American Chaos [primer included]

Commander / EDH Chaos Flip Jank RUW (Jeskai, America)

Oakiegg

True Chaos (18)

• 1x Comet, Stellar Pup
• 1x Custody Battle
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Goblin Game
• 1x Grand Melee
• 1x Grip of Chaos
• 1x Illicit Auction
• 1x Jinxed Choker
• 1x Liar's Pendulum
• 1x Possibility Storm
• 1x Risky Move
• 1x Scrambleverse
• 1x Simon, Wild Magic Sorcerer
• 1x Thieves' Auction
• 1x Warp World
• 1x Wheel of Misfortune
• 1x Wild Evocation
• 1x Worldfire

Controllable Chaos (flips) (12)

• 1x Boompile
• 1x Fiery Gambit
• 1x Goblin Bomb
• 1x Impulsive Maneuvers
• 1x Krark's Thumb
• 1x Krark, the Thumbless
• 1x Planar Chaos
• 1x Space Beleren
• 1x Stitch in Time
• 1x Tide of War
• 1x Yusri, Fortune's Flame
• 1x Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom

Utility / Ramp (18)

• 1x Descent into Avernus
• 1x Display of Power
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Scholarship Sponsor
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Conviction
• 1x Talisman of Creativity
• 1x Talisman of Progress
• 1x Tavern Scoundrel
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Tribute Mage
• 1x Wedding Ring

Win Conditions (6)

• 1x Approach of the Second Sun
• 1x Chance Encounter
• 1x Game of Chaos
• 1x Mana Clash
• 1x Soulfire Grand Master
• 1x Triskaidekaphile

Pillow Fort (5)

• 1x Fatespinner
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Norn's Annex
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Teferi, Time Raveler

Commander (1)

Lands (36)

• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 1x Battlefield Forge
• 1x Boros Garrison
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 7x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 9x Mountain
• 7x Plains
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Sea of Clouds
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Spectator Seating
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Training Center

Removal & Countermagic (4)

• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Fractured Identity
• 1x Jester's Mask
• 1x Tibalt's Trickery

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Maybeboard

Other (9)

• 1x Aeon Engine
• 1x Boldwyr Heavyweights
• 1x Eye of the Storm
• 1x Life of the Party
• 1x Mages' Contest
• 1x Omen Machine
• 1x Psychic Battle
• 1x War's Toll
• 1x Wild Research

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Patch 1.2

When I was building this deck, I made a large order to my LGS for pickup. They've got this little window where they call your name over the intercom and let you know that your order is ready, and my name had just been called. As I walked up, the clerk passed me my order, and before I could walk away a puller employee came up and said, "Hey, before you go, I needed to ask... Does this deck even have a win con, or are you just trying to lose friends?"

This deck doesn't really win.

It all spawned from a memory of playing against a friend’s coinflip deck almost 10 years ago now. Back then, Commander was a brand new format to me and my closest buddies, and we were all just dipping our toes into the format, my first ever deck being to C13 precon with Oloro, The Ageless Ascetic in the general’s chair. But I remember the madness of playing against a guest that joined us at a friend of a friend’s apartment, flipping coins, changing spell targets, and just doing the wildest bull$#!~ I’ve ever seen in a game. Above that defining game though, Commander back in the day, as well as almost all the games I played with my friends, were ruled by the game-bending alternate deck with Planeschase.

I’ve always been more of a chaotic player myself, favoring Grixis for the most part in playstyle and flavor. My friends are chaotic and variable, spreading out damage, knocking out folks without warning, countering spells that have no real reason to be countered… Sometimes they’re drunken mistakes, but most times they’re just a tasty “f-you” or a silly “yeah, right” to respond to somebody’s attempt to Draw One, Scry One.

While this deck doesn’t plan to win most the of time, it certainly promises to make games interesting and perhaps even feed a win to someone undeserving. Custody Battle running away with Azor's Elocutors can be a silly way to get the ball rolling quickly, but it could lose the nuance of all the fuckery that is present in American Chaos. Two of my favorites, Liar's Pendulum and Jinxed Collar, make a cameo from my themed I am the Collector deck, and a few staples from Heads I Win, Tails You Lose pop in along the way to get us moving in some good old fashioned chaotic fun. I’ve purposely left out Okuan, Eye of Chaos from this build to avoid dumb wins with the flipping since despite the tutors specifically for Krark's Thumb being present I would like to be making most of my flips the same as everybody else, a good ol’ 50/50.

Pillowfort classics like Propaganda, Ghostly Prison, and Norn's Annex will help defend us from the lone attacker that Pramikon, Sky Rampart allow through, which can be politicked to keep their attackers as defenders with Grand Melee’s *if able clause allowing our opponent to choose whether to attack us or not. Scholarship Sponsor is an excellent way to get some friends and ramp up with the green player just when the time is ripe, and once we’ve got all the pieces in place to start getting silly we can.

Thieves' Auction promises to be a great time, while Warp World or Scrambleverse may prompt concessions and surrenders if players don’t dig the cold dog soup. But a fresh set of eyes always find more beans, so we’ve got a few win conditions in here to keep things tempered if we sense some roughness in the room with the chaos moving around, and we can camp in the front room with our blanket cabin and pray to god Approach of the Second Sun, Chance Encounter, or Triskaidekaphile get the win. My personal goal? Win the round with a Game of Chaos, fair and square, copied with Simon, Wild Magic Sorcerer landing a nat20 and Display of Power for the third cast. A man can dream...

Top Ranked	Achieved #14 position overall 9 months ago Achieved #10 position in Commander / EDH 9 months ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Jank 10 months ago
Date added	10 months
Last updated	2 days
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 51 - 0 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 1 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.56
Tokens	Copy Clone, Squirrel 1/1 G, Treasure
Folders	EDH, To Try, Commander, EDH, TO TRY, Decklists