[Primer] Chulane's Bounce House [cEDH]

Commander / EDH Combo Competitive GWU (Bant) Infinite Combo Lands Primer

Goretast

Creature (32)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Collector Ouphe
• 1x Destiny Spinner
• 1x Drannith Magistrate
• 1x Drift of Phantasms
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Eternal Scourge
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Faeburrow Elder
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Gilded Drake
• 1x Joraga Treespeaker
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Lotus Cobra
• 1x Mirror Entity
• 1x Misthollow Griffin
• 1x Noble Hierarch
• 1x Priest of Titania
• 1x Ranger-Captain of Eos
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Recruiter of the Guard
• 1x Shrieking Drake
• 1x Spellseeker
• 1x Thassa's Oracle
• 1x Trophy Mage
• 1x Whitemane Lion
• 1x Wirewood Symbiote
• 1x Yisan, the Wanderer Bard

Artifact (5)

• 1x Cloudstone Curio
• 1x Grafdigger's Cage
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Sol Ring

Land (29)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 2x Forest
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 3x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
• 1x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Enchantment (11)

• 1x Aluren
• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Deafening Silence
• 1x Earthcraft
• 1x Food Chain
• 1x Intruder Alarm
• 1x Mana Breach
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Rest in Peace
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Sylvan Library

Commander (1)

Instant (16)

• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dovin's Veto
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Negate
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Veil of Summer
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Manipulate Fate
• 1x Sylvan Tutor
• 1x Uncage the Menagerie

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Maybeboard

Maybeboard (7)

• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Oakhame Adversary
• 1x Oko, Thief of Crowns
• 1x Overburden
• 1x Sylvan Safekeeper
• 1x Winter Orb

Non-essential (6)

• 1x Collector Ouphe
• 1x Deafening Silence
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Rest in Peace
• 1x Sylvan Tutor

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Introduction

Commander

Chulane, Teller of Tales is a powerful commander that relies on creature casts to win the game. His triggered ability allows all our creatures to net us a draw and land drop, which can easily be abused with cards like Shrieking Drake and Whitemane Lion. His active ability is similar to Temur Sabertooth and can shine with cards like Intruder Alarm to start combos.

Deck Strategy

To put it simply, the goal of this deck is to play Chulane, create infinite mana, and win with Thassa's Oracle, Mirror Entity, or Finale of Devastation. There are other ways to win, but these cards provide the easiest route.

Chulane is relatively expensive, costing 5 mana, when compared to other cEDH commanders. To combat this, we include many stax cards (cards focused on resource denial and disruption) and high value cards. We also run all the staple mana dorks to help speed up the deck. Each game you play will be unique due to different stax, combo lines, and interactive instants. Generally you will want to establish your mana dorks and use your tutors to either grab an early Bloom Tender or relevant stax; however, if you have a key combo piece (see combos section) then you should try to go for an early win with your tutors. This deck is highly resilient against hate and can pull out quick victories when it is least expected. Do not be discouraged if Chulane is constantly removed because he is not necessary or can just be grabbed when we get infinite mana anyways.

Card Choices

Notable inclusions

Food Chain - Allows us to generate infinite mana with Eternal Scourge and Misthollow Griffin. Landing this combo should win us the game on the spot because we can cast Chulane with our infinite mana then draw our deck for a Thassa's Oracle victory. Many other Chulane players argue that Food Chain is sub-optimal because Scourge/Griffin are dead cards outside the combo, but I think we can reliably tutor the pieces often enough to make the combo worth running.

Yisan, the Wanderer Bard - Can assemble an infinite mana combo on his own with 3 verses. Grab Wirewood Symbiote first, then Priest of Titania / Bloom Tender (need 3 colors for bloom), then Mirror Entity. Tap Bloom Tender or Priest of Titania You then activate Mirror Entity for 1, bounce Wirewood symbiote with its own ability (it is now an elf) to untap Priest of Titania / Bloom Tender, cast Wirewood Symbiote again and loop to generate infinite mana.

Intruder Alarm - Very easy for us to abuse with Chulane's active ability, Shrieking Drake / Whitemane Lion, Cloudstone Curio, and our dorks. This card can be a liability because it opens up combos for your opponents, so be sure to only drop this when you know you can win.

Aluren - Works wonders in the deck because it allows us to infinitely cast Whitemane Lion / Shrieking Draketo draw our deck with Chulane and win with Thassa's Oracle.

Earthcraft - You can stack your ETB triggers of Shrieking Drake / Whitemane Lionand tap them to earthcraft to net a mana, which goes infinite with drake. It's also important to note that Earthcraft only untaps basic lands, which is why we have a few islands and forests over filter or pain lands.

Mana Breach - Doesn't effect us at all with Chulane on the board, but horribly cripples our opponents. If you like this strategy then you can also include Overburden, but it felt like overkill in this deck.

Trophy Mage - Included with the sole purpose to grab Cloudstone Curio. It can also be grabbed with Recruiter of the Guard.

Drift of Phantasms - Transmute can tutor so many essential combo peices such as Cloudstone Curio, Food Chain or Eternal Scourge, Intruder Alarm, Mana Breach, and other strong tutors such as Spellseeker / Ranger-Captain of Eos / Idyllic Tutor

Ranger-Captain of Eos - Gets Shrieking Drake while providing a silence effect for when we decide to go off.

