Inalla's Wizard Playground

Commander / EDH Combo Control Reanimator UBR (Grixis) Wizards

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Land (35)

• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cephalid Coliseum
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Desolate Lighthouse
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 3x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 3x Mountain
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Riptide Laboratory
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Temple of Epiphany
• 1x Temple of Malice
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Rhystic Study

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Dack Fayden

Creature (26)

• 1x AEther Adept
• 1x Apprentice Necromancer
• 1x Augur of Bolas
• 1x Bloodline Necromancer
• 1x Changeling Berserker
• 1x Dreadhorde Arcanist
• 1x Dualcaster Mage
• 1x Exclusion Mage
• 1x Faerie Seer
• 1x Galecaster Colossus
• 1x Jace, Vryn's Prodigy  ^Flip
• 1x Kess, Dissident Mage
• 1x Naban, Dean of Iteration
• 1x Sea Gate Oracle
• 1x Sigil Tracer
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Spellseeker
• 1x Tomebound Lich
• 1x Tribute Mage
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Trophy Mage
• 1x Vedalken AEthermage
• 1x Venser, Shaper Savant
• 1x Vindictive Lich
• 1x Wanderwine Prophets
• 1x Watcher for Tomorrow

Sorcery (11)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Careful Study
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Treasure Cruise
• 1x Unearth
• 1x Victimize

Commander (1)

Instant (16)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Crosis's Charm
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Evacuation
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x Izzet Charm
• 1x Kolaghan's Command
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Thirst for Knowledge
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Artifact (9)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring

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Creature (3)

• 1x Disciple of Bolas
• 1x Kaho, Minamo Historian
• 1x Vedalken AEthermage

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Vandalblast

Land (2)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Ancient Tomb

Artifact (1)

• 1x Oblivion Stone

Instant (1)

• 1x Muddle the Mixture

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Inalla EDH deck with Wizards' interactions (mostly ETBs effects), control and combos. This deck must be updated with the newer cards released and the description is under development.

Our Wizards

This deck has these Wizards:

• AEther Adept bounces threats. If we copy it, we can bounce the original with the copy.

• Apprentice Necromancer to reanimate our creatures. We can pay and tap the copy to immediately reanimate a creature.

• Augur of Bolas almost always draws a card (two, if copied) when it enters the battlefield. We can also put unwanted cards in the bottom of our library if we know they aren't good (e.g. Sensei's Divining Top effect).

• Bloodline Necromancer reanimates up to two Wizards and its lifelink can help us in a pinch. This deck doesn't have may ways of gaining life.

• Changeling Berserker can be used to exile one of our creatures, so we can put it back into the battlefield and trigger Inalla again if we sac this changeling for one of many sac outlets this deck uses.

• Dreadhorde Arcanist reuses lots of spells we have inside this deck.

• Dualcaster Mage to copy any instant or sorcery spell up to two times.

• Exclusion Mage is a bit-worse version of AEther Adept that can't bounce itself or one of our creatures, but bouncing back two creatures is a very powerful effect.

• Faerie Seer has low mana value and manipulates the top of our library, setting up for our combos.

• Galecaster Colossus is a way to deal with enchantments and other threats. We can use Wizards with summoning sickness (or, maybe, the copies) for its effect.

• Jace, Vryn's Prodigy   is a fun card that has card selection and its flipped version gives flashback to our spells.

• Kess, Dissident Mage is a good permanent that allows us to recast spells in our graveyard. It can be also a good beater or blocker if needed because of its flying.

• Naban, Dean of Iteration makes our Wizards trigger their ETBs one more time, and this deck uses a lot of these effects.

• Sea Gate Oracle has a good card selection and draw effect.

• Sigil Tracer is a way of using untaped Wizards (e.g. Wizards with summoning sickness) to a great ability.

• Snapcaster Mage is awesome and we can flashback two spells on the same turn if we copy it.

• Spellseeker can tutor cantrips (e.g. Ponder ), a combo piece (e.g. Dramatic Reversal ), reanimation spells (e.g. Reanimate ), counterspells (e.g. Counterspell ), creature removal (e.g. Rapid Hybridization ) or tutor (e.g. Vampiric Tutor ).

• Tomebound Lich is a good blocker and provides us some card selection when it connects combat damage.

• Tribute Mage tutors mana rocks (e.g. Izzet Signet ) and Isochron Scepter .

• Trinket Mage tutors cheap mana rocks like Sol Ring and Mana Crypt or deck manipulation permanents like Sensei's Divining Top .

