Will of Steel

Commander / EDH* Affinity Artifact Control Infinite Combo Mono-Blue

TurtleZoom

Artifact (28)

• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Clock of Omens
• 1x Darksteel Forge
• 1x Extraplanar Lens
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Grafdigger's Cage
• 1x Howling Mine
• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Liquimetal Torque
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Manifold Key
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Mycosynth Lattice
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Quicksilver Fountain
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sky Diamond
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Static Orb
• 1x Storage Matrix
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Unwinding Clock
• 1x Winter Orb

Creature (21)

• 1x Arcum Dagsson
• 1x Etherium Sculptor
• 1x Foundry Inspector
• 1x Grand Architect
• 1x Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
• 1x Kuldotha Forgemaster
• 1x Master Transmuter
• 1x Metalworker
• 1x Muzzio, Visionary Architect
• 1x Mycosynth Golem
• 1x Padeem, Consul of Innovation
• 1x Palinchron
• 1x Pili-Pala
• 1x Sai, Master Thopterist
• 1x Shimmer Dragon
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Spellskite
• 1x Thada Adel, Acquisitor
• 1x The Reality Chip
• 1x Urza, Lord High Artificer
• 1x Vedalken Archmage

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Artificer Class
• 1x Back to Basics
• 1x Copy Artifact
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Training Grounds

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Karn, the Great Creator
• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker

Commander (1)

Land (33)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 27x Island
• 1x Seat of the Synod

Instant (7)

• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x High Tide
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Sunder
• 1x Whir of Invention

Sorcery (3)

• 1x All is Dust
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Reshape

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Artifact (6)

• 1x Blinkmoth Urn
• 1x Lithoform Engine
• 1x Sapphire Medallion
• 1x Tamiyo's Logbook
• 1x Trinisphere
• 1x Vedalken Orrery

Creature (4)

• 1x Agent of Treachery
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Thought Monitor
• 1x Unctus, Grand Metatect

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Efficient Construction

Sorcery (1)

• 1x One with the Machine

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Welcome back everybody to the wonderful land of Mono-Blue. I apologize for the hiatus I took on deck building, so this is my gift to you my friends: The ultimate control deck!

Now back in the day, when I made my first deck on this site: deck:unblok-1, I went for more Control Magic type cards rather than Counterspell type cards. The main reason was that I am dumb, and I don't know when to and when not to use a counter, so I preferred to just take things for myself. Well now I have both implemented into this new deck. I simply had to build this deck once I discovered Memnarch, so here we are. Let's get into the details of the deck.

Ramp up the Ocean Blue

So to start of a deck with a 7 drop commander and a relative 7 mana cost ability, you are going to need some ramp.

• Caged Sun
• Etherium Sculptor
• Extraplanar Lens
• Gauntlet of Power
• Gilded Lotus
• Grand Architect
• Hedron Archive
• High Tide
• Mana Drain..... Bought an Iconic Masters box...... I have no regrets
• Mana Vault
• Metalworker
• Mind Stone
• Mycosynth Lattice
• Palladium Myr
• Silver Myr
• Sol Ring
• Solemn Simulacrum
• Thran Dynamo

So yeah there is quite a lot of ramp in this deck, because of a rather high mana curve, and not just for the commander. This deck revolves around taking control of all the major threats on the battlefield, while at the same time producing your own.

Early on in the game another great card to have is Empress Galina. I considered using her as the commander at first until I found Memnarch, simply because she is a commander that steals other commanders, or any other important cards. Oh Mox Opal? Mine. While her ability to steal cards is more limited than Memnarch's it is also much cheaper to use and can quickly turn the tide in battle.

Your Armies, are MY Armies

In the early stages of this deck I included other methods of taking control like Vedalken Shackles, Control Magic, and Lay Claim, things like that. These cards were removed however once I realized that my commander was really all I needed for taking control, in the late game anyway. So I decided to focus more around that, and try to get some combos going. The nice thing about Memnarch's ability is that it is not a tap ability, it can be used over and over again provided you have enough mana.

Which brings me to the next part of the late game, going infinite. A great win con of this deck is to generate infinite blue mana, and to use Memnarch's ability infinite times, to take control of all permanents on all battlefields. Lets see how we do this.

• Capsize + Great Whale/Palinchron + Any mana doubler (High Tide)
• Isochron Scepter + Dramatic Reversal + Gilded Lotus You could alternativly use Thran Dynamo/Dreamstone Hedron, but it won't be blue mana.
• Grand Architect + Pili-Pala
• Palinchron + Omniscience
• Palinchron/Great Whale + Deadeye Navigator

Once these combos go off, out comes the control king to take control of all permanents, including lands :)

Well I think that is this deck in a nutshell. Throw off your opponents combos with your control spells, beat your enemies with their own sticks.

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Top Ranked	Achieved #29 position overall 6 years ago
Date added	6 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 42 - 0 Rares 11 - 0 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.30
Tokens	Construct 0/0 C, Copy Clone, Thopter 1/1 C
Folders	Good EDH Decks, decks i like, meme, Cool Shiz, Decks to build, Artifact, Decks I might test out