Rest in Peace - A common stax card to shut down graveyard-focused strategies, but has great synergy with Food Chain because it can help exile Misthollow Griffin / Eternal Scourge.

Uncage the Menagerie - A solid tutor card, but goes above and beyond if you hit X=3. Grab Eternal Scourge, Drift of Phantasms to grab Food Chain, and Ranger-Captain of Eos for a silence. This line grabs us our combo and lets us prep a silence before going off.

See Combos section if you are looking to understand why a card is in the deck

Combos

Food Chain + Eternal Scourge / Misthollow Griffin = Infinite mana

Yisan, the Wanderer Bard grabs Wirewood Symbiote, Bloom Tender / Priest of Titania, Mirror Entity for infinite mana

Two 1 cmc creatures + two lands + Cloudstone Curio + Chulane

Aluren + Shrieking Drake / Whitemane Lion + Chulane

Intruder Alarm + Mana dork with + Shrieking Drake + Chulane

Earthcraft + Shrieking Drake + Island + Chulane

Any above infinite mana combos + Finale of Devastation

Notable Exclusions

There are plenty of other Chulane decks that will use different win-conditions; however, I believe that Shrieking Drake lines and Thassa's Oracle are the best win-conditions for this commander (minus timetwister). Notably, you do not want to include too many win-conditions because it makes the deck run less consistent as you draw more dead combo pieces. It is much better to run fewer combos that contain relevant pieces during any stage of the game. Below are some combos/win-conditions that are not included but were considered:

Timetwister - Used to start loops to get infinite casts with any of our spells. Not included purely because of the cost of the card, I have bills to pay. You can add Echo of Eons if you'd like to try some twister combos.

Flash with Protean Hulk - Different packages contain different combos. Some just have Academy Rector / Sidisi's Faithful to pull Aluren early with Shrieking Drake, and others have elaborate win conditions with 4-5 cards to win on the spot. I believe both win-conditions have too many dead cards that aren't useful during the game (i.e. Flash and Academy Rector). The elaborate win-con route is guilty of having even more dead cards while being weak to graveyard hate (Karmic Guide / Saffi Eriksdotter) and ETB hate.

Dramatic Reversal imprinted on Isochron Scepter - Much weaker than our current combos and also gets completely shut off if the scepter gets removed.

Meta Choices

There are some flexible spots in the deck to add in cards to help disrupt your meta. It's important to note that my meta is ever changing, so my deck is made to be for a blind match-up, meaning Carpet of Flowers might be useless some games and other cards may be more viable. Below I'll explain some cards you can substitute out. There is a full list of cards you can substitute in above in the decklist (maybeboard) and a full list of cards that are flexible and can be removed (non-essential).

Non-essential cards

Collector Ouphe - Normally disrupts opponents in a blind meta, but is not essential if you need a flex spot.

Earthcraft - A decent card that can be explosive with Shrieking Drake, but relies on a decent board state to be viable.

Containment Priest - Meta-specific inclusion for me, but you should consider it a flexible spot.

Drift of Phantasms - Great tutor us, but can be dropped for more stax if you feel like you need to be more proactive with your plays.

Deafening Silence - Verdict still isn't out on this for me. It's a great card for a creature-heavy deck, but doesn't allow us to use any counterspells once we drop some of our non-creature combo pieces.

Will update this list as I playtest the deck even more (12/19/2019)

Conclusion

Not your style or too expensive?

There are many other wonderful deck creators that have built other variants of Chulane, and you should check them out to see which style fits you more:

Spleenface - Chulane CIA (cEDH Chulane Primer) - cEDH that uses a win-conless strategy

tribal-kai - Chulane's Dorky Combo Funhouse - cEDH Food Chain and labman

Xingact - Chulane Aluren Elfball [Primer] - cEDH Elf ball (has budget version)

SufferFromEDHD - Chuland Lock - cEDH stax

DINOSAURS65556 - Chulane $200 food chain combo - $200 Budget Food Chain

OminousDoc - Chulane Hulk [["Budget" cEDH]] - $300 Budget Flash Hulk

The_Mormonator - Barebones Chulane - $50 Barebones budget

Help and discussion

I am happy to answer any questions or discuss any potential new card inclusions if you leave comment. There is also a discord specifically for talking about Chulane here: https://discord.gg/NakeK4d. In this discord you can discuss casual decks, specific combos, share decklists, and just generally talk about the commander. Most questions you can think of probably has been discussed in the discord already, so do a quick search to see what has been said. We would be happy to have you!

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If you have any suggestions or questions about card choices please comment below! You can also contact me directly on discord at Goretast#3573

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Top Ranked	Achieved #13 position overall 4 years ago Achieved #5 position in Commander / EDH 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH GWU (Bant) 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Lands 4 years ago
Date added	4 years
Last updated	3 years
Exclude colors	BR
Splash colors	WUG
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 54 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	1.99
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U
Folders	Commander decks, cEDH, Commander, Prospective EDH, Chulane teller of tales, Learning, Commander, Cool Decks Bro, Chulane, Teller of Tales, stuff
Based on	[Primer] Karametra's Bounce House Goretast EDH