Spectator Interference

Commander / EDH* Control Group Hug Mono-Blue

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Creature (5)

• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Mnemonic Wall
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Voidmage Husher

Land (36)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 28x Island
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Mage-Ring Network
• 1x Mystifying Maze
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Remote Isle
• 1x Seat of the Synod

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Arcane Melee
• 1x Dictate of Kruphix
• 1x Jace's Sanctum
• 1x Psychic Possession
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Telepathy
• 1x Thought Reflection

Artifact (9)

• 1x Alhammarret's Archive
• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Library of Leng
• 1x Sapphire Medallion
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Staff of Nin
• 1x Temple Bell
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Venser's Journal

Instant (29)

• 1x AEtherize
• 1x Aetherspouts
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Blustersquall
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Cancel
• 1x Capsize
• 1x Condescend
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dismiss
• 1x Dissipate
• 1x Dissolve
• 1x Dragonlord's Prerogative
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Gush
• 1x Intellectual Offering
• 1x Jace's Ingenuity
• 1x Keep Watch
• 1x Negate
• 1x Opportunity
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Repeal
• 1x Rewind
• 1x Stroke of Genius
• 1x Time Stop

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Compulsive Research
• 1x Concentrate
• 1x Curse of the Swine
• 1x Distant Memories
• 1x Foresee
• 1x Minds Aglow
• 1x Plea for Power
• 1x Prosperity
• 1x Sleep
• 1x Tidings
• 1x Wash Out
• 1x Whelming Wave

Commander (1)

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Sideboard

Creature (7)

• 1x Chasm Skulker
• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Psychosis Crawler
• 1x Sphinx of the Final Word
• 1x Sturmgeist

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Forced Fruition
• 1x Mind Over Matter
• 1x Omniscience
• 1x Sphinx's Tutelage
• 1x Telepathy

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Enter the Infinite
• 1x Eternal Dominion
• 1x Time Warp

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Maybeboard

Creature (1)

• 1x Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir

Land (1)

• 1x Tolaria West

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Leyline of Anticipation

Artifact (1)

• 1x Vedalken Orrery

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Flow of Ideas

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This is a mono blue "Playing for second" police deck.

Effectively, what I want to do is control the game just enough to keep all of my opponents on equal ground for as long as possible. It wouldn't be hard for me to just die by getting targeted, so politics is a big part of this deck. The deck is pretty non-threatening since it doesn't have very many ways to win the game, but the opponents don't necessarily know that, since in their experience mono blue usually just hides until it wins. Speaking of hiding until it wins, if you want to go that route, boarding in the sideboard cards for a few of the weaker cards in the main will lead to a very good version of that strategy. Don't get me wrong, getting targeted by everyone early on will still lead to more heat than you can Wash Out , but if you can politic everyone enough to get a few engine pieces down, it's hard to lose. One-on-one with the sideboard in is usually enough to steamroll decks that aren't hyper aggressive.

So what does the deck do? Draw cards for everyone and Counterspell the cards that make the game unfun.

During the games when someone's playing a hyper unfair deck, or I'm just pissed off, I sub out a lot of the group hug cards, and board in some of blue's finest win-cons. Most games are easy if I do this, therefore I don't usually. The way I most commonly win is getting some combination of the following engine out and then dropping Laboratory Maniac and drawing an absurd amount of cards.

The Engine Components:

• Alhammarret's Archive, Thought Reflection

• Jace's Sanctum, Sapphire Medallion, Arcane Melee

• Clever Impersonator, Phyrexian Metamorph (copying any other non-legendary engine component)

Then I just cast my draw spells as normal and draw anywhere between 6 and 48 cards. Lab Maniac comes down before I deck myself, and I win with counterspells held up.

There are two "pretty unfair" locks in the main deck:

• Archeomancer + Whelming Wave (use archeomancer to pick up whelming wave, cast wave pick up 'mancer and bounce board, repeat each turn until answered. Add more copies of Archeomancer with Clever Impersonator or Phyrexian Metamorph to pick up extra instants/ sorceries from your grave with each iteration.

• Capsize + the cheapening components. Making capsize with buyback cost a meager 2 mana total is relatively easy, and unless you're severely outnumbered, or behind, it's probably game.

Waiting for Trail of Evidence to come out so I can put it in. Seems like a bunch of value with all almost half the deck as instants and sorceries.

Date added	9 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 6 Mythic Rares 23 - 7 Rares 27 - 2 Uncommons 18 - 0 Commons
Cards	99
Avg. CMC	3.30
Tokens	Ape 3/3 G, Boar 2/2 G, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Manifest 2/2 C, Squid 1/1 U
Folders	Blue EDH