Cycle Tribal, Gavi Draw Engine

Commander / EDH Bracket 2 Budget Combo Cycling RUW (Jeskai, America) Theme/Gimmick Tokens Value Engine Wizards

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Lands (34)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Blasted Landscape
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Desert of the Fervent
• 1x Desert of the Mindful
• 1x Desert of the True
• 1x Drifting Meadow
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Forgotten Cave
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Hall of Heliod's Generosity
• 1x Irrigated Farmland
• 4x Island
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Maestros Theater
• 1x Mistveil Plains
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Mystic Monastery
• 1x Night Market
• 1x Obscura Storefront
• 1x Perilous Landscape
• 1x Plains
• 1x Raugrin Triome
• 1x Remote Isle
• 1x Seachrome Coast
• 1x Secluded Steppe
• 1x Smoldering Crater
• 1x Spirebluff Canal
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

Control and Disruption (4)

• 1x Imaginary Threats
• 1x Lay Claim
• 1x Limits of Solidarity
• 1x Trade the Helm

Mana Help (17)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Charming Scoundrel
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Cloud of Faeries
• 1x Coalition Relic
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Plundering Barbarian
• 1x Raugrin Crystal
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Creativity
• 1x Talisman of Progress
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Turnabout
• 1x Vizier of Tumbling Sands

Removal and Counterspell (11)

• 1x Akroma's Blessing
• 1x Cast Out
• 1x Complicate
• 1x Countervailing Winds
• 1x Decree of Silence
• 1x Forsake the Worldly
• 1x Gallant Strike
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Neutralize
• 1x Nimble Obstructionist
• 1x Radiant's Judgment

Draw and Tutor, Misc. (5)

• 1x Boon of the Wish-Giver
• 1x Hieroglyphic Illumination
• 1x Idyllic Tutor
• 1x Long-Term Plans
• 1x Wild Research

Recurring Stuff (4)

• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Ardent Elementalist
• 1x Scholar of the Ages
• 1x Warden of the Eye

Commander (1)

Cycle Support and Enhancement (11)

• 1x Alhammarret's Archive
• 1x Astral Drift
• 1x Astral Slide
• 1x Curator of Mysteries
• 1x Escape Protocol
• 1x Fluctuator
• 1x Monument to Endurance
• 1x New Perspectives
• 1x Rielle, the Everwise
• 1x Tectonic Reformation
• 1x Teferi's Ageless Insight

Win With Cycle (9)

• 1x Drannith Healer
• 1x Drannith Stinger
• 1x Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Magmakin Artillerist
• 1x Niv-Mizzet, Parun
• 1x Niv-Mizzet, Visionary
• 1x Ominous Seas
• 1x Valiant Rescuer

Protection (4)

• 1x Angelsong
• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Mage's Guile
• 1x Step Through

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Maybeboard

More Cycle Options (29)

• 1x Abandoned Sarcophagus
• 1x Akroma's Vengeance
• 1x Brand
• 1x Censor
• 1x Crystalline Resonance
• 1x Decree of Justice
• 1x Deem Worthy
• 1x Dismantling Wave
• 1x Don't Blink
• 1x Drake Haven
• 1x Eternal Dragon
• 1x Gilded Light
• 1x Irreverent Gremlin
• 1x Lightning Rift
• 1x Miscalculation
• 1x Radiant's Judgment
• 1x Rebuild
• 1x Rescind
• 1x Runaway Boulder
• 1x Shark Typhoon
• 1x Shredded Sails
• 1x Slice and Dice
• 1x Starstorm
• 1x Sweltering Suns
• 1x Unpredictable Cyclone
• 1x Vedalken Aethermage
• 1x Waxen Shapethief
• 1x Wipe Clean
• 1x Zenith Flare

Other (29)

