Noozegorger Xira Arien

Commander / EDH* BRG (Jund) Competitive Dragons Infinite Combo Storm

buildingadeck

Land (27)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Badlands
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Forest
• 1x Gemstone Mine
• 1x Grove of the Burnwillows
• 1x Luxury Suite
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Piranha Marsh
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Spire Garden
• 1x Sunscorched Desert
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Taiga
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Dark Petition
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Infernal Plunge
• 1x Wheel of Fortune
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will

Instant (23)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Ad Nauseam
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Autumn's Veil
• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Culling the Weak
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Demonic Consultation
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Fire Covenant
• 1x Krosan Reclamation
• 1x Manamorphose
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Punishing Fire
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Searing Touch
• 1x Tainted Pact
• 1x Terminate
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Veil of Summer

Artifact (15)

• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Codex Shredder
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Golgari Signet
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Gruul Signet
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Impulse
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence

Commander (1)

Creature (17)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Boreal Druid
• 1x Dark Confidant
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Gilded Goose
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Necrotic Ooze
• 1x Phyrexian Devourer
• 1x Riftsweeper
• 1x Tinder Wall
• 1x Walking Ballista
• 1x Worldgorger Dragon

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Survival of the Fittest
• 1x Sylvan Library

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Land (3)

• 1x Gemstone Caverns
• 1x Tarnished Citadel
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Instant (1)

• 1x Galvanic Blast

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Noozegorger Xira

I built this deck because my girlfriend liked the art on Xira Arien as I was looking through my collection one day, and I thought that it was worth tinkering with if I could bring her joy by it. Well, here it is: Jund Storm with Xira at the helm. The deck seeks to win via drawing through the entire deck and then using either Punishing Fire, Searing Touch, Flamekin Spitfire, or Xira herself as an outlet to kill the table.

Unfortunately, the RC banned Paradox Engine, so we can't do that anymore, and now we run Necrotic Ooze.

Why Xira?

Xira is ideal in settings where there are 1-2 soft stax decks and 1-2 interactive combo decks at a table. She shines when a stax deck plays a Blood Moon and takes away interaction from the combo players, or when the interactive combo decks start a counter war, she can win in response. She is a commander for people who want to utilize speed and conscientious timing to win games. Stormgorger Xira rewards people for tight play and deep knowledge of all the possibilities within its cards to win the game from whatever position, much like traditional UB/x storm lists.

Playing the Deck

Win Conditions

Worldgorger Dragon Combo

WGD combos with Necromancy or Animate Dead to form a loop: WGD is reanimated and exiles the animation enchantment; the exile forces WGD to die and return all permanents back, and the enchantment returns to grab WGD. This loop generates infinite etbs, infinite mana, and infinite untaps (not exactly an untap, but the effect is the same). The challenge of WGD combo is that you need a way of winning at instant speed or a way of killing the enchantment/reanimating something else to stop the loop and win at sorcery speed. This issue is why we run multiple ways to win at instant speed to create outlets for this combo. The easiest outlet to create is the Sunscorched Desert / Piranha Marsh outlet. This outlet requires nothing other than the loop to occur, and is fetchable at instant speed with Crop Rotation. The next easiest outlet to form is Punishing Fire + Grove of the Burnwillows. Again, half of this combo is tutorable via Crop Rotation, while the other half can be grabbed by either Tainted Pact or Demonic Consultation with no additional draw effect. One thing to note about this combo is that if someone has an Aetherflux Reservoir on board, one needs to kill that person first because Grove gives everyone extra life.

The next simplest one to assemble requires Codex Shredder to be on the board and a red-producing mana source that does not deal damage in its mana production. This line allows one to mill one's library until either Searing Touch or Flamekin Spitfire are in the graveyard. From there, one utilizes the infinite mana produced by the WGD loop to return Touch to one's hand with Shredder and cast it with buyback until all one's opponents die, or one ends the loop by targeting Flamekin with the Animate Dead effect and using it as a similar outlet as Searing Touch.

Without any of the previously mentioned outlets on board or in hand, one needs Xira in play to start the combo in addition to access to a haste enabler (Anger in the graveyard or Mass Hysteria on the battlefield). From there, the rest of the combo remains the same with the exception that milling people is no longer a reasonable option, and it is far better to draw the entire deck and begin one of several loop options.

Paradox Engine

Like the WGD combos available to this deck, Paradox Engine also has a number of methods to closing out the game. All of them require a decent amount of mana available produced by nonland sources that must tap to create mana. In general, Bloom Tender is one of the best mana producers in the deck because it always gives you a Xira activation, allowing your remaining rocks to pick up the legwork on casting spells.

Since we mentioned Bloom Tender, the easiest loop is Xira, Bloom Tender, any mana rock/dork, and Sensei's Divining Top. This loop allows one to draw one's deck by casting Top to untap one's permanents. Floating after it has resolved in order to activate Xira. In response to the Xira activation, tap the Top, drawing a card and making the Top the object of the Xira draw. Using the remaining floating mana, one recasts the Top to untap one's permanents and can repeat this process as needed. Thus, one can draw the entirety of one's deck.

With deck in hand, there are essentially three non-WGD outlets with to win the game. Searing Touch, of course, is the easiest. One only needs to cast enough rocks to produce to loop it with Pengine and buyback. Alternatively, one can use Krosan Reclamation + Noxious Revival + Punishing Fire in order to create an endless loop of burn spells (Noxious Revival can be replaced with Codex Shredder if both Noxious and Riftsweeper are exiled). If both P-Fire and Riftsweeper are removed from the game, one can win via looping a random spell that hurts not their own board (Dark Ritual, for instance) with Krosan Rec + Noxious in conjunction with Flamekin Spitfire. If Krosan Rec, P-Fire, Searing Touch, and Riftsweeper are all exiled, you can loop both Noxious and Codex Shredder with an army of rocks and dorks to kill the table with Spitfire. In the direst of circumstances, one can replace Spitfire with Codex Shredder (obviously, not in the aforementioned scenario) and mill its opponents out, killing them with Xira's targeted draw effect. However, one should note that this strategy is ill-advised against Gitrog and Hulk decks, which can win at instant speed via their graveyards.

The other loop that is available has already been mentioned: If one has in rocks avaiable and Searing Touch or a tutor in hand, one can win the game with Paradox Engine with no need for Xira in play.

Mulligans

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Card Choices

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Riftsweeper

27 lands

While this may seem like a small number of lands for a 100 card deck, 27 lands is a reasonable number of lands for this deck for a couple of reasons. First, there exists a lot of artifact and creature mana available, which create less necessity for lands than other decks. Second, lands are dead draws when trying to use Paradox Engine with Xira without Top; likewise, lands are dead draws on natural storm turns. Third, like most Ad Naus decks, the curve is low enough that 27 lands covers the curve with a lesser chance of flooding.

Something 2

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Something 3

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Something 4

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Storm Turns

Ad Nauseam

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Planning Storm Turns

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Tutors

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Mana

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Gas

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Goldfishing

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Matchups

Stax

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Fast Combo

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Midrange

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Top Ranked	Achieved #7 position overall 7 years ago
Date added	7 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 45 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 22 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	1.74
Tokens	Food
Folders	Jund, Edh, Ideas, like, Interesting Commander Decks, Follow, Ones to Watch, "casual", xDecks to Try Out, Keep an eye on