Pako and Haldan's Lantern Control

Commander / EDH* Control RUG (Temur) Tempo Voltron

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Land (36)

• 1x Alchemist's Refuge
• 1x Castle Vantress
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 5x Forest
• 1x Frontier Bivouac
• 1x Frostboil Snarl
• 1x Highland Forest
• 8x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Kessig Wolf Run
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Mosswort Bridge
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Rimewood Falls
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Skarrg, the Rage Pits
• 1x Temple of Abandon
• 1x Temple of Epiphany
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Vineglimmer Snarl
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Top of Opponents Library (8)

• 1x Portent
• 1x Precognition
• 1x Primal Command
• 1x Psychic Surgery
• 1x Temporal Spring
• 1x Tunnel Vision
• 1x Vanishment
• 1x Wand of Denial

Protection (3)

• 1x Bear Umbra
• 1x Veil of Summer
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

Recursion (2)

• 1x Bala Ged Recovery  ^Flip
• 1x Reap the Past

Control (16)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Corrupted Conscience
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Decimate
• 1x Expel from Orazca
• 1x Hinder
• 1x Khalni Ambush  ^Flip
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Memory Lapse
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Set Adrift
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Telepathy
• 1x Temur Charm
• 1x Voidslime

Ramp (13)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
• 1x Kiora, the Crashing Wave
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Mina and Denn, Wildborn
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Search for Tomorrow
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Tempt with Discovery
• 1x Three Visits
• 1x Wilderness Reclamation

Wipe (4)

• 1x Chain Reaction
• 1x Displacement Wave
• 1x Mizzium Mortars
• 1x Starstorm

Other (2)

• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Strionic Resonator

Commanders (2)

Draw (8)

• 1x Future Sight
• 1x Garruk, Primal Hunter
• 1x Growth Spiral
• 1x Guided Passage
• 1x Myth Unbound
• 1x Rashmi, Eternities Crafter
• 1x Return of the Wildspeaker
• 1x See the Truth

Wincon/Redundancy (6)

• 1x Aqueous Form
• 1x Chandra's Ignition
• 1x Hadana's Climb  ^Flip
• 1x Mind's Dilation
• 1x Moraug, Fury of Akoum
• 1x Rancor

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Top of Opponents Library (8)

• 1x Codex Shredder
• 1x Cruel Fate
• 1x Ghoulcaller's Bell
• 1x Lantern of Insight
• 1x Second Sight
• 1x Spin into Myth
• 1x Tahngarth's Glare
• 1x Wizened Snitches

Recursion (3)

• 1x Mission Briefing
• 1x Regrowth
• 1x The Mirari Conjecture

Landfall (2)

• 1x Retreat to Coralhelm
• 1x Retreat to Kazandu

Removal (1)

• 1x Muddle the Mixture

Control (7)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Frozen Aether
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Icy Manipulator
• 1x Spell Crumple
• 1x Tale's End
• 1x Wizard's Retort

Wincon/Redundancy (4)

• 1x Agent of Treachery
• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Etali, Primal Storm
• 1x Spark Double

Tutor (2)

• 1x Dizzy Spell
• 1x Trinket Mage

Draw (5)

• 1x Explore
• 1x Omnath, Locus of the Roil
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Primal Empathy
• 1x Tatyova, Benthic Druid

Land (4)

• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x Desolate Lighthouse
• 1x Mountain Valley
• 1x Rugged Highlands

Ramp (2)

• 1x Mana Geyser
• 1x Oblivion Sower

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Pako Is A Good Boy!

This is my take (now tested a bit on tabletop sim) on Pako and Haldan, going a control direction with it. It's been very resilient from what I can see so far

What are we are trying to do

• Lands: We play several ways to play extra lands each turn, as that is what you are going to most likely get with Pako's triggers. In addition to this we have stuff like Moraug, Fury of Akoum . Trust me, this deck wants to ramp a lot. It doesn't often have nothing to play. Also, quick note, we run Three Visits along with Rimewood Falls and Highland Forest so that we can fix our mana in that fun, budget-friendly way.
• Lantern-style control: We play a lot of traditional Temur control pieces as well as a package that lets us control the tops of both our and our opponent's libraries. (The actual lantern control package is a bit difficult to maintain in practice and its individual pieces don't work great without eachother, so in this version the actual lantern been taken out, though it still messes with the tops of opponent's libraries quite a bit.)
• Voltron/Wincons: We can either win through Voltron (Pako grows really fast) with something like Hadana's Climb  , Aqueous Form , Rancor , or Whispersilk Cloak , win with our opponent's cards gotten off Pako, or just Chandra's Ignition everyone out. That isn't to discount using our opponent's cards to do this, though we have to be careful about relying too hard on them in case one gets knocked out. That being said, since Pako and Haldan can't on their own get creatures for you ( Mind's Dilation does if you draw it), you generally will only lose some ramp pieces and lands when someone dies. The deck is pretty good but actually flies under people's radars specifically because Pako doesn't have natural evasion. I think it's a net positive: your dude still grows but people don't focus him down as much because they aren't thinking about him gaining evasion later.
• Wombo Combo: One really funny way to kill somebody is by using Hinder to counter a spell to the bottom of someone's library, then casting Tunnel Vision naming the card you countered to mill all but their last card which you then exile with Pako, Arcane Retriever 's attack so they die on their next draw.

Personal Notes

Put Mind's Dilation in from the Jodah deck. Give Jodah Mana Reflection from the binder

Top Ranked	Achieved #2 position in Commander / EDH RUG (Temur) 4 years ago Achieved #2 position in Commander / EDH Tempo 4 years ago
Date added	4 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 38 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.16
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Bird 2/2 U, City's Blessing, Emblem Kiora, the Crashing Wave, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Kraken 9/9 U, Wurm 6/6 G
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