Breya Dramatic Paradox

Commander / EDH Competitive Infinite Combo Multiplayer

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Artifact (32)

• 1x Aether Spellbomb
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Candelabra of Tawnos
• 1x Chromatic Sphere
• 1x Chromatic Star
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Codex Shredder
• 1x Conjurer's Bauble
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Helm of Awakening
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Krark-Clan Ironworks
• 1x Lion's Eye Diamond
• 1x Lotus Bloom
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Memory Jar
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Nihil Spellbomb
• 1x Paradox Engine
• 1x Prophetic Prism
• 1x Pyrite Spellbomb
• 1x Scrabbling Claws
• 1x Semblance Anvil
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Tormod's Crypt

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Bitter Ordeal
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Reshape
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Transmute Artifact
• 1x Wheel of Fortune
• 1x Windfall

Land (28)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Ancient Den
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Badlands
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Mishra's Workshop
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Creature (8)

• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Etherium Sculptor
• 1x Hangarback Walker
• 1x Junk Diver
• 1x Myr Retriever
• 1x Scrap Trawler
• 1x Treasure Keeper
• 1x Workshop Assistant

Commander (1)

Instant (20)

• 1x Ad Nauseam
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Fire Covenant
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Intuition
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Wear / Tear
• 1x Whir of Invention

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Artificer's Intuition
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Pia's Revolution

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Enchantment (5)

• 1x Blind Obedience
• 1x Chains of Mephistopheles
• 1x Grasp of Fate
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Stranglehold

Instant (3)

• 1x Angel's Grace
• 1x Capsize
• 1x Silence

Artifact (5)

• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Inspiring Statuary
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Voltaic Key

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Manifold Insights
• 1x Sudden Demise
• 1x Time Spiral

Creature (4)

• 1x Auriok Salvagers
• 1x Phyrexian Revoker
• 1x Thalia, Heretic Cathar
• 1x Wizard Replica

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Daretti, Scrap Savant

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Another variation on eggs, but without Faith's Reward, Second Sunrise, or Scrap Mastery . Don't worry, it'll make sense later.

As usual, the wincon is Breya. Find some way to generate infinite mana and you win.

Typical ways to get infinite colored mana include Isochron Scepter imprinting Dramatic Reversal (infinite untaps) or getting Paradox Engine onto the field and casting spells (again arbitrary untaps).

Eggs lists normally rely on using Krark-Clan Ironworks with cheap mana rocks and eggs to generate large amounts of mana and card draw while looping the process with Second Sunrise, Faith's Reward, or Scrap Mastery plus Codex Shredder to repeat. This looping behavior can be used to assemble one of the above combos, or just to win off of generating large amounts of mana.

This implementation drops the use of typical canon to address consistency and utility issues.

1. Second Sunrise and Faith's Reward only return permanents that went to the graveyard this turn. This means that you can have one in hand and not have any targets even though you may have things in your yard that you really want back. Also, this promotes a tendency toward hesitation as you don't want to cast them until you're sure it'll be worth it. Thus, they wind up being dead draws most of the time.

2. Scrap Mastery isn't flexible. Sometimes you have artifacts on the board you want to keep. Sometimes you don't want to risk sacking Ironworks to itself if someone may counter the Scrap Mastery .

3. All these spells are symmetric. Maybe an opponent has a combo piece in his yard, or maybe the thing keeping everyone safe is the Pithing Needle on the board naming Food Chain. The symmetry causes many situations to be more awkward than they should be.

4. Ironworks and Codex Shredder have no redundancy. If your KCI or Codex Shredder gets exiled, eggs loops are off the table.

To work around the above limitations, I drop Second Sunrise, Faith's Reward, and Scrap Mastery and choose instead to leverage Myr Retriever, Junk Diver, and Workshop Assistant with KCI or Ashnod's Altar to generate targeted loops that go infinite and dovetail with Scrap Trawler or Pia's Revolution or Treasure Keeper or Memory Jar to work through your deck and win.

This addresses the above concerns as follows:

1. Retriever and friends can target any artifact in your yard regardless of when it was placed there. And you don't need to wait till you're ready to combo out. Need a Tormod's Crypt or a Spellbomb? Go get it and protect yourself.

2. You only sacrifice the permanents you want to. You have much more control and none of the uncertainty.

3. These effects are asymmetric, so your opponent board states won't impose awkward situations that you see with typical eggs.

4. By using artifact creatures, you can use KCI or Ashnod's Altar as your sac outlet. Also, any two of the pieces will loop, so don't need Codex Shredder to get there.

You can also cast Bitter Ordeal after a loop or two to neuter your opponents' game plans. Gravestorm works just like storm does, so don't worry about somebody countering it. Also, lots of people seem to only pull the trigger on Bitter Ordeal if they can exile their opponents' entire libraries. Trust me, exiling even 3 or 4 key pieces from each opponent will almost certainly land you a win.

On the whole, the list works much more interactively and consistently than typical EDH egg lists I've piloted. Feel free to give it a try.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 53 - 0 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 19 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	1.89
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Spirit 1/1 C, Thopter 1/1 C, Thopter 1/1 U
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