This is a very unique and seldom played commander. It's a combo deck, utilizing a control shell while attempting to assemble and abuse infinite landfall triggers.
There's also a bit of a wizard subtheme, which helps
Azami, Lady of Scrolls
.
Should be able to do very well in a high powered pod. Thanks for looking, suggestions welcome!
This deck is NOT easy to pilot. It takes knowledge of how the stack works, as well as an understanding of what cards to tutor for, and when. It's like playing with a bunch of puzzle pieces, and seeing how they all fit.
You want to be looking for some kind of combo that will either generate infinite mana, or infinite landfall, or both!
The most important pieces to winning in this deck are
Amulet of Vigor
,
Retreat to Coralhelm
,
Walking Atlas
, the mana doublers such as
Extraplanar Lens
or
High Tide
, a cheap way to bounce your lands, ala
Trade Routes
, or
Cloudstone Curio
, and an outlet to actually secure the win, such as
Altar of the Brood
,
Hedron Crab
, or even funnier, shooting everyone else to death with
Sunscorched Desert
.
More standard and commonly run combos are also included below.
Infinite Combos without Patron Show
Infinite Combos with Patron Show
Storm Cauldron
, being free land bounce, is also a powerful combo piece.
Thawing Glaciers Combo Show
cEDH reddit users Ctrl_Shift_ZZ, kymki, and I take credit for this new combo. Combining
Patron of the Moon
and
Thawing Glaciers
isn't a new idea, but the loop at the cleanup step I'm about to describe is an original idea.
We asked quite a few judges, but none of them had heard of this, and I couldn't find anything after scouring the internet.
To detail the combo in full,
Thawing Glaciers
+
Patron of the Moon
+
Amulet of Vigor
+
Snow-Covered Island
+
Extraplanar Lens
or
Cloudstone Curio
.
-
Thawing Glaciers
self bounce ability will trigger on your cleanup step, and go back into your hand.
-A
Snow-Covered Island
comes into play tapped, but is untapped by
Amulet of Vigor
.
-One more round of priority after the
Amulet of Vigor
trigger resolves means we can now pay
1 mana to activate
Patron of the Moon
and put
Thawing Glaciers
back into play.
-
Thawing Glaciers
is untapped by the
Amulet of Vigor
trigger. We now have an untapped Glaciers, AND
an untapped
Snow-Covered Island
.
The cleanup step rules:
514.3 Normally, no player receives priority during the cleanup step, so no spells can be cast and no abilities can be activated. However, this rule is subject to the following exception:
514.3a At this point, the game checks to see if any state-based actions would be performed and/or any triggered abilities are waiting to be put onto the stack (including those that trigger “at the beginning of the next cleanup step”). If so, those state-based actions are performed, then those triggered abilities are put on the stack, then the active player gets priority. Players may cast spells and activate abilities. Once the stack is empty and all players pass in succession, another cleanup step begins.
-This means once the stack empties and every player has passed priority, a NEW cleanup step begins.
Simply play the combo as described, and loop new cleanup steps until you have pulled every
Snow-Covered Island
from your deck. Then proceed to (likely) win the game!
Still on the fence about even running this combo. I think it may be too inefficient.
The real issue is,
Thawing Glaciers
doesn't produce mana on it's own, so it's not only a dead card early, but it's taking up a non-land slot in the deck.
Will (likely) never be truely cEDH competitive, but perfect for 90% pods. Patron is simply too slow. Plus Moonfolk by themselves are kinda bad (which is why there is only 1...).
Decided against running Fetchlands, due to these points:
- The deck thinning is statistically irrelevant
- No
Sensei's Divining Top
or
Brainstorm
- They make certain cards like
Preordain
worse
- The shuffle effect means little in this deck
- Weak to
Blood Moon
effects, and
Aven Mindcensor
- Fueling the graveyard, such as for delve, does nothing in this build
The rest of the deck consists of counterspells, tutors, card draw, and ramp.
Feel free to cut
Timetwister
and make the budget much more reasonable!
