The Good (Finished) *Primer*

Commander / EDH Combo Competitive Control Infinite Combo Primer UR (Izzet)

ACUS

Artifact (24)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Grafdigger's Cage
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Library of Leng
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mana Web
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Paradox Engine
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Static Orb
• 1x Torpor Orb
• 1x Trinisphere
• 1x Voltaic Key
• 1x Winter Orb

Enchantment (7)

• 1x As Foretold
• 1x Back to Basics
• 1x Blood Moon
• 1x Copy Artifact
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Search for Azcanta  ^Flip

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Dack Fayden
• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker

Land (31)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Gemstone Caverns
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 9x Island
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 3x Mountain
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Sorcery (13)

• 1x Anger of the Gods
• 1x Deep Analysis
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Reshape
• 1x Timetwister
• 1x Transmute Artifact
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Wheel of Fortune
• 1x Windfall

Commander (1)

Instant (18)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x High Tide
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Remand
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Unsubstantiate
• 1x Whir of Invention

Creature (4)

• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Magus of the Moon
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Trinket Mage

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Maybeboard

Instant (3)

• 1x High Tide
• 1x Pyretic Ritual
• 1x Seething Song

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Sleight of Hand

Creature (1)

• 1x Gilded Drake

Artifact (1)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir

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On a budget

For a more budget version of the deck that I personally use when not subbing in proxies this was what I came up with. Its still very consistent but does loose some of its more explosive wins or ease of mana.

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The Good

Commander / EDH ACUS

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Why The locust god?

Pros: Show

-The commander wants you to draw cards, the deck wants you to draw cards, if you like that, this is the deck for you.

-Once you hit limitless colored mana, the locust god can single handedly win you the game.

-Without the combo The locust god has very relevant abilities to keep you up on board and pressure peoples lives.

-The deck has many options once you hit your combo so its very hard to get fully hated out of the combo.

-The most relevant immortal text on a god so far, being able to nearly always spend the minimum price on your commander each time.

Cons Show

-Its 6 mana, sometimes that's just a lot to ask if you need to play him for tempo or play him to start your skullclamp chain.

-Stony Silence/Null Rod/Cursed Totem

-Its activated ability IS a bit expensive, not even netting you a card.

The Playstyle

The deck wants to ramp out to get The Locust God in play as quickly as possible, trickling a few stax and hate packages out there with possibly spare mana. Once the god is out you have a lot of options on how you approach the win. You can take it slow and steady, dropping hate on the board for protection and holding up counter or interaction. You can also go hard and try to drill through your library to find your combo.

One of the first cards you should get out if you have no game plan in your hand just yet is Skullclamp. This card is the bread and butter of the deck and also why its been dubbed SkullStorm. With this card and the locust god out at the same time it basically reads "(1):Draw 2 cards put a 1/1 flier with haste into play", for being able to rip two cards into your deck for every mana you sink into it is painfully powerful.

Once you have the opening, rush for a source to generate limitless colored mana, and use The Locust God's activated ability to draw your entire deck, and win you the game.

Stax packages.

Winter Orb, Static Orb, Mana Web: Once you have your god out these cards can really make the game painful for everyone else but you. Static orb has the most potential to backfire. Torpor Orb: This is specific hate for ETB combo decks, hits many decks that rely on triggers like these to win, and we can just remove their win condition. Grafdigger's Cage: Graveyard/cheat hate in EDH, you want this. There is only 1 card in this deck that gets hurt by this card, there is plenty entire decks that get shut out by this card. Blood Moon/Magus of the Moon: For three mana you can stop some players from being able to play the game. any deck that relies off of a complex mana base will be destroyed by this card. Back to Basics: This is a cheaper and more polarizing version of our moon package. It does hurt us as well, but not THAT much. Many times you can plan for this card and make sure you have enough rocks out before to compensate. Trinisphere: Many decks rely on the low curve and speed of their deck to stay relevant. When you get this out there quick, sometimes turn 1 and everyone has to pay 3 for everything, it can really slow down the game in your advantage. Your deck is slow, and this card slows the game down.

Combo to limitless

The main win of the deck is to get to a board state that can generate limitless mana. It can achieve this in a few ways.

One board state might be Paradox Engine, Isochron Scepter paired with number of spells and at least enough mana rocks to generate 3 colored mana, this will generate you limitless mana with limitless untaps.

Another might be Paradox Engine an arbitrarily "decent" amount of mana rocks, and Skullclamp; this will rip through your deck drawing two cards for each mana you spend untapping all your rocks any time you draw a spell until you either win, or find a more elegant combo along the way.

Another might just be Skullclamp and Ashnod's Altar, this will net you limitless colorless mana and limitless card draw.

Another is the classic Isochron Scepter and Dramatic Reversal with at least 3 colored mana sources that can be untapped with it, will create limitless mana.

How to not overdraw

In my budget list I just use Elixir of Immortality to always be able to shuffle my graveyard back into my library, with limitless mana and draw this will incidentally give me limitless life. For this version We don't have that limitless recursion because I think the deck can function at this level perfectly fine without it. We have Timetwister then Time Spiral to extend our deck size at least two times. That should be plenty if we are trying to win through combat but really that is only a back up back up plan if we can't win through lab maniac. The only downside to this is if we can't win through lab maniac, and if there is an opponent with limitless life, and if we cant bounce every permanent back to their hand with Capsize, then we lose... but that's a lot of ifs.

The only thing to note is that if you really do have to no deck left, and you have run out of timetwister effects, you can always each turn Academy Ruins a Lotus Petal back on top of your library to not die if you have no lab man out.

Finishing with the Commander

Once you have generated limitless mana there generally two states of how you approach this. Either you have your commander out and he happens to be a useless bug with Darksteel Mutation, if this is the case, cry. Or you are about to win the game.

Because you can just reliably cast, recast, and nearly always have the ability to send your commander to the board, it also means you can use this ability as many times as you want. Reliably always getting you to a point where you can get any card into your hand from your deck by drawing through it to get to it. You can win with Laboratory Maniac and trying to draw one last time. You can win by recasting Capsize to return each permanent to each players hands. Lastly you can just win in the glory of several thousand 1/1 flying haste tokens aimed at each opponent's face.

Notable Inclusion

-Card:Muddle the Mixture: Searches up A bunch of different options for the combo.

-Card:Deep Analysis: When you hit the combo but are hellbent with no cards in hand, pitch this to put at least two cards in hand, that should be enough to start the chain to fill your hand back up.

-Card:As Foretold: This thing powered through my own stax and allows me to have enough mana to tempo out my stax/hate/rock on my turn, and still have enough mana and free spells on my opponents turns to interact with them. Also freeing up my mana allows me to have enough spare to occasionally activate the commanders ability if I have a bunch to spare.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	13 - 0 Mythic Rares 41 - 0 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.00
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Emblem Dack Fayden, Insect 1/1 UR
Folders	Deck References/Ideas, My Decks Maybe, NEW EDH, Locust God, Primers only, Keep an eye on, Interesting EDH decks