Darigaaz's Mind Eruption

Commander / EDH BRG (Jund) Budget

NinjaFist

Instant (7)

• 1x Gaze of Adamaro
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Rakdos Charm
• 1x Runeflare Trap
• 1x Storm Seeker
• 1x Sudden Impact
• 1x Terminate

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Chain Reaction
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Damnable Pact
• 1x Dark Deal
• 1x Incite Rebellion
• 1x Molten Psyche
• 1x Nature's Resurgence
• 1x Recollect
• 1x Toil / Trouble

Enchantment (16)

• 1x Confusion in the Ranks
• 1x Dark Prophecy
• 1x Dark Tutelage
• 1x Dictate of the Twin Gods
• 1x Elemental Bond
• 1x Endless Whispers
• 1x Fecundity
• 1x Furnace of Rath
• 1x Lethal Vapors
• 1x Leyline of Punishment
• 1x Price of Knowledge
• 1x Revelation
• 1x Seed the Land
• 1x Spreading Plague
• 1x Tainted AEther
• 1x Vicious Shadows

Artifact (12)

• 1x Anvil of Bogardan
• 1x Black Vise
• 1x Codex Shredder
• 1x Font of Mythos
• 1x Horn of Greed
• 1x Howling Mine
• 1x Loxodon Warhammer
• 1x Otherworld Atlas
• 1x Sculpting Steel
• 1x Sword of War and Peace
• 1x Temple Bell
• 1x Whip of Erebos

Creature (20)

• 1x Bloodgift Demon
• 1x Borderland Ranger
• 1x Charmbreaker Devils
• 1x Dawntreader Elk
• 1x Dimir House Guard
• 1x Eidolon of Blossoms
• 1x Greenwarden of Murasa
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Heartwood Storyteller
• 1x Humble Defector
• 1x Hunted Troll
• 1x Master of the Feast
• 1x Netherborn Phalanx
• 1x Pilgrim's Eye
• 1x Regal Force
• 1x Runed Servitor
• 1x Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
• 1x Seizan, Perverter of Truth
• 1x Skullwinder
• 1x Stormbreath Dragon

Land (35)

• 1x Akoum Refuge
• 1x Bloodfell Caves
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Cinder Barrens
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 5x Forest
• 1x Gruul Guildgate
• 1x Gruul Turf
• 1x Hissing Quagmire
• 1x Jungle Hollow
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 7x Mountain
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Rakdos Carnarium
• 1x Rakdos Guildgate
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 6x Swamp
• 1x Thawing Glaciers
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Commander (1)

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Instant (1)

• 1x Wild Ricochet

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Increasing Ambition
• 1x Spiraling Embers
• 1x Twilight's Call
• 1x Weird Harvest
• 1x Worst Fears

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Colfenor's Plans
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Price of Glory
• 1x Rites of Flourishing
• 1x Spiteful Visions
• 1x Yawgmoth's Agenda

Artifact (5)

• 1x Claws of Gix
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Noetic Scales
• 1x Strionic Resonator
• 1x Tamiyo's Journal

Creature (10)

• 1x Charnelhoard Wurm
• 1x Dark Confidant
• 1x Dragon Mage
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Farhaven Elf
• 1x Hunted Dragon
• 1x Ondu Giant
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Viseling
• 1x Wood Elves

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This deck is somewhat a homage to the first Commander deck that I played, the C13 Nekusar deck. But since then, Nekusar has become rather popular and overdone. It doesn't take much to kill with him, just force people to draw and they slowly die (until you play Windfall on a stick, Jace's Archivist), which, admittedly, was fun to watch people squirm like that. But I longed for a challenge. I thought it would be more difficult to kill someone for punishing them for having a massive hand, rather than doing something as arbitrary as drawing a card. Picking up a copy of Darigaaz helped me go in that direction, as well as adding to the challenge by eliminating blue from the equation.

This deck is what I came up with. It's rather casual and can get wrecked very easily by a single Void Winnower, but once it gets going, it's an absolute blast to play. The main idea of the deck is to obviously force people to draw cards then smack them in the face with Sudden Impact-like effects, or just Darigaaz himself. Interesting ways I've found to 'encourage' people to fill their hand is through Heartwood Storyteller, play Endless Whispers coupled with Lethal Vapors to give opponents the Pilgrim's Eye and Borderland Ranger ETB effects, or even Weird Harvest. Speaking of the Endless Vapors combo, it's the main backbone of the secondary part of this deck, as paired with Vicious Shadows, it can kill opponents very quickly. Other pairings with this combo is to give someone a Grim Haruspex or Eidolon of Blossoms with a bunch of other creatures, forcing them to draw more, giving them a Dark Prophecy or Elemental Bond through Confusion in the Ranks to the same effect, or running Fecundity on the board (even though this is a may effect). Finally, the last ditch effort of the deck is to punish opponents with a lot of creatures on the board with Rakdos Charm, Incite Rebellion, and Netherborn Phalanx, for which the hunted creatures help to accomplish this (they also give more creatures to draw with Dark Prophesy).

As always, I am open to suggestions (this deck could probably use a little more control, needs to probably be played more to see what doesn't work too well), and I thank you for the view!

Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 43 - 0 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.78
Tokens	Faerie 1/1 U, Morph 2/2 C, Snake 1/1 G
Folders	Fun Ideas I'll *Probably* Never Build