Erwin's Socks

Commander / EDH Exile WU (Azorius)

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Creature (24)

• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Charming Prince
• 1x Circuit Mender
• 1x Cloud of Faeries
• 1x Cloudblazer
• 1x Displacer Kitten
• 1x Ephara, God of the Polis
• 1x Felidar Guardian
• 1x Icewind Stalwart
• 1x Lavinia of the Tenth
• 1x Loran of the Third Path
• 1x Mnemonic Wall
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Restoration Angel
• 1x Saltskitter
• 1x Salvager of Secrets
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Soulherder
• 1x Spirited Companion
• 1x Stonehorn Dignitary
• 1x Thassa, Deep-Dwelling
• 1x Thought Monitor
• 1x Wall of Omens
• 1x Wispweaver Angel

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Fractured Identity
• 1x Promise of Loyalty
• 1x Serum Visions
• 1x Solve the Equation
• 1x Wrath of God

Instant (17)

• 1x An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1x Brain Freeze
• 1x Cloudshift
• 1x Cosmic Intervention
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Dovin's Veto
• 1x Eerie Interlude
• 1x Ephemerate
• 1x Essence Flux
• 1x Lae'zel's Acrobatics
• 1x Long-Term Plans
• 1x March of Swirling Mist
• 1x Momentary Blink
• 1x Negate
• 1x Silence
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

Land (36)

• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Glacial Chasm
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Sejiri Glacier  ^Flip
• 16x Snow-Covered Island
• 15x Snow-Covered Plains

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Solitary Confinement

Commander (1)

Artifact (14)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Ichor Wellspring
• 1x Marble Diamond
• 1x Meekstone
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Scroll of Fate
• 1x Sky Diamond
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Soul-Guide Lantern
• 1x Talisman of Progress
• 1x Thought Vessel

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Maybeboard

Creature (3)

• 1x Beza, the Bounding Spring
• 1x Eluge, the Shoreless Sea
• 1x Sokrates, Athenian Teacher

Instant (1)

• 1x Familiar's Ruse

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Before anything, I just want to say this deck is highly based on:

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Schrodinger's Deck

Commander / EDH mikerrc

SCORE: 5 | 5 COMMENTS | 271 VIEWS | IN 2 FOLDERS

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by mikerrc. I really really loved the deck and I playtested it myself, and decided to make a twitch here and there to better suit my playstyle. I do not claim this to be a "better" version, its just what fancies my tastes more. Feel free to suggest any changes below!

Presentation

" It was a dark and stormy night. Erwin huddled under his covers as he had done numerous times that summer. As the wind and rain lashed at the window, he feared having to retreat to the storm cellar once again. The residents of Erwin’s apartment building sought shelter whenever there were threats of tornadoes in the area. While it was safe down there, Erwin feared the ridicule he would face once again from the other school boys. In the rush to the cellar, Erwin seemed to always end up with a random pair of socks, and the other boys teased him about it mercilessly.

Not that Erwin hadn’t tried hard to solve this problem. He had a very simple collection of socks—black or white, for either school or play; short or long, for either trousers or lederhosen. After the first few teasing episodes from the other boys, Erwin had sorted his socks into two separate drawers. He placed all the black socks in one drawer and all the white socks in another drawer. Erwin figured he could determine an individual sock’s length in the dark of night simply by feeling it, but he had to have them presorted into white and black because the apartment generally lost power before the call to the shelter.

Unfortunately, Erwin found that this presorting of the socks by color was ineffective. Whenever he reached into the white sock drawer and chose two long socks, or two short socks, there was a 50% probability of any one sock being black or white. The results from the black sock drawer were the same. The socks seemed to have “forgotten” the color that Erwin had determined previously. Erwin also tried sorting the socks into two drawers based upon their length, without regard to color. When he chose black or white socks from these long and short drawers, the socks had also “forgotten” whether they were long or short.

After these fruitless attempts to solve his problem through experiments, Erwin decided to save himself the fashion embarrassment, and he replaced his sock collection with a set of medium length brown socks. However, he continued to ponder the mysteries of the socks throughout his childhood. After many years of daydreaming about the mystery socks, Erwin Schrödinger proposed his theory of “Quantum Socks” and become famous. And that is the beginning of the story of the quantum socks.

The End. "

— McIntyre, David H, in "Quantum Mechanics - A Paradigms Approach"

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About

I started my day reading on some QM textbooks from college as I usually do nowdays. After a while, my passion for commander kicked in and I did a quick google search on "Quantum Mechanics EDH". Yeah, weird, I know. That's how I found the deck tagged above. I immediately fell in love with the concept, and I urge everyone reading this who haven't checked the original yet, to do so. The gameplan here is sort of the same, trying to get both Yorion and Felidar Guardian-like effects on the battlefield at the same time to blink all of our value-engine cards once per endstep. Nothing new.

What I changed the most, I guess, is the wincon. With the recent release of Displacer Kitten, the need for its addition became obvious not only because of the synergy but mainly because of the flavour hit. Here, I try to make a several-piece-combo based on the cat, which seems extremely janky at first, but my hopes is that by us having several different options for each piece, it ends up becoming completely possible to do (eg Mnemonic Wall and Archaeomancer, Cloud of Faeries and Peregrine Drake, etc). The combo consists of us casting a spell such as Momentary Blink targetting a card such as Mnemonic Wall. The cat triggers and messes up the quantum state of a card such as Cloud of Faeries, who returns our mana investment and finally lets the original blink resolve, fetching us our Momentary Blink back to our hand. Easy enough.

Then, of course, we get infinite storm counts for Brain Freeze to actually win. Sometimes we won't have this last card in hand, and that's ok since most of the time we will get a surplus of mana with every iteration of the cat combo, allowing us to spend some of that mana further casting Momentary Blink targetting our Mnemonic Wall, triggering the cat to blink something like a Cloudblazer instead of the Cloud of Faeries that would return us mana, getting us more cards instead. I did some playtests with this of course, and its surprisingly not hard to achieve.

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Date added	1 year
Last updated	1 month
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 28 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.94
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Copy Clone, Foretell, Manifest 2/2 C, Treasure