Jeleva's Lab, Storm Warning

Commander / EDH*

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Instant (26)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Demonic Consultation
• 1x Dimir Charm
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Firemind's Foresight
• 1x Forbidden Alchemy
• 1x Hatred
• 1x Increasing Vengeance
• 1x Insidious Dreams
• 1x Izzet Charm
• 1x Lightning Bolt
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Mindbreak Trap
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 2x Quicken
• 1x Rakdos Charm
• 1x Reiterate
• 1x Reset
• 1x Think Twice
• 1x Thought Scour
• 1x Turn / Burn
• 1x Turnabout

Sorcery (20)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Cruel Ultimatum
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Deep Analysis
• 1x Devastation Tide
• 1x Divination
• 1x Enter the Infinite
• 1x Epic Experiment
• 1x Eternal Dominion
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Mystic Retrieval
• 1x Past in Flames
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Spelltwine
• 1x Temporal Mastery
• 1x Thoughtseize
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Dream Halls

Artifact (3)

• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Mindcrank
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver

Creature (11)

• 1x Dimir Infiltrator
• 1x Duskmantle Guildmage
• 1x Jeleva, Nephalia's Scourge
• 1x Keranos, God of Storms
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Melek, Izzet Paragon
• 1x Nightscape Familiar
• 1x Nivix Guildmage
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Zealous Conscripts

Land (35)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Badlands
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Desolate Lighthouse
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Grixis Panorama
• 1x Hall of the Bandit Lord
• 1x Howltooth Hollow
• 4x Island
• 2x Mountain
• 1x Nephalia Drownyard
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Epiphany
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Tolaria West
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Watery Grave

Commander (1)

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Sideboard

Instant (1)

• 1x Dispel

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Maybeboard

Instant (2)

• 1x Intuition
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Time Spiral

Artifact (1)

• 1x Runechanter's Pike

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Dark Izzet, Combo. This is an all-in Grixis combo deck. I use 'free' counterspells (like Force, Misdirection, and Pact) so I can go off on turn three or four and have protection. The three main combos are Laboratory Maniac + Enter the Infinite (or Demonic Consultation), Firemind's Foresight Combo (Lightning Bolt + Reset + Reiterate), and Duskmantle/Mindcrank Combo.

Laboratory Maniac Combo: Enter the Infinite or Demonic Consultation win the game. Keeping up countermagic is crucial because if they remove LabMan in response you fail.

Duskmantle/Mindcrank Combo: Duskmantle and Mindcrank are tutorable via transmute (Muddle the Mixture, Dimir Infiltrator). There's a large amount of incidental mill (and exile) so Mindcrank does a lot of work if you play it on turn two.

Did I miss any other Grixis combos?

UPDATE 3/29/2016 Cards I would like to acquire from Shadows Over Innistrad: Sin Prodder! That creature is dirty. 3/2 with menace (destroys block combos like Kitchen Finks/Birds/Noble Hierarch) If it survives you get card advantage (this is an upkeep draw effect in addition to your regular draw) or a burn spell and if you're playing red beat down they're kind of the same thing. I will be testing this in Modern. And trading for it aggressively during the pre-release. Harnest the Storm. Is this a brand new broken card in Modern? I don't have much good enchantment removal in R/B (but I do have good graveyard hate.) This card could be worth looking for. Trade newbs that think it's no good because it went in their all creature deck. My EDH binder is just all EDH cards. :P Skin Invasion! Augh all the brand new red cards are so good. Modern playable. Dissention in the Ranks. Super strong limited combat trick if a little easy to telegraph. Tormenting Voice. I love the new art and will have to get one. Structural Distortion? FLEXIBLE land or artifact hate.

Jace Unraveler of Secrets. At first glance this was pretty underwhelming, card filter/draw and bounce. But then I read the ultimate (-8) You get an emblem with "Whenever an opponent casts his or her first spell each turn, counter that spell." I'm speechless. If Jace can survive three attack steps and you get that emblem I don't see how you lose the game. Confirm Suspicions. This looks like a sweeet counterspell that I will be testing in EDH to get some sweet card advantage. -1/-1+4 Essence Flux. I love the flavor of the spirits they seem creepy but not evil. Erdwal Illuminator - I'll play blue investigate and come to the shop with like 80 clue tokens.

It looks like there are some pretty good x-spells in this set. I don't like to run x-spells in this deck because if they're exiled with Jeleva x = 0 when they are cast.

Update 4/20/2014 Commandeered a four player game on campus. Game one Oona, Queen of the Fay MILL, Karona elDRAZI Mizzix of the Izmagnus ???

Mizzix didn't draw anything and didn't really play. I killed his commander once to spread the love. If you're not gonna do anything why are you playing? I think the Oona player picked up that I was cool with milling when I started tapping my permanents for value after he played Mesmeric Orb. I won with lab maniac.

Game two (Oona switches to Edric TINYMEN) Oona gets killed by elDRAZI. My wrath cards like Ugin and Decree of Pain (I seriously need a nicer copy of this card) don't do anything against a Void Winnower. Luckily I drew a Blasphemous Act off of a Quicken at the last minute. Ended up winning with lab maniac and dEMONIC Consultation.

Cards I would like to add 05-16-2016 Countersquall Thought Scour Counterlash Cryptic Command

Date added	9 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 42 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 1 Commons
Cards	98
Avg. CMC	3.41