Everything is Unplayable

Commander / EDH Cruel Control GW (Selesnya) Theme/Gimmick Voltron

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Creature (19)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Eight-and-a-Half-Tails
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Glowrider
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Iona, Shield of Emeria
• 1x Karmic Guide
• 1x Leonin Abunas
• 1x Linvala, Keeper of Silence
• 1x Lodestone Golem
• 1x Melira, Sylvok Outcast
• 1x Restoration Angel
• 1x Reveillark
• 1x Sigarda, Host of Herons
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Stoneforge Mystic
• 1x Tajuru Preserver
• 1x Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
• 1x Thrun, the Last Troll

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Elspeth, Knight-Errant
• 1x Garruk Wildspeaker

Land (36)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Gavony Township
• 1x Horizon Canopy
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Mishra's Workshop
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Razorverge Thicket
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Selesnya Sanctuary
• 5x Snow-Covered Forest
• 7x Snow-Covered Plains
• 1x Stirring Wildwood
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Temple of Plenty
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Wasteland
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Bastion
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Aura of Silence
• 1x Ground Seal
• 1x Hum of the Radix
• 1x Leyline of Sanctity
• 1x Privileged Position
• 1x Sylvan Library

Artifact (21)

• 1x Cloud Key
• 1x Defense Grid
• 1x Emerald Medallion
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Feroz's Ban
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Mana Matrix
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Oblivion Stone
• 1x Pearl Medallion
• 1x Planar Gate
• 1x Selesnya Signet
• 1x Semblance Anvil
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sphere of Resistance
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1x Sword of Fire and Ice
• 1x Sword of Light and Shadow
• 1x Thorn of Amethyst
• 1x Trinisphere
• 1x Umezawa's Jitte

Instant (8)

• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Orim's Chant
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Selesnya Charm
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Sorcery (7)

• 1x All is Dust
• 1x Armageddon
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Genesis Wave
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Praetor's Counsel
• 1x Wrath of God

Commander (1)

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Creature (6)

• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Dragonlord Dromoka
• 1x Knight of the Reliquary
• 1x Sanctum Prelate
• 1x Void Winnower
• 1x Vryn Wingmare

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Blind Obedience
• 1x Curse of Exhaustion
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Kismet
• 1x Stony Silence

Artifact (8)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Chalice of the Void
• 1x Grafdigger's Cage
• 1x Knowledge Pool
• 1x Mycosynth Lattice
• 1x Null Rod
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

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It started as a simple idea: Gaddock Teeg makes it harder for players to cast high cost spells, but what about the low cost spells? What's in his colors? Well, there's Thalia, Guardian of Thraben (+1), and Lodestone Golem (+1) is colorless. Now wait a minute, aren't there more like a lot of things that do that? So the following were added:

• Aura of Silence (+2)
• Glowrider (+1)
• Defense Grid (+3)
• Feroz's Ban (+2)
• Sphere of Resistance (+1)
• Trinisphere (+1 or +2)
• Thorn of Amethyst (+1)
• Hum of the Radix (+ some unknown amount)

Now let's say you try playing a Swords to Plowshares or Brainstorm during my turn. Well that 1 cost spell now cost 11 mana to cast (only 8 during your turn).

"Well wait a minute, I don't want to be paying 7+ mana for a creature or removal." You're right, that's stupid. We need to lower our own costs:

• Cloud Key (-1)
• Emerald Medallion (-1)
• Pearl Medallion (-1)
• Mana Matrix (-2)
• Planar Gate (-2)
• Semblance Anvil (-2)

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I'm aware of how Gaddock Teeg works. I know increasing the cost of a card via other means doesn't increase the original CMC. While Gaddock blocks off the CMC 4+ spells, that still gives your opponents the option of casting lower cost things. The point of the deck is to making those low cost spells cost a lot; I want my opponents to spend a crapton of mana to cast that 1 cost removal spell.

Top Ranked	Achieved #41 position overall 10 years ago
Date added	10 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	14 - 0 Mythic Rares 60 - 0 Rares 9 - 0 Uncommons 5 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.05
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Emblem Elspeth, Knight-Errant, Knight 2/2 W w/ Vigilance, Soldier 1/1 W
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