There's the Door (EDH)

Commander / EDH Competitive Five Color Infinite Combo Sliver

ShaperSavant Lerker

Land (30)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Gemstone Caverns
• 1x Gemstone Mine
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x River of Tears
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Tarnished Citadel
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Creature (9)

• 1x Auriok Salvagers
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Dark Confidant
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Jace, Vryn's Prodigy  ^Flip
• 1x Mnemonic Sliver
• 1x Noble Hierarch
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Riftsweeper

Instant (24)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Ad Nauseam
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Delay
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Silence
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Enchantment (10)

• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Copy Artifact
• 1x Copy Enchantment
• 1x Leyline of Sanctity
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Nevermore
• 1x Phyrexian Unlife
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Sylvan Library

Commander (1)

Artifact (17)

• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Door to Nothingness
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Lion's Eye Diamond
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Prismatic Lens
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Dominance

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Fractured Identity
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Timetwister
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Windfall

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Only a madman could create such a door. Only an imbecile would open it.

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Legends speak of a mage that devised an insidious plot: he would force his opponent into a situation in which their only option would be to activate a Door to Nothingness targeting themself.

Inspired by his inventive impishness, here is "There's the Door" -- EDH Edition.

Our objective is to produce a boardstate such that no one has any cards in hand, board or library except your opponents each having a Door to Nothingness , the mana to activate them, and the permanents that prevent them from otherwise losing the game.

We can accomplish this by generating infinite mana, draw, and spell-casts with Isochron Scepter + Dramatic Reversal drawing the deck with Sliver Overlord + Mnemonic Sliver and subsequently Copy Artifact (Scepter) + Noxious Revival for infinite casts, enabling our construction of the Doors.

• Fractured Identity lets us multiply the Doors, locks, and rocks.

• Leyline of Sanctity prevents opponents from targeting anyone but themselves with the Door.

• Necropotence prevents anyone from decking on an empty library.

• Phyrexian Unlife prevents anyone from losing to Necropotence activations.

• Nevermore copies prevent Commanders from being cast.

Once this is the case, the only option available to each opponent is to gaze into the Door until they choose to exit.

The Riddle of Nevermore

This deck poses an interesting riddle:

Approaching the construction of the Doors, once all of the opponents' cards are exiled, we still must prevent opposing Commanders from interfering when we give our opponents mana to use their Door. To solve this, we must find a way to create 3 Nevermore copies forbidding each Commander from being cast.

However, given that our mechanism of multiplying our enchantments is Fractured Identity , a clever set of opponents might all name "Fractured Identity" on each copy, forcing us to remove each copy before trying again. Another set of opponents might attack our looping mechanism, naming Noxious Revival, Sliver Overlord, and Dramatic Reversal. Adding to the complexity, if we manage to Fractured Identity a token, we get our first Nevermore, but 2 of our opponents receive another copy, increasing in layers as they remain on the board.

With the current decklist, given our opponents' libraries and boards are exiled and we have infinite mana, spell casts, and our library otherwise in hand, how can we create 3 Nevermore copies naming each opposing Commander?

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Solution Show

• Ensure there are no enchantments in play (Bounce your Copy Artifact with a Chain of Vapor , and then use Riftsweeper to return your Noxious Revival )

• Cast a Copy Enchantment and Fractured Identity it, creating 3 blank Copy copies

• Recast your Copy Artifact and set up your second Isochron Scepter again, as at this point your opponents already have 3 blank Copy copies and can't make them Scepters.

• Cast a Nevermore naming the first opponent's Commander

• Fractured Identity an opponent's Copy Enchantment

• You receive a copy of Nevermore naming the second Commander, 2 opponents receive a copy of Nevermore

• Remove enemy Nevermore with removal that wasn't named

• Fractured Identity a second opponent's Copy Enchantment

• You receive a copy of Nevermore naming the third Commander

[Credit to linemaster Lerker for devising this solution initially.]

The Instructions

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(1) Assemble infinite mana

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This step equates to "win the game". Assemble infinite mana of every color.

