Smash or Pass?

Commander / EDH Burn Control Goodstuff UBRG

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Land (37)

• 1x Alchemist's Refuge
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 2x Forest
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 6x Island
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 2x Mountain
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Woodland Cemetery
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Artifact (7)

• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Primal Amulet  ^Flip
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Simic Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Vedalken Orrery

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Keen Sense
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Mind's Dilation
• 1x Training Grounds
• 1x Wilderness Reclamation
• 1x Wound Reflection

Instant (24)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Curtains' Call
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Fury Storm
• 1x Harrow
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Misdirection
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystic Confluence
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Narset's Reversal
• 1x Pull from Tomorrow
• 1x Rakdos Charm
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Rewind
• 1x Silumgar's Command
• 1x Spell Swindle
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Veil of Summer

Creature (11)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Emrakul, the Promised End
• 1x Kaervek the Merciless
• 1x Kess, Dissident Mage
• 1x Kruphix, God of Horizons
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Rashmi, Eternities Crafter
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Tireless Tracker
• 1x Venser, Shaper Savant

Commanders (2)

Sorcery (13)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Dark Petition *f-pre*
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Regrowth
• 1x Temporal Mastery
• 1x Temporal Trespass
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Treasure Cruise
• 1x Villainous Wealth
• 1x Volcanic Vision

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Why Thrasios & Vial Smasher?

When you're bringing a control list to a multiplayer round you will have to use a lot of spells to disrupt your opponents. For every card you draw each turn rotation your opponents will each draw one. So in a 4 player round for example you will face 3 new potentially threatening cards you need to be able to answer. So you need to be able to draw into gas and if possible at instant speed. Thrasios, Triton Hero provides just that. The scry into draw is really strong when it comes to filtering through your deck and it will always provide you with a card advantage engine in the command zone. Also Thrasios provides you with a use for the mana you left up for dirsuption and then didn't use, which is always great to do.

Vial Smasher the Fierce 's purpose in the deck is to provide a way to add on value onto your control spells. That way you can enable a grindy way of lowering your opponents' life totals while keeping their board states in check. That enables your wincons to close out the game more easily.

When I first saw the two I just couldn't see how they're synergizing. When you take a look at Reyhan, Last of the Abzan and Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker for example, the synergy jumps right into your eye. But wiht Thrasios and Vial Smasher I thought one was an aggro burn commander and the other a tempo style midrange enabler and that is actually a way you can implement them in combination with other partners. But when you combine the two in a control shell they become the smoothest and most synergistic duo since Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 51 - 0 Rares 14 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.76
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Bird 2/2 U, Clue, Manifest 2/2 C, Treasure