The Braided Siren's Song (Show n' Tell Theft)
Commander / EDH Battlecruiser Casual Creature Cheat Eldrazi Goad Group Hug Mono-Blue Ramp Theft Wizards
Land (37)
- 1x Arcane Lighthouse
- 1x Detection Tower
- 1x Exotic Orchard
- 1x Ghost Quarter
- 1x Glasspool Mimic Flip
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1x
Hall of Storm Giants
- 2x Island
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1x
Island
- 2x Island
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1x
Island
- 2x Island
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1x
Island
- 2x Island
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1x
Island
- 2x Island
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1x
Island
- 2x Island
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1x
Island
- 2x Island
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1x
Island
- 2x Island
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1x
Island
- 1x Maze of Ith
- 1x Mystic Sanctuary
- 1x Reliquary Tower
- 1x Riptide Laboratory
- 1x Rogue's Passage
- 1x Tolaria West
- 1x Winding Canyons
Bounce (4)
Flash (4)
Protection (4)
Removal (3)
Wrath (3)
BigCreature (12)
- 1x Blightsteel Colossus
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1x
Consecrated Sphinx
- 1x Darksteel Colossus
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1x
Hall of Storm Giants
- 1x It That Betrays
- 1x Memnarch
- 1x Pathrazer of Ulamog
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1x
Sphinx Ambassador
- 1x Steel Hellkite
- 1x Tidespout Tyrant
- 1x Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
- 1x Void Winnower
Theft (12)
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1x
Agent of Treachery
- 1x Archmage's Charm
- 1x Blatant Thievery
- 1x Bribery
- 1x Corrupted Conscience
- 1x Dominating Licid
- 1x Empress Galina
- 1x Gilded Drake
- 1x It That Betrays
- 1x Memnarch
- 1x Treachery
- 1x Vedalken Shackles
Ramp (7)
- 1x Decanter of Endless Water
- 1x Fellwar Stone
- 1x Laser Screwdriver
- 1x Midnight Clock
- 1x Sol Ring
- 1x Thought Vessel
- 1x Wayfarer's Bauble
Copy (4)
LateRamp (4)
Counterspell (3)
Utility (3)
Recursion (1)
Commander (1)
Draw (12)
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1x
Agent of Treachery
- 1x Archmage's Charm
- 1x Azami, Lady of Scrolls
- 1x Braingeyser
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1x
Consecrated Sphinx
- 1x Curse of Verbosity
- 1x Insight
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1x
Maeve, Insidious Singer
- 1x Midnight Clock
- 1x Ponder
- 1x Preordain
- 1x Rhystic Study
SmallCreature (11)
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1x
Agent of Treachery
- 1x Azami, Lady of Scrolls
- 1x Dominating Licid
- 1x Empress Galina
- 1x Faerie Artisans
- 1x Fatespinner
- 1x Ixidron
- 1x Kira, Great Glass-Spinner
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1x
Maeve, Insidious Singer
- 1x Sly Instigator
- 1x Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
Goad (4)
Cheat (3)
Defense (3)
GraveyardHate (1)
Tutor (1)
Maybeboard
Theft (56)
- 1x Abduction
- 1x Acquire SL
- 1x Aethersnatch
- 1x Blue Sun's Twilight SL
- 1x Callous Oppressor
- 1x Carry Away SL
- 1x Commandeer
- 1x Confiscate SL
- 1x Conjured Currency SL
- 1x Control Magic SL
- 1x Curse of Unbinding SL
- 2x Deluxe Dragster SL
- 1x Desertion
- 1x Diluvian Primordial SL
- 1x Dominate SL
- 1x Entrancing Melody SL
- 1x Expropriate
- 1x False Demise SL
- 1x Fool's Demise SL
- 1x Fumble SL
- 1x Gather Specimens SL
- 1x Grafted Identity SL
- 1x Hypnotic Siren SL
- 1x In Bolas's Clutches SL
- 1x Inevitable Betrayal SL
- 1x Invoke the Winds SL
- 1x Keiga, the Tide Star
- 1x Kiora Bests the Sea God SL
- 1x Legerdemain SL
- 1x Magus of the Unseen SL
- 1x Mass Manipulation SL
- 1x Mind Control SL
- 1x Mind Flayer SL
- 1x Mind's Dilation SL
- 1x Perplexing Chimera SL
- 1x Persuasion SL
- 2x Portal to Phyrexia
- 1x Reins of Power SL
- 1x Roil Elemental SL
- 1x Sakashima's Will SL
- 1x Seasinger SL
- 1x Shield Broker SL
- 1x Sower of Temptation
- 1x Spirit Away SL
- 1x Staff of Eden, Vault's Key SL
