Yidris, Semi-Controlled Chaos

Commander / EDH*

BerendBoer

Land (38)

• 1x Akoum Refuge
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 3x Forest
• 1x Frontier Bivouac
• 1x Golgari Guildgate
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 3x Island
• 1x Jungle Hollow
• 3x Mountain
• 1x Opulent Palace
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Rugged Highlands
• 1x Savage Lands
• 1x Steam Vents
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Swiftwater Cliffs
• 1x Temple of Abandon
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Temple of Malice
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Thornwood Falls
• 1x Vivid Crag
• 1x Vivid Creek
• 1x Vivid Grove
• 1x Vivid Marsh

Instant (3)

• 1x Bituminous Blast
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Curtains' Call

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Garruk Wildspeaker

Creature (23)

• 1x AEthersnipe
• 1x Altered Ego
• 1x Bloodbraid Elf
• 1x Chancellor of the Spires
• 1x Charnelhoard Wurm
• 1x Dack's Duplicate
• 1x Etherium-Horn Sorcerer
• 1x Ingot Chewer
• 1x Intet, the Dreamer
• 1x Marchesa, the Black Rose
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Prince of Thralls
• 1x Progenitor Mimic
• 1x Quicksilver Gargantuan
• 1x Regal Behemoth
• 1x Scourge of the Throne
• 1x Shardless Agent
• 1x Shriekmaw
• 1x Sigiled Starfish
• 1x Spitebellows
• 1x Sun Quan, Lord of Wu
• 1x Wrexial, the Risen Deep

Artifact (12)

• 1x Dreamstone Hedron
• 1x Fireshrieker
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mask of Riddles
• 1x Prismatic Geoscope
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Trailblazer's Boots
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

Commander (1)

Sorcery (14)

• 1x Coastal Breach
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Deny Reality
• 1x Explosive Vegetation
• 1x In Garruk's Wake
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Manifold Insights
• 1x Plague Wind
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Sea God's Revenge
• 1x Treasure Cruise
• 1x Unexpected Results
• 1x Wheel of Fate
• 1x World at War

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Aggravated Assault
• 1x Berserkers' Onslaught
• 1x Lurking Predators
• 1x Mana Reflection
• 1x Omniscience
• 1x Rage Reflection
• 1x Soothsaying
• 1x Sylvan Library

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I like chaotic games of Magic, but I don't like playing cards like Grip of Chaos or Timesifter. I'll be very entertained when I play against a deck like that every once in a while, but I'm just Spikey enough that for my own deck I want something focused on winning (even if it is through a convoluted combo) rather than just causing randomness. Which brings me to Cascade: an amazing mechanic that surprises you every time, but that you can build around nonetheless.

This deck is build so it is pretty hard to whiff on your cascade triggers. No counterspells, no wrath effects that blow up your own board. And a few scry cards and cheaper-than-their-mana-cost cards to cheat the system. But the cards you'll be cascading into are still pretty cool and silly, like Unexpected Results or various clones.

(And yeah, it is still possible to attack twice with a double-striking Yidris only for your 9 mana spell's quadruple cascade to spit out Soothsaying, Sensei's Divining Top, Sylvan Library and a second double strike granter. But at that point I'll be on the floor laughing, so I won't mind much.)

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 35 - 0 Rares 28 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.72
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Copy Clone, The Monarch