Slinging Spells at the End of the World

Commander / EDH* Combo Competitive Necropotence Storm UBR (Grixis)

MatsuriFramboise

Instant (31)

• 1x Ad Nauseam
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Delay
• 1x Demonic Consultation
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x High Tide
• 1x Hurkyl's Recall
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Intuition
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Negate
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Paradoxical Outcome
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Snap
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Thought Scour
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Necropotence

Land (32)

• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 10x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Tarnished Citadel
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Sorcery (13)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Mind's Desire
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Rolling Earthquake
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Unearth
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Windfall
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will

Commander (1)

Artifact (18)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Helm of Awakening
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence

Creature (3)

• 1x Baral, Chief of Compliance
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Spellseeker

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Sorcery (5)

• 1x Careful Study
• 1x Doomsday
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Praetor's Grasp
• 1x Sleight of Hand

Creature (1)

• 1x Jace, Vryn's Prodigy  ^Flip

Instant (1)

• 1x Gush

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I've since updated this, so I'll have to rewrite the below stuff later. I'm not running Doomsday anymore.

This is a Kess, dissident mage Aetherflux Storm/Doomsday deck made to be as competitive as I can afford it to be (so no ABUR lands, no high dollar Moxen, LED, stuff like that), designed to go off very quickly (in most cases in my playtesting, somewhere between turns 4-7.

There are two main win conditions and one I'm considering:

1. Storm

There's no actual Storm card in the deck (yet, I'm considering Tendrils of Agony as something that can kill an opponent and boost my life for extra fuel for Aetherflux Reservoir.

The process is tedious but fairly straight forward. Start the game by loading up on mana rocks and as much mana as you can put down, then cast Ad Nauseam. This deck is designed to have as few high CMC cards possible (thus, why I cut Mind's Desire), so you can go off as hard as you possibly can with Ad Nauseam and get as many cards in your hand as possible. Then you try to cast (or if you don't have it all yet, tutor up) Dramatic Reversal and Isochron Scepter and cast them, so you have a way of generating unlimited mana, thus allowing you to storm off as much as possible. Cast Aetherflux Reservoir and watch your life total skyrocket with each spell you cast-- and if you don't have enough, cast Yawgmoth's Will and recast as many as you can! Use the Reservoir to wipe out as many of your opponents as you can. Your goal is to win the turn you cast Ad Nauseam, so you also have Force of Will and Pact of Negation to keep you going. It's a very all-in strategy. Not for the impatient!

2. Doomsday + Laboratory Maniac

Doomsday and Laboratory Maniac are in as a secondary win condition. It was originally the main wincon, but after some discussion with other people, I was convinced to make storm the main wincon due to its flavor and fun. Doomsday can be used in case somehow storming off doesn't work. I'm not about to get into piles and such here-- instead, I'll link to the the Doomsday Primer that explains it far better than I ever could. Maybe one day if I can get Lion's Eye Diamond I'll make this more of a main wincon, but it's more of a backup than anything.

3. Torment of Hailfire (Tentative)

In case you have the Dramatic Reversal + Isochron Scepter combo live, but cannot/do not want to storm off for any particular reason (Reservoir gets exiled, stuff like that). Just dump that infinite mana into Torment of Hailfire, a finisher that wipes every board entirely and flushes every life total to beyond 0. Simple, elegant, and immensely powerful if you can back it up with protection.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	6 years
Exclude colors	WG
Splash colors	R
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 37 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 18 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	1.85
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Manifest 2/2 C, Spirit 1/1 C
Folders	Decks