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Intet Dreams of Yesterday's Day After Tomorrow

Commander / EDH Aggro Multiplayer RUG (Temur) Theme/Gimmick

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Commander: foil Intet, the Dreamer

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*~ The Chompy Masterpiece Collection - Vol. I: Magus Elementium ~*

Top-deck manipulation means Intet's dreams transform into lucid nightmares! - Chicago Sun Times

This deck features Three Major Themes, which I like to imagine correspond with the Three Elemetal Colors of Magic, and the colors of this deck. (Red is Fire, Green is Earth, and guess Blue does double-duty as Wind and Water. Obviously White and Black are "Light" and "Dark" magic respectively, and thus are Spiritual in nature, rather than Physical or Elemental.)

Anyway, those themes are 1) creatures with come-into-play (enter-the-battlefield, tomato/tomato...) abilities; 2) top-deck manipulation; and 3) extra combat phases/triggers. Creatures and other expensive spells are easily "cheated in" off the top of you rigged top-deck with Intet, the Dreamer, and once in play, those creatures can be bounced/blinked/copied over and over again to keep their triggered abilities a'triggerin', while extra combat phases give added Intet triggers and added swings for your beefy beasties.

Erratic Portal and Crystal Shard are big helpers in the deck, keeping the bounces flowing. It's everyone's favorite thing when you cast Gilded Drake, switch control of it for something juicy from a tapped-out opponent, then immediately bounce the drake back to your hand with the portal or shard! And nowadays we have Deadeye Navigator, who lets us bounce our creatures and not have to recast them! He is a crazy good card in this deck. Also, his theming screams "Charon", but his art says "Washington Crossing the Delaware". Just thought I'd point that out.

Similar to the blinkers and bouncers are the copiers. Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker is one of the most powerful red creatures ever printed, and is right at home in this deck. Progenitor Mimic is, I think, super cool. Phyrexian Metamorph is so versatile and cheap that it's hard to pass up in any blue EDH deck. The same is now also true of Clever Impersonator.

Sneak Attack makes cheating creatures in at instant speed super easy, which can be devastating with some of the come-into-play effects the deck rocks. Combine it Crystal Shard and/or Erratic Portal and/or Charon Washington to make the situation more than a little ridiculous: because according to Sneak Attack's Gatherer page, "You only sacrifice the creature if you still control it at end of turn. If that creature has left the battlefield and come back, you don't sacrifice it." I know, right?

Use cards like Thassa, God of the Sea, Sensei's Divining Top, Jace, the Mind Sculptor, Scroll Rack, and Sylvan Library to control your top deck, so you can rig exactly what you want Intet to free-cast. I've recently added Crystal Ball as well, both in order to increase the frequency of getting at least one of these cards and because the ability to put unwanted cards onto the bottom of Intet's library is super useful, and it actually gets more handy when used in conjunction with the Top or Rack. Djinn of Wishes does what Intet does, but on-demand, so he's a well-loved card in this deck. Strionic Resonator can copy Intet's ability or any of the creature come-into-play effects, while Fireshrieker copies Intet's ability and catapults her into the "two swings to kill" bracket.

There is also an extra combat-phase subtheme going on here: Relentless Assault, World at War, Savage Beating, Seize the Day. (Had to cut Hellkite Charger and Aggravated Assault because they infinite combo'd with Bear Umbra and Nature's Will.) More Intet swings means more free spells, and being as she is one of the ten Junior Dragons (like Dromar, the Banisher and Numot, the Devestator), posting 21 general damage with her is most certainly possible.

Important Note: Intet is the only female Junior Dragon, as confirmed by the feminine articles used in her French and Italian printings, and by the obvious feminine grace on display in her portrait ('dem haunches!). And I don't know that any of the Elder Dragons are female, either (maybe Palladia-Mors?). So, you know, that's pretty special. And you know all the dragon males totally want her, but like, her head's just too in the clouds for love. And so you know she's all they talk about, which means all the other lady-dragons think she's a total bitch-dragon. Poor Intet. Will you ever find true companionship amongst your fiery, emotional kind?

What else... Skyshroud Claim = Breeding Pool & Stomping Ground, unless you've already drawn them. NB: Running Skyshroud Claim means always fetching for Steam Vents first with your Misty Rainforest, Scalding Tarn or Wooded Foothills! (Unless you really need the green, I guess.)

Brutalizer Exarch is one of the cards that just feels made for this deck. And it's entirely possible it was. In fact, I'm convinced it was. Bonus points because it's non-rare/mythic.

Notice the recurrable, creature-based spot removal: Terastodon, Brutalizer Exarch, Duplicant, and Phyrexian Ingester. And there's Ixidron too. All of these cards become menaces with Deadeye Navigator in play.

Warstorm Surge punishes your opponents when you cast/blink creatures, adding immensely to the enter-the-battlefield goodness.

Also notice the three counterspells: Draining Whelk and Mystic Snake are blinkable, and Voidslime can counter anything. Like the Spanish Inquisition, no one expects the Voidslime. Also like that sketch, Voidslime is hilarious to some, and super annoying to others.

Overall, in true Elemental Mage fashion, the deck has a ton of interactions and synergies - and, perhaps more than any of my other decks, each game has the potential to play out quite differently.

Old Maybes: Blightsteel Colossus, City of Traitors, Creeping Renaissance, Cyclonic Rift, Dack's Duplicate, Diluvian Primordial, Fanatic of Mogis, Fated Infatuation, Felhide Spiritbinder, Grim Monolith, Howl of the Horde, Jace, the Living Guildpact, Leyline of Anticipation, Mercurial Pretender, Purphoros, God of the Forge, Scourge of the Throne, See the Unwritten, Skarrg, the Rage Pits, Surrak Dragonclaw, Twinflame (An "F" or Foil mark indicates that a card is slated "For Removal" if it's in the Mainboard, or "For Insertion" if in the Maybeboard.)

Vol. I: Intet Dreams of Yesterday’s Day After Tomorrow (2008)Vol. II: The Great Chain (2009)Vol. III: Sliver Overlord Is Watching You (2010)Vol. IV: The One Where Radiant Gets Mad (2010)Vol. V: The Salvation Army (2011)Vol. VI: Zero-Point Omnath (2012)Vol. VII: Wu Daze, Blue Knights (2013)Vol. VIII: Mach Daddy Karn (2014)Vol. IX: Τὰ Πυρὰ τοῦ ὈλύμπουThe Fires of Olympus (2014)

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Date added 10 years
Last updated 4 years
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This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
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16 - 0 Mythic Rares

54 - 0 Rares

15 - 0 Uncommons

6 - 0 Commons
Cards 100
Avg. CMC 4.62
Tokens Copy Clone, Elephant 3-3 G, Plant 0/1 G
Folders EDH
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