Melek, Izzet Paragon - The True 1%er

Commander / EDH Creatureless Storm UR (Izzet)

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Sorcery (25)

• 1x Bonus Round
• 1x Brass's Bounty
• 1x Dream Cache
• 1x Epic Experiment
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Grapeshot
• 1x Jeska's Will
• 1x Mana Geyser
• 1x Merchant Scroll
• 1x Mind's Desire
• 1x Mizzix's Mastery
• 1x Past in Flames
• 1x Personal Tutor
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Portent
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Reconstruction
• 1x Serum Visions
• 1x Show and Tell
• 1x Time Spiral
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Wheel of Fortune
• 1x Windfall

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Eye of the Storm
• 1x Possibility Storm
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Underworld Breach

Instant (22)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Comet Storm
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Desperate Ritual
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x High Tide
• 1x Lightning Bolt
• 1x Long-Term Plans
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Opt
• 1x Pyretic Ritual
• 1x Reiterate
• 1x Reverberate
• 1x Snap
• 1x Telling Time
• 1x Tibalt's Trickery
• 1x Trickery Charm
• 1x Turnabout
• 1x Twincast
• 1x Whir of Invention

Land (34)

• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Glacial Chasm
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 14x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 8x Mountain
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Riptide Laboratory
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Temple of the False God

Commander (1)

Artifact (14)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Prismatic Lens
• 1x Proteus Staff
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sentinel Tower
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sphinx-Bone Wand

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Sideboard

Sorcery (1)

• 1x See the Truth

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Smoke

Artifact (1)

• 1x Sapphire Medallion

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Maybeboard

Sorcery (19)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Chain Reaction
• 1x Expropriate
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Fight with Fire
• 1x Finale of Revelation
• 1x Incite Rebellion
• 1x Jaya's Immolating Inferno
• 1x Mystic Retrieval
• 1x Mystic Speculation
• 1x Pull from the Deep
• 1x Red Sun's Zenith
• 1x Shattering Spree
• 1x Show and Tell
• 1x Temporal Trespass
• 1x Time Spiral
• 1x Traumatize
• 1x Treasure Cruise
• 1x Void Snare

Instant (13)

• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Force of Negation
• 1x Illusionist's Gambit
• 1x Increasing Vengeance
• 1x Narset's Reversal
• 1x Nexus of Fate
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Peer Through Depths
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Rewind
• 1x Tolarian Winds

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Narset, Parter of Veils
• 1x Ral, Storm Conduit
• 1x Saheeli Rai

Land (3)

• 1x Boseiju, Who Shelters All
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x Madblind Mountain

Artifact (10)

• 1x Brain in a Jar
• 1x Crystal Ball
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Izzet Keyrune
• 1x Portcullis
• 1x Primal Amulet  ^Flip
• 1x Pyromancer's Goggles
• 1x Ruby Medallion
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Aria of Flame
• 1x As Foretold
• 1x Future Sight
• 1x Jace's Sanctum
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Omniscience
• 1x Pendrell Mists
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Swarm Intelligence

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This deck is heavily inspired by this one, though there are several differences.

There are a number of combos here, but the most important one is Melek, Izzet Paragon + Proteus Staff . Melek is the only creature in this deck, meaning that I can use the staff to stack my entire library. As soon as I am able to do this I can pull out pretty much any of the win-cons I desire.

Most of these are going to be ramping mana with spells like Pyretic Ritual , Jeska's Will , High Tide , Mana Geyser , etc. (probably preceeded by Bonus Round ), and then just fill the x up on a Comet Storm . I could also just use that mana to cast spell after spell and as long as I have something like Sentinel Tower out, it'll just ping them away - though that's definitely exhausting. However, having Aetherflux Reservoir out would make the process go a lot quicker.

Another element in this deck is Possibility Storm . This card is a personal favorite so even if the deck might be able to function better without it, I've decided to run it. With that said, it does have some added benefits. First, it doubles storm counts because you cast the first spell, and then dig for a different spell. So every time you cast out of hand, you're casting 2 spells. So if I'm going the storm burn route with Sentinel Tower or pumping up my life with Aetherflux Reservoir , it gets there faster. Second, it limits how intentional my opponents can be with interaction since they don't know if they actually will have an answer for me. While they will generally be a little handicapped, I am still able to play what I want so long as its from my library, or my graveyard (with spells like Mizzix's Mastery . Even beyond that, if I have something like Thousand-Year Storm out, I can still get the effect from card I cast an instant or sorcery from hand via the copy AND I get the doubling casting triggers and the possibility of another helpful spell. And, TBH, I just think it adds a really fun flare to the game.

Tibalt's Trickery is a new and welcome addition to the deck and, combined with the Proteus Staff Combo, can be game-winning. By stacking the deck with something like Pyretic Ritual on top and Tibalt's Trickery underneath (with possibly another copy facilitator like Twincast or Bonus Round , I can essentially get everything I need to when the game. For example: Pyretic Ritual -> Tibalt's Trickery -> Twincast -> 3 lands... So long as Melek is out, I get 4 copies of Tibalt. I can counter the copy of Pyretic ritual, then proceed to cheat out literally any pieces I need, so long as their separated by 3 lands. For example, Aetherflux Reservior -> (3 lands) -> Eye of the Storm -> (3 lands) -> Sphinx-Bone Wand (3 lands) -> Mana Geyser -> Reiterate . Infinite combo till you fill the reservoir/get enough damage on the wand. There are a ton of different ways that this could work, but Tibalt's Trickery makes it possible to get any pieces you need out as well as essentially paying for the spells.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 34 - 3 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 20 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.58
Tokens	Treasure