Nindestructible Card Draw

Commander / EDH

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Creatures (25)

• 1x Arjun, the Shifting Flame
• 1x Chasm Skulker
• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Creepy Doll
• 1x Darksteel Myr
• 1x Darksteel Sentinel
• 1x Deceiver Exarch
• 1x Illusory Ambusher
• 1x Iron Myr
• 1x Kefnet the Mindful
• 1x Myr Retriever
• 1x Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Psychosis Crawler
• 1x Shield Sphere
• 1x Shimmer Myr
• 1x Silent Arbiter
• 1x Silver Myr
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Soramaro, First to Dream
• 1x Stuffy Doll
• 1x Sturmgeist
• 1x Thada Adel, Acquisitor
• 1x The Locust God
• 1x Willbreaker

Ramp (6)

• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Training Grounds

Tutors (1)

• 1x Fabricate

Land (36)

• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Desert of the Mindful
• 1x Desolate Lighthouse
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 1x Highland Lake
• 13x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Izzet Guildgate
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 7x Mountain
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Remote Isle
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Skyline Cascade
• 1x Swiftwater Cliffs
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Wandering Fumarole

Protection (9)

• 1x Crawlspace
• 1x Darksteel Plate
• 1x Hammer of Nazahn
• 1x Magebane Armor
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Shield of Kaldra
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Sword of War and Peace
• 1x Well-Laid Plans

Hate (3)

• 1x Grafdigger's Cage
• 1x Relic of Progenitus
• 1x Tormod's Crypt

Commander (1)

Counterspells (9)

• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cryptic Command *list*
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Disdainful Stroke
• 1x Dissipate
• 1x Dissolve
• 1x Mystic Confluence
• 1x Negate
• 1x Swan Song

Board Wipe (6)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Chain Reaction
• 1x Cyclonic RiftGC
• 1x Star of Extinction
• 1x Starstorm
• 1x Vandalblast

Card Draw (4)

• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Rhystic StudyGC
• 1x Staff of Nin

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Other (2)

• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Temple of Epiphany

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Nin, the Pain Artist.

Goal and Game Plan

The goal of the deck was to make a Blue-Red deck that was not all about spell slinging. General plan of the deck is to drop an indestructible creature and use them as a source of card draw and blocking, eventually drawing into further action and sources of damage. Primary method of winning is to stall out until you find Psychosis Crawler, Niv-Mizzet, The Locust God, or Stuffy Doll and can start using Nin to damage your opponents in conjunction with their effects, with combat damage as a major support for the deck.

How to stall

The deck includes multiple sources of indestructible equipments which double as both ways to block creatures and sources of card draw, as well as a few cards to limit the amount of damage that can come at the player per turn. It has a few counterspells, skewed in favor of those that are versatile and capable of defending from multiple threats.

Miscellaneous

It's light on card drawing cards as the sources of indestructibility are treated as card draw, but does have a few low mana (and Staff of Nin for flavor) options for drawing cards in a pinch, or simply for the first few turns. Some graveyard hate just because it can be effective against certain players I know, and because I don't use much of the graveyard myself it doesn't hurt me much to include. There is a similar reasoning behind Sward of War and Peace, the color protections hit most of the creature removal I would have to deal with and the life gain could possibly be useful, though I may replace it with Fire and Ice for its better value.

I may cut training grounds, but I want to test it in a few games first. It doesn't work with almost any other creature than my commander, but getting 2 free mana whenever I use my commander's ability may still be worth it.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 34 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.27
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Insect 1/1 UR, Squid 1/1 U