Blinking Contest

Commander / EDH Blink Combo Competitive Control Counterspell Exile Infinite Combo Lab Man/Thoracle WU (Azorius)

KCisSICKnasty

Land (35)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Ancient Den
• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Celestial Colonnade
• 1x Cephalid Coliseum
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 1x Hall of the Bandit Lord
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 1x Irrigated Farmland
• 2x Island
• 1x Kor Haven
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 1x Mystic Gate
• 1x Nimbus Maze
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Seachrome Coast
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Skycloud Expanse
• 2x Snow-Covered Plains
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Temple of Enlightenment
• 1x Tolaria West
• 1x Tundra

Planeswalker (4)

• 1x Jace, the Mind Sculptor
• 1x Karn Liberated
• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker
• 1x Venser, the Sojourner

Creature (22)

• 1x Aether Channeler
• 1x Agent of Treachery
• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Azor, the Lawbringer
• 1x Charming Prince
• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Cloudblazer
• 1x Drowner of Hope
• 1x Eldrazi Displacer
• 1x Gilded Drake
• 1x Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1x Knight-Captain of Eos
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Nevermaker
• 1x Reflector Mage
• 1x Rishadan Brigand
• 1x Soulherder
• 1x Sower of Temptation
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Thassa's Oracle
• 1x Venser, Shaper Savant
• 1x Weathered Wayfarer

Enchantment (11)

• 1x Act of Authority
• 1x Cloudform
• 1x Detention Sphere
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Oblivion Ring
• 1x Omen of the Sea
• 1x Parallax Tide
• 1x Parallax Wave
• 1x Reality Acid
• 1x Treachery
• 1x Unquestioned Authority

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Acquire
• 1x Bribery
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Time Warp

Commander (1)

Artifact (12)

• 1x Altar of the Brood
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Lithoform Engine
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Static Orb
• 1x Strionic Resonator
• 1x Talisman of Progress
• 1x Tangle Wire
• 1x Tsabo's Web

Instant (11)

• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cryptic Command
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Desertion
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Orim's Chant
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Render Silent
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

---

Sideboard

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Decree of Silence
• 1x Rest in Peace

Artifact (1)

• 1x Pithing Needle

Creature (1)

• 1x Angel of Finality

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Armageddon

Land (1)

• 1x Homeward Path

---

Maybeboard

Artifact (9)

• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Jeweled Lotus
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Winter Orb

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Capture of Jingzhou
• 1x Temporal Manipulation
• 1x Transmute Artifact

Creature (7)

• 1x Circuit Mender
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Recruiter of the Guard
• 1x Silent Arbiter
• 1x Thassa, Deep-Dwelling
• 1x Urza, Lord High Artificer

Land (3)

• 1x Deserted Beach
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Wasteland

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Narset, Parter of Veils

Instant (7)

• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Force of Negation
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Whir of Invention

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Stasis

---

Welcome to my Brago, King Eternal cEDH deck!

Since his entire ability is 1 trigger, Brago can severely abuse nonland permanents with ETB/LTB triggers and build a lot of momentum with mana rocks. For these reasons, we surround him with the most blinkable boiz and tappable rocks from across the multiverse. The name of most games is going to be "How Fast Can I Grab Strionic Resonator?", BUT we've got Lithoform Engine and plenty of other goodies to pop off with in the event that doesn't/cant happen. It's not an easy deck to use, but once you master the interactions you'll be abusing, there's few decks that have an easy time dealing with Brago's shenanigans.

Blink Squad:

• Act of Authority: this with Brago is absolutely broken

• Aether Channeler: draw, bounce, birb

• Agent of Treachery: steal the board and be rewarded with 3 cards every turn

• Archaeomancer: always have a counter, or tutor the combo

• Azor, the Lawbringer: no more board wipes + Sphinx's Revelation on a stick

• Charming Prince: scry, life, blink

• Clever Impersonator: always becomes whatever you want it to

• Cloudblazer draw, life

• Drowner of Hope: 2 tokens that sac for mana OR to tap down a creature

• Knight-Captain of Eos: soldiers that make Fog

• Mulldrifter: draw

• Mystic Remora: keep that Cumulative Upkeep at {1}

• Nevermaker: I'd like that on top of your library, please

• Omen of the Sea: scry dank, draw dank

• Reality Acid: oh no...

