Akiri & Kydele, Private Investigators

Commander / EDH*

rpgtiger

Land (34)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Alchemist's Refuge
• 1x Ancient Den
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 2x Forest
• 1x Great Furnace
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 6x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 2x Mountain
• 1x Mystic Monastery
• 2x Plains
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rugged Prairie
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Tree of Tales

Sorcery (10)

• 1x By Force
• 1x Cathartic Reunion
• 1x Chandra's Ignition
• 1x Collective Defiance
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Fireball
• 1x Hour of Revelation
• 1x Press for Answers
• 1x Root Out
• 1x Winds of Change

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker

Artifact (19)

• 1x Alhammarret's Archive
• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Boros Signet
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Magnifying Glass
• 1x Paradox Engine
• 1x Planar Bridge
• 1x Selesnya Signet
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Simic Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Staff of Domination
• 1x Tamiyo's Journal
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir
• 1x Umbral Mantle
• 1x Venser's Journal
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

Creature (17)

• 1x Arcanis the Omnipotent
• 1x Briarbridge Patrol
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Bygone Bishop
• 1x Colossus of Akros
• 1x Daring Sleuth  ^Flip
• 1x Erdwal Illuminator
• 1x Etched Champion
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Hellkite Tyrant
• 1x Kruphix, God of Horizons
• 1x Merchant's Dockhand
• 1x Mother of Runes
• 1x Padeem, Consul of Innovation
• 1x Thing in the Ice  ^Flip
• 1x Thraben Inspector
• 1x Tireless Tracker

Commanders (2)

Instant (10)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Confirm Suspicions
• 1x Confront the Unknown
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Jace's Scrutiny
• 1x Return to Dust
• 1x Survive the Night
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Whir of Invention

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Jeskai Ascendancy
• 1x Mechanized Production
• 1x Ongoing Investigation
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Trail of Evidence
• 1x Ulvenwald Mysteries
• 1x Weirding Wood

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Sideboard

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Banefire
• 1x Blasphemous Act

Instant (1)

• 1x Fling

Artifact (1)

• 1x Coercive Portal

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Maybeboard

Creature (23)

• 1x Arcbound Ravager
• 1x Archetype of Aggression
• 1x Atog
• 1x Barricade Breaker
• 1x Battered Golem
• 1x Byway Courier
• 1x Drownyard Explorers
• 1x Filigree Angel
• 1x Foundry Assembler
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Maverick Thopterist
• 1x Megatog
• 1x Metalwork Colossus
• 1x Mirror Entity
• 1x Mycosynth Golem
• 1x Platinum Angel
• 1x Psychosis Crawler
• 1x Quicksmith Genius
• 1x Sage of Lat-Nam
• 1x Slobad, Goblin Tinkerer
• 1x Vedalken Archmage

Instant (13)

• 1x Blinkmoth Infusion
• 1x Boros Charm
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Expose Evil
• 1x Metallic Rebuke
• 1x Override
• 1x Paradoxical Outcome
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Sphinx's Revelation
• 1x Stoic Rebuttal
• 1x Stroke of Genius

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Gone Missing
• 1x Reverse Engineer
• 1x Windfall

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Saheeli Rai

Land (1)

• 1x Mikokoro, Center of the Sea

Artifact (11)

• 1x Darksteel Forge
• 1x Howling Mine
• 1x Inspiring Statuary
• 1x Krark-Clan Ironworks
• 1x Mirage Mirror
• 1x Spellbook
• 1x Sunforger
• 1x Temple Bell
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Trading Post
• 1x Unwinding Clock

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Curse of Bounty
• 1x Curse of Opulence
• 1x Curse of Verbosity
• 1x Fleeting Memories
• 1x Hoofprints of the Stag
• 1x Metallurgic Summonings
• 1x Well of Ideas

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Will add proper description later

Notes for self-reference:

Goal: Go infinite/near-infinite with Kydele to draw into wincons

Wincons:

• Akiri - build lots of clues and either swing big, or Chandra's Ignition/Fling to do direct damage. Can get Whispersilk for unblockable
• Mechanized Production - Stick on a clue when you've built enough of them up, then win
• Tezzeret the Seeker - Neg 6, then swing with a bunch of 5/5 clues
• Big X-drop burn spells - Build up arbitrarily large amounts of mana w/Kydele, then nuke to the face.
• Kydele combos - get infinite colorless mana and/or card draw, then draw into a wincon above.

Considered Wincons (some or all cards currently maybeboarded):

• Psychosis Crawler - Bypass swinging and deal damage with straight draw power
• Lab Maniac - Probably won't use, but given potential for infinite draw power it might be a possibility
• Platinum Angel + Padeem + Darksteel Forge - All artifacts (incl. Plat Angel) hexproof indestructible. If Padeem gets Boots, Greaves, or Whispersilk it's nearly unbeatable.
• Atog or Megatog - Feed lots of clues to swing big (Megatog gets trample too)
• Broodstar - same strategy as Akiri, but has Flying as opposed to First Strike+Vigi

Big Combos

• Inf. Mana - Kydele, Staff of Domination, 5 draws in 1 turn <- Fewest required pieces. Staff also allows for infinite draw in this way. If you need colored mana, keep drawing until you find rocks or tutors.
• Almost-inf. colorless: Kydele, Jeskai Ascendancy, more draws the better (need to keep casting spells to maintain), Arcanis makes it go off much bigger
• Constant escalating mana: Pdox Engine, Arcanis, Kydele, (ideally) colored rocks <- Not guaranteed infinite, need to keep casting spells to proc Pdox
• Tutor creature, drop for free at EOT: Tamiyo's + Briarbridge
• Inf. Clues - Any inf. mana combo + Pdox (or Staff) + Magnifying Glass
• Pull permanents for free: Inf. Mana + Pdox + Planar Bridge
• Potential combo - big mill (currently maybeboarded): Fleeting Memories + Grinding Station

Date added	6 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 1 Mythic Rares 36 - 2 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 19 - 1 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.03
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Clue, Copy Clone, Human Soldier 1/1 W