Yasova, The Thief

Commander / EDH* Budget Combo Infinite Combo Multiplayer RUG (Temur)

Chandrian

Creature (24)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Archetype of Endurance
• 1x Bazaar Trader
• 1x Bogardan Hellkite
• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Conquering Manticore
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Dualcaster Mage
• 1x Gigantoplasm
• 1x Hornet Queen
• 1x Jalira, Master Polymorphist
• 1x Myr Battlesphere
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Rashmi, Eternities Crafter
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Scourge of Skola Vale
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Soul of New Phyrexia
• 1x Stunt Double
• 1x Surrak Dragonclaw
• 1x Tireless Tracker
• 1x Void Grafter
• 1x Zealous Conscripts

Artifact (9)

• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Conjurer's Closet
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Strionic Resonator
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Sword of the Animist
• 1x Tamiyo's Journal

Land (36)

• 1x Alchemist's Refuge
• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Flamekin Village
• 9x Forest
• 1x Frontier Bivouac
• 1x Game Trail
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Gruul Turf
• 6x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 3x Mountain
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Spirebluff Canal
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Life's Legacy
• 1x Mob Rule
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Sylvan Scrying
• 1x Traverse the Ulvenwald
• 1x Treasure Cruise

Commander (1)

Instant (12)

• 1x Aetherspouts
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Berserk
• 1x Blustersquall
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x Momentous Fall
• 1x Plasm Capture
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Scour from Existence
• 1x Turn / Burn
• 1x Word of Seizing

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Bear Umbra
• 1x Beastmaster Ascension
• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x Evolutionary Leap
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Temur Ascendancy

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Arlinn Kord  ^Flip
• 1x Xenagos, the Reveler

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Maybeboard

Creature (3)

• 1x Forgotten Ancient
• 1x Rhonas the Indomitable
• 1x Skyline Despot

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Frenzied Fugue

Artifact (3)

• 1x Conqueror's Flail
• 1x Hero's Blade
• 1x Lightning Greaves

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Nissa, Vital Force

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Besmirch

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The plan

Yasova Dragonclaw has the ability to steal creatures from our opponents on our combat phase. While stealing creatures from our opponents is great, we want the advantage this gives us to last a bit longer than "until end of turn".

Become the controller

The first way to prevent the creature to go back to it's owner is to become the controller.

I can become the controller of the card thanks to Bazaar Trader or by blinking the card with Conjurer's Closet or Ghostly Flicker

Saccing

The other way to prevent something from going back is simple: kill it. For this reason there are several sac outlets in the deck that grant us extra advantage from killing our opponents stuff. For instance Jalira, Master Polymorphist can bring one of our own creatures to the battlefield and Scourge of Skola Vale becomes bigger and bigger.

Steal more

While Yasova Dragonclaw is our main thief, since we have ways to keep or kill what we have taken, it only makes sense to have more options to steal from our opponents. For this purpose we have cards like Word of Seizing and Mob Rule.

Buff

The only little problem Yasova has with stealing is that she can't steal creatures with more power than hers. While buffing her can get her close to doing 21 commander damage, it also allows to steal bigger creatures. Cards that do this are Beastmaster Ascension, Bear Umbra, Boon Satyr

Blink

One of the ways to prevent the stolen creatures to go back to their owner was to blink them. Since I have a couple of blinking cards, I decided it would be best for the consistency of the deck if nearly all my creatures had some interesting ETB effect. Deadeye Navigator allows for multiple blinking and I can go infinite either with Deadeye Navigator + Peregrine Drake or with Dualcaster Mage + Ghostly Flicker . Infinite blinks combine very well with cards like:

Acidic Slime

Eternal Witness

Hornet Queen

And many more

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Date added	9 years
Last updated	7 years
Key combos	Deadeye Navigator + Peregrine Drake Dualcaster Mage + Ghostly Flicker
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 39 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.84
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Clue, Copy Clone, Emblem Arlinn Kord, Human 2/2 G, Insect 1/1 G w/ Flying, Deathtouch, Manifest 2/2 C, Myr 1/1 C, Satyr 2/2 GR, Wolf 2/2 G
Folders	EDH decks, Temur, Other popel's cool decks, EDH, edh_to_build, Primers - All of them