• Reflector Mage: tell your friend not to come back until they've thought about what they've done

• Rishadan Brigand: sac birb

• Sun Titan: 1-2 permanents from your graveyard each turn

• Thassa's Oracle: I mean, I guess it scries, but...

• Treachery: steal a creature and untap 5

• Tsabo's Web: Draw

• Unquestioned Authority: draw

• Venser, Shaper Savant: bounce that

Control Stuff:

• Acquire: gib

• Bribery: g i b

• Counterspell: nod

• Cryptic Command *list*: a dank counter

• Desertion: G I B

• Eldrazi Displacer: create an opening for Brago, delete a big token, general blinkage

• Glen Elendra Archmage: reset with blink power

• Mana Drain: the most amazing counterspell, ever

• Muddle the Mixture: would rather Transmute it to grab Strionic Resonator

• Orim's Chant: don't play anything this turn (also, don't attack)

• Pact of Negation: goad your opponent into thinking they're safe to combo

• Render Silent: what would happen if Counterspell and Silence had a baby?

• Swords to Plowshares: put this in every white deck

• Tangle Wire: always has 4 counters from blink and is a real pain on turn 4.

• Tsabo's Web: no more Maze of Ith...

Landy Lands:

• Academy Ruins: for saving Strionic Resonator/Lithoform Engine

• Arcane Lighthouse: the Lightning Greaves counter

• Celestial Colonnade: manly man land

• Cephalid Coliseum: for a clutch top deck

• Command Beacon: people want Brago dead...

• Halimar Depths: set up your next 3 draws

• Hall of the Bandit Lord: Brago swings immediately

• Inventors' Fair: for fetching Strionic Resonator/Lithoform Engine

• Kor Haven: STOP!!!

• Minamo, School at Water's Edge: an Island that untaps Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

• Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx: very easily abused

• Reliquary Tower: you are going to draw a lot of cards...fetch this if you can

• Strip Mine: I run this in EVERY EDH deck

• Tolaria West: land fetcher

IF you have Strionic Resonator OR Lithoform Engine out, you can do some serious stack bs using cards with ETB and LTB abilities that trigger separately like Oblivion Ring (2 paragraphs = 2 triggers so cards with 1 paragraph like Banishing Light wont work.). It's also very important that you announce the order your permanents are entering the battlefield since they all re-enter at once. Cards that have interactions when permanents ETB should enter before cards that actually trigger their own ETB, for example.

Here's how it goes with O-Ring on the battlefield:

1. Brago damage goes through. Trigger.

2. In response, before choosing blink targets, activate Strionic Resonator OR Lithoform Engine, copying Brago's trigger. Copy goes on the stack above original trigger.

3. Copy resolves, choose targets (O-Ring and the Resonator/Engine), and let them blink. Announce that the Resonator/Engine enters the battlefield before anything else does (or else you wont be able to use it). O-Ring's ETB triggers.

4. In response to O-Ring's ETB, before choosing an exile target, activate Resonator/Engine and target Brago's original trigger to put another copy of it on top of the stack.

5. Allow the copy to resolve and blink O-Ring again. Now O-Ring's LTB trigger resolves on the stack above the ETB and can't return anything because you haven't named a target for it to exile yet.

6. 2 instances of O-Ring's ETB now happen in a row on the stack. With the 1st ETB, target whatever you want to exile permanently. The 2nd ETB target will return whenever O-Ring's LTB activates again.

NOTE: Oblivion Ring card ruling- "If Oblivion Ring leaves the battlefield before its first ability has resolved, its second ability will trigger and do nothing. Then its first ability will resolve and exile the targeted nonland permanent forever."

