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Commander / EDH* Bracket 2 Flash Island Mono-Blue Wizards

Izzetaura

Copy/Redirect Instants/Sorceries (12)

• 1x Curse of Echoes
• 1x Divert
• 1x Echo Mage
• 1x Elite Arcanist
• 1x Jace's Mindseeker
• 1x Mirari
• 1x Mizzium Meddler
• 1x Narset's Reversal
• 1x Perplexing Chimera
• 1x Redirect
• 1x Sudden Substitution
• 1x Twinning Staff

Copy/Steal Stuff (7)

• 1x Aura Graft
• 1x Beguiler of Wills
• 1x Cackling Counterpart
• 1x Confiscate
• 1x Extravagant Replication
• 1x Master Thief
• 1x Rite of Replication

2-Drop Instants (to not waste mana) (5)

• 1x Call to Heel
• 1x Disperse
• 1x Faerie Duelist
• 1x Run Away Together
• 1x Think Twice

Get lands out (2)

• 1x Patron of the Moon
• 1x Walking Atlas

Other (2)

• 1x High Tide
• 1x Tidal Barracuda

Draw/Card advantage (10)

• 1x Arcane Epiphany
• 1x Azami, Lady of Scrolls
• 1x Curiosity
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Psychic Membrane
• 1x Quick Study
• 1x Sphinx of Enlightenment
• 1x Thieving Magpie
• 1x Train of Thought
• 1x Winged Words

Land (38)

• 1x Faerie Conclave
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 30x Island
• 1x Memorial to Genius
• 1x Mirrorpool
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Riptide Laboratory
• 1x Terrain Generator

Target player draws (3)

• 1x Inspiration
• 1x Opportunity
• 1x Stroke of Genius

Fun (2)

• 1x Brinebarrow Intruder
• 1x Water Servant

Instants from graveyard (2)

• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Call to Mind

Commander (1)

Bounce (8)

• 1x AEther Adept
• 1x Aetherize
• 1x Evacuation
• 1x Into the Roil
• 1x Mystic Confluence
• 1x Unsummon
• 1x Vapor Snag
• 1x Venser, Shaper Savant

Turn One 1-drops (6)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Enclave Cryptologist
• 1x Opt
• 1x Spectral Sailor
• 1x Visions of Beyond
• 1x Vortex Elemental

Stop wiping my board (2)

• 1x Runewing
• 1x Surveilling Sprite

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Sideboard

Draw/Benefit from draw (4)

• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Chasm Skulker
• 1x Into the Story
• 1x Sturmgeist

Steal/Copy stuff (3)

• 1x Followed Footsteps
• 1x Keiga, the Tide Star
• 1x Mind Control

Bounce (3)

• 1x Gust of Wind
• 1x Number Crunch
• 1x Separatist Voidmage

Anti-mill (1)

• 1x Learn from the Past

Return from graveyard (1)

• 1x Call to Mind

Other (3)

• 1x Alter Reality
• 1x Exultant Cultist
• 1x Turn to Frog

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Maybeboard

Probably not (66)

• 1x Academy Journeymage
• 1x Aegis Turtle
• 1x Aethersnatch
• 1x Air Elemental
• 1x Air-Cult Elemental
• 1x Befuddle
• 1x Body of Knowledge
• 2x Brainstorm
• 1x Brinebarrow Intruder
• 1x Colossal Whale
• 1x Crashing Tide
• 1x Crypsis
• 1x Crystacean
• 1x Displacement Wave
• 2x Djinn of Infinite Deceits
• 1x Downpour
• 1x Dream Eater
• 1x Dream Twist
• 1x Encrust
• 1x Engulf the Shore
• 1x Entrancing Melody
• 1x Fortress Crab
• 1x Glimpse the Future
• 1x Honden of Seeing Winds
• 1x Ice Cage
• 1x Ice Over
• 1x Keiga, the Tide Star
• 1x Keymaster Rogue
• 1x Kraken Hatchling
• 1x Living Tempest
• 1x Long-Finned Skywhale
• 1x Marchesa's Infiltrator
• 1x Merfolk Spy
• 1x Merfolk Trickster
• 1x Mind Control
• 1x Negate
• 1x Neurok Commando
• 1x Niblis of Frost
• 1x Peel from Reality
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Pondering Mage
• 1x Purple-Crystal Crab
• 1x Remand
• 2x Riptide Turtle
• 1x Scholar of the Ages
• 1x Scourge of Fleets
• 1x Separatist Voidmage
• 1x Shore Keeper
• 1x Sleep Paralysis
• 1x Spark Double
• 1x Spreading Seas
• 1x Stealer of Secrets
• 1x Thassa, Deep-Dwelling
• 1x Thieving Skydiver
• 1x Thunder Drake
• 1x Tightening Coils
• 1x Time of Ice
• 1x Vaporkin
• 1x Venser's Journal
• 1x Voidmage Husher
• 1x Wall of Mist
• 1x Wind Spirit
• 1x Wizard's Retort

Recently swapped out (31)

• 1x Air Servant
• 1x Anticipate
• 1x Chasm Skulker
• 1x Clone
• 1x Crypsis
• 1x Cultural Exchange
• 1x Divination
• 1x Faerie Formation
• 1x Faerie Vandal
• 1x Fog Bank
• 1x Followed Footsteps
• 1x Fountain of Renewal
• 1x Gather Specimens
• 1x Ivory Crane Netsuke
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Metamorphic Alteration
• 1x Mystic Archaeologist
• 1x Oneirophage
• 1x Oracle's Insight
• 1x Polymorphist's Jest
• 1x Quickling
• 1x Simic Fluxmage
• 1x Simic Manipulator
• 1x Sphinx of Magosi
• 1x Sphinx's Disciple
• 1x Thassa's Ire
• 1x Thopter Mechanic
• 1x Threnody Singer
• 1x Trait Doctoring
• 1x Twincast
• 1x Venser's Journal

To buy and/or add? (3)

• 1x Evacuation
• 1x Retraced Image
• 1x Retreat to Coralhelm

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My main deck. Suggestions welcome, but don't take it personally if I don't follow it. I'm guessing probably bracket 2, but the site currently thinks it's bracket 1. This deck tends to sometimes have issues winning, but is good at stalling. Looking for more fun ways to finish the game. In process of adding Access Denied, Laboratory Maniac, Dakra Mystic, and Mnemonic Deluge. Also in process of removing anything that creates copy tokens (Rite of Replication, Extravagant Replication, and Cackling Counterpart). Not a fan of bouncing everything and winning as that's not very fun for me, unless it's a small bounce spell that I copy a bunch. Removed Venser's Journal as that added more stalling without a way to win.

Old notes:

-----FAVORITE CARDS FOR EACH ABILITY-----

Redirect: Redirect (Support with flash and proactive/playable instants)

Draw: Faerie Formation

Copy/control creature: Rite of Replication

Lifegain: Venser's Journal

-----DECKBUILDING NOTES-----

x9 Draw (possibly add more?)

x6 Turn One 1-drops

x6 2-drops to keep 2 open mana for Redirect from going to waste

x3 Target player draws (x2 is too low?)

x3 Creatures with counters (limited to keep tracking simple) Chasm Skulker, Faerie Vandal, Simic Fluxmage

x0 Lifegain cards (helps keeps games shorter)

Date added	1 year
Last updated	12 hours
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 23 - 6 Rares 21 - 5 Uncommons 22 - 4 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.24
Tokens	Copy Clone, Squid 1/1 U
Folders	Monocolor Commander Decks
Based on	Aquatic deck (WIP) Izzetaura EDH