Kalamax, Arcane Kaiju

Commander / EDH* Casual RUG (Temur) Spellslinger Splice

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Instant (29)

• 1x Anticipate
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Blazing Shoal
• 1x Blind with Anger
• 1x Consuming Vortex
• 1x Desperate Ritual
• 1x Disrupting Shoal
• 1x Evermind
• 1x Glacial Ray
• 1x Inner Calm, Outer Strength
• 1x Ire of Kaminari
• 1x Kodama's Might
• 1x Lifted by Clouds
• 1x Magmaquake
• 1x Nourishing Shoal
• 1x Overblaze
• 1x Peer Through Depths
• 1x Psychic Puppetry
• 1x Psychotic Fury
• 1x Reach Through Mists
• 1x Rending Vines
• 1x Reweave
• 1x Sift Through Sands
• 1x Silundi Vision  ^Flip
• 1x Strength of Cedars
• 1x Toils of Night and Day
• 1x Veil of Secrecy
• 1x Vital Surge
• 1x Wear Away

Artifact (4)

• 1x Lithoform Engine
• 1x Long-Forgotten Gohei
• 1x Strionic Resonator
• 1x Twinning Staff

Land (38)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Caldera Lake
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 7x Forest
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 4x Island
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Moonring Island
• 7x Mountain
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Sheltered Thicket
• 1x Simic Guildgate
• 1x Soaring Seacliff
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Thornwood Falls
• 1x Vivid Creek
• 1x Woodland Stream
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Eerie Procession
• 1x Eye of Nowhere
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Rise from the Tides
• 1x Spiraling Embers

Battle (1)

• 1x Invasion of Arcavios  ^Flip

Commander (1)

Creature (15)

• 1x Auton Soldier
• 1x Baral, Chief of Compliance
• 1x Bounteous Kirin
• 1x Briarknit Kami
• 1x Callow Jushi  ^Flip
• 1x Cunning Bandit  ^Flip
• 1x Elder Pine of Jukai
• 1x Ixidron
• 1x Loam Dweller
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Sire of the Storm
• 1x Skyfire Kirin
• 1x The Unspeakable
• 1x Wort, the Raidmother

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Dual Casting
• 1x Ghostly Wings
• 1x Invisibility
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Swarm Intelligence

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Sideboard

Instant (5)

• 1x Echoing Truth
• 1x Meddle
• 1x Murmurs from Beyond
• 1x Psychic Spiral
• 1x Savage Alliance

Land (2)

• 1x Sand Silos
• 1x Tectonic Edge

Creature (4)

• 1x Guardian of Solitude
• 1x Kadena's Silencer
• 1x Teller of Tales
• 1x Willbender

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Diminishing Returns
• 1x Joyous Respite
• 1x Recall
• 1x Road of Return

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What if we shot Kalamax in the foot by insisting on using splice onto arcane? Work in progress.

What the hell is happening

The idea is this: when you splice a card onto another one, it adds its effects to that card. Then, when you copy your new Frankenstein’s monster, all the parts come with it. Splice costs are generally cheaper than casting costs, so that’s even more value. But you wanna know what really puts the nail in the coffin? When you slice a card into another one, you don’t actually lose or discard it. In fact, you basically just copy-paste rules text onto the receiving card and reveal the card you used to splice. You keep it. With that in mind, we can essentially slap a card’s effect for cheap onto another card as many times as we want, while getting even MORE value by copying that effect again, and again, and again. However, there are a few things to consider. First— Splice onto Arcane is considered a parasitic mechanic— it only appeared in one block. And, of course, it was the infamous original Kamigawa block, renowned for being purposefully crappy worldwide. This means there are a lot of bad cards with worse mana costs. And, we are limited to those cards. Additionally, the deck moves pretty slow— like it or not, splicing a card onto another one is still pretty much tacking on an extra spell— cost included. So, where a normal Kalamax deck might be focused on casting cheap instants every turn, we are more limited. In practice, we’ve turned Kalamax from one of the most insane voltron/spellslinger/storm commanders in the world into a mediocre lizard choking on its own deck theme. That’s okay though, I don’t want this deck to be SUPER competitive or high level. It does, however, have to be functional.

TL;DR

TL;DR: This deck uses a sucky, bad, parasitic, but unique and fun mechanic as its core mechanic. For the love of everything that is holy, help me make this at least barely functional.

Date added	6 months
Last updated	6 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 26 - 4 Rares 20 - 7 Uncommons 34 - 4 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.41
Tokens	Copy Clone, Goblin Warrior 1/1 RG, Morph 2/2 C, Zombie 2/2 B