Ivy Mutate Copy Voltron

Commander / EDH* Clone Enchant Enchantment GU (Simic) Mutate Ramp Tokens Voltron

Kripkenstein

Land (35)

• 1x Bala Ged Sanctuary  ^Flip
• 1x Barkchannel Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 7x Forest
• 1x Glasspool Shore  ^Flip
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 6x Island
• 1x Khalni Territory  ^Flip
• 1x Lumbering Falls
• 1x Mirrorpool
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Otawara, Soaring City
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Rejuvenating Springs
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Tangled Vale  ^Flip
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Instant (15)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Blossoming Defense
• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x March of Swirling Mist
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Reality Ripple
• 1x Royal Treatment
• 1x Shore Up
• 1x Slip Out the Back
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Tamiyo's Safekeeping
• 1x Tyvar's Stand
• 1x Withstand Death
• 1x You See a Guard Approach

Enchantment (23)

• 1x Ancestral Mask
• 1x Aqueous Form
• 1x Auramancer's Guise
• 1x Bear Umbra
• 1x Combat Research
• 1x Corrupted Conscience
• 1x Curiosity
• 1x Frog Tongue
• 1x Keen Sense
• 1x Kenrith's Transformation
• 1x Mark of Sakiko
• 1x Rune of Might
• 1x Season of Growth
• 1x Security Bypass
• 1x Shielding Plax
• 1x Sixth Sense
• 1x Snake Umbra
• 1x Starlit Mantle
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Teferi's Veil
• 1x Vesuvan Duplimancy
• 1x Warbriar Blessing
• 1x Witness Protection

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Curse of the Swine
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Quasiduplicate
• 1x Repudiate / Replicate

Commander (1)

Creature (22)

• 1x Auspicious Starrix
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Coiling Oracle
• 1x Delighted Halfling
• 1x Devoted Druid
• 1x Dreamtail Heron
• 1x Eidolon of Blossoms
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Gemrazer
• 1x Gilded Goose
• 1x Kodama of the West Tree
• 1x Migratory Greathorn
• 1x Parcelbeast
• 1x Pollywog Symbiote
• 1x Pouncing Shoreshark
• 1x Sawtusk Demolisher
• 1x Sea-Dasher Octopus
• 1x Setessan Champion
• 1x Spellwild Ouphe
• 1x Stormchaser Drake
• 1x Tanglespan Lookout
• 1x Venerated Rotpriest

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Sideboard

Creature (5)

• 1x Elusive Otter
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Gruff Triplets
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Pollywog Symbiote

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Quantum Misalignment
• 1x Sakashima's Will

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Animal Friend
• 1x Giant Inheritance
• 1x Nerd Rage
• 1x Strong Back
• 1x Well Rested

Instant (4)

• 1x Cyber Conversion
• 1x Growth Spiral
• 1x Legolas's Quick Reflexes
• 1x Shadow Rift

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Maybeboard

Creature (45)

• 1x Aberrant
• 1x Adrix and Nev, Twincasters
• 1x Archipelagore
• 1x Artisan of Forms
• 1x Augmenter Pugilist  ^Flip
• 1x Biovisionary
• 1x Bloated Contaminator
• 1x Chatterfang, Squirrel General
• 1x Cold-Eyed Selkie
• 1x Delighted Halfling
• 1x Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Errant, Street Artist
• 1x Essence Symbiote
• 1x Genestealer Patriarch
• 1x Gilded Goose
• 1x Glasspool Mimic  ^Flip
• 1x Glistener Elf
• 1x Glowstone Recluse
• 1x Hexdrinker
• 1x Kodama of the East Tree
• 1x Ledger Shredder
• 1x Legolas, Master Archer
• 2x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Mercurial Spelldancer
• 1x Nessian Wanderer
• 1x Orvar, the All-Form
• 2x Progenitor Mimic
• 1x Protean Thaumaturge
• 1x Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Sanctum Weaver
• 1x Souvenir Snatcher
• 1x Spark Double
• 1x Stunt Double
• 1x Tangled Florahedron  ^Flip
• 1x Thrummingbird
• 1x Triton Cavalry
• 1x Triton Fortune Hunter
• 1x Trumpeting Gnarr
• 1x Vanguard Suppressor
• 1x Venomthrope
• 1x Viral Drake

Enchantment (33)

• 1x Alpha Authority
• 1x Asceticism
• 1x Audacity
• 1x Bequeathal
• 1x Boar Umbra
• 1x Colossification
• 1x Cradle of Safety
• 1x Curious Obsession
• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Eel Umbra
• 1x Eldrazi Conscription
• 1x Enchantress's Presence
• 1x False Demise
• 1x Fate Foretold
• 1x Favor of the Overbeing
• 1x Followed Footsteps
• 1x Frogify
• 1x Hydra's Growth
• 1x Karametra's Favor
• 1x Keen Sense
• 1x Krosan Adaptation (Playtest)
• 1x Leyline Immersion
• 1x Metamorphic Alteration
• 1x Ordeal of Thassa
• 1x Parallel Lives
• 1x Pattern of Rebirth
• 1x Primal Vigor
• 1x Rancor
• 1x Spider Umbra
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Treachery
• 1x Vanishing
• 1x Verdant Embrace

Land (6)

• 1x Mirrex
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Wasteland
• 1x Winged Temple of Orazca  ^Flip

Artifact (4)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Coat of Arms
• 1x Lithoform Engine
• 1x Twinning Staff