NOTE: Cards like Fiend Hunter, Leonin Relic-Warder, Angel of Serenity, Journey to Nowhere, and Detention Sphere also work with this since they have 2 paragraphs and permanently exile their targets.

Another fun trick with this is using Parallax Tide and Parallax Wave to permanently exile their targets.

Here's the stack for that:

1. Brago damage goes through. Trigger.

2. In response, remove the fade counters from the Wave and/or the Tide, choosing your targets for exile.

3. Before that resolves, activate Strionic Resonator OR Lithoform Engine, copying Brago's trigger. Copy is on top of the stack.

4. (Optional) If you want to re-use lands with the Tide, save some fade counters for this step and choose your lands. They will exile first on top of the stack. NOTE: This will create an infinite loop if you choose 2 of your own lands.

5. Copy resolves, exiling the Tide/Wave and re-entering with all their fade counters (also returning whatever lands you decided to exile with the Tide). Nothing returned because nothing has been exiled yet.

6. Fade counter choices resolve, permanently exiling whatever you targeted and leaving the original Brago trigger on the bottom of the stack.

Other Key Combos:

• Brago, King Eternal + Gilded Drake + Oblivion Ring , Brago, King Eternal + Detention Sphere + Gilded Drake , OR Brago, King Eternal + Gilded Drake + Sower of Temptation = permanent creature control. They enter at the same time, so declare that the Drake's trigger goes off first. Trade the Drake, then exile/take it back. Blink and repeat.

OR

• Gilded Drake + Venser, the Sojourner OR Eldrazi Displacer + Gilded Drake = permanent creature control for {2}{C} or +2

• Brago, King Eternal + Cloudform = free permanents/extra land! Blink out Cloudform with the manifested card and it returns face up (unless it's an instant or sorcery).

• Strip Mine + Sun Titan = destroy 1-2 lands per turn if blinking AND attacking.

• Azor, the Lawbringer + Soulherder OR Azor, the Lawbringer + Eldrazi Displacer = turn board wipes into dead draws.

• Brago plus any Planeswalker is pretty broken since you can use their ability, blink them, then use them again. Tezzeret the Seeker is my star player since once I bring him out, -2 to win. Jace, the Mind Sculptor himself is a swell guy since he's a Brainstorm every turn, but blinking him to justify his other abilities is pretty nice. Karn Liberated can exile two things a turn so you can start thinning your opponents hand and lands. Venser, the Sojourner can make Brago unblockable every turn and then squeak out some extra blink.

Win Cons:

Brago, King Eternal + Sol Ring + Strionic Resonator OR Brago, King Eternal + Lithoform Engine + Sol Ring = never-ending blinking!!! Copy Brago's trigger with the Resonator/Engine. Then, blink it along with Sol Ring. Repeat. Mix either of these combos with any of the following cards and it's gg!

NOTE: you can replace Sol Ring with Drowner of Hope, Treachery, Mana Vault, Grim Monolith, Parallax Tide, or a combination of mana rocks that give 2 mana.

• Altar of the Brood is my usual go to win con because it only costs {1} and is easy to fetch for. Everyone loses on their next Draw Step.

• Knight-Captain of Eos, Aether Channeler, and Drowner of Hope produce infinite tokens.

• Soulherder swings for infinite. Give it Unquestioned Authority for the ez win.

• Rishadan Brigand, Reality Acid, or Venser, Shaper Savant mean everything that doesn't belong to me is gone via sac or bounce, every turn. Keep Reality Acid on an opponent's land in the end so you don't have to enchant one of your own permanents. Nevermaker does the same, minus lands.

• Oblivion Ring, Parallax Wave, and Detention Sphere with their ability to permanently exile become one sided board wipes every turn.

• Cloudform puts the whole deck on the table.

• Parallax Tide Armageddons everyone but you if you use the 4th step of the combo explained above and also produces infinite mana.

• Drawing your deck? :O Better save {U}{U} for Thassa's Oracle.

• Agent of Treachery takes the entire board, lands and all.

