Becoming the Flame

Commander / EDH Budget Burn Casual Control

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Azorius (7)

• 1x Dovin's Veto
• 1x Energy Arc
• 1x Fieldmist Borderpost
• 1x Reflector Mage
• 1x Soulherder
• 1x Sphinx's Revelation
• 1x Turn to Mist

Boros (6)

• 1x Aurelia's Fury
• 1x Boros Charm
• 1x Justice Strike
• 1x Leave / Chance
• 1x Lightning Helix
• 1x Wear / Tear

Dimir (7)

• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Countersquall
• 1x Diabolic Vision
• 1x Discovery / Dispersal
• 1x Drown in the Loch
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Mistvein Borderpost

Golgari (7)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Cadaverous Bloom
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Grisly Salvage
• 1x Maelstrom Pulse
• 1x Skull Prophet
• 1x Treasured Find

Gruul (6)

• 1x Destructive Revelry
• 1x Firewild Borderpost
• 1x Fossil Find
• 1x Hull Breach
• 1x Manamorphose
• 1x Reap the Past

Izzet (6)

• 1x Expansion / Explosion
• 1x Fire / Ice
• 1x Invoke the Firemind
• 1x Izzet Charm
• 1x Saheeli Rai
• 1x Thousand-Year Storm

Land (34)

• 1x Bad River
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flood Plain
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 2x Forest
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Grasslands
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 2x Island
• 1x Krosan Verge
• 2x Mountain
• 1x Mountain Valley
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Pillar of the Paruns
• 2x Plains
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Rocky Tar Pit
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Zagoth Triome

Orzhov (6)

• 1x Castigate
• 1x Consecrate / Consume
• 1x Debt to the Deathless
• 1x Kaya's Guile
• 1x Sin Collector
• 1x Vindicate

Rakdos (6)

• 1x Cut / Ribbons
• 1x Dreadbore
• 1x Fire Covenant
• 1x Rakdos Charm
• 1x Terminate
• 1x Veinfire Borderpost

Selesnya (7)

• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Faeburrow Elder
• 1x Knight of Autumn
• 1x Reborn Hope
• 1x Safewright Quest
• 1x Sundering Growth
• 1x Wildfield Borderpost

Simic (7)

• 1x Coiling Oracle
• 1x Growth Spiral
• 1x Incubation / Incongruity
• 1x Kiora's Follower
• 1x Maraleaf Pixie
• 1x Plasm Capture
• 1x Repudiate / Replicate

Commander (1)

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“I have seen the true path. I will not warm myself by the fire—I will become the flame.” —Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer

This is a control deck capable of ending the game with finite-but-usually-sufficient combos. Ideally, you disrupt opposing game plans with well-timed interaction such as Dovin's Veto & Abrupt Decay while accumulating card advantage via Niv triggers &/or the blink subtheme &/or draw spells.

Three powerful enchantments help you go over the top: Cadaverous Bloom , Mirari's Wake , & Thousand-Year Storm .

Swans of Bryn Argoll plus damage-based removal can generate tons of resources.

Niv beats & Maze's End provide backup ways to win.

Notable Interactions

Swans of Bryn Argoll plus Fire Covenant : Pay X life, draw X cards.

Cadaverous Bloom plus Debt to the Deathless : With ten other cards in hand & available, you drain the table for 40 each.

Cadaverous Bloom plus X draw spells like Sphinx's Revelation : This is the classic ProsBloom interaction & it's still great in 2020. Pitch five cards to draw ten. Etc.

Cadaverous Bloom plus Leave / Chance : This turns all your permanents, including lands, into two mana.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 36 - 0 Rares 34 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.83
Tokens	Copy Clone, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Spirit 1/1 C, Spirit 1/1 WB
Folders	cheap, EDH Chromatic+ Set