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Commander / EDH Combo Doomsday Pile Jank Lab Man/Thoracle Spellslinger UBR (Grixis)

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Land (34)

• 1x Blackcleave Cliffs
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Canyon Slough
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 1x Frostboil Snarl
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 1x Island
• 1x Lotus Field
• 1x Luxury Suite
• 1x Maestros Theater
• 1x Meteor Crater
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Riverglide Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Shipwreck Marsh
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Snow-Covered Island
• 1x Snow-Covered Mountain
• 1x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Training Center
• 1x Volatile Fjord
• 1x Xander's Lounge

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Rhystic Study

Instant (21)

• 1x An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Consider
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Deadly Dispute
• 1x Deflecting Swat
• 1x Demonic Consultation
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mana Leak
• 1x Negate
• 1x Resculpt
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Tainted Pact
• 1x Terminate
• 1x Test of Talents
• 1x Thought Scour
• 1x Wild Magic Surge

Sorcery (15)

• 1x Blood Beckoning
• 1x Bone Shards
• 1x Doomsday
• 1x Dreadbore
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Personal Tutor
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Profane Tutor
• 1x Scheming Symmetry
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Solve the Equation
• 1x Thoughtseize
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Vandalblast

Commander (1)

Creature (16)

• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Baral, Chief of Compliance
• 1x Chrome Host Seedshark
• 1x Deranged Assistant
• 1x Dimir Infiltrator
• 1x Faerie Mastermind
• 1x Goblin Electromancer
• 1x Haughty Djinn
• 1x Hedron Crab
• 1x Ledger Shredder
• 1x Micromancer
• 1x Myr Convert
• 1x Nightscape Familiar
• 1x Ornithopter of Paradise
• 1x Thassa's Oracle
• 1x Thing in the Ice  ^Flip

Artifact (11)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Ensnaring Bridge
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Mesmeric Orb
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence
• 1x Thought Vessel

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Sideboard

Instant (1)

• 1x Rakdos Charm

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Ashiok, Dream Render

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Blasphemous Act

Artifact (1)

• 1x Nihil Spellbomb

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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?

After a hell of a lot of iterations, cuts and more cuts, the deck should now consistently draw and tutor out the main combo to pull out the win. With the help of a ton of draw the pieces should be easy to find and along the way, the protection you'll need to make sure the combo hits. Much more focused than previous, there are no other win cons other than the main plan so control of the board or at the very least, counters in hand are priority to pick up the win.

The Win Cons

We're going for a self mill win with either Thassa's Oracle or Laboratory Maniac, although the thoracle is absolutely the best and cheapest option in terms of mana cost. With a earliest win of turn 2 if you're incredibly lucky!

You'll want to find Tainted Pact which since no cards have the same name, can be used to completely remove your library, then thoracle down and there's your win. Lab man can do the same, just be sure you can draw first!

Since there is only the core combo to win, a counter in hand is almost essential but hopefully easily found with the card draw and tutors there.

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. At this point it's more a better land base, a bit more in the way of control and protection and probably ramp that are the biggest areas to improve on, so feel free to put in any suggestions you might have and let me know what you think!

Edit So I've had a lot of fun with this deck and it's done me better than I could have hoped, but this is prob the last update on it for a while. Want to mix it up a little so this is staying for the archives. Will some day update it to a yore deck with Breya as commander but until then!

Top Ranked	Achieved #55 position overall 2 years ago Achieved #42 position in Commander / EDH 2 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Jank 1 year ago
Date added	2 years
Last updated	4 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 43 - 1 Rares 18 - 2 Uncommons 27 - 1 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	1.94
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Elemental 4/4 UR, Incubator, Phyrexian 0/0 C, Treasure
Folders	Toy Chest, Koola Lekar, New capenna, maybe one day?, Xander pain, edh, Deck Inspiration, decks i like, Ideas, yippee