Tasigur, Lord of the Bananas cedh

Commander / EDH* BUG (Sultai) Combo Competitive Control Infinite Combo

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Lands (32)

• 1x Forest
• 1x Island
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Snow-Covered Forest
• 1x Snow-Covered Island
• 1x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cephalid Coliseum
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Yavimaya Coast
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Combo Labman/Jace (4)

• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Demonic Consultation
• 1x Tainted Pact
• 1x Jace, Wielder of Mysteries

Interaction (17)

• 1x Gilded Drake
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Force of Negation
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Narset's Reversal
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Return to Nature
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Gitaxian Probe

Value (13)

• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Dark Confidant
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Ad Nauseam
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Narset, Parter of Veils
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Regrowth

Combo Hulk (8)

• 1x Lesser Masticore
• 1x Disciple of the Vault
• 1x Protean Hulk
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Flash
• 1x Melira, Sylvok Outcast

Commander (1)

Ramp (14)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Curiosity
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Carpet of Flowers

Tutors (9)

• 1x Spellseeker
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Shred Memory
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Merchant Scroll

Combo Dramatic Scepter (2)

• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Dramatic Reversal

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LET'S ROCK AND ROLL!

Tasigur Cedh

No budget limit.

DON'T HOLD ANYTHING BACK!

@Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico

EXPLANATION AND COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW ONGOING (WRITING HERE ON MY FREE TIMES)

The plan

We MUST get one of the combos ASAP but wary for other control and stax opponents who could stop us.

Given that there's possible another fast all-in combo deck; our role is to press for value advantage in the form of ramp and extra cards on hand, always having open mana for interaction. Let the other control players counter-em! Be smart on your plays, and let our own combo go off ON THE STACK, while another player was trying to combo off. So, fortunately, 4 of our 5 combo options are on instant speed HELL YEAH!

So yeah, sneak in the win if possible, if not, let your opponents know THAT THE BEAST IS COMING FOR THEM.

The combos

Flash-Hulk Show

Protean Hulk

Flash

Get the baby on board!

Simple, easy, reliable and CHEAP as this combo is!

Fetch

1. Disciple of the Vault

2. Lesser Masticore

3. Melira, Sylvok Outcast

4. Viscera Seer

To kill the table: 1. Sacrifice Lesser Masticore to the Viscera Seer .

1. Leaving the scry 1 on the stack, the Disciple of the Vault will make target opponent lose 1 life. The Lesser Masticore will go to the graveyard, triggering the persist.

2. Let the Persist resolve, to bring our creature back. Although since Melira, Sylvok Outcast is on the field, by the time, the time persist resolves, our creature will return without the -1/-1 counter, allowing us to continue looping this for combo. All while the scry triggers continue to accumulate.

Necro-Hulk Show

Use Entomb to bring Protean Hulk to the graveyard and use Necromancy to bring him back.

VERY IMPORTANT! USE Necromancy ON YOUR OPPONENTS TURN.

So obviously it's better to use Entomb on instant speed ALONG with Necromancy . Bringing up the price to

Fetch the same creatures as in the Flash-hulk combo, and combo-off in the same way.

The Labman/Jace Show

Either Laboratory Maniac or Jace, Wielder of Mysteries . Use any to win when drawing while you have no cards on the library.

So how would you do this?

Simple...Let's look at Tainted Pact and Demonic Consultation

Tainted Pact

The main reason why our entire deck has no repeated cards. Didn't you notice? Take a second look at the list. No single card repeats, no even the basic lands. So in here, this card will allow us to go through our ENTIRE deck, allowing us to grab the last card on the deck. So then, it's only a matter of drawing another 1 card to win the game, while either of our guys is on the field.

Demonic Consultation

So what card do we name? Let it be any card that we don't have on the deck. Maybe something funny like The Cheese Stands Alone or Black Lotus . Since we obviously don't run any of these, the card will make us EXILE our ENTIRE LIBRARY. So again, it's a question of drawing another card with any of our guys on the field to win the game!

Dramatic Scepter Show

Tasigur, the Golden Fang , our beloved commander! A great beater, easy to cast and ready to whip some ass!

