How about a magic trick?【Skip My Turns Primer】

Commander / EDH Combo Five Color Jank Multiplayer Primer Stax

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Land (37)

• 1x Alchemist's Refuge
• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Glacial Chasm
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Magosi, the Waterveil
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Petrified Field
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 3x Snow-Covered Forest
• 2x Snow-Covered Island
• 1x Snow-Covered Mountain
• 1x Snow-Covered Plains
• 1x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Life from the Loam

Creature (22)

• 1x Academy Rector
• 1x Biomancer's Familiar
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Chronatog
• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Eater of Days
• 1x Eldrazi Displacer
• 1x Hokori, Dust Drinker
• 1x Kruphix, God of Horizons
• 1x Painter's Servant
• 1x Rishkar, Peema Renegade
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1x Slimefoot, the Stowaway
• 1x Stoneshaker Shaman
• 1x Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
• 1x Tendershoot Dryad
• 1x Verdant Force
• 1x Voyaging Satyr

Artifact (10)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Chronatog Totem
• 1x Grindstone
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Static Orb
• 1x Tangle Wire
• 1x Vedalken Orrery
• 1x Victory Chimes
• 1x Winter Orb

Instant (4)

• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Commander (1)

Enchantment (22)

• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x Cryptolith Rite
• 1x Elephant Grass
• 1x Havoc Festival
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Mana Vortex
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Opposition
• 1x Primal Order
• 1x Privileged Position
• 1x Quest for Renewal
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Solitary Confinement
• 1x Song of Freyalise
• 1x Stasis
• 1x Sterling Grove
• 1x Sulfuric Vortex
• 1x Training Grounds
• 1x Urban Burgeoning
• 1x Wound Reflection

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Tamiyo, Collector of Tales

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Enchantment (2)

• 1x Darkest Hour
• 1x Glare of Subdual

Artifact (1)

• 1x Smokestack

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How about a magic trick? I will skip all my turns!

Welcome to Chronatog time!

Wait, wait... Why Golos?

Hum, yeah, probably I need to splain that. At first glance seems that golos is here because it gives mana fixing to the deck. That is a good argument, but I think that Golos should be the commandant for all the "skip my turns" decks. Why?

To answer that question I need to talk a little bit about th main plan of the deck (I will talk more about it below): Get something to skip all our turns (Chronatog is the best example), Seedborn Muse or similar to play our game in the opponents turn, and something like Hevoc Festival to get advantage of skipping our turns. Then, if we want to do something we need cards that give flash to our spells (ex: Vedalken Orrery) and sources of card advantage to keep playing things, because we don't have a draw step (ex: Mystic Remora). If we have Golos on the battlefield that becomes more easier thanks to the Golos ability, that gives to us spells at instant-speed, but also we get lands (that is another thing that we don't get without our own turns). And we can activate the Golos ability more times than normal, because with the Seedborn Muse we can activate it on each of our opponents turns!

Anoter very important is that there are few cards that makes to skip our turn, and there are less that we can use to skip ALL of our turns. In total this deck runs 4 cards to skip our turns: Chronatog and his brother Chronatog Totem, Eater of Days and Magosi, the Waterveil. I think that you guessed it: Golos can tutor Magosi! That is simply brutal because gives to the deck a lot of consistency that is impossible to get with other commanders.

Conclusion: Golos can tutor Magosi (that is like a combo piece), and probably is the card that can let us to win if we can skip all our turns (and if we ever win). So don't be sad Golos, you will miss Field of the Dead in standard, but here you can get some new friends :)

First, get some mana

Here are all the ramp cards, that some of them will have more uses appart from ramp-ing:

• Birds of Paradise and Bloom Tender: The basic mana dorks of decks that uses 4 or 5 colors.

• Selvala, Heart of the Wilds: Seems bad in this deck, but normally can add 2 or 3 mana, or even 4, and we have some creatures with a lot of power. Also, adds mana in any combination of colors.

• Dockside Extortionist: The best card from C19 (don't cry Marisi, Breaker of the Coil) and it has a combo that we will explain later.

• Farseek: Good and cheap ramp spell that also fix our mana, because it can search fetchlands.

