cEDH Slow Bomb Primer

Unknown Competitive Control Four Color Group Slug Multiplayer UBRG

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Instant (29)

• 1x Clash of Wills
• 1x Condescend
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Flash
• 1x Flash of Insight
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Izzet Charm
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Logic Knot
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Mindswipe
• 1x Mogg Salvage
• 1x Murderous Cut
• 1x Negate
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Power Sink
• 1x Pull from Tomorrow
• 1x Ravenous Trap
• 1x Remand
• 1x Shadow of Doubt
• 1x Snuff Out
• 1x Submerge
• 1x Syncopate
• 1x Unwind

Enchantment (17)

• 1x Arcane Laboratory
• 1x Braid of Fire
• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Curiosity
• 1x Fertile Ground
• 1x Ground Seal
• 1x Keen Sense
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Ophidian Eye
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Snake Umbra
• 1x Stranglehold
• 1x Training Grounds
• 1x Treachery
• 1x Underworld Breach
• 1x Utopia Sprawl
• 1x Wild Growth

Land (28)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Badlands
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Canyon Slough
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Sorcery (9)

• 1x By Force
• 1x Cut / Ribbons
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Massacre
• 1x Meltdown
• 1x Mind Twist
• 1x Pir's Whim
• 1x Treasure Cruise

Artifact (9)

• 1x Azor's Gateway  ^Flip
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Damping Sphere
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mox Amber
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Nihil Spellbomb
• 1x Sol Ring

Commanders (2)

Creature (21)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Glint-Horn Buccaneer
• 1x Grim Lavamancer
• 1x Harsh Mentor
• 1x Huntmaster of the Fells  ^Flip
• 1x Jace, Vryn's Prodigy  ^Flip
• 1x Manglehorn
• 1x Nezumi Graverobber  ^Flip
• 1x Olivia Voldaren
• 1x Protean Hulk
• 1x Rashmi, Eternities Crafter
• 1x Rootwater Thief
• 1x Runic Armasaur
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Sygg, River Cutthroat
• 1x Tandem Lookout
• 1x Thada Adel, Acquisitor
• 1x Viashino Heretic

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Dack Fayden
• 1x Liliana of the Dark Realms
• 1x Oko, Thief of Crowns

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Hi. This isn't a complete deck you could copy. You see there are more than 100 cards in this list. Here I have a lot of different cards you could play that would work with this gameplan that you can read all about. And you can simply look around in the list for cards you wanna go for. The list is a bunch of suggestions you could say.

Deck philosophy

MANA, MANA. MANA! This is all we want. The core Idea is to win slowly. You could call it slow burn. Fast burn is where you don't care one bit what your opponents are doing. You just wanna burn them to 0 life before they get started. That is impossible in cEDH. We can't fast burn away 40 life before an opponent win with his combo. There for we slow burn. This is a heavy control deck that wins with interactive wincons. Or with Vial Smasher the Fierce . Whenever you cast your Force of Will you will deal 5 damage to an random opponent.

Yes, this is slow.

interactive win conditions

cEDH interactive win conditions card list

This is a list of cards that have interactions against typical combos inside cEDH. But also have the potential if left unchecked. Can become a win condition. You can read more about it here. In the link. But I also made a youtube video tutorial about the concept. In any case, Slow Bomb is utilizing that concept. Most of the cards we are going to play are interactive win conditions. Scavenging Ooze is such a card.

Swamp Bomb Style

Swamp Bomb Deck

I will begin with Cabal Coffers and I think you know what this is all about. We wanna build so much mana as humanly possible. With that mana we can pay a lot of mana into X spells like Mind Twist which means Vial Smasher the Fierce will throw huge damage dealing bomb at someones face. But we could also use that mana to draw a lot of cards with Thrasios, Triton Hero .

Let's look at some more card that will synergize with the swamp idea. Crypt Ghast - Liliana of the Dark Realms - Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx .

PST style

PST stands for Paradox Engine - Isochron Scepter - Thrasios, Triton Hero . PST decks are card drawing decks that utilize huge mana production with card drawing capability. It is trying to snowball in other words. This style doesn't like lands or spells with a high CMC. Therefore it is not going to synergize with any of the other styles. Especially not the Swamp Bomb style, that like lands. But PST is a really strong combo and if you wanna have something reliable that can win when you go for it. This is it. Here are the combos inside a PST deck.

construction this deck I would recommend something about 28 lands and 20 mana rocks/dorks. After this most cards should cost between 1-2 mana.

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Paradox Engine

This might be the safest and most stable wincon in the deck. This untaping machine is a one card combo for this deck with Thrasios, Triton Hero . If you have a bunch of rocks/dorks tap them. Active you Simic fish and draw a card. Use the scry ability to avoid lands. Cast whatever you get and get the paradox trigger to untap all your rocks/dorks. Repeat until you figure something out. You will draw you entier deck from this.

To make this work we need a low CMC overall of all the cards inside this deck, why? Simple! If you have rocks that produce 5 mana you need mana to draw a card from Thrasios, Triton Hero . We are now left with one mana. If that card you draw cost or more mana, it all ends. Yes, this is a one card combo, but it can fisle. To make sure we don't fail, we aim our build at having active control cards like Lightning Bolt . A card that cost only and can be caster just like that. You can't cast Counterspell out of the blue you need a target for it.

But this combo is putting anouther deck building construction demand on us. Few lands! The more lands you have in this deck the higher chans of fisle/fail when you are trying to go for the paradox combo run. And for this time machin to work we need rocks to tap for atleast togheter. That means our deck need to contain a lot of rocks and good dorks.

