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Maybeboard


This is a casual, budget, Un-Commander deck. The core of the deck is three cards: Split Screen, Yet Another AEther Vortex, and The Countdown Is at One. Split Screen increases our options with Melek. Yet Another AEther Vortex gives us additional upside for messing with our topdeck. The Countdown Is at One is the spell we'd most like to copy. Many of the cards in the deck are chosen to let us play with the top of our library, benefit from knowing the top of our library, or help us win Countdown subgames.

The most straightforward way to close out a game is with burn. We've got Isochron Scepter plus Dramatic Reversal or Framed! (+Chippy Islands) to generate infinite mana, along with Comet Storm, Fall of the Titans, and The Ultimate Nightmare of Wizards of the Coast® Customer Service Nightmare to turn that into damage.

It might make sense to include Pyrohemia/Earthquake, to benefit from Countdown wins.

Split ScreenWe have Reshape and Fabricate to help find Split Screen, and Saheel's Artistry to make copies of it. If 4 libraries are good, 7 or 10 libraries are better, right?

The following benefit from being able to choose what's on top of our library:

Yet Another Aether VortexYAAev nudges us toward using permanents to get interesting effects. Things don't ETB with YAAeV, so we mostly ignored those triggers, but they do get haste!

Topsy Turvy might be ugly here...

The Countdown is at OneWe have Primal Amulet   and Pyromancer's Goggles, in addition to Melek, to copy this. We'd like to create a bunch of subgames, then bolt somebody for 24!

Winning the subgames is a bit of a trick. Support for that includes:

We also run a lot of 1-mana interaction:

A lot of the Maybeboard is 1-drops, some of them hasty, which might be a better way to win the subgames.

Suggestions

Updates Add

OK, this deck badly needs a way to recur artifacts and spells. And some additional boardwipes, to take advantage of our low creature count.

Should revisit whether we're running too many things to win Countdown subgames.

Island -> Buried Ruin
Curfew -> Echoing Truth
Words of Wisdom -> Codex Shredder
Reckless Scholar -> Sunbird's Invocation
Spiketail Drakeling -> Ancestral Knowledge
Thaumatic Compass  Flip -> Trading Post

-> Inspiring Statuary
-> Mystic Retrieval
-> Boomerang
-> Muddle the Mixture
-> Mana Geyser
-> Sulfuric Vortex

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Revision 7 See all

(3 years ago)

Date added 6 years
Last updated 3 years
Legality

This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

4 - 4 Mythic Rares

29 - 4 Rares

18 - 5 Uncommons

19 - 2 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 3.14
Tokens Construct X/X C, Copy Clone, Faerie Spy 1/1 U, Gnome 1/1 C, Goat 0/1 W, Treasure
Folders Un-Commander, Sleeved Up, Other Commander Decks, The Other Shelf
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