Degenerate Designs

Commander / EDH Artifact Combo Competitive Four Color Infinite Combo Toolbox

Megalomania

Land (28)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Gemstone Caverns
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Island
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Personal Tutor
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Windfall
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Copy Artifact
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Necropotence

Instant (24)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Ad Nauseam
• 1x Angel's Grace
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Negate
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Silence
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Creature (15)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Auriok Salvagers
• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Dark Confidant
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Kiora's Follower
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Noble Hierarch
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Walking Ballista

Commanders (2)

Artifact (18)

• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Lion's Eye Diamond
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Paradox Engine
• 1x Selesnya Signet
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Simic Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Dominance

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Maybeboard

Instant (2)

• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Memory's Journey

Land (1)

• 1x Tarnished Citadel

Creature (2)

• 1x Protean Hulk
• 1x Snapcaster Mage

Artifact (1)

• 1x Sculpting Steel

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The aim of the deck is to generate mana in very large, bordering on obscene, quantities faster than your opponents can say here we go again, and use it to draw out the deck and win via Laboratory Maniac or Walking Ballista.

This can primarily be achieved using two combos:

Isochron Scepter + Dramatic Reversal; and

Auriok Salvagers + Lion's Eye Diamond

The Scepter

The scepter combo requires some rocks and dorks to generate large, bordering on obscene, quantities of mana. The deck has of a lot of these. Alternatively, you can also load the Scepter with a Dark Ritual or a cantrip like Brainstorm. With a Paradox Engine in play, you can then proceed to generate, (you guessed it!) large, bordering on obscene, quantities of mana, and/or draw out the deck and eventually end the game with the LabMan or the Ballista. Simple af!

The Pod

Birthing Pod is here to enable us to search for, and protect, the combo pieces for combo # 2. The basic idea is to feed Thrasios, or any 2 cmc creature to the Pod in order to tutor for Trinket Mage. Using the Mage, we then tutor for Lion's Eye Diamond and during our next turn, feed the Mage or any 3 cmc creature (such as Tymna. Tymna is pretty much Pod food in this deck) to the pod in order to get Auriok Salvagers. If you want everything done in the same turn, Kiora's Follower and Dramatic Reversal can be used.

This combo requires us to discard our hand so protecting it with Grand Abolisher, which we can also fetch by feeding a dork to the Pod, is suggested.

The Curve

The curve/ave. cmc of the deck is kept low for two reasons: one, to abuse Ad Nauseam and show the world why it is such a degenerate card; and two, to enable Paradox Engine to also show its own brand of degeneracy. With enough rocks and/or dorks in play, it will not be hard for the Engine to keep enough mana flowing to eventually reach critical mass and draw out the entire deck. It is that awesooome!!

More Bragging

Between the amount of tutors and draw engines in the deck, it would not be unreasonable for you expect a win between turns 3-6. The deck can actually win as early as the first turn but that would require you to be extremely lucky. I try to make decks that win as fast as possible, as often as possible so expect to lose a couple of friends. Its okay, winning is everything.

and finally...

Suggestions and feedback are always welcome. Constructive criticism is also encouraged and highly appreciated. Upvotes are fine too. Please keep hitting that button.

Thank you for reading and hope to hear from you soon.

Top Ranked	Achieved #31 position overall 6 years ago
Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 52 - 0 Rares 14 - 0 Uncommons 21 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	1.65
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U
Folders	cool modern, Interesting Commander Decks, Competitive EDH, Decks, Cedh
Based on	There Is No Cow Level! Megalomania EDH