mefolk man and clergy boy (cEDH)

Commander / EDH* Combo Competitive Control Four Color GWUB Primer

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Land (34)

• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bountiful Promenade
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Forest
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Orzhov Basilica
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Sea of Clouds
• 1x Selesnya Sanctuary
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Temple of Enlightenment
• 1x Temple of Malady
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Demonic TutorGC
• 1x Imperial SealGC
• 1x Supreme Verdict
• 1x Time Spiral

Artifact (3)

• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring

Instant (29)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Bant Charm
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Capsize
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic RiftGC
• 1x Delay
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Enlightened TutorGC
• 1x Flash
• 1x Force of WillGC
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Mana Leak
• 1x Mystical TutorGC
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Negate
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Shadow of Doubt
• 1x Summoner's Pact
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Vampiric TutorGC
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Enchantment (12)

• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Dawn's Reflection
• 1x Fertile Ground
• 1x Freed from the Real
• 1x Market Festival
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Pemmin's Aura
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Training Grounds
• 1x Utopia Sprawl
• 1x Verdant Haven
• 1x Wild Growth

Commanders (2)

Creature (16)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Blossom Dryad
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Fatestitcher
• 1x Fiend Hunter
• 1x Juniper Order Druid
• 1x Karmic Guide
• 1x Kiora's Follower
• 1x Krosan Restorer
• 1x Ley Druid
• 1x Magus of the Candelabra
• 1x Protean Hulk
• 1x Stone-Seeder Hierophant
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Voyaging Satyr
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

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This is a cEDH deck that aims to combo out and win games on turn 3-5 while controlling what other players doing. It is an updated version of my previous competitive partners deck which I have made more streamlined by cutting the slower cards that I was never able to play cause of the fast nature of the format in favor of more early game interaction and faster combos.

GAME PLAN Show

Early game (turn 1-3) this deck has a simple plan, ramp and control. An Ideal start to this deck is turn one playing a ramp card like Wild Growth then turn two playing an untap creature like Voyaging Satyr. This will set you up for the mid game very nicely by allowing you to have more mana then most of your opponents as well as allow you to combo off later in the game. During these turns if you suspect an opponent could win the game it may be smart to forgo tapping out turn two and leaving up interaction like Counterspell. During the mid game you will have one of two plans; combo off as fast as possible with flash hulk or Freed from the Real (which I will explain in more detail later) or control the game and grind out your opponents with the card advantage generated by your comander Thrasios, Triton Hero with the large amount of mana you can generate with this deck along with cards like Training Grounds and just control your opponents. This is one of the best aspects of this deck, because we are four colors we get access to some of the best control cards in the format like Assassin's Trophy and Force of Will. In cEDH there often is not a late game but if you have a stax opponent or everyone's combos gets counters then there is a chance that the game can go late. This is where the second commander in this deck comes into play Ravos, Soultender and why I play him over the much more common Tymna the Weaver. Ravos, Soultender allows us to return any creature that may have died during the game to our hand which is an immense amount of value as well as he gives us a plan Z of slowing beating down our opponents with buffed creatures.

WIN CONDITIONS Show

As mentioned earlier this decks primary way of winning is through combos involving Freed from the Real or with Flash and Protean Hulk.

Freed from the Real combo;

This is the most common way this deck win. This simple combo is Freed from the Real enchanting a creature that untaps a land like Voyaging Satyr and then having a land that taps for multiple mana. This can be accomplished in a variety of ways. The first is with the karoo lands Simic Growth Chamber or by enchanting a land with an enchantment that allows it to tap for additional mana like Wild Growth. The way this combo works with this set up is you tap Simic Growth Chamber to float then you tap Voyaging Satyr to untap Simic Growth Chamber then with the blue mana you have floating you use Freed from the Real to untap Voyaging Satyr leaving a in your mana pool. You can then tap both Simic Growth Chamber and Voyaging Satyr again floating another . This loop allows you to have infinite mana. With infinite mana you can draw your whole deck with Thrasios, Triton Hero and then play all of the creatures in the flash hulk combo to win the game. If one of those creatures is in your graveyard you can get it back with Eternal Witness or you can bounce everyone's permanents with Capsize and usually people will concede. The great thing about this combo is that there are many copies of each of the three components. There are two cards that allow you to untap a creature for : Freed from the Real and Pemmin's Aura. There is a total of ten creatures that untap lands and twelve ways to make a land tap for multiple mana. All of this redundancy allows for this combo to be incredibly consistent.

Flash Hulk combo;

This combo is built around the two cards Flash and Protean Hulk. You play Flash putting Protean Hulk into play from your hand, then fail to pay the additional cost of Flash making you sacrifice Protean Hulk, then you can win with a variety of packages, the one I went with involves Viscera Seer, Karmic Guide, Fiend Hunter, and Zulaport Cutthroat. The way the combo works is;

1. Protean Hulk dies, you fetch Viscera Seer and Karmic Guide.

2. Use Karmic Guide to return Protean Hulk from your grave yard then sac it again to Viscera Seer triggering its ability getting Fiend Hunter and Zulaport Cutthroat.

3. When Fiend Hunter enters the battlefield use its ETB affect to exile Karmic Guide, then sacrifice Fiend Hunter to Viscera Seer, triggering Zulaport Cutthroat and draining each opponent for one.

