Hyper Blinker

Commander / EDH Mono-Blue Spellslinger Tempo

FenrisBurgess

Creature (19)

• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Exclusion Mage
• 1x Faerie Seer
• 1x Fblthp, the Lost
• 1x Heidar, Rimewind Master
• 1x Llawan, Cephalid Empress
• 1x Man-o'-War
• 1x Mesmerizing Benthid
• 1x Nephalia Smuggler
• 1x Painter's Servant
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Puppeteer
• 1x Shrieking Drake
• 1x Surgespanner
• 1x Temporal Adept
• 1x Tribute Mage
• 1x Trophy Mage
• 1x Trusted Advisor
• 1x Vedalken Mastermind

Artifact (11)

• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Conjurer's Closet
• 1x Crystal Shard
• 1x Extraplanar Lens
• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Portal of Sanctuary
• 1x Sapphire Medallion
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Strionic Resonator
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Instant (18)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Archmage's Charm
• 1x Blink of an Eye
• 1x Capsize
• 1x Chemister's Insight
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cryptic Command
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Deprive
• 1x Disperse
• 1x Dissolve
• 1x Into the Roil
• 1x Mystic Confluence
• 1x Narset's Reversal
• 1x Opt
• 1x Rain of Revelation
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Unsubstantiate

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Aether Gale
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Flood of Tears
• 1x Show and Tell
• 1x Sleep

Land (32)

• 32x Snow-Covered Island

Commander (1)

Enchantment (14)

• 1x Arcane Melee
• 1x Cunning Evasion
• 1x Dismiss into Dream
• 1x Dream Halls
• 1x Equilibrium
• 1x Freed from the Real
• 1x Future Sight
• 1x Intruder Alarm
• 1x Kindred Discovery
• 1x Marit Lage's Slumber
• 1x Omniscience
• 1x Retreat to Coralhelm
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Time of Ice

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Sideboard

Creature (3)

• 1x Apprentice Wizard
• 1x Palladium Myr
• 1x Silver Myr

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The action of "blinking" may refer to the forceful return of a permanent to its owner's hand. It may also be the function of rapidly opening and closing one's own eyes.

Distinction

• Blink is not flicker.
• To flicker is to take a permanent out of play and put it immediately back into play.
• Flicker is mostly white flavored with some UW cards here and there.
• Blink is primarily blue, and instead returns the cards to hand rather than play.
• This is useful for cast triggers, card advantage, and rheumatoid arthritis.

Strategy

• The goal is to consistently return permanents to your opponent's hands to prevent any actual play from occurring.
• Of course, there is no direct win to be gained from blinking.

• Instead, we must Opt for ever so meticulously killing each other player with our tiny creatures, and if we are lucky, we can get Marit Lage, or better yet, a concession.

Why Venser

Venser, Shaper Savant fits blink quite well.

Repeated casting of Venser can allow one to blink a large number of lands so as to make large spells impossible to cast.

There are several ways to blink Venser and some other ways to flicker.

Straight Shot to Victory

• The best thing we can do is hope to God we get Omniscience and one of our three cheats.
• Show and Tell
• Dream Halls
• Flood of Tears
• If we manage to get Omniscience onto the field at all, repeated blinking won't be a problem, especially with Intruder Alarm .
• You will understand why in the "Essential Combinations" Section.

Essential Combinations

Deadeye Navigator

• Venser, Shaper Savant : Permanent Blink / Blink Counter
• Peregrine Drake : Infinite Land Mana
• Shrieking Drake : Creature Blink
• Mesmerizing Benthid : Token Spam

Crystal Shard

• Equilibrium : Easy Blink / Double Blink

Intruder Alarm

• Peregrine Drake + Nephalia Smuggler or Heidar, Rimewind Master or Temporal Adept or Vedalken Mastermind (oof, that's a lot.)

Freed from the Real

• Surgespanner
• Vedalken Mastermind

Time of Ice

• Retreat to Coralhelm
• Sleep

Painter's Servant

• Dream Halls : Free spells from land and colorless.

• Llawan, Cephalid Empress : No more creautures.

Future Improvements

Since I want to do consecutive blinks in a turn, I need more mana generation.

Adding manadorks that will work with blue is going to be tricky, but I'm sure there's some myrs that can help with that.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 29 - 0 Rares 20 - 1 Uncommons 15 - 2 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.19
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Illusion 0/2 U, Marit Lage