I Need An Answer

Commander / EDH Control RBW (Mardu)

Almios

Instant (35)

• 1x Afterlife Insurance
• 1x Akroma's Will
• 1x Angel's Grace
• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Bedevil
• 1x Boros Charm
• 1x Call In a Professional
• 1x Call the Coppercoats
• 1x Chance for Glory
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Comeuppance
• 1x Cosmic Intervention
• 1x Crackling Doom
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Faith's Reward
• 1x Final Showdown
• 1x Fracture
• 1x Fury Storm
• 1x Great Train Heist
• 1x Hide / Seek
• 1x Kaya's Guile
• 1x Kolaghan's Command
• 1x Master Warcraft
• 1x Mortify
• 1x Oblation
• 1x Olorin's Searing Light
• 1x Orim's Thunder
• 1x Rakdos Charm
• 1x Return the Favor
• 1x Settle the Wreckage
• 1x Take the Bait
• 1x Teferi's Protection
• 1x Utter End
• 1x Warhost's Frenzy
• 1x Wyll's Reversal

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Demonic Tutor

Land (33)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Badlands
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Field of the Dead
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Minas Tirith
• 1x Mines of Moria
• 1x Mistveil Plains
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Plains
• 1x Plateau
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Savai Triome
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Snow-Covered Mountain
• 1x Snow-Covered Plains
• 1x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Swamp
• 1x The Mycosynth Gardens
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Wasteland
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Biotransference
• 1x Court of Ardenvale
• 1x Court of Embereth
• 1x Court of Locthwain

Commander (1)

Creature (15)

• 1x Alesha, Who Smiles at Death
• 1x Delney, Streetwise Lookout
• 1x Eldrazi Displacer
• 1x Esper Sentinel
• 1x Goblin Engineer
• 1x Imperial Recruiter
• 1x Mari, the Killing Quill
• 1x Monastery Mentor
• 1x Orcish Bowmasters
• 1x Recruiter of the Guard
• 1x Sedgemoor Witch
• 1x Stoneforge Mystic
• 1x Storm-Kiln Artist
• 1x Teysa Karlov
• 1x Young Pyromancer

Artifact (11)

• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Shadowspear
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sunforger
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1x Sword of Forge and Frontier
• 1x Talisman of Conviction
• 1x Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence

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Violence isn't the answer, it is the question. The answer is Yes.

Follow me through the breakdown on what is a deck that exerts control over the battlefield through various tutors and the pieces they find to support our board of tokens.

Creatures

Our creatures come together to provide us with synergies in the form of tutors, token generation and making those tokens lethal.

Tutors

We have five (5) creatures that work as a form of tutor effect to ensure we can find what we are looking for in the right situation and lineup.

Alesha, Who Smiles at Death is more of a reanimator than a tutor but they are very much in the same vein. Eleven (11) out of our fifteen (15) creatures are recoverable with her attack trigger to add resiliency to their effects with a couple having enter the battlefield triggers.

Goblin Engineer is a mix of tutor and reanimator that is used to put all thirteen (13) of our artifacts into the graveyard. Granted any artifact can go the the grave all of our artifacts are also recoverable with his ability. If we have Biotransference on the battlefield the range of his abilities increase and we now have an additional fourteen (14) targets to be thrown into the graveyard and twelve (12) of them being recoverable with his ability.

Imperial Recruiter helps us tutor ten (10) out of our fifteen (15) creatures to find us the right piece for the gameplan.

Recruiter of the Guard helps us tutor twelve (12) out of our fifteen (15) creatures to find us the right piece for the gameplan.

Stoneforge Mystic helps us tutor four (4) our of our thiteen (13) artifacts which all have important roles in the form of activated/triggered abilities and evasion to push through damage.

Tokens

We have three (3) creatures that help us generate a board state with one (1) that turn this generated board state into a force to be reckoned with.

Monastery Mentor is an amazing token generator that makes very powerful tokens as with a turn of a lot of noncreature spellcasting we can have a very large and powerful board. The effect to make tokens triggers off of fifty-one (51) cards.

Sedgemoor Witch generates tokens that also help with potential life problems when they die. She is a little harder to remove since she has ward as well. The effect to make tokens triggers off of thirty-six (36) cards with the chance for additional triggers with Fury Storm, Return the Favor and Wyll's Reversal.

Young Pyromancer also generates tokens but they aren't as flashy as the other two. Left unchecked they can still present a problem in the form of sheer numbers. The effect to make tokens triggers off of thirty-six (36) cards.

Teysa Karlov turns our tokens into life generators as we can attract a lot of attention and if we need to go on the offensive allows us to keep them back as blockers after attacking.

The Utility

The rest of our creatures serve various utility needs and help further the gameplan but aren't necessary to keep it going.

