Teferi the right way

Commander / EDH* Artifact Eldrazi Mono-Blue Ramp Tron

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Creature (20)

• 1x Arcum Dagsson
• 1x Braids, Conjurer Adept
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Emrakul, the Promised End
• 1x Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1x It That Betrays
• 1x Kira, Great Glass-Spinner
• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1x Kozilek, the Great Distortion
• 1x Oblivion Sower
• 1x Palladium Myr
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Silver Myr
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
• 1x Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
• 1x Void Winnower
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine

Instant (14)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Capsize
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Disdainful Stroke
• 1x Dream Fracture
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Pull from Tomorrow
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Swan Song

Artifact (19)

• 1x Armillary Sphere
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Neurok Stealthsuit
• 1x Planar Bridge
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Vedalken Orrery
• 1x Vedalken Shackles
• 1x Voltaic Key
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Aether Gale
• 1x All is Dust
• 1x Curse of the Swine
• 1x Drain Power
• 1x Energy Tap
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Show and Tell
• 1x Time Stretch

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Rhystic Study

Commander (1)

Land (36)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Eldrazi Temple
• 1x Hall of the Bandit Lord
• 21x Island
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Sanctum of Ugin
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Thawing Glaciers
• 1x Tolaria West
• 1x Urza's Mine
• 1x Urza's Power Plant
• 1x Urza's Tower

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Teferi, Temporal Archmage
• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker

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Creature (2)

• 1x Apprentice Wizard
• 1x Walking Atlas

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"Playing Teferi as your commander noncompetitively is one of the very few ways to objectively play commander wrong. He's so unfun that the only way to win is to go full-bore, otherwise you'll just get hated out every game or end up accidentally playing kingmaker by screwing over the other mono-blue player while the green deck beats his/her face in."
~ Someone in an mtgsalvation thread I found last night.

What if you practically only play Teferi to flash in Edrazi in opponent's end steps, and you be the one to smash people's faces in?

My first and favourite edh deck I built was a reeeaaal evil Kruphix, God of Horizons control Eldrazi list: The Mind Flayer, but it was too strong so I went looking for a new commander. It was pretty unsatisfying to win through Enter the Infinite + Laboratory Maniac, and everyone just needed to gun me down asap before I got some Omniscience shenanigans going with my 10 or so counterspells in the deck.

All I really wanted to do was cast a tentacle monster and annihilate. But the problem with Eldrazi is that they don't have haste and they're removal magnets. So pretend to be a green deck and play a durdly ramp game until you can flash them in people's end steps with Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir, who also happens to keep them alive that turn to get the annihilator trigger.

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Eldrazi cost a shit tonne of mana so:

• Burnished Hart
• Palladium Myr
• Silver Myr
• Solemn Simulacrum - plus creatures are flashable with Teferi out
• Wayfarer's Bauble
• Armillary Sphere
• Expedition Map
• Sol Ring
• Mana Vault
• Thought Vessel
• Mind Stone
• Worn Powerstone
• Thran Dynamo
• Gilded Lotus
• Hedron Archive
• Phyrexian Metamorph - to copy those
• Clever Impersonator - to copy those
• Voltaic Key - to untap those
• Teferi, Temporal Archmage - to untap those
• Drain Power - to use opponent's mana
• Energy Tap - to either use as a blue Dark Ritual with one of the 4 or 5 cmc creatures in here, or to double your eldrazi if you've got a big fella out
• Eldrazi Temple
• Temple of the False God
• Urza's Mine
• Urza's Power Plant
• Urza's Tower - because Academy Ruins + Expedition Map or Tolaria West is a thing
• Thawing Glaciers

And since we're already balls-deep in the artifact theme:

• Arcum Dagsson
• Darksteel Citadel
• Seat of the Synod
• Buried Ruin
• Fabricate
• Tezzeret the Seeker
• Trinket Mage
• Wurmcoil Engine
• Planar Portal
• All Is Dust
• Sensei's Divining Top
• And since we're mono-blue: Vedalken Shackles

Since we want to make sure Eldrazi have haste and survive:

• Hall of the Bandit Lord
• Lightning Greaves
• Swiftfoot Boots
• Neurok Stealthsuit
• Kira, Great Glass-Spinner

To cheat them in:

• Show and Tell
• Braids, Conjurer Adept

And finally because we're blue and want to protect our dudes the rest is draw, bounce, removal and counterspells.

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Have playtested on tappedout and seems solid.

Any thoughts, feedback or improvement welcome. As long as they're about making the deck do what it's trying to do better - cast eldrazi and demolish people, as opposed to just letting me know you can be a dickhead and lock everyone out of playing cards from their hand with Teferi + Knowledge Pool

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	15 - 0 Mythic Rares 26 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 17 - 0 Commons
Cards	102
Avg. CMC	3.82
Tokens	Ape 3/3 G, Bird 2/2 U, Boar 2/2 G, Emblem Teferi, Temporal Archmage, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Deathtouch, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Lifelink
Folders	Old decks