Yodeling Yidris

Commander / EDH Budget Land Destruction Pillow Fort Stax UBRG

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Artifact (20)

• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Hedron Blade
• 1x Horizon Spellbomb
• 1x Traveler's Amulet
• 1x Wanderer's Twig
• 1x Glass of the Guildpact
• 1x Golgari Signet
• 1x Mask of Avacyn
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Prismatic Lens
• 1x Strionic Resonator
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Fireshrieker
• 1x Pendant of Prosperity
• 1x Spectral Searchlight
• 1x Strider Harness
• 1x Portcullis
• 1x Sands of Time
• 1x Eon Hub

Instant (11)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Tragic Slip
• 1x Psychotic Fury
• 1x Temur Battle Rage
• 1x Harrow
• 1x Jund Charm
• 1x Seething Song
• 1x Fact or Fiction

Enchantment (17)

• 1x Font of Fertility
• 1x Kaya's Ghostform
• 1x Bad Moon
• 1x Curse of Bounty
• 1x Fevered Visions
• 1x Keldon Twilight
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Temur Ascendancy
• 1x Virulent Plague
• 1x Bounty of the Luxa
• 1x Dissipation Field
• 1x No Mercy
• 1x Reckless Assault
• 1x Rising Waters
• 1x War's Toll
• 1x Possibility Storm
• 1x Ritual of Subdual

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Assault Strobe
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Windfall
• 1x Mana Geyser
• 1x Razaketh's Rite
• 1x Burning of Xinye
• 1x Wildfire
• 1x Cruel Ultimatum
• 1x Destructive Force
• 1x Treasure Cruise

Commander (1)

Land (34)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crystal Vein
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 7x Forest
• 5x Island
• 1x Karplusan Forest
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 7x Mountain
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Creature (5)

• 1x Tinder Wall
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Yavimaya Elder
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Mulldrifter

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This is a cruel politics deck: it is not fun to play against, I tell my opponents this. It's also not incredibly powerful, it uses Yidris as a value engine in order to stay slightly ahead of opponents in a war of attrition for long enough that double strike commander damage on a 5/4 trampling body will do the job (it also includes win conditions in the form of soft locks and parity breaks).

Cruel Ultimatum is a good cast in this deck that allows for making enemies with one specific player at a time, this is useful because it minimizes the incentive for interaction by countermagic (likely, only the targeted player would feel good about spending a card to counter it). From there the aim is to cascade into additional value (either card advantage or stax pieces) which the deck can almost always work around, with the exception of the Sands of Time and Eon Hub lock (at first).

If you cascade into either of the aforementioned lock pieces, it's very important to hold off on casting (or cascading into) the other until you know you can win the game (yes it's a stax deck but don't use it to just create a stalemate like a dingus).

Typically, you'll know when you're ready to fire off if you have Curse of Bounty in play (targeting yourself), Ydris has toughness high enough to survive Wildfire or Burning of Xinye and you can add at least 10 coloured mana to your mana pool during your postcombat main phase on a turn when Ydris' ability has triggered.

So yeah, lots of hoops to jump through. Yidris just wants to yodel!

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 31 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 27 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.97
Folders	2021:&ThenThereWereFive