• Archaeomancer + Time Warp or Archaeomancer + Cyclonic Rift : If I'm able to hit one person and have enough to cast it, Time Warp nets infinite turns. Cyc-loaded Rift every turn is obviously a problem.

• Since cEDH is a 1v1 format, depending on the board state, Archaeomancer + Orim's Chant OR Archaeomancer + Render Silent mean your opponent cant play anymore.

NOTE: If Brago isn't out, Archaeomancer + Venser, the Sojourner , Archaeomancer + Eldrazi Displacer OR Archaeomancer + Soulherder work, too. (:

• When all else fails, Bribery has bagged me a baddie big enough to bust balls. Depending on the deck, Acquire can make things very winnable as well. Archaeomancer can abuse them, too. Steal whole combos. <3

Turn 3 win:

• Turn 1- Island, Sol Ring, Strionic Resonator

• Turn 2- Plains, Brago, King Eternal

• Turn 3- Altar of the Brood, swing with Brago, combo

OR

• Turn 3- Island, Cloudform, swing with Brago, combo

THINGS BRAGO HATES:

• Maze of Ith, Kor Haven, or anything that stops Brago from attacking/doing combat damage.

• Containment Priest stops Brago's shenanigans altogether.

• Jester's Cap, Bitter Ordeal, Extract, or anything that weeds out combo pieces.

• Any artifact hate is very unappreciated, obviously.

• Board wipes... Setting up is a royal pain in Brago's regal posterior. Thus, we don't run them. Instead, we abuse cards that become one sided board wipes. Save a counter for the inevitable.

Sideboard:

• Angel of Finality and Rest in Peace for graveyard heavy decks, RIP being the superior of the two since it Muddle the Mixtures.

• Armageddon is probably unnecessary as a sideboard card, but it destroys troublesome land decks and CAN be a win-con.

• Homeward Path isn't exactly something I put in often, but when I see that someone likes to take more things than me, I'll slip it in.

• Decree of Silence is...mean. It's for when I want to be mean... in 1v1s...

• Pithing Needle tbh, this card should be in mainboard as it's a consistent answer to Maze of Ick. Sorry, Maze of Ith.

Eventual $$$ Inclusions:

This deck is 100% irl. Nothing in the decklist is proxied. Below are some cards that will get the inclusion when I can get my grubby little hands on them. The flow of the deck will likely change once I get them as well, since most of them are expensive mana rocks that cost {0}, meaning I can stand to drop a few lands.

• Capture of Jingzhou

• Chrome Mox

• Fierce Guardianship

• Force of Will

• Jeweled Lotus

• Mox Diamond

• Mox Opal

• Transmute Artifact

Please feel free to leave a suggestion and +1 if you like! (:

Top Ranked	Achieved #6 position overall 9 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Exile 1 year ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH WU (Azorius) 4 years ago
Date added	9 years
Last updated	2 months
Key combos	Brago, King Eternal + Sol Ring + Strionic Resonator Strip Mine + Sun Titan Gilded Drake + Venser, the Sojourner Brago, King Eternal + Gilded Drake + Sower of Temptation Brago, King Eternal + Gilded Drake + Oblivion Ring Brago, King Eternal + Cloudform Archaeomancer + Cyclonic Rift Eldrazi Displacer + Gilded Drake Brago, King Eternal + Lithoform Engine + Sol Ring Archaeomancer + Soulherder Azor, the Lawbringer + Soulherder Azor, the Lawbringer + Eldrazi Displacer Archaeomancer + Venser, the Sojourner Archaeomancer + Eldrazi Displacer Archaeomancer + Orim's Chant Archaeomancer + Render Silent Brago, King Eternal + Detention Sphere + Gilded Drake
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	15 - 1 Mythic Rares 52 - 4 Rares 16 - 1 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.28
Tokens	Bird 1/1 W, Copy Clone, Eldrazi Scion 1/1 C, Emblem Venser, the Sojourner, Manifest 2/2 C, Soldier 1/1 W
Folders	peoples decks i like, flicker, Fun EDH, in progress, Cool decks, to check, Decks I Like, Favorites of ALL TIME, Brago, References