NEED HELP Coin Flip themed EDH deck
Commander Deck Help forum
Posted on Feb. 6, 2018, 6:01 p.m. by chaboki92
// Mishra EDH
// 52 Maindeck// 9 Artifact
// 11 Creature
// 6 Enchantment
// 5 Instant
// 1 Land
// 6 Planeswalker
// 14 Sorcery
// 2 Sideboard// 1 Artifact
// 1 Creature
SB: Tavern Swindler
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So I am attempting to build a coin flip edh deck and would love some help. I chose Mishra because I am Possibility Storm's #! fan. I also like the colors R/B/U for this theme. Black can help get my pieces in hand. Anyways the win con idea here had to be original becuase Im a Jimmy player, and casual so no infinite's or anything we have all seen before a million times. The win con so far is Mirror Gallery+Krark's Thumb+Phyrexian Metamorph/Clever Impersonator/etc+Game of Chaos. With Mirror Gallery out I can get two Krark's Thumbs from anything similar to Phyrexian Metamorph. This way when I play Game of Chaos I can flip 4 coins and basically ignore three and choose one each time. This makes my chances 15/16 times I win the flip. Doing the math, Game of Chaos can kill anyone by 6-7 winning flips. As you can see this deck is screwy but that's the point. It's a coin flip deck, and that means there has to be a sense of risk and reward. I welcome all ideas and criticism, so I urge you to just drop down any idea that comes to your mind.
UPDATE- 2/8/18
Upon further tinkering I have added more ways to get multiple Krark's Thumbs by using Daretti, Ingenious Iconoclast and/or Saheeli Rai. They can produce more than 2 thumbs possibly and Krark's Thumb is exponential basically with each duplicate. With 2 thumbs when I flip I coin, instead flip four and choose one. So if I have 3 or 4 or (god so help me 5) thumbs what are my odds now and how can this affect my deck? Well I'll show you a couple things in a bit.
Krark's Thumb(s) Growth Data
Thumbs and possible outcomes
0: H v T
1: HT v HH v TH v TT
2: HHHH v HHHT v HHTH v HHTT v HTTT v HTHH v HTHT v HTTH v TTTT v TTTH v TTHH v THHH v THHT v THTH v TTHT v THTT
3: 8 flips and it makes 256 outcomes trust me for now...
BY NOW I hope you see how Krark's unholy thumb is exponential and so a simple way to think about the thumb and how many flips I get is 2 to the power 0 plus X which is equal to the number of thumbs so:
F=2*(0+X) (note: tappedout wont show the normal smybol used for exponent placement so I replaced it with an asterisk please dont get confused and call me dumb)
So if I have no thumbs I only get one flip and if I have 6 thumbs I get 64 flipping flips! Also the number of possibilities is the number of previous possibilities squared. In the example above it shows:
0 thumbs = 1 flips = 2 probabilities
1 thumbs = 2 flips = 4 probabilities
2 thumbs = 4 flips = 16 probabilities
3 thumbs = 8 flips = 256 probabilities
4 thumbs = 16 flips = 65536 probabilities
5 thumbs = 32 flips = 4294967296 probabilities
Having all these thumbs can be used to do possibly the most damage from a nonX spell with Game of Chaos(up to um millions, billions, possibly trillions? I'll do the math in a bit) or with Impulsive Maneuvers no one can damage you and they deal double to each other or you deal double damage to them.
So Game of Chaos doesn't end until a player chooses to end it and not flip again doubling the stakes. This means that the target player and I can have negative life totals and keep on doubling the stakes giving me a possible chance to have an insane amount of life.
UPDATE 2/9/18 - Updated list and would really like suggestions to make the deck's strategy viable. Please overview the list of possible cards and give input into what you think might be optimal or honestly whatever comes to your mind just say it!
Hmmm I guess its basically just Goblin Bookie. Nevermind I was clearly thinking of die rolling, there's lots of those.
February 7, 2018 9:06 a.m.
Shai-Hulud says... #4
Great deck idea! I like coin flip cards a lot myself, the randomness brings a fun element. They are mostly red, I think. Mana Clash, Viashino Sandswimmer, Fickle Efreet, Wild Wurm, Winter Sky, etc.
February 7, 2018 7:30 p.m.
i added a update and about to update list soon the update is explaining some of the cards im looking at right now for the deck
February 8, 2018 4:08 a.m.
another update feel free to leave comments and insight would love help
Rzepkanut says... #2
Lots of coin flipping cards in Un-sets. Opponents will probably not mind the silver borders since your doing such nonsense. Just stay away from the really annoying cards like the gotcha cards and card throwing/dexterity effects, etc. and its probably fine for most people.
February 7, 2018 8:59 a.m.