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Skip My Turn Golos

Commander / EDH

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Introduction

Skip My Turn Golos is perhaps a deck like no other. While it may seem very counterintuitive to skip your own turn, we can actually use it to abuse many effects.

This deck works by abusing cards with negative upkeep effects. For example, Mystic Remora has a cumulative upkeep cost of 1. However, I don't really want to waste my mana on that, so by skipping my turn I never have to pay that cost. This works for any cards with cumulative upkeeps or abilities that end at your next turn.
At first, I was going to build with Zur, because he can be used to easily to tutor cards to help you. However, he cannot tutor any turn skip cards, which put you at a huge disadvantage. Golos, on the other hand, can be used to tutor up Magosi, the Waterveil right away and start skipping turn. You can also tutor Glacial Chasm after if you flicker him. He also gives you a much better color range than Zur.
UPDATE: I realized this only works for Sundial of the Infinite. Since Magosi, the Waterveil says "skip your NEXT turn, you cannot activate it on the beginning of your turn to skip the rest of your turn.

This deck would likely not function if it weren't for the steps of your turn. Thats right, even when you're skipping all your turns, your turn steps are important. This is because almost all of the skip your turn cards require being tapped to activate that ability. Since you can only untap on your own turn, that only works once, right? Wrong. The very first phase to happen on your turn is untap, which happens before upkeep. That way, you can untap, tap the card again and skip your turn before you get to the upkeep and abilities resolve.

The goal of this deck is to really out wait everyone else. You want to play as many pillowfort cards as you can to protect you while you skip your turn. The two best cards to do this are Glacial Chasm and Solitary Confinement. Then you can use cards like Primal Order or Havoc Festival and wait around for everyone to die.

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Revision 3 See all

(2 years ago)

-1 Golos, Tireless Pilgrim main
+1 Kenrith, the Returned King main
Date added 4 years
Last updated 2 years
Legality

This deck is Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

3 - 0 Mythic Rares

33 - 0 Rares

15 - 0 Uncommons

24 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 3.20
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