With the consent of my playgroup, I'm going to try and make Ink-Treader Nephilim work in Commander. I'm a black player at heart and so I would like to take up this challenge, step out of my comfort zone and see if I can create a fun deck that is totally different from what I usually do. Now, there are a hundred ways to go about this, so I'm just going to make this a work-in-progress and keep posting updates here.

The general idea would be to stuff it full of small effects that get reflected onto every other creature on the battlefield. I'm thinking Swords to Plowshares and Snakeform of course, but also things like Twitch, Electrolyze and Threaten to jack up everyone's day. Who knew Unsummon had the potential to be game-changing?

Note: we've banned Prophet of Kruphix in our playgroup so she's not making the cut.

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After a few months of intense gameplay and slowly editing the deck, it's time for another update.

OUT: 1x Blast of Genius, 1x Burnished Hart, 1x Crypsis, 1x Dramatic Rescue, 1x Elixir of Immortality, 1x Guttersnipe, 1x Hoofprints of the Stag, 1x Horizon Chimera, 1x Hour of Need, 1x Lightning Bolt, 1x Lorescale Coatl, 1x March of the Machines, 1x Possibility Storm, 1x Repel the Darkness, 1x Rugged Highlands, 1x Thornwood Falls, 1x Unsummon, 1x Wind-Scarred Crag, 1x Worn Powerstone, 1x Zap

IN: 1x Blaze Commando, 1x Catch / Release, 1x Cytoshape, 1x Chasm Skulker, 1x Electrolyze, 1x Explosive Vegetation, 1x Fire / Ice, 1x Inside Out, 1x Lightning Helix, 1x Pressure Point, 1x Relic of Progenitus, 1x Searing Blood, 1x Shield of Kaldra, 1x Temple of Mystery, 1x Temple of Triumph, 1x Temple of Abandon, 1x Threaten, 1x Venser's Journal, 1x Wear / Tear, 1x Young Pyromancer

This is where the deck is supposed to be going, I'm consistently hammering opposition once I get Nephi online. I particularly enjoy the look on people's faces when I pull off a Laboratory Maniac win. Nephi is easy to underestimate, it seems.

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Date added 10 years
Last updated 7 years
Legality

This deck is Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

2 - 0 Mythic Rares

28 - 0 Rares

24 - 0 Uncommons

29 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 3.05
Tokens 1/1 WU Token Creature Bird, Construct */* C, Copy Clone, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Elemental 1/1 R, Saproling 1/1 G, Shapeshifter 1/1 C, Squid 1/1 U
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