Ink-Treader Build-Your-Own-Combo

Commander / EDH*

whowasfone

Instant (33)

• 1x Ajani's Presence
• 1x Bandage
• 1x Cancel
• 1x Cerulean Wisps
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Crimson Wisps
• 1x Defiant Strike
• 1x Disperse
• 1x Dive Down
• 1x Firemind's Foresight
• 1x Fleeting Distraction
• 1x Grab the Reins
• 1x Jeskai Charm
• 1x Negate
• 1x Niveous Wisps
• 1x Pressure Point
• 1x Ranger's Guile
• 1x Repulse
• 1x Rith's Charm
• 1x Shadow Rift
• 1x Shelter
• 1x Sigil Blessing
• 1x Simic Charm
• 1x Snakeform
• 1x Snap
• 1x Spawning Breath
• 1x Stun
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Twisted Image
• 1x Viridescent Wisps
• 1x Voyage's End
• 1x Word of Seizing

Land (34)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Blossoming Sands
• 1x Elfhame Palace
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 3x Forest
• 1x Highland Lake
• 1x Holdout Settlement
• 4x Island
• 1x Kazandu Refuge
• 1x Meandering River
• 1x Mirrodin's Core
• 1x Mogg Hollows
• 3x Mountain
• 1x Mountain Valley
• 2x Plains
• 1x Rugged Highlands
• 1x Selesnya Guildgate
• 1x Stone Quarry
• 1x Swiftwater Cliffs
• 1x Thalakos Lowlands
• 1x Thornwood Falls
• 1x Timber Gorge
• 1x Vec Townships
• 1x Warped Landscape
• 1x Wind-Scarred Crag
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Artifact (2)

• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Sunforger

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Goblin Bombardment

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Nissa, Voice of Zendikar

Commander (1)

Sorcery (14)

• 1x Adventurous Impulse
• 1x Aether Mutation
• 1x Besmirch
• 1x Distortion Strike
• 1x Explosive Vegetation
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Kari Zev's Expertise
• 1x Make Mischief
• 1x Overwhelm
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Rile
• 1x Spitting Image
• 1x Threaten
• 1x Void Snare

Creature (14)

• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Charmbreaker Devils
• 1x Frontier Guide
• 1x Hunted Phantasm
• 1x Hunted Troll
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Lorescale Coatl
• 1x Mother of Runes
• 1x Nivmagus Elemental
• 1x Obstinate Familiar
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Silverfur Partisan
• 1x Temur Sabertooth
• 1x Willbreaker

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A deck built around utilizing Ink-Treader's powerful ability both as a draw engine to get combo pieces as well as a means to enable many of our combos - most of which will win us the game in one or two turns if not responded to. The win cons of the deck are as follows:

• Lab Maniac + Cantrips + Ink-Treader: Each cantrip we target at Ink-Treader will usually net us upwards of 5 cards due to all the copies that also come out. This can lead to very easy lab maniac wins with creature-heavy board states that provide a lot of copy targets. Like most of the combos that rely on Ink-Treader's ability, we have tools in the deck to populate the board quickly to provide additional targets.

• Kari Zev's Expertise + Sigil Blessing + Ink-Treader: The second big boy combo the deck can use to win or at the very least knock out a couple opponents. If there aren't a lot of creatures being played, we can get around that with cards like Hunted Phantasm, Hunted Troll, and Spawning Breath that will populate the board to provide more targets for us to steal and subsequently pump. There are a few other treason effects in the deck in case Kari Zev's Expertise doesn't show up, and we can replace Sigil Blessing's effect in a pinch with an inferior substitute like Overwhelm.

• Tokens + Treason Effects + Goblin Bombardment: One of the more memey ways to win, we use cards like Spitting Image, Aether Mutation, and the aforementioned Hunted cards in combination with treason effects to ping opponents down with Goblin Bombardment.

• Make Mischief + Ink-Treader with a lot of tokens or other creatures on board

• Combat Damage via Nivmagus Elemental or Lorescale Coatl

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 16 - 0 Rares 29 - 0 Uncommons 36 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.50
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Copy Clone, Devil 1/1 R, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Faerie 1/1 U, Goblin 1/1 R, Plant 0/1 G, Saproling 1/1 G, Wolf 2/2 G