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Commander / EDH Budget Combo Counterspell Infinite Combo Jank Mill Spellslinger UBR (Grixis)

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Land (37)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Canyon Slough
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Dimir Guildgate
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 7x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Luxury Suite
• 1x Maestros Theater
• 5x Mountain
• 1x Rakdos Carnarium
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Riverglide Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Shipwreck Marsh
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 6x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Epiphany

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Bone Shards
• 1x Doomsday
• 1x Dreadbore
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Maddening Cacophony
• 1x Notion Rain
• 1x Peer into the Abyss
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Traumatize

Creature (18)

• 1x Ancient Silver Dragon
• 1x Angel of Suffering
• 1x Aven Heartstabber
• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Bloodwater Entity
• 1x Bruvac the Grandiloquent
• 1x Dimir Doppelganger
• 1x Duskmantle Guildmage
• 1x Goblin Electromancer
• 1x Hedron Crab
• 1x Jace's Phantasm
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Ledger Shredder
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Phenax, God of Deception
• 1x Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1x Urabrask, Heretic Praetor
• 1x Young Pyromancer

Artifact (12)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Decanter of Endless Water
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mindcrank
• 1x Pithing Needle
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Thought Vessel

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Psychic Corrosion

Commander (1)

Instant (16)

• 1x An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Consider
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Didn't Say Please
• 1x Drown in the Loch
• 1x Izzet Charm
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Negate
• 1x Psychic Strike
• 1x Tainted Pact
• 1x Terminate
• 1x Thought Scour
• 1x Wild Magic Surge

Planeswalker (4)

• 1x Ashiok, Dream Render
• 1x Chandra, the Firebrand
• 1x Jace, Memory Adept
• 1x Jace, Wielder of Mysteries

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Sorcery (1)

• 1x Mnemonic Betrayal

Creature (1)

• 1x Thassa's Oracle

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Stasis

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Professor Onyx

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Same deck but another substantial change. Removing Lord Xander, the Collector and subbing in Kess, Dissident Mage which has made a big difference to how this deck performs. Basically an all round improvement, although I'm sorry to see Xander go, I think it's about time as it just wasn't performing how I'd like. Any way this is a new deck format, and a new game plan!

So what's the game plan?

This has become more about milling yourself either for the self mill win or to find the pieces to mill down your opponents, whichever happens first. With this deck it's best to be aggressive and mill yourself to get a decent graveyard and set yourself up for a win con.

The Win Cons

After milling yourself, there's a few options to try, depending on your board state; There's the infinite mill of Duskmantle Guildmage + Mindcrank you just need a little milling to get it started which should be easy enough to do. Another option is Maddening Cacophony + Syr Konrad, the Grim or Bloodchief Ascension + Maddening Cacophony to get your mill damage win. Laboratory Maniac and Jace, Wielder of Mysteries are there if you wanna go for the self mill con, and Angel of Suffering or Ancient Silver Dragon will help get the draw you need! Or if you really really need to, use Living Death to just straight up overwhelm everyone else.

Peer into the Abyss + Psychic Corrosion is sitting on the side at the moment but will probably cut in once I work out what should go.

Final Notes

It's been fun playing with and so far works alot better than Xander ever did, but I think it can do better and get even more reliable. I think I'm looking for better ways of getting permanents back out of the graveyard and better ways of setting up the win so if you see any other strategies with the deck feel free to put in a suggestion for it and let me know what you think!

Top Ranked	Achieved #55 position overall 8 months ago Achieved #42 position in Commander / EDH 8 months ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Jank 3 months ago
Date added	9 months
Last updated	2 days
Key combos	Duskmantle Guildmage + Mindcrank Peer into the Abyss + Psychic Corrosion Bloodchief Ascension + Maddening Cacophony Maddening Cacophony + Syr Konrad, the Grim
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 29 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 22 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.81
Tokens	Elemental 1/1 R, Treasure
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