Kykar Copies

Commander / EDH* Burn Combo Jank RUW (Jeskai, America) Spellslinger Tokens

Futuremonk

Land (35)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Battlefield Forge
• 1x Blast Zone
• 1x Blighted Steppe
• 1x Castle Embereth
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Field of Ruin
• 1x Frostboil Snarl
• 1x Furycalm Snarl
• 1x Irrigated Farmland
• 3x Island
• 1x Madblind Mountain
• 1x Moorland Haunt
• 6x Mountain
• 1x Mystic Monastery
• 2x Plains
• 1x Port Town
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Skycloud Expanse
• 1x Temple of Enlightenment
• 1x Temple of Epiphany
• 1x Temple of Triumph
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

Removal (9)

• 1x Light of Hope
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Spark of Creativity
• 1x Fury Charm
• 1x Livewire Lash
• 1x Valorous Stance
• 1x Generous Gift
• 1x Ral, Storm Conduit
• 1x Sentinel Tower

Wincon (5)

• 1x Epic Experiment
• 1x Impact Tremors
• 1x Mizzix's Mastery
• 1x Ral, Storm Conduit
• 1x Sentinel Tower

Evasion (4)

• 1x Cloak of Feathers
• 1x Leap
• 1x Shadow Rift
• 1x Slip Through Space

Cheat (3)

• 1x Epic Experiment
• 1x Kari Zev's Expertise
• 1x Mizzix's Mastery

Lifegain (3)

• 1x Blighted Steppe
• 1x Light of Hope
• 1x Honor the Fallen

Cantrip (15)

• 1x Cerulean Wisps
• 1x Cloak of Feathers
• 1x Crimson Wisps
• 1x Defiant Strike
• 1x Expedite
• 1x Leap
• 1x Shadow Rift
• 1x Slip Through Space
• 1x Spark of Creativity
• 1x Accelerate
• 1x Fists of Flame
• 1x Guided Strike
• 1x Refocus
• 1x Shelter
• 1x Clear the Mind

Ramp (11)

• 1x Paradise Mantle
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Gold Myr
• 1x Iron Myr
• 1x Silver Myr
• 1x Alloy Myr
• 1x Birgi, God of Storytelling  ^Flip
• 1x Opaline Unicorn
• 1x Scuttlemutt
• 1x Primal Amulet  ^Flip
• 1x Storm-Kiln Artist

Draw (9)

• 1x Irrigated Farmland
• 1x Dark-Dweller Oracle
• 1x Birgi, God of Storytelling  ^Flip
• 1x Feather, the Redeemed
• 1x Jeskai Ascendancy
• 1x Mentor of the Meek
• 1x Archmage Emeritus
• 1x Vanish into Memory
• 1x Whirlwind of Thought

Copy (6)

• 1x Beamsplitter Mage
• 1x Primal Amulet  ^Flip
• 1x Ral, Storm Conduit
• 1x Zada, Hedron Grinder
• 1x Mirrorwing Dragon
• 1x Precursor Golem

Haste (4)

• 1x Crimson Wisps
• 1x Expedite
• 1x Accelerate
• 1x Kari Zev's Expertise

Graveyard Hate (3)

• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Honor the Fallen
• 1x Clear the Mind

Untap (3)

• 1x Cerulean Wisps
• 1x Refocus
• 1x Jeskai Ascendancy

Commander (1)

Tokens (13)

• 1x Moorland Haunt
• 1x Make Your Mark
• 1x Otherworldly Outburst
• 1x Twinflame
• 1x Young Pyromancer
• 1x Cackling Counterpart
• 1x Generous Gift
• 1x Quasiduplicate
• 1x Saheeli, Sublime Artificer
• 1x Murmuring Mystic
• 1x Splicer's Skill
• 1x Talrand, Sky Summoner
• 1x Precursor Golem

Pump (10)

• 1x Castle Embereth
• 1x Defiant Strike
• 1x Light of Hope
• 1x Make Your Mark
• 1x Otherworldly Outburst
• 1x Boros Charm
• 1x Fists of Flame
• 1x Fury Charm
• 1x Guided Strike
• 1x Jeskai Ascendancy

