Teferi of Arrakis, The Spice Must Flow!

Commander / EDH Control Mono-Blue Tribal Wizards

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The Weirding Way (23)

• 1x Cloudstone Curio
• 1x Counterbalance
• 1x Cryptic Command
• 1x Cunning Wish
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Day's Undoing
• 1x Delay
• 1x Equilibrium
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1x Guile
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mindbreak Trap
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystic Speculation
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Paradoxical Outcome
• 1x Patron Wizard
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Summary Dismissal
• 1x Time Spiral
• 1x Time Warp

The Spice Harvesters (Mana Ramp) (10)

• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Gauntlet of Power
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x High Tide
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Sword of the Animist
• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker
• 1x Trinket Mage

Chani (1)

• 1x Beguiler of Wills

Shai-Hulud (1)

• 1x Guile

The Gom Jabbar (1)

• 1x Vedalken Shackles

The Mahdi (1)

• 1x Teferi, Temporal Archmage

The Spice Mine (1)

• 1x Strip Mine

Fremen Renegades (15)

• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Baral, Chief of Compliance
• 1x Captain of the Mists
• 1x Docent of Perfection  ^Flip
• 1x Fatestitcher
• 1x Information Dealer
• 1x Magus of the Future
• 1x Master of Waves
• 1x Memnarch
• 1x Patron Wizard
• 1x Sigil Tracer
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Venser, Shaper Savant

Prana-bindu (10)

• 1x Azami, Lady of Scrolls
• 1x Jace, the Mind Sculptor
• 1x Magus of the Future
• 1x Mystic Speculation
• 1x Paradoxical Outcome
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Teferi, Temporal Archmage
• 1x Thought Reflection
• 1x Time Spiral

Take Their Water (5)

• 1x Beguiler of Wills
• 1x Bribery
• 1x Memnarch
• 1x Sower of Temptation
• 1x Vedalken Shackles

Face Dancers (2)

• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Sakashima the Impostor

The Real Kwisatz Haderach (2)

• 1x Arcanis the Omnipotent
• 1x Jace, the Mind Sculptor

Stilgar (1)

• 1x Baral, Chief of Compliance

The Reverend Mother (1)

• 1x Azami, Lady of Scrolls

The Voice (1)

• 1x Sower of Temptation

Commander (1)

The Spice Melange (37)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Island
• 23x Island
• 1x Magosi, the Waterveil
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 1x Moonring Island
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Riptide Laboratory
• 1x Rishadan Port
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Tolaria West
• 1x Wasteland

Win Cons (4)

• 1x Master of Waves
• 1x Mind's Desire
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Tidespout Tyrant

Bene Gesserit (3)

• 1x Azami, Lady of Scrolls
• 1x Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1x Sakashima the Impostor

Wormsign (2)

• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Thassa, God of the Sea

The Deep Desert (1)

• 1x Wasteland

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Sideboard

Other (10)

• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Commandeer
• 1x Evacuation
• 1x Gather Specimens
• 1x Misdirection
• 1x Polymorphist's Jest
• 1x Psychic Trance
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Time Stop
• 1x Trickbind

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Maybeboard

Other (7)

• 1x Crystal Shard
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Horribly Awry
• 1x Inundate
• 1x Vedalken AEthermage
• 1x Voidmage Apprentice
• 1x Voidmage Husher

Fremen Renegades (3)

• 1x Lighthouse Chronologist
• 1x Sage of Epityr
• 1x Willbender

Take Their Water (1)

• 1x Desertion

The Water of Life (1)

• 1x Turnabout

Truthsayers (1)

• 1x Vendilion Clique

Bene Gesserit (2)

• 1x Fatespinner
• 1x Vendilion Clique

Prana-bindu (1)

• 1x Teferi's Puzzle Box

The Weirding Way (1)

• 1x Desertion

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"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."

Tribal wizards, too many good cards to put in this deck as usual. I jokingly refer to it as my mono-Green deck because it is relatively light on blue things like counterspells (I have added a lot more really good ones in since originally building this deck because I was able to get a Mana Drain and Force of Will) and extra turns (only a few for emergencies and flavor) and more heavily focused on creatures because of Teferi's abilities. There is intentionally no skill-less douchebag combos like Knowledge Pool or Eye of the Storm in here. I would rather win in more complex ways.

I've made an effort to squeeze as many cards with Teferi in the name or flavor text as possible. I can't seem to settle on a name for this deck and I'm currently on a Dune kick and a blue deck is kind of the opposite of anything to do with Dune, but maybe this is like an imagining of Dune after the arrival of the Mahdi and the bringing of waters to the desert.

"He who controls the spice controls the universe"

The main wincons are Tidespout Tyrant copied as many times as possible and then bouncing all your opponents' permanents to force a concession or Master of Waves again copied as many times as possible to swing a ton of damage in. In this case, the spice can be viewed as Islands and mana. The Tidespout Tyrant is extra-flavorful in many ways because despite being blue, it is still a djinn, which were desert spirits/demons in Earth lore, so that seems on flavor for Dune.

"Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power"

A critical component of playing in EDH is understanding the power of leaving two or more Islands up. You don't actually need to have a counterspell to affect how your opponents play; in fact, you effectively counter them by the mere fact that you change their normal lines of play. That is the true power of blue, and that is why I play Teferi as my general. He's not an abusive combo general like Azami or Arcum, he just lets you leave up your mana and always make your opponents question, "Does he have the counterspell?"

"The sleeper must awaken!"

Another aspect of Teferi is that you can effectively keep a minimal board presence and appear non-threatening which has a two-fold effect: you are less susceptible to board wipes, and you can react at instant speed, maintaining the element of surprise.

Top Ranked	Achieved #5 position overall 7 years ago
Date added	8 years
Last updated	6 years
Exclude colors	WBRG
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	20 - 0 Mythic Rares 40 - 9 Rares 9 - 1 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.67
Tokens	Copy Clone, Elemental 1/0 U, Emblem Teferi, Temporal Archmage, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Human Wizard 1/1 U, Manifest 2/2 C
Folders	Mono Color Decks, EDH, New Deck Ideas, Inspiration, Edh, EDH, Ben's Decks, Inspirations, Commander Deck, Cool Decks Maybe