Laying out a white RUG - Jeskai Ascendancy cEDH

Commander / EDH* RGWU

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Creature (16)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Drift of Phantasms
• 1x Fatestitcher
• 1x Imperial Recruiter
• 1x Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Magus of the Candelabra
• 1x Noble Hierarch
• 1x Rattleclaw Mystic
• 1x Selvala, Explorer Returned
• 1x Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1x Skyshroud Elf
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Sylvan Caryatid

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Dack Fayden

Land (29)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Mystic Gate
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Plateau
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Taiga
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Windswept Heath

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Aggravated Assault
• 1x Concordant Crossroads
• 1x Intruder Alarm
• 1x Jeskai Ascendancy
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Unifying Theory

Artifact (13)

• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Memory Jar
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Paradox Engine
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Simic Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Staff of Domination
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir

Instant (20)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Delay
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Izzet Charm
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Sprout Swarm
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Thirst for Knowledge
• 1x Words of Wisdom
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Sorcery (13)

• 1x Deep Analysis
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Past in Flames
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Time Spiral
• 1x Timetwister
• 1x Treasure Cruise
• 1x Wargate
• 1x Wheel of Fortune
• 1x Windfall

Commanders (2)

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Enchantment (1)

• 1x Thousand-Year Storm

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Thought experiment using Jeskai Ascendancy in cEDH.

Have a good number of mana dorks and Kydele in the command zone for mana generation.

So, Jeskai Ascendancy is the namesake card. Lets build a few extra for redundancy and higher consistency in the deck

Untapping the dorks:
Paradox Engine
Intruder Alarm
Aggravated Assault
Isochron Scepter + Dramatic Reversal

Draw the Cards:
Unifying Theory
Selvala, Explorer Returned
Staff of Domination

So we have a decent number of ways of untapping everything and drawing cards from each untap.

If Jeskai Ascendancy is used to pump creatures extra combat phases can gained through aggravated assault to end the game that turn. Concordant Crossroads gives creatures haste for combat wins, Thousand-Year Elixir gives haste for mana production.

The basic workings of the deck is to get mana dorks and Kydele out as fast as possible. Then we draw cards. Kydele gets us a huge mana advantage from drawing cards. Using the large mana advantage, work towards either storming off into one of the following wins:

Infinite mana + Blue Sun's Zenith to mill the the table.Infinitely large dudes with Ascendancy.Infinite attackers with Sprout Swarm.Infinite Combats with Aggravated Assault.

Bruse is mainly there for colors and the fact that we don't have a sufficient number of artifacts to really work with Akiri. Additionally if we get to the Aggravated Assault point but don't have an overwhelming force, double strike can punch through the initial blockers and weaken the defenses so that we get overwhelming.

Recent changes: overhauled the creature and artifact mana suite. Went to a larger creature focus and adjusted several card draw spells.

As a note, we are light on countermagic and removal. We probably need a Nature's Claim and a Crop rotation in here. More playtesting is required.

Most recent cuts:
-zhur-taa druid
+magus of the candelabra
-gemhide sliver
+selvala, heart of the wild
-impulse
+words of wisdom
-fof
+deep analysis
-aetherflux reservoir
+chord of calling
-wooded foothills
+nythos, shrine to nyx

Top Ranked	Achieved #51 position overall 7 years ago
Date added	7 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 58 - 0 Rares 13 - 0 Uncommons 17 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.44
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Copy Clone, Emblem Dack Fayden, Morph 2/2 C, Saproling 1/1 G, Spirit 1/1 C
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