It's Mishra who changed CMC into Mana Value | BLB

Commander / EDH Budget Sacrifice Theme/Gimmick UBR (Grixis) Value Engine

Beebles

Lands (37)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Bonders' Enclave
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Drossforge Bridge
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x High Market
• 4x Island
• 1x Kazuul's Fury  ^Flip
• 1x Malakir Rebirth  ^Flip
• 1x Mistvault Bridge
• 4x Mountain
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Phyrexia's Core
• 1x Rakdos Carnarium
• 1x Shadowblood Ridge
• 1x Shipwreck Marsh
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Silverbluff Bridge
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Song-Mad Treachery  ^Flip
• 1x Spire of Industry
• 4x Swamp

CMC Matters (12)

• 1x Anchor to Reality
• 1x Ayara, Widow of the Realm  ^Flip
• 1x Burnt Offering
• 1x Illuminor Szeras
• 1x Kethek, Crucible Goliath
• 1x Morbid Curiosity
• 1x Nahiri's Sacrifice
• 1x Reckoner's Bargain
• 1x Scrap Trawler
• 1x Scrap Welder
• 1x Simulacrum Synthesizer
• 1x Soldevi Adnate

Keep the Tokens (5)

• 1x Esoteric Duplicator
• 1x Hithlain Rope
• 1x Obeka, Brute Chronologist
• 1x Teferi's Veil
• 1x Worldwalker Helm

Steal (5)

• 1x Deluxe Dragster
• 1x Eriette's Tempting Apple
• 1x Mob Rule
• 1x Nautiloid Ship
• 1x Song-Mad Treachery  ^Flip

Big Mana (3)

• 1x Burnt Offering
• 1x Illuminor Szeras
• 1x Soldevi Adnate

Tutors (2)

• 1x Anchor to Reality
• 1x Imperial Recruiter

Draw/Filter (19)

• 1x Bonders' Enclave
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Coveted Jewel
• 1x Deadly Dispute
• 1x Disciple of Bolas
• 1x Esoteric Duplicator
• 1x Hithlain Rope
• 1x Ichor Wellspring
• 1x Idol of Oblivion
• 1x Imskir Iron-Eater
• 1x Kethek, Crucible Goliath
• 1x Mephitic Draught
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Morbid Curiosity
• 1x Reckoner's Bargain
• 1x Simulacrum Synthesizer
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x The Mightstone and Weakstone  ^Meld
• 1x Wondrous Crucible

Interaction (14)

• 1x An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Imskir Iron-Eater
• 1x Kazuul's Fury  ^Flip
• 1x Magmatic Galleon
• 1x Nahiri's Sacrifice
• 1x Nautiloid Ship
• 1x Red Sun's Twilight
• 1x Rolling Hamsphere
• 1x Skysovereign, Consul Flagship
• 1x Spine of Ish Sah
• 1x Stubborn Denial
• 1x The Mightstone and Weakstone  ^Meld
• 1x Tithing Blade  ^Flip

CMC Tokens (8)

• 1x Determined Iteration
• 1x Faerie Artisans
• 1x Hate Mirage
• 1x Mimic Vat
• 1x Phyrexian Triniform
• 1x Red Sun's Twilight
• 1x Saheeli, the Sun's Brilliance
• 1x Wondrous Crucible

Recursion (5)

• 1x Ayara, Widow of the Realm  ^Flip
• 1x Goblin Welder
• 1x Scrap Trawler
• 1x Scrap Welder
• 1x Wondrous Crucible

Direct Damage (4)

• 1x Ayara, Widow of the Realm  ^Flip
• 1x Knight Paladin
• 1x Reaver Titan
• 1x Rolling Hamsphere

Life (3)

• 1x Ayara, Widow of the Realm  ^Flip
• 1x Disciple of Bolas
• 1x Reckoner's Bargain

Commander (1)

Sac Outlet (16)

• 1x Ayara, Widow of the Realm  ^Flip
• 1x Burnt Offering
• 1x Deadly Dispute
• 1x Disciple of Bolas
• 1x Dracoplasm
• 1x Goblin Welder
• 1x High Market
• 1x Illuminor Szeras
• 1x Kazuul's Fury  ^Flip
• 1x Kethek, Crucible Goliath
• 1x Morbid Curiosity
• 1x Nahiri's Sacrifice
• 1x Phyrexia's Core
• 1x Reckoner's Bargain
• 1x Scrap Welder
• 1x Soldevi Adnate

Ramp (13)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Coveted Jewel
• 1x Cursed Mirror
• 1x Hithlain Rope
• 1x Machine God's Effigy
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Navigation Orb
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x The Mightstone and Weakstone  ^Meld
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Copy (7)

• 1x Cursed Mirror
• 1x Determined Iteration
• 1x Esoteric Duplicator
• 1x Imposter Mech
• 1x Machine God's Effigy
• 1x Strionic Resonator
• 1x Worldwalker Helm

Protection (4)

• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Malakir Rebirth  ^Flip
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Wondrous Crucible

Stats Matter (3)

• 1x Disciple of Bolas
• 1x Dracoplasm
• 1x Kazuul's Fury  ^Flip

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Maybeboard

Draw/Filter (11)

• 1x Chromatic Orrery
• 1x Expressive Iteration
• 1x Mnemonic Sphere
• 1x Mycosynth Wellspring
• 1x Nexus of Becoming
• 1x Nihil Spellbomb
• 1x Rakdos, the Muscle
• 1x Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Smelting Vat
• 1x Trading Post

Steal (5)

