The Shapeshifters

Commander / EDH*

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Creature (36)

• 1x AEtherling
• 1x Amoeboid Changeling
• 1x Anthroplasm
• 1x Aquamorph Entity
• 1x Body Double
• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Clone
• 1x Cryptoplasm
• 1x Escaped Shapeshifter
• 1x Gigantoplasm
• 1x Identity Thief
• 1x Ixidron
• 1x Jodah's Avenger
• 1x Mercurial Pretender
• 1x Morphling
• 1x Mothdust Changeling
• 1x Phantasmal Image
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Primal Plasma
• 1x Quicksilver Gargantuan
• 1x Renegade Doppelganger
• 1x Riptide Shapeshifter
• 1x Sakashima's Student
• 1x Serendib Sorcerer
• 1x Shape Stealer
• 1x Shapesharer
• 1x Shifty Doppelganger
• 1x Shyft
• 1x Stunt Double
• 1x Turtleshell Changeling
• 1x Unstable Shapeshifter
• 1x Vesuvan Doppelganger
• 1x Vesuvan Shapeshifter
• 1x Vizier of Many Faces
• 1x Volrath's Shapeshifter
• 1x Warkite Marauder

Instant (14)

• 1x Cackling Counterpart
• 1x Dance of the Skywise
• 1x Diminish
• 1x Ego Erasure
• 1x Fated Infatuation
• 1x Gift of Tusks
• 1x Ovinize
• 1x Polymorphist's Jest
• 1x Polymorphous Rush
• 1x Supplant Form
• 1x Turn / Burn
• 1x Turn to Frog
• 1x Twisted Image
• 1x Wings of Velis Vel

Land (30)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 23x Island
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Vesuva

Artifact (2)

• 1x MImic Vat
• 1x Soul Foundry

Commander (1)

Enchantment (10)

• 1x Back from the Brink
• 1x Copy Enchantment
• 1x Followed Footsteps
• 1x Illusory Wrappings
• 1x Imprisoned in the Moon
• 1x Infinite Reflection
• 1x Mirror Mockery
• 1x Reduce in Stature
• 1x Shapeshifter's Marrow
• 1x Veiled Sentry

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Bribery
• 1x Clone Legion
• 1x Hour of Eternity
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Saheeli's Artistry
• 1x Stolen Identity
• 1x Tempt with Reflections

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Artifact (2)

• 1x MImic Vat
• 1x Soul Foundry

Land (2)

• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Vesuva

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As a purely blue commander deck, this thematically consistent concept forms a unique strategy where rather than building your own brute strength with your armies, you instead build off of your opponents'. As a shapeshifter deck, I call it "thematically consistent" because it not only has a very strong synergy of shapeshifter creatures, but also the noncreatures featured also have a shapeshifting nature, e.g., Turn to Frog and Gift of Tusks are both inside this deck, among many others.

I honestly feel, despite at the time of writing having never officially playtested this deck as it is a newborn, that this deck is most conveniently played as a teammate deck, as its greatest weakness is that its primary function is to clone creatures you don't own, which thus makes the deck admittedly quite predictable in that regard. I don't think it's unethical to play free for all with this commander, but I think it would benefit strongly if it had a little bit of a helping hand.

Even though it is highly dependent on the development of other players, that does not make this deck weak in any sense of the word. Its powerful combos and game changing techniques can easily bring the game to a sudden unexpected twist if played carefully, and it can easily dominate the board if the opponents are quite keen on playing massive creatures, with the additional perk that you can cast the same massive creatures for less than half the price, and over and over again at that. However control decks, quick game ending decks and swarm decks would decimate this kind of deck real fast, as its sole purpose is to control the board with copied creatures and having only the options of 1/1s and 2/2s to choose among an army of dozens would just simply not bode well for it. However I feel that this deck can more easily defeat all three of these kinds of decks given the opportunities provided by a team mate to further advance its development before they have a chance to themselves.

That is how I feel about this deck. Tell me what you think in the comments! I would love to hear your feedback!

Date added	6 years
Last updated	2 years
Exclude colors	R
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 48 - 0 Rares 13 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.74
Tokens	Copy Clone, Morph 2/2 C, Vizier of Many Faces 0/0 W