Thousand-Year Flashbacks

Commander / EDH*

ChaosHazard

Instant (31)

• 1x Ad Nauseam
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Delay
• 1x Demonic Consultation
• 1x Desperate Ritual
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Gush
• 1x High Tide
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mission Briefing
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Negate
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Peer Through Depths
• 1x Pyretic Ritual
• 1x Reach Through Mists
• 1x Seething Song
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Unsubstantiate
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Whir of Invention

Creature (2)

• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Notion Thief

Land (29)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Badlands
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 9x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Sorcery (17)

• 1x Bonus Round
• 1x Dark Petition
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Merchant Scroll
• 1x Past in Flames
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Rite of Flame
• 1x Time Spiral
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Wheel of Fortune
• 1x Windfall
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will

Commander (1)

Artifact (18)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Lion's Eye Diamond
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Thousand-Year Storm

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Thousand-Year Storm feat. Kess

The main goal of the deck is to get out Thousand-Year Storm (TYS) then generate loads of mana with rituals and draw tons of cards with cantrips to eventually kill with either a medium-to-large Torment of Hailfire copied a ton of times, or a Storm Stick ( Aetherflux Reservoir or Sentinel Tower ). Has the Dramatic Scepter cheat code for infinite storm if you don't feel like cobbling together cool wins.

Bonus Round acts as a pseudo TYS, especially when cast a second time with Kess, Dissident Mage , Yawgmoth's Will or Past in Flames as it gives you 3 total instances of the effect, copying your spells 3 times each. Also acts as a cute win-more when storming off with TYS.

High Tide interacts favorably with all of our ways to cast things multiple times, and is why the Island count is so high in the deck. Allows Time Spiral to add TONS of mana and refresh your hand, and allows for lethal non-infinite Torments.

Desperate Ritual Spliced onto Peer Through Depths or Reach Through Mists with Storm is neato burrito.

Writeup as posted on Reddit

Post here

"Now ChaosHazard," I hear you cry, "why in the world would I ever play this over the existing Grixis Storm lists? It seems so much less effective being reliant on a 6 mana do-nothing enchantment". And to that I ask you,

Have you no sense of childhood wonderment?

Have you never once wished to murder people with a non-infinite Torment of Hailfire ?

Would you give High Tide storm if allowed the opportunity?

Because I do, have, and absolutely would. In that order.

The Gist

The idea behind the deck is to get out Thousand-Year Storm , or doublecast Bonus Round (via Yawgmoth's Will , Past in Flames or Kess herself) in order to copy your subsequent rituals and cantrips, essentially pushing them into the danger zone in terms of pure efficiency. Once we have a large enough storm count or mana pool, we can end the game via any of the following:

• Torment of Hailfire, copied with Thousand-Year Storm

• Laboratory Maniac and Demonic Consultation (or just drawing our deck with stormed cantrips)

• Aetherflux Reservoir or Sentinel Tower with bigly storm counts. Pretty self explanatory. Another great side effect of having these as wincons is that you need to track 4 similar yet discrete storm counts (all spells, all instants and sorceries, how many spells you've cast & how many instant and sorceries you've cast), depending on your path to victory. Hope you're a fan of accounting!

Another interesting side effect of having all of your instants and sorceries copied is that it makes them much more difficult to interact with, and as a result makes your interaction much more powerful.

Force Spike: "Who are you?"

Flusterstorm: "I'm you, but stronger."

How We Get There

As previously stated, Thousand-Year Storm and Bonus Round are our two big enablers in this deck. But what do we do once we've supercharged our spells?

A few cute interactions with copying spells, as mentioned in SaakelinSaakeli's post, involve turning Demonic Tutor and Dark Petition from single tutors into draw spells for multiple specific cards, enabling things like a single tutor being able to grab Dramatic Reversal AND Isochron Scepter , or starting the chain with a doubled Demonic Tutor into Dark Ritual plus Dark Petition to net mana and grab tons of cards.

Unsubstantiate is also deceptively powerful with TYS, essentially giving any instant or sorcery we cast Buyback 1U once we hit 2 spells cast. We can, for example:

1. Cast Gitaxian Probe (Storm 1).

2. Cast Demonic Tutor (Storm 2; one copy), hold priority.

3. Cast Unsubstantiate (Storm 3; two copies) targeting the original Demonic Tutor, then the two copies targeting original Unsub and original Tutor. Real Tutor and Real Unsub returned to hand, Demonic Tutor copy resolves and tutors Dramatic Reversal .

4. Cast Dramatic Reversal (Storm 4; three copies), then cast Unsubstantiate (Storm 5; four copies) doing the same thing as last step, returning both originals to hand and resolving three Reversals to net enough mana to go infinite. Build your own Isochron Scepter!

This also leaves us with the Demonic Tutor in hand to find a payoff card after we've built up either enough storm or enough mana. For the low, low price of 2 life and 3UUB (plus 4UR for TYS if you play it the same turn, but Bonus Round and High Tide can both get us there pretty reasonably!)

This deck (along with many others) will be featured in future episodes of The Spike Feeders! Be sure to check us out and subscribe so you can laugh directly at me as I try and fail to make bad enchantments work against real decks.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 41 - 0 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 22 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.04
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U
Folders	Commander, cEDH, Deck Renos