[cEDH Primer] To Infinity & Beyond

Commander / EDH Artifact Competitive Infinite Combo Primer RUW (Jeskai, America) Storm

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Instant (28)

• 1x Abrade
• 1x Brain Freeze
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Deflecting Swat
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Final Fortune
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Force of Negation
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Intuition
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Miscast
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Silence
• 1x Snap
• 1x Spell Pierce
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Unsubstantiate
• 1x Winds of Rebuke

Sorcery (14)

• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Jeska's Will
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Reshape
• 1x Rite of Flame
• 1x Rolling Earthquake
• 1x Sevinne's Reclamation
• 1x Timetwister
• 1x Transmute Artifact
• 1x Wheel of Fortune
• 1x Wheel of Misfortune
• 1x Windfall

Land (28)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Gemstone Caverns
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 2x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Plateau
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Spire of Industry
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Training Center
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Counterbalance
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Underworld Breach

Commander (1)

Artifact (20)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Cloud Key
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Helm of Awakening
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Jeweled Lotus
• 1x Lion's Eye Diamond
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Creativity
• 1x Talisman of Progress
• 1x Tormod's Crypt

Creature (4)

• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Gilded Drake
• 1x Hullbreacher
• 1x Phantasmal Image

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Maybeboard

Instant (1)

• 1x Wear / Tear

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Primer Theme Song

Introduction

I play many decks in Competitive EDH and many of you know me for originally playing Kaalia. Right now this is my favorite deck & this very deck list is designed for going into **ANY META** blind. I WANT TO BUILD A SNOWMAN! Jeskai is all about RWU ya feel me? Enter Elsha!

Step 1: Cast Elsha of the Infinite.

Step 2: Look at your top card.

Step 3: Profit.

Strengths

1. It comes down to card quality. If you have infinite mana and access to your whole library, who cares if your win is pieced together from 5 cards? But when you are trying to play the game and avoid losing, wouldn’t you prefer if you didn’t draw Aetherflux Reservoir?


2. The combos most friendly towards being made winconless are ones that involve infinite mana or draw, such as Smothering Tithe with an outlet in Timetwister Loops into a Rolling Earthquake.


3. One of the most common culprits is Laboratory Maniac or Jace, Wielder of Mysteries in decks without Tainted Pact/Demonic Consultation. If you have to draw your entire deck to win with a card, chances are you can cobble together a win out of the cards you drew, rather than running a dedicated wincon.

Weakness

1. Winconless combos often require more cards, so there can be increased risk of losing access to something important.


2. Most winconless lines are not shortcuttable, which means you will have to execute an obnoxious combo if somebody asks you to.


3. Winconless combos can be more difficult to execute.

Lines

1. Sensei's Divining Top Lines
   Requirements: Elsha of the Infinite + Cloud Key or Etherium Sculptor . With these three pieces on the battlefield, tap Sensei's Divining Top to draw a card and put Sensei's on top of your library. Using Elsha of the Infinite 's ability to play cards from the top of your library, play Sensei's Divining Top for free due to the mana reducer lowering its cost to 0. Continue this loop to draw your library. Be sure to count your prowess triggers.
   
   Steps:
   • Cast Elsha of the infinite.
   • Cast Sensei's Divining Top.
   • Cast any mana reducer. The options in this deck are Cloud Key and Etherium Sculptor.
   • Activate Top by tapping it and drawing a card from the top of your library.
   • Cast Top for free from the top of your deck.
   • Repeat
   
   Casting Top this many times stacks prowess triggers and storm counters. From this point you can make infinite mana and sink it all into Rolling Earthquake after you gain life from exiling your now big beefy general with Swords to Plowshares .
   
   
   I drew my library with Top + Reducer! What do I do now?
   The first step is to play all your mana positive rocks to evaluate how much resource you have. These lines do not include non-mandatory protection, it is always advised to cast silence first if resources allow it. This is not a comprehensive list of lines, just the more common ones. Nor is the sequencing optimal for every situation. Feel free to mix and match and experiment.
   
   
2. Rolling Earthquake Line:
   A.) Rolling Earthquake + Underworld Breach (X1RR)
   
   • Cast Underworld Breach.
   • Cast LED.
   • Crack LED for (WWW).
   • Escape Swords to Plowshares targeting Elsha exiling any 3 cards that aren't LED or Rolling Earthquake.
   • Escape LED exiling any 3 cards that aren't Rolling Earthquake.
   • Crack for (RRR).
   • Repeat the last 2 lines until you have enough mana to cast Rolling Earthquake for lethal.
   • Escape Rolling Earthquake for lethal.
   
   B.) Rolling Earthquake + Wheels (X2RR or U)
   
   • Cast Underworld Breach.
   • Cast LED.
   • Crack LED for (WWW).
   • Escape LED exiling any 3 cards except Wheel of Fortune , Rolling Earthquake, Smothering Tithe , StP.
   • Crack LED for (RRR).
   • Escape Smothering Tithe exiling any 3 cards except LED, Wheel of Fortune, Rolling Earthquake, StP.
   • Escape LED exiling any 3 cards except Wheel of Fortune, Rolling Earthquake, StP.
   • Crack for (RRR).
   • Escape Swords to Plowshares Exiling any 3 cards except: Rolling Earthquake or Wheel of Fortune.
   • Escape Wheel of Fortune exiling any 3 cards except Rolling Earthquake.
   • Repeat the last line until you have enough mana to cast Rolling Earthquake for lethal.
   • Cast Rolling Earthquake for lethal.
   
