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Commander / EDH* Casual Enchantment Group Hug Hive Mind Multiplayer Theme/Gimmick

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Enchantment (21)

• 1x As Foretold
• 1x Confusion in the Ranks
• 1x Conjured Currency
• 1x Copy Enchantment
• 1x Dovescape
• 1x Dream Halls
• 1x Eye of the Storm
• 1x Followed Footsteps
• 1x Grip of Chaos
• 1x Hive Mind
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Maelstrom Nexus
• 1x Mana Cache
• 1x Mind's Dilation
• 1x Omniscience
• 1x Paradox Haze
• 1x Possibility Storm
• 1x Puca's Mischief
• 1x Shared Fate
• 1x Standstill
• 1x Wild Evocation

Artifact (11)

• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Gate to the AEther
• 1x Knowledge Pool
• 1x Lich's Mirror
• 1x Mindslaver
• 1x Mirror Gallery
• 1x Omen Machine
• 1x Pyxis of Pandemonium
• 1x Sands of Time
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Timesifter

Land (31)

• 1x Boros Garrison
• 1x Caldera Lake
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Forest
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 8x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Izzet Guildgate
• 6x Mountain
• 1x Plains
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Vivid Crag
• 1x Vivid Creek

Instant (11)

• 1x Commandeer
• 1x Counterlash
• 1x Gather Specimens
• 1x Mirrorweave
• 1x Nix
• 1x Radiate
• 1x Redirect
• 1x Spelljack
• 1x Swerve
• 1x Twincast
• 1x Wild Ricochet

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Tamiyo, Field Researcher

Commander (1)

Sorcery (15)

• 1x Blatant Thievery
• 1x Clone Legion
• 1x Cruel Entertainment
• 1x Cultural Exchange
• 1x Dimensional Breach
• 1x Mind's Desire
• 1x Replenish
• 1x Reversal of Fortune
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Scrambleverse
• 1x Stolen Goods
• 1x Storm Herd
• 1x Thieves' Auction
• 1x Unexpected Results
• 1x Warp World

Creature (9)

• 1x Academy Rector
• 1x Braids, Conjurer Adept
• 1x Diluvian Primordial
• 1x Jhoira of the Ghitu
• 1x Narset, Enlightened Master
• 1x Norin the Wary
• 1x Perplexing Chimera
• 1x Platinum Angel
• 1x Zedruu the Greathearted

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Sideboard

Creature (1)

• 1x Progenitus

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Maybeboard

Instant (6)

• 1x Cackling Counterpart
• 1x Intervention Pact
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Pact of the Titan
• 1x Slaughter Pact
• 1x Summoner's Pact

Creature (2)

• 1x Dualcaster Mage
• 1x Galvanoth

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Stranglehold

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Telemin Performance

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Everything's made up and the points don't matter. The gods are dead.

Forget the doom and dread of mono-black, forget the big unstoppable beasts of Eldrazi. This deck is nihilism, this is entropy, this is eldritch horror.

This deck scrambles up the permanents in play, the spells everyone can cast, the phases of a turn, each player's autonomy on their turns, the relevance of lands/mana, and so on. The deck should make planning impossible, or at least irrelevant in the face of the cosmic unknowable upheaval of the board state from one turn to the next.

As the stars explode, as the heat death of the universe washes over all creation, this deck will help you surf those cosmic waves and hopefully stay just slightly better-off than your opponents. Those pitiable opponents... in the face of What Approaches, they are as apes in the dirt, concerning themselves with life totals, creature keywords, combat phases, and (god forbid) mana costs. And what will it earn them, at the end of time and space, as 1 approaches 0? Some barren final feckless consolation, "To the bitter end, I followed the rules."

While you and I, we ruled.

If your terrestrial play group won't let you use Maelstrom Archangel as a commander, swap in Progenitus. If they give you any lip, show them you mean business by flashing the Shahrazad on your hip.

There are a lot of other amazing cards that can completely change the way Magic is played, from an intricately-designed, mechanically rich card game into a silly nonsense world. Doubtlessly I'm missing some downright blasphemous cards and some deliciously eschatological combos.

And yo, I'd love your feedback! Right now I'm often struggling with getting enough mana on the first few turns. I'm really tempted to dump a few of the sorceries that help with creatures, like Clone Legion, in exchange for

a: some early game help, like Cultivate, or

b: weird win cons, like Phage the Untouchable, or

c: things that help you a bit more than they help others, like Paradox Haze.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	13 - 1 Mythic Rares 57 - 0 Rares 7 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	5.01
Tokens	1/1 WU Token Creature Bird, Copy Clone, Emblem Tamiyo, Field Researcher, Pegasus 1/1 W, Spirit 1/1 C