Ultimate FC combo cEDH - The First Sliver

Commander / EDH

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Land (29)

• 1x Badlands
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Gemstone Caverns
• 1x Gemstone Mine
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Nurturing Peatland
• 1x Plateau
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Snow-Covered Island
• 1x Taiga
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Card Advantage/Dig (12)

• 1x Ad Nauseam
• 1x Archivist of Oghma
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Nurturing Peatland
• 1x Plunge into Darkness
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Timetwister
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will

Win-Con (7)

• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Extract
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Praetor's Grasp
• 1x Thassa's Oracle
• 1x Timetwister
• 1x Turn the Earth

Recover (5)

• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Sevinne's Reclamation
• 1x Timetwister
• 1x Turn the Earth
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will

Food (20)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Archivist of Oghma
• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Dauthi Voidwalker
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Endurance
• 1x Eternal Scourge
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Gilded Drake
• 1x Ignoble Hierarch
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Misthollow Griffin
• 1x Noble Hierarch
• 1x Opposition Agent
• 1x Squee, the Immortal
• 1x Vexing Shusher

Tutor (16)

• 1x Demonic Consultation
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Extract
• 1x Foresight
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Intuition
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Manipulate Fate
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Neoform
• 1x Opposition Agent
• 1x Praetor's Grasp
• 1x Tainted Pact
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Combo (7)

• 1x Demonic Consultation
• 1x Eternal Scourge
• 1x Food Chain
• 1x Misthollow Griffin
• 1x Squee, the Immortal
• 1x Tainted Pact
• 1x Thassa's Oracle

Free Interaction (6)

• 1x Force of Vigor
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Pact of Negation

It-Can-Be-Anything (1)

• 1x Dauthi Voidwalker

Commander (1)

Mana Ramp (20)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Gemstone Caverns
• 1x Ignoble Hierarch
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Noble Hierarch
• 1x Sol Ring

Answer (10)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Endurance
• 1x Extract
• 1x Force of Vigor
• 1x Gilded Drake
• 1x Opposition Agent
• 1x Silence
• 1x Turn the Earth

Counterspell (7)

• 1x Dovin's Veto
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Swan Song

Protection (4)

• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Silence
• 1x Veil of Summer
• 1x Vexing Shusher

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The First Sliver is now the best commander for Food Chain combo. He allows extra room for consistency and answers because the deck itself wins the game when Food Chain combo is assembled. No additional win-con cards that do nothing outside the combo are required. Fewer dead cards means more resilient, more consistent, and more card choices to switch for your own meta. RIP to General Tazri and Niv-Mizzet Reborn.

This version of deck list is more resilient because I like to have back-up plans: Noxious Revival, Riftsweeper, Turn the Earth, Yawgmoth's Will.

The First Sliver also generate value on cast, oppose to Niv-Mizzet Reborn that 70% of the time fail to reveal a two-color card or General Tazri who gets a useless ally. The First Sliver can usually cascade into something usable: tutor, kill spell, draw, ramp...anything other than counter spells are net gain.

Win-con with Food Chain combo: Thassa's Oracle: if you can empty the library or Sensei's Divining Top still available. Alternatively, Timetwister/Turn the Earth + Noxious Revival + Foresight/Extract/Manipulate Fate loop to exile all lands and counter spells then cast all spells.

Loops through the deck infinitely combined with Extract or Praetor's Grasp or Assassin's Trophy + Dauthi Voidwalker win you the game.

Ways to loops:

Timetwister + Turn the Earth

Timetwister or Turn the Earth + Noxious Revival

Endurance + Chain of Vapor

Alternative win-cons: Thassa's Oracle + Tainted Pact/Demonic Consultation is 2-card combo finisher.

The First Sliver is a 7/7 commander, 3 hits eliminate a player. Pressure your opponents' life in cEDH is also a very usual strategy, if he gets killed you can re-cast for more value.

Top Ranked	Achieved #61 position overall 4 years ago Achieved #32 position in Commander / EDH 4 years ago
Date added	4 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 63 - 0 Rares 12 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	1.76
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Spirit 1/1 C, Treasure
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