Convergent Polynomial Calculus

Commander / EDH Casual Clone Elves GU (Simic) Pirate Theme/Gimmick Tokens Wizards

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Creature (30)

• 1x Amphin Mutineer
• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Augmenter Pugilist  ^Flip
• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Azami, Lady of Scrolls
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bramble Sovereign
• 1x Burdened Aerialist
• 1x Champion of Wits
• 1x Coiling Oracle
• 1x Corsair Captain
• 1x Crafty Cutpurse
• 1x Deep Forest Hermit
• 1x Elvish Archdruid
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Priest of Titania
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Risen Reef
• 1x Sailor of Means
• 1x Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Spark Double
• 1x Thassa's Oracle
• 1x Timeless Witness
• 1x Tireless Provisioner

Instant (19)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Delay
• 1x Double Major
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Mystic Reflection
• 1x Negate
• 1x Perplexing Test
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Resculpt
• 1x Second Harvest
• 1x Spell Swindle
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Theoretical Duplication
• 1x Whirlwind Denial

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Collective Voyage
• 1x Ezuri's Predation
• 1x Quasiduplicate
• 1x Replication Technique
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Saheeli's Artistry
• 1x Shamanic Revelation
• 1x Spitting Image
• 1x Stolen Identity

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Mystic Remora

Commander (1)

Land (34)

• 1x Barkchannel Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 8x Forest
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 13x Island
• 1x Littjara Mirrorlake
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Vineglimmer Snarl
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Artifact (6)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Helm of the Host
• 1x Mimic Vat
• 1x Simic Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Curiosity

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Creature (9)

• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Elvish Visionary
• 1x Faerie Artisans
• 1x Incubation Druid
• 1x Mnemonic Wall
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Skullwinder
• 1x Wood Elves
• 1x Zimone, Quandrix Prodigy

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Genesis Wave
• 1x Oversimplify

Instant (7)

• 1x Cackling Counterpart
• 1x Commander's Insight
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Evacuation
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Quandrix Command

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Parallel Lives
• 1x Primal Vigor

Land (6)

• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Lumbering Falls
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Mosswort Bridge

Artifact (3)

• 1x Goldvein Pick
• 1x Mirror Gallery
• 1x Tempting Contract

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Hello! I'm a longtime commander player, and I frequently catch flak for playing too many "unfun" infinite combo decks. So I set out to build a more "fun" deck that does finite things!

Exponential math is fun. For example, 370 trillion treasure tokens is a finite number. Hooray for fun!

WIP, still lots of precon cards, suggestions welcome.

Adrix & Nev, the card that probably shouldn't exist Show

A brief nod to this deck's predecessor:

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Weekly Upgrade Adrix & Nev

Commander / EDH herpdederp92

47 VIEWS

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TL;DR this deck came from a slow-grow league brew. But my idea for the deck is much older, from discussions I had with friends more than a year ago about how to make broken game states in Magic:

"First, you get 50ish mana. You cast Master Biomancer . Next, you cast Clever Impersonator . Don't copy anything - it'll just be a 2/2. Now, you play a Doubling Season . Cast a kicked Rite of Replication on the Clever Impersonator, and have the 10 copies enter as Doubling Seasons. Now play Eternal Witness and do it again. You now have more than 10,000 Doubling Seasons. Play Avenger of Zendikar . Now you have more 0/1 Plant tokens than there are atoms in the universe, and they all enter with that many +1/+1 counters. Have fun, Timmy."

The whole reason why this idiotic exponential math works is because we jump through a lot of hoops to allow Rite of Replication to target Parallel Lives .

Enter Adrix and Nev, Twincasters .

The Legendary rule is the only thing keeping this card away from those crazy Timmy lines. And, spoiler alert, WOTC has been printing a LOT of ways to cheat the Legend rule recently. It's almost as if they're challenging people: "Screw reasonable, value-oriented token decks. Make a few million Adrix & Nev tokens!"

So that's what this deck does.

Apply a logarithmic scale Show

We've got a specific winning game state in mind: Many, many copies of Adrix & Nev. Step 1 is to find a way to get a nonlegendary version of the merfolk twins, so that we can proceed with Step 2: Cloning the shit out of said nonlegendary twins. THIS IS THE NUMBER ONE PRIORITY CATEGORY WHERE I AM LOOKING TO OBTAIN MORE CARDS .

Helm of the Host performs this process the most smoothly. Turn 1: Play and equip, generate 2 token copies, protect them. Turn 2: Move to combat, generate 8 more copies. Now 1 token gets multiplied into 2048.

Spark Double sequences down smoothly on our curve. Spark Double followed by any clone spell gets us 6 total A&Ns, so we multiply our tokens by 64.

Double Major is a little fiddly; I find it's best played when A&N have died to a Wrath and we're redeploying on an empty field. Aside from its interaction with Second Harvest , the result is the same as Spark Double.

Echoing Equation (the flip side of Augmenter Pugilist) usually gets us 3 or 4 A&N copies - sometimes many more. The trick is to sequence this play carefully so we don't transform something we want to copy a lot later.

Mystic Reflection and Second Harvest can turn one A&N token into a large army.

As you might imagine, there are a ton of ways to make clones in this deck. We're avoiding cards like Clone in favor of token-generating spells, especially ones with multiple uses:

Quasiduplicate Jump-start gives us an outlet once we've made more A&N

Replication Technique Excellent technique: Resolve the copy on A&N, then resolve the original on a Command Tower !

Rite of Replication Often, we don't need to kick this.

Saheeli's Artistry Simultaneously cloning A&N and an Arcane Signet or Sol Ring gets us a ton of value.

