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Tiamat Dream Chain CEDH

Commander / EDH*

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Tiamat Dream Chain CEDH

Tiamat Dream Chain is a 5 color Cedh deck that intends to use Tiamat as an outlet for several one card combos. The deck can function similarly to other 5 color food chain lists and wins with several 1 card combos with the commander as well as dockside extortionist as backup.

The deck can be subdivided into several parts: Dragons and Combo Pieces, Interaction, Ramp and Rituals, and Lands

What Dragons does this deck use? Combo Dragons: Moritte of the Frost Bladewing the Risen Terror of the Peaks Scourge of Valkas Beledros Witherbloom Hellkite Courser

Value Dragons: Masked Vandall Nameless Inversion Crib Swap Niv-Mizzet Parun

What other combo pieces does the deck run? Dream Halls Food Chain Sneak Attack Dragonstorm

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Dream Halls Combo: This Combo requires 3UU, dream halls in hand and 1 colored card in hand. This combo gets much stronger if you start with a silence effect since opponents become unable to take advantage of dream halls symmetrical nature. This Combo can deal with artifacts, enchantments and creatures for an additional 2 mana or 1 card.

  1. Cast dream halls. (-5 mana)
  2. Discard any colored card to cast tiamat from the command zone. (-1 colored card)
  3. Search for moritte of the frost, bladewing, the risen, scourge of valkas and 2 other dragons, at least 1 being green, dragonlord dramoka, masked vandal and nameless inversion being good options. 3b. If you have an extra green, white or blue (moritte pitch dragon substitute) card in hand cast dragonlord dramoka. (-1 card). 3c. Cast masked vandal or nameless inversion to deal with gravehate permanents (-1 card or -2 mana).
  4. Cast bladewing discarding scourge of valkas.
  5. Reanimate scourge of valkas with the bladewing etb trigger.
  6. Cast moritte of the frost discarding any green dragon you tutored up.
  7. Moritte enters as a copy of bladewing and dies to legend rule before the etb goes on the stack.
  8. The bladewing trigger returns moritte and repeats netting 1 scourge of valkas trigger each iteration.

Food Chain Combo: Tiamat is a one card combo with food chain requiring 10 mana and food chain in hand to complete the combo.

  1. Cast Food Chain (-3 mana)
  2. Cast Tiamat (-7 mana, no more mana needed for the combo) searching for hellkite courser, beledros witherbloom, moritte of the frost, bladewing the risen and terror of the peaks.
  3. exile tiamat to food chain for 8 red mana.
  4. Cast hellkite courser putting tiamat back into play. (2 red floating)
  5. Exile tiamat to food chain for 8 black mana. Exile courser to food chain for 7 green mana. (2 red, 7 green, 8 black floating)
  6. Cast Beledros witherbloom and untap your lands. (2 red, 1 green, 8 black floating, all lands untapped)
  7. Exile beledros to food chain for red mana. (9 red, 1 green, 8 black floating, all lands untapped)
  8. Cast Terror of the peaks (4 red, 1 green, 8 black floating, all lands untapped).
  9. Cast Bladewing returning the highest cmc dragon in the graveyard. Get 2 terror of the peaks triggers to remove gravehate creatures. (2 red, 2 black, 1 green floating, all lands untapped)
  10. Exile the reanimated dragon to food chain for blue mana. (2 red, 2 black, 1 green, x +1 blue floating (x = dragons cmc), all lands untapped)
  11. Cast moritte of the frost as a copy of bladewing. (1 red, 1 black, x-1 blue floating, 0-2 lands tapped)
  12. Moritte dies to legend rule before etbs go on the stack. Terror triggers, bladewing etb triggers returning moritte netting 1 terror trigger each loop to win the game.

Sneak Attack Combo: Sneak Attack wins the game with tiamat and 12 mana.

  1. Cast tiamat (-7 mana) Searching for Beledros Witherbloom, Dragonlord dramoka, moritte of the frost, scourge of valkas and bladewing, the risen.
  2. Cast Sneak attack (-11 mana total)
  3. Snaek in Beledros (-12 mana total)
  4. Untap your lands witht beledros. 4b. if you have enough 3+ red mana from lands sneak in dragonlord dramoka.
  5. sneak in scourge of valkas pinging gravehate creatures.
  6. sneak in bladewing.
  7. sneak in moritte as a bladewing sopy for infinite damage.

Dragonstorm Combo:

Dragonstorn plus 2+ storm count wins the game.

  1. cast dragonstorm w/ 2 storm count.
  2. make 2 dragonstorm copies with storm trigger.
  3. search for scourge of valkas pinging gravehate creatures.
  4. search for bladewing.
  5. search for moritte entering as a copy of bladewing for infinite damage.

Extra copies of dragon storm can be used to find dragonlord dramoka, masked vandal and withebloom for interaction.

Tiamat is also an infinte colored mana outlet. by finding bladewing, moritte and terror of the peaks. this is the for any dockside combos being run.

Potential Value Tiamat: nameless inversion crib swap masked vandal niv-mizzzet parun beledros witherbloom

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