Finding Mr. Right

Commander / EDH WUB (Esper)

DarchZero walkingballista

Land (30)

• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Silent Clearing
• 1x Snow-Covered Island
• 1x Snow-Covered Plains
• 1x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Tarnished Citadel
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Watery Grave

Planeswalker (4)

• 1x Ashiok, Dream Render
• 1x Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
• 1x Karn, the Great Creator
• 1x Narset, Parter of Veils

Creature (1)

• 1x Razaketh, the Foulblooded

Instant (25)

• 1x Ad Nauseam
• 1x Angel's Grace
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Demonic Consultation
• 1x Dovin's Veto
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Drown in the Loch
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Force of Negation
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Negate
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Silence
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Tainted Pact
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Artifact (14)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Bident of Thassa
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Proteus Staff
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring

Commander (1)

Enchantment (14)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Aura of Silence
• 1x Blind Obedience
• 1x Copy Artifact
• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Darksteel Mutation
• 1x Grasp of Fate
• 1x Leyline of the Void
• 1x Martyr's Cause
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Verity Circle

Sorcery (11)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Polymorph
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Timetwister
• 1x Windfall
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will

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Sideboard

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Insight
• 1x Kindred Discovery
• 1x Moat
• 1x Rest in Peace

Land (1)

• 1x Hall of Heliod's Generosity

Instant (1)

• 1x Shadow of Doubt

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Thanks to Kamui/walkingballista for refining the deck to its current form

Goal of the Deck

There are three goals that the deck can achieve.

The Good : Polymorph/Proteus Staff a faerie token into the only big guy on the deck, which is Razaketh, and chain-tutor a win from that point onward. We can also reanimate Raz through the multitude of reanimation effects in the deck.

The Bad : Cheese opponents with everyone's favourite UBx combo: the ConMan, which means we intend to resolve a Consultation effect(Demonic Consultation, Tainted Pact) accompanied by a LabMan effect (Jace, WoM)

The Ugly : When you absolutely ran out of way out, an army of 2/1s accompanied by decent protection will whittle everyone's life total down before they can say "Pyroclasm".

The Good: Foulblooded

With a boardstate of Alela and at least 2 faeries, we can Polymorph / Proteus Staff a faerie token into Razaketh, the Foulblooded or Entomb + Reanimate Razaketh, the Foulblooded .

Afterwards, chain net positive rocks into Isochron Scepter, with the imprint trigger on the stack, sac the Faerie created from Isochron Scepter to fetch up Dramatic Reversal .

Now that we have infinite mana, we also have infinite tutors bounded by life by just recasting and sacrificing Alela. This means we can tutor up a hand full of counterspells and then Silence our opponents.

After this we can cast Angel's Grace + Ad Nauseam to get out deck into our hand. Finally we cast Brainstorm to put Yawgmoth's Will and another random card on top of our library. Then we Windfall and cause our opponents to draw a large part of their deck, finally we cast Yawgmoth's Will and Windfall again. If you're worried about not having enough cards in your library to deck people, you can always cast Timetwister first.

Card choices: Frantic Search and/or Insidious Dreams nets you Raz in the yard while also doing double duty as card draw or setup. We also run the trifecta of reanimation enchantments to seal the deal.

The Bad: ConMan

Being in U/B/X, we run a consult package, notice that this can also be tutored up pretty easily by Razaketh, the Foulblooded in a pinch. Jace, Wielder of Mysteries + Tainted Pact/Demonic Consultation, staple in UB colours, for when all else is lost, this combined with Silence/Mandate of Peace can end the game.

Card choices: We run a Tainted Pact mana base to make sure that we can still nail a win under anti-storm or anti-creature effects.

The Ugly: Flying Women

Running a massive set of hate package, every cast of your mana rock or hate piece when Alela is on board nets you a flying 2/1, which can stack up into a formidable force if protected well with your counterspells. The faeries can also protect your planeswalker's passive abilities, making sure that only you benefit from the advantages of symmetrical effects.

Card choices: Martyr's Cause can stop Pyroclasm effects from affecting your entire faerie throng, while also allowing Alela to deathtouch something else without retaliation. Darksteel Mutation effects can ground or remove a flying blocker entirely.

Conclusion

Many thanks to Kamui/walkingballista for the help and motivation in making this deck. If you like midrange-control strategery with ways to slow down your opponents, this might just be the deck for you.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	13 - 1 Mythic Rares 54 - 4 Rares 16 - 1 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.07
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Faerie 1/1 U, Spirit 1/1 C, Treasure
Folders	Follow