Burn (6)

• 1x Boros Charm
• 1x Impact Tremors
• 1x Livewire Lash
• 1x Lorehold Apprentice
• 1x Ral, Storm Conduit
• 1x Sentinel Tower

Board Wipe (4)

• 1x Blast Zone
• 1x Chain Reaction
• 1x Fell the Mighty
• 1x Volcanic Torrent

Protection (4)

• 1x Boros Charm
• 1x Shelter
• 1x Valorous Stance
• 1x Vanish into Memory

Utility (2)

• 1x Field of Ruin
• 1x Madblind Mountain

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Maybeboard

Magecraft (3)

• 1x Leonin Lightscribe
• 1x Veyran, Voice of Duality
• 1x Octavia, Living Thesis

Everything (1)

• 1x Narset of the Ancient Way

Wincon (1)

• 1x The Locust God

Copy (2)

• 1x Orvar, the All-Form
• 1x Radiate

Tutor (1)

• 1x Wild Research

Draw (2)

• 1x Teferi's Ageless Insight
• 1x Elsha of the Infinite

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The goal of this deck is to cast a ton of cantrips -- or turn all your noncreature spells into cantrips with Jeskai Ascendancy or Whirlwind of Thought -- and fill your board with tokens and win.

Kykar, Wind's Fury is great for this strategy. It makes 1/1 spirit tokens everytime you cast a noncreature spell, and it can sacrifice spirits for one red mana, enabling you to keep casting spells. There are several backup token generators as well. While attacking with these tokens may be viable, the deck is also hoping to burn its opponents with Impact Tremors and Throne of the God-Pharaoh . Either that, or you can burn your opponents with Sentinel Tower .

To support the spell-slinging, token-generating, attack-or-burn-your-opponents plan, a very specific set of catrips were chosen. Basically all of the catrips require you to target a creature you control. This is in order to allow you to copy them with Zada, Hedron Grinder or Mirrorwing Dragon , and to a lesser extent with Precursor Golem or Beamsplitter Mage . You can also recast them each turn with Feather, the Redeemed . While copying spells won't give you extra cast triggers, it will turn your cantrips into multiple card draw, allowing you to dig through the deck. Also, Ral, Storm Conduit actually does care about copying spells, and burning your opponents with him is another way to win.

The idea here is that instead of playing cards that usually raise alarm bells, like Guttersnipe , this deck tries to have a huge, out-of-nowhere turn by playing a card like Zada, Hedron Grinder and pulling so far ahead by copying cantrips that your opponents can't catch up or even react, if they survive at all. Even some of the token generation, like Twinflame , Cackling Counterpart , Quasiduplicate , and Splicer's Skill (which goes especially well with Precursor Golem ) can double the number of creatures you control.

There are even some super-janky "ramp" options, such as Kari Zev's Expertise and -- in response to a board wipe -- Path to Exile . Target your own creatures and copy it for each creature you control in order to pull so far ahead that you will totally, probably, somehow win … right?

Lastly, the other ramp spells include six mana dorks -- Gold Myr , Silver Myr , Iron Myr , Alloy Myr , Opaline Unicorn , and Scuttlemutt -- as well as Paradise Mantle . These are very intentionally chosen so that, should you hit the Magical Christmasland jackpot, you can turn Jeskai Ascendancy into your very own, still-completely-Commander-legal Paradox Engine .

The deck is not bad budget-wise. It certainly could be tweaked down to a budget build, but I already own Primal Amulet  -- the most expensive card in this list -- and it's been itching for a deck, so I'm leaving it. Still, the lands are all cheap and most of the nonland cards aren't going to break the bank.

In any case, it should be lots of fun.

Suggestions welcome!

Date added	3 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 35 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 31 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.58
Tokens	Bird Illusion 1/1 U, Copy Clone, Drake 2/2 U, Eldrazi Horror 3/2 C, Elemental 1/1 R, Elephant 3/3 G, Golem 3/3 C, Phyrexian Golem 3/3 C, Servo 1/1 C, Spirit 1/1 W, Spirit 3/2 RW, Treasure
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