Eggs, Legs or Kegs - Nobody Rides for Free

Commander / EDH Artifact Eggs Primer WUBR

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Land (35)

• 1x Aether Hub
• 1x Ancient Den
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Glimmervoid
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Great Furnace
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 2x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 2x Mountain
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Phyrexia's Core
• 2x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Spire of Industry
• 1x Steam Vents
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Vault of Whispers
• 1x Watery Grave

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Dance of the Manse
• 1x Open the Vaults
• 1x Painful Truths
• 1x Reverse Engineer
• 1x Scrap Mastery
• 1x Supreme Verdict
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will

Artifact (30)

• 1x Aether Spellbomb
• 1x Aetherworks Marvel
• 1x Boompile
• 1x Chromatic Sphere
• 1x Chromatic Star
• 1x Cloud Key
• 1x Codex Shredder
• 1x Conjurer's Bauble
• 1x Darkwater Egg
• 1x Dispeller's Capsule
• 1x Executioner's Capsule
• 1x Gonti's Aether Heart
• 1x Ichor Wellspring
• 1x Lotus Bloom
• 1x Memory Jar
• 1x Mycosynth Wellspring
• 1x Mystic Forge
• 1x Necrogen Spellbomb
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Nihil Spellbomb
• 1x Pyrite Spellbomb
• 1x Salvaging Station
• 1x Scrabbling Claws
• 1x Shadowblood Egg
• 1x Skycloud Egg
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sunbeam Spellbomb
• 1x Terrarion
• 1x Trading Post
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Instant (5)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Faith's Reward
• 1x Paradoxical Outcome
• 1x Second Sunrise
• 1x Utter End

Planeswalker (4)

• 1x Daretti, Scrap Savant
• 1x Saheeli, Sublime Artificer
• 1x Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge
• 1x Ugin, the Ineffable

Commanders (2)

Creature (14)

• 1x Cabal Paladin
• 1x Emry, Lurker of the Loch
• 1x Etherium Sculptor
• 1x Firebrand Archer
• 1x Foundry Inspector
• 1x Gerrard, Weatherlight Hero
• 1x Herald of Kozilek
• 1x Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain
• 1x Jhoira's Familiar
• 1x Marionette Master
• 1x Reckless Fireweaver
• 1x Restoration Specialist
• 1x Sai, Master Thopterist
• 1x Vedalken Archmage

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Era of Innovation
• 1x Pia's Revolution
• 1x Storm the Vault  ^Flip

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Enchantment (2)

• 1x Mirrodin Besieged
• 1x The Antiquities War

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Saheeli, the Gifted

Artifact (2)

• 1x Wishclaw Talisman
• 1x Witching Well

Creature (2)

• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Urza, Lord High Artificer

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To take you in the sun to promised lands

To show you every one

It's the time of the season for loving

"Eggs" often proves to be a difficult and cumbersome concept in EDH, but I think I've found a sweet spot of interactivity, enjoyable decision making, and some mighty explosive plays with my Akiri, Line-Slinger and Silas Renn, Seeker Adept deck, lovingly titled Eggs, Legs or Kegs - Nobody Rides for Free as a play on that one bumper sticker what which your cool uncle had on his Volkswagen Type 2.

What this deck IS

Eggs, Legs or Kegs - Nobody Rides for Free is a low-mana-cost artifact deck that works to grind opponents to dust using graveyard recursion and discounted spells. The early game consists of getting some card draw from your eggs, getting them into the bin, and hopefully landing a discount option to start playing your eggs for free. Many of our eggs offer some flexibility, and a removal suite helps prevent opponents from going too crazy as we assemble our engine. A subtheme of energy counters gets us extra value and leads to incredibly efficient turns and the inevitable egg-laden death of our opponents.

What this deck IS NOT

As I mentioned in my Sidisi primer, I'm not a fan of infinite combos. The color options here offer plenty of combo possibilities and if that's a direction you want to take your eggs deck you're more than welcome to do so, but I like spice, and artifact combo just isn't enough spice for me. This deck is also not really a budget deck - the mana base is aggressive since we really have to meet our color needs early on. Eggs can smooth that out a bit, but only so far. There's also a few premium cards in the deck that carry a hefty "Reserved List" tax on them. You can get by with a budget build, but some of these cards are very painful to replace - looking at you, Yawgmoth's Will...

Why this deck is FUN

Eggs is an oft not seen deck archetype in EDH, and even more rare to be non-infinite. This leads to perplexed opponents and gives me a slight edge in that they really aren't sure what to expect. Unfortunately, the deck never flies entirely under the radar since simply uttering the word "eggs" seems to be a taboo that transcends format, but all the same this deck can hang with the best of them, challenging conventional gameplay and leading to some fascinating decision-making opportunities. This is a "thinking person's deck" with all the intellectual joy that one could hope for.

Where the Commanders Fit In

Now, you may be saying to yourself, "Why isn't this doofus running Breya, Etherium Shaper? She's way easier to go infinite with!" Well, three reasons. First, I hate infinites, and I feel I've been very clear on this, hypothetical stranger. Please pay closer attention. Second, Breya is super common for this color combination and I wanted to do something more unique. Third, Silas Renn lets me recast my eggs from the graveyard, and Akiri gets beefier with each artifact on the battlefield. I know Akiri is much more common in equipment builds, but she's a defensive piece in my deck and an optional way to punch opponents who get out of line. Overall, the tag team duo has proven to be amazing for this deck, and while Breya may be the "optimal" choice, I prefer the unconventional.

Deck Strategy 1 - Eggs, Eggs, Eggs!

