JVP High Tide

Commander / EDH* Competitive Infinite Combo Mono-Blue Storm

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Instant (32)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Dizzy Spell
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x High Tide
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Mission Briefing
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Narset's Reversal
• 1x Negate
• 1x Obsessive Search
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Pull from Tomorrow
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Reality Spasm
• 1x Snap
• 1x Spell Pierce
• 1x Spell Snare
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Turnabout

Sorcery (16)

• 1x Echo of Eons
• 1x Enter the Infinite
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Finale of Revelation
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Merchant Scroll
• 1x Mind's Desire
• 1x Personal Tutor
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Recurring Insight
• 1x Serum Visions
• 1x Sleight of Hand
• 1x Time Spiral
• 1x Treasure Cruise
• 1x Windfall

Creature (5)

• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Baral, Chief of Compliance
• 1x Palinchron
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Spellseeker

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Rhystic Study

Land (31)

• 31x Island

Commander (1)

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Artifact (11)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Extraplanar Lens
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mox Amber
• 1x Sapphire Medallion
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker

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mono blue SHENANIGANS, featuring JVP and, of course, high tide, the best ritual spell in the game

the goal of this deck is to use our blueness to stop our opponents with fast decks from going off before us and use our explosive storminess to stop slow decks from grinding us out. while we generally win on long, intricate and explosive "combo turns" on turns 4-6, we can also win before that with dramatic/scepter if we get a lucky draw, but generally this is a turn 4 or 5 deck.

how do I win?

step 0: get high tide, some sort of land untapping spell ( Snap , Turnabout , etc.) and a mana sink into your hand. have jace on board with enough cards in the yard to flip him. I know this sounds like a lot, but with our tutor and draw packages and card redundancies it's actually fairly consistently doable by turn 3-4.

step 1: double cast high tide on turn by flipping JVP, casting high tide, and then downticking jace to recast high tide.

step 2: tap your lands and use a frantic search effect to generate more mana.

step 3: using our draw and tutor suite, assemble any of the following win conditions:

• palinchron + high tide + aetherflux/blue sun/pull from tomorrow/mind's desire/chaining draw spells/enter the infinite

• resolve enter the infinite (gives us enough resources to resolve an actual wincon)

• dramatic reversal/isochron scepter + mana rocks adding to two + aetherflux/untapped jvp/sensei's top

• dramatic/scepter + mana rocks adding to 3 or more mana + aetherflux/untapped jvp/top/blue sun/pull from tomorrow/mind's desire

• aetherflux in play early + a really long combo turn (4 players = 3 opponents, means we'll need 150+ hp, so we'd have to gain at least 110, which is very doable on a combo turn even without going infinite)

• with baral or sapphire in play double high tide down, archaeomancer and snap generate infinite spellcasts and mana, just like palinchron or dramatic/scepter

the actual "I win/you lose the game" typically results from labman, from aetherfluxing people to death, or from decking people with blue sun.

WAR Additions: Narset's Reversal (currently represented by the mana drain) Finale of Revelation

Date added	5 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 24 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 22 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.49
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Emblem Jace, Vryn's Prodigy, Frog Lizard 3/3 G