Cutie Patooties and Atrocious Abominations

Commander / EDH Budget GU (Simic)

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Other Spells (28)

• 1x AEtherize
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Charmed Sleep
• 1x Contact Other Plane
• 1x Cytoshape
• 1x Defy Gravity
• 1x Explore
• 1x Frogify
• 1x Leather Armor
• 1x Monstrous Onslaught
• 1x Mystic Repeal
• 1x Peel from Reality
• 1x Plasm Capture
• 1x Ranger's Longbow
• 1x Shielding Plax
• 1x Snakeform
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Split the Party
• 1x Stinging Shot
• 1x Unexpected Results
• 1x Viridian Longbow
• 1x Warbriar Blessing
• 1x Whirlwind Denial
• 1x Wizard Class
• 1x Wizard's Spellbook
• 1x You Find a Cursed Idol
• 1x You Happen on a Glade
• 1x You See a Guard Approach

Atrocious Abominations (17)

• 1x Apex Devastator
• 1x Beanstalk Giant
• 1x Cloudthresher
• 1x Dawnglade Regent
• 1x Dragon Turtle
• 1x Engulfing Slagwurm
• 1x Gigantosaurus
• 1x Impervious Greatwurm
• 1x Inkwell Leviathan
• 1x Kalonian Behemoth
• 1x Lorthos, the Tidemaker
• 1x Nezahal, Primal Tide
• 1x Scourge of Fleets
• 1x Simic Sky Swallower
• 1x The Tarrasque
• 1x Titanoth Rex
• 1x Trench Behemoth

Lands (39)

• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Desert of the Mindful
• 13x Forest
• 19x Island
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Thornwood Falls
• 1x Thriving Grove
• 1x Woodland Stream

Commander (1)

Cutie Patooties (15)

• 1x Azami, Lady of Scrolls
• 1x Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• 1x Fblthp, the Lost
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Gretchen Titchwillow
• 1x Kiora, the Crashing Wave
• 1x Leafcrown Dryad
• 1x Maraleaf Pixie
• 1x Minn, Wily Illusionist
• 1x Nimbus Naiad
• 1x Rosethorn Acolyte
• 1x Soulknife Spy
• 1x Tome Raider
• 1x Wildborn Preserver
• 1x Zimone, Quandrix Prodigy

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Other (25)

• 1x Apex Devastator
• 1x Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle
• 1x Azami, Lady of Scrolls
• 1x Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• 1x Bookwurm
• 1x Cloudthresher
• 1x Dawnglade Regent
• 1x Engulfing Slagwurm
• 1x Fblthp, the Lost
• 1x Gigantosaurus
• 1x Impervious Greatwurm
• 1x Kalonian Behemoth
• 1x Koma, Cosmos Serpent
• 1x Lorthos, the Tidemaker
• 1x Nezahal, Primal Tide
• 1x Pir, Imaginative Rascal
• 1x Slinn Voda, the Rising Deep
• 1x Stormtide Leviathan
• 1x The Tarrasque
• 1x Titanoth Rex
• 1x Toothy, Imaginary Friend
• 1x Trench Behemoth
• 1x Worldspine Wurm
• 1x Zhou Yu, Chief Commander
• 1x Zimone, Quandrix Prodigy

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OK, so, this one's going to be weird. To explain what this deck's about, you should know that:

1. Turquoise is my favourite colour.
2. Blue and green make turquoise.
3. In the first AFR booster I pulled Gretchen Titchwillow and fell in love with the cutie.
4. Minn, Wily Illusionist is also cute, and so is the Grazing Gladehart, Maraleaf Pixie, Tome Raider, Wildborn Preserver...
5. I like cute turquoise things.

So I put together, using only cards that I already owned, a commander deck headed by my dear Gretchen.

Titchwillow's Drawlands

I understand that this deck is incomplete. In fact, there's a lot of room for growth. The way I see it, the deck could naturally evolve into one of two directions (and maybe both?):

• Abusing the amount of lands/mana to bring out BIG BEASTS;
• Abusing Landfall;

I'm not sure which direction this will go into -- any comments are appreciated, and it will largely be dependent on the pulls I get. Like I said, the first version of this deck is a pot-pourri of random cards I wanted to have in a deck. Now, let's talk strategy.

