Blow friends' nuts off! Ink-Treader Nephilim EDH

Commander / EDH Combo Control Group Slug RGWU Spellslinger Theft Value Engine

pyracanth

Land (35)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Boseiju, Who Shelters All
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Brokers Hideout
• 1x Cabaretti Courtyard
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Forest
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Island
• 1x Ketria Triome
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Plains
• 1x Plateau
• 1x Raugrin Triome
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Taiga
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Artifact (3)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Creature (22)

• 1x Archmage Emeritus
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Charmbreaker Devils
• 1x Deekah, Fractal Theorist
• 1x Djinn Illuminatus
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Faeburrow Elder
• 1x Feather, the Redeemed
• 1x Galvanoth
• 1x Goldspan Dragon
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Jadzi, Oracle of Arcavios  ^Flip
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Mavinda, Students' Advocate
• 1x Monastery Mentor
• 1x Psychosis Crawler
• 1x Storm-Kiln Artist
• 1x Venerated Rotpriest
• 1x Veyran, Voice of Duality
• 1x Wandering Archaic  ^Flip
• 1x Willbreaker
• 1x Zada, Hedron Grinder

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Angelfire Ignition
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Enter the Unknown
• 1x Improvised Weaponry
• 1x Involuntary Employment
• 1x Kari Zev's Expertise
• 1x Mythos of Illuna
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Renegade Tactics
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Scale the Heights
• 1x Slip Through Space

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Ral, Storm Conduit

Commander (1)

Instant (18)

• 1x Cerulean Wisps
• 1x Charge Through
• 1x Cloudshift
• 1x Depths of Desire
• 1x Expedite
• 1x Fists of Flame
• 1x Mercy Killing
• 1x Natural Affinity
• 1x Niveous Wisps
• 1x Shelter
• 1x Sigil Blessing
• 1x Snap
• 1x Spiritualize
• 1x Startle
• 1x Sublime Epiphany
• 1x Sudden Breakthrough
• 1x Swell of Growth
• 1x Tamiyo's Safekeeping

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Jeskai Ascendancy
• 1x Mirari's Wake
• 1x Omniscience
• 1x Privileged Position
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Sorcerer Class
• 1x Wild Defiance
• 1x Wilderness Reclamation

---

Maybeboard

Instant (10)

• 1x Change of Heart
• 1x Code of Constraint
• 1x Confront the Unknown
• 1x Debt of Loyalty
• 1x Ephemeral Shields
• 1x Heal the Scars
• 1x Refresh
• 1x Snakeform
• 1x Spawning Breath
• 1x Viridescent Wisps

Land (1)

• 1x Reliquary Tower

---

What is this exactly?

It's your selfsame own death-warrant, and you're gonna have fun writing it out.

Ink-Treader Nephilim is about communism. Spreading wealth, and love, as well as not peace but the sword. The sword being cantrips and absurd spells that'll make your friends fill their diapers with rage. Something that'd make Karl Marx proud before he sees you've drawn 20 cards off a single cantrip and dealt 20 damage through Ral, Storm Conduit, whereby Marx calls you a godforsaken Johnny hack.

The Nephilim's effect is simple; you target him with an instant/sorcery, he spreads the love to each other creature that spell could target. Oh, and this applies to opponents' spells as well, so an errant Path to Exile is gonna land that spellcaster in some hot trouble with everyone else at the table.

What's your win-condition? Everything. Take over all your friends stuff with Cloudshift + Kari Zev's Expertise , Cloudshift + Involuntary Employment , Willbreaker and basically any other targeting spell, or add in a Natural Affinity beforehand to take over some nice lands as well. Hell, play Natural Infinity and you get all those lands as extra targets for, again, any spell that targets. Oh, ever realize your addition skills are midder than a 5th grader's when you cast a Sigil Blessing with a Wild Defiance on the field? Ever realize that the abilities of Deekah, Fractal Theorist or Veyran, Voice of Duality make no sense whatsoever when mingled with Ink-Treader? Oh, and I cast a Venerated Rotpriest and Expedite for a measly 2 mana total while there're a few other creatures on the field and kill you instantly. Fists of Flame in this deck would make Bruce Lee sweaty-nervous. There're even a Psychosis Crawler and a Laboratory Maniac as well to round out the roster. And then a Grand Abolisher so no one can stop your heinous plot against mankind.

This deck is fast, weird, and is liable to put you on a national watchlist for threats against national, no, WORLD security, as well as the top of your friends' hitlists. The thing is, it's fun seeing all these middling cantrips and traitorous spells do so much more than they were ever designed to do. Moreover, when not hitting the Nephilim with spells, you can play a control game with spells that can tap down your opponents' creatures, bounce them, all while those spells replace themselves.

Quick-tip: Always play Nephilim when you have at least FIVE mana, and a cantrip in hand, or at least at any point where you can take advantage of it right away. It sitting there without you having done anything else that turn makes you a sitting duck that EVERY one of your dogs will want to shoot at, if they have any sense.

Oh, also, do I have all these duals and fetches IRL? No, of course not. Buy 3-dollah proxies, and spread communism, love, and sheer blind hatred. All the same, the manabase can't be anything else without gunking up the gameplan.

Enjoy your new foes!

Date added	1 year
Last updated	1 year
Key combos	Cloudshift + Kari Zev's Expertise Cloudshift + Involuntary Employment
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 51 - 0 Rares 9 - 0 Uncommons 27 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.18
Tokens	Copy Clone, Elf Warrior 1/1 GW, Fractal 0/0 GU, Monk 1/1 W, Spirit 1/1 C, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B w/ Decayed
Folders	Nephilim