That activation cost isn't ther for nothing! Let us have our reliable Infinite Mana Combo!

Dramatic Reversal and Isochron Scepter are the classic cedh duo that let us get infinite mana.

While one card is great on its own, the other, easy-to-tutor card, is great to make us harness our ramp power to bring victory!

1. Cast Isochron Scepter without revealing the Dramatic Reversal . First defend our artifact while still on the stack. Once on the battlefield, you THEN imprint our instant. Pay and tap the artifact's activation to cast Dramatic Reversal .

2. When resolving, this will untap all our mana rocks and dorks along with our Isochron Scepter , allowing us to get infinite mana if we can get a net of 3 mana from our rocks and dorks.

3. Continue looping this and let us get an absurd amount of mana. Once we get 1 google of mana, cast Tasigur, the Golden Fang and let the activations begin!

4. Tasigur's activation reads...: Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard, then return a nonland card of an opponent’s choice from your graveyard to your hand... The part that saves us it "PUT the top two cards", so we can go through all our deck and once we are empty on the library...CONTINUE activating, putting no more cards on our graveyard, but still recurring all our cards into our hand (except for the lands). Fortunately, now we have our ENTIRE library.

5. Now it's just a question to decide with what combo we will kill the table...

Did everybody made Praetor's Grasp and now we have exiled any of our previous 3 combos? Well, let's hope they forgot about our Beast Within and our Reality Shift . Use the Beast Within to destroy everyone's lands to let them get at least 1 creature. Then use Reality Shift over and over again to let them manifest their creature over and over until they have no cards in the deck. Finally passing the turn to let everybody die to their empty library.

How do you cast over and over again any spell? After casting the spell, you can re-activate Tasigur, the Golden Fang to retake the cards back to your hand.

NOTE

1. It's important that in our net mana of 3, we have either infinit OR mana for Tasigur's activation. Unfortunately we are no Thrasios, Triton Hero so we NEED the colored mana.

2. Beware of Talisman of Curiosity and Talisman of Dominance , although GREAT rocks for a quick follow-up to a Llanowar Elves or a Mystical Tutor , we can't get infinite colored mana in here. Each colored mana will hit us with 1 damage. Consider Simic Signet and Dimir Signet . While easier to get infinit mana, it may slow us on our early turns. Since this combo is normally our last option, we opted for the talismans instead of the signets.

3. Notice that if there's a net mana of 2, or no colored mana, BUT we have card:sensei's divining top(CHK) on the field, while we have no infinite mana, we can still DRAW our entire library, letting us bring out the Mox Diamond or Lotus Petal to then cast another colored rock, like Arcane Signet , letting us then get infinite mana for our combo.

To correctly use this, follow this sequence carefully!

1. Tap for our mana.

2. Tap our card:sensei's divining top(CHK)

3. WITHOUT letting Top resolve, holding priority, activate the Isochron Scepter .

4. Allow the Scepter to resolve its cast.

5. Tap again for our mana.

6. STILL WITHOUT LETTING the first Top's activation to resolve, TAP AGAIN the Top, adding ONE MORE activation to the stack.

7. Continue doing this until you have X activations, where X equals to your current library +1 to compensate for the Top itself.

Once you finish adding the activations to the stack. Letting it resolve will let you draw the top card of your library, then you'll put the Top on top of your library, then continue drawing for exactly the rest of the deck including Top.

BE CAREFULL FOR ANY OPPONENT TRYING TO FORCE YOU TO DRAW AFTER THIS. Hope you have your Force of Will or your Pact of Negation ready for that.

Nobody is perfect

The game wouldn't be fun if we didn't any weaknesses! Here's a discussion on what our banana lord has found trouble with!

