Through the Looking Glass: A Tale of Two Braids

Commander: Rule 0 Group Hug Group Slug Sacrifice Tokens UB (Dimir)

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Land (35)

• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Choked Estuary
• 1x Clearwater Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Creeping Tar Pit
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 8x Island
• 1x Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 7x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Isle
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Watery Grave

Artifact (14)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Folio of Fancies
• 1x Horizon Stone
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Strionic Resonator
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Teferi's Puzzle Box
• 1x Temple Bell
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Venser's Journal

Sorcery (19)

• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Dark Deal
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Flux
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Hymn to Tourach
• 1x Minds Aglow
• 1x Peer into the Abyss
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Profane Tutor
• 1x Prosperity
• 1x Scheming Symmetry
• 1x Show and Tell
• 1x Skyscribing
• 1x Timetwister
• 1x Urza's Guilt
• 1x Windfall

Creature (14)

• 1x Cao Cao, Lord of Wei
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Gisa, Glorious Resurrector
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Hangarback Walker
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
• 1x Kami of the Crescent Moon
• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1x Lore Broker
• 1x Oona, Queen of the Fae
• 1x Rankle, Master of Pranks
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Jace Beleren
• 1x Liliana, Waker of the Dead

Commanders (2)

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Bitterblossom
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Dictate of Kruphix
• 1x Equilibrium
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Well of Ideas

Instant (6)

• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Words of Wisdom

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Creature (1)

• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One

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This is quite obviously a "Rule 0" deck as neither of these legendary commanders have the key word partner, plus I'm pretty sure Braids, Cabal Minion is banned for whatever reason. Anywho, this deck originally started out with Icingdeath, Frost Tyrant & Ebondeath, Dracolich as the commanders - I liked the idea of these two and I'm a fan of R.A. Salvatore, so I had to use Icingdeath - but I stumbled onto Braids while looking through cards and on a whim decided to look up the lore behind her. That led to this and that and so on, and then I found out that there was an alternate reality version of her: Braids, Conjurer Adept. Obviously I couldn't pass this up, it was just too interesting. This is my feeble attempt at a Hug&Slug using both versions of Braids.

I feel like the deck is pretty obvious with how it wants to run. Just play the Braids and have fun helping and hurting the table simultaneously. I included several group draws, a few group discards, and the mandatory sac outlets. This deck doesn't really have a wincon per se, but I suppose you could use the two Eldrazi as your victory snatchers - I didn't actually include them as a wincon, but rather because I liked the idea of killing them with Braids, Cabal Minion and getting a free shuffle of my grave into the deck.

I could use some suggestions to better the creatures, probably, but I don't know if it matters too much, this deck just wants to hang out and hug you while holding a knife to your back.

Date added	2 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander: Rule 0 legal.
Rarity (main - side)	14 - 0 Mythic Rares 51 - 0 Rares 14 - 0 Uncommons 6 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.25
Tokens	Emblem Liliana, Waker of the Dead, Faerie Rogue 1/1 B, Faerie Rogue 1/1 UB, Thopter 1/1 C, Zombie 2/2 B