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Dramatic Reversal and Isochron Scepter

This is a typical two card combo that gives us infinit mana. Creating a loop where you are netting one mana. Now you can draw your entier deck with Thrasios, Triton Hero and do anything. you could win with Ribbons or Walking Ballista two cards that alredy might be inside this deck.

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Power Artifact and Basalt Monolith or Grim Monolith

This is a typical two card combo that will give us infinit mana. The activation cost to untap the big rock will drop to 1 mana. This means it will tap for more mana then it cost to untap it. Creating a loop where you are netting one mana. Now you can draw your entier deck with Thrasios, Triton Hero and do anything. you could win with Ribbons or Walking Ballista two cards that alredy might be inside this deck.

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With infinit mana?

So when you have infinite mana Thrasios, Triton Hero can draw the entire deck. At this point, you could win the game in a lot of different ways.

Most commonly you go for twister loops. Cast Notion Thief and Cyclonic Rift , now your opponents only have lands in play. Then cast Timetwister that will send all the card they have into their library. From here they can't interact with you. Now use Thrasios, Triton Hero to draw cards until you find Noxious Revival that you cast and target Timetwister with. Sending it on top of your deck. This is twister loops. This means we can loop any whatever card inside our deck. We could win with something like Lightning Bolt .

Ghirapur AEther Grid , we can use this red enchantment to kill all opponents if we can get untaps on our artifacts somehow. We can do this by assembling Dramatic Reversal and Isochron Scepter . But also if we have Paradox Engine in play. Every time you cast a spell (we have a lot of those) you get an untap effect on your stones. This isn't going to go infinite. But we can reach a tremendously high amount of damage.

But I guess at this point ones creativity limites the posibilitys.

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Card by card talk

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Azor's Gateway   - Sanctum of the Sun

Is kinda what made me think if this strategy from the beginning. It began with the card Cut that had an aftermatch card with it. Ribbons. If you Flip the Azor's Gateway   you get a land that taps for a lot of mana. Equal to your life. And you gain 5 life. So with Ribbons, we should be able to kill all players. If we have more life then everyone.

But with Sanctum of the Sun and Vial Smasher the Fierce with any X spell we will kill a random player. Or Use Thrasios, Triton Hero to draw a lot of cards. If you have 28 life you will draw 7 cards. Just saying.

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Arcane Laboratory

Becouase of Vial Smasher the Fierce we only aim at casting one spell every turn. There fore this is a stax card we don't care about. And it is a great stax card. If your playing the PST style I don't recommend this card. PST style is a storm deck. But if your going for a hulk combo, then this blue enchantment is okay. So it depends a bit on your build. But in general this enchantment is great for this deck.

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Braid of Fire

This red enchantment was printed back when mana burn existed. If you don't know what mana burn was let me tell you. Floating mana that you didn't use dealt damage to you when you shifted into a new phase. When that rule dissaperd this card became really intreassting. The cost is to gain mana which is weird for cumulative upkeep. It was printed with the intent that you could use it with other cummultiv upkeep cost cards. Like Mystic Remora for example. Now we can use it with that. But we can also use the massiv mana we gain to activate Thrasios, Triton Hero at the upkeep.

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The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

You can build slow bomb in a lot of different ways. You could go heavy one creatures or a low amount of creatures. In the version with low amount of creaturtes then this is a card to consider. It is close to an auto include in the Divergent play style.

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Ghirapur AEther Grid

If we are going for an artifact heavy build this is an enchantment to consider. Also if we decid to build a PST Paradox Engine build. This is a possible WINCON. It could also be the wincon after getting infinit mana and infinit untaps from Dramatic Reversal and Isochron Scepter .

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Oko, Thief of Crowns

This simic plainswalkers is close to auto included in every midrange cEDH deck. Now this is a midrange controll deck so you should play Oko. Not much to say card is broken!

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Dack Fayden

This is a great planeswalker for a deck like this. Stealing an random whatever mana rock for Sometimes that kind of slow grind is the right play. Also he can draw some cards and potentially steal more artifacts.

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Deathrite Shaman

This is everything this deck wants in one card. It is a mana dork and this deck wants mana. It has graveyard interaction against our opponents. We can exile a creature card from an opponents deck they wanna bring back into play with something like Animate Dead . But we can also casually exile an instant or sorcery to force each opponent to lose 2 life.

This card is a group slug, mana dork, interactive card.

It also fits perefctly in the: MAN style - Swamp bomb style - PST style.

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Youtube content on this deck

Deck Folder

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All cEDH TV decks

I have a deck folder for all my decks I have made if you wanna look around for other ideas. I play close to every commander and strange gameplan. So there is a bunch of different decks in that folder. I have other more organized smaller folders of specific concepts too. But this folder simply contain everything I have ever made. Its a good place if you only wish to scroll around for inspiration.

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Najeela decks

Five colored warrior boss! The blade lady is by fare my favorit commander. You can build so many different decks with here that I have a bunch. In this folder you will find all my Najeela decks I have. But you will also find my Najeela Primer. Wihch isen't a deck but an artical about her. Mostly what cards to play and not to play.

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Date added	5 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Unknown legal.
Rarity (main - side)	32 - 0 Mythic Rares 42 - 0 Rares 25 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	118
Avg. CMC	2.40
Tokens	Elk 3/3 G, Emblem Dack Fayden, Emblem Jace, Vryn's Prodigy, Emblem Liliana of the Dark Realms, Food, Treasure, Wolf 2/2 G
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