Ye Olde Nin List

Commander / EDH Artifact Combo Competitive Infinite Combo UR (Izzet) Wizards

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Artifact (30)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Clock of Omens
• 1x Coalition Relic
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Manifold Key
• 1x Mox Amber
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Sculpting Steel
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Spellbook
• 1x Staff of Domination
• 1x Talisman of Creativity
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Unwinding Clock
• 1x Vedalken Orrery
• 1x Voltaic Key

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Bribery
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Transmute Artifact

Land (35)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Fiery Islet
• 1x Glimmervoid
• 1x Great Furnace
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 9x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 4x Mountain
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Spire of Industry
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Tolaria West
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Wasteland

Instant (7)

• 1x Comet Storm
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Forbid
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Whir of Invention

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Narset, Parter of Veils
• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker

Commander (1)

Creature (18)

• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x Imperial Recruiter
• 1x Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Metalworker
• 1x Palinchron
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Spellseeker
• 1x Stuffy Doll
• 1x Tribute Mage
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Trophy Mage
• 1x Urza, Lord High Artificer
• 1x Walking Ballista
• 1x Willbreaker
• 1x Zealous Conscripts

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Power Artifact
• 1x Training Grounds

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Ladies and Gentlemen, our intrepid candidate has endured the tortures of the Cursed Rack, braved the crushing Black Vise, and emerged unscathed from Leshrac's Rite! The Wall of Wonder could not stop his progress, and The Rack could not break him! He is the ever-suffering, the never-breaking, the occasionally-exiled, the one, the only, the indestructible, STUFFY DOLL!!!

Built from the bones of my Kozilek, Butcher of Truth deck - itself built from the bones of my Gonti, Lord of Luxury deck - this cruel and silly deck is a fast-mana artifact machine. Like many of my decks, but perhaps most of all, this deck teeters at the brink of cEDHiness, but my fascination with weird lands and cheeky combos keeps it from being truly competitive. One cheeky combo in particular - as the name of this deck suggests - is at the heart of Nin's evil plan. Stuffy Doll has always fascinated me, and I had long resolved to build a deck around its singular mechanic. I tooled around with the idea of building Grothama, All-Devouring first, then Riku of Two Reflections, somehow ignoring the obvious synergy presented by Nin. When I happened upon a promo printing in a trade, everything else fell into place. Note: I eventually built a Grothama deck too (Earthworm Tim)

At its core, this deck is designed to do two things: get Nin and Stuffy Doll on the field, and make an obscene amount of mana. Fabricate, Whir of Invention, Imperial Recruiter, Inventors' Fair, Tezzeret the Seeker, Transmute Artifact, and (if your opponents are men and women of culture) Bribery all tutor Stuffy up. Alternately, surplus mana can be dumped into Nin's ability to dig for Stuffy Doll the old-fashioned way. Most all of the other creatures here are disposable, generally intended to be cashed in for their ETB abilities and then nugged by Nin for a grip of cards, but it's not uncommon to target Nin herself. A healthy stack of mana rocks comprise the mana ramp package, and a few classic cEDH combos can get us to infinite mana in a hurry (notably Grim Monolith + Power Artifact , Basalt Monolith + Rings of Brighthearth , Metalworker + Staff of Domination and Deadeye Navigator + Palinchron .) Paradox Engine was obviously an all-star in this category as well, and it is memorialized in the featured art above.

Should Stuffy Doll be somehow taken offline, this deck has plenty of alternative paths to victory. The aforementioned infinite-mana combos enable the Laboratory Maniac wincon, provided you can draw out the deck with either Nin herself, Urza, Lord High Artificer or Staff of Domination. Alternately, infinite mana can win the game with direct damage using either Walking Ballista or Comet Storm. The deck also runs the Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Zealous Conscripts combo, lame as it may be, because both pieces are independently great here (and yes, I use the exact same justification in my Grenzo deck, Started from the Bottom, Now the Whole Team Here).

I should note, because it's not immediately apparent to people who haven't played Nin before, you basically never want to target your opponent's creatures with Nin. Occasionally you are left with no other choice, but casting an expensive Momentous Fall for your opponent's benefit feels mighty bad indeed. There are, however, a few ways around this conundrum included in the deck. Having Willbreaker on the field will allow you to draw the cards instead (and steal you the creature if you don't kill it outright!), and Narset, Parter of Veils prevents the second clause of Nin's ability from benefitting an opponent. Enjoy the salt!

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Key combos	Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Zealous Conscripts Deadeye Navigator + Palinchron Basalt Monolith + Rings of Brighthearth Grim Monolith + Power Artifact Metalworker + Staff of Domination
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	26 - 0 Mythic Rares 31 - 0 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.89
Tokens	Construct 0/0 C, Copy Clone
Based on	Chain of Paper VietMoneys EDH