Ertai Counter and Destruction EDH

Commander / EDH Blink Clone Control Flash UB (Dimir)

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Creature (26)

• 1x Aether Channeler
• 1x Butcher of Malakir
• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Clone
• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Displacer Kitten
• 1x Fate Unraveler
• 1x Mercurial Pretender
• 1x Meteor Golem
• 1x Mirror Image
• 1x Naban, Dean of Iteration
• 1x Nephalia Smuggler
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Orvar, the All-Form
• 1x Phantasmal Image
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
• 1x Sakashima the Impostor
• 1x Sakashima's Student
• 1x Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
• 1x Spark Double
• 1x Stunt Double
• 1x Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
• 1x Thassa, Deep-Dwelling
• 1x Venser, Shaper Savant

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Quasiduplicate
• 1x Selective Snare
• 1x Voidwalk

Artifact (13)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Blade of Selves
• 1x Conjurer's Closet
• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Glaring Spotlight
• 1x Helm of the Host
• 1x Jeweled Lotus
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Sapphire Medallion
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Strionic Resonator

Land (30)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Detection Tower
• 13x Island
• 1x Mirrorpool
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 7x Swamp
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Watery Grave

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted

Commander (1)

Instant (13)

• 1x Blur
• 1x Cackling Counterpart
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Displace
• 1x Essence Flux
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x Peel from Reality
• 1x Planar Incision
• 1x Release to the Wind
• 1x Siren's Ruse
• 1x Stern Dismissal
• 1x Teferi's Time Twist
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Dark Prophecy
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Frozen Aether
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Mirror Mockery
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Underworld Dreams
• 1x Vesuvan Duplimancy

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Maybeboard

Instant (16)

• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Fading Hope
• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Force of Negation
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Fumble
• 1x Illusionist's Stratagem
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Negate
• 1x Redirect
• 1x Saw it Coming
• 1x Select for Inspection
• 1x Unsummon
• 1x Vapor Snag

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Clutch of Currents
• 1x Replication Technique
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Silent Departure

Artifact (15)

• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Clock of Omens
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x God-Pharaoh's Gift
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Heartstone
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Lithoform Engine
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mind's Eye
• 1x Minion Reflector
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Unwinding Clock
• 1x Voyager Staff

Land (1)

• 1x Ancient Tomb

Creature (12)

• 1x Apprentice Wizard
• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Dreamscape Artist
• 1x Evil Twin
• 1x Gigantoplasm
• 1x Pitiless Plunderer
• 1x Sentinel of the Pearl Trident
• 1x Urza, Lord High Artificer
• 1x Vesuvan Shapeshifter
• 1x Vizier of Many Faces
• 1x Wall of Stolen Identity
• 1x Willbreaker

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Collective Restraint
• 1x Escape Protocol
• 1x Grave Betrayal
• 1x Training Grounds

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An original deck made by me based around Ertai Resurrected from Dominaria United, flickering/blinking to counter spells, activated abilities, and triggered abilities, or destroying creatures and planeswalkers. Copying Ertai also sees the copies come into play, triggering the copy's ETB effect, before it dies due to the Legendary rule. Opponents may be drawing cards like crazy from this, but I can just keep countering whatever they try to play with more flicker/blinking and copying.

I can also just steal whatever my opponents manage to play and kill off their own copies of those cards.

With perpetual counters of various kinds, my board state will be pretty safe from boardwipes, other counter-spells, etc.

DECK STILL HIGHLY WIP.

In playtesting it has done well, added in a couple cards to help deal with artifacts and enchantments since Ertai can't destroy them (so Meteor Golem, Venser, Shaper Savant, and Aether Channeler). In the case of Venser and Aether Channeler, I'll just bounce things back to hand so I can counter them later.

I need to find holes for Consecrated Sphinx and Notion Thief as they fit in too well, along with Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, Fate Unraveler, Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted, and Underworld Dreams, to turn all that card draw they'll have into damage. To make things worse for my opponents due to the amount of copies of my commander that will be dying, I am considering adding things like Grave Pact, Dictate of Erebos, Butcher of Malakir, Dark Prophecy, Grave Betrayal, Pitiless Plunderer, and other things like that.

Glaring Spotlight and Detection Tower need to go in too so that I can target something that might be hexproof otherwise I start loosing viable targets. I added a bunch of bounce spells too to the maybeboard which can help me deal with indestructible creatures to force them to be replayed (and then countered) later.

I'm also going to also start borrowing heavily from Jimmy's Sakashima/Tevesh deck for ideas too.

Main combos:

Basalt Monolith or Grim Monolith, plus Rings of Brighthearth (or a much longer version is either of the Monoliths + Phyrexian Metamorph + Training Grounds) for infinite mana.

Deadeye Navigator paired with Ertai Resurrected means I can counter/destroy for {1}{U}, with Training Grounds that becomes just {U}.

I could add Urza, Lord High Artificer to pair with Deadeye Navigator (plus Training Grounds again) for infinite mana and constructs (that are {INFINITY}/{INFINITY}), but I'd like the deck to actually do the thing instead of rely on that to win as it has nothing to do with the deck's theme.

And of course there's all of the copies that become nonlegendary versions of Ertai so that I can just make tons of him and they get to stay in play as attackers/blockers.

And thus the win-con (for now) is just turn sideways either with a bunch of Ertais completely unapposed and/or steal people's better creatures, kill their original, and go sideways.

Date added	2 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	13 - 0 Mythic Rares 42 - 0 Rares 13 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.09
Tokens	Bird 1/1 W, Copy Clone