Azami Paper

Commander / EDH

Grind

Instant (24)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Capsize
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cryptic Command
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Delay
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Dissipate
• 1x Dissolve
• 1x Dream Fracture
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x High Tide
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Reins of Power
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Turnabout
• 1x Whir of Invention

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Devastation Tide
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Merchant Scroll
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Recall
• 1x Recurring Insight
• 1x Reshape
• 1x Time Stretch
• 1x Wash Out

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Rhystic Study

Artifact (13)

• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Coldsteel Heart
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Paradox Engine
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sky Diamond
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Star Compass
• 1x Thran Dynamo

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Jace, the Mind Sculptor
• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker

Creature (12)

• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Daring Apprentice
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Docent of Perfection  ^Flip
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Treasure Mage
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Trophy Mage
• 1x Voidmage Prodigy

Land (36)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 33x Island
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Strip Mine

Commander (1)

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The goal here is a Paradox Engine situation with Azami, Lady of Scrolls on the battlefield. Trinket Mage is an M.V.P. as he can tutor for Mana Crypt or Sensei's Divining Top. this combo is awesome: if you have those 5 cards, then drawing a card generates mana and can be repeated to draw your whole deck (if you want).

Wincons:
Deadeye Navigator + Peregrine Drake + Capsize lock.

Isochron Scepter with any Counterspell, Sol Ring, and Paradox Engine for a hard lock on spellcasting.

Time Stretch + Archaeomancer + Capsize lock for infinite turns if you have 10 mana.

after a little bit of playtesting, this deck isn't that fast but unless your opponents hate you out real quick then you can reliably win before turn 10.

Turn 2 win "Godhand": 8 cards required
Turn 1: Island, Mana Crypt, Sol Ring, Sky Diamond .
Turn 2: Island, tap 3 rocks for 5, cast Paradox Engine, cast Isochron Scepter imprinting either Mana Drain, or Impulse. untap all your mana rocks. now you can either draw your deck and have infinite mana or you can have a counterspell lock on the game. technically the counterspell lock can be stopped by a Krosan Grip or Trickbind on the paradox engine untap trigger so probably drawing your deck is "better" so that you can Capsize their lands.

After some thought, a Turn 1 win is possible if you run Ancient Tomb. All you need is 7 mana turn 1.
Ancient Tomb+Mana Crypt+Mana Vault+Sol Ring+Paradox Engine+Isochron Scepterand Impulse. Brainstorm also works. infinite colorless mana and card draw, draw until you get your Darksteel Ingot and Capsize.
if you run Ancient Tomb, the probability of this hand randomly occurring is something like 0.00000000013581.

These are cards I have (mana drain is proxy etc) but this is my first try at an azami deck so any suggestions to make it better are appreciated. Thanks.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 25 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.08
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Human Wizard 1/1 U, Morph 2/2 C