• Trophy Mage tutors our Altars, essential for some combos we do (e.g. Phyrexian Altar ).

• Vedalken AEthermage is a Wizard tutor. We can use its ability in instant speed to get a Wizard needed in a situation.

• Venser, Shaper Savant bounces back problematic permanents. We can use its copy to bounce back the original to our hand.

• Vindictive Lich has a dying trigger that affects all our opponents while giving us the choice of what effects use in which opponents.

• Wanderwine Prophets to combo alone with Inalla. We will usually reanimate it instead of cast it.

• Watcher for Tomorrow provides us some card selection and draw.

Our artifacts, enchantments and planeswalkers

Basically, we use as artifacts:

• Cheap mana rocks like Sol Ring .

• Signets like Izzet Signet , Dimir Signet and Rakdos Signet .

• Sensei's Divining Top for top deck manipulation.

• Altars for infinite combos ( Ashnod's Altar and Phyrexian Altar ).

We only use Rhystic Study as enchantment, for "Do you pay shenanigans. And the only planeswalker we run into this deck is Dack Fayden for card selection and steals artifacts when needed.

Our lands

We use these lands below:

• Shock lands: Watery Grave , Blood Crypt and Stean Vents.

• Fetch lands: Flooded Strand , Polluted Delta , Bloodstained Mire , Wooded Foothills and Misty Rainforest . I don't have Verdant Catacombs , Arid Mesa , Marsh Flats and Scalding Tarn , so I'm not including them right now.

• Check lands: Dragonskull Summit , Drowned Catacomb and Sulfur Falls .

• Pain lands: Shivan Reef and Underground River .

• Scry lands: Temple of Deceit , Temple of Malice and Temple of Epiphany .

• Generate all colors of this deck: City of Brass , Mana Confluence and Crumbling Necropolis .

We use as utility lands:

• Bojuka Bog to exile graveyards.

• Cephalid Coliseum to fill our own graveyard, dig for combo pieces or answers.

• Desolate Lighthouse to fill our own graveyard and dig for combo pieces or answers.

• Riptide Laboratory to bounce back our own Wizards for us to recast.

Our instants and sorceries

We use as instants and sorceries:

• Loot effects to draw cards we want and discard cards to reanimate or reuse later (e.g. Faithless Looting , Careful Study , Izzet Charm ).

• Tutors for setting up our next draw (e.g. Vampiric Tutor , Mystical Tutor ).

• Counterspells to counter threats or to protect our combos (e.g. Counterspell , Arcane Denial ).

• Creature removal (e.g. Rapid Hybridization , Kolaghan's Command , Crosis's Charm ).

• Card draw (e.g. Treasure Cruise , Thirst for Knowledge ).

• Reanimation spells (e.g. Reanimate , Unearth , Victimize ).

• Board wipes or bounce (e.g. Cyclonic Rift , Evacuation , Toxic Deluge ).

Gameplan

The early-game

We will usually be doing these actions on the early game.

• Cracking fetches to correct our mana base.

• Using loot spells to draw the cards we need while discarding cards we don't want and big creature cards (e.g. Galecaster Colossus to reanimate later with our reanimation spells.

• Casting Signets and mana rocks to accelerate our mana production.

• Using cantrips and card selection draw effects to set our combos (and, if possible, protection) for the next turns.

The mid-game

In the mid-game, we will try to set up our combos or play in a more control-ish style. If we go for a combo route, we will be:

• Casting our combo pieces (e.g. Altars as sac outlets, Wizards to loop with Changeling Berserker , etc).

• If we don't have these pieces yet, we can use tutor effects to get them (e.g. Vampiric Tutor to get anything, Trinket Mage to get Sol Ring , Tribute Mage to get Isochron Scepter , Trophy Mage to get one of our Altars, Spellseeker to get a Vampiric Tutor and, then, get our combo piece, or Dramatic Reversal for Dramatic Scepter combo).

If we go for a more control-ish route, we will be:

• Bouncing back opponents' creatures with AEther Adept , Exclusion Mage and Venser, Shaper Savant . In the AEther/Venser cases, we can even copy them to bounce back themselves to our hand.

• Reanimating creatures like Galecaster Colossus or Vindictive Lich to grind our opponents, sacrificing their creatures and discarding their cards.

• Stealing their artifacts with Dack Fayden or removing them with Chaos Warp , Crosis's Charm and Kolaghan's Command .

