The Statistically Most Unique 5 Color EDH Deck

Commander / EDH Casual Combo Five Color

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Creature (39)

• 1x Ashen Rider
• 1x Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Captain Sisay
• 1x Coiling Oracle
• 1x Cold-Eyed Selkie
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Dragonlord Dromoka
• 1x Dragonlord Silumgar
• 1x Edric, Spymaster of Trest
• 1x Grand Warlord Radha
• 1x Havengul Lich
• 1x Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain
• 1x Karametra, God of Harvests
• 1x Kess, Dissident Mage
• 1x Knight of New Alara
• 1x Maelstrom Archangel
• 1x Maelstrom Wanderer
• 1x Magus of the Candelabra
• 1x Meren of Clan Nel Toth
• 1x Muldrotha, the Gravetide
• 1x Noble Hierarch
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Progenitus
• 1x Qasali Pridemage
• 1x Raff Capashen, Ship's Mage
• 1x Ramos, Dragon Engine
• 1x Ravos, Soultender
• 1x Sakashima the Impostor
• 1x Selvala, Explorer Returned
• 1x Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1x Surrak Dragonclaw
• 1x Sylvan Caryatid
• 1x Tatyova, Benthic Druid
• 1x The Gitrog Monster
• 1x The Scarab God
• 1x Vizier of the Menagerie
• 1x Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder

Land (36)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forest
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Gruul Turf
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Selesnya Sanctuary
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Commander (1)

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Aura Shards
• 1x Cryptolith Rite
• 1x Jeskai Ascendancy
• 1x Maelstrom Nexus
• 1x Mana Reflection
• 1x Mirari's Wake
• 1x Perilous Forays
• 1x Temur Ascendancy
• 1x Zendikar Resurgent

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Conflux
• 1x Decimate
• 1x Life / Death
• 1x Primevals' Glorious Rebirth
• 1x Shard Convergence
• 1x Supreme Verdict
• 1x Villainous Wealth
• 1x Violent Ultimatum

Instant (5)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Sphinx's Revelation
• 1x Sylvan Reclamation
• 1x Utter End

Artifact (2)

• 1x Legacy Weapon
• 1x Urza's Filter

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Sideboard

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Cloven Casting
• 1x Finest Hour
• 1x Privileged Position
• 1x Sterling Grove

Land (1)

• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

Creature (4)

• 1x Argothian Elder
• 1x Bringer of the Blue Dawn
• 1x Dauntless Escort
• 1x Krosan Restorer

Instant (1)

• 1x Bound / Determined

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Beck / Call

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Maybeboard

Creature (3)

• 1x Kruphix, God of Horizons
• 1x Lotus Cobra
• 1x Sigarda, Host of Herons

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Hull Breach
• 1x Maelstrom Pulse

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Spirit of Resistance

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Explanation of the Deck's Strategy

This deck is a non-competitive combo deck; it is designed to be fun to play, hopefully resilient to boardwipes, and explosive in the endgame. The primary goal is to get as many of the manadorks online as possible and then cast Jeskai Ascendancy followed by any non-creature spell. This should lead to a chain reaction of drawing cards and untapping the manadorks, floating immense amounts of mana, leading up to a Villainous Wealth to exile an opponents' entire library, which can then be used to kill the other remaining opponents most likely. If necessary, you can play Kess, Dissident Mage and recast Villainous Wealth from the graveyard to hit someone else's library.

Life makes all your lands into creatures so they can untap with the Jeskai Ascendancy trigger too, accelerating the mana buildup. Furthermore, Cryptolith Rite makes all your creatures into manadorks to help contribute even more to the mana buildup. A good example of going crazy with this deck is having Mana Reflection in play with Bloom Tender, Selvala, Heart of the Wilds, and Progenitus. Bloom Tender will tap for double , then Selvala will tap for 30 mana of any color. There are a number of cantriping engines to ensure you keep drawing fuel to build up the mana: Zendikar Resurgent and Temur Ascendancy to draw you cards when you cast creatures or big ones enter the battlefield (Knight of New Alara will even help make your small creatures big enough to draw off of Temur Ascendancy), The Gitrog Monster to draw another card when you discard a land from the Jeskai Ascendancy trigger, Selvala, Explorer Returned does double duty as a big mana engine, although only green, and also drawing you a card for each Jeskai Ascendancy trigger (since she untaps each time).

Additionally, there is a strong gold-bordered and legends theme in this deck. It was gradually always tending that way since I first built it in 2010, but with the release of Dominaria in 2018 it was really solidified as a 5C legends deck.

Explanation of the Title

It has been pointed out that this deck is not unique because there are other 5 color decks, which is kind of asinine and missing the point. I'm not trying to say I built the only 5 color deck, which should be fairly obvious, but instead I'm trying to demonstrate that my deck is fundamentally different in its goals. There are good creatures in this deck but the only ones really meant to attack are Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder and Maelstrom Archangel. The final alternate wincon is using all of that mana to activate Legacy Weapon X times where X is the number of permanents your opponents control.

Why should you Upvote or care about this deck at all?

Because it's probably one of the most unique and fun decks ever designed and certainly one of the most innovative on Tapped Out. I'm not trying to brag about the deck, these descriptions are objectively true: it is extremely fun to play, I've personally never seen anything remotely similar to it in the nearly 3,000 games of EDH I've played and if you look at every 5-color deck on Tapped Out (I did in late 2016), none of them remotely resemble this deck.

Top Ranked	Achieved #6 position overall 7 years ago
Date added	8 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	24 - 0 Mythic Rares 54 - 8 Rares 8 - 2 Uncommons 9 - 1 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.23
Tokens	Bird 1/1 W, Copy Clone, Experience Token
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