Mishra EDH - Primary

Commander / EDH* UBR (Grixis)

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Land (38)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Badlands
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Castle Locthwain
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Great Furnace
• 1x Inkmoth Nexus
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 1x Mishra's Factory
• 1x Mishra's Workshop
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 4x Snow-Covered Island
• 4x Snow-Covered Mountain
• 4x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold
• 1x Watery Grave

Sorcery (6)

• 1x All is Dust
• 1x Chain Reaction
• 1x Praetor's Grasp
• 1x Scrap Mastery
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Wheel of Fortune

Creature (20)

• 1x Arcum Dagsson
• 1x Blightsteel Colossus
• 1x Emry, Lurker of the Loch
• 1x Enthusiastic Mechanaut
• 1x Etherium Sculptor
• 1x Goblin Welder
• 1x Guardian Beast
• 1x Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain
• 1x Kuldotha Forgemaster
• 1x Master Transmuter
• 1x Metalworker
• 1x Neera, Wild Mage
• 1x Padeem, Consul of Innovation
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Sai, Master Thopterist
• 1x Scrap Trawler
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Thada Adel, Acquisitor
• 1x Vedalken Archmage
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Biotransference
• 1x Nether Void
• 1x Planar Chaos
• 1x Possibility Storm
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Spreading Plague
• 1x The Abyss
• 1x Thopter Spy Network
• 1x Vile Consumption

Planeswalker (4)

• 1x Daretti, Ingenious Iconoclast
• 1x Karn, the Great Creator
• 1x Tezzeret, Artifice Master
• 1x Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge

Commander (1)

Artifact (17)

• 1x Crawlspace
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Cursed Totem
• 1x Darksteel Forge
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Ensnaring Bridge
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mycosynth Lattice
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Pithing Needle
• 1x Retrofitter Foundry
• 1x Sculpting Steel
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Smokestack
• 1x Sol Ring

Instant (5)

• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Hurkyl's Recall
• 1x Thirst for Knowledge
• 1x Whir of Invention

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Sideboard

Creature (1)

• 1x Junk Diver

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Recurring Insight

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Saheeli, Sublime Artificer

Artifact (1)

• 1x Unwinding Clock

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Maybeboard

Creature (5)

• 1x Enthusiastic Mechanaut
• 1x Karn, Legacy Reforged
• 1x Mishra, Tamer of Mak Fawa
• 1x Neera, Wild Mage
• 1x The Reality Chip

Artifact (3)

• 1x Encroaching Mycosynth
• 1x Mystic Forge
• 1x Void Mirror

Land (1)

• 1x The Mycosynth Gardens

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Biotransference

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The Primer Main Page

Why Mishra as Commander?

I first saw this card several years ago, when Time Spiral brought back all sorts of old names that I had almost forgotten about. He went into my trade binder and I hadn't thought about him for some time. I started playing EDH about 2 and a half years ago, and since then, I have had an on and off desire to build a deck to make him work; every time halting because the idea of stax seemed unfun to me, and nether void was forever out of my price range. Screw nether void, we don't need it! WE'LL DO IT LIVE!

You will enjoy this deck if:

You want to be the only person with your commander

You like shiney artifacts

You enjoy a unique commander

You want to play a 75% deck

You hate mirror matches

You enjoy a dash of chaos

Did I mention, no one else runs this dude!

You will NOT enjoy this deck if:

You want to play countermagic in every blue deck

You want to have an answer to everything all the time

You want to tutor every turn

You want to play cutthroat, 100% effort all the time

You hate not drawing cards in mass

How it works:

I am not the first player to play with Mishra, and if you look at other people's builds, I am sure you will see the same symmetrical effects that Mishra makes asymmetrical. What do I mean by that? The goal of this deck is to play an effect that makes the game harder for our opponent to play and normally would hinder us as well, but Mishra lets us cheat around. The key to this deck is abusing the order of our triggered effects on the stack.

Example 1, One-way Chaos:

In play: Mishra, Artificer Prodigy and Possibility Storm.

In hand: ANY ARTIFACT, for this example, lets say everyone's favorite, Sol Ring

Step 1: Play Sol Ring

Step 2: Two triggers occur; Possibility Storm, and Mishra, Artificer Prodigy's search effect for 'Sol Ring'. Stack Mishra's ability first, then Possibility Storm ontop of his ability.

Step 3: Resolve Possibility Storm, ultimately putting the next artifact ontop your library into play, and then all revealed cards, AND sol ring onto the bottom of your library

Step 4: Resolve Mishra, search for a copy Sol Ring in your library. Pro-tip: its more than likely on the bottom. Put into play for free. PROFIT!

With this in play, your opponents never get the spell they want, where as you get 100% of your artifacts, AND a free artifact into play with it on EVERY cast. It's like cascade, ON ROIDS!

Example 2, Counter me not:

In play: Mishra, Artificer Prodigy and any counter spell effect, lets say chalice of the void set on 1 In hand: Sol Ring

Step 1: Play Sol Ring

Step 2: Stack Mishra first, then Chalice ontop.

Step 3: Resolve chalice, countering Sol Ring, placing it in grave.

Step 4: Resolve Mishra, search your grave for a copy of Sol Ring, put it into play for free.

Not only does this work well with your own symmetrical counter effects, but cards like blood funnel suddenly make all artifacts 2 less to play! Hell YA! Better still, suck it blue mages, counter my stuff, it still goes into play!

Example 3, double down on loans:

In play: Mishra, Artificer Prodigy

In hand: Praetor's Grasp

You know what is great about artifacts? Everyone runs them!

Step 1: Target some unfortunate soal with Praetor's Grasp

Step 2: Exile any choice artifact that we share with them. Great targets include: Sol Ring, Lightning Greaves, Signets, Gilded Lotus, Sensei's, THE LIST GOES ON!

Step 3: Play their copy, Triggering Mishra to search for our own copy

Step 4: DOUBLE DOUBLE!

How do I win?

Ok, yes, all the above is all well and good, but how do we close out the game?

With my build, we have a few great options:

Be cruel: Mycosynth Lattice + Darksteel Forge + Nevinyrral's Disk/Vandalblast - Blow up all the things. Go home kids, you got beat by the emo king of edh artifact decks. Karn also can start popping lands like a mox monkey!

Be venomous: Blightsteel Colossus tends to work wonders, and we got the mana rocks to throw him down real fast, real early. Bonus points if you steel (see what i did there?) their's, and double down on the infect!

Be awesome: Mana rocks mean who cares about commander tax? start swinging with Mishra early and often, to pimp smack people to death with those purple glow fingers! Once you establish chaos and counter boards, they will have a hard time disrupting you!

Date added	10 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	14 - 0 Mythic Rares 59 - 3 Rares 9 - 1 Uncommons 6 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.65
Tokens	Construct 1/1 C Token w/ Defender, Construct 4/4 C, Emblem Tezzeret, Artifice Master, Necron Warrior 2/2 B, Servo 1/1 C, Thopter 1/1 C, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Deathtouch, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Lifelink
Folders	Current