Delney, Streetwise Lookout does two things for us, the skulk but not skulk is a cute little effect for our weenies to get through but the real secret comes form the second effect. Ten (10) out of our fifteen (15) creatures now have their triggered effects happen multiple times with a big focus on our token generators.

Eldrazi Displacer is a little unique. This can be used offensively and defensively either to get an enter the battlefield trigger repeated or to blink away an attacker. Something important to note is we only have ten (10) sources that can produce generic mana, so tap wisely.

Esper Sentinel can give us incidental card draw, with our equipment we can assure we get our draw off of noncreature spells easily.

Mari, the Killing Quill is our anti-reanimator tech with the upside of potential card draw later if need be. It is important to note she is not a replacement effect, the creature still hits the graveyard first then is exiled. So death triggers still happen.

Orcish Bowmasters is here to punish people who like to draw too much and to get a little revenge on whoever stole the monarchy from us.

Artifacts

Our artifacts have a focus on helping use fix mana problems with a few utility pieces.

Mana Solutions

Playing three colors can be a hassle sometimes but we take measures to ensure we get what we need. Six (6) out of our eleven (11) artifacts have mana fixing in mind.

Chromatic Lantern is very close to an auto include given it provides mana itself and also allows for our lands to be used for whatever colors we need, including our fetches in a pinch.

Talisman of Conviction, Talisman of Hierarchy, and Talisman of Indulgence are mana rocks that are easily playable while still providing our colors on top of being able to be used for generic over our lands. These did replace Battlefield Forge, Caves of Koilos and Sulfurous Springs as they can potentially be played faster.

Equipment

Our choices in equipment gives us utility as well as evasion so we are prepared for most situations.

Shadowspear has the main focus around the activated ability to allow us to use removal or kill spells for a very cheap and repeatable effect. The keywords it gives go well with our commander with the deathtouch and trample synergy.

Sunforger IS THE ACTUAL COMMANDER. This card is absolutely wonderful and has as lot of power behind it. Just over one third of our deck can be tutored up by this card's ability. Manage to equip this card and you are sitting on just about any answer you could need in the form of removal, protection or even just shifting the dynamic of the game by altering combat outcomes. It is important to pay attention to what you search up to cast as some of our spells are more suited for different situation maybe due to the modes or what targets it can hit. Additional costs such as kicker can be paid to get even more power out of our spells and now with Spree

Sword of Feast and Famine is mainly here for the effect to untap our lands with a touch of evasion. Having access to our lands two times each turn is a great way to make sure we keep the board under control.

Sword of Forge and Frontier acts as a repeatable ramp spell and also temporarily expands our hand size to give us more options on things to cast.

Enchantments and Sorceries

We run very few of these even though these categories usually hold powerhouses of cards.

Enchantments

Very straightforward in their applications for us, these enchantments help us maintain a board presence to apply pressure.

Biotransference can trigger twenty-seven (27) times off our card selection which is a decent amount. We don't have many ways of recurring these creatures to be cast again outside of our commander but getting a body for casting spells usually feels pretty good. Watch out for the double edged sword of everything being an artifact as we can Goblin Engineer a lot more but we open ourselves to more removal options.

Court of Ardenvale simply acts as recursion, it did replace Sun Titan as it isn't as costly to cast/play and can just be left to it's own devices. It is big to note twenty-four (24) of our permanents (not counting lands) are viable targets. With lands it becomes fifty-seven (57).

Court of Embereth is probably the weakest court but also the strongest. The token it generates isn't anything too flashy but as soon as the condition of being the monarch is met we now have an enchantment that can decimate life totals due to our constant token generation.

Court of Locthwain simply gives us more cards to play with namely from out opponents. Having more resources can come in handy as well, and if we manage to cast them for free then that's just great for us.

Sorceries

I like playing at instant speed, but the one sorcery we do run is too good not to.

Demonic Tutor is there as a utility piece as it ensures we can get any one card we need for a certain situation. But primarily you will probably want Sunforger

Instants and Lands

If our commander is actually Sunforger then Crucible of Worlds is the partner commander. Thirty five cards in our deck are castable with Sunforger and each one of them holds a different purpose. Crucible of Worlds sees strong synergies with our fetch lands and our lands with abilities that sacrificing them is part of the cost.

Instants

With our wide variety of instants we find we have an answer for a lot of situations. A big thing of note is spells with additional costs can have those costs paid for when we use Sunforger for additional effects.

The most important thing to keep in mind when searching for a spell to cast is how versatile is that spell is or if it shares a purpose with another spell. For example Boros Charm makes for a great protection spell against a boardwipe but if that boardwipe is Blasphemous Act you will probably want to cast Comeuppance instead as it will keep your board safe and punish your opponent. Maybe it is even better for your board to die and come back so you case Cosmic Intervention or Faith's Reward to still take the boardwipe but come back with some enter the battlefield effects.