Spitting Image Retrace is occasionally relevant, similar to Quasiduplicate.

Stolen Identity Can be used to clone opponents' mana rocks like Saheeli's.

Bramble Sovereign Mono-green Riku . Cheap and repeatable.

Theoretical Duplication

Second Harvest

Littjara Mirrorlake

Tokens, resources, clone armies and other payoffs Show

So we've got Adrix & Nev out. Good deal. Maybe we've even cloned them once or twice. Cool. But other than attacking with a couple 2/2 scalyboiz, what's our main payoff here?

First of all, we still have a couple of big creature-token-generating bombs:

Avenger of Zendikar Many plants!

Deep Forest Hermit Many squirrels!

Ezuri's Predation Many beasts! (The ruling on predation with token doublers is that the extra tokens don't fight.)

These cards are important to enable plays such as Mystic Reflection , Echoing Equation and Shamanic Revelation to get decent value. I'm also focusing on good clone targets - even with a single A&N out, cloning Hermit creates an army of twenty-four 4/4 squirrels. Pretty deece for a beatdown plan.

But we can do better. Treasure tokens are a simple and effective way to capitalize on having a couple A&Ns out, expanding our mana pool rapidly:

Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator The pirate subtheme makes me smile!

Sailor of Means

Corsair Captain

Burdened Aerialist

Tireless Provisioner

Spell Swindle A bit overcosted but a game-winning blowout worth the risk.

If we've got a boatload of treasure sitting around, Blue Sun's Zenith serve as a 100-mana dump to instakill players. This is the simplest way the deck wins legitimately in a single turn without combat damage or infinite combos. Beyond BSZ, we're going digging through the deck to find other things to do:

Champion of Wits is one of the best cards from the precon. Eternalizing the Champion with A&N lets us draw 8/discard 4 at least, and with more twins, we can dig forever.

Timeless Witness With the extreme value off Eternalize and a couple A&N clones, we can basically cast a Praetor's Counsel with this card.

Mimic Vat The Vat doesn't let us clone creatures already in play, but it does let us make tons of token copies of a card, which can easily go nutty.

Crafty Cutpurse All Your Treasure Token Are Belong To Us.

Risen Reef Reef has to be the most entertaining creature in this deck to clone. Since the Reefs trigger on each other, we can dig super deep into the deck with just 5 or 7 Reefs (20 and 42 cards respectively,) and since the trigger isn't a draw, it's perfectly fine to just slam down a dozen Reefs and pick up our deck.

Amphin Mutineer Because we clearly needed to make a dozen copies of cut-rate Duplicant . Blueplicant?

Glen Elendra Archmage Cloning the Archmage a lot fixes the whole problem of needing to protect our creatures.

Elvish Archdruid and Priest of Titania both generate mana in HUGE quantities if we clone them even a couple times, hence the small Elf subtheme.

Thassa's Oracle YES! There is indeed an Oracle in here, for the most entertaining reason possible: Forget drawing our whole deck, we can break 100 devotion to blue VERY quickly!

Slow value and control play Show

So there are two major takeaways about this deck's playstyle. The first is that we're not here to slam down a couple of Fractals and Hydras and hope to jam in lethal combat damage; we're going for the full Timmy gamestate. The second is that our intended winning game state is WAY lategame, so we absolutely have to find ways to get value and keep scaling earlier on.

Card draw matters a lot

We run a ton of instants and sorceries for a good reason: making token copies of things is usually an effect on a sorcery. That said, decks like this need to have a consistent plan to draw cards and refill on fuel:

Mystic Remora

Risen Reef

Coiling Oracle

Mulldrifter

Azami, Lady of Scrolls

Champion of Wits

Zimone, Quandrix Prodigy

Solemn Simulacrum

Blue Sun's Zenith

Shamanic Revelation

Chord of Calling functions an instant tutor to grab either Spark Double or Azami when we don't use our mana pool for countermagic

And reusing instants and sorceries is always a great option. In particular, these cards DO enable some infinite-loop strategies, albeit typically on gamestates that are already winning without any loops:

Eternal Witness

Timeless Witness

Archaeomancer

BIG MANA

We're running a lot of 5- and 6-drop spells in this deck. We want a gamestate where we've cast our 4CMC commander AND played things afterwards. We need big mana.

Collective Voyage

Arcane Signet and friends

Solemn Simulacrum

Wood Elves

Zimone, Quandrix Prodigy

Birds of Paradise

Llanowar Elves and Elvish Mystic

Incubation Druid

Priest of Titania

Elvish Archdruid

Plus all the cards that make treasure tokens.

Lotsa counterspells

Our control package needs to be robust, since we're not only stalling the game but also protecting a large, fragile board state.

Counterspells:

Swan Song

Negate

Arcane Denial

Counterspell

Whirlwind Denial

Quandrix Command

Spell Swindle

Glen Elendra Archmage

Spot Removal:

Reality Shift

Resculpt

Rapid Hybridization

Krosan Grip

Beast Within

Reclamation Sage

Amphin Mutineer

Mystic Reflection can be used to turn a big threatening creature into a Llanowar Elves in a pinch.

Boardwipe:

Ezuri's Predation

Perplexing Test

We're relying more on chumpblockers than on rapid board clear to save our skin against aggro.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 39 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.23
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Bird 2/2 U, Champion of Wits 4/4 B, Copy Clone, Elemental 4/4 UR, Food, Foretell, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Manifest 2/2 C, Phyrexian Beast 4/4 G, Plant 0/1 G, Squirrel 1/1 G, Timeless Witness 4/4 B, Treasure