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The UNO Deck

Commander / EDH Combo Five Color Infinite Combo Theme/Gimmick

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Commander: Kenrith, the Returned King

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What is this?

So, you might look through this list and not understand what is going on... That is reasonable since the goal here is to win in a very unique way. The point is to turn the game into UNO and win that game of UNO.

Why did I make this?

This started when I saw a Reddit post a few years ago. They made a deck that turned the game into UNO but it broke the color pie rule and had a very large wish board. So my roommate said "that's cool and all but your opponent could just say that's against the rules so you can't play the deck." So I made a deck that would turn the game into UNO within the rules of Commander. That's what I made.

The Combo

First you want to get all the mana in the world. There are a few ways to do this. Deadeye Navigator plus either Peregrine Drake or Palinchron will give you infinite mana. The other easy way is Isochron Scepter with Dramatic Reversal and just a few rocks will also get you there.
Now that we have unlimited mana use Kenrith, the Returned King to give everyone infinite life then draw your deck. Now that we have our whole deck in our hand we need to remove everyone else's non UNO legal deck. Now we will use Tasigur, the Golden Fang to loop Raven's Crime to make your opponents discard their hands. Then loop Beast Within to destroy every permanent they have. Next loop Reality Shift to exile their librarys. Finally use Tormod's Crypt to exile everything in all graveyard's. Now that all non-UNO cards are out of the game it's time to put the game together.
The next thing to do is to set up the board state for UNO. We need to use the Isochron Scepter with a Dramatic Reversal then use Copy Artifact to make another one with shock underneath it and then use Copy Enchantment to make another Scepter with Pull from Eternity. Then if you have not already used the Deadeye Navigator combo to get here play Deadeye Navigator and either Peregrine Drake or Palinchron now. Then play a mana rock that can tap for any color of mana like card:coaliton relic. Next using Tasigur, the Golden Fang, pull from eternity, dramatic reversal, and Fractured Identity we can give our opponents an unlimited number of copies of any card. So we will give them unlimited copies of card:coaliton relic. Then we need to give each opponent one Necropotence, one Epic Struggle, and one card:Darien, King of Kejldor. Then cast card;Vensur, Shaper Savant Now using Fractured Identity we can play Nevermore and give your opponents a nevermore. Then loop Fractured Identity to give yourself three copies of Nevermore naming each of your opponent's commanders so they can't cast them and mess up the UNO game. If they try to name something with the Nevermore then use card:Vensur, Shaper Savant to bounce it with Deadeye Navigator blinks. Now cast Loaming Shaman; this will be used later. Then cast Medomai the Ageless and give it Assault Suit, Sixth Sense, and Oblivion Crown. Next we need to set up the UNO pile.
To set up the main UNO pile. So you need to cast Thought Prison and imprint the Conflux under it. Then you need to play Skilled Animator to animate the Thought Prison. Be sure to use Loaming Shaman plus looping Pull from Eternity to put everything in exile into your deck. Now you need to play Teferi, Time Raveler, card:Vedalken Ourrery, Shared Fate, Angelic Arbiter, Rule of Law, and then hold priority and use Fractured Identity plus Oblivion Crown and the stuff under your scepters to put every card into your deck so that all the cards in play are just copies of themselves other than Teferi, Time Raveler, Rule of Law, all the artifacts, and all the creatures you need to blink. This is to expand the number of cards in the UNO deck. Then still with the Rule of Law on the stack cast Wheel of Fortune.
So now that we have all that stuff in play (mostly as token copies of themselves) and everyone has drawn from your deck with Shared Fate, how is this UNO? So this is how it works: using the Thought Prison players will cast a spell on their main phase with the same color as what is under the Prison will shock you and with Darien, King of Kjeldor they will make a few tokens. Making tokens will bring you closer to wining the game with Epic Struggle. When they cast the spell you need to blink Venser, Shaper Savant to your hand and then blink the Skilled Animator to animate the Thought Prison and then blink that to imprint what your opponent just cast to put it "on top of the pile." If you don't have a card with the same color or "number" as what is under the Prison then use the Medomai the Ageless with all the stuff on it to draw a card and take another turn, if they still can't play a card then they will have to pass. Remember you need to bounce the rule of law to cast the stuff under the Isochron Scepter multiple times a turn. You will have to be the UNO moderator so be sure to use shock to kill two of your opponent's creatures when they draw a card. Also shock your first few creatures too cause you already have some in play to make a fair UNO game!

What's Missing?

So I do realize this ends up being closer to crazy 8's than UNO. Sadly the deck list is so tight is is really hard to fit in Aeon Engine since you also need something to have it enter untapped too like Amulet of Vigor and colorless cards don't really work well. I am still working on a way to make a draw 2 or draw 4 or a skip. If you have any ideas please let me know! I hope you have fun turning your next commander night into UNO!

Budget Constraints

If you want to play this deck I would recommend making a few proxies and telling your play group you wanted to try a gimmick deck. But, if you insist on actually building this deck there are a few ways you can cut the price down a lot. First the mana base, I just made an optimal one but you can easily make a functional one without OG dual lands. Also a few cards like Mox Diamond and Mana Crypt can be replaced with other mana rocks easily and Wheel of Fortune can be replaced for any other wheel effect.

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