Hellbent Blue

Commander / EDH* Mono-Blue

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Artifact (34)

• 1x Avacyn's Collar
• 1x Batterskull
• 1x Blackblade Reforged
• 1x Bloodforged Battle-Axe
• 1x Cloud Key
• 1x Commander's Plate
• 1x Darksteel Plate
• 1x Fireshrieker
• 1x Golem-Skin Gauntlets
• 1x Grafted Exoskeleton
• 1x Grimoire of the Dead
• 1x Hammer of Nazahn
• 1x Haunted Cloak
• 1x Inspiring Statuary
• 1x Jeweled Lotus
• 1x Kaldra Compleat
• 1x Key to the City
• 1x Lion's Eye Diamond
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Masterwork of Ingenuity
• 1x Medicine Bag
• 1x Murderer's Axe
• 1x Null Brooch
• 1x Sapphire Medallion
• 1x Shadowspear
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sol Talisman
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1x Sword of Hearth and Home
• 1x Sword of Light and Shadow
• 1x Sword of Sinew and Steel
• 1x Sword of War and Peace
• 1x Sword of the Animist

Creature (18)

• 1x Armory Automaton
• 1x Brass Squire
• 1x Diamond Lion
• 1x Diplomatic Escort
• 1x Dreamscape Artist
• 1x Emry, Lurker of the Loch
• 1x Etherium Sculptor
• 1x Foundry Inspector
• 1x Geralf's Masterpiece
• 1x Hisoka, Minamo Sensei
• 1x Jhoira's Familiar
• 1x Kozilek, the Great Distortion
• 1x Metalworker
• 1x Overtaker
• 1x Prognostic Sphinx
• 1x Stronghold Machinist
• 1x Urza, Lord High Artificer
• 1x Walking Atlas

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Chamber of Manipulation
• 1x Copy Artifact
• 1x Corrupted Conscience
• 1x Ghostly Wings
• 1x Mind Over Matter
• 1x Mirrormade
• 1x Steal Enchantment

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker
• 1x Ugin, the Ineffable

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Turbulent Dreams

Commander (1)

Land (32)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Castle Vantress
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 21x Island
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Terrain Generator

Instant (5)

• 1x Forbid
• 1x Fumble
• 1x Nexus of Fate *list*
• 1x Rites of Refusal
• 1x Whir of Invention

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Artifact (10)

• 1x Draconian Cylix
• 1x Grimoire of the Dead
• 1x Key to the City
• 1x Manifold Key
• 1x Medicine Bag
• 1x Mimic Vat
• 1x Murderer's Axe
• 1x Mystic Forge
• 1x Null Brooch
• 1x Sculpting Steel

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Mirrodin Besieged
• 1x Scuttletide

Creature (8)

• 1x Armory Automaton
• 1x Brass Squire
• 1x Diamond Lion
• 1x Metalworker
• 1x The Reality Chip
• 1x Thought Devourer
• 1x Thought Eater
• 1x Thought Nibbler

Land (3)

• 1x Mishra's Workshop
• 1x The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
• 1x Urza's Saga

Instant (5)

• 1x Foil
• 1x Grip of Phyresis
• 1x March of Swirling Mist
• 1x Mystic Reflection
• 1x Reality Heist

Sorcery (4)

• 1x All is Dust
• 1x Argivian Restoration
• 1x Inspired Idea
• 1x Quasiduplicate

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Ugin, the Spirit Dragon

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Skimming through the list of new commanders from AFR, Iymrith caught my eye. I saw it and immediately thought that it was just, straight up, a worse Ojutai. Missing a color, worse protection, and draws a card instead of letting you select one from three! Goodness, what a horrible downgrade!.. Until I had my Stroke of Genius. While under most circumstances, this card is a worse Ojutai, I realized that if we can manage to drop our cards in hand down to zero, it's draw effect becomes three times better than Ojutai! So I went to work finding all the fun discard outlets mono-blue had to offer, slapped in some voltron and voila, here's the list. Key strengths of the deck are: 1) haha funny; 2) Can comfortably mulligan down to as a few as three cards; 3) No need to stress about drawing gas!

Currently doing some budget considerations for the deck. One card that will definitely need to move to the dream list is LED. $600 price tag is way too high for what boils down to quite a meme-y deck. Copy Artifact can reasonably be swapped out for Sculpting Steel or Phyrexian Metamorph. I'll probably end up working on budget substitutions later this month.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	17 - 0 Mythic Rares 32 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.03
Tokens	Construct 0/0 C, Copy Clone, Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B, Spirit 1/1 W, Spirit 2/2 C