Jodah's Maelstrom EDH

Commander / EDH* Combo Five Color Storm

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Land (37)

• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forest
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Indatha Triome
• 1x Island
• 1x Ketria Triome
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Raugrin Triome
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Savai Triome
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Temple of Abandon
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Temple of Enlightenment
• 1x Temple of Epiphany
• 1x Temple of Malady
• 1x Temple of Malice
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Temple of Plenty
• 1x Temple of Silence
• 1x Temple of Triumph
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Zagoth Triome

Sorcery (21)

• 1x Brass's Bounty
• 1x Channel the Suns
• 1x Cruel Ultimatum
• 1x Deny Reality
• 1x Din of the Fireherd
• 1x Eerie Ultimatum
• 1x Emergent Ultimatum
• 1x Enter the Infinite
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Genesis Ultimatum
• 1x Karn's Temporal Sundering
• 1x Mythos of Brokkos
• 1x Pir's Whim
• 1x Praetor's Counsel
• 1x Seasons Past
• 1x Sins of the Past
• 1x Splendid Reclamation
• 1x Talent of the Telepath
• 1x Time Stretch
• 1x Volcanic Vision
• 1x Wargate

Instant (8)

• 1x Bituminous Blast
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Insidious Dreams
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Nexus of Fate
• 1x Release to the Wind
• 1x Teferi's Protection
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Exploration
• 1x Eye of the Storm
• 1x Future Sight
• 1x Jeskai Ascendancy

Artifact (4)

• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Prismatic Geoscope
• 1x Sol Ring

Commander (1)

Creature (17)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Drannith Magistrate
• 1x Faeburrow Elder
• 1x Kess, Dissident Mage
• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1x Maelstrom Wanderer
• 1x Magus of the Future
• 1x Monastery Mentor
• 1x Noble Hierarch
• 1x Ramos, Dragon Engine
• 1x Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1x Shalai, Voice of Plenty
• 1x Sylvan Caryatid
• 1x Thassa's Oracle
• 1x Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
• 1x Zacama, Primal Calamity

Planeswalker (8)

• 1x Karn Liberated
• 1x Nahiri, the Harbinger
• 1x Narset Transcendent
• 1x Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh
• 1x Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker
• 1x Sorin, Grim Nemesis
• 1x Teferi, Hero of Dominaria
• 1x Ugin, the Spirit Dragon

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Creature (9)

• 1x Alseid of Life's Bounty
• 1x Athreos, Shroud-Veiled
• 1x Destiny Spinner
• 1x Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
• 1x General's Enforcer
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Parcelbeast
• 1x Syr Carah, the Bold
• 1x Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir

Instant (2)

• 1x Abzan Charm
• 1x Spellshift

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Expropriate
• 1x Taigam's Scheming
• 1x Violent Ultimatum
• 1x Worldpurge

Planeswalker (4)

• 1x Ashiok, Nightmare Muse
• 1x Kiora, Master of the Depths
• 1x Ral, Izzet Viceroy
• 1x Tezzeret, Artifice Master

Artifact (4)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Chaos Wand
• 1x Mox Amber
• 1x The Circle of Loyalty

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Stolen Strategy
• 1x Sunbird's Invocation
• 1x Underworld Breach

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Jodah, Archmage Eternal is a commander that lets you play the deck you've always wanted to play, and the cards with high mana costs and powerful effects that might not make it into many other decks.

This deck's strategy is to ramp early and cast Jodah as early as possible, and then start crippling your opponent's ability to play their spells. Some cards, like Kozilek, Butcher of Truth and Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre, are often enough to end the game on their own if played early enough, but this deck was built around the idea of using Eye of the Storm or Future Sight and casting spell after spell until you've crushed you opponents. However, keep in mind that Eye of the Storm can be used by anyone, its risky to play and likely to be a target.

Some notable combos and synergies:

• Eye of the Storm + Karn's Temporal Sundering : The eye works with anything, but this is a good example.

• Brass's Bounty + Eye of the Storm or Channel the Suns + Eye of the Storm : one of the two ways this deck generates the mana it needs to keep casting spells.

• Bloom Tender + Jeskai Ascendancy or Jeskai Ascendancy + Selvala, Heart of the Wild: Each noncreature spell you cast gives you enough mana to cast another spell using Jodah, Archmage Eternal's ability.

• Insidious Dreams + Maelstrom Wanderer : you can use this to stack your deck, sneaking out whatever you might want.

• Future Sight + Jeskai Ascendancy : Filter through the top cards of your deck. With Selvala, Heart of the Wilds or Bloom Tender, you have a decent chance of casting everything in your deck.

• Teferi's Protection + Ugin, the Spirit Dragon : One sided board wipe.

• Narset Transcendent + Time Stretch : -2 for four extra turns.

• Enter the Infinite + Nexus of Fate : Nexus of Fate becomes the only card in your library.

• Breaking / Entering/Taigam's Scheming/Kiora, Master of the Depths with Seasons Past/Praetor's Counsel/Profound Journey/Sins of the Past/Volcanic Vision/Metallurgic Summonings/Kess, Dissident Mage: Don't be afaid to dump cards into the graveyard. There is a lot of redundancy in this deck.

Note: I'm fiddling around with the mana base. If something looks wrong with it, its probably a temporary change for testing.

Comments and suggestions are welcome. Upvote if you like this deck.

Top Ranked	Achieved #56 position overall 5 years ago
Date added	5 years
Last updated	3 years
Key combos	Insidious Dreams + Maelstrom Wanderer Bloom Tender + Jeskai Ascendancy Teferi's Protection + Ugin, the Spirit Dragon Eye of the Storm + Karn's Temporal Sundering Brass's Bounty + Eye of the Storm Channel the Suns + Eye of the Storm Future Sight + Jeskai Ascendancy Narset Transcendent + Time Stretch Enter the Infinite + Nexus of Fate
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	21 - 0 Mythic Rares 67 - 0 Rares 4 - 0 Uncommons 3 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.87
Tokens	Elemental 5/5 BR, Emblem Narset Transcendent, Emblem Teferi, Hero of Dominaria, Monk 1/1 W, Treasure, Vampire Knight 1/1 B
Folders	deck idea, build help, Knights, AAWant to try, EDH