Spellshaper Control

Commander / EDH* Casual Control GWUB Multiplayer Theme/Gimmick Tribal

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Land (35)

• 1x Arcane Sanctum
• 1x Blooming Marsh
• 1x Botanical Sanctum
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Concealed Courtyard
• 1x Darkslick Shores
• 1x Dromar's Cavern
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 2x Forest
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 4x Island
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Opulent Palace
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 3x Plains
• 1x Razorverge Thicket
• 1x Sandsteppe Citadel
• 1x Seachrome Coast
• 1x Seaside Citadel
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Treva's Ruins
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Archangel's Light
• 1x Gaea's Blessing
• 1x Primal Command
• 1x Reminisce
• 1x Temporal Cascade
• 1x Time Reversal

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Intruder Alarm
• 1x Mirari's Wake
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Search for Azcanta  ^Flip

Creature (26)

• 1x Alexi, Zephyr Mage
• 1x Avenger en-Dal
• 1x Cackling Witch
• 1x Charm Peddler
• 1x Cho-Arrim Alchemist
• 1x Damia, Sage of Stone
• 1x Dawnstrider
• 1x Devout Witness
• 1x Diplomatic Escort
• 1x Dreamscape Artist
• 1x Greenseeker
• 1x Harvest Mage
• 1x Icatian Crier
• 1x Jolrael, Empress of Beasts
• 1x Llanowar Mentor
• 1x Loaming Shaman
• 1x Mirror-Mad Phantasm
• 1x Overtaker
• 1x Ramunap Excavator
• 1x Rushwood Herbalist
• 1x Silverglade Pathfinder
• 1x Stampede Driver
• 1x Stronghold Biologist
• 1x Stronghold Machinist
• 1x Undertaker
• 1x Urborg Syphon-Mage

Instant (8)

• 1x Commit / Memory
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Evolution Charm
• 1x Intuition
• 1x Learn from the Past
• 1x Mnemonic Nexus
• 1x Psychic Spiral
• 1x Sunder

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Ajani, Mentor of Heroes
• 1x Ajani Unyielding
• 1x Jace, the Living Guildpact

Commanders (2)

Artifact (16)

• 1x Abzan Banner
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Dromoka Monument
• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Fieldmist Borderpost
• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Library of Leng
• 1x Mistvein Borderpost
• 1x Obelisk of Bant
• 1x Obelisk of Esper
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Spellbook
• 1x Sultai Banner
• 1x Wildfield Borderpost

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Sooo, I'm back, Spellshaper Tribal, not an idea that most people even consider, since Spellshapers have the downside of needing to discard a card to activate their effects. However, Blue has a lot of draw, and there's actually a sizable amount of "Graveyard recovery" in that you can shuffle your graveyard back into your deck.

The idea of this deck is to basically "Outresource" your opponent by restricting their ability to do anything. You have the advantage of being able to recover creatures you discard with Ravos, Soultender and your various graveyard reshuffles. You have access to Fog every turn or more.

Intruder Alarm allows you to take advantage of your "Token Generation" in your Llanowar Mentor to untap all your spellshapers. Boarwipes, Bounce, counterspells, and even mana ramp and a "Chromatic Lantern" effet, you have access to nearly anything you could possibly need.

Control the game at levels most people would never expect.

You also have a few neat ways to ensure you get a shuffle. there are a few cards that are "If this card is put into your graveyard from your library, shuffle your graveyard back into your library". There are also cards that are "reveal a few cards from your library, your opponent picks one or 2" and then either the chosen cards go to your hand or graveyard, and so you can ensure that one of those "Library to graveyard" reshuffles goes to the graveyard and allows you to reset the deck.

This deck doesn't really have a win condition outside of "Make it impossible for your opponents to play spells." as such, it's not a really competitive deck, and is more of a "I won't win, but I'll make it as hard as possible for anyone else to do so."

The biggest issue is untapping mana, and having mana available later in the game. With all the mana rocks and Mirari's Wake, you can have plenty of mana, but you still have limited resources, so Diplomacy is the most crucial part of your deck. Make deals, offer good will, and try to do things that will keep people off your back. However, even if you draw hate, you should have good solid creatures able to protect you from a spell shaper fog, a spellshaper swords to plowshares, or spellshaper counterspells to prevent anything that might hurt you.

Search for Azcanta, and the planeswalkers are meant to help you top deck and fill your hand with cards you need to be able to play. This deck lacks a lot of ways to actually inflict damage, so using Ravos as a Lord, along with your large amounts of tokens, you should potentially be able to dish out some opportunistic damage as necessary.

NOTE: Crucible of Worlds is an expensive card, if you have 1 copy of it, Proxy it instead of getting multiple copies. Otherwise replace it with something like Thassa's Bounty or another card that just enables you to draw more cards.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 38 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 19 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.14
Tokens	Citizen 1/1 W, Llanowar Elves 1/1 G
Folders	Future Builds