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Breya, Combo Shaper

Commander / EDH

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this deck is kind of a halfway between like a casual build and one that's all-in on the combo with Doomsday and Ad Nauseam.

The deck tutors a lot, and is very non-linear. Many combos makes it very resilient, while reducing consistency. Pithing Needle won't stop it. Graveyard hate, while limiting, isn't enough on its own.

It plays a lot of powerful cards, but ultimately it's still a casual deck. I have no illusions about winning in cEDH. But it does beat up on other casual decks.

Combos including Breya:

Breya, Etherium Shaper + Nim Deathmantle + Ashnod's Altar/Krark-Clan Ironworks = infinite player damage. It's also infinite life or kill all targetable creatures, but unless something weird is happening i'll just be killing opponents. Pia and Kiran Nalaar also can fill the role of Breya in this combo, but given that this won't produce any colored mana, mom and dad need Purphoros, God of the Forge, Altar of the Brood, or Disciple of the Vault.

Bomberman: Lion's Eye Diamond + Auriok Salvagers Can subsequently cast Breya any number of times and sac to herself. Bomberman combo also kills with Disciple of the Vault or Altar of the Brood in play without me even having to spend the mana on anything.

Grand Architect + Pili-Pala = infinite colored mana, kill as above.

Animate Dead + Worldgorger Dragon = infinite colored mana and shoot them to death with Breya

Combos that win without Breya:

Sharuum the Hegemon + Sculpting Steel or Phyrexian Metamorph, + Altar of the Brood, Disciple of the Vault, or Purphoros, God of the Forge = Infinite damage or mill

Sword of the Meek + Thopter Foundry + any amount of mana (infinite mana is especially good :P)

Chopping block (cards i'm close to cutting):

  • Gamble might be too chancey when i have many less scary tutors in my colors. when Whir of Innovation gets released this is probably the card i cut to try it (altho UUU might be too hard to hit -- although i could just reorient the manabase to cast it more reliably).

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Out: Archaeomancer, Force of Will

In: Snapcaster Mage, Fellwar Stone

Finally was able to get me a snappy!!! Shouts out to Card Kingdom's for buying my Masterpiece Arcbound Ravager. Force of Will is out because it's not at its best in the deck, the number of blue cards is just not high enough. I'm thinking of a different counterspell to run, maybe Disallow? I don't own a copy of Cryptic Command *list* and also think that UUU is too hard to hit in a lot of games (although I am still playing Whir of Invention...)

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Date added 8 years
Last updated 7 years
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Legality

This deck is Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

7 - 0 Mythic Rares

55 - 0 Rares

19 - 0 Uncommons

15 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 2.56
Tokens Bird 2/2 U, Emblem Daretti, Scrap Savant, Thopter 1/1 C, Thopter 1/1 U
Folders EDH, Breya
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