Krark & Ikra Spellslinger/Lifegain EDH

Commander / EDH BRG (Jund) Magecraft Partner

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Land (33)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Fire-Lit Thicket
• 4x Forest
• 1x Kessig Wolf Run
• 4x Mountain
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Riveteers Overlook
• 1x Savage Lands
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Ziatora's Proving Ground

Artifact (9)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Golgari Signet
• 1x Gruul Signet
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x The Great Henge
• 1x Twinning Staff

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Blood Funnel
• 1x Dual Casting
• 1x Riveteers Ascendancy
• 1x Sunbird's Invocation
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Trudge Garden
• 1x Valakut Exploration

Creature (20)

• 1x Accomplished Alchemist
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Blossoming Bogbeast
• 1x Butcher of Malakir
• 1x Dualcaster Mage
• 1x Efreet Flamepainter
• 1x Elder Brain
• 1x Harmonic Prodigy
• 1x Ignoble Hierarch
• 1x Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• 1x Manaform Hellkite
• 1x Rionya, Fire Dancer
• 1x Sedgemoor Witch
• 1x Storm-Kiln Artist
• 1x Subira, Tulzidi Caravanner
• 1x Tavern Scoundrel
• 1x Tor Wauki the Younger
• 1x Twilight Prophet
• 1x Wildfire Eternal
• 1x Witherbloom Apprentice

Sorcery (16)

• 1x Chain of Smog
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Explore
• 1x Fevered Suspicion
• 1x Genesis Storm
• 1x Healing Technique
• 1x Incarnation Technique
• 1x Pest Infestation
• 1x Revival Experiment
• 1x Rishkar's Expertise
• 1x Riveteers Confluence
• 1x Seasons Past
• 1x Three Visits
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Volcanic Vision

Commanders (2)

Instant (11)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Benefactor's Draught
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Deadly Rollick
• 1x Grapple with the Past
• 1x Harness Infinity
• 1x Invoke Calamity
• 1x Sudden Spoiling
• 1x Tibalt's Trickery
• 1x Weather the Storm
• 1x Windgrace's Judgment

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Professor Onyx
• 1x Wrenn and Six

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Jund spellslinger, lifegain, recursions, and value.

Flipping coins isn't always about winning. One of the interesting things Krark, the Thumbless can do is allow you to return to your hand spells that would exile themselves on resolution, and by taking advantage of magecraft-style effects, we can still gain value. With that in mind, this deck is built to capitaluze on losing flips as much as winning them.

Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper is great for life gain, and this deck takes advantage of lifegain triggers to gain value. High toughness matters more than how much damage creatures do.

This deck revolves around recuring spells and gaining life while it grinds it's way through your library and your opponents, but explosive value is only a coin flip away.

My favorite interaction in this deck is Krark, the Thumbless + Healing Technique. If you win the coin flip, copy Healing Technique and choose the same target. This causes the original to fail to resolve and goes to your graveyard instead of exiling itself. The Demonstrate trigger creates a copy to return Healing technique to your hand. If you lose the flip, the Demonstrate trigger creates a copy and you can return the original target to your hand.

Top Ranked	Achieved #45 position overall 2 years ago Achieved #35 position in Commander / EDH 2 years ago Achieved #2 position in Commander / EDH Partner 2 years ago
Date added	2 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	14 - 0 Mythic Rares 56 - 0 Rares 10 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.57
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, City's Blessing, Copy Clone, Dragon Illusion */* R, Emblem Wrenn and Six, Fungus Beast 4/4 G, Pest 1/1 BG, Spirit 1/1 C, Treasure
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