Unesh - No Draw Blue

Commander / EDH

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Creature (23)

• 1x Adaptive Automaton
• 1x Arcum Dagsson
• 1x Argent Sphinx
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Chancellor of the Spires
• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Curator of Mysteries
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Descendant of Soramaro
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x Kuldotha Forgemaster
• 1x Master Transmuter
• 1x Metallic Mimic
• 1x Padeem, Consul of Innovation
• 1x Prognostic Sphinx
• 1x Rackling
• 1x Shapesharer
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Sphinx of the Final Word
• 1x Sphinx of Uthuun
• 1x Thassa, God of the Sea
• 1x Treasure Mage
• 1x Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Mystic Speculation

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Imprisoned in the Moon
• 1x Soothsaying

Artifact (20)

• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Guardian Idol
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Omen Machine
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Paupers' Cage
• 1x Planar Bridge
• 1x Possessed Portal
• 1x Relic of Progenitus
• 1x Sapphire Medallion
• 1x Sisay's Ring
• 1x Sky Diamond
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Uba Mask
• 1x Ur-Golem's Eye
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Instant (15)

• 1x Anticipate
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Deprive
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Fortune's Favor
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Mnemonic Nexus
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Spell Crumple
• 1x Telling Time
• 1x Truth or Tale

Commander (1)

Land (37)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Blinkmoth Nexus
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Drownyard Temple
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 1x Inkmoth Nexus
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 21x Island
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Sequestered Stash
• 1x Soldevi Excavations
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Thawing Glaciers
• 1x Tolaria West

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Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign stands out among how U Commanders are played because he negates the need for drawing cards. When every Sphinx you cast is a Fact or Fiction, you just don't need card draw. And so, your opponents don't need draw either. The goal of this deck is to land Possessed Portal, Omen Machine , or Uba Mask and overwhelm our opponents with the advantage Unesh gives.

Once one of those artifacts are in play (my preferred choice is Possessed Portal), we just need to blink an Argent Sphinx every turn or use Deadeye Navigator to do the same for any sphinx. Unesh themselves is key to this strategy, and having constant immediate access to the Sovereign is why they are the commander over Arcum Dagsson, though I know he can helm a Portal deck just fine as well. Rackling and the just cute Paupers' Cage (errata really helps this card) help win if either of the three main artifacts are on the field.

While I've called it No Draw U, I think there's actually three cards in this build that do draw cards. I apologize for my shortcomings as a deckbuilder.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 31 - 0 Rares 30 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.57
Tokens	Ape 3/3 G, Frog Lizard 3/3 G
Folders	Decks I play, com ideas