[Ac] N.O. Wish (Combo || Flex)

Commander / EDH GWUB Partner Praetor Tap/Untap

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Land (35)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Nurturing Peatland
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Scrubland
• 2x Snow-Covered Forest
• 2x Snow-Covered Island
• 1x Snow-Covered Plains
• 1x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Zagoth Triome

Artifact (9)

• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1x Umbral Mantle

Creature (28)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Noble Hierarch
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Phantasmal Image
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Stoneforge Mystic
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Faeburrow Elder
• 1x Ramunap Excavator
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1x Atraxa, Praetors' Voice
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Havengul Lich
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x The Gitrog Monster
• 1x Titania, Protector of Argoth
• 1x Bane of Progress
• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Kamahl, Fist of Krosa
• 1x Progenitor Mimic
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine
• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1x Nyxbloom Ancient
• 1x Terastodon
• 1x Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Regrowth
• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Sevinne's Reclamation
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will
• 1x Natural Order

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker

Commanders (2)

Instant (13)

• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Nexus of Fate

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Training Grounds
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Mana Reflection

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Sideboard

Creature (7)

• 1x Dark Confidant
• 1x Den Protector
• 1x Phyrexian Revoker
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Chancellor of the Spires

Land (2)

• 1x Field of the Dead
• 1x Path of Ancestry

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Living Wish

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Maybeboard

Artifact (2)

• 1x Sword of Truth and Justice
• 1x The Great Henge

Instant (1)

• 1x Assassin's Trophy

Creature (1)

• 1x Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath

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*Brief description: The name "N.O. Wish'' refers both to the deck's signature card (Natural Order), the deck-building philosophy to "have an answer for just about everything", and it's inclusion of a Living Wishboard (which I have meticulously selected 10 cards for such usage). Having "answers for everything" is often accomplished by crippling the opponent's mana production in various ways so they can't do much to begin with. This deck is the result of nearly a decade of arms racing within an increasingly more competent local meta that was okay with me using a Wishboard for this deck. Since the printing of Faeburrow Elder, it has become the default card in place of Living Wish, essentially giving me a third copy of Bloom Tender/Selvala, Heart of the Wilds. And I will ask whatever pod I'm playing with if they're okay with me running Wish. Umbral Mantle, Basalt Monolith and Grim Monolith are the deck's infinite mana enablers, but, in an effort to play more fairly, I move these cards, and Phyrexian Altar, into the "Maybeboard" and replace them with paper-proxies of Sword of Truth and Justice, Assassin's Trophy, The Great Henge and Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath. If the deck is run in this depowered configuration, it has no infinite combos other than Nexus of Fate loops (it's for anti-mill, I swear!). With or without its combos, the deck has a play style I enjoy, it is both nimble, yet heavy hitting.

*Verbose description: This is my oldest and favorite EDH deck. It started off as a Damia, Sage of Stone deck in 2011 centered around Natural Order (a card I've had in my collection since I was a kid and never had a home for) and the color Green, but utilizing Blue, Black, and now, White as support colors. Hitting opponents early with Thrasios backed up by Tymna usually means I always have a full grip of 7 cards like grandma Damia used to give, but now at all stages of the game. Having a low cost green creature from the command zone means I always have cheap fodder for Natural Order. A turn 2 Thrasios followed by a turn 4 Natural Order + Terastodon blowing up mana sources is a common, and powerful, line of play, buying enough time to set up a win condition.

There are a number of beatdown enablers like Sword of Feast and Famine for voltron, and Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite and Kamahl, Fist of Krosa's overrun ability to punch through enemy lines (together Norn and Kamahl also disrupt opponent's mana by killing lands). Titania, Protector of Argoth quickly makes a strong army. Havengul Lich is a pet card of mine that methodically takes over games and synergizes particularly well with Phyrexian Altar; Lich is also a backup for recurring other combos. Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger, Bane of Progress, The Gitrog Monster, Consecrated Sphinx, Wurmcoil Engine, and Atraxa, Praetors' Voice are all beefy threats in their own right and pull their weight with various important abilities for the deck.

Games typically end on turns 5-7 with Umbral Mantle making unbounded mana with Bloom Tender, Faeburrow Elder or Selvala, Heart of the Wilds or with Kamahl, Fist of Krosa + Gaea's Cradle. Some other combos include: Mana Reflection or Nyxbloom Ancient + Grim Monolith or Basalt Monilith making infinite colorless mana that, with Thrasios, draws me into Wurmcoil Engine + Phyrexian Altar allowing me to cast Havengul Lich for infinite colored mana.

Living Wish is a tertiary card that grabs either Path of Ancestry or Field of the Dead 90% of the time, but the other eight cards offer niche utility: card draw Dark Confidant, recursion Den Protector, flashback Snapcaster Mage, clone Phyrexian Metamorph, mana dork Faeburrow Elder, disruption of activated abilities Phyrexian Revoker, a back up win condition Laboratory Maniac, and Chancellor of the Spires, another pet card. I inform people that Living Wish is in the deck (hence it's part of the deck's name) and allow them to see the 10 card sideboard if they'd like; this is the only deck of mine that utilizes the optional 10 card sideboard rule.

*Post Script: This deck includes many sentimental cards for me, and I've yet to tire of playing it after nearly 10 years (even while helmed by Damia, Sage of Stone it has always been a Natural Order deck). I included at least 1 legendary card from each color, and from colorless, and whenever I look through the cards it feels like reminiscing with old friends.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	3 years
Exclude colors	R
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	22 - 2 Mythic Rares 59 - 6 Rares 11 - 1 Uncommons 2 - 1 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.14
Tokens	Copy Clone, Elemental 5/3 G, Elephant 3/3 G, Morph 2/2 C, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Deathtouch, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Lifelink, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Ammo Crate EDH