Welcome to the Government Shutdown

Commander / EDH* Combo Control Discard Pillow Fort Theme/Gimmick WUB (Esper)

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Land (35)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Arcane Sanctum
• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 7x Island
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 4x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Radiant Fountain
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Watery Grave

Creature (14)

• 1x Alms Collector
• 1x Baird, Steward of Argive
• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Gwafa Hazid, Profiteer
• 1x Hokori, Dust Drinker
• 1x Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
• 1x Kambal, Consul of Allocation
• 1x Linvala, Keeper of Silence
• 1x Medomai the Ageless
• 1x Raving Dead
• 1x Sen Triplets
• 1x Silent Arbiter
• 1x Windborn Muse

Sorcery (23)

• 1x Blackmail
• 1x Blood Tribute
• 1x Cabal Conditioning
• 1x Debt to the Deathless
• 1x Delirium Skeins
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Fill with Fright
• 1x Fraying Omnipotence
• 1x Hallowed Burial
• 1x Hymn to Tourach
• 1x Hypnotic Cloud
• 1x Mind Twist
• 1x Mindstab
• 1x Mire's Toll
• 1x Pulling Teeth
• 1x Raven's Crime
• 1x Supreme Verdict
• 1x Terminus
• 1x Wit's End
• 1x Wrath of God
• 1x Wrench Mind

Artifact (8)

• 1x Ankh of Mishra
• 1x Armageddon Clock
• 1x Black Vise
• 1x Crawlspace
• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x The Rack
• 1x Venser's Journal
• 1x Winter Orb

Instant (1)

• 1x Cryptic Command

Commander (1)

Enchantment (20)

• 1x Arcane Laboratory
• 1x Aura of Silence
• 1x Collective Restraint
• 1x Cruel Reality
• 1x Fraying Sanity
• 1x Frozen Aether
• 1x Future Sight
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Humility
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Mana Breach
• 1x Megrim
• 1x Oppression
• 1x Overwhelming Splendor
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Revel in Riches
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Sphere of Safety
• 1x Underworld Dreams
• 1x War Tax

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Creature (2)

• 1x Magus of the Moat
• 1x Peacekeeper

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Austere Command

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So, have you ever wondered what it would be like to be the government? Well with this deck now you can do just that, with cards like The Rack , and Black Vise you now control how many cards your opponents can have, or they have to pay taxes. Armageddon Clock is the doomsday clock (think yellowstone for those U.S based)you know its gonna blow up and you just don't know when so you do all you can to stop it. If your opponent decides to play by the rules you've set punish them by forcing them to have no hand. If they decide to bypass your spells by bullying you with tokens/creatures just Wrath of God , Terminus , Hallowed Burial them and no more issues. If they still seem to strong just play Arcane Laboratory and bam they can play one thing and one thing only. Still not good enough? fine go completely mental an shut down all of it by using virtually everything else to close off their mana gen, and thus their attacking capabilities by way of Mana Breach , Sphere of Safety , and Ghostly Prison . Everything else in the deck is either producing similar effects or punishing them for the discards your forcing them to do. Sharuum the Hegemon is used to fetch what gets destroyed and no other purpose as of yet. Q.E.D, You become a tyrannical leader of a super controlling government that if done right has few ways of being stopped (California sound similar) but all in all this is a fun deck I feel that has more potential if you want to spend the money or choose to focus one of the aspects here, I'm going for overall adaptability to most situations comments and ideas are welcome.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 44 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	102
Avg. CMC	3.84
Tokens	Treasure
Folders	esper ctrl