What have I got in my pockets?

Commander / EDH Combo Competitive Goodstuff Infinite Combo Ramp RUG (Temur)

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Land (36)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fire-Lit Thicket
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 3x Forest
• 1x Frontier Bivouac
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 4x Island
• 1x Karplusan Forest
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Mosswort Bridge
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Spinerock Knoll
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Taiga
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Planeswalker (4)

• 1x Garruk, Primal Hunter
• 1x Jace, the Mind Sculptor
• 1x Karn Liberated
• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker

Creature (22)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Balefire Dragon
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Eternal Scourge
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Etherium-Horn Sorcerer
• 1x Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1x Inferno Titan
• 1x Kiora's Follower
• 1x Misthollow Griffin
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Palinchron
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Squee, the Immortal
• 1x Surrak Dragonclaw
• 1x Venser, Shaper Savant
• 1x World Breaker
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine

Artifact (12)

• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Crystal Shard
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Gruul Signet
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Paradox Engine
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Simic Signet
• 1x Thran Dynamo

Commander (1)

Sorcery (13)

• 1x All is Dust
• 1x Bribery
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Manipulate Fate
• 1x Mind's Desire
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Temporal Mastery
• 1x Time Spiral
• 1x Time Warp
• 1x Urban Evolution
• 1x Vandalblast

Instant (8)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Cryptic Command
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Mystic Confluence
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Nexus of Fate *list*
• 1x Spelljack
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Food Chain
• 1x Mirri's Guile
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Zendikar Resurgent

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Creature (7)

• 1x Bloodbraid Elf
• 1x Etali, Primal Storm
• 1x Keranos, God of Storms
• 1x Magus of the Mind
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Shardless Agent
• 1x Sphinx of the Final Word

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Exploration
• 1x Mind's Dilation

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Selvala's Stampede

Artifact (2)

• 1x Paradox Engine
• 1x Strionic Resonator

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Garruk Wildspeaker

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UNDER CONSTRUCTION

- Step 1: Ramp up to 8 and slam Maelstrom Wanderer

- Step 2: ...

- Step 3: Profit

Intro/Summary Show

This is my paper Maelstrom Wanderer EDH deck, a goodstuff/combo deck built around optimising value from the cascade triggers. It can win with a few different infinite combos or simply by out valuing opponents and beating down. I have found that this gives the deck a certain inevitability, can make it hard for opponents to know what to kill with their spot removal

Every non land card is or under so that it can be cascaded into and I've tried to eliminate chances of bricking on cascade, for this reason I excluded clone effects, auras and X spells; Vandalblast is the only one that has a chance of not having a legal target on resolution (albeit a small one).

My group also plays a lot of Planechase EDH and we have banned infinite combos so there is also a combo-less variation of the deck.

Why Maelstrom Wanderer? Show

Primarily, I love the value. Maelstrom Wanderer brings extra stuff with him and gives everything haste. He also enables an infinite combo that allows the deck to headshot every other player at the table.

The Combo Show

This deck has several infinite combos and multiple ways to win. The combo works by assembling 1 of 2 infinite mana + card combos :

1. Food Chain and 1 of Eternal Scourge , Squee, the Immortal or Misthollow Griffin which generates infinite mana that can be used to repeatedly cast Maelstrom Wanderer and therefore the rest of the non-land cards in the deck.

2. Palinchron + Card: zendikar resurgent which creates infinite mana and draws the entire deck.

Then, the entire deck being either in play or in hand with access to infinite mana enables several infinite combos revolving around Deadeye Navigator , the simplest being the combo with Inferno Titan to infinitely headshot the rest of the table. But there are alternatives if either has been exiled; for example, if Inferno Titan ate a Swords to Plowshares earlier in the game infinitely bouncing Venser, Shaper Savant can return all of the opponents permanents to hand. If Deadeye Navigator has been exiled then it is also possible to use Crystal Shard to bounce Eternal Witness back to hand to continuously re-buy Time Warp and take infinite turns. Nexus of Fate can also be used to generate infinite turns.

Deadeye Navigator + Peregrine Drake also gives you infinite mana but without the card draw.

The combo pieces are also not dead cards on their own, the food chain creatures, although possessing unimpressive stats, can be persistent and hard to get rid of. Cascading into Food Chain with no combo pieces can often enable casting Maelstrom Wanderer multiple times in the same turn . I am considering Paradox Engine to turn this into a psuedo-infinite mana combo with any signet.

