Creatureless Combo: Tasigur, the Golden Politician

Commander / EDH*

Rimfire

Land (40)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Cephalid Coliseum
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 4x Forest
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 2x Island
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Opulent Palace
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x River of Tears
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Tectonic Edge
• 1x Tolaria West
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Nissa, Vital Force

Instant (24)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 1x Intuition
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Murderous Cut
• 1x Mystical Teachings
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Negate
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Plasm Capture
• 1x Putrefy
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Slaughter Pact
• 1x Stubborn Denial
• 1x Sultai Charm
• 1x Turnabout
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Artifact (10)

• 1x Coercive Portal
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Oblivion Stone
• 1x Portcullis
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Torpor Orb
• 1x Umezawa's Jitte
• 1x Vedalken Orrery
• 1x Ward of Bones

Commander (1)

Sorcery (20)

• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Creeping Renaissance
• 1x Cruel Entertainment
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Dark Petition
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Far Wanderings
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Gaze of Granite
• 1x Hunting Wilds
• 1x Increasing Ambition
• 1x Languish
• 1x Maelstrom Pulse
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Praetor's Counsel
• 1x Seasons Past
• 1x Splendid Reclamation
• 1x Spoils of Victory
• 1x Three Visits
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Overburden
• 1x Pernicious Deed
• 1x Tainted AEther

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Pretty much the goal here is to police the table. To always have an answer and when the one I need is in my grave I activate Tas, ask the guy getting beat up for the answer to his problems back, and take the bad guy down a notch.

I used to play Tooth and Nail for Palinchron + Deadeye Navigator combo for infinite mana, but it was pretty boring, and with only 2 creatures in the deck it felt pretty off theme. Also once I took this combo out I got to put Torpor Orb in the deck.

So in an effort to tame my inner Spike a bit, and after seeing Cruel Entertainment from the new Commander set I had a great idea for a new combo with Tasigur. When controlling someone's turn you can target them with Tasigur, the Golden Fang and get back whatever you want since you control their choice. So then you just need Turnabout for infinite mana at instant speed. This lets you flip your deck into your hand and win in one of two ways. My preferred method is casting Beast Within on one of your opponents permanents then casting Reality Shift on the beast token to manifest the top card of their library, activate tasigur to get back Reality Shift then Reality Shift the 2/2 morph they have. Repeat this process till you've exiled their entire deck, and all of their permanets, then move onto the next player and do the same. Cast Blue Sun's Zenith x=0 so you have a card in your library, then pass the turn. At this point each player has 0 permanents (you can Beast Within & Reality Shift all their permanents till they stop getting guys out of it), 0 library, and only their upkeep to stay alive. Short of something really crazy, each player dies in their draw steps in turn order. Be careful that if you're operating under Cruel Entertainment's turn control effect you have to finish off the player you targeted with it with a Blue Sun's Zenith for 1 otherwise when they control your turn they'll make sure to kill you with your own stuff before they'd get a chance to deck themselves. It would be really sad to lost to an opponent with no deck, and no permanets. Alternatively, and in much less fun way, you can just cast and reccur Blue Sun's Zenith for x=1000 on each of your opponents. Both of these threats are cast with access to every counterspell in your deck for protection as long as the first Turnabout resolves. Even better, you can target the other blue player at the table with your Cruel Entertainment so you can use his counters and mana to protect your combo if possible. Then the only trick is getting Cruel Entertainment to resolve. But since it's a symetrical effect it just seems like a harmless bit of fun till it's too late. For redundancy I also run a second turn stealing effect, Worst Fears , for those times your Cruel Entertainment gets Dissipate 'd.

The combo is a bit mana intensive as you need ( or ) + with 2 of your other lands tapping for

I could run Mindslaver to split the mana cost over 2 turns, but by then someone might figure it out, and it becomes less tutorable with Mystical Tutor.

Any feedback you guys have would be much appreciated. Thanks!

Date added	8 years
Last updated	8 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 51 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.35
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Emblem Nissa, Vital Force, Manifest 2/2 C
Folders	inspiration