The Beauty of the Vanished Dream

Commander / EDH Mono-Blue

44for4

Lands (36)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Remote Isle
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 26x Snow-Covered Island
• 1x Tectonic Edge
• 1x Tolaria West

You/We Draw (8)

• 1x Dictate of Kruphix
• 1x Font of Mythos
• 1x Horn of Greed
• 1x Howling Mine
• 1x Jace Beleren
• 1x Temple Bell
• 1x Time Reversal
• 1x Well of Ideas

Copy (4)

• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Sculpting Steel

Tutors (4)

• 1x Drift of Phantasms
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker
• 1x Trinket Mage

Recursion (2)

• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Mnemonic Wall

Ramp (11)

• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Dreamstone Hedron
• 1x Extraplanar Lens
• 1x Gauntlet of Power
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Palinchron
• 1x Sapphire Medallion
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Thran Dynamo

Utility (7)

• 1x Future Sight
• 1x Jace, the Mind Sculptor
• 1x Mind Over Matter
• 1x Spellbook
• 1x Thassa, God of the Sea
• 1x Tomorrow, Azami's Familiar
• 1x Venser's Journal

I Draw, You Don’t (6)

• 1x Arcanis the Omnipotent
• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Kefnet the Mindful
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sphinx of Magosi

Extra Turns (2)

• 1x Beacon of Tomorrows
• 1x Temporal Mastery

X Draws (2)

• 1x Prosperity
• 1x Skyscribing

Commander (1)

Removal & Counters (9)

• 1x Aetherspouts
• 1x All is Dust
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Cryptic Command
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Dream Fracture
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Rewind

Ouch (4)

• 1x Ebony Owl Netsuke
• 1x Iron Maiden
• 1x Psychosis Crawler
• 1x Viseling

Protection (3)

• 1x Crawlspace
• 1x Darksteel Forge
• 1x Propaganda

Laboratory Maniac (1)

• 1x Laboratory Maniac

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I didn't choose the Lab life; the Lab life chose me.

Obviously the whole point of this deck is draw your whole deck and win with Laboratory Maniac in play. The way you pilot this thing is to lay low and play cards that benefit your opponents (Kami of the Crescent Moon, Howling Mine, etc.) so that they won't mess with you, eventually get a mana doubler (Caged Sun, Gauntlet of Power, etc.) out, get infinite mana with Palinchron, then cast one of the X draw spells (Prosperity, Fascination, etc.) and win!

It's important to not overlook our backup plan. Laboratory Maniac is easily hated out and once you play this deck a few times, people will be on the lookout for the guy. Plan B is just as easy to pull off, and you don't necessarily need infinite mana in order to do it. Just play Viseling, Iron Maiden, and/or Psychosis Crawler to punish players for drawing cards or hurt them when you do. Phyrexian Metamorph, Sculpting Steel, and Rite of Replication really help pull this strategy off.

Have fun, and draw cards!

Date added	11 years
Last updated	2 years
Exclude colors	WBRG
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 36 - 0 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.83
Tokens	Copy Clone
Folders	Gute Decks, Interesting Commander Decks, Decks to Maybe put together, EDH, ideas