Top Deck Manipulation Show

There are spells that are less than optimal to hit with cascade; Vandalblast and Cyclonic Rift are good examples of cards that work with cascade but are much better in hand. Deck manipulation is therefore in order: Scroll Rack , Sensei's Divining Top , Jace, the Mind Sculptor / Brainstorm and Sylvan Library are effective ways to manipulate the top deck and draw the sub-optimal cascade spells whilst also doing some serious work setting up crazy value from cascades, or even just a cheeky Temporal Mastery allowing you to. Mystical Tutor and Worldly Tutor can also manipulate cascades

Counterspells Show

The deck only uses counter spells that can work with cascade too: Cryptic Command and Mystic Confluence are obvious, then there's Spelljack , which is a nice way of effectively getting an extra cascade without making Maelstrom Wanderer even more expensive - good target for Mystical Tutor if you cascade into that first.

Few more notable cards:

Non- Mana Artifact Suite Show

Sensei's Divining Top - for smoothing out early draws and setting up the best cascade possible

Crystal Shard - for returning Maelstrom Wanderer to hand to cast multiple times and also as an alternative to Deadeye Navigator (if exiled for example ) if attempting to win with Food Chain combo. It can also be used to punish opponents who tap out and forget it's there (more likely with more players).

Strionic Resonator - for extra cascade or to copy other triggered abilities, Inferno Titan , Acidic Slime , Peregrine Drake etc. This card on the list potentially getting cut for either Time Spiral or Paradox Engine

Tezzeret the Seeker - one of my favourite planes walkers, can work as a ramp effect to help you reach that all important mana by untapping mana rocks or its effective way to tutor for utility artifacts and bypass potential counters, e.g. Scroll Rack pre-cascade, or if I cascade into him I usually -3 straight away to look for Crystal Shard ) to bounce Maelstrom Wanderer ready for my next turn.

Misc Value Cards Show

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Bribery - hilarious in metas you are familiar with, but also fun when casting blind, as it's usually pretty obvious which opponent has big creatures in their deck. A lot of big eldrazi in my usual groups, so the haste from Maelstrom Wanderer can be fun with annihilator or Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger , but also works just fine if just cast for its mana cost on turns 3 - 5.

Garruk, Primal Hunter - is usually just a draw 7 if I cascade into it, but if I think it can survive until my next turn or if I cascaded into an extra turn card I will generally plus it first.

Cards Maelstrom Wanderer doesn't like Show

These are a few cards that I have encountered that can really ruin Maelstrom Wanderer 's day:

• Render Silent

• Damping Sphere

• Ethersworn Canonist

• Eidolon of Rhetoric

Combos:

Food Chain + Misthollow Griffin /Eternal Scourge + Food Chain = infinite mana, and 99% time means I can win then and there

The Food Chain combo lets you play out your whole deck and win if opponents can't respond (casting spells hit with cascade is optional so you don't have to worry about All Is Dust fucking you over), but Food Chain can work nicely on its own with Maelstrom Wanderer too as a way of returning him to command zone. This makes multiple casts a turn not only possible but quite easy, especially if you hit expendable creatures that can help contribute to making the mana necessary. The goal in this situation is to dig for either Card: Misthollow Griffin or Eternal Scourge and win that way.

Palinchron needs no introduction - combos with Deadeye Navigator to give you infinite mana, or with Zendikar Resurgent to give you infinite mana and the ability to draw your entire deck and therefore win with one of the Deadeye combos.

Deadeye Navigator + Peregrine Drake also gives you infinite mana.

What can you do with infinite mana?

You use it to infinitely blink an Inferno Titan and headshot everybody or Venser, Shaper Savant and bounce all opponents' permanents.

Deadeye Navigator + Eternal Witness + Time Warp = infinite turns, if you have the mana.

Deadeye Navigator + a lot of things is just amazing - Venser, Shaper Savant and/or Glen Elendra Archmage is just broken, even without the infinite mana combo.

Only real nonbo is Spelljack + Surrak Dragonclaw - this hasn't happened to me yet but cascading into Surrak before Spelljack wouldn't be ideal.

Planned Changes Show

==Spoiler: Deck Variations

I've also designed the deck to be able to go back to its good stuff value town roots and go combo-less, by taking out the Food Chain combo pieces: Eternal Scourge , Squee, the Immortal Misthollow Griffin , Palinchron and Peregrine Drake with: Shardless Agent and Bloodbraid Elf for cascade-y flavour; Etali, Primal Storm (which might make the main deck soon too - way too much fun)

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Thanks for reading!

Date added	8 years
Last updated	5 years
Key combos	Eternal Scourge + Food Chain Food Chain + Misthollow Griffin Deadeye Navigator + Peregrine Drake Deadeye Navigator + Eternal Witness Spelljack + Surrak Dragonclaw
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	20 - 0 Mythic Rares 50 - 0 Rares 12 - 0 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.98
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Deathtouch, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Lifelink, Wurm 6/6 G
Folders	Excellent Primer, snazy (EDH), Echt heel leuk, EDH