• If our opponents are playing weenies or board-dependant commanders, we can use Toxic Deluge to wipe the board.

• Reusing our spells, recasting them with Dreadhorde Arcanist 's attacks.

• Using card selection effects if needed (e.g. Jace, Vryn's Prodigy   and Faithless Looting -like spells.

• Getting card advantage with cards and effects that draws us a lot of cards to outvalue our opponents (e.g. Watcher of Tomorrow's hideaway, Augur of Bolas , Sea Gate Oracle , Ghostly Flicker to make our creatures reenter the battlefield).

The late-game

in our late game, we can try to combo off with a more favorable situation (e.g. opponents were defeated, opponents having less cards and permanents). So, in this step, we will be

• Finally trying to combo off with one of our combos. If we went on a control strategy before, maybe that's the moment to combo to win.

• Finishing our opponents with combat damage with beaters like Galecaster Colossus or Vindictive Lich 's life loss triggers with our reanimation strategies.

• Maintaining our bounce loops with AEther Adept and Venser, Shaper Savant triggers, copying them to bounce back the originals back to our hand.

What combos do we use?

a) Changeling Berserker and Ashnod's Altar

• 1) When Changeling Berserker enters the battlefield, the Champion trigger AND Inalla trigger will go to the stack.

• 2) Organize the stack so Inalla trigger resolve first: pay 1 mana to copy the Changeling Berserker. The copy enters the battlefield and its Champion trigger will go to the stack.

• 3) Make the copy exile the original with its Champion trigger. The Champion trigger of the original creature will fizzle.

• 4) Sacrifice the copy with Altar to generate 2 colorless mana. This will return the original Champion creature to the battlefield, creating the Champion trigger AND Inalla trigger again.

• 5) Go to the step 2), now with 1 colorless mana remaining.

b) Changeling Berserker , Ashnod's Altar and a Wizard.

With Changeling Berserker and another Wizard in play, the player can generate infinite hasty tokens and ETB effects. Let's call this Wizard "W" and the original Changeling Berserker "C" (and W's copy "w" and Changeling's copy "c").

• 1) When C enters the battlefield, organize the stack so the Champion(C) resolve first.

• 2) Let Champion(C) resolve, exiling W.

• 3) Let Inalla(C) resolve, paying 1 mana to copy C, creating c. The c creates another trigger. Now, the stack only have the Champion(c) trigger.

• 4) Let Champion(c) resolve. This will exile C and, so, W returns to the battlefield. This create two triggers: Inalla(W) or, if W have an ETB effect, Inalla(W) and ETB(W). Organize the stack so the ETB(W) resolve first.

• 5) Let ETB(W) resolve. The stack only have Inalla(W).

• 6) Before Inalla(W) resolve, maintain priority and sacrifice c to generate 2 colorless mana. This will make C returns to the battlefield. This will create two triggers: Champion(C) and Inalla(C). You have 2 colorless mana, similarly to step 1. But, now, the Inalla(W) is also on the stack, in the bottom of it.

• 7) Repeat this process as many times as you want (let's say x times), generating x mana and x Inalla(W) triggers.

• 8) Let all Inalla(W) triggers resolve, paying n for them, where n is the number of copies you want to create. This will create n copies of W. The mana pool will have x-n colorless mana.

c) Bloodline Necromancer combos

With Bloodline Necromancer , we can create infinite Bloodline Necromancer hasty tokens. Let's call it B and it's copy b.

• 1) When B enters the battlefield, this will create two triggers: Inalla(B) and ETB(B). Organize the stack so ETB(B) resolve first.

• 2) With ETB(B) on the stack, in response, sacrifice B to generate 2 colorless mana. Now, let ETB(B) resolve.

• 3) Let Inalla(B) resolve, paying 1 mana for it. This will create b and, so, ETB(b) will go to the stack.

• 4) Let ETB(b) resolve, targeting B. After this, there is 1 colorless mana in the mana pool and one B's copy in the battlefield.

• 5) Go back to step 1, now with one B's copy and 1 colorless mana in the mana pool.

d) Dramatic scepter combo, generating infinite mana with Isochron Scepter , Dramatic Reversal imprinted onto it and mana rocks that produces more than two mana.

e) Wanderwine Prophets comboing with Inalla, even if she's in the command zone.

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Date added	6 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 43 - 0 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 22 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.72
Tokens	Copy Clone, Emblem Dack Fayden, Emblem Jace, Vryn's Prodigy, Frog Lizard 3/3 G
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