4. When Fiend Hunter dies Karmic Guide enters the battlefield again, Using her ETB affect return Fiend Hunter to the battlefield and exile Karmic Guide under it, then sacrifice Fiend Hunter again draining everyone for one again.

5. repeat this loop till everyone is but you is dead and win.

The great thing about including the flash hulk combo in this deck, which i initially didn't, is it gives you a way to win at instant speed. I chose this particular flash hulk package because It only takes up six deck spots which is the smallest amount I could find in these colors, as well as the cards in it are not completely useless, in a pinch Fiend Hunter can be a removal spell, Karmic Guide can reanimate something, Viscera Seer and Zulaport Cutthroat are both pretty bad but thats now only two cards that are solely for this combo, which in a 98 card deck is not a big deal. If you happen to draw one of the combo pieces you can always simply shuffle it back into your deck with Brainstorm or Time Spiral.

REST OF THE DECK Show

The rest of the deck is filled with the best removal, draw, tutors and counterspells the format has to offer, as well as a few value cards and mana accelerators.

REMOVAL;

this deck plays a total of ten removal spells which I've found is a solid number, cEDH is not a creature heavy format so having just two or three removal spells a game for key creatures is all you need. Each removal spell in this deck is an instant with the exeption of Supreme Verdict which I have included because there are a few swarm decks in cEDH like Edric, Spymaster of Trest as well as if there is a hex-proof creature that we really need to kill. I think included one board clear is okay cause most games you wont draw it which is fine cause it is not always needed, but in the games where you do need it you can tutor for it. The rest of the removal sweet is all one or two mana cards besides Bant Charm and Beast Within which I think offer too much versatility to not include. The plethora of cheep answers is important because it allows you to play multiple forms of interaction a turn which is vital verses a deck playing counterspells.

DRAW;

Draw cards like Mystic Remora and Sylvan Library are staples and should be played in almost any green or blue decks because they allow you to draw multiple cards each turn for just one or two mana. this deck also plays Time Spiral and Brainstorm as draw spells because they are powerful on their own but also allow us to shuffle combo pieces back into our deck if we draw them. We also play Frantic Search as a draw spell because it can often net us additional mana because our lands tap for more than on mana as well as it allows us to discard Fatestitcher which can let us win even without a creature on the board. The last "draw" card we play is Training Grounds which discounts Thrasios, Triton Hero's ability allowing us to use it twice as often.

TUTORS

Every cEDH deck that uses combos to win will play tutors which act as additional copies of combo pieces in the deck. Because we are a four color deck we get to play every good tutor in the format and we play nine of them. staples like Demonic Tutor and Vampiric Tutor which are in almost every cEDH deck are of course included because they can fetch any card we need. We also play some more targeted tutors such asEnlightened Tutor to tutor freed form the real, Eladamri's Call, Worldly Tutor and Summoner's Pact to get Protean Hulk and Mystical Tutor to get Flash.

COUNTER SPELLS

counter spells are key in cEDH because of the amount of combo decks as well as they help us push our combo through against players who also play counters. playing cheap counters is very important just like removal because it lets us cast multiple of them in a turn. Because of this I play both Pact of Negation and Force of Will as free counters. On top of this I play seven other counters all of which cost two or less besides Bant Charm again because of its versatility. I am not playing Mana Drain because of its casting cost of making it hard to cast it plus additional counters in a four color deck so I only play actual Counterspell to minimize this draw back. cards like Mana Leak wich are not ideal in regular EDH because there is often an excess of mana are great in cEDH because of how fast the format is. Similarly Cryptic Command and other counters that are often in EDH are less good in cEDH because a four mana counter is too expensive.

OTHER

We are playing some of the early game mana accelerators in the format like Carpet of Flowers, Sol Ring and Mana Crypt as well as a few value cards like Sensei's Divining Top, which is great in any deck that has lots of mana and wants to control the game, and Eternal Witness to return any card that we have already used this game to our hand for more value. The last odd ball card in this deck is Shadow of Doubt which I like because it cycles and can effectively counter any tutor affect which is very strong against combo decks.

WHY PLAY THIS DECK Show

This is a fun deck that requires a lot of pilot skill because of the high quantity of decisions you make each turn. If you like out thinking and out playing your opponents then this will be a great deck for you. This deck also has the benefit of being able to customize this deck very easily to fit your play group, if you face a lot of artifacts then add cards like Krosan Grip in place of a creature removal spell for example. I also think that this deck has a very good match up against a lot of the popular decks in the format right now. There are a lot of early counter spells which are effective against Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder and other storm variants as well as food chian General Tazri which is possibly the the best deck in the format. The large number of removal spells can be very strong against decks that rely heavily on their commanders such as Yisan, the Wanderer Bard and Zur the Enchanter. This deck also has the ability to win turn three which means that you can often out race some combo decks but is not as much of a glass canon as some of the other combo decks in the format like breakfast hulk. Against other similar decks to this one that are a combo control hybrids like Najeela, the Blade-Blossom I feel this deck has the edge because it often has much more mana than them giving it more resources to fight battles over the important cards.

This deck, like most EDH decks is a continuous work in project, if you have any feedback or suggestions about this deck or have any questions leave a comment as I am always looking to improve the deck. If you liked the deck give it an upvote, thanks for reading.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 42 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 23 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.21
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Bird 2/2 U, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Spirit 1/1 C
Folders	cEDH, Good EDH