- 1x Steal Artifact SL
- 1x Steal Enchantment SL
- 1x Tempted by the Oriq
- 1x Thada Adel, Acquisitor SL
- 1x Thalakos Deceiver SL
- 2x Thieving Skydiver
- 1x Volition Reins SL
- 1x Wrong Turn SL
Land (11)
- 2x Academy Ruins
- 2x Ancient Tomb
- 1x Myriad Landscape SL
- 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
- 1x Otawara, Soaring City
- 1x Rivendell
- 1x Scavenger Grounds
- 1x Soldevi Excavations
- 1x Thespian's Stage SL
LateRamp (6)
- 1x Coveted Jewel SL
- 1x Dreamstone Hedron SL
- 1x Hedron Archive SL
- 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
- 1x Nyx Lotus
- 1x Thran Dynamo SL
Defense (5)
- 1x Crawlspace SL
- 1x Domineering Will SL
- 1x Dream Tides SL
- 1x Illusionist's Gambit SL
- 1x Web of Inertia SL
Phasing (5)
- 1x March of Swirling Mist
- 1x Slip Out the Back SL
- 1x The Phasing of Zhalfir SL
- 1x Vanishing SL
- 1x Vodalian Illusionist SL
Wrath (3)
GraveyardHate (1)
Draw (29)
- 1x Blue Sun's Zenith SL
- 1x Consuming Tide SL
- 1x Coveted Jewel SL
- 1x Decoy Gambit SL
- 1x Dreamstone Hedron SL
- 1x Ever-Watching Threshold
- 1x Fact or Fiction SL
- 1x Finale of Revelation SL
- 1x Hedron Archive SL
- 2x Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
- 1x Lord of Change
- 1x Lunar Insight
- 1x Mind Stone SL
- 1x Mind Unbound SL
- 1x Mystic Remora SL
- 1x One with the Multiverse
- 1x Opt SL
- 1x Precognitive Perception
- 1x Pull from Tomorrow SL
- 1x Rush of Knowledge SL
- 1x Serum Visions SL
- 1x Sleight of Hand SL
- 1x Staff of Eden, Vault's Key SL
- 1x Stormsurge Kraken
- 1x The Magic Mirror
- 1x Well of Ideas SL
- 1x Windfall SL
- 1x Wizard Class SL
BigCreature (16)
- 1x Ancient Stone Idol SL
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1x
Angler Turtle SL
- 1x Artisan of Kozilek SL
- 1x Diluvian Primordial SL
- 2x Galecaster Colossus SL
- 2x Hullbreaker Horror SL
- 2x Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
- 1x Keiga, the Tide Star
- 1x Lord of Change
- 1x Platinum Emperion SL
- 1x Sphinx of the Second Sun SL
- 1x Stormsurge Kraken
- 1x Triplicate Titan
Cheat (12)
- 1x Acquire SL
- 1x Aminatou's Augury SL
- 1x Curse of Unbinding SL
- 1x Flood of Tears SL
- 1x Inevitable Betrayal SL
- 1x Mind's Dilation SL
- 1x Omen Machine SL
- 1x One with the Multiverse
- 1x Planar Bridge
- 1x Quicksilver Amulet SL
- 1x Show and Tell
- 1x Wondrous Crucible SL
Tutor (8)
- 1x Fabricate SL
- 1x Loyal Inventor
- 1x Planar Bridge
- 1x Solve the Equation SL
- 1x Treasure Mage SL
- 1x Tribute Mage SL
- 1x Trinket Mage SL
- 1x Trophy Mage SL
Counterspell (7)
Removal (8)
- 1x Aetherspouts SL
- 1x Fall from Favor SL
- 2x Imprisoned in the Moon SL
- 2x Portal to Phyrexia
- 1x Ravenform SL
- 1x Resculpt SL
Monarch (4)
Recursion (3)
Flash (1)
SmallCreature (25)
- 1x Callous Oppressor
- 1x Coveted Peacock
- 2x Deluxe Dragster SL
- 1x Dulcet Sirens
- 1x Hypnotic Siren SL
- 1x Loyal Inventor
- 1x Magus of the Unseen SL
- 1x Mind Flayer SL
- 1x Perplexing Chimera SL
- 2x Renegade Silent
- 1x Roil Elemental SL
- 1x Seasinger SL
- 1x Shield Broker SL
- 1x Sower of Temptation
- 1x Thada Adel, Acquisitor SL
- 1x Thalakos Deceiver SL
- 2x Thieving Skydiver
- 1x Treasure Mage SL
- 1x Tribute Mage SL
- 1x Trinket Mage SL
- 1x Trophy Mage SL
- 1x Vodalian Illusionist SL
Copy (16)
- 1x Clever Impersonator SL
- 1x Clone Legion
- 1x Court of Vantress
- 1x Cryptoplasm
- 1x Elminster's Simulacrum SL
- 1x Extravagant Replication SL
- 1x Mirage Mirror SL
- 1x Mirrormade SL
- 1x Mocking Doppelganger
- 1x Narset's Reversal
- 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
- 1x Saheeli's Artistry SL
- 1x See Double SL
- 1x Thespian's Stage SL
- 2x Wizard's Spellbook
Bounce (15)
- 1x AEtherize SL
- 1x Capsize SL
- 1x Consuming Tide SL
- 1x Decoy Gambit SL
- 1x Erratic Portal SL
- 1x Filter Out SL
- 1x Flood of Tears SL
- 1x Fumble SL
- 2x Galecaster Colossus SL
- 2x Hullbreaker Horror SL
- 1x Otawara, Soaring City
- 1x Portal of Sanctuary SL
- 1x Spectral Deluge SL
Ramp (10)
- 1x Mana Vault
- 1x Mind Stone SL
- 1x Misleading Signpost
- 1x Myriad Landscape SL
