Do Dragons Dream of Blazing Sheep?

Commander / EDH* Goodstuff RUG (Temur)

StigIt2me

Land (36)

• 1x Botanical Sanctum
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 1x Frontier Bivouac
• 1x Grand Coliseum
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 3x Snow-Covered Forest
• 7x Snow-Covered Island
• 3x Snow-Covered Mountain
• 1x Spinerock Knoll
• 1x Spirebluff Canal
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Temple of Abandon
• 1x Temple of Epiphany
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Tranquil Thicket

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Beacon of Tomorrows
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Day's Undoing
• 1x Enter the Infinite
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x The Great Aurora
• 1x Time Stretch
• 1x Time Warp
• 1x Ugin's Insight

Creature (18)

• 1x Atarka, World Render
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Geist of the Archives
• 1x Hypersonic Dragon
• 1x Keranos, God of Storms
• 1x Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• 1x Kira, Great Glass-Spinner
• 1x Kruphix, God of Horizons
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Niv-Mizzet, Dracogenius
• 1x Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind
• 1x Rattleclaw Mystic
• 1x Rimescale Dragon
• 1x Savage Ventmaw
• 1x Spellbreaker Behemoth
• 1x Sphinx of Jwar Isle
• 1x Sphinx of the Final Word
• 1x Thassa, God of the Sea

Instant (11)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Counterflux
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Long-Term Plans
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Plasm Capture
• 1x Summary Dismissal
• 1x Time Stop

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Ral Zarek
• 1x Saheeli Rai
• 1x Sarkhan Unbroken

Commander (1)

Artifact (14)

• 1x Brain in a Jar
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Conjurer's Closet
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Darksteel Plate
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Simic Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Temur Banner
• 1x Vedalken Orrery
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Clout of the Dominus
• 1x Exploration
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Mana Reflection
• 1x Mirri's Guile
• 1x Monastery Siege
• 1x Omniscience

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Creature (3)

• 1x Etherium-Horn Sorcerer
• 1x Multani, Maro-Sorcerer
• 1x Nucklavee

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Blatant Thievery
• 1x Clone Legion
• 1x Vengeful Rebirth

Instant (1)

• 1x Worldly Tutor

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Note: This deck has not been built with actual cards yet; it's just a theory-craft. Until I order physical copies of the cards in this deck, I am very much open to suggestions for cards to add and cards not to be included, and the decklist will change frequently as I reconfigure the deck after playtests.

To be honest, the ideas and desires that led to this deck started off focused on a Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind deck. I love the idea of quietly plotting against everyone at the table without the other players having any idea of what your plans are, and then dropping a potent spell, like Enter the Infinite, Time Warp, The Great Aurora, or Time Stretch out of nowhere. The deck has four winning combos: Brainstorm + Enter the Infinite + Laboratory Maniac , Beacon of Tomorrows + Isochron Scepter + Mystical Tutor , Eternal Witness + Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Time Warp , and Conjurer's Closet + Eternal Witness + Time Warp . The focus is the win no one else knew you had, and it requires a much better poker face than I think I have. Those cards are simply examples, but there's more that this deck can do to shake things up.

The inital goals of this deck in early game besides finding some mana are to find ways to protect Intet in advance of playing her and to keep opponents from getting out of hand before she starts attacking. The countermagic in this deck helps with both of those goals, while there are Equipment cards included (also Clout of the Dominus) to provide Intet with more direct protection. The hope is to minimize the number of times Intet leaves the field because every time she does, everything she exiled stays exiled permanently, and they're even exiled face-down, which is almost as bad as AWOL. Between countering board wipes and making her a difficult target, she should get away with at least a few attacks.

I am including Leyline of Anticipation and Vedalken Orrery in the deck to allow and perhaps encourage dumping the exiled cards at instant speed if Intet is about to leave and I can't prevent it. Outside of the "doomed Intet" scenario, certain players in my playgroup have seen enough blue control and combo-control decks to get a little nervous when a blue player doesn't cast any spells on their turn. Having the option to flash in literally everything makes more flexible strategy options available to me.

An Intet deck would never find any consistency at all if it couldn't even try to control, pick, and choose what shows up on top of the library for Intet to exile. To that end, Saheeli Rai and Brain in a Jar are here to let me scry on demand, and Halimar Depths, Sphinx of Jwar Isle, Mirri's Guile, Thassa, God of the Sea, Geist of the Archives serve as other ways to scry, check, or control the top few cards of the library. It's important for this deck to get at least one of these things before Intet comes out so that she's not left groping for good freebie spells and getting lands instead. I left out every card that would reveal what I'm doing (i.e. Future Sight) because I don't want any of my opponents to know what I'm up to. Mystical Tutor reveals what I retrieve with it, but it is also part of a combo with Isochron Scepter and Beacon of Tomorrows. Revealing what I draw for Keranos, God of Storms is fine because he is a bait card, but I refuse to let anything spoil the surprise when it comes to Intet's strategically important exiled cards. Dreams are private after all...

If you understood the reference I made in the title, I appreciate your literary knowledge. I've never actually read that book, though...

Date added	7 years
Last updated	6 years
Exclude colors	WB
Key combos	Eternal Witness + Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Time Warp Conjurer's Closet + Eternal Witness + Time Warp Beacon of Tomorrows + Isochron Scepter + Mystical Tutor Brainstorm + Enter the Infinite + Laboratory Maniac
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	14 - 0 Mythic Rares 47 - 0 Rares 12 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.05
Tokens	Copy Clone, Dragon 4/4 R, Morph 2/2 C