Foretelling Blinkers

Commander / EDH Blink Spirits WU (Azorius)

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Creature (30)

• 1x Alrund, God of the Cosmos  ^Flip
• 1x Augury Raven
• 1x Battleground Geist
• 1x Brago, King Eternal *f-etch*
• 1x Cloudblazer
• 1x Cosima, God of the Voyage  ^Flip
• 1x Cosmos Charger
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Drogskol Captain
• 1x Drogskol Cavalry
• 1x Ethereal Valkyrie
• 1x Felidar Guardian
• 1x Geist-Honored Monk
• 1x Glorious Protector
• 1x Goldnight Commander
• 1x Hero of Bretagard
• 1x Karfell Harbinger
• 1x Lavinia of the Tenth
• 1x Mistmeadow Witch
• 1x Muse Drake
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Restoration Angel
• 1x Sage of the Beyond
• 1x Sea Gate Oracle
• 1x Shepherd of the Cosmos
• 1x Soulherder
• 1x Stoic Farmer
• 1x Supreme Phantom
• 1x Vega, the Watcher
• 1x Wall of Omens

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Ghostly Prison

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Teferi, Hero of Dominaria

Land (35)

• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 1x Azorius Guildgate
• 1x Coastal Tower
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Cryptic Caves
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Gates of Istfell
• 1x Glacial Floodplain
• 1x Gods' Eye, Gate to the Reikai
• 1x Island
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Meandering River
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Secluded Steppe
• 1x Sejiri Refuge
• 2x Snow-Covered Island
• 3x Snow-Covered Island
• 2x Snow-Covered Island
• 1x Snow-Covered Plains
• 3x Snow-Covered Plains
• 3x Snow-Covered Plains
• 1x Snow-Covered Plains
• 1x Temple of Enlightenment
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Tolaria West
• 1x Tranquil Cove

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Alrund's Epiphany
• 1x Ancestral Vision
• 1x Cleansing Nova
• 1x Doomskar
• 1x Ravenform
• 1x Spectral Deluge
• 1x Starnheim Unleashed

Commander (1)

Instant (15)

• 1x Behold the Multiverse
• 1x Cosmic Intervention
• 1x Depart the Realm
• 1x Eerie Interlude
• 1x Ephemerate
• 1x Essence Flux
• 1x Flicker of Fate
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x Ghostway
• 1x Justiciar's Portal
• 1x Momentary Blink
• 1x Mystic Reflection
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Saw it Coming
• 1x Teferi's Protection

Artifact (10)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Conjurer's Closet
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Long-Forgotten Gohei
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Talisman of Progress

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Brief Overview

With Kaldheim two new pre-constructed Commander-Decks were published. For me both had real potential so I tried to build Decks around the two new Commanders. This is the forst of these two Decks resolving around Ranar the Ever-Watchful and his Token creating ability. I tried to combine Foretell with Blinker to make use of Ranar's second ability to create Spirit Tokens. Mixed together with some Spirit -Tribal it made a pretty neat Deck. Many cards have some ETB -Effects to generate even more Bonus from Blinking.

Main Strategy

Like most Blink -Decks I try to generate as much value as possible from blinking my creatures and getting multiple ETBs from them. Especially neat is that Ranar can generate even more Value for exiling my Creatures by creating Spirit-Tokens, which can form a nice little Army. To amplify the effect of my Spirit-Army I included a subtheme resolving around Spirit-Tribal. This effects can further be amplified with the help of the Foretell -mechanic from Kaldheim which allows me to exile cards directly from my hand. The main and unfortunately only Win-condition of this deck is to simply kill the opponents with our giant Spirit Army.

ETB and Blink

I included several different creatures with nice ETB-effects to make the most out of my Blink-Spells. The effects include Card-Draw , Lifegain , Removal , Recurssion , Blinking , Token Generation and even Ramp . To generate as many ETBs as possible I included several Blink-Spells as well as cards which can give me multiple Blinks like Brago, King Eternal , Conjurer's Closet or Deadeye Navigator . The different Spells can also be used multiple times by imprinting them into Isochron Scepter .

Spirit Tribal

The Spririt-Tribal theme resolves around Long-Forgotten Gohei , Battleground Geist , Drogskol Captain , Drogskol Cavalry , Geist-Honored Monk , Soulherder and Supreme Phantom . Each card either boost the created Spirit Tokens or creates even more Tokens to make the army even greater. I think that the Tribal theme is currently lacking some punch but I'm not sure which cards I should inlcude to make it better.

Foretell

Ranar allows me to foretell the first card each turn for instead of which is a nicee Cost-Reduction for my Spells. This effect can further amplified with the help of Cosmos Charger a card that allows me to foretell cards even in my opponents turns. I tried to include many Foretell-spells in this deck to get the most out of Ranar's abilities. Unfortunately are some Spells simply not good enough to play them. Therefore I chose the following Spells:

• Doomskar a Board-Wipe with Foretell
• Starnheim Unleashed a Spell to generate a huge army of Angels after foretelling it
• Alrund's Epiphany Extra-Turns are alway great
• Ravenform a nice cost effective Removal
• Spectral Deluge a Mass-Bounce effect to clear the boards of my opponents
• Behold the Multiverse a simple Cantrip
• Cosmic Intervention a Mass-Blink Spell which can save me from a Board-Wipe
• Depart the Realm a Bouncer with Foretell
• Saw It Coming a nice little Counter-Spell
• Mystic Reflection after a Mass-Blink from Brago, King Eternal or others all my creatures return as something even better

Future Ideas

With Strixhaven we got some interesting new cards for this deck, but I'm not sure which cards I could include. I consider to include some of fhe following cards, not all of them are from Strixhaven though:

1. Stonebinder's Familiar a nice One-drop Spirit that grows with the first card I exile during each of my turns
2. Pilgrim of the Ages a Spirit with an ETB which can help me ramp
3. Solve the Equation could help me find my Blink-Spell<(li>
4. Resculpt a nice Removal that exiles
5. Reduce to Memory a Removal which exiles and can thus boost my Army
6. Expel a White Removal which has a limited uses
7. Swords to Plowshares the Removal-Staple in white
8. Path to Exile another white Removal-Staple
9. Eternal Dragon could help me ramping and later be returned from my graveyard
10. Forbidding Spirit a Ghostly Prison on a creature
11. Phantom General a way to boost my Spirit Tokes
12. Intangible Virtue can do the same as Phantom General
13. Rattlechains can protect my other Spirits
14. Windborn Muse another effect like Ghostly Prison
15. Propaganda could increase the Pillowfort effect of the deck
16. Court of Grace could generate an army of Angel-Tokens
17. Ribbons of the Reikai a Spell which could draw me a whole lot of cards

Summary

All in all this deck is fun to play and generates a big load of value during the game by Blinking the different included creatures. The new Foretell-cards produce a nice additional effect for the abilites of my Commander and can suprise the opponents. Unfortunately this deck is missing real alternative Win-conditions and thus falls short especially in the late game or after a Board-Wipe. Any help to give this deck some more Punch for finishing the games is appreciated.

Date: April 27, 2021

Date added	3 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 26 - 0 Rares 27 - 0 Uncommons 23 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.53
Tokens	Angel Warrior 4/4 W w/ Vigilance, Bird 1/1 U, Copy Clone, Emblem Teferi, Hero of Dominaria, Spirit 1/1 C, Spirit 1/1 W
Folders	Commander