- 1x Sapphire Medallion SL
- 1x Sceptre of Eternal Glory
- 1x Sky Diamond SL
- 1x Skyclave Relic SL
- 1x Star Compass SL
- 1x Worn Powerstone SL
Goad (8)
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1x
Angler Turtle SL
- 1x Coveted Peacock
- 1x Dulcet Sirens
- 1x Fealty to the Realm
- 1x Misleading Signpost
- 1x Mocking Doppelganger
- 2x Renegade Silent
Utility (6)
- 1x Mirror Room / Fractured Realm
- 1x Paradox Haze SL
- 1x Rivendell
- 1x Soldevi Excavations
- 1x Sphinx of the Second Sun SL
- 1x Wizard Class SL
Protection (3)
Stax (3)
Version 4.2 - - - 10/11/24
The #1 Braids deck on Tappedout! Thank you!!
Control, theft, and ways to gain tempo are the game plan until Braids gets established and rolling. The idea is to play Braids before my turn and/or bounce her back to my hand. The selection of theft effects ideally take away some of the power of giving my opponents more cards out and the means to play them for free.
Braids isn't the most competitive general but this is supposed to be a fun deck that throws a 'lil bit of chaos into a multiplayer game. I still keep throwing money at this deck though.
This deck started off as a humble ~$60 budget deck full of sea monsters. It had a solid number of theft cards as a subtheme. It is one of my favorites so I kept upgrading it. I added more and more theft cards and pared back the Braids-ing in fattys aspect. I still want to have some of it in the deck--otherwise Empress Galina, Thada Adel, Acquisitor, or the dreaded Memnarch should be commander (or any number of multicolored commanders, like Merieke Ri Berit, Marchesa, the Black Rose, Rubinia Soulsinger, Sen Triplets, or quirkier choices like Hanna, Ship's Navigator and Muldrotha, the Gravetide to easily recur theft Auras. Many commanders can do theft well--even things like Keranos, God of Storms and Nin, the Pain Artist for a value engine in the command zone. I'm far too sentimental to drop Braids, Conjurer Adept
so I will maintain her aspect as a control-finisher thing.
A lot of my removal is creature theft, which didn't leave much room for other kinds of interaction like AEtherize, or more hard removal like Pongify and Resculpt. Just part of the deck's charm I suppose.
For a time I had a fair amount of group-hug elements but I found it just drew my opponents into answers and wasn't particularly fun--there weren't many political group-hug things I could leverage.
For a while I didn't include Eldrazi for thematic and budget reasons but then I had a realization. I eventually realized that I was busting my ass and paying 6 or 7 mana to safely cheat in an 8- or 9-drop kraken; not quite where one wants to be in commander! So to make Braids' ability worth it I would need to have the deck wholly built around her ability and include upward of twenty bombs and more facilitators like Quicksilver Amulet, Vodalian Illusionist, and Paradox Haze. I wanted more theft in the deck so I settled on a bare-minimum Braids package that I'm trying to slowly upgrade with more impactful (and expensive!) bombs, like Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger and the mighty, dreaded Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre.
I tried to make some of the card-draw cards be based off of what my opponents do, to feel a bit more on-theme. Things like Insight, Ever-Watching Threshold, Curse of Verbosity, and Rhystic Study. Rhystic is obviously amazing though.
Cards to likely add: Show
Cards to maybe add: Show
Cards with an SL are cards I own. Cards with an MP are potential cuts. Cards with an HP are proxies.
Audited 11/01/23
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100% Casual
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| Date added | 8 years |
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| Legality | This deck is Commander / EDH legal. |
| Rarity (main - side) | 7 - 0 Mythic Rares 40 - 0 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons |
| Cards | 100 |
| Avg. CMC | 4.42 |
| Tokens | Boar 2/2 G, Copy Clone, Treasure |
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