Jalira, Meet Jalira (Super Budget)

Commander / EDH

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Creature (27)

• 1x Braids, Conjurer Adept
• 1x Clone
• 1x Diluvian Primordial
• 1x Eldrazi Skyspawner
• 1x Frost Titan
• 1x Gigantoplasm
• 1x Guile
• 1x Identity Thief
• 1x Kefnet the Mindful
• 1x Mercurial Pretender
• 1x Myr Battlesphere
• 1x Niblis of the Breath
• 1x Omenspeaker
• 1x Palladium Myr
• 1x Phyrexian Ingester
• 1x Puppeteer
• 1x Quicksilver Gargantuan
• 1x Reef Worm
• 1x Sailor of Means
• 1x Scourge of Fleets
• 1x Sphinx of Uthuun
• 1x Stormsurge Kraken
• 1x Stormtide Leviathan
• 1x Vesuvan Shapeshifter
• 1x Vizier of Many Faces
• 1x Windreader Sphinx
• 1x Wonder

Instant (14)

• 1x Admiral's Order
• 1x AEtherize
• 1x Aetherspouts
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Cackling Counterpart
• 1x Counterlash
• 1x Dismiss
• 1x Dream Fracture
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Insidious Will
• 1x Negate
• 1x Supreme Will
• 1x Telling Time

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Borrowing 100,000 Arrows
• 1x Curse of the Swine
• 1x Secrets of the Golden City
• 1x Stolen Identity
• 1x Theft of Dreams

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Curator's Ward
• 1x Imprisoned in the Moon
• 1x Kumena's Awakening
• 1x Mirror Mockery

Commander (1)

Artifact (11)

• 1x Crystal Ball
• 1x God-Pharaoh's Gift
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Pristine Talisman
• 1x Proteus Staff
• 1x Silent Gravestone
• 1x Spectral Searchlight
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Voyager Staff
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Land (38)

• 38x Island

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Creature (1)

• 1x Trench Gorger

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Refer to Reddit post r/BudgetBrews

This super budget build is mono-blue leviathans and clones fed by Jalira's amazing cheat cost effect. Most of our cheap things (cmc 4 or less) have ETB's that can still make them valuable semi late game so we won't ever mind hitting a cheaper card when we roll with Jalira. The clones add a bit of consistency in that you can play them early to steal a Llanowar Elves or play them late to get a Blightsteel Colossus. Being able to copy one of our leviathans is always nice too. The only creature in the deck that you can't copy is Jalira because of the legendary rule.

In true blue fashion we are running a good selection of counterspells to keep people off of Jalira and to keep them from wrathing our army of giants. I've tested this a bit and if I were looking to upgrade the deck I would upgrade the counter spells and ramp first. Our ramp is pretty slim which means we have to hit every land drop. 40 lands makes this pretty likely, but I would still only take 3+ land hands. If you take a 2 land hand you have a pretty good chance to miss your 3rd land and be out of the rest of the game because your deck is too slow.

Feel free to leave any comments or suggestions, I really appreciate all of them!

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 31 - 0 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.89
Tokens	Boar 2/2 G, City's Blessing, Copy Clone, Eldrazi Scion 1/1 C, Fish 3/3 U, Kraken 9/9 U, Morph 2/2 C, Myr 1/1 C, Treasure, Vizier of Many Faces 0/0 W, Whale 6/6 U