Brago Flicker/Stax EDH

Commander / EDH Combo Competitive Multiplayer Stax WU (Azorius)

Veescrub

Stax (23)

• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Back to Basics
• 1x Blind Obedience
• 1x Containment Priest
• 1x Cursed Totem
• 1x Ethersworn Canonist
• 1x Grafdigger's Cage
• 1x Hokori, Dust Drinker
• 1x Linvala, Keeper of Silence
• 1x Man-o'-War
• 1x Meddling Mage
• 1x Pithing Needle
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Rest in Peace
• 1x Rishadan Cutpurse
• 1x Rishadan Footpad
• 1x Sphere of Resistance
• 1x Stasis
• 1x Static Orb
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Tangle Wire
• 1x Trinisphere
• 1x Winter Orb

Control (9)

• 1x Act of Authority
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Grasp of Fate
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Venser, Shaper Savant

Land (33)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 10x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 8x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Snow-Covered Island
• 1x Windswept Heath

Tutor (12)

• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Recruiter of the Guard
• 1x Reshape
• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker
• 1x Transmute Artifact
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Trophy Mage
• 1x Whir of Invention

CardDraw (4)

• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Oath of Jace
• 1x Prophetic Prism
• 1x Sea Gate Oracle

Commander (1)

Mana (12)

• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Prismatic Lens
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Progress
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Thran Dynamo

Combos (6)

• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Shimmer Myr
• 1x Strionic Resonator
• 1x Walking Ballista

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Other (36)

• 1x Altar of the Brood
• 1x Ancient Den
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Armageddon
• 1x Aura of Silence
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Frozen Aether
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Kismet
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Nevermaker
• 1x Nevermore
• 1x Oblivion Ring
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Reality Acid
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Sea's Claim
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Sorcerous Spyglass
• 1x Spreading Seas
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Teferi, Hero of Dominaria
• 1x Teferi, Temporal Archmage
• 1x Teferi's Protection
• 1x Tolaria West
• 1x Tsabo's Web
• 1x Venser, the Sojourner
• 1x Voltaic Key
• 1x Windborn Muse

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Welcome to my competitive Brago deck. This is my first entry into competitive EDH deckbuilding. I would like to thank the members and mentors in the /r/competitiveedh subreddit and discord for all of their help and explanations about their approach to deckbuilding.

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My Brago, King Eternal list is built with a competitive mindset. Our primary win condition (win-con) revolves around creating absurd amounts of mana and using it to resolve game ending threats at instant speed. Our secondary win-con is using efficient stax and removal strategies to decimate our opponent's board states and create an inevitable victory. Here is how it works:

Flicker Engine

• Our Flicker Engine (a repeatable sequence of card activations that nets us additional resources on each repetition) requires Brago, Strionic Resonator, and worth of mana rocks.

• The first step is to connect with Brago. Once his ability is on the stack, we will activate Strionic Resonator targeting Brago's triggered ability that is still on the stack.

• We will then use the copy of Brago's ability to target both Strionic Resonator AND the mana rocks we used. This allows us to resolve the copied ability, having our resonator and the mana rocks re-enter untapped. Now we can copy the first Brago trigger again, and again, and again. We can choose how many times we want to do this and can stop at any time. This is our flicker combo/engine.

• We will also use our cards' ETB and tap effects to make mana, draw cards, remove our opponent's permanents, and generally exploit other synergies we include in our deck.

Making Mana

• We will use mana rocks (artifacts that tap for mana) to power our combos once our flicker engine is running. Tapping our mana rocks each time they flicker can produce an arbitrarily large amount of mana, and it can be any color that our rocks can tap for.

• Our guidelines for a "good" mana rock are that it either needs to cost or less, or make or more mana. I am currently running Azorius Signet, Basalt Monolith, Everflowing Chalice, Fellwar Stone, Gilded Lotus, Mana Vault, Mind Stone, Prismatic Lens, Sol Ring, Talisman of Progress, Thought Vessel, and Thran Dynamo. I still need to trade up into a Mana Crypt and some Moxen. I an considering the new Amber Mox as well but I don't like it being offline without Brago on the field.

• We have included Rings of Brighthearth as another possible mana combo. It pairs especially well with Basalt Monolith to create effectively infinite mana.

Drawing Cards

• Oath of Jace, Prophetic Prism, and Sea Gate Oracle can all help us draw through our deck during our flicker combo. This can allow us to find Shimmer Myr and Walking Ballista or to find Blue Sun's Zenith multiple times and deck our opponents out.

• We can also combine RoB, BM, and Sensei's Divining Top to draw through our entire deck outside of our flicker combo.

• Flickering Mystic Remora will also reset it's cumulative upkeep, making sure we never have to play more than

Winning the Game

• Once we can draw our deck and create effectively infinite mana, we need to win the game.

• Our first and most painful option is to us Venser, Shaper Savant, Rishadan Footpad, or Rishadan Cutpurse effects to remove every permament our opponents own. This allows us to slowly grind them down with small damage. It feels mean and will tick people off.

• Our second option is to cast Walking Ballista with many +1/+1 counters and machine gun our opponents dead. We can do this at instant speed with Shimmer Myr during our combat step when our flicker engine is running.

• Our third option is to cast Blue Sun's Zenith, targeting our opponent's, with X=more than they have cards in their deck. This will make them lose the game, and shuffle BSZ back into our library. Then we can draw it again with our engine, and cast it on the next opponent, etc.

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Now we can go through the rest of our card choices that support our win-cons. Our Stax cards have two main criteria. The first is that they hit the most common cEDH strategies. The second is that we can break parity (dodge the effect) with Brago's flicker effect. Our Control cards need to be instant speed, efficiently costed, and ideally provide some versatility. Our Tutors need to hit our game winning cards.

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-These accordions are still under construction-

Stax

Back to Basics Cursed Totem Hokori, Dust Drinker Static Orb Winter Orb

Stasis Strip Mine

Meddling Mage Rest in Peace Pithing Needle

Linvala, Keeper of Silence Blind Obedience Rishadan Cutpurse Rishadan Footpad

Man-o'-War Aven Mindcensor Containment Priest Ethersworn Canonist Grafdigger's Cage Tangle Wire

Propaganda Ghostly Prison

Control

Force of Will Counterspell Cyclonic Rift Mental Misstep Swan Song Swords to Plowshares

Act of Authority Grasp of Fate Reflector Mage Venser, Shaper Savant

Tutors

Recruiter of the Guard

Mystical Tutor

Enlightened Tutor Fabricate Inventors' Fair Muddle the Mixture Reshape Transmute Artifact Whir of Invention

Tezzeret the Seeker Trinket Mage Trophy Mage

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Date added	7 years
Last updated	6 years
Exclude colors	BRG
Splash colors	WU
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 43 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.34
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U
Folders	Veescrub Comp, Brago upgrade