Kydele&Thrasios Merfolk Wizard Duo-Tribal Combo

Commander / EDH Casual Combo Control GU (Simic) Merfolk Wizards

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Draw (17)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Whirlpool Rider
• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Cold-Eyed Selkie
• 1x Edric, Spymaster of Trest
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Timetwister
• 1x Windfall
• 1x Bident of Thassa
• 1x Coastal Piracy
• 1x Teferi's Puzzle Box
• 1x Azami, Lady of Scrolls
• 1x Kindred Discovery
• 1x Prime Speaker Zegana
• 1x Tishana, Voice of Thunder
• 1x Commit / Memory

Combo (7)

• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Intruder Alarm
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Staff of Domination
• 1x Umbral Mantle
• 1x Mind Over Matter

UtilityLands (7)

• 1x Alchemist's Refuge
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Cephalid Coliseum
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 1x Riptide Laboratory
• 1x Winding Canyons
• 1x Yavimaya Hollow

Lords (4)

• 1x Lord of Atlantis
• 1x Master of the Pearl Trident
• 1x Merfolk Sovereign
• 1x Merrow Reejerey

Lands (27)

• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 6x Forest
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 9x Island
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

ManaRocks (12)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Magus of the Candelabra
• 1x Training Grounds
• 1x Explore
• 1x Kiora's Follower
• 1x Simic Signet
• 1x Stonybrook Banneret
• 1x Gemstone Array

Tutors (6)

• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Worldly Tutor
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Spellseeker

Protection (4)

• 1x Autumn's Veil
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Commanders (2)

Removal (7)

• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Into the Roil
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Reclamation Sage

Control (5)

• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Patron Wizard
• 1x Force of Will

Recursion (2)

• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Eternal Witness

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Maybeboard

Other (13)

• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Boreal Druid
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Utopia Sprawl
• 1x Wild Growth
• 1x Riftsweeper
• 1x Tolarian Winds
• 1x Trophy Mage
• 1x Seafloor Oracle
• 1x Time Spiral

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First playable version of the deck. Still has a long way to go. Basic idea is to draw cards, make lots of mana off of Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix and use that mana to draw more cards and untap Kydele to make more mana. This happend to unintentionally produce this combo deck that can win off of Laboratory Maniac or Genesis Wave after going infinite. Please make suggestions! No Eldrazi tho, I want to hugely keep this as Merfolk/Wizard Tribal. Since I intend to NOT make a combo deck, but happened to do so unintentionally, the name of this deck is Oops, I did it again!. However I prefer a descriptive title on tappedout so there's that.

Deck Strategy

The main strategy of this deck is using Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix's potential to the fullest. This means getting her out and protected as soon as possible and then drawing a lot of cards, to produce a lot of mana, to draw more cards, to produce even more mana and then hopefully win through either Laboratory Maniac or alternatively repeatetly casting Blue Sun's Zenith to let our opponents draw to their death.

Making Mana Show

If we drew a total of 4 cards on a turn with Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix out and ready by say Brainstorm and our turns draw step card, we can equip Umbral Mantle or if we drew 5 cards use Staff of Domination to produce infinite colorless mana. This can be used to draw our deck with Thrasios, Triton Hero and play everything we want by filtering our mana with Vizier of the Menagerie or even better Gemstone Array. Additionally we run Gaea's Cradle which is harder to untap but can also yield a lot of colored mana.

Spending Mana Show

Often times we cannot go infinite, but that's fine. We can instead draw a lot of cards and maybe untap Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix to make some more mana and cast e.g. Genesis Wave for 10+ which either gives us the pieces we need to win or puts us in a very good position to win on the next turn. We run wheel effects in Timetwister, Whirlpool Rider, Commit / Memory and maybe even slot in Windfall for drawing lot's of cards for the cheap cheap. This helps us with both making more mana and getting our pieces to go infinite or win.

Drawing cards Show

This deck features two tribes: Merfolk and Wizards. Merfolk draw us cards by hitting any opponent(with Islands) and triggering Curiosity effects. For this we run Bident of Thassa, Coastal Piracy, Edric, Spymaster of Trest and Kindred Discovery while Lord of Atlantis and company provide Islandwalk. Since we don't really care who we attack since we only want to draw cards, we only need a single Island in play to execute this plan.

Wizards draw us cards with Azami, Lady of Scrolls. Finding her removes the need for attacking, we just tap some wizards and make a lot of mana.

Other ways to draw cards include wheel effects, Brainstorm, Sylvan Library and the creatures matter cards like Tishana, Voice of Thunder and Prime Speaker Zegana.

Meta

Decks in my meta include: Roon of the Hidden Realm cheap blink creatures, Xenagos, God of Revels best EDH aggro deck I know of, Kami of the Crescent Moon hardcore control, Azami, Lady of Scrolls control, Brago, King Eternal fast combo/stax combo, Braids, Conjurer Adept Group Hug, Ghave, Guru of Spores all the combos and more.

Budget and Bans

I proxy cards I need to acquire or don't want to buy if they're too expensive as e.g. Timetwister, so I have no budget restrictions.

Additionally to the rules on http://mtgcommander.net/rules.php we banned Sol Ring, Mana Vault, Mana Crypt, Winter Orb, MLD and Protean Hulk in my playgroup.

How it performs

I played about 10 games with the deck so far. Hands without wheel effects or Curiosity and Merfolk are hard to keep since you need topdeck lucky to get going. You just can't with your commanders alone. It's very interesting to play because it can combo of from seemingly nowhere. You just keep drawing and making mana and try not to run out of cards you can play before you can combo off. Often times I have lots of colorless mana floating but have no way to spend it efficiently so I have to dump 16 mana into Thrasios, Triton Hero which sounds ok, but really isn't optimal. It's really a plan C. Plan A is going infinite and draw the deck and plan B is Genesis Wave for 10+. It can win as soon as turn 4 and if unhindered can pretty consistently win on turn 6-8.

Where I want to go

This is a casual deck. This doesn't mean I don't want this deck to do unfair things. Hell yeah I want to. A few of my friends just started to get into MTG again and into EDH so I just want to take a step back from my more competitive Brago list and build a deck with a few self-imposed rules:

1. This is a Merfolk&Wizard Tribal deck. Its aim is to draw cards and make mana. Cards that don't do either have to be in the tribes or won't get in here. So no Eldrazi. This would be boring and way to obvious.
2. This is not primarily a combo deck. I play this deck in more casual environments, where people love to build a huge board. It is meant to do that, but be able to close out the game very quickly/at any time, so games don't get too drawn out to be enjoyed.
3. I might expand these plans if I can think of some that support explaining what I want this deck to be.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	7 months
Exclude colors	WBR
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 45 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.64
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Bird 2/2 U, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Manifest 2/2 C
Folders	Commander, Partner