• 1x Firbolg Flutist
• 1x Molten Primordial
• 1x Rakdos, the Muscle
• 1x The Scarab God
• 1x Treasure Nabber

Big Mana (3)

• 1x Chromatic Orrery
• 1x Priest of Yawgmoth
• 1x Ruthless Technomancer

Other (3)

• 1x Gonti's Aether Heart
• 1x Rise and Shine
• 1x Sacrifice

Keep the Tokens (2)

• 1x Sundial of the Infinite
• 1x The Master, Multiplied

Life (1)

• 1x Trading Post

Interaction (8)

• 1x Amphin Mutineer
• 1x Broadside Bombardiers
• 1x Executioner's Capsule
• 1x Necron Deathmark
• 1x Nihil Spellbomb
• 1x Noxious Gearhulk
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Uchuulon

CMC Tokens (6)

• 1x Amphin Mutineer
• 1x Endless Evil
• 1x Feldon of the Third Path
• 1x Heat Shimmer
• 1x Nexus of Becoming
• 1x The Scarab God

Myriad (4)

• 1x Auton Soldier
• 1x Blade of Selves
• 1x Corporeal Projection
• 1x Cybermen Squadron

Copy (3)

• 1x Lithoform Engine
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Uchuulon

Stats Matter (2)

• 1x Ruthless Technomancer
• 1x Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar

Tutors (1)

• 1x Arcum Dagsson

Sac Outlet (8)

• 1x Arcum Dagsson
• 1x Blast-Furnace Hellkite
• 1x Broadside Bombardiers
• 1x Priest of Yawgmoth
• 1x Ruthless Technomancer
• 1x Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar
• 1x Smelting Vat
• 1x Trading Post

NCA (5)

• 1x Blade of Selves
• 1x Chromatic Orrery
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Smelting Vat
• 1x Sundial of the Infinite

CMC Matters (4)

• 1x Broadside Bombardiers
• 1x Priest of Yawgmoth
• 1x Rakdos, the Muscle
• 1x Smelting Vat

Buff (3)

• 1x Blast-Furnace Hellkite
• 1x Corporeal Projection
• 1x Cybermen Squadron

Recursion (3)

• 1x Feldon of the Third Path
• 1x Ruthless Technomancer
• 1x Trading Post

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Hello there and welcome to my budget Mishra Mana Value deck.

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Origin

I love deck ideas where you get to play with rules interactions that aren’t very common. And the idea to do something with the fact that token copies also copy the CMC of the original card has been on my mind for a while. Mishra was already a contender for that, but I had not gotten around to give it a proper try beyond brainstorming. When The Big Score bonus set came around with Thunder Junction, it made me reconsider that idea, because it has many cards that care about a card’s mana value. I also liked it that I could make this deck low power and that it would be relatively cheap to get the missing cards.

Deck premise

The main theme of the deck is to turn the high cmc of the token copies that the deck makes into value. There are several cards that can sac said tokens to gain resources equal to the CMC, such as Soldevi Adnate and Burnt Offering for mana, Scrap Trawler and Scrap Welder for recursion, Morbid Curiosity and Kethek, Crucible Goliath for cards, and Ayara, Widow of the Realm   and Reckoner's Bargain for life. There are also a few cards in here that prevent us from having to sacrifice our tokens end of turn.

We can create token copies of artifacts through our commander. Utility artifacts like The Mightstone and Weakstone   or several of the vehicles are nice targets to duplicate. Encore cards are also great to get some higher cmc token copies on the board. However the more interesting way is to get token copies of things our opponents play, through cards like Faerie Artisans or Hate Mirage. We can also straight up steal things from our opponents through a card like Mob Rule but I limited the use of such cards here.

In the end the deck can close out the game by ammassing a lot of Karnstruct tokens via Simulacrum Synthesizer or my creating multiple copies of vehicles that deal direct damage, such as Reaver Titan or Rolling Hamsphere.

Rules Interactions

Apart from the mana value thing, there are some other interesting things that Mishra does. For example, when you use its ability to copy a legendary artifact, the legend rule does not trigger. This is because the copy gets a different name than the original card, so you don’t have 2 legendary permanents with the same name. Also, since the tokens are sacrificed at the end of turn, there are a few ways around that rule that you can use, like ending the turn with those triggers on the stack with Obeka, Brute Chronologist or with Hithlain Rope.

I was also excited to run Myriad cards in here, but then I realizated those tokens unfortunately go away at the end of combat and not at the end of turn. This greatly limits the tricks you can do with them.

Nostalgia

This deck was also an opportunity to run the first rare I ever opened: Dracoplasm. Nostalgia points always help me to get a deck idea built. That is also why I included Imperial Recruiter, to have Dracoplasm out more often. Other targets include Solemn Simulacrum or Soldevi Adnate for ramp, Disciple of Bolas for card draw, Goblin Welder for recursion, and Faerie Artisans, Phyrexian Metamorph or Saheeli, the Sun's Brilliance for copies.

With this list I’m happy to have another low powered and cheap-ish deck that I enjoy mechanically and would love to play when the situation calls for it, even though I personally prefer higher powered games.

Thanks for stopping by. And, as always, if you have some ideas for cards to include that match the deck's premise, budget and intended power level, then please do share your recommendations.

GL & HF

Beebles

Date added	9 months
Last updated	3 weeks
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 39 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 19 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.35
Tokens	Construct 0/0 C, Copy Clone, Eldrazi 10/10 C, Hamster 1/1 R, Map, Mishra's Warform, Phyrexian Golem 3/3 C, Treasure