Linessa's Delusions of Grandeur - *Challenge*

Commander / EDH Artifact Combo Jank Mono-Blue Tempo

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Artifact (34)

• 1x Aether Spellbomb
• 1x Arcane Encyclopedia
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Astral Cornucopia
• 1x Blasting Station
• 1x Bonder's Ornament
• 1x Carnage Altar
• 1x Decoction Module
• 1x Endless Atlas
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Folio of Fancies
• 1x Idol of Oblivion
• 1x Kefnet's Monument
• 1x Library of Leng
• 1x MImic Vat
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Mox Tantalite
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Portal of Sanctuary
• 1x Prismatic Lens
• 1x Sapphire Medallion
• 1x Scepter of Insight
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sky Diamond
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Temple Bell
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Veilstone Amulet
• 1x Witch's Oven
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Creature (12)

• 1x Azure Mage
• 1x Dakra Mystic
• 1x Enclave Cryptologist
• 1x Jace, Vryn's Prodigy  ^Flip
• 1x Kuldotha Forgemaster
• 1x Merfolk Looter
• 1x Sakashima the Impostor
• 1x Spectral Sailor
• 1x Thought Courier
• 1x Tribute Mage
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Trophy Mage

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Reshape
• 1x Serum Visions

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Fool's Demise
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Puppet Master
• 1x Rhystic Study

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker

Commander (1)

Instant (5)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Opt
• 1x Supplant Form
• 1x Whir of Invention

Land (38)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 34x Island
• 1x Urza's Factory
• 1x Urza's Mine
• 1x Urza's Tower

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Doing a challenge to make a deck for a randomly picked "bad" legendary creature. Basically, I want to use her Grandeur ability. That means I'll need to make copies of her then get the real one in my hand, and have a way to keep putting her back into my hand.

The first goal--make copies--is best done with Mimic Vat. There's some secondary options with Supplant Form and Sakashima, but the Vat would be the most repeatable way to do so. So I've got a bunch of artifact tutors to help find it.

Next, the Vat will want her to die, so I added in 3-cmc artifacts that can sac her; the 3-cmc means the same artifact tutors can find those just as easily as the Vat. There's also plenty of mana rocks that you can go search up with extra tutors. The rocks help us cast Linessa early and allow us to put the mana into the Vat reliably.

The next step is get Linessa from the graveyard to our hand. One route is to put something like Fool's Demise on her when we sac her, then bounce her from the b.f. to our hand with Portal of Sanctuary or Decoction Module. Yeah, you can use her own ability but then you have to wait longer. If you don't have the artifacts out yet, you can always go the alternate route of just letting her go to the Zone after dying (which the dying still triggers thanks to the new rule change!) then cast her again.

Then here's the tricky part: now that we've got a copy of her with the Vat after she died, brought her back to the b.f., how do we get her back to our hand after we discard her to Grandeur? Since this time she's not going through the b.f. we can't use Demise again. Well, the only thing I've been currently able to find that kind of does it is Library of Lang. Sigh That means a few more artifact tutors.

Oh, and now we'll need a good way of drawing her back into our hand from the top, then. Megasigh Well, let's just make them artifacts, too, and make the whole deck about finding those artifacts so we can do this whole crazy loop. Guess Puppet Master could work, too...I dunno. I'm done. What even is this deck now. Enjoy, I guess?

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 20 - 0 Rares 27 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.26
Tokens	Assembly-Worker 2/2 C, Copy Clone, Eldrazi 10/10 C, Emblem Jace, Vryn's Prodigy, Food