Combo recursion

The deck has found trouble recuperating combo pieces that had "fallen" from our hand. At the beginning of the game, there's almost no reason to use Tasigur's ability. Your hand should be enough to get going to control and end the game with a combo. If for any reason, opponents use a Windfall or a Wheel of Fortune , and a combo piece is in hand, start worrying. For that reason, we run a single recursion spell in the form of Regrowth . Normally, you'll switch for another combo once somebody wheels our entire hand. And no, forget about your opponents giving you a combo piece with Tasigur's ability. So if you see a wheel coming up, either counter it, or prepare to start searching for another combo. If on the continuation of the game, you get the other part of the combo that you lost to the wheel, tutor for Regrowth to get back you other combo piece and start rolling! If you lost any creature from the Flash-Hulk combo, first, instead of tutoring for other cards, start activating Tasigur's ability since it's possible that an opponent will give you any of those creatures back. They're unlikely to give you an active threatening spell instead of a single creature which would seem unlikely to get on a combo after a wheel.

Note that if the game's going wrong, and you start activating Tasigur's ability, and a combo piece falls from the deck to the graveyard, also worry. This could be considered Tasigr's greatest weakness; you really don't control what falls to the graveyard.

To improve on this, get in more spell-recursion cards!

Controlling the whole table

This deck was not designed to interact through every turn. Only interact with the opponent's stuff if it's really necessary. Our fuel is not infinite. It's great that our commander allows us to almost certainly get interaction back from our graveyard, but it's no secret that holding up to activate, is expensive, and should only be used if necessary or in excess of mana.

Stompy decks

Did you notice? Almost no creatures and no board wipes, in the addition of running a deck hungry for our own life with Necropotence , Dark Confidant , Sylvan Library and tons of shock and fetches. Fortunately, our commander has a sexy big ass with 5 toughness and a threatening 4 power to let our opponents know that we won't hold back on blocking and destroying their attackers. Still, this deck will succumb if stopped with his combo at the start, forcing us to have a slower game, and having an opponent running a hoard of attacking flyers of any other creatures with evasion will almost certainly get us done if we don't combo fast enough. To compensate for this, if needed, start ignoring interaction and use almost all mana to get combo pieces back or tutoring for another combo. This might let our stompy deck opponent(s) (hope it's only one), know, that there are other bigger threats on the table than us.

Specific lines and individual cards discussion

Why this flash-hulk line?

Melira, Sylvok Outcast + Disciple of the Vault + Lesser Masticore + Viscera Seer

VS

Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + Walking Ballista + Phyrexian Delver / Body Double + Viscera Seer / Carrion Feeder

I have experimented with both lines for a while. I have also tested other lines and definitely these 2 are the best lines since they'll certainly end the game if no opponent has interaction. But which of these 2 lines?

After testing with the Mikaeus-Ballista combo line, I noticed that drawing into almost any of these pieces is a certain recipe for dismay. Getting either 5 mana for the Body Double or, god-bless us, 6 MANA for Mikaeus, the Unhallowed is too much to ask for. Otherwise, if you happen to draw into any creatures of the Melira-Masticore combo line, it's a lot cheaper to drop them by hand. This was at first the main reason why we switched into this line.

Both lines just asks us for 4 card slots.

Both lines are weak to graveyard hate, so a Rest in Peace , Leyline of the Void , Grafdigger's Cage or Faerie Macabre hurt us too much. Also consider that Cursed Totem or Suppression Field also stops us since on both of these lines, we require the Viscera Seer activation.

Considering Collector Ouphe and Null Rod , the Mikaeus-Ballista combo also falls apart, while the Melira-Masticore doesn't. So that's another reason to run this line. I know Mikaeus is an awesome card and that the Ballista is another way to end the game with infinite mana, the thing is that Mikaeus would simply be a whim, and for the ballista, there are other ways to end the game with infinite mana, we really don't need the redundancy here since there's also plenty.

PENDING TO WRITE ON... 1. EXPLAIN WHY THE MELIRA, DISCIPLE, MASTICORE AND VISCERA LINE INSTEAD OF THE MIKAEUS/WALKING BALLISTA LINE on flash-hulk.

1. WHY NOT HAVING THE WHOLE ELVES LINE OF DORKS/WHY NOT HAVING THE WHOLE LINE OF MANA ROCKS?

2. Is it worth it? the risk of almost no basics for our tainted pact.

3. when to stop @ ad nauseam

4. Force of Negation vs Misdirection HERE'S PENDING AND STILL ONGOING! COMEBACK SOON FOR MORE BABY!

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 51 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 22 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	1.90
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Bird 2/2 U, Manifest 2/2 C