Gretchen Titchwillow

First, let's take a look at the star of this show, Gretchen Titchwillow. Costing only {G}{U} she can come out quite early on in the game, and with a P/T of 0/4 she's not too weak, but still prone to removals. Her ability is quite simple; for {2}{G}{U} you draw a card, and you may put a land from your hand into play. We're going to be relying on her ability as often as possible when other draws are not available.

While it can be tempting to put out your commander early, we want to keep Gretchen ready for the late game, so we won't be playing her until we can take advantage of her ability, like if you have landfall abilities waiting to be played.

Start Ramping

Mana ramping isn't as important as sheer lands in this deck, so there aren't a lot of creatures with mana abilities (Maraleaf Pixie being the only one, actually). We want to be putting down as many lands as we can, and we achieve this with the following cards:

• Beanstalk Giant's Adventure allows us to straight up dump a land from the library for {2}{G}, which will boost its eventual arrival;
• Neverwinter Dryad's ability allows us to fetch a land and trigger landfall;
• Scaled Herbalist will let you play a land if you have one in your hand;
• Harrow costs a land, but nets you two untapped;
• You Happen on a Glade's Journey On can bring lands into your hand if you're lacking some;
• Explosive Vegetation and Explore are self-explanatory;
• Unexpected Results is an interesting one I've been wanting to play for a while. Since the deck contains a lot of lands this will likely (~40% of the time) be bounced back. You can try to hit one of the high-cost monsters, however.

Midgame: Drawing and Stalling

We're aiming for big plays in the endgame, so we'll want to be drawing and stalling as much as possible. Luckily, this deck contains a lot of both opportunities.

Let's start with the drawing. A lot of spell are simply there to allow you to draw a card, such as Tome Raider, Pore Over the Pages, etc. However, the real fun comes with the cards which react to drawing. These are: Faerie Vandal, Jolrael, Mwonvuli Recluse, Lorescale Coatl, Minn, Wily Illusionist, and Wizard Class. Syr Elenora, the Discerning also indirectly benefits from having many cards in your hand, but we'll talk about her later.

In most decks involving drawing, scrying is just as important, which is why we have the Djinn Windseer and Contact Other Plane (50% of the time).

Now, in order to setup our endgame, we'll want to survive. The following strategies are used to remain in the game long enough to pull out our big players:

• Dragon Turtle taps another creature for some time
• Charmed Sleep will, well, put another creature to sleep, and you can turn your opponents' creatures into a frog or a snake with Frogify and Snakeify, respectively;
• AEtherize will return attacking creatures to their owner's hand, and it won't target them either, bypassing hexproof, and Scourge of Fleets comes into play removing multiple creatures when the conditions are right;;
• Clinging Mists will also delay you taking damage for a turn;
• Split the Party is also interesting since it targets the player, and not their creatures, thus bypassing hexproof again.

Endgame

Now that we've got our lands on the field, let's take a look at our wincons. Note that these aren't automatic wincons, but they'll definitely make for entertaining plays!

Big Beasts

I won't outline all of them here, but this deck contains a large number of creatures which are difficult to deal with, so overwhelm your opponent when the time is right!

Monstrous Sealock Monster + Inkwell Leviathan

Once Sealock Monster becomes monstrous, target an opponent's land to turn it into an Island. Your Inkwell Leviathan is now unblockable and it also has shroud!

Beanstalk Giant + Monstrous Onslaught

By the time you bring it out, you'll have a large monster by your side. Protect it with Shielding Plax, then boost it with Elephant Guide for massive Monstrous Onslaught damage!

Syr Elenora + Wizard Class + Drawing

This one should speak for itself. Protect Syr Elenora with Shielding Plax if you get worried, but with */4 and Ward {2} she's not a pushover either.

So that's it for a deck I built using only cards I already owned. Please feel free to leave comments!

Date added	2 years
Last updated	8 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 20 - 0 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 27 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.97
Tokens	Dungeon: Dungeon of the Mad Mage, Dungeon: Lost Mine of Phandelver, Dungeon: Tomb of Annihilation, Emblem Kiora, the Crashing Wave, Goblin 1/1 R, Illusion 1/1 U w/ Illusion Tribal, Kraken 9/9 U, Skeleton 1/1 B, The Atropal, Monarch Emblem, Treasure
Folders	Yes