Instant (31)

• 1x Alchemist's Retrieval
• 1x Aspirant's Ascent
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Charge Through
• 2x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dive Down
• 1x Double Major
• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Infectious Bite
• 1x Inspiring Call
• 1x Khalni Ambush  ^Flip
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mana Leak
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Narset's Reversal
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Ranger's Guile
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Return to Nature
• 1x Sapphire Charm
• 1x Second Harvest
• 2x See Double
• 1x Simic Charm
• 1x Snakeskin Veil
• 1x Spell Pierce
• 1x Stern Dismissal
• 1x Vines of Vastwood
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Sorcery (17)

• 1x Bala Ged Recovery  ^Flip
• 1x Blue Sun's Twilight
• 1x Creeping Renaissance
• 1x Croaking Counterpart
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Irenicus's Vile Duplication
• 1x Parallel Evolution
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Replication Technique
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Ruthless Predation
• 1x Savage Punch
• 1x Slip Through Space
• 1x Spitting Image
• 1x Stolen Identity
• 1x Triumph of the Hordes

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Before you play

One of the big challenges you will face when playing this deck is maintaining a clear boardstate. That means that you absolutely will have to create about 4 clear physical copies of all the enchantments and creatures you play. Having multiple differently enchanted and mutated creatures on the board is not the exception but the norm for this deck especially if you build more around copying Ivy, Gleeful Spellthief multiple times. I recommend printing out the cards.

Also some remarks about this current list: There are alot of ways to build around Ivy, Gleeful Spellthief, most recently it got a very viable Poison synergy through Venerated Rotpriest. The current list represents the deck as I play it today, which includes poison as a viable way to kill atleast 1 other player. However, depending on how you want to play or what cards you own, all the cards in the Maybeboard are absolutely viable to play in this Deck. The cards in the acquire board can also be played, however I do not consider them to be as good.

Main Strategy and Weaknesses

Main Strategy

The main Strategy for this deck is to have a high synergy creature like Stormchaser Drake or Spellwild Ouphe on the board together with Ivy, Gleeful Spellthief and then targeting them with auras and mutate spells. These will copy themselves onto Ivy, Gleeful Spellthief giving double the value. After that its mostly beat down with buffed creatures- so essentialy a voltron strategy. In the best case you additionally have cards like Setessan Champion and Vesuvan Duplimancy on the board which will draw additional cards and provide you with more creatures or auras. Note that mutating Ivy, Gleeful Spellthief will remove her legendary tag so you can have multiple copies of her. This creates insane boardstates if not handled by your opponents. Then you finish the game with cards like Corrupted Conscience or Ancestral Mask. The main challenge getting there is interaction of your opponents- Ivy, Gleeful Spellthief dies to almost everything and she is vital for the strategy to work. Thats why some of the most important spells you have are your protection spells as boardwipes and even single target removal can easily mess with your gameplan. You should always leave mana open for them if possible. Most of them cost 1 mana.

How to play

It is important to note that this is not an aggro deck - it is more of a fast midrange/value deck. The synergies and combos are extremely reliant on its Commander Ivy, Gleeful Spellthief so its absolutely vital to protect her. There is no reason to play her on curve if you can't immediatly utilise her ability to get tons of value or if you don't have cards to protect her. The worst that can happen for this deck is her being removed the turn she hits the board- which is very easy as she literally dies to almost everything. Her dying 2 times in the early turns will essentially shut down your game plan for good. For this reason, you want to have at least 3 mana when you play her, so you have 1 mana open to cast a protection spell like Slip Out the Back or Tyvar's Stand. An ideal hand will consist of 1 synergy creature like Stormchaser Drake or Spellwild Ouphe, 1 Mana Dork like Birds of Paradise, 2-3 Lands, 1 Protection Spell like Slip Out the Back or Tyvar's Stand and 1 Spell to draw cards like Frog Tongue or Combat Research. People will definetly want to remove Ivy, Gleeful Spellthief as quick as possible so always keep in mind that you absolutely need to keep her alive.

Best Cards

These are the best cards of their respective category. So if you can tutor or if you need to decide if you should keep a hand you can orient yourself on these.

• Protection Spells: Slip Out the Back, Tamiyo's Safekeeping, Tyvar's Stand

• Card Draw: Combat Research, Curiosity, Sixth Sense, Setessan Champion, Season of Growth, Dreamtail Heron, Sea-Dasher Octopus, Sylvan Library

• Synergy Creatures: Stormchaser Drake, Spellwild Ouphe

• Removal: Beast Within, Pongify, Kenrith's Transformation, Nature's Claim, Warbriar Blessing, Gemrazer, Pouncing Shoreshark

• Copies Vesuvan Duplimancy, Orvar, the All-Form, Sakashima's Will, Quasiduplicate

• Ramp and Mana: Bear Umbra, Mark of Sakiko, Kodama of the West Tree, Migratory Greathorn, Parcelbeast

• Finishers: Auspicious Starrix, Ancestral Mask, Corrupted Conscience, Aqueous Form, Venerated Rotpriest

Date added	2 years
Last updated	9 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 34 - 9 Rares 29 - 3 Uncommons 21 - 4 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.32
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Bird 2/2 U, Boar 2/2 G, Copy Clone, Food, On an Adventure, Royal, Squirrel 1/1 G
Folders	Ivy, Wishlist, Built Decks