Kung Fu Ætherling

Commander / EDH Mono-Blue

Ziembski

Control (15)

• 1x Cancel
• 1x Capsize
• 1x Carry Away
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Declaration of Naught
• 1x Deprive
• 1x Desertion
• 1x Dispersal Shield
• 1x Displace
• 1x Gather Specimens
• 1x Grip of Amnesia
• 1x Hinder
• 1x Mana Leak
• 1x Mirror Match
• 1x Muddle the Mixture

Other (36)

• 1x Blighted Cataract
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Coral Atoll
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 31x Island
• 1x Skyline Cascade

Tutor (4)

• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Long-Term Plans
• 1x Mystical TutorGC
• 1x Ring of Three Wishes

Ramp (3)

• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thran Dynamo

Buff (11)

• 1x Dragon Wings
• 1x Grafted Exoskeleton
• 1x Grafted Wargear
• 1x Levitation
• 1x Quietus Spike
• 1x Ronin Warclub
• 1x Sai of the Shinobi
• 1x Scytheclaw
• 1x Shimmering Wings
• 1x Stormrider Rig
• 1x Sword of the Animist

Wipe (7)

• 1x AEtherize
• 1x Aligned Hedron Network
• 1x Cyclonic RiftGC
• 1x Evacuation
• 1x Wash Out
• 1x Whelming Wave
• 1x Worldslayer

Recover GV (5)

• 1x Call to Mind
• 1x Learn from the Past
• 1x Mnemonic Nexus
• 1x Psychic Spiral
• 1x Stream of Consciousness

Draw (3)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Mask of Memory
• 1x Ponder

Commander (1)

Utility (7)

• 1x Future Sight
• 1x High Tide
• 1x Mind's Dilation
• 1x Mystic Decree
• 1x Steal Enchantment
• 1x Stolen Identity
• 1x Tunnel Vision

Tax (6)

• 1x Dissipation Field
• 1x Dream Tides
• 1x Frozen Aether
• 1x Monastery Siege
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Thassa's Ire

Commander (1)

TRIBUTE (1)

• 1x Polymorph

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Other (2)

• 1x Inundate
• 1x Tamiyo's Journal

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Before you comment AEtherling can not be commander, i want to say that Kaho, Minamo Historian is commander here.

The goal is to cast Kaho ASAP exiling Mystical Tutor. Next turn, we are going to use this tutor to cheat Polymorph and sacrifice her to bring us other creature from out deck. Most important part is that, there is only 1 other creature besides Kaho. It might be Blightsteel Colossus or Kozilek, Butcher of Truth or any other eldrazi titan or Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur, but it would be just lame to lock ur enemies such early game (we can pow this combo at turn 2 if we get Sol Ring).

To make it fun, I use AEtherling. It's a fun creature that knows kung fu. He can dodge almost any removal/wrath as long as you have mana. He can be pumped to 8/1 (or even more with some equipment) and attack unblocked, then flicker him and be ready to block at opponents turns. You can also block any big creature and flicker him before combat damage phase.

So this is it, few cards that I think works GREAT with AEtherling or Kaho, Minamo Historian such as:

Dragon Wings - they attach back to AEtherling everytime you flicker it, mostly to block fliers,

Launch - 2CMC multiuse flying is for same reason as Dragon Wings ,

Levitation - same,

Mystic Decree - You don't need flying when no1 else have it,

Shimmering Wings - and again (i'll probably cut some of those flying stuff),

Grafted Exoskeleton - unblockable 10/3 for instawin,

Grafted Wargear - +3/+2 with equip 0? Hell Yeah, You can pump AEtherling more (no1 cares 'bout cons of this, flicker 4life),

Quietus Spike / Scytheclaw - Equip 3 is quite much, but when it's out, we don't need to pump AEtherling that much,

Ronin Warclub , Sai of the Shinobi, Stormrider Rig - autoEquip when flicker,

Worldslayer - Hit and run with flicker,

Other cards are mostly random that I thought would work fine with that deck, like those counterspells for Kaho and graveyard shuffle to reapeat combo when AEtherling somehow gets removed or to reload Kaho counterspells.

Would love to hear your opinions and suggestions!

Top Ranked	Achieved #44 position overall 8 years ago
Date added	8 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 21 - 0 Rares 30 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.31
Tokens	Copy Clone, Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B
Folders	Commander Ideas