Cloning in Great Style

Commander / EDH Battlecruiser Casual GU (Simic) Landfall Lands Multiplayer Ramp Shapeshifter Theme/Gimmick Tokens

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Land (41)

• 1x Alchemist's Refuge
• 1x Bala Ged Recovery  ^Flip
• 1x Bant Panorama
• 1x Blast Zone
• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Brokers Hideout
• 1x Demolition Field
• 1x Escape Tunnel
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Field of the Dead
• 6x Forest
• 3x Island
• 1x Littjara Mirrorlake
• 1x Mirrorpool
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 1x Promising Vein
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 6x Snow-Covered Forest
• 3x Snow-Covered Island
• 1x Tangled Florahedron  ^Flip
• 1x Tangled Islet
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

Removal (7)

• 1x Capsize
• 1x Demolition Field
• 1x Mocking Doppelganger
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Resculpt
• 1x Terastodon

Steal (2)

• 1x Keiga, the Tide Star
• 1x Sakashima's Will

AlternativeCommander (1)

• 1x Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait

GraveHate (1)

• 1x Scavenger Grounds

Ramp (24)

• 1x Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle
• 1x Beanstalk Giant
• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Entish Restoration
• 1x Explore
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Grow from the Ashes
• 1x Growth Spiral
• 1x Harrow
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Roiling Regrowth
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Spelunking
• 1x Springbloom Druid
• 1x Tangled Florahedron  ^Flip
• 1x Three Visits
• 1x Vastwood Surge
• 1x Wood Elves

WinCondition (12)

• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Beanstalk Giant
• 1x Biovisionary
• 1x Blackblade Reforged
• 1x End-Raze Forerunners
• 1x Field of the Dead
• 1x Murkfiend Liege
• 1x Overwhelming Stampede
• 1x Rampaging Baloths
• 1x Roil Elemental
• 1x Scute Swarm
• 1x Vastwood Surge

InstantSpeed (1)

• 1x Alchemist's Refuge

Commander (1)

Clone (17)

• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Clone Legion
• 1x Doppelgang
• 1x Infinite Reflection
• 1x Littjara Mirrorlake
• 1x Mirrorpool
• 1x Mocking Doppelganger
• 1x Progenitor Mimic
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Sakashima's Will
• 1x See Double
• 1x Shadow Kin
• 1x Spitting Image
• 1x Stolen Identity
• 1x Stunt Double
• 1x Vesuvan Shapeshifter
• 1x Vizier of Many Faces

Boardwipe (6)

• 1x Bane of Progress
• 1x Blast Zone
• 1x Curse of the Swine
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Fade from History
• 1x Wave of Vitriol

Recursion (2)

• 1x Bala Ged Recovery  ^Flip
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary

Protection (1)

• 1x Heroic Intervention

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I built some decks to teach newbies into EDH. They are all proactive and able to establish a board, with clean ways to close out a game and enough answers to keep opponents at bay.

I always wanted to play Tatyova, Benthic Druid, but her standard landfall deck is too strong and combo-ey to me. At the same time, I also wanted to have a clone deck with a Biovisionary win condition, but Riku of Two Reflections is too mean in my opinion, so I'm running clones under Tatyova.

It is a good compromise: Tatyova is only cast to replenish my hand with more clone cards, and my opponents remove her far less because they know I won't be doing degenerate stuff with her.

Links to all decks: || 7/15 {W} || 7/15 {U} || 5/15 {B} || 7/15 {R} || 9/15 {G} ||

• {W}{U}{B}{R}{G} Smashing Faces with the Ur-Dragon
• {R}{G}{W}{U} It's Dino Time!
• {R}{G}{W} Hulk (Ghired) Smashs
• {R}{G}{W} Obuun, Landfall Ancestor
• {G}{W}{U} Tuvasa the Sun Enchantress
• {W}{B} Brenda, the Pedagogue
• {U}{B} Anowon, the Rogue Thief
• {B}{R} Mogis, God of Broken Friendships
• {B}{G} Grismold, the Tokensower
• {R}{G} All Hail The Ogre (Ruric Thar)
• {R}{W} Wyleth, Soul of Card Draw
• {G}{U} Cloning in Great Style
• {G} Gargos, Hydreous Watcher
• {U} Unesh, Master of Fact or Fictions
• {U} Talrand

Special edition: || 5/5 {W} || 2/5 {U} || 2/5 {B} || 2/5 {R} || 2/5 {G} ||

• {W} Sram, Senior Voltronizer
• {R}{W} Leo's Wyleth (Rograkh+Ardenn)
• {G}{W} Trostani, Big Tokens' Voice
• {W}{U}{B} Yennett, Cryptic Oddity
• {W}{U}{B}{R}{G} 5C Daaaargons

