The Elusive Whale Wolf

Commander / EDH Competitive Lifegain UB (Dimir) Voltron

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Instant (32)

• 1x Altar's Reap
• 1x Anticipate
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Boomerang
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Devour Flesh
• 1x Diabolic Edict
• 1x Disperse
• 1x Displace
• 1x Echoing Truth
• 1x Essence Flux
• 1x Far / Away
• 1x Geth's Verdict
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Goryo's Vengeance
• 1x Mana Leak
• 1x Opt
• 1x Repeal
• 1x Skeletal Scrying
• 1x Spy Network
• 1x String of Disappearances
• 1x Teferi's Time Twist
• 1x Telling Time
• 1x Tragic Slip
• 1x Unexplained Disappearance
• 1x Unsubstantiate
• 1x Unsummon
• 1x Vapor Snag
• 1x Village Rites
• 1x Voyage's End
• 1x Wipe Away

Land (37)

• 1x Cathedral of War
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forge of Heroes
• 11x Island
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 9x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Watery Grave

Sorcery (11)

• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Bone Splinters
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Raise Dead
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Rise from the Grave
• 1x Sleight of Hand
• 1x Void Snare
• 1x Zombify

Commander (1)

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Artifact (12)

• 1x Aether Vial
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Batterskull
• 1x Commander's Plate
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Dimir Cluestone
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1x Sword of Fire and Ice
• 1x Sword of Sinew and Steel
• 1x Sword of Truth and Justice
• 1x Umezawa's Jitte

Creature (5)

• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Drana, Liberator of Malakir
• 1x Merciless Executioner
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Jace, the Mind Sculptor

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Phyrexian Arena

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This is quite e fun deck to play. Ukkima has an awesome ability that, each time he leaves the battlefield the opponents loses as much HP as his attack and I gain the same amount. His unblockable ability would suit him for a voltron deck where you try to one shot the opponent with one or two powerful attacks. Seing as Ukkima is relatively weak and has no defense capabilites, he is quite suishy and easy to deal with when unequipped and so his ability wouldn't have a big impact if he is handled immediately. Sure, you could build the deck as half artifacts/buffs and half counter spells and make an uninteresting control deck with an avergae commander. This is all the list i could've seen for now, because most people play him in multiplayer.

As I said, his ability triggers each time he leaves the battlefield and that includes: death, exile, flick and bounce. So i've just constructed my deck around all those: low mana cost spells to bounce/sacrifice ukkima to activate his ability and cheap revival spells. The point of the deck is to put Ukkima T3 and always be able to play one of those spells to rpotect him. Because if he starts to go back too much to the command zone, casting him becomes almost useless. Opponent casts a removal spell on him? He either goes back to my hand or goes to the graveyard, activating his ability anyway. Sacrifice spells to be able to either handle an opponet's creature or just detroy ukkima to activte his ability. Since most of the spells are quite cheap, you can quickly afford to : attack, bounce, recast and bounce ukkima. It might not look like much damages, but 2 to 4 hp every turn starting at T3 can make the opponent's hp go down pretty fast, and it also allows me to take some more damages because i aslo gain health each time the ability is activated. Resurection spells are used to not put ukkima back into the command zone and therefore not making his cost too high. The equipment spells are a nice bonus because it doubles the amount of damages you can do (swing for 4, activate abilities, bounce him and you've done 8 damages and gained 8 HP, more for Batterskull) You can also use the bounce spells to control the opponent's board, so this deck is nice in a sense that you can deny most of the opponent's attempts to kill your commander (when it doesn't have protections from all colors with the swords) by just bouncing him and still getting HP out of it. A few draw spell to always try to have at least one removal spell in hand.

I find it really fun to play =)

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	14 - 0 Mythic Rares 19 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 30 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.25
Tokens	Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B