Ink-Treader Twiddle Storm

Commander / EDH Combo RGWU Spellslinger Storm

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Land (31)

• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Battlefield Forge
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Brushland
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Emergence Zone
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Forest
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Karplusan Forest
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Tarnished Citadel
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Untap (10)

• 1x Catch / Release
• 1x Cerulean Wisps
• 1x Cloudshift
• 1x Emerald Charm
• 1x Jeskai Ascendancy
• 1x Kari Zev's Expertise
• 1x Refocus
• 1x Tidal Bore
• 1x Twiddle
• 1x Twitch

Tutors (3)

• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Draw a Card (18)

• 1x Accelerate
• 1x Bandage
• 1x Cerulean Wisps
• 1x Charge Through
• 1x Crimson Wisps
• 1x Defiant Strike
• 1x Expedite
• 1x Fire / Ice
• 1x Fists of Flame
• 1x Fleeting Distraction
• 1x Leap
• 1x Niveous Wisps
• 1x Pressure Point
• 1x Refocus
• 1x Shadow Rift
• 1x Twitch
• 1x Verdant Rebirth
• 1x Viridescent Wisps

Protection/Removal (15)

• 1x Artifact Mutation
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Boros Charm
• 1x Catch / Release
• 1x Cloudshift
• 1x Electrodominance
• 1x Gods Willing
• 1x Nivmagus Elemental
• 1x Repudiate / Replicate
• 1x Simic Charm
• 1x Snap
• 1x Spellskite
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Verdant Rebirth

Hasters (6)

• 1x Accelerate
• 1x Catch / Release
• 1x Crimson Wisps
• 1x Expedite
• 1x Kari Zev's Expertise
• 1x Mass Hysteria

Flash (3)

• 1x Electrodominance
• 1x Emergence Zone
• 1x Savage Summoning

Reuse (2)

• 1x Past in Flames
• 1x Snapcaster Mage

Commander (1)

Ramp (17)

• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Cryptolith Rite
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Faeburrow Elder
• 1x Incubation Druid
• 1x Kiora's Follower
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Noble Hierarch
• 1x Orcish Lumberjack
• 1x Ornithopter of Paradise
• 1x Paradise Druid
• 1x Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1x Song of Freyalise
• 1x Swell of Growth
• 1x Sylvan Caryatid

Creature Generators (10)

• 1x Alliance of Arms
• 1x Artifact Mutation
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Natural Affinity
• 1x Repudiate / Replicate
• 1x Silverfur Partisan
• 1x Sprout Swarm
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Young Pyromancer

Win-Con (4)

• 1x Fists of Flame
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Ral, Storm Conduit
• 1x Sprout Swarm

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Maybeboard

Other (4)

• 1x Forbid
• 1x Quasiduplicate
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Soulfire Grand Master

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Ever thought Ancestral Recall shouldn't be banned? I mean, it's only a mere three cards for 1 mana. Surely we can do better...

How about 5 cards? 10? 37? The rest of your library?

Now we're getting somewhere! BEHOLD! Ink-treader, the most fun (and most unnoficial) commander you will see today. The plan is simple: play creatures, play Nephilim, play a card draw spell, win the game. Easy, right? Hm... I might have skipped a step or two here... Let's take it from the top.

How does it work?

"So what does Ink-treader do?" Simple, any spell that targets only it gets a copy targetting each other (legal) creature on the field. Cast Defiant Strike on Nephilim with 5 creatures on board? Draw 5 cards. Oh, would you look at that, we drew Charge Through . Guess we'll draw 5 more!

"Ok, so we're drawing cards, but we're running out of mana. Now what?" Just untap our mana creatures with Twiddle , Refocus , etc. Our ramp is creature based, since more creatures means more card draw.

"Alright, we've drawn cards, made more mana, drawn the rest of our library. How exactly do we win". Uh, Laboratory Maniac ? "Oh, right." We can also win with Ral, since we copy a lot of spells. There is also an infinite combo: Jeskai Ascendancy + Sprout Swarm + creatures to cast Sprout Swarm (one of them producing mana) = Infinite mana + infinite creatures with infinite power (also infiniting looting. Ascendancy does a lot, doesn't it?)

Game Plan

This is how the game usually plays out.

• Turn 0: Keep a hand with enough mana for Ink-Treader, 1-2 of the mana sources being creatures and a card draw spell;
• Turn 1: Land, mana creature, pass;
• Turn 2: Land, mana creature, pass;
• Turn 3: This is the risky turn. You can tap out, play Ink-treader and pray for no interaction. Why would you expose yourself like this? Because;
• Turn 4: You have Ink-treader, a couple of mana-creatures and lands untapped and a draw spell in hand. If you get to this position, the game is basically over.

Now is about finding the best timing to go off. You can win at instant speed, so don't worry about getting to your turn. If an opponent goes to combo or disrupt your board, respond by drawing a handful. If you find more card draw, now it's about keeping the cards rolling, using your mana efficiently, and you'll likely win.

Synergies

"How do we win at instant speed?" Savage Summoning gets an uncouterable flash Lab Maniac. For everything else, Swell of Growth puts Emergence Zone in the field and Electrodominance targets, so it gets copied and allows you to cast a bunch of spells. On that note, if you time it right, Electrodominance and Kari Zev's Expertise let you cast most of your deck-> One copy lets you cast a card draw for free, finding you more card draw that you cast for free with the remaining copies.

You can also weave spells between the copies. Let's say you have 6 card draws on the stack, but you're running low on mana and need a Twiddle effect. Let the first copy resolve, drawing 1 card, then 2, 3, 4, 5... you didn't find an untap effect? Mystical Tutor for one, and draw it with the last copy.

There are a lot of synergies hidden within, and if I could, I would talk about every single card choice. However, this is looking less like a summary and more like a dissertation, so I'll have to cut short and let you figure out the rest!

Date added	5 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 53 - 0 Rares 12 - 0 Uncommons 30 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	1.96
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Bird 2/2 U, Copy Clone, Elemental 1/1 R, Saproling 1/1 G, Soldier 1/1 W, Spirit 1/1 C, Wolf 2/2 G