5 Color Gyruda

Commander / EDH Blink Clone Combo Mill Theme/Gimmick

TheRealYiazmat

Land (37)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Drownyard Temple
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forest
• 1x Gemstone Caverns
• 1x Indatha Triome
• 1x Island
• 1x Ketria Triome
• 1x Krosan Verge
• 1x Littjara Mirrorlake
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Raugrin Triome
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Taiga
• 1x The World Tree
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Zagoth Triome

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Smothering Tithe

Creature (36)

• 1x Altered Ego
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Clone
• 1x Dack's Duplicate
• 1x Dauthi Voidwalker
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Emiel the Blessed
• 1x Evil Twin
• 1x Felidar Guardian
• 1x Gigantoplasm
• 1x Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1x Luminous Broodmoth
• 1x Mirrorhall Mimic  ^Flip
• 1x Nightmare Shepherd
• 1x Phantasmal Image
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Priest of Fell Rites
• 1x Prime Speaker Zegana
• 1x Progenitor Mimic
• 1x Restoration Angel
• 1x Sakashima of a Thousand Faces *f-etch*
• 1x Sakashima the Impostor
• 1x Sakashima's Protege
• 1x Sakashima's Student
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Spark Double
• 1x Stunt Double
• 1x Thassa's Oracle
• 1x Thassa, Deep-Dwelling
• 1x Timeless Witness
• 1x Vizier of Many Faces
• 1x Wall of Stolen Identity
• 1x Wispweaver Angel

Commander (1)

Instant (11)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Despark
• 1x Eureka Moment
• 1x Growth Spiral
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Memory Deluge
• 1x Momentary Blink
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Pull from Tomorrow

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Devastating Mastery
• 1x Divine Reckoning
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Echo of Eons
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Mythos of Brokkos
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Three Visits

Artifact (4)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mox Diamond

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Sideboard

Creature (1)

• 1x Gyruda, Doom of Depths

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This deck began with a simple wish to build around Gyruda, Doom of Depths and its enter the battlefield (ETB) ability. I thought originally of building it as the commander, but felt like there weren't enough clones to effectively make a chain of triggers. I considered adding white for flicker effects and support, then considered adding green for more clones, and finally settled on just including all 5 colors. As a companion, Gyruda forces you to abide by a very noticeable restriction of only including even mana values (MV or CMC to use old terms), which got my deckbuilding juices flowing.

The path to victory is simple: 1. Ramp early 2. Add Gyruda to your hand from the "sideboard" 3. Resolve Gyruda 4. Profit?

The main idea is upon resolution, the ETB effect of Gyruda should hit an effect that allows you to get another Gyruda trigger. We are running every even MV Clone type of creature, along with some cards like Felidar Guardian and Dread Return to get flashback value and triggers from the grave. This either allows us to build a very sizeable board state at worst, or at best gets us through our entire deck and allows us to win the turn we resolve Gyruda with Thassa's Oracle The legend rule also allows us to treat Luminous Broodmoth as a sort of Panharmonicon effect, allowing us to forego the latter card.

We have some backup combos as well. Temur Sabertooth or Emiel the Blessed combined with Dockside Extortionist often lead to infinite mana.

Why did we choose Reaper King as the commander? Well, if our Gyruda plan fizzles, our clone effects and blink effects can begin to Vindicate our opponents' permanents with ease. With the Dockside combo above, we can often take advantage of a Clone + Reaper King to destroy every opposing permanent.

I ended up retiring this deck after seeing the main downside: the cascading triggers from Gyruda ask a whole lot from your opponents when you are playing in paper, especially since we are built to just play with our own cards and graveyard. It is surprisingly powerful despite the restriction as well!

Finally, I encourage using proxies for this deck or any deck, especially when it comes to reserved list cards. I do not own original dual lands, and I also regularly use proxies for cards like Volrath's Stronghold

Date added	2 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	15 - 0 Mythic Rares 63 - 1 Rares 9 - 0 Uncommons 6 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.43
Tokens	Copy Clone, Timeless Witness 4/4 B, Treasure, Vizier of Many Faces 0/0 W