• Sol Ring: The omnipresent ring is here!

• Arcane Signet and Chromatic Lantern:The classic mana rocks, and the second is basic in 5 color decks.

• Victory Chimes: Great mono rock for this deck, considering that we want to skip our turns.

• Chronatog Totem: The reason to play this is to skip turns, but after all is also a mana rock.

• Burgeoning: A great otion to put lands in play faster, and also can keep us plying lands in fe have no turns.

• Rishkar, Peema Renegade and Cryptolith Rite: Good cards to ramp, but the beast that them can do in this deck is paired with Quest for Renewal or Murkfiend Liege (I not included Song of Freyalise here because we won't cast it unless we have a way to skip our turns, because we want the I and II effects for all the game.

• Voyaging Satyr: The main reason to play this is to untap Magosi, the Waterveil, but also con be useful to ramp.

• Smothering Tithe: In short time, this card has become an EDH staple, and here is also goos with the Stasis effects that we run.

How to live without turns

When I saw some "skip my turns" decks I saw that other people plays things like Chronosavant or Meditate, but i don't like these options because we are unable to use them multiple times to try to skip all our whole turns. Remember: the plan is not to skip some of our turns, is to skipp ALL of them (but, obviously, if we can do something, like the "combo" that I axplained above).

Here is the list (the short list) of cards that we will use to skip our turns:

• Chronatog: Simply the best, because it don't requires any cost, and we can skip all our turns without any trouble.

• Chronatog Brother: Chronatog Totem is good, not like Chronatog, but still good, and pay won't be a problem if our plan goes well and we have somthing like Seedborn Muse to untap mana sources.

• Eater of Days: Which makes the Kraken a good option is the ETB trigger, becasue that means that we can try to skip our whole turns using Deadeye Navigator or Eldrazi Displacer (the Blinking Bois for friends). That blinking loop to skip all our turns is one reason to include Selvala, Heart of the Wilds, because is probable that the kraken will be the creature with greatest power among all the table (that will mean one card each time that it enters the battlefield), and also with that 9 power we can generate amounts of mana with Selvala.

• Magosi, the Waterveil: It requires to be tapped, but you can untap it via Seedborn Muse, Urban Burgeoning or Voyaging Satyr.

But why? Why I need to skip my turns?

Good question. The deck is based on a lot of cards with different utilities that can be really good if we have no turns. Let's see:

Symmetrical effects Show

Here I have effects that affects to each player during their turnd, but we can avoid them if we have no unkeeps:

• Stoneshaker Shaman: Our opponents can avoid the land destruction effect if they tap all their lands (even if they doesn't use the mana to do anything), but that makes that player unnable to play spells at instant speed.

• Mana Vortex: When we play this, we need to sacrifice a land, but that won't be really a problem, and making the opponents sacrifice a land on each of their turns can be devastating.

• Hokori, Dust Drinker, Winter Orb: here is the Stax part of the deck. The lock is simple our opponents will be unable to untap all their lands, but we will untap our own lands in their unkeep with our Seedborn Muse, following the main plan of the deck.

• Static Orb, Tangle Wire: The same, but with all (or almost all) the permanents. Tangle Wire is better than normal here, because we don't remove any counter from it.

• Stasis: This is the brutal variation of what I mentioned with Hokori and Static Orb, and we won't need to pay the tax that Stasis has because, of course, we won't have any unkeep!

• Sulfuric Vortex, Primal Order Havoc Festival: These ones are very good because them are designed to damage everyone, but we can do some tricks and avoid that damage.

Protect your face! Show

Probably if our opponents see that we are skipping our turns, they will think: "What the hell is doing that guy?". But then they will try to kill us, like all the players (except the group hug one), but we have som tricks to protect us:

• Elephant Grass: For only 1 mana is best than a Ghostly Prison, because we can avoid the cumulative unkeep cost and it makes that black creatures simply can attack.

• Painter's Servant: Combined with Elephant Grass can disable all attacks.

• Glacial Chasm and Solitary Confinement: These, are simply brutal in this deck: No downsides! weeeeeee! Also Chasm is even better because we can tutor it.

