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Captive Audience

Commander / EDH* Enchant Zombie

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Mana (43)

Recursion (5)

Zombies (25)

Copying or Doubling Triggers (6)

Bounce and Flicker (5)

Commanders (2)

Commander: altered Kraum, Ludevic's Opus
Commander: Tymna the Weaver

Protection and Getting It Off Our Own Board (7)

Finding it (6)

The Big Show (1)

TL;DR Captive Audience is the coolest frickin' card I've ever seen and I wanted to build a deck completely around it. It's wont be a good deck, but hey, let's try to build around this super fun card. I'm mostly looking for budget-y help with the overall plan of the deck, I know the manabase is pretty janky.

So here's more detail:

Plan A: get Audience out ASAP, opponent chooses the "least bad" option which is zombies for everyone, and my zombies are bigger and badder than everyone else's. Flicker/copy CA to get more zombies. If it sticks around and people have to start choosing 4 life or discard, all the better.

Plan B: CA gets exiled, I can't find it, gets destroyed and I can't recur it...well at least I can still make lots of zombies.

Plan C: probably lose because it's a meme-y deck.

So first things first, I'm not a good deckbuilder, and this is a weird deck, so I'm open to any and all suggestions (unless you suggest to not do this). Maybe my idea of copying/flickering CA is stupid? Would it be better to fill those slots with more zombie synergy, more removal, board wipes? Basically any suggestions are welcome, as long as Audience is still the main focus.

I originally was thinking 5-colors for this, since green has the most useful recursion and ramp, but then I had too much going on and it wasn't focused enough, so I thought 4-color with partner commanders that help me draw cards would be better. Also, Audience is the only card with red in the deck, so it's primarily Esper. Are there other relevant red cards I should think about including? I was thinking Disrupt Decorum to have some fun once the board is filled with zombies, but without more red cards I felt like it just made the manabase even worse.

Also also, it's obviously pretty budget, so I don't have the best tutors, fetch lands, all the shocks, etc. I'm not on a SUPER strict budget, but individual cards over $10 are a bit of a stretch (the more expensive ones like Tymna I just already happened to own). I'm more interested in getting help with synergy and overall plan/execution of the deck, not putting in way more expensive ramp and mana. But if there are better ramp/mana options that are still budget, super happy to hear about them!

There aren't really any combos, but I've organized it into the following main plans: 1) Zombies - even without Audience it basically becomes a zombie deck. I tried to add in some lifelink/lifegain since Shepard of Rot could be a massive finisher if my life is higher than everyone else's, and since there will probably be a lot of combat damage flying around once we all start swinging with our 10,000 zombies. 2) Bounce/flicker - I can give it to other opponents, or bounce it to the same opponent so they can choose zombies all over again. Some of the instant speed flicker effects also protect it from removal 3) Cloning/copying it to really punish one player, or spread the love and give a copy to someone else. 4) Counterspells mostly for non-creature spells like Merciless Eviction or exile effects, which would permanently get rid of Audience.

Thanks in advance for any help with this absurd deck!

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