Leo's series: || 4/8 {W} || 3/8 {U} || 3/8 {B} || 6/8 {R} || 2/8 {G} ||

• {B} Leo's K'rrik
• {U}{R} Leo's Zaffai
• {B}{R} Leo's Anje
• {R}{W} Leo's Osgir
• {G}{W} Leo's Siona
• {G}{U}{R} Leo's Kalamax
• {U}{R}{W} Leo's Gavi
• {R}{W}{B} Leo's Humans
• {R}{G} Phylath, Plant Sculptor

Links to other decks I built:

• {G} Leo's Hydra Tribal
• {R} Kari Zev Leviathan (format)
• {R}{G} Wort, the Burnmother
• {R}{W} Feather, Redeemer of Boros
• {R}{W} Osgir Voltron
• {U}{R} Zaffai and his Elementals
• {B}{R} Anje Combo-rath :-)
• {B}{R}{G} Vaevictis Permanents-Only
• {B}{G}{U} Kadena, Morphing Sorcerer
• {G}{U}{R} Kalamax, the Combosire
• {U}{B}{R}{G} X (Gon' Give It To Ya) Spells
• {U}{B}{R}{G} Vial "Health" Smasher
• {B}{R}{G}{W} Saskia the Unblueing
• {G}{W}{U}{B} Atraxa, voice of +1/+1 counters
• {W}{U}{B}{R}{G} Jodah, Archmage Cheater
• {W}{U}{B}{R}{G} Golos' Lottery

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Congratulations for your deck! I like the idea of cloning stuff, and I am still trying to find a build that works. If I can give you a hint, prefer cards that can clone any creature on the field over the cards that can only clone your creatures (everyone should have a Consecrated Sphinx, right? Not only your opponent).

I don't feel like {W} would help you much with cloning. The best (and maybe only) white card that refers to cloning is Mirrorweave.

If you look at https://edhrec.com/themes/clones, you will see that almost all clone effects are blue: Clone, Vizier of Many Faces, Gigantoplasm, Vesuvan Shapeshifter, Body Double, Mirror Image, Supplant Form, Blatant Thievery, Clone Legion, Mirror Match. If you want to copy spells aswell, Insidious Will, Swarm Intelligence and Spelltwine are there for you.

{R} gives you Mirror Match, Dack's Duplicate, Dualcaster Mage, Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker, Protean Raider, Flameshadow Conjuring and Sunbird's Invocation.

{B} gives you Evil Twin and all black tutors and removal.

{G} gives you Altered Ego, Progenitor Mimic, Spitting Image and all of green ramp and removal. For me, it is the best color to splash on a blue clone deck, because it also allows the Biovisionary alternative win-condition.

As long as commander suggestions are concerned, here are some ideas:

Riku of Two Reflections is the go-to clone commander. He has all the relevant colors for cloning ({U}{R}{G}), but he is crazy expensive at 20 dollars, so it might be good to consider other options:

You can have Keiga, the Tide Star as your commander. This way, you can clone him and let the copy Keiga die to the legend rule. When the Keiga copy dies, you can steal an opponent's creature, while still having the original Keiga.

You can have Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer as your commander. He is a win condition by himself, giving tokens haste and making all of them bigger. Red gives you a lot of token generators: Brass's Bounty, Flameshadow Conjuring, Storm the Vault   among others. Imagine creating a token copy of a Kokusho, the Evening Star, then turn all your tokens into Kokusho, then sacrificing all them to the legend rule, then draining all your oponents for lethal. Great value!

You can have Tatyova, Benthic Druid as your commander. She doesn't refer to a clone strategy, but she gives a lot of card draw by just playing lands (your hand will always be filled). You can clone Rampaging Baloths and Avenger of Zendikar for a massive win. Also, you have access to all the blue-green clones and the Biovisionary + Rite of Replication combo.

If you want to use {U}{R}{G} altogether, you might consider Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder or Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis. Yidris allows you to use Evil Twin and all the black removal. Yidris also increases the value you get from playing spells by cascading into other spells. // K&T, on the other hand, gives you card advantage and makes you less threatening while you build your board. White also gives you access to great boardwipes (Austere Command).

All in all, good luck in your deckbuilding and have fun!

Date added	7 years
Last updated	3 months
Exclude colors	WBR
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 35 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 22 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.95
Tokens	Bear 2/2 G, Beast 4/4 G, Boar 2/2 G, Copy Clone, Elemental 4/4 UR, Elephant 3/3 G, Insect 1/1 G, Manifest 2/2 C, Morph 2/2 C, On an Adventure, Plant 0/1 G, Vizier of Many Faces 0/0 W, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Neato