Start you engines!

Now, we have no turns and we get advantage of that (and we played some staxy cards like Hokori, Dust Drinker), but we need to play something to be able to kill our opponents. That means to play in the opponents turns, to do that we seed some things:

We need mana Show

That is basic, to play in our opponents turns, we need mana, and that is how we get it:

• Seedborn Muse and Quest for Renewal: The objective of that two is to untap our mana sources. Also can utap our permanents for other utilities, but the most important is to generate mana.

• Cryptolith Rite and Song of Freyalise: If you have Seedborn Muse you don't need more things, but Quest for Renewal only untaps creatures, and to generate mana with these we need to ransform our creatures into mana dorks (everyone is Birds of Paradise, weee!). Song of Freyalise is exactly the same that Cryptolith Rite, because if we skip our turns, we won't put any lore counter on it.

• Rishkar, Peema Renegade: It has the same utlity as Cryptolith Rite: Transform our creatures into mana dorks. You can think "but this is worse, because in only transforms 2 creatures into mana dorks". That is true, but that changes if we have one of the blinking bois (Deadeye Navigator and Eldrazi Displacer).

Here comes Teferi Show

Yeah, Teferi, but not these hateful teferis named Teferi, Hero of Dominaria and Teferi, Time Raveler. Here we need to play our spells in our opponents turn to do something, right? And of course we will use that ability named Flash:

• Vedalken Orrery, Leyline of Anticipation and Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir: Obviously, these are to play our spells at instant speed. All are great, probably Teferi seems the worst option because it costs 5 mana and three of them are blue mana, but I think that is the best because it has flash, and we can start to skip our turns, draw him, and then cast it and start to cast the other things from our hand.

• Alchemist's Refuge: This one is worse than the three that i mentioned above, but we can tutor it with Golos.

These cards are important to our "combo", but we can simply use the ability of Golos to cast spells in the opponents turns, but that cards are important if our opponents kill Golos or they have something like Stony Silence that can't let us to use the ability of Golos.

Cards! We need cards! Show

If we have no turns, that means that also we don't have any draw step, and we need to do something to keep drawing cards:

• Mystic Remora and Rhystic Study: These are commander staples, and as I mentioned a lot of times above, we don't pay the unkeep cost of Remora, because we don't have turns.

• Consecrated Sphinx: 2 cards each turn. Anything bad to say about that?

Another thing that I want to say, is that one of the positive things of not having turns, is that we don't have a discard step, and that means that is like we don't have maximum hand size.

Time to act

We talked about how to play our things in the opponent's turn, but what we can do really? (or cast with Golos):

Each unkeep I will be happier Show

Here we have cards that do things on each turn that can give to us some advantage:

• Tendershoot Dryad and Verdant Force: With these we will have really big swarms, and another good point is that the two create saprolings, and with Tendershoot Dryad pumping all the saprolings, having the two on the battlefield can be devastating. Conclusion: These two cards are very good finishers

Now I hate my opponents Show

• Opposition: Once we started to do our shenanigans with Seedborn Muse this becaomes a big deal, because we can protect us by tapping the opponents' creatures, or just we can tap all the lands that they have. Note: To tap the lands of the player that is in his or her turn, we need to activate Opposition at instant speed during his or her unkeep; because he or she will untap all the lands that we want to untap in response to add mana, and then, that opponent only will be able to cast instants before the mana that he or she generated disapears from the mana pool.

• Bloodchief Ascension: Draining life to our opponents and also giving you some life that can be important to survive.

• Wound Reflection: This one is simply an incredible win condition: has a very good synergy with Bloodchief Ascension, Sulfuric Vortex and Primal Order, and is something like an insta-kill with Havoc Festival. If we can skip all our turns, and we get Wound Reflection + Havoc Festival we can say bye to our opponents.

mana, Mana, MANA! Show

With our Seedborn Muse tricks we can generate some amounts of mana, but if we don't have any interesting spell, what we can do with it?

• Kruphix, God of Horizons: You have a lot of mana, but you don't know what to do with it? Keep it with Kruphix! The bad news are that it becomes colorless, unless for Eldrazi Displacer, that can be happy now, and we can have some fun with it. Also if you want colored mana you can generate in the turn that you need it.

