Nothin' but Nin (Budget EDH)

Commander / EDH* Budget Death and Taxes UR (Izzet)

Futuremonk

Artifact (23)

• 1x Anvil of Bogardan
• 1x Cloak and Dagger
• 1x Ebony Owl Netsuke
• 1x Eye of Ramos
• 1x Fire Diamond
• 1x Glaring Spotlight
• 1x Heart of Ramos
• 1x Iron Maiden
• 1x Izzet Cluestone
• 1x Izzet Keyrune
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Mask of Avacyn
• 1x Misers' Cage
• 1x Neurok Stealthsuit
• 1x Null Brooch
• 1x Otherworld Atlas
• 1x Skullcage
• 1x Sky Diamond
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Temple Bell
• 1x Veilstone Amulet
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

Instant (5)

• 1x AEtherize
• 1x Blood Oath
• 1x Evacuation
• 1x Vision Skeins
• 1x Words of Wisdom

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Dictate of Kruphix
• 1x Fevered Visions
• 1x Well of Ideas
• 1x Words of Wind

Land (38)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Desolate Lighthouse
• 1x Encroaching Wastes
• 1x Endless Sands
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Highland Lake
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 12x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Izzet Guildgate
• 7x Mountain
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Mystifying Maze
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Sequestered Stash
• 1x Swiftwater Cliffs
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Warped Landscape

Sorcery (13)

• 1x Collective Defiance
• 1x Drafna's Restoration
• 1x Fascination
• 1x Geosurge
• 1x Incendiary Command
• 1x Inner Fire
• 1x Mana Geyser
• 1x Minds Aglow
• 1x Molten Psyche
• 1x Prosperity
• 1x Skyscribing
• 1x Whelming Wave
• 1x Windfall

Commander (1)

Creature (16)

• 1x Adamaro, First to Desire
• 1x Aethersquall Ancient
• 1x Apprentice Wizard
• 1x Diviner Spirit
• 1x Iron Myr
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Kami of the Crescent Moon
• 1x Noggle Ransacker
• 1x Renowned Weaponsmith
• 1x Runed Servitor
• 1x Sea Scryer
• 1x Silver Myr
• 1x Sisters of the Flame
• 1x Stormbreath Dragon
• 1x Treasonous Ogre
• 1x Viseling

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Artifact (3)

• 1x Font of Mythos
• 1x Howling Mine
• 1x Teferi's Puzzle Box

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Propaganda

Creature (2)

• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Stuffy Doll

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Jace, Memory Adept

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Winds of Change

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Nin, the Pain Artist can deal X damage to target creature, but then its controller draws X cards. In order to turn this apparent drawback into an advantage, this deck is full of cards that damage your opponents, and sometimes any player, for having lots of cards in hand.

Details:

• Fevered Visions, Ebony Owl Netsuke, Iron Maiden, Misers' Cage , Skullcage , Blood Oath , Molten Psyche, Stormbreath Dragon, and Viseling all penalize opponents for having large hands.
• Adamaro, First to Desire can potentially be huge.
• Null Brooch , in addition to being a repeatable counterspell, lets you discard your hand to escape any of the taxes that affect all players. (I have a minor obsession with trying to make this card useful.)
• Words of Wind can also keep your hand size small, while acting as removal that also increases the number of cards in opponents' hands.
• Anvil of Bogardan is a huge help to maximizing the damage done to opponents, since it is the only card that gives not just you but all players no maximum hand size. Thus, despite its high price, I felt like it had to be included.
• All of the board wipes in this deck return cards to their owners' hands.
• Several cards have wheel effects, but only those that make players draw as many cards as they discarded. These help to get you the cards you need while also potentially making mill a viable secondary strategy.
• There are a bunch of cards to give Nin and other creatures hexproof or shroud.
• Lastly, there is a lot of ramp to maximize Nin's ability.

This deck should be a lot of fun. It can do lots of damage every turn if you get several tax effects out, and it is a really unconventional, risky strategy. Despite Anvil of Bogardan's high price, the deck is still pretty low budget, too, probably because most of the time players don't want to give cards to their opponents.

Nin is so interesting, I made another deck list for her: Nin's Stuffy Doll (Budget EDH). Be sure to check it out for a nearly opposite build.

Suggestions welcome!

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 30 - 0 Rares 26 - 0 Uncommons 23 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.95