Raise your Glass(igur) to Tas(igur)

Commander / EDH BUG (Sultai) Control Counterspell Creature Cheat Delve Goodstuff Midrange

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Creature (24)

• 1x Beledros Witherbloom
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Displacer Kitten
• 1x Elvish Spirit Guide
• 1x Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant
• 1x Koma, Cosmos Serpent
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Muldrotha, the Gravetide
• 1x Nezahal, Primal Tide
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Nyxbloom Ancient
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Razaketh, the Foulblooded
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Talion, the Kindly Lord
• 1x Thassa's Oracle
• 1x Toxrill, the Corrosive
• 1x Treasure Mage
• 1x Triskelion
• 1x Underrealm Lich
• 1x Witherbloom Apprentice

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Chain of Smog
• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Neoform
• 1x Three Visits
• 1x Tooth and Nail
• 1x Villainous Wealth

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Revel in Riches

Land (32)

• 1x Blast Zone
• 1x Blooming Marsh
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Castle Garenbrig
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 7x Forest
• 1x Hedge Maze
• 6x Island
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Temple of Malady
• 1x Undercity Sewers
• 1x Underground Mortuary
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath

Artifact (14)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Golgari Signet
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mindslaver
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Curiosity
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Resilience
• 1x The Great Henge
• 1x The One Ring

Commander (1)

Instant (17)

• 1x An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Demonic Consultation
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Force of Negation
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Narset's Reversal
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Veil of Summer

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
• 1x Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner
• 1x Narset, Parter of Veils

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Midrangey-Control sultai deck, built up primarily from cards I've grabbed from other parts of my collection. it's slowly edging towards the cEDH side of the scale, but I still have a lot of cards to add to be fully competitive with it.

Overview & playstyle

The main play style here is to go for a rampy, midrange-y & controll-y, long-con game. You can sit back and let your opponents try to play strong things, only to counter their strong spells, and respond in kind. Or, you can push ahead with your own strong stuff, ramp up, pod out threats, and push for the win that way. For even more fun, you can tutor for Villainous Wealth and steal something from your opponents deck and go for the win with their own cards!

One of the most potent parts of this deck are the fetchlands and the surveil lands. With their help, and possibly a Sol Ring or Dark Ritual it's not hard to get Tasigur out by turn 3 - turn 2 if you're really lucky.

Seedborn Muse allows the deck to tap out on our turn, and still be able to have the options of playing a Counterspell and/or use tasigur's ability on our opponents turns.

Pod effects, like Neoform, Eldritch Evolution, and obviously Birthing Pod itself help us to grab relevant stuff when we need to. It's not out of the question to have Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant, Toxrill, the Corrosive, or Nezahal, Primal Tide out as early as turn 4 or 5. While you can also sac weaker things to Pod, like Birds of Paradise, to grab Sakura-Tribe Elder for ramping, the play is usually to grab a 7-drop from pod early after a turn 3- or 4- delve. Nezehal is good against control matchups, Toxrill against tokens, Beledros and Nyxbloom are just generally good for their abilities..etc etc. You get the idea. Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant, in particular is an interesting card to pod out because we can use his ETB to dump out other creatures from our hand - for free!

Win-cons and combos

There are three infinite combos here, as wincons:

• Demonic Consultation + Thassa's Oracle
• Demonic Consultation + Laboratory Maniac
• Jace, Wielder of Mysteries + Demonic Consultation
• Chain of Smog + Witherbloom Apprentice
• Deadeye Navigator + Peregrine Drake
• Mindslaver + Tasigur, the Golden Fang

• Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + Triskelion are the go-to combos.

• Dramatic Reversal + Isochron Scepter is a classic infinite mana combo. It does not necessarily win on its own, but has a definite win-con potential.

Not infinite necessarily, but still very strong:

• Dark Ritual + Displacer Kitten + Eternal Witness
• Displacer Kitten + Sensei's Divining Top

Update 6/20/2024 - I had previously mentioned Thassa's Oracle in this section. I have added it now, with Demonic Consultation for a more reliable win option.

Update 7/8/2024 - I added Mikaeus, the Unhallowed, Triskelion as a more consistent way to end games.

Delve tips

Surveil lands, such as Hedge Maze, fetch lands like Scalding Tarn, and Fabled Passage, as well as cards like Dark Ritual are so strong here because they go to the graveyard after the resolution of their abilities, providing us with more fuel for delving. We can delve out our commander consistently by turn 3 or 4 using these cards as potential graveyard fillers to help us delve him out early on. Yes, surveil lands enter tapped, but you can fetch them and surveil more cards to your graveyard to help you delve, which is what makes them so powerful.

As a general rule, try to delve away cards you don't want in your graveyard anymore. Ramp cards like Kodama's Reach or Farseek are good easy first targets. Lands are also a good easy delve target - just be wary of delving away fetches or surveil lands if you plan on playing Muldrotha, the Gravetide later.

Other notes & cards of value

The 'walkers here are interesting. Narset, Parter of Veils and Ashiok, Dream Render all have amazing passive abilities to mess with your opponent's draw and searching capabilities, with nice PW abilities to boot. Kiora Behemoth Reckoner, gives us incredible draw power, and can provide us with 1 or even 2 extra mana per turn (untap target Sol Ring), or to draw extra cards (untap target The One Ring).

I have not had a chance to use Talion, the Kindly Lord but I am excited to! I hear the magic number is 2.

Future upgrades

I will eventually cave and upgrade this deck to become well, more powerful. Future swaps will likely fall along something to this effect:

• Golgari Signet < replaced with Mana Crypt
• Fellwar Stone < replaced with Mana Vault
• Farseek < replaced with Hullbreaker Horror
• Time of Need < replaced with Demonic Tutor
• Treasure Mage < replaced with Imperial Seal
• Elemental Bond < replaced with Ad Nauseam
• Elvish Spirit Guide < replaced with Doomsday
• kiora, behemoth reckoner < replaced with Fierce Guardianship
• Talion, the Kindly Lord < replaced with Rhystic Study
• Dig Through Time < replaced with Opposition Agent
• Notion Thief < replaced with Orcish Bowmasters
• basics with Zagoth Triome, Underground Mortuary, Verdant Catacombs, and Undercity Sewers

Final notes

Well, thanks for reading this far. Please feel free to provide thoughts, feedback, suggestions, and don't forget to "Upvote" this deck. Thank you!

Date added	9 months
Last updated	1 month
Key combos	Deadeye Navigator + Peregrine Drake Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + Triskelion Mindslaver + Tasigur, the Golden Fang Dramatic Reversal + Isochron Scepter Demonic Consultation + Laboratory Maniac Demonic Consultation + Thassa's Oracle Chain of Smog + Witherbloom Apprentice Dark Ritual + Displacer Kitten + Eternal Witness Displacer Kitten + Sensei's Divining Top
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	14 - 0 Mythic Rares 42 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.44
Tokens	Koma's Coil 3/3 U, Pest 1/1 BG, Slug 1-1 B, Treasure
Folders	Inspiration, Cedh Lists, Deck to build, Other people's decks