The same logic as above can apply to removal spells as while they both are able to eliminate creatures, depending on the style of deck your opponents are running, Bedevil and Mortify can have two different impacts throughout the game.

We have a few utility spells that can give gotcha moments that turn the tide heavily in our favor Chance for Glory, Fury Storm and Wyll's Reversal maybe with a surprise extra turn or copying your opponents big flashy spell for the win.

In combat some of these spells can shin in the form of making favorable trades, but we can get interesting with some of these spells with our timing. Master Warcraft can be used to turn your opponents combat into yours essentially to eliminate a troublesome boardstate or even troublesome opponent. Settle the Wreckage works as long as the creatures are deemed as attackers to act as protection same. Take the Bait is important to keep an eye on as it can be used on an opponent to make them do your dirty work or even use it during your own combat for an additional combat step to clean house.

The mentality to have is which instant gets me closer to that win.

Lands

I stand by the idea that lands are some of the most powerful cards in the game as they are usually some of the hardest to interact with. Our lands have a few secondary effects that fit our gameplan or simply act as utility.

Our landbase is built around the card Field of the Dead as with some proper land management we are now getting a creature for the simplest mechanic in the game.

Fetchlands and our fetchable lands help us with color fixing as long as we pay attention to what colors we need. We have some of the best lands to fetch for in the game with minimal downsides to accomplish this and still have a good pace in the game. Combined with Crucible of Worlds and the above mentioned Field of the Dead we find ourselves generating value multiple times over. Get lucky with a Faith's Reward for some non-green ramp.

We have a few lands that we need to sacrifice for their effects but are repeatable with Crucible of Worlds. We also have a few lands with activated abilities that don't require a sacrifice but have some big utility behind them such as Mistveil Plains since it can keep our Sunforger stocked up or with The Mycosynth Gardens we can have a second one!

Finishing Blows

We win through three methods and they are all damage based. We have commander damage since our commander is a creature and has haste, we have regular damage since we have a lot of creatures and we have Court of Embereth for the blindside win.

The Infinites

We have the capacity to go infinite in one way and it has a lot of moving parts.

Angel's Grace, Chance for Glory and Mistveil Plains are required. Sunforger and Sword of Feast and Famine are also big players but aren't required.

The basic concept is you use Chance for Glory to take the extra turn and do whatever you may need, which is generally combat. One the second turn you Angel's Grace so you don't lose, pretty straightforward. We use Mistveil Plains to put these cards back into our deck so we can repeat this process. Sunforger is used to cast the spells easily if we have a lot of deck left and Sword of Feast and Famine gives us mana to activate all of our abilities as well as use Mistveil Plains additional times. This is a very mana intensive combo as we need to meet the conditions to equip and unequip Sunforger and activate Mistveil Plains multiple times in a turn for maximum efficiency.

Even with all of this effort we can be met with trouble with Teferi's Protection so we have to do one simple thing Call In a Professional. By adding this to our loop we can get through to our opponent in the only way we can, commander damage. The life total of our opponent can't change and they have protection which means they can't take damage. With Call In a Professional we make it so damage can't be prevented which means that even if our opponent won't have their life total change they are still taking damage which in this format commander damage still builds up. So even with a life total that won't change they still take commander damage and after twenty-one (21) they won't ever phase back in.

This describes the whole concept above pretty well.

Recently I have discovered that Fury Storm can help us go infinite as well with Sedgemoor Witch or Storm-Kiln Artist. If we have cast our commander once we are now able to combo off if we have the pieces. What you do is you cast Fury Storm and with the copy you target the original, which then makes a copy that can now target the original again. Given the wording of Magecraft we now are able to trigger either Sedgemoor Witch or Storm-Kiln Artist as much as we want in order to build a board of infinite pests or mana with treasures.

September 23, 2024 Ban Updates

Removed: Dockside Extortionist.

Added: Storm-Kiln Artist since the effect to make tokens triggers off of thirty-six (36) cards with the chance for additional triggers with Fury Storm, Return the Favor and Wyll's Reversal.

Date added	1 year
Last updated	3 weeks
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	18 - 0 Mythic Rares 59 - 0 Rares 14 - 0 Uncommons 3 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.84
Tokens	Assassin 1/1 B w/ Haste, Elemental 1/1 R, Foretell, Human Soldier 1/1 W, Monk 1/1 W, Necron Warrior 2/2 B, Orc Army, Pest 1/1 BG, Spirit 1/1 WB, The Monarch, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Main Squeeze