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The goal of the deck so far is to play lots of cards that are good except for that nasty drawback trigger they set up, like Final Fortune, and then end the turn with that trigger on the stack, thus dodging the bad stuff. With this game plan in mind, Avaricious Dragon, for example, reads "at the beginning of your draw step, draw an additional card. Discard your hand at the end of your turn if you forgot to end the turn on your own terms." It does not take a genius to see that this is a good situation to be in. Thus, any card that has "at the beginning of your end step, {DOWNSIDE}"is a card we want.

As built today, the deck generates a lot of value from ending the turn early, primarily by drawing extra cards through the aforementioned Avaricious Dragon and similar effects, but also through dodging end of turn sacrifices such as Sneak Attack and Purphuros, Bronze-Blooded. Through this value the game plan is to survive long enough that I can draw into and play my Deceiver Exarch + Splinter Twin combo, for the win. The deck also copies its major threats with a great deal of frequency, so a win through combat is not off the table. I am consciously not running tutor effects, as that simply makes the deck too linear for my tastes.

Initially, I wanted to keep this deck somewhat jank, and exclude Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker and his many combo options, or Isochron Scepter to go with the Final Fortune, but I have noticed there are relatively few wincons I can go with for this deck that don't revolve around an infinite combo or regular old creature combat, so I ended up making this a combo deck. I decided on a Splinter Twin combo, because the individual parts of the combo are good in the deck on their own, as opposed to Isochron Scepter, which requires a fair amount of build around to make viable.

The name of the deck is in reference to this tale of tabletop tomfoolery Show

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Date added 3 years
Last updated 1 year
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This deck is Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

11 - 0 Mythic Rares

47 - 0 Rares

18 - 0 Uncommons

5 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 3.36
Tokens Ape 3/3 G, Copy Clone, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Manifest 2/2 C, Mishra's Warform
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