Evelyn, the Deck Collector

Commander / EDH Changeling Top Deck Matters UBR (Grixis) Vampires

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Creature (24)

• 1x Birgi, God of Storytelling  ^Flip
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Blood Seeker
• 1x Bloodghast
• 1x Cordial Vampire
• 1x Cormela, Glamour Thief
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Displacer Kitten
• 1x Don Andres, the Renegade
• 1x Dualcaster Mage
• 1x Glasspool Mimic  ^Flip
• 1x High Fae Trickster
• 1x Indulgent Aristocrat
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Naru Meha, Master Wizard
• 1x Oblivion Sower
• 1x Prosper, Tome-Bound
• 1x Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
• 1x Spark Double
• 1x Tidal Barracuda
• 1x Vampire of the Dire Moon
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Voldaren Epicure
• 1x Wild-Magic Sorcerer

Enchantment (10)

• 1x Arcane Adaptation
• 1x Black Market Connections
• 1x Candlekeep Sage
• 1x Charred Foyer / Warped Space
• 1x Fortune Teller's Talent
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Leyline of Transformation
• 1x Mana Echoes
• 1x Mass Hysteria
• 1x Passionate Archaeologist

Land (33)

• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 4x Island
• 1x Luxury Suite
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 4x Mountain
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 10x Swamp
• 1x Voldaren Estate
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Witch's Cottage
• 1x Xander's Lounge

Artifact (12)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Cloudstone Curio
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Maskwood Nexus
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Vedalken Orrery
• 1x Victory Chimes

Commander (1)

Instant (13)

• 1x Burnt Offering
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Demonic Gifts
• 1x Displace
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x Malakir Rebirth  ^Flip
• 1x Not Dead After All
• 1x Presumed Dead
• 1x Sacrifice
• 1x Saw in Half
• 1x Supernatural Stamina
• 1x Undying Evil

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Energy Tap
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Irenicus's Vile Duplication
• 1x Jeska's Will
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Scheming Symmetry
• 1x Torment of Hailfire

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Sideboard

Instant (8)

• 1x Borne Upon a Wind
• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Desperate Ritual
• 1x Feign Death
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Pyretic Ritual
• 1x Seething Song
• 1x Undying Malice

Artifact (4)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Glass-Cast Heart
• 1x Inspiring Statuary
• 1x Radiant Lotus

Creature (3)

• 1x Anje, Maid of Dishonor
• 1x Kamber, the Plunderer
• 1x Thassa's Oracle

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Drain Power
• 1x Mana Geyser
• 1x Nanogene Conversion
• 1x Tasha's Hideous Laughter *list*

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Molten Echoes
• 1x Vesuvan Duplimancy

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Maybeboard

Creature (14)

• 1x Captivating Vampire
• 1x Flaming Tyrannosaurus
• 1x Keeper of Secrets
• 1x Mari, the Killing Quill
• 1x Nalfeshnee
• 1x Oathsworn Vampire
• 1x Orvar, the All-Form
• 1x Osgood, Operation Double
• 1x Pawn of Ulamog
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Restless Bloodseeker  ^Flip
• 1x Scion of Opulence
• 1x Thassa, Deep-Dwelling
• 1x Umbris, Fear Manifest

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Ashiok, Dream Render
• 1x Jace, Wielder of Mysteries

Land (2)

• 1x Moonring Island
• 1x Mortuary Mire

Instant (12)

• 1x Corpse Dance
• 1x Demonic Consultation
• 1x Essence Flux
• 1x Expel from Orazca
• 1x Fake Your Own Death
• 1x Memory Lapse
• 1x Misinformation
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystic Reflection
• 1x Reiterate
• 1x Shallow Grave
• 1x Turnabout

Enchantment (4)

• 1x As Foretold
• 1x Conspiracy
• 1x Kaya's Ghostform
• 1x Mirror Room / Fractured Realm

Artifact (9)

• 1x Cursed Mirror
• 1x Glittering Stockpile
• 1x Helm of the Host
• 1x Mirror Box
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Urza's Incubator
• 1x Wand of Denial
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Dimir Machinations
• 1x Olivia's Wrath
• 1x Quantum Misalignment
• 1x Sakashima's Will
• 1x Twinflame

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Wand of Denial’s flavor text says it best, “You’ll never miss what you never had”

I've wanted to build a deck like this since OG Theros but I think there is enough support for it now. The idea is to take opponents' spells mainly from their decks and use them against them while benefiting from the spells being cast from exile/remaining in exile. I’ll be using mostly cheap vampires to get spells into exile, Vedalken Orrery / Leyline of Anticipation to maximize the number of spells I'm casting each round, Lantern of Insight and a handful of top deck stuff to control what I have access to and hopefully keep the gas going with Maskwood Nexus / Arcane Adaptation / Conspiracy turning ALL creatures ETBing under my control into vampires being discounted by Urza's Incubator and Herald's Horn. Our main goal is to get as many vampire ETB triggers and as many triggers as possible out of Evelyn's second ability (via copying Spark Double and Sakashima of a Thousand Faces and Irenicus's Vile Duplication) so that I'm casting vampires as often as possible to get access to more cards.
Some sweet synergies:

1. Displacer Kitten with Mana Echoes (Evelyn lets you spend mana as though it was any color) with Evelyn and any other vampires out as well as any noncreature spell has the potential to chain continuous Evelyn triggers and give me (a lot of setup, I know). Dockside Extortionist has a similar effect to Molten Echoes.
2. Prosper, Tome-Bound, Passionate Archaeologist, and Wild-Magic Sorcerer all benefit off of the deck if it's working properly. Looking at squeezing in The Lost and the Damned from WH40K for similar benefits.
3. A touch of Blood Token production to work with Inspiring Statuary. Looking to explore this more with Anje, Maid of Dishonor and Panharmonicon (which Evenlyn would also severely benefit from)

Some Concerns:

1. not having any particular flat out wincons, aside from creatures (there was some way I had created infinite creature tokens but I'm trying to remember he setup) and direct damage/loss of life with Brainstealer Dragon and Passionate Archaeologist, when the main goal is to steal other peoples' cards
2. make opponents super salty while I throw their spells that they haven't had a chance to draw back at their face on top of stealing their mana from Mana Drain and Drain Power. I'm pretty sure I'm going to be getting hated out of games in my pod fairly quickly once this deck pops off once or twice.

Recommendations welcome!

Edit: I finally got to try out the deck and it POPPED OFF. I got Evelyn out turn 2 and managed to get access to something like 30 cards in a few turns. I didn’t have any of my ways to cast multiple cards (Spark Double, Sakashima, Displacer Kitten) and I didn’t have Leyline or Vedalken out to cast During opponents’ turns. Still, I quickly became archenemy so she got removed a bunch. I’m still learning the deck and misplayed a bunch (had access to a counterspell in exile but forgot to use it for example). Back with more updates in a while!

Date added	2 years
Last updated	7 hours
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 3 Mythic Rares 40 - 11 Rares 16 - 2 Uncommons 14 - 5 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.79
Tokens	Blood, Copy Clone, Shapeshifter 2/2 U, Shapeshifter 3/2 C, Treasure, Vampire 1/1 WB, Wicked