Rocco Pod Chain

Commander / EDH* Combo Competitive Infinite Combo Midrange RGW (Naya) Treasure

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Creature (38)

• 1x Allosaurus Shepherd
• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Archivist of Oghma
• 1x Arena Rector
• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Beast Whisperer
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Delighted Halfling
• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Drannith Magistrate
• 1x Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Elvish Spirit Guide
• 1x Endurance
• 1x Esper Sentinel
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Felidar Guardian
• 1x Fury
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Greater Gargadon
• 1x Imperial Recruiter
• 1x Karmic Guide
• 1x Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Priest of Titania
• 1x Ranger-Captain of Eos
• 1x Simian Spirit Guide
• 1x Skyclave Apparition
• 1x Solitude
• 1x Squee, the Immortal
• 1x Temur Sabertooth
• 1x Tinder Wall
• 1x Treasonous Ogre
• 1x Twinshot Sniper
• 1x Village Bell-Ringer
• 1x Wirewood Symbiote

Land (28)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1x Bountiful Promenade
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
• 1x Emergence Zone
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Gemstone Caverns
• 1x High Market
• 1x Horizon Canopy
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Plateau
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Spectator Seating
• 1x Spire Garden
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Taiga
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Altar of Bone
• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Shatterskull Smashing  ^Flip
• 1x Winds of Abandon

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Deafening Silence
• 1x Food Chain
• 1x Survival of the Fittest
• 1x Sylvan Library

Commander (1)

Instant (12)

• 1x Abrade
• 1x Collateral Damage
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Force of Vigor
• 1x Mine Collapse
• 1x Reckless Rage
• 1x Silence
• 1x Soul Partition
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Artifact (10)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Cloudstone Curio
• 1x Jeweled Lotus
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Sol Ring

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Vivien on the Hunt

Battle (1)

• 1x Invasion of Ikoria  ^Flip

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Rocco, Cabaretti Caterer cEDH deck. This deck contains a plethora of "1 card win conditions" when mixed with our commander.

Food Chain = Rocco can go get Squee, the Immortal so that we can net "infinite" creature mana. We can then exile Rocco to Food Chain and recast as many times as we want to get every creature from our deck into play.

Dockside Extortionist & Temur Sabertooth = Whichever one we do not have, Rocco can grab the other. Potentially 'infinte' treasures and we can use Temur Sabertooth to bounce Rocco and recast to pull every creature from our deck and put it into play.

Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker & Felidar Guardian = Rocco can grab the other, and we have 'infinte' Felidar Guardians with haste.

Survival of the Fittest = As long as we have the mana available, and a creature in hand, we can go about the following 'line' to win the game:

• Pitch creature in hand to Survival, tutor for Felidar Guardian
• Pitch Felidar Guardian to Survival, tutor for Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• Pitch Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker to Survival, tutor for Karmic Guide
• Play Karmic Guide, 'etb' trigger, return either Felidar Guardian to blink Karmic Guide or Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker to tap and copy Karmic Guide
• New Karmic Guide 'etb' trigger, return the other (either Felidar Guardian or Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker)
• Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker & Felidar Guardian combined can provide 'infinite' Felidar Guardians with haste

Birthing Pod or Vivien on the Hunt = These do essentially the same thing. Sacrifice a '3-drop' (Rocco), and go about doing a similar chain to Survival of the Fittest to retrieve the end result of Felidar Guardian + Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker

Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines = With Elesh Norn in play, casting Rocco for X=5 will then be able to win off of the 'double' trigger from Elesh Norn, but either pulling the Felidar Guardian + Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker Combo or the Dockside Extortionist + Temur Sabertooth Combo.

Cloudstone Curio = Rocco can go grab Dockside Extortionist and if the opponents collectively have 6 total artifacts and/or enchantments, we can go "infinite" with just Rocco and Dockside, and then in turn, get every creature out of our library to piece together a win. Even with out Rocco, this allows Dockside and a 1 or 2 - CMC (mana value) creature to go "infinite" with less requirements, only requiring opponents to collectively have 4 artifacts and/or enchantments if we are using a 1 - drop, and 5 if we are using a 2 - drop. Even without the combo potential, this can act as our "2nd" Wirewood Symbiote to bounce and reuse Rocco.

Rocco itself can be the tutor we need for the wincon:

Moon-Blessed Cleric = Tutors Food Chain (or Survival of the Fittest) to the top of our Library. Slow and telegraphed, but we have some ways around that with some of our "draw" effects: Horizon Canopy, Professional Face-Breaker, Beast Whisperer... Or we can flash this in on someone's end step via Emergence Zone so that it is not as telegraphed.

Arena Rector = With any piece of non-exile based removal we have in hand, Rocco can go get Rector and then we can remove our own Rector and then proceed to go get Vivien on the Hunt directly into play, and Vivien can then start the chain by 'sacrificing' Rocco.

Win Cons:

Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker+Felidar Guardian = Makes "infinite" Felidar Guardians with 'haste' to swing for the win.

Finale of Devastation = With "infinite" mana, this can make enough of our creatures arbitrarily large and have haste to swing for the win.

There are other win-cons in the deck but they are more convoluted.

This deck is aimed at being resilient and able to find a way to navigate the board-state, while having potential to play fast. It has that inevitability of presenting win attempts often, however, it does have some issues with multiple stax pieces on board, but that is also why playing spot removal for those in this deck does 3 things: 1) Removes stax pieces, 2) Resets Rocco to recast, 3) Kills our own Rector to go for the combo.

Top Ranked	Achieved #37 position overall 9 years ago
Date added	9 years
Last updated	10 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	19 - 0 Mythic Rares 51 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.38
Tokens	Copy Clone, Illusion */* U, Rhino Warrior 4/4 G, Treasure
Folders	USA, abzan standard ideas, good, Might make, Decks, Control, Trying, ideas, folder, Standard