• 1x Approach of the Second Sun
• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Boros Signet
• 1x Containment Construct
• 1x Emrakul's Messenger
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Glint-Horn Buccaneer
• 1x Herald of the Forgotten
• 1x Homunculus Horde
• 1x Kykar, Wind's Fury
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mystical TutorGC
• 1x Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind
• 1x Paradox Engine
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Psychosis Crawler
• 1x Quintorius, Loremaster
• 1x Surly Badgersaur
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Talisman of Conviction
• 1x Teferi, Master of Time
• 1x Temporal Manipulation
• 1x The Locust God
• 1x Thought Reflection
• 1x Thriving Bluff
• 1x Thriving Heath
• 1x Thriving Isle
• 1x Witness the Future

Who am I, Rockafeller? (2)

• 1x Enlightened TutorGC
• 1x Thassa's OracleGC

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Still a work in progress, but decently fleshed out.

Plan is to ramp up to a cycling value engine which snowballs into different win cons. With enough gas, you should be able to cycle through your whole deck (multiple times if necessary) to either kill the table with damage pings triggered by draw/discard or win with Laboratory Maniac or Jace, Wielder of Mysteries.

Here are some value engine synergies to be on the lookout for:

Draw engine - top priority to make the snowball possible. About half the deck is cycle, so if you can improve the cycle draw then you'll be improving the odds significantly that you draw into more cycle:

• Alhammarret's Archive and Teferi's Ageless Insight are the best options as they can go on forever.
• Monument to Endurance and Rielle, the Everwise are the worse options as they only work once per turn. The upside is they provide value immediately, as opposed to activating on second draw.
• Niv-Mizzet, Visionary is the weakest, as it will need to pair with the likes of Drannith Stinger or Magmakin Artillerist to get going, though you can go infinite with it if you manage to pull Niv-Mizzet, Parun.

Mana engine - more mana is always better, especially to play meaty spells and win out.

• Cloud of Faeries or Peregrine Drake and any bouncer like Astral Drift, Astral Slide, or Escape Protocol to go land untap positive. Tap one land when cycling to get multiple lands untapped! Especially helpful for paying for additional cycles if you don't have free cycles yet.
• Charming Scoundrel or Plundering Barbarian and free bouncers of Astral Drift or Astral Slide to pick up treasure tokens for mana ramp, mostly when doing your free cycles on opponent's turns.
• Sol Ring plus Escape Protocol goes mana positive if you tap Sol ring to pay for the Escape Protocol trigger, then bounce Sol Ring itself. +1 colorless mana for each cycle.
• Spell recursion like Archaeomancer or Scholar of the Ages plus Escape Protocol can allow Turnabout to make all the mana you'll ever need, so long as you can keep cycling.

Cycle engine - the main pieces for winning the game

• New Perspectives is a top target once the draw engine is in place. Adding this piece to draw-positive support, you'll look to rip through the majority of your deck to bust out combo pieces.
• Fluctuator can be similarly powerful if you happen to have the cycle cards on hand which only cost 2 colorless to cycle, making the cycle free, especially if you can bounce that same cycle card back to hand.
• The classic Niv-Mizzet, Parun + Niv-Mizzet, Visionary combo will also let you rip through your whole deck to find anything, if not just ping them out right. Add moderate mana and Elixir of Immortality for big damage.
• If you can manage to deck yourself with the draw described above, Jace, Wielder of Mysteries or Laboratory Maniac turn it into a win.
• The pings from Niv-Mizzet, Parun, Drannith Stinger, and Magmakin Artillerist add up pretty quickly, especially in more aggressive pods, and themselves can win games.
• Tokens can also bring the hurt. Gavi's dino cats, Krakens from Ominous Seas, and soldiers from Valiant Rescuer should be used to win if given the opportunity.

Date added	8 months
Last updated	6 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 27 - 0 Rares 29 - 0 Uncommons 34 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.32
Tokens	Dinosaur Cat 2/2 RW, Human Soldier 1/1 W, Kraken 8/8 U, Treasure, Wicked
Based on	⟳ Deckcycle | Gavi Primer Enral EDH