   C.) Rolling Earthquake + Smothering Tithe + Twister (X4RWU)
   
   • Cast Smothering Tithe.
   • Cast Timetwister .
   • Redraw Library with Top + Reducer.
   • Repeat the last 2 lines until you have enough mana to cast Rolling Earthquake for lethal.
   • Cast Swords to Plowshares targeting Elsha.
   • Cast Rolling Earthquake for lethal.
   
   
   
   
3. Underworld Breach Mill Line:
   A.) Underworld Breach + Smothering Tithe (4WU)
   
   • Cast Underworld Breach.
   • Cast LED.
   • Crack LED for (UUU).
   • Escape Brain Freeze Exiling any 3 cards that aren't Wheel of Fortune or Smothering Tithe.
   • Escape LED Exiling any 3 cards that aren't Wheel of Fortune or Smothering Tithe.
   • Crack LED for (WWW).
   • Escape Smothering Tithe Exiling any 3 cards that isn't Brain Freeze, Wheel of Fortune or LED.
   • Escape LED Exiling any 3 cards that aren't Wheel of Fortune or Brain Freeze.
   • Escape Wheel of Fortune exiling any 3 cards.
   • Repeat the above line until lethal.
   
   B.) Underworld Breach + LED (1R)
   
   • Cast Underworld Breach.
   • Cast LED.
   • Crack LED for (UUU).
   • Escape Brain Freeze Exiling any 3 cards that aren't Wheel of Fortune or LED.
   • Escape LED Exiling any 3 cards that aren't Wheel of Fortune.
   • Crack LED for (RRR).
   • Escape Wheel of Fortune Exiling any 3 cards that aren't LED.
   • Repeat about 3 steps until lethal.
   
   C.) Underworld Breach + Windfall (4RU)
   
   • Cast LED.
   • Cast Brain Freeze.
   • Cast Underworld Breach.
   • Cast Windfall.
   • Crack LED for (UUU).
   • Escape Windfall Exiling any 3 Cards.
   
   
   
4. Brain Freeze Line:
   A.) Brainfreeze + LED + Underworld Breach (1R & 3 other cards in GY/hand)
   
   • Cast Underworld Breach.
   • Cast Lion's Eye Diamond.
   • Crack for UUU.
   • Escape Brainfreeze exiling any 3 cards besides LED, targeting yourself with all 3.
   
   You can repeat the above 3 steps as necessary until you can get the storm count high enough to mill out your opponents or assemble a different wincondition with breach. If you don't have 3 other cards in hand/GY for whatever reason the loop can be performed for 2UR by casting brainfreeze before cracking Lion's Eye Diamond.
   B.) Brainfreeze from Intuition (2U|2W the following turn. 8 other cards in GY/Hand)
   On the opponent's end step before your turn, cast Intuition. Find Lion's Eye Diamond, Sevinne's Reclamation, and Underworld Breach. Presumably they give you Sevinne's here.
   
   • Go to your turn, untap and cast Sevinne's targeting Underworld Breach.
   • Escape LED exiling 3 cards that aren't Intuition.
   • Crack LED for UUU.
   • Escape Intuition exiling 3 cards that aren't LED, find Brainfreeze and any free cards that you can put into your GY (lotus petal/gitaxian probe).
   • Get whatever card they gave you into the GY.
   • Escape LED exiling 3 cards that aren't Brainfreeze.
   • Crack LED for UUU.
   • Escape Brainfreeze exiling 3 cards that aren't LED.

Budget & Optional Cards

Optional Card Choices

• Other card choices created by Ishara.

Budget List

• [Budget](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/4iN-Ixhom0iE9kRGokSqOQ) based off my list created with Shaun, Tim & Richie.

Gameplay & Content

• cEDH Cast Elsha Podcast
  
• How to mulligan properly with this list!
  
• How we built the budget list!
  
• Gameplay with the new list on cEDH TV.
  
• Ryan from Playing With Power, using an old iteration of this decklist!

Shout Outs

• S/O to Scotty, Shmekles & Ryan for being there in the first iterations of the deck. They were a big part in the beginning of it all.
• S/O to Mord, Teifer, Ishara, Ian & Kyle on upkeeping this list with me.
• S/O to Spleenface for help on the primer and allowing me to use some of his info off of Reddit as well.(Here is a link to his reddit post.)
• S/O to ShaperSavant for giving insight on better optimizing the deck.
• S/O to Magorian for the data on Breach. Extremely useful and a big part to how the deck operates now.

Elsha Server

Top Ranked	Achieved #1 position overall 4 years ago
Date added	4 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 55 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	1.74
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Spirit 1/1 C, Treasure
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