Skip My Turn Golos

Commander / EDH

phycomizard

Enchantment (21)

• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Bottomless Pit
• 1x Elephant Grass
• 1x Force Bubble
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Havoc Festival
• 1x Keldon Twilight
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Mind's Dilation
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Primal Order
• 1x Privileged Position
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Quest for Renewal
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Season of the Witch
• 1x Solitary Confinement
• 1x Sphere of Safety
• 1x Sterling Grove
• 1x Urban Burgeoning
• 1x Wound Reflection

Artifact (9)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Chronatog Totem
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Mindcrank
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sundial of the Infinite
• 1x Teferi's Puzzle Box
• 1x Vedalken Orrery

Land (41)

• 1x Alchemist's Refuge
• 1x Azorius Guildgate
• 1x Boros Guildgate
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dimir Guildgate
• 7x Forest
• 1x Gateway Plaza
• 1x Glacial Chasm
• 1x Golgari Guildgate
• 1x Gruul Guildgate
• 6x Island
• 1x Izzet Guildgate
• 1x Magosi, the Waterveil
• 1x Maze's End
• 4x Mountain
• 1x Orzhov Guildgate
• 4x Plains
• 1x Rakdos Guildgate
• 1x Selesnya Guildgate
• 1x Simic Guildgate
• 4x Swamp

Instant (7)

• 1x Cloudshift
• 1x Congregation at Dawn
• 1x Eerie Interlude
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Ephemerate
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x Momentary Blink

Commander (1)

Creature (14)

• 1x Aegis of the Gods
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Chronatog
• 1x Dreamborn Muse
• 1x Eater of Days
• 1x Hope of Ghirapur
• 1x Lavinia of the Tenth
• 1x Magus of the Moat
• 1x Obeka, Brute Chronologist
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Walking Atlas

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Chronomantic Escape
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Disrupt Decorum
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Reap and Sow
• 1x Recross the Paths
• 1x Tempt with Discovery

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Artifact (1)

• 1x Naked Singularity

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Introduction

Skip My Turn Golos is perhaps a deck like no other. While it may seem very counterintuitive to skip your own turn, we can actually use it to abuse many effects.

How does it work?

This deck works by abusing cards with negative upkeep effects. For example, Mystic Remora has a cumulative upkeep cost of 1. However, I don't really want to waste my mana on that, so by skipping my turn I never have to pay that cost. This works for any cards with cumulative upkeeps or abilities that end at your next turn.

Why Golos?

At first, I was going to build with Zur, because he can be used to easily to tutor cards to help you. However, he cannot tutor any turn skip cards, which put you at a huge disadvantage. Golos, on the other hand, can be used to tutor up Magosi, the Waterveil right away and start skipping turn. You can also tutor Glacial Chasm after if you flicker him. He also gives you a much better color range than Zur.

Why does this work?

UPDATE: I realized this only works for Sundial of the Infinite. Since Magosi, the Waterveil says "skip your NEXT turn, you cannot activate it on the beginning of your turn to skip the rest of your turn.

This deck would likely not function if it weren't for the steps of your turn. Thats right, even when you're skipping all your turns, your turn steps are important. This is because almost all of the skip your turn cards require being tapped to activate that ability. Since you can only untap on your own turn, that only works once, right? Wrong. The very first phase to happen on your turn is untap, which happens before upkeep. That way, you can untap, tap the card again and skip your turn before you get to the upkeep and abilities resolve.

How do I win?

The goal of this deck is to really out wait everyone else. You want to play as many pillowfort cards as you can to protect you while you skip your turn. The two best cards to do this are Glacial Chasm and Solitary Confinement. Then you can use cards like Primal Order or Havoc Festival and wait around for everyone to die.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 33 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 23 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.20