• Isochron Scepter + Dramatic Reversal + 3 mana from nonland permanents (one of which can make any color)

• Auriok Salvagers + Lion's Eye Diamond

Alternatively you can draw your deck first and then assemble infinite mana:

• Ad Nauseam + Phyrexian Unlife

• Isochron Scepter + Dramatic Reversal + Sensei's Divining Top + 2 mana from nonland permanents

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(2) Draw your library

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Using your infinite colored mana:

• Cast your commander, Sliver Overlord

• Use its ability to find Mnemonic Sliver and cast it

• Sacrifice Overlord to the Mnemonic ability, drawing a card

• Recast Overlord and repeat until you've drawn your library

At this point, cast Silence .

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(3) Assemble infinite casts

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Now assemble a mechanism that will let you cast any spell in your library as many times as you desire.

• Assemble Isochron Scepter + Dramatic Reversal

• Cast Copy Artifact , creating a copy of Scepter imprinting Noxious Revival

• Cast any spell and Noxious Revival it back into your library

• Redraw it with Overlord

• Untap the Noxious Scepter with the Dramatic Scepter

• Repeat for infinite casts

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(4) Clear enemy boards

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• Overload a Cyclonic Rift to return all nonlands to your opponents' hands

• Remove all lands with infinite casts of Assassin's Trophy

• Cast a Notion Thief and Timetwister away their hands and redraw library with Overlord

• Cast Fractured Identity to give each opponent a copy of any creature

• Exile their libraries with infinite casts of Reality Shift on the token and subsequent manifests

Your opponents should now have no board, hand, or library (and no options).

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(5) Invoke the Door

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• Cast Door to Nothingness and give each of your opponents a Door with Fractured Identity

• Cast Prismatic Lens and give each of your opponents 5 copies of Gilded Lotus with Fractured Identity (target the tokens once the original is exiled)

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(6) Obligate the Exit

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We must ensure that commanders can't be cast after we pass. Create 3 Nevermore copies naming each opposing Commander.

(Riddle spoiler) Show

- Ensure there are no enchantments in play (Bounce your Copy Artifact with a Chain of Vapor , and then use Riftsweeper to return your Noxious Revival )

• Cast a Copy Enchantment and Fractured Identity it, creating 3 blank Copy copies

• Recast your Copy Artifact and set up your second Isochron Scepter again, as at this point your opponents already have 3 blank Copy copies and can't make them Scepters.

• Cast a Nevermore naming the first opponent's Commander

• Fractured Identity an opponent's Copy Enchantment

• You receive a copy of Nevermore naming the second Commander, 2 opponents receive a copy of Nevermore

• Remove enemy Nevermore with removal that wasn't named

• Fractured Identity a second opponent's Copy Enchantment

• You receive a copy of Nevermore naming the third Commander

Then:

• Give everyone a copy of Leyline of Sanctity with Fractured Identity casts

• Give everyone a copy of Phyrexian Unlife

• Give everyone a copy of Necropotence

• Remove your own board with infinite casts of Chain of Vapor

• Discard your hand into exile with Lion's Eye Diamond into your Necropotence

• Pass the turn.

At this point, there's nothing left but the rocks, locks, and Doors.

Your opponents have no choice but to exit.

Credits

Thanks to:

• Lerker

• Roryrai

• Merv

• Evasive_Excellence

• Garta

• Mike Cannon

• Dan "Zotmaster" Christler

• Drew "RulerOf" Bobulsky

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“Be that word our sign of parting, Sliver fiend!” I shrieked, upstarting—

“Get thee back into the aether and the Dominarian shore!

"Leave no gilded bloom as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!

Leave my loneliness unbroken!—quit the space around my Door!

Take thy claw from out my heart, and take thy form from off my Door!"

Quoth the Sliver “Nevermore.”

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Top Ranked	Achieved #1 position overall 5 years ago
Date added	5 years
Last updated	4 years
Splash colors	WR
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	13 - 0 Mythic Rares 60 - 0 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	1.91
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Copy Clone, Emblem Jace, Vryn's Prodigy, Manifest 2/2 C, Spirit 1/1 C
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