Tawnos Transformation

Commander / EDH* Artifact Multiplayer UR (Izzet)

Banaphone

Artifact (30)

• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Darksteel Forge
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Helm of the Host
• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Lux Cannon
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x MImic Vat
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mirage Mirror
• 1x Mirrorworks
• 1x Monkey Cage
• 1x Mycosynth Lattice
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Paradox Engine
• 1x Planar Bridge
• 1x Proteus Staff
• 1x Retrofitter Foundry
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Spine of Ish Sah
• 1x Staff of Domination
• 1x Tamiyo's Journal
• 1x Trading Post
• 1x Unstable Obelisk
• 1x Unwinding Clock
• 1x Vedalken Orrery

Planeswalker (4)

• 1x Daretti, Scrap Savant
• 1x Saheeli, the Gifted
• 1x Tezzeret, Artifice Master
• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker

Land (32)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Blinkmoth Nexus
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dark Depths
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Deserted Temple
• 1x Detection Tower
• 1x Field of Ruin
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Great Furnace
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 1x Halls of Mist
• 1x Inkmoth Nexus
• 3x Island
• 1x Kher Keep
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
• 1x Mishra's Factory
• 3x Mountain
• 1x Mutavault
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Volcanic Island

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Efficient Construction
• 1x Invoke Prejudice
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Power Artifact
• 1x Shifting Shadow
• 1x Storm the Vault  ^Flip
• 1x The Antiquities War
• 1x Trail of Evidence

Commander (1)

Sorcery (11)

• 1x Curse of the Swine
• 1x Mass Polymorph
• 1x Personal Tutor
• 1x Polymorph
• 1x Reality Scramble
• 1x Release the Gremlins
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Scrap Mastery
• 1x Shattering Spree
• 1x Trash for Treasure
• 1x Vandalblast

Instant (10)

• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Divergent Transformations
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Reweave
• 1x Scour from Existence
• 1x Synthetic Destiny
• 1x Whir of Invention

Creature (4)

• 1x Blightsteel Colossus
• 1x Darksteel Colossus
• 1x Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
• 1x Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre

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Sideboard

Land (1)

• 1x Tolarian Academy

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Maybeboard

Artifact (5)

• 1x Batterskull
• 1x Blinkmoth Urn
• 1x Phyrexian Portal
• 1x Tawnos's Coffin
• 1x Well of Knowledge

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I have a polymorph deck but I'd rather have an Izzet version of it. I figure with the upcoming release of commander 2018, Tawnos's cheap casting cost makes for an easy target to polymorph. There are a limited number of polymorph cards out there so I think there is plenty of room left in the deck to synergize his activated ability.

Some interactions to note from the cards in this list: Shifting Shadow + Indestructible Creatures = keep creature and find another next upkeep! Paradox Engine + Mana Vault or Grim Monolith or Basalt Monolith = they untap without hindered payment. Speaking of, use Tawnos to copy the untap cost for the above rocks or Paradox Engine to get extra value. Equip illusionist's bracers to get twice as much value! Power Artifact + one of the rocks mentioned above = infinite mana. Funnel that mana into various outlets: hard cast the fatties, draw infinite cards, produce infinite 1/1 servos, etc. Niv Disk with or without darksteel forge. Ulamog doesn't care. Copy the clues for double the draw or just Daretti them for fallen artifacts in the scrap heap. Copy Helm of the Hosts triggered ability to get more Colossi(?) or Mogs on the battlefield. There is a lot of removal in here as the deck's lack of creatures is it's weakness. I'm open to suggestions for cuts/adds to help deal with this problem while maintaining the primary directive: polymorph abuse while activating Tawnos in effective ways.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 54 - 1 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.96
Tokens	2/2 G Token Creature Ape, Ape 3/3 G, Boar 2/2 G, Clue, Construct 4/4 C, Copy Clone, Emblem Daretti, Scrap Savant, Emblem Tezzeret, Artifice Master, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Goat 0/1 W, Gremlin 2/2 R, Kobolds of Kher Keep 0/1 R, Manifest 2/2 C, Marit Lage, Servo 1/1 C, Thopter 1/1 C, Treasure