The (Not Quite) Million Dollar Deck

Commander / EDH Control Multiplayer Theme/Gimmick WU (Azorius)

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Instant (11)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Cackling Counterpart
• 1x Desertion
• 1x Dissipate
• 1x Dissolve
• 1x Momentary Blink
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Spelljack
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Time Stop
• 1x Turnabout

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Akroma's Vengeance
• 1x Bribery
• 1x Fathom Trawl
• 1x Foresee
• 1x Phyrexian Rebirth
• 1x Recall
• 1x Recurring Insight
• 1x Remember the Fallen
• 1x Sleep
• 1x Terminus

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Aurification
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Luminarch Ascension
• 1x Martyr's Bond
• 1x Oblivion Ring
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Reparations
• 1x Rhystic Study

Artifact (10)

• 1x Briber's Purse
• 1x Crystal Ball
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mindslaver
• 1x Planar Portal
• 1x Relic of Progenitus
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Spine of Ish Sah

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Venser, the Sojourner

Creature (24)

• 1x Angelic Arbiter
• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Archon of Justice
• 1x Augur of Bolas
• 1x Augury Owl
• 1x Azorius Guildmage
• 1x Blightsteel Colossus
• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Colossal Whale
• 1x Draining Whelk
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
• 1x Inkwell Leviathan
• 1x Keiga, the Tide Star
• 1x Kor Sanctifiers
• 1x Magus of the Tabernacle
• 1x Mnemonic Wall
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Phantasmal Image
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Sphinx of Uthuun
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Stormtide Leviathan
• 1x Treasure Mage

Land (34)

• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 1x Celestial Colonnade
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 14x Island
• 1x Nimbus Maze
• 9x Plains
• 1x Sejiri Refuge
• 1x Tectonic Edge
• 1x Temple of Enlightenment
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

Commander (1)

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Instant (1)

• 1x Path to Exile

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Oblivion Ring

Creature (2)

• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Sun Titan

Land (1)

• 1x Academy Ruins

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The inspiration for this deck meets a crossroads between Magic and one of my other major loves, professional wrestling. I found Gwafa Hazid one day looking through a box of random cards at a game shop and noticed his flavor text.

“Everyone has a price.”

Immediately my mind jumped to the iconic catch phrase of WWE Hall of Famer “The Million Dollar Man” Ted DiBiase, one of the most manipulative heel wrestlers of his era and arguably all time. Needless to say, I bought a copy and set out to make a whole themed Commander deck around this flavorful connection. My big idea was to center it as if Gwafa was The Million Dollar Man himself, giving him his posse of hired muscle (and later big managerial clients) in big beaters such as Inkwell Leviathan (equivalent to The Undertaker, his own discovery from back in 1990) and Blightsteel Colossus (equivalent to the equally-as-legendary Andre the Giant), more manipulative compatriots such as Azorius Guildmage (playing DiBiase's right hand man and major lackey, Virgil) and Angelic Arbiter/Magus of the Tabernacle (portraying DiBiase's best remembered tag team partner Irwin R. Shyster). Other cards in this deck show the range of individual cards being able to do simply insane things for a price, especially given the colors of the deck, such as ending the turn at will (Time Stop), stealing other people's turns (Mindslaver), returning cards directly to hand (Recall most notably for being able to get any type back), stealing spells (Spelljack) or even tutoring up any single card in the deck EVERY TURN (Planar Portal). And if that's not good enough, there's several ways to copy or steal any other creature an opponent is graciously allowed to play, if it isn't bribed by Gwafa himself, of course. Other handy things in here can limit creatures from attacks (Propaganda and friends) or punishing opponents for doing their normal stuff throughout the game. In short, all the cards in this deck link back to Gwafa's flavor text and The Million Dollar Man's favorite saying, everyone, or everything, has a price.

Top Ranked	Achieved #61 position overall 10 years ago
Date added	10 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 37 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.15
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Copy Clone, Emblem Venser, the Sojourner, Phyrexian Horror X/X C
Folders	Commander? Commander., Others great ideas, Gwafa Hazid, Profiteer