Bomb Has Been Planted: 50€ Budget Ukkima Voltron

Commander / EDH Aggro Budget BUG (Sultai) Infect Voltron

Chiefson

Equipment (22)

• 1x Barbed Battlegear
• 1x Blackblade Reforged
• 1x Bonesplitter
• 1x Cranial Plating
• 1x Dowsing Dagger  ^Flip
• 1x Empyrial Plate
• 1x Fireshrieker
• 1x Golem-Skin Gauntlets
• 1x Grafted Exoskeleton
• 1x Grafted Wargear
• 1x Inquisitor's Flail
• 1x Mask of Memory
• 1x Prying Blade
• 1x Quietus Spike
• 1x Sai of the Shinobi
• 1x Shuko
• 1x Sigiled Sword of Valeron
• 1x Skullclamp MP
• 1x Slayer's Plate
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Sword of the Animist
• 1x Tenza, Godo's Maul

Cardadvantage (5)

• 1x Bident of Thassa
• 1x Curious Obsession
• 1x Hunter's Insight
• 1x Padeem, Consul of Innovation
• 1x Whispering Madness

Interaction (5)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x One with Nature
• 1x String of Disappearances

JustFits (3)

• 1x Dimir Infiltrator
• 1x Glistening Oil
• 1x Phyresis

Land (35)

• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct MP
• 1x Dismal Backwater MP
• 1x Evolving Wilds MP
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 8x Forest MP
• 3x Island
• 5x Island MP
• 1x Jwar Isle Refuge MP
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 7x Swamp MP
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse MP
• 1x Vivid Creek MP
• 1x Vivid Marsh MP
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Ramp (14)

• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Golgari Signet
• 1x Harrow MP
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Llanowar Elves MP
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Simic Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Curiosity
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Resilience

Battletricks (4)

• 1x Increasing Savagery
• 1x Simic Charm
• 1x Supernatural Stamina
• 1x Tainted Strike

Commanders (2)

 ^Flip

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Synergy (10)

• 1x Artificer's Assistant
• 1x Cauldron of Souls
• 1x Etherium Sculptor
• 1x Foundry Inspector
• 1x Hidden Strings
• 1x Jhoira's Familiar
• 1x Life's Legacy
• 1x Necropolis Regent
• 1x Sakiko, Mother of Summer
• 1x Stolen Identity

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Maybeboard

Other (35)

• 1x Argentum Armor
• 1x Assault Suit
• 1x Basilisk Collar HP
• 1x Batterskull HP
• 1x Birds of Paradise HP
• 1x Blighted Agent
• 1x Bloodforged Battle-Axe HP
• 1x Conqueror's Flail HP
• 1x Darksteel Plate HP
• 1x Emry, Lurker of the Loch HP
• 1x Hadana's Climb HP  ^Flip
• 1x Hammer of Nazahn HP
• 1x Haunted Cloak
• 1x Heartseeker HP
• 1x Journey to Eternity HP  ^Flip
• 1x Lashwrithe
• 1x Lightning Greaves HP
• 1x Mantle of Tides
• 1x Masterwork of Ingenuity HP
• 1x Myr Retriever
• 1x Nightmare Lash
• 1x Nim Deathmantle HP
• 1x Perplex
• 1x Plague Myr
• 1x Plague Stinger
• 1x Sai, Master Thopterist HP
• 1x Scytheclaw
• 1x Shadowspear HP
• 1x Silas Renn, Seeker Adept HP
• 1x Specter's Shroud
• 1x Spellbinder
• 1x Unsummon
• 1x Whip of Erebos HP
• 1x Whir of Invention
• 1x Whispering Specter

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Hello there,

this is a budget Ukkima, Stalking Shadow Equipment Voltron Deck. I call it 'The Bomb Has Been Planted'. The idea is to make Ukkima big with equipments. Once you surpass a potential 10 infect damage, one player will instantly die when Ukkimas leaves the battlefield ability triggers. So if someone tries to remove that unblockable infect monster, they will pay with losing the game. When Ukkima leaves the battlefield, it deals X damage to target player and you gain X life, where X is its power. 10 strength is too much to ask? You can threaten to kill one player quite early with just 5 combat infect damage and then threatening with 5 possible ltb infect damage.

Cards like Dimir Infiltrator are a cheap way of tutoring for your missing pieces, like a sweet reusable Glistening Oil or a Powerup like Blackblade Reforged and also serves as a redundant evasion creature. Even if there is no infect available, don't forget to play agressively and spread commander and normal damage with attacks and the ltb ability. Equipments allow you to recover to full strength quickly, once your bomb has gone BOOM. Card draw, ramp, protection and so on are mostly budget friendly and staying within the theme of dealing damage to enemy player and equipments/artifacts in general. Cards like Whispering Madness allows you to get back into the game once you ran out of gas. Play your cheap equipments before wheeling, so you always come out ahead. Artificer's Assistant gives you some important card selection and insane value with over 30 artifacts, as well as beeing a redundant evasion creature. I tried to include smooth synergies without expensive or over the top combos.

Deck costs are around 50€ at cardmarket including shipping at the time I'm writing this, using played cards as well (language = english + german). Medium played flagged cards are cards I already own, but they are cheap anyway. I'm sure you got some of the cards at home already as well. Update: Cost was less than 52€ total. Playtest will soon follow.

Please share your thoughts, I'd really love to hear your ideas and critics! The deck is a bit short on interactions right now, but I hope it still works due to some politics with the kill threat. My other big fear is mass artifact destruction. Padeem, Consul of Innovation might help early and Emry, Lurker of the Loch later, but we'll have to find out by testing. Cards in the Maybeboard flagged heavily played are great upgrades, but don't always fit the budget. The land basis is not optimal, but it works just fine and is cheap. Improving the mana base with cards like Birds of Paradise as well as some dual lands + green mana dorks will allow you for a turn 2 Ukkima, which will be a big improvement, but I'd like to start on budget. There are some ways of activating the ltb ability by bouncing/sacrificing Ukkima, but there are plenty more budget options. If your opponent removes it for you, you can play more equipments instead.

Update: Cost was less than 52€ total. Playtest will soon follow.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 19 - 0 Rares 27 - 0 Uncommons 27 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.40
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Copy Clone, Knight 2/2 W w/ Vigilance, Plant 0/2 G, Spirit 1/1 W, Treasure
Folders	Voltron!
Based on	Ukkima Equip/Voltron Budget EDH copy copy Chiefson EDH