• Slimefoot, the Stowaway: This is a very good finisher, ot at least I love it in this deck. It can generate some amount of saprolings during all the turns, and also that saprolings are good against mass removal, because you ping for 1 to each opponent when one of them die. But you remember Verdant Force and Tendershoot Dryad? Them simply do an incredible job paired with Slimefoot: You create a saproling army that pings an opponent every time a saproling dies. Really fun.

Other utility

Here I have all the cards that have specific reasons to be here, but that I don't mentioned iny any section:

• Training Grounds and Biomancer's Familiar: These makes the Golos ability cheaper and more easy to use it twice per turn, but also helps with the other creatures with activated abilities that we have: The blinking bois (Eldrazi Displacer and Deadeye Navigator) and Slimefoot, the Stowaway.

• Privileged Position: Our plan involves a lot of permanents, and that makes it weak. Privileged Position can eliminate that weakness.

2 true combos here!

One of the things why I cataloged the deck as Combo is that the whole engine to skip all our turns feels very combo-ish, but the deck has also 2 combos that we can use to end some games:

First: Dockside Extortionist + Deadeye Navigator: If our opponents have 3 or more artifacts and enchantments, we pay 2 mana to blink, we create 3 or more treasures when the Goblin enters the battlefield and we sacrifice 2 of them to blink it another time. That lefts us with infinite treasures, or, in other words, infinite mana.

With that mana we can activate the ability of Slimefoot, the Stowaway to create infinite saprolings (that pings the opponents when them die), and then wait for our next turn. If we don't have Slimefoot, we can search it by activating Golos all the times that we want. Is true that you can simply play your entire deck with Golos, but is more effective to use Slimefoot because the board wipes won't make you loose. And if you can't win with Slimefoot (due to things like Terminus or any other reason) then you can activate Golos until you find something like Havoc Festival + Wound Reflection, but never play your etire deck, because that makes you vulnerable to board-wipes.

Second: Painter's Servant + Grindstone: The first use for Painter's Servant was to create ssomething like a lock in with Elephant Grass, but I thought "now that I added it I can add also Grindstone to finish some games". This is a classic legacy and EDH combo: You choose a color for Painter's Servant (in this deck you will choose black everytime for Elephant Grass), then with Grindstone you will mill all the opponents.

Tutors & Recursion

As I mentioned above, this plan involves a lot of different permanents, and what we can do to find them? Tutor them!

• Demonic Tutor and Vampiric Tutor: The best from the best

• Enlightened Tutor: Mainly, we will search for enchantments with this, but also we can search for artifacts.

• Sterling Grove: Decent tutor for enchantments, but also protects them and sometimes we will play it for that reason.

• Academy Rector: The famous rector is here to teach our opponents some magic tricks!

• Worldly Tutor and Eladamri's Call: For creatures

Also another important things in all the combo decks are the recursion spells, right? And if we tutor our Magosi, the Waterveil we don't want to see it in our graveyard, right?

• Tamiyo, Collector of Tales: Is best that Eternal Witness here, because she also can find important piecesfor our engine.

• Petrified Field: This is a very good recursion option for Magosi, because its a land, and that means that we can tutor it with Golos.

• Life from the Loam: Here, we play Life from the Loam in a fair way! Wow! If we have this, our Magosi is in a save place, because if we cast this, and the Magosi gets destroyed another time, we can simply dredge 3 and return it another time to our hand. Also we can use it as a ramp spell returning our fetchlands to our hand (but is not recommendable to abuse of this card, because the risk of mill important pieces of the engine).

All feedback is appreciated, because it helps to our magic tricks! I hope you liked the deck, and thanks for meeting Chronatog and Friends :)

Also take a look to my other commander primers!

• ✶Twilight Sparkle's Hug✶【Group Hug Primer】

• a cat gnawing my sword【Primer】

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Date added	5 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	34 - 0 Mythic Rares 42 - 0 Rares 8 - 0 Uncommons 6 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.95
Tokens	City's Blessing, Saproling 1/1 G, Treasure
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