Conjurer Thief

Commander / EDH* Budget Casual Mono-Blue Multiplayer Show and Tell Theme/Gimmick

moldycrow83

Steal/Copy (15)

• 1x Agent of Treachery
• 1x Blatant Thievery
• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Clone
• 1x Control Magic
• 1x Cryptoplasm
• 1x Gigantoplasm
• 1x Mirage Mirror
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Sower of Temptation
• 1x Spark Double
• 1x Sphinx Ambassador
• 1x Stunt Double
• 1x Thada Adel, Acquisitor
• 1x Vizier of Many Faces

Ramp (13)

• 1x Armillary Sphere
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Interaction (14)

• 1x Aethersquall Ancient
• 1x Cancel
• 1x Capsize
• 1x Colossal Whale
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Crystal Shard
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Mana Leak
• 1x Mystic Confluence
• 1x Negate
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Scourge of Fleets

Summon Monster (11)

• 1x Aethersquall Ancient
• 1x Arbiter of the Ideal
• 1x Atemsis, All-Seeing
• 1x Colossal Whale
• 1x Inkwell Leviathan
• 1x Nezahal, Primal Tide
• 1x Scourge of Fleets
• 1x Sphinx Ambassador
• 1x Sphinx of Jwar Isle
• 1x Stormtide Leviathan
• 1x Windreader Sphinx

Lands (36)

• 32x Island
• 1x Mystifying Maze
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Riptide Laboratory

Commander (1)

Draw/Scry (13)

• 1x Arbiter of the Ideal
• 1x Bident of Thassa
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Deep Analysis
• 1x Drawn from Dreams
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Nezahal, Primal Tide
• 1x Opt
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Sleight of Hand
• 1x Sphinx of Jwar Isle
• 1x Windreader Sphinx

Support (6)

• 1x Fatespinner
• 1x Glaring Spotlight
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Stormtide Leviathan
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir

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Other (5)

• 1x Alhammarret, High Arbiter
• 1x Diluvian Primordial
• 1x Ixidron
• 1x Master of Predicaments
• 1x Vesuvan Shapeshifter

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This is my version of a Braids and fatty friends deck. I elected to go with mostly all sea monsters instead of using Eldrazi. I wanted to give the 'ol girl a whirl and try beating everyone down with these blubbery beasts. Ironically, there is only one whale on the list. I kept whittling down the sea monsters as to maximize ETB and balance the deck out.

Sea Monsters

Let me start with saying that this deck would be stronger with Eldrazi, artifacts creatures, and other big blue behemoths. Annihilator, coupled with theft, would absolutely turns things to our favor. There are plenty of options out there, many of which are well under $1. I was dead set on making this a sea monster themed deck though, but feel free to play around!

Aside from keeping up with a sea monster theme I wanted the fatties to have a worthwhile ETB effect or built in evasion. Great Whale and Memnarch are on the hard maybe list.

• Aethersquall Ancient , Colossal Whale , Kederekt Leviathan , and Scourge of Fleets have built in removal. I am wary of Colossal Whale , as it does not permanently remove anything: if it goes bye-bye, my opponents are getting some goodies back.
• Deep-Sea Kraken , Inkwell Leviathan , Kraken of the Straits , Scrapdiver Serpent , Lorthos, the Tidemaker , Tidal Kraken , Trench Gorger , and Tromokratis all have built in evasion. Very nifty. Keep in mind that with Tromokratis , if an opponent has even one tapped creature, he cannot be blocked.
• Mistform Skyreaver is not a sea monster, but for it can be whatever we want. Built in evasion was the main reason he got thrown in.

Stealing and Cloning

Since we're giving Braid triggers to everyone else, we might as well try and profit from this too! When I first built this deck I did so without any steal effects. I quickly realized how dumb that was. Magus of the Unseen and Sower of Temptation are the stealers, everything else is a clone effect. Clone , Cryptoplasm , Stunt Double and more work great to get some awesome and unique creatures that your opponents are cheating into play. These creatures help prevent us getting stuck with only a bunch of high CMC sea monster fatties.

1. Clone
2. Cryptoplasm
3. Mirage Mirror
4. Sower of Temptation
5. Stunt Double
6. Vesuvan Shapeshifter
7. Vizier of Many Faces

Phasing & Protection

• Vanishing allows only us to benefit from Braids. We have to float , but that shouldn't be too much of an issue.
• Crawlspace and Propaganda force our opponents to pay-to-play.
• Swiftfoot Boots : simple commander protection
• Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir : because fatties with flash is fun for all! Also, some nice protection.
• Fatespinner : More beneficial as the game progresses, but a useful way to hamper opponents.
• I added two counterspells with the possible intention of adding 1-2 more.

Tutors

Treasure Mage and Trophy Mage : Helps us snag a lot of different artifacts in this deck. Couple with Crystal Shard or Capsize to reuse.

Removal

Nothing earth-shattering here. Crystal Shard can be used with our own creatures to abuse ETB effects. Glaring Spotlight allows us to target permanents with hexproof/shroud. NO ONE IS SAFE!

• Cyclonic Rift , Aethersquall Ancient , Kederekt Leviathan , and Whelming Wave are the mass removal spells
• AEtherspouts is a great protection spell
• Ixidron is really interesting. When things get a little out of hand, you can drop this boi. It makes a big impact.
• Reality Shift , Rapid Hybridization , Mystic Confluence , Capsize , Crystal Shard , and Tidespout Tyrant provide spot removal.

Draw and Ramp

I recently added Azami, Lady of Scrolls and a few others wizards to bring in some nice card draw. I never throw Braids, Conjurer Adept into combat and this is a great way to utilize her. Mystic Remora and Nezahal, Primal Tide provide some steady card draw. The rest are instant speed draw spells, Pull from Tomorrow is the last of the big burst spells that I use to run. I like having it if I've got mana to burn.

I don't have a Mana Crypt or Mana Vault , but if you got 'em, use 'em. I think a good mix of low and high CMC artifacts work well in the deck, as you can cheat in the higher CMC artifacts. Using Braids to drop in artifacts, or even lands, helps set you up for the mid/late game and keeps you from looking overly threatening.

It is certainly not a revolutionary concept that I'm putting out here, but I wanted to try something new, and keep it on the budget side of things. It could use some improvements, for sure, but it is fun to play and holds its own in a causal group. You can certainly play this to be more aggressive with the big Eldrazi creatures and Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur . I opted to stay away from those to keep the deck more casual and to not be immediately hated to death.

The deck has lots of room for improvement. As I mentioned, my goal was to keep the price down, but non-budget upgrades will certainly help this deck out. I would strongly suggest checking out DJ's Braid deck here - Braids, Commander Adept. I changed up my deck after watching the Command Zone deck tech Braids video.

Let me know what you think! Suggestions are very welcome.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 34 - 0 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.76
Tokens	Copy Clone, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Manifest 2/2 C, Vizier of Many Faces 0/0 W
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