Taigam, Ojutai Master

Duel Commander

duelcastermage

Land (39)

• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Celestial Colonnade
• 1x City of Traitors
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Eiganjo Castle
• 1x Faerie Conclave
• 1x Flagstones of Trokair
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Irrigated Farmland
• 1x Kor Haven
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Mystic Gate
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Seachrome Coast
• 6x Snow-Covered Island
• 4x Snow-Covered Plains
• 1x Temple of Enlightenment
• 1x Tolaria West
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Wasteland
• 1x Windswept Heath

Creature (6)

• 1x Benevolent Bodyguard
• 1x Dragonlord Ojutai
• 1x Geist of Saint Traft
• 1x Jace, Vryn's Prodigy  ^Flip
• 1x Mother of Runes
• 1x Spellskite

Instant (22)

• 1x Azorius Charm
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Cryptic Command
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Fleeting Distraction
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Gush
• 1x Leap
• 1x Misdirection
• 1x Mystic Confluence
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Psionic Blast
• 1x Shadow Rift
• 1x Shelter
• 1x Snap
• 1x Snapback
• 1x Submerge
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Twisted Image
• 1x Unexpectedly Absent
• 1x Valorous Stance

Artifact (10)

• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Marble Diamond
• 1x Pentad Prism
• 1x Runechanter's Pike
• 1x Sky Diamond
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1x Talisman of Progress
• 1x Torpor Orb

Commander (1)

Sorcery (20)

• 1x Bribery
• 1x Call to Mind
• 1x Capture of Jingzhou
• 1x Chart a Course
• 1x Council's Judgment
• 1x Day of Judgment
• 1x Fractured Identity
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Migratory Route
• 1x Oust
• 1x Pieces of the Puzzle
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Retribution of the Meek
• 1x Serum Visions
• 1x Slaughter the Strong
• 1x Supreme Verdict
• 1x Temporal Manipulation
• 1x Time Warp
• 1x Wrath of God

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Aqueous Form
• 1x Treachery

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Taigam, Ojutai Master offers a lot of interesting deckbuilding paths. You can go all-in and try to abuse Taigam or make it a more value-oriented build. You can focus on taking extra turns or drawing extra cards or just keeping your opponent's side of the board clear.

My deck is built more to abuse Taigam than anything else. Normally in a UW deck I would run cards like Detention Sphere, but here I don't because it's not an instant or sorcery and therefore can't be rebounded.

This deck is great against creature decks that can present just a single large blocker to try to deal with Taigam. I have many ways for Taigam to be unblockable or to remove the blocker during the declare attackers step. It is less effective against decks with many threats, or heavy control decks that don't allow me to resolve Taigam in the first place. But if Taigam does resolve against a control deck, I'm in a very good position to win due to all my spells being uncounterable.

There are a few extra turns cards in here, but I wanted every spell in the deck to be playable on its own rather than only good if I'm already successfully attacking with Taigam (i.e. "winning").

Date added	6 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is not Duel Commander legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 40 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 19 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.69
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Bird 1/1 W, Copy Clone, Emblem Jace, Vryn's Prodigy