[Helium] Taniwha

Commander / EDH* Mono-Blue

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Enchantment (16)

• 1x Back to Basics
• 1x Cloak of Invisibility
• 1x Dissipation Field
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Mana Breach
• 1x Mana Vortex
• 1x Overburden
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Rising Waters
• 1x Shimmer
• 1x Teferi's Curse
• 1x Teferi's Realm
• 1x Teferi's Veil
• 1x The Mirari Conjecture
• 1x The Phasing of Zhalfir
• 1x Vanishing

Land (33)

• 1x Faerie Conclave
• 1x Ghost Town
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 22x Island
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Remote Isle
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Talon Gates of Madara
• 1x Teferi's Isle
• 1x Terrain Generator
• 1x Zoetic Cavern

Artifact (16)

• 1x Coldsteel Heart
• 1x Eye of Ramos
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Misleading Signpost
• 1x Runechanter's Pike
• 1x Sapphire Medallion
• 1x Sky Diamond
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak
• 1x Worldslayer
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Creature (10)

• 1x Fog Bank
• 1x Guard Gomazoa
• 1x Kederekt Leviathan
• 1x Lighthouse Chronologist
• 1x Shimmering Efreet
• 1x Silent Arbiter
• 1x Silver Myr
• 1x Stormtide Leviathan
• 1x Tidal Barracuda
• 1x Vodalian Illusionist

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Teferi, Master of Time

Commander (1)

Instant (13)

• 1x Capsize
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic RiftGC
• 1x Evacuation
• 1x Fierce GuardianshipGC
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Reality Ripple
• 1x Strix Serenade
• 1x Sunder
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Time and Tide

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Concentrate
• 1x Curse of the Swine
• 1x Devastation Tide
• 1x Flow of Ideas
• 1x Inundate
• 1x Merchant Scroll
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Sift
• 1x Tidings
• 1x Wash Out

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Maybeboard

Artifact (10)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Dire Mimic
• 1x Forger's Foundry
• 1x Liquimetal Torque
• 1x Machine God's Effigy
• 1x Mimic
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Vedalken Orrery
• 1x Ward of Bones
• 1x Winter Moon

Instant (5)

• 1x Change of Plans
• 1x Force of WillGC
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x March of Swirling Mist
• 1x Pact of Negation

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Blatant Thievery
• 1x Fabricate

Enchantment (3)

• 1x AEther Barrier
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Rhystic StudyGC

Creature (2)

• 1x Spectral Adversary
• 1x Venser, Shaper Savant

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Taniwha

You're really trying to swing with Taniwha here. He's 7/7, which means a possible three-hit general damage.

Now this can only happen any other turn, except you might be able to phase him out after combat (Time and Tide, Teferi's Veil) to get two swings in a row. Even better, Vanishing on him will provide protection for {U}{U} and get him swinging. You can also use Vanishing or Time and Tide or Vodalian Illusionist to save Taniwha from Worldslayer's effect by phasing it in response to Worldslayer's trigger. Remember that you phase in and out BEFORE untap phase. Means if you save mana you can cast instants before phasing out.

Obviously the nicest thing to do is destroy/bounce all lands while yours are gone, but the only way to do this is via Worldslayer or Sunder, which is castable during your upkeep step, after your lands have phased out and you've tapped them for mana. A good Worldslayer hit with Taniwha means you're the only one with lands.

A second-best is to destroy everything while Taniwha is phased-out, which is pretty easy to do, hence the wipes.

Even if you don't have Taniwha, you can still Teferi's Realm and Sunder, if you have the mana rocks. Choose "Lands" on your upkeep, on their turn, their lands phase in, and you use your rocks to Sunder.

Other features:

• Some counters and bounces, mostly for assuring you can attack with Taniwha and try to protect him.
• Lighthouse Chronologist is fantastic, particularly with all the blue mana rocks.
• Alternate wincons include Rite of Replication, Stormtide Leviathan.
• Slow down your own demise through Propaganda and other means.

You can go the following route - using your phasing lands during upkeep to flash things in via:

• Leyline of Anticipation
• Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir - creatures only, but also protection
• Shimmer Myr - artifacts only
• Vedalken Orrery
• Winding Canyons for a land option

If you do, you can use things like Thran Turbine as well.

I've put lots of alternate cards in the maybe column as possible substitutes.

One thing that's cool is that the deck makes use of a lot of cards that aren't ordinarily playable, so it's actually pretty cheap. You can sub out pretty much any card you want for any of the $5+ cards, which is about $100 of savings, bringing the cost for the core deck to less than $80.

Add an Island.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	3 days
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 34 - 0 Rares 31 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.15
Tokens	Ape 3/3 G, Bird 2/2 U, Boar 2/2 G, Copy Clone, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Morph 2/2 C, Phyrexian 2/2 B
Folders	Ideas & Tinkering