I Don't Mean to Brago, But...

Commander / EDH Competitive Control Land Destruction Stax WU (Azorius)

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Instant (8)

• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Whir of Invention

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Reshape
• 1x Timetwister
• 1x Transmute Artifact
• 1x Windfall

Enchantment (12)

• 1x Aura of Silence
• 1x Back to Basics
• 1x Detention Sphere
• 1x Land Tax
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Oath of Jace
• 1x Oblivion Ring
• 1x Parallax Wave
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Spreading Seas
• 1x Stasis
• 1x Stupefying Touch

Artifact (30)

• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Cursed Totem
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Grafdigger's Cage
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Pithing Needle
• 1x Prismatic Lens
• 1x Prophetic Prism
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sphere of Resistance
• 1x Static Orb
• 1x Strionic Resonator
• 1x Talisman of Progress
• 1x Tangle Wire
• 1x Thorn of Amethyst
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Trinisphere
• 1x Tsabo's Web
• 1x Voltaic Key
• 1x Winter Orb

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker

Creature (13)

• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Containment Priest
• 1x Ethersworn Canonist
• 1x Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
• 1x Mentor of the Meek
• 1x Recruiter of the Guard
• 1x Rishadan Brigand
• 1x Rishadan Cutpurse
• 1x Rishadan Footpad
• 1x Sanctum Prelate
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Venser, Shaper Savant
• 1x Weathered Wayfarer

Land (30)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x City of Traitors
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 9x Island
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Mishra's Workshop
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 5x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Windswept Heath

Commander (1)

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Maybeboard

Instant (1)

• 1x Intuition

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Act of Authority
• 1x Embargo
• 1x Grasp of Fate
• 1x Parallax Tide

Creature (4)

• 1x Linvala, Keeper of Silence
• 1x Loxodon Gatekeeper
• 1x Reflector Mage
• 1x Thalia, Guardian of Thraben

Land (1)

• 1x Strip Mine

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"All Hail Brago, King Eternal."

Based heavily off several existing Brago decks with a few minor, personal upgrades.

The deck is a rather typical Stax build. Prison tools like Stasis, Winter Orb, Static Orb, and Tangle Wire, and taxers like Trinisphere are its bread and butter. Thanks to Brago's ability to exile nonland permanents and bring them back untapped, these lock pieces are entirely one-sided and an absolute nightmare to try to work around. While opponents are struggling to untap their permanents, Brago is dropping and repeatedly bouncing permanents with powerful ETB effects like Mentor of the Meek, Rishadan Cutpurse, and Trinket Mage to slowly but surely destroy whatever meager board state they've managed to create.

The deck is rather combo-light. The only interaction worth mentioning is Brago + Strionic Resonator + artifacts that tap for 2 or more total mana. Brago deals combat damage and exiles resonator and the Rocks. Before the exile trigger resolves, resonator copies it and puts the second trigger on the stack. It resolves, bringing the resonator and rocks back in untapped. Before the other Brago trigger resolves, Resonator copies it again. Repeating creates an infinite loop. If 3 or more mana is available from the rocks, it generates infinite mana. With Venser, Shaper Savant or any of the Rishadans, it wipes every opponent's board. Meanwhile Tsabo's Web , Oath of Jace , and several other cards can straight up draw the entire deck, cast all ramp and the above-mentioned combos, and safely shuffle the excess away with Timetwister.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 48 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.24
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