Higher than a High Tide ~ Competitive Nezehal

Commander / EDH Combo Competitive Control Mono-Blue Multiplayer

GopherKing

Instant (36)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Commandeer
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Daze
• 1x Delay
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Foil
• 1x Forbid
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x High Tide
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Intuition
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Mindbreak Trap
• 1x Misdirection
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Negate
• 1x Opt
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Snap
• 1x Spell Pierce
• 1x Stifle
• 1x Stubborn Denial
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Thirst for Knowledge

Artifact (21)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Coldsteel Heart
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Fractured Powerstone
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Paradox Engine
• 1x Sapphire Medallion
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sky Diamond
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Voltaic Key

Land (29)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Crystal Vein
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 23x Island
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Scalding Tarn

Commander (1)

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Merchant Scroll
• 1x Mind's Desire
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Serum Visions
• 1x Sleight of Hand
• 1x Time Spiral
• 1x Windfall

Creature (2)

• 1x Baral, Chief of Compliance
• 1x Snapcaster Mage

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Mystic Remora

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Control's greatest weakness in commander is that in a multi-player format, one-for-ones just are not good. In a format as fast as cEDH, this is doubly so. Quite often, playing control just means that you spend your counterspells stoping players A & B just to allow Player C to go off. We have a finite pool of answers, and between three opponents, inevitably, we will eventually run out.

The goal of this deck is to oversome this weakness through the card advantage engine that is Nezahal, Primal Tide. Unfortunately, Nez is 7 mana, and that's a hell of a lot in cEDH, before you even take into account that we are mono-blue and have little in the way of fast mana. Thankfully, Nezahal is uncounterable, and hard as hell to remove once she has resolved. Therefore we probably only need to play... Him? Her? Whatever. We'll usually only need to play it once. To do this, we run just about every mana rock we can fit in the deck, in addition to High Tide and some cards to help take advantage of it such as Frantic Search and Snap.

Once Nez has been cast, the game plan is to sit back, fill up on cards, and stop people from winning until we eventually drawing into our own combo, the very original and definitely never been done before Paradox Engine/Dramatic Scepter+Aetherflux Reservoir.

The deck is at it's most vulnerable the turn we cast Nezahal, because we probably will not have any mana leftover to counter spells. Therefore, we try and minimize that vulnerability by running just about every free counterspell in the game. So that means that in addition to the infamous Force of Will, and Pact of Negation, we also have things like Commandeer, Foil, Daze, and even the very questionable Mindbreak Trap. For many of these free counterspells, the drawback of discarding cards isn't that big of a drawback because we draw so many.

Anyways, that's the deck. Hope you like it, and if you have any suggestions I would absolutely love to hear them. I doubt this will ever be remotely close to top tier, but hopefully it can hold it's own.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 25 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 21 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.13
Tokens	Ape 3/3 G, Bird 2/2 U, Frog Lizard 3/3 G