Intet, The Hipster

Commander / EDH*

Merlot

Creature (22)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Coiling Oracle
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Huntmaster of the Fells  ^Flip
• 1x Kira, Great Glass-Spinner
• 1x Knollspine Dragon
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Lotus Cobra
• 1x Master of the Wild Hunt
• 1x Mystic Snake
• 1x Nin, the Pain Artist
• 1x Primeval Titan
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Spellbreaker Behemoth
• 1x Thassa, God of the Sea
• 1x Vendilion Clique
• 1x Vexing Shusher
• 1x Wood Elves

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Jace, the Mind Sculptor
• 1x Kiora, the Crashing Wave

Land (38)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Desolate Lighthouse
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Fire-Lit Thicket
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 2x Forest
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 3x Island
• 1x Karplusan Forest
• 1x Kessig Wolf Run
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Taiga
• 1x Temple of Abandon
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Wasteland
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Yavimaya Coast
• 1x Yavimaya Hollow

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Mirri's Guile
• 1x Sylvan Library

Instant (22)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Counterflux
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cryptic Command *list*
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Delay
• 1x Destructive Revelry
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Into the Roil
• 1x Izzet Charm
• 1x Lightning Bolt
• 1x Mana Leak
• 1x Memory Lapse
• 1x Miscalculation
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Negate
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Remand
• 1x Spell Pierce
• 1x Voidslime
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Sorcery (13)

• 1x Anger of the Gods
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Personal Tutor
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Spoils of Victory
• 1x Sylvan Tutor
• 1x Temporal Mastery
• 1x Time Warp

Commander (1)

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This is a preliminary list for a French 1v1 (Duel Commander) list using Intet, The Dreamer.

When it comes to 1v1 EDH, I am notorious for not wanting to play established generals unless I came to them first; I'm a total MTG hipster in this regard: I played both Edric and Derevi BEFORE they were cool (and got banned).

I am always keen to play U/G, and I've always wanted to play U/R/G, but the available generals never really did it for me. I like Animar, but I don't like playing combo. I like Maelstrom Wanderer's effect a LOT, but I don't like playing glass-cannon type decks (MW is easy to disrupt, because you KNOW what they're trying from the start).

My style preferred style of play has always been firmly Simic: I like utility effects that increase my resources (Coiling Oracle is my favorite card of all time), and I like being able to play control if I need to.

So, in true hipster fashion, I've decided to make a go of Intet, even though MW and Animar are more established and conventional.

The idea here is to play early ramp while maintaining tempo with cheap conditional counters if necessary. Ideally, I want to be able to cast Intet on turn three or four against a deck I know can't deal with him, or, in most situations, turn five with counter backup.

The deck is heavy on control and countermagic, which differentiates it from most MW and Animar decks. I'm not playing as much ramp as MW or as many creatures as Animar, and instead am looking to be able to play the long game if necessary.

The deck is loaded with effects that re-arrange the top cards of the library, so that we can get the best value out of Intet's ability.

In a perfect world, we're going to be able to use Personal and Mystical Tutor to chain together a couple extra turns with Time Warp and Temporal Mastery (I considered [c]Time Stretch[/c], but I feel like it's just too greedy, and will never be hard-castable if my back's against the wall), which should mean that we can kill our opponent very soon after Intet swings for the first time. We can also use Worldly and Sylvan Tutor to find a useful fatty (currently Primeval Titan and Knollspine Dragon).

There are lots of possibilities for Intet-based finishers: [c]Furyborn Hellkite[/c] is an intriguing idea, because its bloodthirst will always trigger. However, I'm picking [c]Knollspine Dragon[/c] for now because being able to refill my hand by 6 or more is just way too strong to pass up in a deck that's heavy on control. I was originally using [c]Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger[/c] as well, but I feel like, if I've managed to swing Intet into my opponent and have gotten off a Worldly Tutor, then V-Clex is just win-more, and Knollspine is better because it can refill my hand.

Other potential options are [c]Balefire Dragon[/c], but Knollspine just seems better than all of these, given what the deck is trying to do. My LGS uses 10-card sideboards for 1v1, so some of these creatures may go in the board to bring out against certain types of decks (Balefire would be great against swarm or token decks, to be sure).

Date added	10 years
Last updated	10 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 53 - 0 Rares 10 - 0 Uncommons 20 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.53
Tokens	Emblem Kiora, the Crashing Wave, Human 2/2 G, Kraken 9/9 U, Wolf 2/2 G