Well, where do we start? Of course, an eggs deck has to have some delicious, nutritious eggs. We run close to every possible egg for our colors, from the most traditional, literal eggs in Darkwater Egg , Shadowblood Egg and Skycloud Egg to more recent, spiritual eggs in Chromatic Star , Chromatic Sphere and Terrarion . We run the four OG Mirrodin Spellbombs, giving us some utility options and draw capabilities without the mana benefit, and Nihil Spellbomb to deal with graveyards. A few other egg-like cards round us out by way of giving some additional functionality or removal options in things like Dispeller's Capsule , Executioner's Capsule , Wayfarer's Bauble and Scrabbling Claws .

Deck Strategy 2 - Artifact Discount Emporium

Eggs are both tasty and beneficial to our health, but one mana is an awful lot to pay for them. How do we get around this without going out of business? Thankfully, there are a bunch of cards that allow us to pay less mana for our artifacts, and this deck runs almost all of them. Cloud Key , Etherium Sculptor , Foundry Inspector , Herald of Kozilek , Jhoira's Familiar and Ugin, the Ineffable each discount our eggs in one way or another, with some offering discounts to other card types as well. One card I choose not to play is Helm of Awakening, as we're not in the business of offering charity to our opponents. That, and the six card options I already run have proven to be more than enough.

Deck Strategy 3 - Now We're Cooking with Eggs!

Of course, what's a load of free eggs without a kitchen in which to cook 'em? These eggs need to do work for us besides drawing some cards or filtering our mana, right? Well, for starters, let's use our eggs to draw even MORE cards! Vedalken Archmage and Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain allow each of our eggs to draw us deeper into our deck. Sai, Master Thopterist is our "One Stop Thopter Shop", Saheeli, Sublime Artificer is the same except Servos, and Pia's Revolution is a particularly spicy bit of tech that either lets us get our eggs back to play again or turns each of their activations into a Lava Spike.

But these few bits of seasoning won't do by themselves - that's when we call in the Master Chefs. Firebrand Archer and Cabal Paladin are our Chefs de Partie, bleeding the entire table every time we cast an egg. Reckless Fireweaver holds the title of Sous Chef, blasting our opponents not only when we cast eggs but when our artifacts enter the battlefield, such as from the graveyard (see next section), and our Chef de Cuisine is none other than the resident bad-ass, Marionette Master - while wearing an impressively tall chef hat of three +1/+1 counters, she turns every egg activation into 4 life lost by an opponent. Now THAT'S a spicy meatba... err, egg. A spicy egg.

... It just doesn't have the same ring to it.

Deck Strategy 4 - Waste No Part of the Egg

What's better than a scrumptious egg prepared by the finest chefs? Why, TWO eggs, of course! Our deck offers loads of ways to recast our eggs from the graveyard or return them to the battlefield. Yawgmoth's Will allows us to cast eggs from the graveyard again, though we usually don't want to crack them that turn because we don't want them exiled - it's still a great way to get more cast triggers off of a Cabal Paladin or Firebrand Archer. Faith's Reward and Second Sunrise can pull my stuff out of the yard either after a board wipe or after a big sacrifice-y turn. Scrap Mastery and Open the Vaults offer a way to bring my artifacts back to the battlefield, though I usually want to do this after cleaning out my opponents' graveyards with my Nihil Spellbomb. Finally, Salvaging Station offers a great way to pull eggs back into play as well, offering some huge value when responding to a creature board wipe.

Extra Bits of Spicy Tech

As I mentioned in my introduction, the deck uses an energy subtheme supplemented with Era of Innovation , Aetherworks Marvel and Gonti's Aether Heart . Marvel is the most useful of the three, of course, offering to dig for an answer such as a board wipe or removal spell, or just a big splashy recursion spell. Trading Post is incredibly versatile here in that it offers many modes and options for our low-cost-artifact-filled deck, and Paradoxical Outcome is an absolutely incredible draw spell when I can pick up a load of eggs with it, draw a ton of cards, then replay all my eggs for free.

Improvements / Suggestions / Final Thoughts

My most recent additions to the deck are planeswalkers from War of the Spark. This deck previously ran only Daretti, Scrap Savant for his +2 discard/draw and his -2 Trash for Treasure ability, and now I have three more of the big bastards. Ugin is mentioned earlier as he provides discounts for all my colorless spells (see: artifacts are typically colorless), and Saheeli is also mentioned earlier as a Servo generator. The one I didn't bring up was Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge . I have no clue what they were thinking when they printed this card, but I have to assume someone at Wizards of the Coast saw my sweet ass deck online and went "You know what that doofus needs? Some incredibly spicy tech." His static ability gives all my creatures and my other planeswalkers affinity for artifacts, and his +2 is insanity manifest. In an eggs deck, he's practically a win condition all his own. I haven't tested these bad boys and girl out yet, but I'm incredibly confident that they will do wonders for my game plan.

If you decide to build your own version of this deck, I can say with confidence that it is my second favorite deck I own, right behind my Sidisi deck, even though it's one of my most recent builds. The theme really came together perfectly, and I absolutely adore the possibilities this deck presents. Sure, sometimes you draw a bunch of eggs and not a lot else to do with them, but since your snacks let you keep drawing deeper, you'll find some payoffs sooner or later. And yes, it hurts to get your graveyard exiled, but because of the redundancy of card effects we run, even losing a few artifact discounts or damage grinders won't flat out lose us the game - we can rebuild, and we can prevail. And by golly, it's gonna be a damn fun game either way.

tl;dr:

(Updated 12-1-2019)

Date added	6 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 44 - 0 Rares 13 - 0 Uncommons 26 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.92
Tokens	Emblem Daretti, Scrap Savant, Goat 0/1 W, Servo 1/1 C, Spirit 2/2 C, Thopter 1/1 C, Treasure
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