Ixidor; As Reality Fades

Commander / EDH*

Ucenna

Instant (2)

• 1x AEtherize
• 1x Capsize

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Wash Out
• 1x Write into Being

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Cloudform
• 1x Disappear
• 1x Equilibrium
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Monastery Siege
• 1x Training Grounds

Artifact (10)

• 1x Cloud Key
• 1x Cloudstone Curio
• 1x Conjurer's Closet
• 1x Extraplanar Lens
• 1x MImic Vat
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Soul Foundry
• 1x Tawnos's Coffin
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Vedalken Shackles

Creature (41)

• 1x AEther Adept
• 1x Augury Owl
• 1x Body Double
• 1x Brine Elemental
• 1x Chromeshell Crab
• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Coral Trickster
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Drake Familiar
• 1x Dulcet Sirens
• 1x Fathom Seer
• 1x Floodgate
• 1x Gilded Drake
• 1x Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1x Hypnotic Siren
• 1x Ixidron
• 1x Kheru Spellsnatcher
• 1x Maelstrom Djinn
• 1x Man-o'-War
• 1x Mischievous Quanar
• 1x Mistfire Weaver
• 1x Monastery Loremaster
• 1x Nephalia Smuggler
• 1x Nevermaker
• 1x Quickling
• 1x Quicksilver Dragon
• 1x Riptide Entrancer
• 1x Riptide Survivor
• 1x Sea Gate Oracle
• 1x Shaper Parasite
• 1x Stratus Dancer
• 1x Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
• 1x Thousand Winds
• 1x Tradewind Rider
• 1x Unblinking Bleb
• 1x Vedalken Mastermind
• 1x Venser, Shaper Savant
• 1x Vesuvan Shapeshifter
• 1x Voidmage Apprentice
• 1x Voidmage Prodigy
• 1x Willbender

Land (38)

• 1x Halimar Depths
• 33x Island
• 1x Riptide Laboratory
• 1x Terrain Generator
• 1x Winding Canyons
• 1x Zoetic Cavern

Commander (1)

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Maybeboard

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Devastation Tide

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Declaration of Naught
• 1x Icy Prison
• 1x Mark of Eviction
• 1x Soothsaying

Artifact (8)

• 1x Aether Vial
• 1x Crystal Shard
• 1x Erratic Portal
• 1x Nim Deathmantle
• 1x Prototype Portal
• 1x Sculpting Steel
• 1x Spine of Ish Sah
• 1x Sundial of the Infinite

Creature (19)

• 1x Crookclaw Transmuter
• 1x Cryptic Annelid
• 1x Draining Whelk
• 1x Dream Stalker
• 1x Ertai, Wizard Adept
• 1x Heidar, Rimewind Master
• 1x Kederekt Leviathan
• 1x Llawan, Cephalid Empress
• 1x Mist Raven
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Sakashima the Impostor
• 1x Shifty Doppelganger
• 1x Shorecrasher Elemental
• 1x Temporal Adept
• 1x Thalakos Seer
• 1x Tidespout Tyrant
• 1x Vendilion Clique
• 1x Voidmage Husher
• 1x Vortex Elemental

Land (2)

• 1x Scorched Ruins
• 1x Springjack Pasture

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Ixidor; as Reality Fades

Ixidor is a realitively wierd commander, not many people know what to expect when he enters the battlefield. And when it comes to deck building, not many people know what to do with him. There are loads of different Ixidor variations out thereIxidor with wizards, Ixidor with a handful of morphs and other generally good cards, etc.
I'd like to present a knew deck, Ixidor + Bounce! (Hurray! Huzzah! Yippee!)
Okay fine, so it's not that exciting. But it's still a little awesome.

The real strength of morph is that you know more about the board state than your opponent. Ixidor only makes this better. If your leaving a lot of mana untapped, your opponent can probably guess that you have a powerful morph on the field.But with Ixidor that's no longer a problem, all your morphs flip for 3 CMC, so playing a Scornful Egotist is just as nerve racking for your opponent as playing a Thousand Winds.
When you flip up a morph the mystery is gone. Your opponent knows exactly what it is, and often you'll have exhausted the morphs flip up effect and by extension, it's usefulness.

That's where bounce comes in. Bouncing not only allows you to reuse a morph's flip up effect, it brings the mystery back. Imagine your opponent's surprise when you bounce your Brine Elemental back to your hand only to play a Willbender . Suddenly they've wasted a destruction spell and lost their best creature.
Of course, that's not the only benefit of bounce. You can use bounce to dodge opponents' spells and lock them out of the board. Even more useful, bounce allows you to reuse ETB effects.

This deck has almost as many ETB effects as it does Morphs. Things like Gilded Drake to steal a creature and AEther Adept to bounce your opponents creatures (and Gilded Drakes) back to their owner's hands. The cards themselves make up the meat of the traditional effects, in many cases ETB cards are used in place of sorceries and instants. This is because, thanks to our bounce and flicker cards, it's easy to reuse them. Of course not running many instants and sorceries comes at a price, you can't cast much on your opponents turn.

In comes flash. This deck has cards like Leyline of Anticipation and Winding Canyons to keep things going. And then there are plenty of cards that have flash on their own like Quickling or Venser, Shaper Savant. And when you can't use them, there's always abilities. Cards like Glen Elendra Archmage, Tradewind Rider, and Mimic Vat give you instant speed reusable abilities. And let's not forget all of our morphs, which can be flipped just as easily as a spell can be cast.

Card Evaluation (What I Included and Why)

AEther Adept & Man-o'-War:
Both AEther Adept and Man-o'-War are great bouncers. They can bounce basically any creature on the battlefield. Aether Adept in particular is nice because it's reusable with Riptide Laboratory.

Augury Owl & Sea Gate Oracle :
These are the draw ETBs of the deck. Both are nice. Augury Owl is good for opening development and Sea Gate Oracle for the late game. I typically find myself mulliganning Sea Gate Oracle . It's usually better to swap it for a card in the beginning than it is spend 3 CMC during development, especially since 3 CMC is my sweet spot for development. Sea Gate Oracle also has the added advantage of Riptide Laboratory.

Body Double, Clever Impersonator, & Vesuvan Shapeshifter
These are the clone effects of the deck. Vesuvan Shapeshifter is easily the easiest to reuse, but the other's have their own advantages. Clever Impersonator can copy anything, including Vesuvan Shapeshifter. Body Double can become the best dead creature. This includes both Clever Impersonator and Vesuvan Shapeshifter.

Brine Elemental, Chromeshell Crab , Kheru Spellsnatcher, Mischievous Quanar , Thousand Winds, and Vesuvan Shapeshifter:
These are the "scary" morphs. Just having these guys in the deck makes all your morphs more intimidating. Most of them need Ixidor, Reality Sculptor to reach their full potential, and putting him on the battlefield without them is a great way to bluff. Vesuvan Shapeshifter's own morph cost falls into the sweet spot of 2 CMC, the same as Willbender . If you play your cards right, you can masquerade it as the Willbender and vice versa. This can be particularly useful if your opponent throws a kill spell at it thinking it's the shapeshifter, only to have the spell redirect onto one of their own creatures.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 31 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.50
Tokens	Copy Clone, Manifest 2/2 C, Morph 2/2 C