cEDH Yidris oath doomsday storm.
Maybeboard contains cards I would like to have around as flex hate cards depending on the meta or cards I want to try out. I found that counter spells like
Counterspell
tend to be not what you want to be casting especially with the low land count.
Mana Drain
is still probably worth using but I find the deck works better to be proactive and leaving up 2 mana can be hard to do early when it matters and can waste valuable setup mana while swan song is good to help protect the combo and is good with
Oath of Druids
. UPDATE tested
Flusterstorm
it was bad. mana drain is quite hard to cast as I tend to want to develop my board and it is a nonbo with defense grid and I basically always lost when I cast pact of negation.
Narset's Reversal
serves as a more powerful effect vs mana drain especially when I do stuff like steal an
Ad Nauseam
or something like that.
The point of the deck is to kill as fast as possible without relying on the commander. even the no mana cost suspend cards are useful when not cascading.
Wheel of Fate
can be cast with
Mizzix's Mastery
for 4, and
Lotus Bloom
is a very nice card to suspend turn 1 as the deck can consistently win turn 4. The main goal is to win turn 2 or 3 but that doesn't always happen. I opted for a slower more hateful list rather than a glass cannon concede to counterspell version similar to ad nauseam tendrils versus the epic storm in legacy.
This list isn't perfect but storm is only as good as the user piloting it.
Regarding
Oath of Druids
in cedh.
Laboratory Maniac
is not commonly considered to be cedh viable because of how easy it is to kill the wizard. But in this deck since doomsday is already in the list and therefore so is lab man it is easy to slot in and only takes up the slot of one card. it just requires that the deck runs no other creatures. From my experience the other creatures worth running instead of oath,
Goblin Electromancer
and friends, are not as good as a 2 mana win the game next turn. The way it works is the card threatens to end the game quickly with the maniac and puts lots cards in the graveyard which this deck can easily use and in some cases oath triggering will effectively draw 50+ cards for free without grave hate.
Laboratory Maniac
and
Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
is in. this means we can run creatures again specifically niv-mizzet, parune who turns every spell into 1 card and every draw into 1 damage. boy does that dragon do work. he works kinda like like a hard to cast
Recycle
or null profusions but takes out all the downside but is all the upside and he deals with creatures really well and triggers on opponents removal spells. this card is the real deal especially when you can get him into play for 2 mana and mill 1/2 our deck. if you trigger oath and even if people can answer niv or we mill too many cards (besides him being the last card of the deck then we just lose) we have the new hotness to also save us and also help us just win the game:
Echo of Eons
this card is just straight up busted. wheel effects are already something we like and play a lot of but because we already have
Lion's Eye Diamond
sometimes we just get some turns that are throw our hand out, drop a figurative
Black Lotus
and
Timetwister
effectively restarting the game and making our opponents take a forceful mulligan and us an advantage. but because this card is mostly free to discard to effects like
Tormenting Voice
(yes I know that
Thrill of Possibility
exists I just have a foil tormenting voice and I wanna keep running it) or to a faithless looting allowing us to pretty much always cast it for 3 mana.
Paradox engine is gone which is sad so I just slotted in a isochron scepter for another way to get infinite mana just requiring 2 specific cards vs 1 card that was engine but scepter has the nice bonus of being able to imprint cards like
Abrupt Decay
,
Cyclonic Rift
, and
Narset's Reversal
and turn us into a weird kind of control deck and we can spend more cards just sculpting our hands with a little less of a worry of just dying and honestly while I still had engine I should've had scepter in the list in the first place, but now it seems to be here to stay.
Oko, Thief of Crowns
is also here because why would you not run him? I tested out
Kenrith's Transformation
for a bit but decided that I did not really need creature removal in my meta as it was only really nice to have against gitrog which is already a match up I feel favored against as I combo faster and can interact in meaningful ways. Also oko can give people creatures for
Oath of Druids
which is quite nice.
notable exclusion:
Arcane Signet
this is purely because I am too lazy to get one, yes they are only $5 as of 1/7/2020 but I also like to keep this deck as a Canadian highlander where the signet would do actually nothing and I prefer to keep my swaps between the deck low. If you are curious about what my swaps into a weird oath doomsday storm list that I am calling "Yukon Gold" the changes are as follows ((edit:4/24/2021 total of 14 cards changed now as CH got a more strict points list targeting storm (as they should, the good version with black lotus was nutty) and I've had to cut more good cards which made me have to rely on more cantrips and "fair" fast mana such as rituals, also doomsday is greedy and so is jace, basically I drew too many bad cards, points now as edh are 21)):
+
Tolarian Academy
(right now this is 1 point so the deck is 22 points)
+
Griselbrand
+
Paradox Engine
(my boy is back)
+seething son
+
Thoughtseize
+
Tendrils of Agony
+
Remand
+
Forest
+
Mountain
+
Brain Freeze
+
Muddle the Mixture
+
Pentad Prism
+
Sleight of Hand
+
Shimmer of Possibility
-
Sol Ring
(-4 points down to 15)
-
Demonic Tutor
(-4 points down to 11)
-
Mana Vault
(-1 point now at an even 10)
-
Command Tower
-
Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder
-
Mystic Remora
-
Carpet of Flowers
-
Wheel of Fate
-jace, weilder of mysteries
-
Doomsday
-
Ad Nauseam
-
Isochron Scepter
-
Yawgmoth's Will
(-2points)
-
Tainted Pact
(-1 point bringing list to 10)