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Recent Additions/Changes:

2/21/22: Testing Fable of the Mirror-Breaker   in place of Mimic Vat

2/21/22: Switched out 3 Mountain for Valakut Awakening  , Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance, Roadside Reliquary

1/30/22: Switched out Reverberate for Tempered in Solitude

8/2/21: Switched out Caged Sun for Delina, Wild Mage

8/2/21: Switched out Wayfarer's Bauble for Obsidian Charmaw

11/20/20: Switched out Reforge the Soul for Wheel of Misfortune

11/20/20: Switched out Wild Ricochet for Jeska's Will

See "Brewing Process" for explanation on changes.

This is not your normal Norin chaos deck, but rather an efficient, consistent deck with Norin at the helm. This deck seeks to capitalize on Norin's strange ability and his low cost while focusing on it's main objectives: ETB effects, stealing spells, and comboing off.
This decks main objective is to out value and disrupt opponents with repeated ETB affects. Using value engines such as Panharmonicon, Conjurer's Closet, and Flameshadow Conjuring can dramatically increase the value we get off of any given creature. We also have multiple ways of recurring creatures every turn with cards like Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker, Splinter Twin, and Mimic Vat. With these engines on the battlefield we can abuse the powerhouse ETB effects of creatures like Imperial Recruiter, Dockside Extortionist, and my personal favorite Mindclaw Shaman.
This decks secondary objective is to piece together game ending combo pieces:

Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Zealous Conscripts

Splinter Twin + Zealous Conscripts

Fiendish Duo + Rolling Earthquake

Malignus + Warstorm Surge /Malignus + Terror of the Peaks (it isn't a game ender in and of itself but combos very nicely! If you add a card like Fiendish Duo it's game over.)

Cloudstone Curio + Dockside Extortionist (create infinite mana to pump into Rolling Earthquake, continually recur Invader Parasite to destroy opponents lands, infinite damage with Impact Tremors, etc.)

This decks third objective is to disrupt opponents with permanent destruction, spell copying, and card stealing. Abusing the ETB of creatures like Duplicant, Flametongue Kavu, and Invader Parasite can severely set back opponents, even permanently stalling their game. There are countless ways to copy and steal spells in this deck so instead of laying them all out I want to spotlight a few specific combos:

Dualcaster Mage + Splinter Twin or Dualcaster Mage + Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker

Blade of Selves + Wildfire Devils

Confusion in the Ranks + Norin the Wary

Mindclaw Shaman + Panharmonicon

-My first version of this deck relied heavily upon artifact ramp, but since there is a lot of artifact removal in casual EDH I thought it best to ramp with lands as much as possible. I removed cards like Everflowing Chalice and Extraplanar Lens and replaced them with Sword of the Animist and Expedition Map.

-Special thanks to Profet93 for some awesome deck building suggestions. Check out his Norin deck as well. Norin Naughty Nonsense

-Wild Ricochet for Jeska's Will: This was an easy swap. Wild Ricochet was mana intensive and hardly consistent. Jeska's Will is an absolute powerhouse and with Norin being so cheap it is very easy to trigger both abilities.

-Reforge the Soul for Wheel of Misfortune: Reforge the Soul is mana intensive when not using the miracle ability, which is inconsistent. Wheel of Misfortune is easier to cast and has the added benefit of possibly dropping some life totals.

-Wayfarer's Bauble for Obsidian Charmaw: I found that this deck often had more mana than needed and was lacking on the ETB creature synergies. Obsidian Charmaw is a slept-on card! It can often be cast for just 2 mana and is thus easy to take advantage of with cards like Cloudstone Curio and Flameshadow Conjuring

-Caged Sun for Delina, Wild Mage: I knew Delina had to be in this deck as soon as she was spoiled. The ability, flavor, even the art were all just perfect for the theme. As previously stated, I found that this deck often had more mana than needed and was lacking on the ETB creature synergies. Thus, removing a high cmc mana piece was an obvious choice to streamline the deck further.

Feel free to check out the other decks in my mono-colored deck series.

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75% Casual

25% Competitive

Top Ranked
Date added 4 years
Last updated 2 years
Splash colors R
Key combos
Legality

This deck is Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

13 - 0 Mythic Rares

48 - 0 Rares

16 - 0 Uncommons

2 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 3.60
Tokens Copy Clone, Goblin 1/1 R, Goblin Shaman, Gold, Kobolds of Kher Keep 0/1 R, Myr 1/1 C, Spirit 1/1 C, Spirit 2/2 C, Treasure
Folders COMMANDER, EDH, Mono Red, EDH Decks, Random, ideas, Inspirational, Decks, Decks to try, Mono decks
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