Sygg, River Guide - EDH // Retired

Commander / EDH Combo Merfolk Multiplayer Tribal Wizards WU (Azorius)

jpeloquin

Instant (24)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Capsize
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Disdainful Stroke
• 1x Dissipate
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Essence Scatter
• 1x Faerie Trickery
• 1x Gush
• 1x Hindering Light
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Negate
• 1x Ojutai's Command
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Return to Dust
• 1x Sphinx's Revelation
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Open the Armory
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Recurring Insight
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Steelshaper's Gift
• 1x Supreme Verdict
• 1x Wrath of God

Land (37)

• 1x Blighted Cataract
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Celestial Colonnade
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 10x Island
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Mystic Gate
• 1x Nimbus Maze
• 5x Plains
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Riptide Laboratory
• 1x Seachrome Coast
• 1x Secluded Steppe
• 1x Tectonic Edge
• 1x Temple of Enlightenment
• 1x Tolaria West
• 1x Wanderwine Hub
• 1x Winding Canyons

Artifact (8)

• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Coldsteel Heart
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Paradise Mantle
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Talisman of Progress

Commander (1)

Creature (18)

• 1x Azami, Lady of Scrolls
• 1x Azorius Guildmage
• 1x Enclave Cryptologist
• 1x Grimoire Thief
• 1x Guile
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Puresight Merrow
• 1x Sage of Fables
• 1x Seahunter
• 1x Sigil Tracer
• 1x Spellskite
• 1x Stonybrook Schoolmaster
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
• 1x Thassa, God of the Sea
• 1x Vedalken AEthermage
• 1x Wake Thrasher
• 1x Wanderwine Prophets

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Freed from the Real
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Monastery Siege
• 1x Mystic Remora

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Since the days of the conniving Ambassador Laquatus, I've always been a fan of our friends under the sea. Thankfully, Sygg, River Guide knows most of them and makes for one heck of a fun commander.

While the deck originally was an EDH-port of the constructed Fish archetype (with lots of lords and duplication effects), Sygg has been evolving into a combo control deck. So, the game plans:

Stonybrook Schoolmaster + Wanderwine Prophets = infinite turns with acceptable protection. With these folk, you just swing with the Prophets while getting the Schoolmaster tapped some how (there are a lot of options...) and profit. To find them, we have Seahunter , Vedalken AEthermage, and a bunch of draw spells. To protect them, Sygg, River Guide usually does the trick, but we also have a slew of other counters and protective equipment. For the tapping of the Schoolmaster, we have Paradise Mantle, Azami, Lady of Scrolls, and the good old Combat Phase. If the Schoolmaster isn't available, Seahunter can always rip other merfolk out of the deck to offer to the watery time gods.

Alternately, Wake Thrasher gets arbitrarily large with the untap synergies of Paradise Mantle and Puresight Merrow or anything with Freed from the Real. Grimoire Thief and Mantle/Freed can also exile all opponents' libraries.

Muddle the Mixture serves as a great do-everything card. It counters things like Cyclonic Rift and other board wipes, as well as tutors for other counters, tutors (Vedalken AEthermage & Open the Armory), protection (Azorius Guildmage, Spellskite, & Swiftfoot Boots), removal (Cyclonic Rift & Reality Shift), ramp (Coldsteel Heart, Talisman of Progress, & Azorius Signet), or combo pieces (Grimoire Thief & Puresight Merrow ). It's just a freakin' all-star. If I could run a play set in this format, I would.

Not super having many problems with Sygg at the moment...but, I'm certainly always open to feedback and suggestions.

Date added	11 years
Last updated	6 years
Exclude colors	BRG
Key combos	Stonybrook Schoolmaster + Wanderwine Prophets
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 39 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 19 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.71
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Copy Clone, Manifest 2/2 C, Merfolk Wizard 1/1 U
Folders	EDH Ideas, EDH, mer edh, Decks to build, Decks, merfolk tribal/combo edh , cool deck Ideas, Budget, Azorius EDH, fantastic