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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

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.

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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.

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Videos:

v Ramos v Padeem v Gitrog

v Breya v Meren v Gitrog

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v Consultation Kess v Doomtide Thrasios v Yisan: W (8/8/18)

v 4c Varolz v Thrasios Tymna Scepter Storm v Jhoira: W (8/9/18)

v Doomsday Zur v Hulkweaver v Consultation Kess: L (8/10/18; Doomsday Zur)

v Shimmer Zur v Aminatou Stax v Edric: L (8/10/18; Shimmer Zur)

v Shimmer Zur v Animatou Stax v Ruric Thar: W (8/10/18)

v Najeela v Animatou Stax v Gitrog: L (8/10/18; Gitrog)

v Hulkweaver v Tymna/Kraum Bearweaver v Chain Veil Teferi: W (8/11/18)

v Gitrog v Gitrog v Captain Sisay: W (8/11/18)

v Yuriko v Chain Veil Teferi v Thrasios Tymna Scepter Storm: L (8/13/18; Yuriko)

v Najeela Tempo v JVP Storm v Tana Tymna Blood Pod: L (8/13/18; Najeela Tempo)

v Food Chain Prossh v Tana Tymna Blood Pod v 4c Varolz: W (8/13/18)

v Thrasios Tymna Scepter Storm v Kess Storm v Najeela: L (8/13/18; Thrasios Tymna Scepter Storm)

v Thrasios Tymna Scepter Storm v JVP v Captain Sisay: L (8/13/18; Thrasios Tymna Scepter Storm)

v JVP v Nath Stax v Thrasios Tymna Scepter Storm: W (8/13/18)

v Breya Consultation v Yuriko v 4c Varolz: L (8/14/18; Breya Consulation)

v Najeela Tempo v Hulkweaver v Yuriko: L (8/14/18; Najeela Tempo)

v Hulkweaver v Yuriko v Gaddock Teeg Midrange: W (8/14/18)

v JVP v Najeela Tempo v Breya Consultation: W (8/14/18)

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Date added 6 years
Last updated 4 years
Legality

This deck is Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

7 - 0 Mythic Rares

45 - 0 Rares

22 - 0 Uncommons

24 - 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
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