Wizard's Chess - Inalla cEDH

Commander / EDH UBR (Grixis)

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Instant (32)

• 1x Ad Nauseam
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Burnt Offering
• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Culling the Weak
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Daze
• 1x Demonic Consultation
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Essence Flux
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Intuition
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Miscast
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Narset's Reversal
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Shallow Grave
• 1x Snap
• 1x Spell Pierce
• 1x Stifle
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Tainted Pact
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Underworld Breach

Land (29)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Badlands
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Cephalid Coliseum
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fiery Islet
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Gemstone Caverns
• 1x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Snow-Covered Island
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Tarnished Citadel
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Artifact (9)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Springleaf Drum

Commander (1)

Creature (13)

• 1x AEther Adept
• 1x Dark Confidant
• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Gilded Drake
• 1x Imperial Recruiter
• 1x Jace, Vryn's Prodigy  ^Flip
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Scholar of the Ages
• 1x Simian Spirit Guide
• 1x Spellseeker
• 1x Sygg, River Cutthroat
• 1x Thassa's Oracle
• 1x Vedalken Aethermage

Sorcery (11)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Finale of Promise
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Unearth
• 1x Wheel of Fortune
• 1x Windfall

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Maybeboard

Instant (9)

• 1x Corpse Dance
• 1x Final Fortune
• 1x Foil
• 1x Funeral Charm
• 1x Misdirection
• 1x Mystical Dispute
• 1x Plunge into Darkness
• 1x Sacrifice
• 1x Snapback

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Careful Study
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Vandalblast

Creature (2)

• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Thought Courier

Land (1)

• 1x Riptide Laboratory

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Steal Enchantment

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Originally inspired by cobblepott's FILO: Thousand-Year Bonus Inalla; it's taken on a life of its own.

Main Combo - Spellseeker ETB + B

check out this cool graphic illustration of the combo!

1 Cast Spellseeker

2 Resolve SS trigger, find Culling the Weak (Inalla trigger still on the stack)

3 Cast Culling the Weak

4 Resolve Inalla trigger. Token ETB. Resolve token's trigger finding Unearth

5 cast Unearth, Spellseeker ETB

6 Resolve triggers, token ETB, find Burnt Offering + Finale of Promise

7 Cast Burnt Offering

8 Cast Finale of Promise targeting Culling the Weak + Unearth

9 Resolve triggers, SS clone ETB, find Entomb + Reanimate

10 Find Scholar of the Ages with Entomb and Reanimate it

You can now loop Burnt Offering and Reanimate effects (maybe choose some that don't hurt like Shallow Grave or Dread Return) with Spellseeker and Scholar of Ages to grab Demonic Tutor and then whatever else you want. Win with infinite token beat / Inalla activations / whatever else.

Thassa's Oracle + Demonic Consultation / Tainted Pact

This is the primier UB wincon. Exile your library with Oracle's trigger on the stack and win when it resolves.

One excellent synergy with Inalla is the ability to clone Thassa's Oracle, generating a second ETB effect. This is especially useful when playing around Trickbind, as you can dodge it with proper priority management.

Dockside Extortionist + Aether Adept

This win requires your opponents to have 6 or more artifacts and/or enchantments on the battlefield. 1 Dockside ETB (makes 6 treasures)

2 Cast Aether Adept

3 Target Dockside with ETB

4 Pay eminence, target Aether Adept with copy's ETB. This loop results in infinite Aether Adept copy tokens with haste. Attack for lethal or cast Inalla and drain for lethal.

Entomb + Shallow Grave + BBB (instant-speed!)

1 Cast Entomb finding Scholar of the Ages

2 Cast Shallow Grave

3 Resolve Scholar ETB returning Entomb + Shallow Grave to hand

4 Cast Entomb (Inalla trigger still on the stack) finding Burnt Offering

5 Resolve Inalla trigger returning Burnt Offering and Entomb to hand

6 Now you can loop Burnt Offering and Shallow Grave for infinite black+red mana

7 Put some free counterspell backup in your hand

8 Entomb and return Demonic Consultation / Tainted Pact to your hand

9 Entomb Thassa's Oracle and then cast Shallow Grave while it's the top creature of your graveyard

10 Exile your library with the Oracle trigger on the stack and win when it resolves

Currently Testing

Seeing how often Animate Dead is better than Corpse Dance and vice versa.

Change Log

3/5/2020

In: Intuition, Animate Dead

Out: various flex picks, Dread Return

1/17/2020

In: Thassa's Oracle, Demonic Consultation, Tainted Pact, Underworld Breach

Out: Ghostly Flicker, Dualcaster Mage, Nightscape Familiar, Blood Pet

Top Ranked	Achieved #5 position overall 4 years ago Achieved #4 position in Commander / EDH 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH UBR (Grixis) 4 years ago
Date added	5 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	16 - 0 Mythic Rares 47 - 0 Rares 14 - 0 Uncommons 20 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	1.83
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Copy Clone, Emblem Jace, Vryn's Prodigy, Spirit 1/1 C, Treasure
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