Zur and Sivvi - Combo Couple

Commander / EDH Combo Control Jank WUB (Esper)

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Land (32)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arcane Sanctum
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Hall of Heliod's Generosity
• 1x Hall of the Bandit Lord
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 7x Island
• 1x Lotus Field
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Mistveil Plains
• 4x Plains
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Remote Farm
• 1x Saprazzan Skerry
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Skycloud Expanse
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Vivid Creek
• 1x Watery Grave

Enchantment (12)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Arcane Adaptation
• 1x Aura of Silence
• 1x Diplomatic Immunity
• 1x Enduring Renewal
• 1x Faces of the Past
• 1x Intruder Alarm
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Oblivion Ring
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Training Grounds

Instant (17)

• 1x AEtherize
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Artificial Evolution
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Crib Swap
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Evacuation
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Mana Leak
• 1x Memory Lapse
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Nameless Inversion
• 1x Negate
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Sphinx's Revelation
• 1x Swan Song

Creature (17)

• 1x Amrou Scout
• 1x Aphetto Alchemist
• 1x Blightspeaker
• 1x Defiant Falcon
• 1x Defiant Vanguard
• 1x Lin Sivvi, Defiant Hero
• 1x Ornithopter
• 1x Ramosian Lieutenant
• 1x Ruthless Knave
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Thraben Doomsayer
• 1x Tribute Mage
• 1x Trophy Mage
• 1x Universal Automaton
• 1x Wall of Denial
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Commander (1)

Artifact (17)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Coldsteel Heart
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Heartstone
• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Meekstone
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Talisman of Progress
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Dusk / Dawn
• 1x Manifold Insights
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Retribution of the Meek

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Enchantment (3)

• 1x Island Sanctuary
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Treachery

Instant (1)

• 1x Flusterstorm

Artifact (3)

• 1x Heartstone
• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Tome of Legends

Creature (3)

• 1x Arcanist's Owl
• 1x Vesperlark
• 1x Wall of Shards

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Type-manipulation toolbox-like deck that uses Lin Sivvi, Defiant Hero in conjunction with Arcane Adaptation to be able to tutor up pieces for an infinite of your choice. Zur the Enchanter helps find the enchants to make everything work.

Arcane Adaptation is a strange card, affecting cards both in your graveyard and deck. This turns Lin Sivvi, Defiant Hero from a xenophobic past-her-time jerkface into a hyper-flexible wonder worker. Not only can she tutor every single creature in your deck regardless of its original type, but she can also find and recycle removal like Crib Swap !

It also has a low attack theme, so it can benefit from cards like Meekstone // Retribution of the Meek if you decide to play like that. I'm currently running Crackdown which works really well with Authority of the Consuls and Blind Obedience -- though those felt too unfun for me to put in (i'm already running board-wipes...).

The below is a work in progress; I've made a lot of changes recently that invalidate some of what's written. Please keep that in mind when reading.

the virgin demonic tutor vs. the chad lin sivvi

sivvi's way cooler than that lame-o card.

combos n' stuff

how to kill the other guys 2 UPDATE!

• Lin Sivvi, Defiant Hero + Intruder Alarm // Faces of the Past + Ashnod's Altar // Phyrexian Altar + Training Grounds > summon Ornithopter with Lin, sac with Ashnods > shuffle back Ornithopter with Lin, summon/sac again =
• In addition to being able to tutor out our best creature, Blightspeaker doubles as a win-con.
• Phyrexian Altar works with Sifter of Skulls for infinite mana and 1/1's granted you have Training Grounds out

to reiterate, go infinite via...

• Ashnod's Altar // Phyrexian Altar
• Training Grounds // Heartstone
• Faces of the Past // Intruder Alarm

tutoring the tutors

tutorable tutors? this sure is a... tootmanity.

• Trophy Mage finds Ashnod's Altar // Phyrexian Altar // Heartstone
• Lin Sivvi, Defiant Hero can be tutored by the following: Amrou Scout // Blightspeaker // Defiant Falcon // Defiant Vanguard // Drift of Phantasms // Ramosian Lieutenant // Perplex
• All enchantments, excluding Conspiracy , can be tutored with Zur the Enchanter

making the big play: mana

This deck runs a lot of colorless ramp. Might not makes sense at first for a tri-color deck to do this, but as it turns out, Rebels are the backbone of the build, and that's all they require! Playing things properly can give you a solid 1-2 turn advantage over playing a more "stable" landbase.

//artifacts, list needs to be updated

• Azorius Signet
• Basalt Monolith
• Hedron Archive
• Mind Stone
• Sol Ring
• Thran Dynamo

making the big play: protection

In general, counterspells are your primary form of defense. There's other options, though

• Kira, Great Glass-Spinner (doesn't interfere with Ashnod's, aay)
• Vanishing

yeah just like... counter and play around stuff, man. you have a lot of counterspells and don't have to pop off right away.

personal blab & why i enjoy working on this deck

when i was building my meek shirei deck, i came across the card Trait Doctoring while trying to find interesting synergies and win-cons. researching its uses online, i learned a lot about type/color manipulation, and also about how genuinely awful the card was. in a stroke of luck, however, Arcane Adaptation , another card that piked my interest, ended up being far, far more usable. being tutorable by none other than Zur the Enchanter , a card i'm sure everyone is familiar with, the options for how exactly the deck would be composed were overwhelming. considering my favorite colors are those of Esper and i've always had a thing for eldrazi, i ended up rolling with the idea of Rebels and a good amount of colorless ramp.

Rebel cards can tutor other Rebels through raw colorless mana. this means that if you change every creature in your deck to rebels, the world is your oyster. unfortunately you can't add creature types to spells, but cards like Crib Swap work.

overall i've been having an absolute blast playing this deck in casual play. it's able to hold its own while staying fun for everyone involved.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 33 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 28 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.47
Tokens	Ape 3/3 G, Bird 2/2 U, Human 1/1 W, Morph 2/2 C, Shapeshifter 1/1 C, Treasure