Budget cEDH Kalamax

Commander / EDH

hthomas88

Instant (33)

• 1x Autumn's Veil
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Delay
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Expansion / Explosion
• 1x Flame Sweep
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Force of Vigor
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Invert / Invent
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Misdirection
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Narset's Reversal
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Negate
• 1x Opt
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Reverberate
• 1x Stubborn Denial
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Thassa's Intervention
• 1x Thrill of Possibility
• 1x Twincast
• 1x Veil of Summer
• 1x Whir of Invention

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Ral, Storm Conduit

Land (30)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 3x Forest
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 7x Island
• 1x Karplusan Forest
• 1x Ketria Triome
• 1x Mossfire Valley
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Sheltered Thicket
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Artifact (7)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Cultivator's Caravan
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Springleaf Drum
• 1x Twinning Staff

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Cindervines
• 1x Defense of the Heart
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Verity Circle

Commander (1)

Creature (17)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bounding Krasis
• 1x Corridor Monitor
• 1x Drift of Phantasms
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Incubation Druid
• 1x Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Oakhame Adversary
• 1x Orcish Lumberjack
• 1x Pestermite
• 1x Priest of Titania
• 1x Rashmi, Eternities Crafter
• 1x Rattleclaw Mystic
• 1x Wavebreak Hippocamp

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Chandra's Ignition
• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Merchant Scroll
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Neoform
• 1x Preordain

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1) IsoRev

Isochron Scepter + Dramatic Reversal and at least 3 mana from dorks and/or rocks makes you infinite mana.

2) Twinning Staff

Twinning Staff + Copy Spell and 7 mana to activate staff

Twinning Staff + 2 Copy Spells

Both of the above net you infinite copies of any spell on the stack, as each new Copy Spell can copy the original Copy Spell, netting you 2 new Copy Spells, eventually ending with infinite Copy Spells on the stack, which you can then use to copy anything already on the stack, like an Impulse or an opponent's Demonic Tutor.

Twinning Staff + Kalamax, the Stormsire + Copy Spell can make you copy anything already on the stack infinite times. If an opponent plays something or you play a sorcery, just have Kalamax tapped and play any of the Copy Spells, say Fork. Kalamax gets you a second copy and staff a third. After that, use one of the copies to copy Fork, getting you 2 more Forks on the stack, you can use this to have an infinite number of Forks and then start copying the original spell played before your Fork.

Twinning Staff + Dramatic Reversal gives you infinite mana and infinite copies of anything on the stack and any instant you can play. This loop requires at least 4 mana from dorks and/or rocks and you need to be able to activate twinning staff or use a copy spell on Reversal. With the second copy from Staff's trigger, you are getting 4 mana per copy of reversal, and getting 2 copies of reversal with 7 mana, this nets you infinite mana. Then you can do the following loop to infinitely copy any spell on the stack and/or any instant you can play, starting with only the original Reversal on the stack

Play any instant you want, say Impulse.
Activate Twinning Staff copying Dramatic Reversal twice.
Let the first copy of Reversal resolve, untapping Staff.
Activate Staff copying Impulse twice
Let both copies of Impulse resolve
Let the second copy of Reversal Resolve, untapping Staff
Go to step 2

3) Infinite Mana Outlets

We've seen a few ways of obtaining infinite mana with Kalamax, but without an outlet in the cmdzone, what do we do with that? First, infinite mana makes our playstyle a lot easier, as we are already in a control/midrange plan, so not being restrained by mana makes it a lot better, as we can chain draw spells to find our combo pieces and have plenty of interaction up. Our dedicated Outlets are Expansion // Explosion and Thassa's Intervention. Intervention can find Explosion and/or Twinning Staff and start a loop of infinite copies. Explosion can kill a player and draw our deck, at which point we have plenty of ways to end the game.

We can use Twinning Staff loops with Swan Song to for a board of 2/2s, passing the turn with a hand of counterspells.

4) Ral, Storm Conduit

Kalamax tapped + Copy spell

5) Defense of the Heart

Search for Kiki Lines

6) Chandra's Ignition

Kalamax tapped + Copy spell

7) Whir of Invention on Kalamax tapped

Corridor Monitor + Birthing Pod, then sacrifice Kalamax for Kiki Jiki

8) Chord of Calling X = 5 Search for Kiki Lines

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Exclude colors	WB
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 42 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 25 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.39
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Copy Clone, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Morph 2/2 C