Jodah of the Suns (high CMC spell tribal)

Commander / EDH Battlecruiser Burn Casual Control Ramp Spellslinger

Myomoto

Land (38)

• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bountiful Promenade
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cascading Cataracts
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 2x Forest
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 2x Island
• 1x Luxury Suite
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 2x Mountain
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 2x Plains
• 1x Rejuvenating Springs
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Sea of Clouds
• 1x Spectator Seating
• 1x Spire Garden
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x The World Tree
• 1x Training Center
• 1x Undergrowth Stadium
• 1x Vault of Champions
• 1x Watery Grave

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Leyline Immersion
• 1x Mana Reflection
• 1x Sunbird's Invocation

Sorcery (26)

• 1x All Suns' Dawn
• 1x Aminatou's Augury
• 1x Approach of the Second Sun
• 1x Beacon of Tomorrows
• 1x Bring to Light
• 1x Conflux
• 1x Creative Technique
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Emergent Ultimatum
• 1x Farewell
• 1x Inspired Ultimatum
• 1x Interpret the Signs
• 1x Kaleidoscorch
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Mnemonic Deluge
• 1x Painful Truths
• 1x Peer into the Abyss
• 1x Reshape the Earth
• 1x Ruinous Ultimatum
• 1x Soulfire Eruption
• 1x Treacherous Terrain
• 1x Treasure Cruise
• 1x Unexpected Results
• 1x Urban Evolution
• 1x Vengeful Rebirth
• 1x Volcanic Vision

Artifact (8)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Chromatic Orrery
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Jodah's Codex
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Timeless Lotus

Commander (1)

Creature (12)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
• 1x Ignoble Hierarch
• 1x Ilysian Caryatid
• 1x Keen Duelist
• 1x Leyline Prowler
• 1x Lotus Cobra
• 1x Maelstrom Archangel
• 1x Noble Hierarch
• 1x Ornithopter of Paradise
• 1x Ramos, Dragon Engine
• 1x Shadowmage Infiltrator

Instant (12)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Blessed Respite
• 1x Calibrated Blast
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Dovin's Veto
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Mental Journey
• 1x Rebuff the Wicked
• 1x Repeated Reverberation
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Unite the Coalition

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Sideboard

Land (19)

• 1x Azorius Guildgate
• 1x Baldur's Gate
• 1x Black Dragon Gate
• 1x Boros Guildgate
• 1x Citadel Gate
• 1x Cliffgate
• 1x Dimir Guildgate
• 1x Golgari Guildgate
• 1x Gond Gate
• 1x Heap Gate
• 1x Izzet Guildgate
• 1x Manor Gate
• 1x Maze's End
• 1x Orzhov Guildgate
• 1x Plaza of Harmony
• 1x Rakdos Guildgate
• 1x Sea Gate
• 1x Selesnya Guildgate
• 1x Simic Guildgate

Creature (3)

• 1x District Guide
• 1x Gatecreeper Vine
• 1x Tiller Engine

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Maybeboard

Land (54)

• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Bant Panorama
• 1x Basilisk Gate
• 1x Battlefield Forge
• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Bountiful Landscape
• 1x Brushland
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x Contaminated Landscape
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Crystal Quarry
• 1x Deceptive Landscape
• 1x Esper Panorama
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Foreboding Landscape
• 1x Frontier Bivouac
• 1x Gateway Plaza
• 1x Grixis Panorama
• 1x Gruul Guildgate
• 1x Jund Panorama
• 1x Jungle Shrine
• 1x Karplusan Forest
• 1x Krosan Verge
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Mystic Monastery
• 1x Naya Panorama
• 1x Nomad Outpost
• 1x Opulent Palace
• 1x Perilous Landscape
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Riptide Laboratory
• 1x Sandsteppe Citadel
• 1x Savage Lands
• 1x Seaside Citadel
• 1x Seething Landscape
• 1x Shattered Landscape
• 1x Sheltering Landscape
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 1x Talon Gates of Madara
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Thran Portal
• 1x Tranquil Landscape
• 1x Twisted Landscape
• 1x Tyrite Sanctum
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Vivid Crag
• 1x Vivid Creek
• 1x Vivid Grove
• 1x Vivid Marsh
• 1x Vivid Meadow
• 1x Warped Landscape
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Sorcery (42)

• 1x Army of the Damned
• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Blast of Genius
• 1x Brilliant Ultimatum
• 1x Channel the Suns
• 1x Clone Legion
• 1x Curse of the Cabal
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Duneblast
• 1x Eerie Ultimatum
• 1x Enter the Infinite
• 1x Erratic Explosion
• 1x Explore the Underdark
• 1x Explosive Revelation
• 1x Explosive Vegetation
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Fiery Encore
• 1x Finale of Revelation
• 1x Genesis Ultimatum
• 1x Grave Upheaval
• 1x Grow from the Ashes
• 1x Heroes Remembered
• 1x In Garruk's Wake
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Migration Path
• 1x Mind's Desire
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Open the Gates
• 1x Overflowing Insight
• 1x Phthisis
• 1x Ranger's Path
• 1x Recross the Paths
• 1x Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1x Search for Tomorrow
• 1x Shard Convergence
• 1x Sins of the Past
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Sylvan Scrying
• 1x Tempt with Discovery
• 1x Three Visits
• 1x Vindicate
• 1x Worst Fears

