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Stop right there Criminal Scum!

Commander / EDH WU (Azorius)

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When deciding to play Azorius there comes a level of responsibility that is vacant in other colors. The burden is on you to stop all criminal activities. You will find that other players will attempt to undermine your efforts to keep the table clean of scummary.

Unfortunately, our mission is never finished till no one is able to play the game of magic the gathering. Therefore, it is mine and your civic duty to finish the game. As much as, we would rather play cat and mouse and just keep the game going for as long as humanly stand-able.

Win conditions include:

  1. Decree of Silence with Solemnity so none of the criminal scum can cast anymore spells. Glen Elendra Archmage also works instead with Solemnity to counter all noncreatures as long as you have the blue mana to pay for it.

  2. Karmic Guide , Reveillark , Ashnod's Altar to make an infinite loop with one of the bounce creatures like Riftwing Cloudskate to bounce everything including lands.

No one gets to play. ...

As an Azorius puritan, there are curtain ethic standards that must be upheld and maintained. Those standards are to always be in control of every game. Therefore, consistency is key. Which makes card draw and ramp the most important things. Card draw is easy since that is all the commander does. So it becomes powerful when you can trigger Ephara, God of the Polis ability on the criminal scums' turns.

  1. Faerie Artisans Both of these cards become powerhouses in this deck.
  2. Saltskitter Making it easy to draw 2-4 extra cards per turn especially when the scum haven't seen that skitter before.

Some card that are not creatures will still trigger Ephara, God of the Polis ability. For example:

  1. Phyrexian Rebirth
  2. Bribery
  3. Elspeth, Sun's Champion
  4. Mind's Dilation

The next step is Ramp. As Azorius aristocrats, we do not petty our self's by playing with free win green Cultivate ramp effects. That would be too easy and we rise above those who strike from the forests. That is why we cram in all the artifact and white creature ramp we can find!

  1. Wayfarer's Bauble , Not enough people play this card. It should be in every non-green deck.
  2. Sword of the Animist , This too.
  3. Burnished Hart , This too.
  4. Kor Cartographer , every deck already plays Solemn Simulacrum . So why not this?
  5. Terrain Generator , is way better than you think!

Strong interactions:

  1. Solemnity with Glacial Chasm and Mystic Remora .
  2. Sun Titan with Oblivion Stone to keep the board cleared at all times.
  3. Flagstones of Trokair sacrifice to Glacial Chasm .

When I first started playing this commander over three years ago I took advantage of playing token creatures on everyone else turns to trigger Ephara, God of the Polis ability as much as possible using things like Nuisance Engine and Trading Post . I have since moved far away from that strategy to make the deck more competitive and because Blue does not need any extra card draw. This strategy is all about controlling the board with graveyard hate, counterspells, enchantment effects that slow the game down a little and of course board wipes. Remember Ephara, God of the Polis is indestructible so while you wipe the board and everyone else falls behind you just keep drawing cards. Please, up-vote if you've made it this far! There is so much gas in that commander that playing spells does not feel so bad when you have two fists full of cardboard.

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Revision 14 See all

(4 years ago)

-1 Bribery main
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+1 Island main
-1 Temple of the False God main
Top Ranked
  • Achieved #20 position overall 5 years ago
  • Achieved #16 position in Commander / EDH 5 years ago
Date added 6 years
Last updated 4 years
Legality

This deck is Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

10 - 0 Mythic Rares

46 - 0 Rares

14 - 0 Uncommons

15 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 3.36
Tokens Bird 2/2 U, Copy Clone, Emblem Elspeth, Sun's Champion, Emblem Venser, the Sojourner, Goat 0/1 W, Horror */* C, Soldier 1/1 W, Spirit 1/1 W, Treasure
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