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Commander / EDH Battlecruiser Casual Five Color Theme/Gimmick Voltron

Enral

Creature (39)

• 1x Auspicious Starrix
• 1x Bassara Tower Archer
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Boneyard Lurker
• 1x Brokkos, Apex of Forever
• 1x Cavern Whisperer
• 1x Chittering Harvester
• 1x Cubwarden
• 1x Dirge Bat
• 1x Dreamtail Heron
• 1x Essence Symbiote
• 1x Gemrazer
• 1x Gladecover Scout
• 1x Glowstone Recluse
• 1x Illuna, Apex of Wishes
• 1x Insatiable Hemophage
• 1x Lore Drakkis
• 1x Migratory Greathorn
• 1x Mindleecher
• 1x Necropanther
• 1x Nethroi, Apex of Death
• 1x Otrimi, the Ever-Playful
• 1x Paradise Druid
• 1x Parcelbeast
• 1x Pollywog Symbiote
• 1x Sawtusk Demolisher
• 1x Sea-Dasher Octopus
• 1x Shalai, Voice of Plenty
• 1x Sigarda, Host of Herons
• 1x Slippery Bogle
• 1x Snapdax, Apex of the Hunt
• 1x Souvenir Snatcher
• 1x Sylvan Caryatid
• 1x Thrun, the Last Troll
• 1x Troll Ascetic
• 1x Trumpeting Gnarr
• 1x Vadrok, Apex of Thunder
• 1x Vulpikeet

Land (37)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Bonders' Enclave
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 7x Forest
• 1x Indatha Triome
• 3x Island
• 1x Ketria Triome
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 2x Mountain
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 2x Plains
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Raugrin Triome
• 1x Savai Triome
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Zagoth Triome

Artifact (4)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Lifecrafter's Bestiary
• 1x Sol Ring

Commander (1)

Instant (8)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Once Upon a Time
• 1x Soul Manipulation
• 1x Stubborn Denial
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Oko, the Trickster
• 1x Vivien, Monsters' Advocate

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Survival of the Fittest
• 1x Sylvan Library

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The Deck

So a crazy idea came to my mind: Why don't I just mash all of the best mutants from Ikoria and see how it goes? Well, it exceeded my expectations beyond my wildest dreams! This is my take on Cromat deck build around the mutate mechanic from Ikoria. This deck includes pretty much every good mutate card in the Ikoria universe to be able to mash up whatever crazy creature combination possible. In my opinion, Cromat is pretty much the perfect commander for the mutate mechanic as it protects itself and can mutate into a deadly voltron machine.

Mutate

The mutate mechanic was mentioned in Surgeon General Commander (which happens to be a great commander for this deck too) and has been speculated to be a mechanic in Ikoria. So what is mutate? Basically if you cast a spell for its mutate cost, put it over or under target non-Human creature you own. They mutate into the creature on top plus all abilities under it. Relating to Cromat's ability to put it on top of library, if a merged creature is put into a library, its owner chooses the relative order of those cards. This is very useful when I ran out of mutants and so I can put the creatures mutated on Cromat back on top of my library to be replayed again for their trigger (great with Sylvan Library/Vivien, Monsters' Advocate).

Notable Synergies

• Lore Drakkis + Instants/Sorceries: This is honestly one of the most broken mutants in the deck. The ability to buyback a Demonic Tutor or Cyclonic Rift per mutate is just dumb.

• Bloom Tender + Cromat: Insane 5 color mana dork with Cromat in play.

• Cromat's ability + Sylvan Library/Vivien, Monsters' Advocate: Put Cromat and all creatures mutated on it on top of library and not be at card disadvantage.

Win Condition

Since Cromat's abilities are combat related, a "voltron" approach is pretty strong. The mutate mechanic feels very similar to that of an aura, turning Cromat into a lethal commander damage killing machine. There are a few mutants that are great on Cromat:

• Snapdax, Apex of the Hunt gives double strike.
• Illuna, Apex of Wishes gives flying and trample.
• Vulpikeet/Essence Symbiote/Glowstone Recluse grows Cromat to a disgusting size permanently.

Every +1 will contribute to the genomic instability to mutate!

Top Ranked	Achieved #1 position overall 4 years ago
Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 41 - 0 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.27
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Cat 1/1 W w/ Lifelink
Folders	My EDH Brews, Cool ideas, EDH, Great Ideas, EDH decks, Thematic, Great deck ideas, Interesting Ideas, Commander, Ideas