Dreamweaving (and a lot of patience)

Commander / EDH* Control

Aenaus

Creature (14)

• 1x Azami, Lady of Scrolls
• 1x Eternal Dragon
• 1x Ethereal Usher
• 1x Fatespinner
• 1x Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1x Lavinia of the Tenth
• 1x Linessa, Zephyr Mage
• 1x Raven Guild Master
• 1x Riptide Entrancer
• 1x Sower of Temptation
• 1x Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
• 1x Vendilion Clique
• 1x Venser, Shaper Savant
• 1x Voidmage Prodigy

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Elspeth Tirel

Land (36)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 1x Boseiju, Who Shelters All
• 1x Celestial Colonnade
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Drifting Meadow
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Faerie Conclave
• 1x Forbidding Watchtower
• 1x Glacial Chasm
• 1x Halls of Mist
• 5x Island
• 1x Kor Haven
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
• 1x New Benalia
• 1x Nimbus Maze
• 2x Plains
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Riptide Laboratory
• 1x Secluded Steppe
• 1x Snow-Covered Plains
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Thawing Glaciers
• 1x The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Urza's Factory
• 1x Wasteland

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Aura of Silence
• 1x Counterbalance
• 1x Divine Presence
• 1x Enchanted Evening
• 1x Future Sight

Artifact (12)

• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mimic Vat
• 1x Mind's Eye
• 1x Oblivion Stone
• 1x Runechanter's Pike
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Staff of Nin

Instant (21)

• 1x Argivian Find
• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Capsize
• 1x Careful Consideration
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cryptic Command *list*
• 1x Desertion
• 1x Divine Offering
• 1x Exile *list*
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Jace's Ingenuity
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Oblation
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Psychic Trance
• 1x Return to Dust
• 1x Spin into Myth
• 1x Stoic Rebuttal
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x White Sun's Zenith

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Akroma's Vengeance
• 1x Chronomantic Escape
• 1x Cleansing Meditation
• 1x Conqueror's Pledge
• 1x Decree of Justice
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Planar Cleansing
• 1x Rout
• 1x Time Warp
• 1x Wrath of God

Commander (1)

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One of my attempts to play a more traditional control build in the hostile environment of the commander scene.

The reason I chose Rasputin Dreamweaver over other W/U generals (such as Grand Arbiter Augustin IV) is because I like his weird acceleration ability. If the old man sticks on the battlefield until you untap, you are on par in terms of mana against decks packing lot of land acceleration, or sometimes you can even be ahead.

The deck is supposed to be tuned to beat two types of decks that frequent my local meta:

1) Creature heavy and token decks.

2) Late game combo decks.

Mass removals are key here as I think that they can beat both of those deck categories. They get rid of creatures (duh) as well as the artifact acceleration that the late game combos usually rely to when they try to speed their clock up.

The deck doesn't run many counterspells, but instead tries to control the board on a more massive manner, sometimes successfully and sometimes not so much.

The main interactions of the deck are:

1) Enchanted Evening + Cleansing Meditation. Use this card interaction in a brightly lit place while always wearing a helmet and standing far away from the game table. Side effects may include massive scoops, hostility, paranoia, excessive language, and murder attempts.

2) Strip Mine / Wasteland + Crucible of Worlds. Not as powerful without green for extra land drops but it is just fine in order to get rid of that pesky utility lands your opponents may have.

3) Counterbalance + Sensei's Divining Top. While not as powerful as it's legacy counterpart, it still provides an occasional free counterspell when you need it most. It is also a powerful political tool.

4) Runchanter's Pike + any manland (Forbidding Watchtower, Faerie Conclave, Celestial Colonnade). Nobody expects this, yet it can shoot a player out of the game during the late game rounds, when creatures are usually low in numbers and artifact removal is scarce.

5) Various Wizard interactions (Venser, Shaper Savant or Vendilion Clique or Sower of Temptation or et cetera + Riptide Laboratory or Azami, Lady of Scrolls or et cetera.

The deck wins with some of the aforementioned interactions or with tokens from Decree of Justice or Conqueror's Pledge.

Although the deck is supposed to be slow, it lacks serious early game acceleration in fear that it will be blasted away with it's own removals, which can seriously hurt it. Also, some hands are just unplayable. Generally, the deck has either very good or very bad starting hands and I cannot figure out a way to fix this. Also, the manabase is very shaky most of the time.

Any help is appreciated.

Date added	11 years
Last updated	11 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 52 - 0 Rares 27 - 0 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.52
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Assembly-Worker 2/2 C, Cat 2/2 W, Copy Clone, Kor Soldier 1/1 W, Morph 2/2 C, Soldier 1/1 W