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Baneful Omen
• 1x Gift of Immortality
• 1x Indestructibility
• 1x Mirari's Wake
• 1x Omniscience
• 1x One with the Multiverse
• 1x Swarm Intelligence

Creature (22)

• 1x Archmage Emeritus
• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Codie, Vociferous Codex
• 1x Dualcaster Mage
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Faeburrow Elder
• 1x Honored Hierarch
• 1x Joiner Adept
• 1x Krosan Tusker
• 1x Mercurial Chemister
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Omnispell Adept
• 1x Ornithopter of Paradise
• 1x Primeval Spawn
• 1x Progenitus
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Shriekmaw
• 1x Sylvan Caryatid
• 1x Twilight Prophet
• 1x Wood Elves
• 1x Yavimaya Dryad
• 1x Yavimaya Elder

Instant (22)

• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Countersquall
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Dawn Charm
• 1x Deathsprout
• 1x Delay
• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Flawless Maneuver
• 1x Generous Gift
• 1x Growth Spiral
• 1x Harrow
• 1x Hindering Light
• 1x Memory Lapse
• 1x Negate
• 1x Nexus of Fate *list*
• 1x Riddle of Lightning
• 1x Sylvan Reclamation
• 1x Teferi's Protection
• 1x Traumatic Visions
• 1x Turn Aside
• 1x Utter End

Artifact (7)

• 1x Decanter of Endless Water
• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Fist of Suns
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Prismatic Geoscope
• 1x The Magic Mirror
• 1x Wizard's Spellbook

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This is a Jodah deck focusing on getting the maximum value from Jodah's ability to cheat out huge spell effects, while generally also trying to build around exploiting cards with large CMC when Jodah isn't around. To this effect, there are several cards with 'inflated' CMC that can be made cheaper or cycled for basic lands to fix our mana:

• Dig Through Time
• Treasure Cruise
• Traumatic Visions
• Sylvan Reclamation
• Krosan Tusker
• Treacherous Terrain
• Grave Upheaval

There are also several cards that benefit from large CMC spells, usually to deal direct damage to our opponents:

• Vengeful Rebirth
• Interpret the Signs
• Blast of Genius
• Volcanic Vision
• Riddle of Lightning
• Sunbird's Invocation
• Soulfire Eruption
• Recross the Paths

There's generally enough ramp that we can play the CMC 6+ spells by normal means without too much effort, but as the deck works the best with Jodah around, there's a fairly generous package of cards to try and protect him:

• Riptide Laboratory
• Lightning Greaves, also great for Maelstrom Archangel

We also have some general protection that also covers major pieces like Mana Reflection/Omniscience:

• Rebuff the Wicked
• Heroic Intervention
• As well as all the counterspells.

If we do end up losing access to Jodah, we still have a few alternatives to cheat in our big spells:

• Fist of Suns
• Maelstrom Archangel
• Unexpected Results

To win, the deck will generally try to burn out opponents by cards like Vengeful Rebirth and Treacherous Terrain, especially by copying them with Swarm Intelligence/recurring them with All Suns' Dawn. However, the deck also has a lot of library manipulation/card draw to win with Approach of the Second Sun (see the combos below for example). Rise of the Dark Realms can also be an alternative wincon against opponents using lots of creatures.

Interactions/Combos:

Approach of the Second Sun + Dig Through Time, let's us cast Approach of the Second Sun and then immediately recover it as one of the cards found with Dig Through Time. Demonic Tutor can of course serve a similar function, and if there are enough targets on the board, Soulfire Eruption can also burn through the library to find Approach of the Second Sun again (just remember you need to cast it from your hand for it to win you the game). The full combo can easily be gotten with Conflux or Emergent Ultimatum.

Reshape the Earth/Tempt with Discovery + Lotus Cobra, both ramp spells allows us to get a lot of land into play in one go, triggering the cobra multiple times to potentially use Jodah's ability again in the same turn. A key land to almost always get with Reshape the Earth/Tempt with Discovery is the The World Tree, as we will usually hit the 6 lands in play threshold to activate the tree's mana fixing ability.

Sakura-Tribe Elder + Gift of Immortality = fetch a basic land per turn (including opponent's).

Bring to Light targets:

• All Suns' Dawn
• Maelstrom Archangel
• Unexpected Results
• Ramp, e.g., Tempt with Discovery/Cultivate
• Targeted removal, e.g., Deathsprout/Generous Gift

Painful Truths and Kaleidoscorch can both benefit from Jodah's ability to get bigger effects, i.e., draw 5 or burn for 5.

If you want a particular card with Emergent Ultimatum (i.e., Omniscience) you can pick up Demonic Tutor as one of the three cards to always at least get what you want into hand.

Blessed Respite is an amazing Swiss army knife of utility. It lets us reset our deck if a particular tutor target is in the graveyard, can be a fog to save ourselves or another player from an alpha strike, and shuts down graveyard manipulation/reanimation focused decks we might play against.

Top Ranked	Achieved #53 position overall 2 years ago Achieved #45 position in Commander / EDH 2 years ago Achieved #2 position in Commander / EDH Burn 2 years ago
Date added	2 years
Last updated	1 week
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 1 Mythic Rares 57 - 3 Rares 16 - 2 Uncommons 8 - 16 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.55
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Spirit 1/1 C, Treasure
Folders	Budget BUILD THIS
Based on	Jodah, Omniscient Myomoto EDH