Indomitable Indominus

Commander / EDH* BUG (Sultai)

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Land (35)

• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 6x Forest
• 1x Homeward Path
• 2x Island
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Otawara, Soaring City
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1x Undergrowth Stadium
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Protection (6)

• 1x An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Fierce GuardianshipGC
• 1x Negate
• 1x Swan Song

Boardwipe (1)

• 1x Living Death

Ramp (13)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Biophagus
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Delighted Halfling
• 1x Exploration
• 1x Leyline Prowler
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sylvan Caryatid
• 1x Three Visits

Draw (10)

• 1x Harmonize
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x NecropotenceGC
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Return of the Wildspeaker
• 1x Rhystic StudyGC
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Sultai Charm
• 1x Sylvan Library

Keywords and Counters (8)

• 1x Elder Gargaroth
• 1x End-Raze Forerunners
• 1x Increasing Savagery
• 1x Nighthawk Scavenger
• 1x Questing Beast
• 1x Scavenged Brawler
• 1x Sire of Seven Deaths
• 1x Weathered Sentinels

Hexproof (3)

• 1x Cragplate Baloth
• 1x Nightveil Predator
• 1x Venomthrope

Commander (1)

Tutor (11)

• 1x Demonic TutorGC
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Fierce Empath
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Shared Summons
• 1x Solve the Equation
• 1x Sylvan Tutor
• 1x Uncage the Menagerie
• 1x Unmarked Grave
• 1x Vampiric TutorGC
• 1x Worldly TutorGC

Removal (9)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Astarion's Thirst
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Deadly Rollick
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Putrefy
• 1x Ram Through

Indestructible (3)

• 1x Bontu the Glorified
• 1x Kefnet the Mindful
• 1x Stonehoof Chieftain

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Maybeboard

Keywords (2)

• 1x Breaker of Creation
• 1x Volatile Stormdrake

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After gaining more deck-building experience, I have decided to rebuild my indominus deck. The goal is still to create a keyword soup monster and win through combat damage, but this time the deck shall be faster, more robust, and consistent.

The deck has seen improvements across the board.

• The mana base has been completely improved in every way.
• I have a much more robust interaction package. I have better counterspells, and my targeted removal has more than doubled.
• I have doubled the amount of card draw.
• My tutor package upgraded to include several powerful low cmc classics like worldy and vampiric.

I did have to make a few cuts to the number of keyword cards (though I did properly balance the remaining ones), removed a gy hate piece, and a gy recur piece. And one less board wipe (though it was a very inefficient wipe). But those sacrifices are more than worth it! Additionally, with how good my mana base is now, I could look into cutting a few lands to add some more fun stuff. Playtesting is required.

Notes:

Named lands that can be fetched:

• Watery Grave (island swamp)
• Overgrown Tomb (forest swamp)
• breeding pool (forest island)

Long ramble ahead (not important, just my random thoughts): While the deck does need interaction, it can feel bad in some situations where I am staring at a Nature's Claim just sitting in my hand when I am missing the last protection keyword needed to cast my commander with... Having cards in the deck that don't synergize with my gameplan feels bad.

I would be so happy if there were creatures that could destroy a type of perm on etb while also having a hexproof or a indestructible keyword, I'm just looking for synergistic removal. Kinda like how Sythis, Harvest's Hand has Sheltered by Ghosts. She gets to remove a threat, while advancing her gameplan and getting rewarded with protection! And its just not there, enchantress effects can have synergy in their ramp, their draw, their removal, their tutors, everything. Whereas with indom I can only find a couple keyword pieces that ramp, a couple keyword pieces that can draw... Its unfair. I want more synergy for my beautiful chompin dino!

Since I do not want to cut back on my interaction due to the existence of cards like Grave Pact which shut this deck down, I will either need to find cards to cut for more keyword support or just accept the limitations of this strategy.

4/24/2025: Found out about this ruling: 702.11g “Hexproof from each [characteristic]” is shorthand for “hexproof from [quality A],” “hexproof from [quality B],” and so on for each possible quality the listed characteristic could have; it behaves as multiple separate hexproof abilities. Breaker of Creation This means indom would get 5 separate hexproof counters, one for each color. 5 card draw off of one creature is insane value! Plus, it is a great re animator target. Also Volatile Stormdrake isn't bad, it can be hard casted for cheap as targeted removal (and I neeeed removal that has synergy with the decks theme!!) or it can be 2 types of hexproof counters aka 2 cards drawn!

702.1c An effect may state that “the same is true for” a list of keyword abilities or similar. If one of those keyword abilities has variants or variables and the effect grants that keyword or counters of that keyword to one or more objects and/or players, it grants each appropriate variant and variable of that keyword.

thank you https://www.reddit.com/r/EDH/comments/1et29m5/psa_you_should_be_playing_breaker_of_creation_in/ for the psa. https://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=484717 - kathril ruling

Date added	6 months
Last updated	1 month
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	18 - 0 Mythic Rares 46 - 0 Rares 14 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.89
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Bird 2/2 U, Treasure