Identity Crisis

Commander / EDH Combo Five Color

jhadlich

Creature (32)

• 1x Amoeboid Changeling
• 1x Angel of Flight Alabaster
• 1x Atzocan Seer
• 1x Blightspeaker
• 1x Blood Speaker
• 1x Cairn Wanderer
• 1x Callous Oppressor
• 1x Chainer, Dementia Master
• 1x Chameleon Colossus
• 1x Defiant Falcon
• 1x Devout Chaplain
• 1x Harabaz Druid
• 1x Higure, the Still Wind
• 1x Hivis of the Scale
• 1x Imagecrafter
• 1x Lin Sivvi, Defiant Hero
• 1x Lord of the Unreal
• 1x Mirror Entity
• 1x Orcish Captain
• 1x Perplexing Chimera
• 1x Rashida Scalebane
• 1x Rebel Informer
• 1x Riders of Gavony
• 1x Scrapyard Recombiner
• 1x Shapesharer
• 1x Taurean Mauler
• 1x Thrull Champion
• 1x Treefolk Harbinger
• 1x Undead Slayer
• 1x Varchild, Betrayer of Kjeldor
• 1x Vedalken AEthermage
• 1x Wort, Boggart Auntie

Land (37)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Arcane Sanctum
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Forest
• 1x Frontier Bivouac
• 1x Griffin Canyon
• 8x Island
• 1x Jungle Shrine
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Mystic Monastery
• 1x Nomad Outpost
• 1x Opulent Palace
• 4x Plains
• 1x Rupture Spire
• 1x Sandsteppe Citadel
• 1x Savage Lands
• 1x Seaside Citadel
• 1x Seraph Sanctuary
• 6x Swamp
• 1x Transguild Promenade

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Cateran Summons
• 1x Coax from the Blind Eternities
• 1x Crux of Fate
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Extinction
• 1x March of the Drowned
• 1x Peer Pressure
• 1x Pyrophobia
• 1x Whelming Wave

Commander (1)

Instant (11)

• 1x Artificial Evolution
• 1x Blades of Velis Vel
• 1x Crib Swap
• 1x Cruel Revival
• 1x Ego Erasure
• 1x Misery Charm
• 1x Nameless Inversion
• 1x Polymorphist's Jest
• 1x Shields of Velis Vel
• 1x Standardize
• 1x Wings of Velis Vel

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Arcane Adaptation
• 1x Conspiracy
• 1x Spirit Mirror
• 1x Swarm Intelligence
• 1x Unnatural Selection

Artifact (5)

• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Manalith
• 1x Renegade Map
• 1x Thran Turbine

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A variation on "Five Color Frogs" (http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/five-color-frogs-1/). My version discards the lords in favor of a more stable mana base and focusing on exploiting creature type shenanigans against your opponents.

The main mechanic is to get your Amoeboid Changeling out and use that with your Overlord to steal valuable creatures from your opponents. There's a lot of ways besides Amoeboid to give and take creature types, and a lot of tricks or board wipes that would normally be very specific, but when you give and take creature types en masse with a lot of the instants they become far more useful and usual.

Shields of Velis Vel makes for some hysterical targeted wipes against creature decks when combined with things like Crux of Fate or even Chainer, Dementia Master. Against decks with relatively few creatures, you can reasonably take all of them and leave your opponents totally creatureless. Against a creatureless deck, you're gonna have a bad time, although in that case you can still succeed with things like Mirror Entity and Chameleon Colossus.

My favorite addition I've made is Perplexing Chimera, which you can use to hijack enemy spells of any kind, then steal back so they never get a chance to use it.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	36 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 22 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.06
Tokens	2/2 W Creature Reflection, Shapeshifter 1/1 C, Survivor 1/1 R