Ode to Rhino

Commander / EDH Blink Clone GWUB Lifegain Reanimator

RufusTheGrufus

Lands: (36)

• 1x Arcane Sanctum
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bountiful Promenade
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 2x Forest
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Indatha Triome
• 2x Island
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 2x Plains
• 1x Raffine's Tower
• 1x Rejuvenating Springs
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Sea of Clouds
• 1x Seaside Citadel
• 1x Spara's Headquarters
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Undergrowth Stadium
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Vault of Champions
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
• 1x Zagoth Triome

Card Draw: (5)

• 1x Esper Sentinel
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Painful Truths
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Sylvan Library

Extra Triggers: (12)

• 1x Eerie Interlude
• 1x Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
• 1x Ephemerate
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x Ghostway
• 1x Justiciar's Portal
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Planar Incision
• 1x Restoration Angel
• 1x Teferi's Time Twist
• 1x Thassa, Deep-Dwelling
• 1x Yarok, the Desecrated

Finding the Rhino: (10)

• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Dimir House Guard
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Sylvan Tutor
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Removal/interaction: (10)

• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Druid of Purification
• 1x Farewell
• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Teferi's Protection

Commander (1)

Rhino: (12)

• 1x Cackling Counterpart
• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Clone
• 1x Glasspool Mimic  ^Flip
• 1x Mirror Image
• 1x Orvar, the All-Form
• 1x Phantasmal Image
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Quasiduplicate
• 1x Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
• 1x Sakashima the Impostor
• 1x Siege Rhino

Ramp: (8)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Farhaven Elf
• 1x Incubation Druid
• 1x Noble Hierarch
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Wood Elves

Recursion: (6)

• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Riftsweeper
• 1x Timeless Witness
• 1x Unburial Rites

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Card Draw: (4)

• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Read the Bones

Ramp: (1)

• 1x Smothering Tithe

Rhino: (1)

• 1x Spark Double

Extra Triggers: (4)

• 1x Cloudshift
• 1x Conjurer's Closet
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Essence Flux

Recursion: (2)

• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Muldrotha, the Gravetide

Removal/Interaction: (1)

• 1x Shore Up

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• Step 1: Find Siege Rhino
• Step 2: Play Siege Rhino
• Step 3: Make more Siege Rhino
• Step 4: ???
• Step 5: Profit

This is a deck built around finding and playing the best card in the game, Siege Rhino, making multiple copies of Siege Rhino, getting as many instances of it's triggered ability as possible, and protecting the Rhino.

When playing this deck the focus early game should be on ramping and stocking up on key resources such as forms of protection for Siege Rhino/recursion, cards that allow you to abuse Siege Rhino's triggered ability, and cards which allow you to make extra copies of Siege Rhino.

Oftentimes the correct line of play seems to be not to just jam Siege Rhino as soon as possible. Instead, the deck benefits from waiting to initiate operation Siege Rhino in the mid to late game once your opponent's life totals have already been partially reduced; allowing for more of an opportunity to close out games with multiple instances of Siege Rhino's triggered ability.

To this end Atraxa, Grand Unifier as the commander is incredibly useful for a number of reasons. Firstly, ramping into playing Atraxa, Grand Unifier rather than Siege Rhino provides a significant amount of card selection in order to ensure that your hand has the necessary pieces to fully take advantage of Siege Rhino; especially if you can utilize the multitude of options to get extra copies of her triggered ability such as Panharmonicon or Thassa, Deep-Dwelling. Secondly Atraxa, Grand Unifier is a big enough rattlesnake card that she will very likely draw out removal from your opponents that could potentially threaten Siege Rhino. Thirdly Atraxa, Grand Unifier provides both a backup win plan via threatening evasive commander damage as well as being a much needed form of defense by being able to block flying attackers.

Date added	11 months
Last updated	2 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 58 - 0 Rares 12 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.92
Tokens	Copy Clone, Timeless Witness 4/4 B
Folders	Funsies/Other's Decks, GOATED