Ink-Treader Arcane Chaos

Commander / EDH Casual Combo Four Color Multiplayer

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Creature (12)

• 1x Academy Rector
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Hunted Phantasm
• 1x Hunted Troll
• 1x Hushwing Gryff
• 1x Lost Auramancers
• 1x Nivmagus Elemental
• 1x Precursor Golem
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Soulfire Grand Master
• 1x Sylvan Caryatid
• 1x Varchild's War-Riders

Land (38)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 4x Forest
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 3x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 4x Mountain
• 1x Opal Palace
• 3x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Tolaria West
• 1x Vivid Crag
• 1x Vivid Creek
• 1x Vivid Grove
• 1x Vivid Meadow
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Cast Through Time
• 1x Dovescape
• 1x Eye of the Storm
• 1x March of the Machines
• 1x Possibility Storm

Artifact (9)

• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Coalition Relic
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Sphere of the Suns
• 1x Strionic Resonator
• 1x Sunforger
• 1x Torpor Orb

Instant (26)

• 1x Arcbond
• 1x Awe Strike
• 1x Candles' Glow
• 1x Cerulean Wisps
• 1x Change of Heart
• 1x Consuming Vortex
• 1x Crib Swap
• 1x Crimson Wisps
• 1x Cytoshape
• 1x Desperate Ritual
• 1x Evermind
• 1x Glacial Ray
• 1x Kodama's Might
• 1x Lightning Helix
• 1x Mirror Strike
• 1x Niveous Wisps
• 1x Peer Through Depths
• 1x Pressure Point
• 1x Psychic Puppetry
• 1x Snap
• 1x Spawning Breath
• 1x Spiritual Visit
• 1x Spiritualize
• 1x Supplant Form
• 1x Veil of Secrecy
• 1x Word of Seizing

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Alliance of Arms
• 1x Blast of Genius
• 1x Eerie Procession
• 1x Fiery Gambit
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Spitting Image
• 1x Stolen Identity
• 1x Traitorous Instinct

Commander (1)

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My take on an Ink-Treader Nephilim commander deck, with some splice onto Arcane and chaos enchantment shenanigans.

The deck aims to get a large number of creature tokens on the board (doesn't matter whose control), draw a bunch of cards by targeting Ink-Treader with a cantrip such as Niveous Wisps , then cast one of its several wincons.

Splice onto Arcane has a hilarious synergy with Ink-Treader - I can make spells that don't normally target, such as Kodama's Reach or Eerie Procession , target Ink-Treader and thus get copied. Pull out every basic land from my deck? Why not?

The chaos enchantments were chosen to work well with Ink-Treader. Ink-Treader's trigger will resolve regardless of what happens to the original spell - Possibility Storm gets me a second spell for free, Dovescape gets me tokens for Ink-Treader (I can stack it so your spells get copied for their own tokens!), Eye of the Storm gets me an extra Ink-Treader trigger alongside its usual craziness, and March of the Machines gets me extra targets and stops opponents equipping pesky Lightning Greaves.

The win conditions are many - my main inspiration for the deck was "build your own wincon!" I can just make a ton of Dovescape Bird tokens and Cytoshape them into the biggest creature on the battlefield (turning my opponents' creatures into 1/1s in the process), get five copies of everything with a kicked Rite of Replication, pump up my guys with repeated Kodama's Might splices and tap down the enemy team with Psychic Puppetry , make them kill themselves with Mirror Strike , gain control of all creatures with Word of Seizing , kill everyone with Arcbond , or even win with hundreds of Fiery Gambit coin flips.

I'm looking for janky wincon suggestions. I mostly want to replace Cast Through Time as it's a nonbo with most of my other enchantments.

The more I play this deck, the more crazy interactions I find. Give it a shot :)

Date added	9 years
Last updated	9 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 43 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 21 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.93
Tokens	1/1 WU Token Creature Bird, Copy Clone, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Faerie 1/1 U, Goblin 1/1 R, Golem 3/3 C, Shapeshifter 1/1 C, Soldier 1/1 W, Spirit 1/1 C, Survivor 1/1 R
Folders	Cool EDH Decks