A School of Many Colors

Commander / EDH Combo GWUB Merfolk Tribal

Scherezad

Land (37)

• 1x Alchemist's Refuge
• 1x Arcane Sanctum
• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flood Plain
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 2x Forest
• 1x Glacial Fortress *f-pre*
• 1x Grand Coliseum
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Hinterland Harbor *f-pre*
• 4x Island
• 1x Krosan Verge
• 1x Lumbering Falls
• 1x Murmuring Bosk
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Opulent Palace
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Plains
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Seaside Citadel
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Unclaimed Territory
• 1x Vault of the Archangel
• 1x Vivid Creek
• 1x Watery Grave

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Farseek
• 1x Increasing Ambition
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Merciless Eviction
• 1x Profane Command
• 1x Repudiate / Replicate
• 1x Seasons Past
• 1x Summon the School

Creature (32)

• 1x Benthic Biomancer
• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Cold-Eyed Selkie
• 1x Coralhelm Commander
• 1x Deeproot Elite
• 1x Forerunner of the Heralds
• 1x Grimoire Thief
• 1x Kiora's Follower
• 1x Kopala, Warden of Waves
• 1x Kumena, Tyrant of Orazca
• 1x Lord of Atlantis
• 1x Lullmage Mentor
• 1x Master of the Pearl Trident
• 1x Merfolk Sovereign
• 1x Merfolk Trickster
• 1x Merrow Harbinger
• 1x Merrow Reejerey
• 1x Mirror Entity
• 1x Mistcaller
• 1x Murkfiend Liege
• 1x Seafloor Oracle
• 1x Shapers of Nature
• 1x Sigil Tracer
• 1x Silvergill Adept
• 1x Stonybrook Banneret
• 1x Stormtide Leviathan
• 1x Surgespanner
• 1x Sygg, River Guide
• 1x Thada Adel, Acquisitor
• 1x Tishana, Voice of Thunder
• 1x True-Name Nemesis
• 1x Wistful Selkie

Artifact (4)

• 1x Blackblade Reforged
• 1x Dowsing Dagger  ^Flip
• 1x Simic Signet
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Commanders (2)

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Aquatic Incursion
• 1x Cryptolith Rite
• 1x Deeproot Waters
• 1x Freed from the Real
• 1x Hadana's Climb  ^Flip
• 1x Kindred Discovery
• 1x Mana Reflection
• 1x Merrow Commerce
• 1x Spreading Seas

Instant (8)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Capsize
• 1x Constant Mists
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Incubation / Incongruity

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Creature (1)

• 1x Salvager of Secrets

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Originally this deck was a lot different than it currently is. It started out as a successor to my four-color Wizard-tribal deck. From there, I enjoyed the Merfolk tribe enough that I just... decided to make it one of my pet decks.

This is probably my favorite deck of mine to play. It has no dearth of options, and multiple avenues to victory: Commander damage on two fronts; A singular, large combat step; A steady grind of small, but mounting attacks; Eviscerating all my opponents' libraries with Grimoire Thief and Freed from the Real ; or even producing infinite mana, drawing my deck, and using Profane Command with Sigil Tracer to remove all my opponents' life totals and creatures.

Thing is, with this variety of avenues, one would think it a clunky deck, right? Wrong. I've found that among all my decks, this one flows the most seamlessly between modes of attack, and can even take several at once. Probably the two gripes I have are that this deck can't effectively answer its opponents' hands, and that it only contains one large-scale reanimation spell.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	4 years
Exclude colors	R
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 52 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.16
Tokens	Copy Clone, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Merfolk 1/1 U, Merfolk 1/1 U w/ Hexproof, Merfolk Wizard 1/1 U, Plant 0/2 G
Folders	Cool Decks that Inspire Me