What's good for bad

Commander / EDH* RUW (Jeskai, America)

KIRK77

Creature (24)

• 1x Bazaar Trader
• 1x Boldwyr Heavyweights
• 1x Crested Sunmare
• 1x Desolation Giant
• 1x Dust Elemental
• 1x Eater of Days
• 1x Emberwilde Djinn
• 1x Grid Monitor
• 1x Humble Defector
• 1x Hunted Dragon
• 1x Hunted Lammasu
• 1x Hushbringer
• 1x Hushwing Gryff
• 1x Leveler
• 1x Phyrexian Dreadnought
• 1x Rogue Skycaptain
• 1x Serra Ascendant
• 1x Sky Swallower
• 1x Strict Proctor
• 1x Summoner's Egg
• 1x Thoughtweft Trio
• 1x Tocatli Honor Guard
• 1x Worldgorger Dragon
• 1x Wormfang Manta

Artifact (10)

• 1x Alhammarret's Archive
• 1x Avarice Amulet
• 1x Boros Signet
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Despotic Scepter
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Torpor Orb

Land (35)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Irrigated Farmland
• 5x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 6x Mountain
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Mystic Monastery
• 6x Plains
• 1x Rainbow Vale
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Temple of Epiphany
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Contingency Plan
• 1x Donate
• 1x Fractured Identity
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Harmless Offering
• 1x Incite Rebellion
• 1x Nahiri's Wrath
• 1x Remember the Fallen
• 1x Revoke Existence
• 1x Supreme Verdict
• 1x Taigam's Scheming
• 1x Tragic Arrogance

Commander (1)

Enchantment (14)

• 1x Ancestral Knowledge
• 1x Corrupted Conscience
• 1x Delusions of Mediocrity
• 1x False Demise
• 1x Followed Footsteps
• 1x Fool's Demise
• 1x Forced Fruition
• 1x Illusions of Grandeur
• 1x Mana Flare
• 1x Mirror Mockery
• 1x Paradox Haze
• 1x Puca's Mischief
• 1x Solitary Confinement
• 1x Wild Research

Instant (8)

• 1x Abrade
• 1x Brand
• 1x Crib Swap
• 1x Leave / Chance
• 1x Stifle
• 1x Tale's End
• 1x Trickbind
• 1x Wear / Tear

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Sideboard

Creature (1)

• 1x Soldevi Sentry

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Maybeboard

Creature (13)

• 1x Charmed Griffin
• 1x Djinn of Infinite Deceits
• 1x Faerie Artisans
• 1x Hired Giant
• 1x Hunted Phantasm
• 1x Indentured Djinn
• 1x Orgg
• 1x Ovinomancer
• 1x Psychosis Crawler
• 1x Roc Hatchling
• 1x Steel Golem
• 1x Thought Devourer
• 1x Time Elemental

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Aggressive Mining
• 1x Form of the Dragon
• 1x Pursuit of Knowledge
• 1x Thought Reflection
• 1x Touch of the Eternal
• 1x Transcendence

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Dawn to Dusk
• 1x Scrambleverse
• 1x Thieves' Auction

Artifact (2)

• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Well of Lost Dreams

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If you’re looking for a zedruu deck that's as weird and wonky as the her then here it is. This deck revolves around countering triggered enter the battlefield effects to play out ridiculous stuff like Sky Swallower without any bad side. For some reason people don't like it when you do stuff like this and try to kill whatever it is preventing ETB effects(Torpor Orb) which is where the cards like Fool's Demise come into play. You simply just give someone control of the enchantment and if your creature dies it comes into play under their control with the bad effect that doesn't get countered anymore (ie. Sky Swallower, Leveler, Worldgorger Dragon...)

It's also based on my bigger pentacolor deck which is a blast but 5 colors makes the deck challenging to pull off. Why was this card bad again?

Funny schemes

Hushwing Gryff on the field to cast Sky Swallower, block letting the gryff die, Fractured Identity on the Sky Swallower. Leveler, Worldgorger Dragon, or Eater of Days works too

Putting Sky Swallower. Leveler, Worldgorger Dragon, Desolation Giant, Boldwyr Heavyweights, or Eater of Days under the Summoner's Egg and giving that. Then blow it up with a Despotic Scepter, Abrade, Wear / Tear...

Dust Elemental with Followed Footsteps attached, then give the footsteps to someone to else to make them pick three creatures to put back in their hand every turn

Enchanting the Wormfang Manta with Mirror Mockery while you still have an ETB inhibitor, then swing in at an opponent without flying to win while you take extra turns until they're gone

Top Ranked	Achieved #19 position overall 5 years ago
Date added	6 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 53 - 0 Rares 13 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 1 Commons
Cards	104
Avg. CMC	3.26
Tokens	Copy Clone, Horror 4/4 B, Horse 5/5 W, Knight 2/2 W w/ First Strike, Shapeshifter 1/1 C, Spirit 1/1 C
Folders	may 2018, upvoted, Weird shit, EDH