library naming Abandon Hope as the chosen card. Silver Bordered card names are also acceptable.

Did someone say Bolas?

Yep it's big bad himself or just his Citadel. While Citadel is in here to give you a peek of what's on top for Atris sometimes you get more than you expect. You begin by casting Bolas's Citadel revealing the top to be a Vampiric Tutor oh yes you see where this is going. Cast Tutor losing 3 life putting Sensei's Divining Top on top of the library cast Top losing 1 life. Draw any pesky lands/spells out of the way by using Sensei's 2nd ability to draw and top itself. Cast top again do this until you find a tutor or just run into Aetherflux. Cast Aetherflux then repeat doing Sensei's divining top trick until you're at a high enough life total to laser your opponents to death or if an opponent has hexproof win by labman/thassa's oracle.

Doomsday

First off wow thanks for making it this far! Hope your day has been as awesome as mine. Here it is YOUR last chance you draw Dark Ritual. Island and Watery Grave in play and Dark Ritual, Doomsday, Pact of Negation and Gitaxin Probe in hand. Your opponent dropped a Rest in peace on turn 2 and graves are emptied. But it's not over you cast Dark Ritual into Doomsday. Your pile (Top) Gush, Lotus petal, Thassa's Oracle, Swamp and Lab Man(Emergency, Bottom). You stack it as such you cast Gitaxian Probe paying the life from hand drawing Gush, float your 1 Island mana then pay the alternative cost for Gush returning Island and Watery Grave to hand. Draw 2 Lotus Petal and Oracle. Two cards left in library, cast Lotus petal and then Thassa's Oracle in hopes your opponent doesn't have any counterspells. Yikes a stifle targeting Oracle's ETB. Use Pact of Negation countering it. The stack clears... it's done... it's over. You did it. Yes good job you've won the game. Actual commentary of my 2nd game I played, it was quite fun building my first cEDH deck and testing it against my friend's Shimmer Zur and my other friend's Kess Storm. Thank you EDH player for taking the time to read about my first experience with my new Atris, Cousin of Tasigur deck. Hope you found reading my take on Atris has helped you in building yours.

Top Ranked	Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH UB (Dimir) 4 years ago
Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Exclude colors	WRG
Key combos	Deadeye Navigator + Peregrine Drake Dramatic Reversal + Isochron Scepter Aetherflux Reservoir + Bolas's Citadel + Sensei's Divining Top Demonic Consultation + Thassa's Oracle
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 42 - 0 Rares 12 - 0 Uncommons 19 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.44
Tokens	Spirit 1/1 C
Folders	EDH Ideas