Metalcraft Ascendancy

Commander / EDH* Affinity Artifact Combo Competitive Four Color RUW (Jeskai, America)

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Land (29)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Boseiju, Who Shelters All
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 3x Forest
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Inkmoth Nexus
• 3x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Mountain
• 2x Plains
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Spire of Industry
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Gamble
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Idyllic Tutor
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Sylvan Awakening
• 1x Time Spiral
• 1x Wargate
• 1x Windfall

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Cryptolith Rite
• 1x Earthcraft
• 1x Experimental Frenzy
• 1x Jeskai Ascendancy
• 1x Mass Hysteria
• 1x Storm the Vault  ^Flip

Instant (21)

• 1x Banishing Knack
• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Hurkyl's Recall
• 1x Leave / Chance
• 1x Manamorphose
• 1x Memory's Journey
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Opt
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Paradoxical Outcome
• 1x Retraction Helix
• 1x Snap
• 1x Swan Song

Artifact (19)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mox Amber
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Paradise Mantle
• 1x Paradox Engine
• 1x Pithing Needle
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sentinel Totem
• 1x Simic Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Tormod's Crypt

Commanders (2)

Creature (13)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Fatestitcher
• 1x Kiora's Follower
• 1x Monastery Mentor
• 1x Noble Hierarch
• 1x Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1x Shimmer Myr
• 1x Sylvan Caryatid
• 1x Tireless Tracker
• 1x Voyaging Satyr
• 1x Walking Ballista

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I'm on a quest to build a cEDH deck that has the most possible synergy between support pieces, combo pieces, the generals, and the manabase. I based this list off of a few different decks from a few different formats:

1. Primary inspiration: Cameron's LabManiac Ascendancy Brew and /u/Cryymlokk 's Ascendancy Brew

2. Modern/Legacy Jeskai Ascendancy Lists

3. Modern Paradoxical Outcome decks

The Core Engine:

This deck works like a lot of storm decks in cEDH - it wants to untap mana and cast a ton of spells in a single turn. The main way this deck wins is through Dramatic Reversal/Isochron Scepter, Jeskai Ascendancy, and Paradox Engine. With any of these on the board, our mana dorks and mana rocks tap and untap. You all know the drill.

Tolarian Academy:

Of course, the real Tolarian Academy is banned, because it's completely broken and utterly absurd. Storm the Vault is a worse version that still flips to a functional reprint of Tolarian Academy, and this deck is primed to abuse the excess mana. Untappers like Kiora's Follower, Voyaging Satyr, and Fatestitcher can generate obscene mana in a turn, powering out Thrasios activations or near-infinite mana.

Paradoxical Outcome:

With Paradox Engine or Jeskai Ascendancy on the field, we need to cast spells to win. Moxen and other mana-positive rocks have great synergy with return effects like Paradoxical Outcome, Hurkyl's Recall, and Leave, allowing you to push an insane storm count or trigger a swarm of untap effects to churn through the deck.

Winning the Game:

• Make infinite mana with Dramatic Scepter and draw your deck with Thrasios

• Use Banishing Knack or Retraction Helix to bounce your own stuff, and trigger infinite Prowess/Jeskai pumps and aggro the table

• Nuke from Orbit with Aetherflux Reservoir

• Nuke from Orbit with Walking Ballista

• Draw out your opponents with Blue Sun's Zenith and infinite mana (or just a whole bunch!)

• Inkmoth Nexus kill with Jeskai Ascendancy (aka "The Dream")

Card Choices and Synergies:

Generals:

• Akiri, Line-Slinger is not a dead card! Akiri turns on Bloom Tender and Selvala, Heart of the Wilds, serves as a huge and almost unkillable early blocker against aggro decks, can put serious pressure on opponent's life totals, and can be used as a mana dork with Cryptolith Rite or Paradise Mantle if you're trying to go off from an empty board.

Dorks:

• Selvala, Heart of the Wilds- Adds more and more mana with each Jeskai Ascendancy trigger, which can help you draw your entire deck with non-infinite mana.

• Goblin Welder- Generates mana with mana-positive rocks in the GY/battlefield.

Removal:

• Retraction Helix / Banishing Knack- These serve as insane removal under an untap engine, and can also keep you churning through your combo by bouncing zero-cost artifacts.

• Ancient Grudge / Memory's Journey- these are "live" from the GY with Flashback. Memory's Journey can shuffle your combo pieces back in or (more likely) disrupt opponent's GY's at instant speed... twice.

Other Synergies:

• Experimental Frenzy- Combos nicely with Sensei's Divining Top for Jeskai triggers, and can keep you digging for action on an empty hand. Relatively easy to cast compared to Future Sight.

• Sylvan Awakening- Nets you tons of mana with Jeskai Ascendancy out.

• Life from the Loam- This card is most useful for digging back lands when you're going off with Ascendancy, so you can discard them for "real" cards. It's also useful with Tireless Tracker for generating more artifacts and draw triggers.

• Shimmer Myr- similar to Shimmer Zur, this lets us potentially combo off on someone else's turn, when the moment is right.

Thanks for looking, folks. I'm pretty proud of where I landed with this list, but I would love feedback. Let me know where I jumped off the deep end.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 52 - 0 Rares 12 - 0 Uncommons 17 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	1.83
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Clue, Monk 1/1 W, Treasure
Folders	immediate make