Jazz Hands Venser

Commander / EDH Combo Flash Infinite Combo Mono-Blue Storm Wizards

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Creature (24)

• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Azami, Lady of Scrolls
• 1x Body Double
• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Dreamscape Artist
• 1x Enclave Cryptologist
• 1x Gadwick, the Wizened
• 1x Galecaster Colossus
• 1x Great Whale
• 1x Hullbreaker Horror
• 1x Kelpie Guide
• 1x Mercurial Pretender
• 1x Naban, Dean of Iteration
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Salvager of Secrets
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Spark Double
• 1x Stonybrook Banneret
• 1x Thing in the Ice  ^Flip
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Trophy Mage
• 1x Vedalken AEthermage

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Finale of Revelation
• 1x Recall
• 1x Windfall

Artifact (17)

• 1x Altar of the Brood
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Coveted Jewel
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Extraplanar Lens
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Gauntlet of Power
• 1x Helm of Awakening
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Sapphire Medallion
• 1x Semblance Anvil
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Urza's Incubator
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Dress Down
• 1x Kindred Discovery
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Omniscience
• 1x Reflections of Littjara

Land (36)

• 1x Buried Ruin
• 33x Island
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Riptide Laboratory

Commander (1)

Instant (12)

• 1x Archmage's Charm
• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Familiar's Ruse
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x High Tide
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Run Away Together
• 1x Snap
• 1x Whir of Invention

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Narset, Parter of Veils
• 1x Teferi, Temporal Archmage

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Maybeboard

Artifact (8)

• 1x Cloudstone Curio
• 1x Doubling Cube
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Kefnet's Monument
• 1x Knowledge Pool
• 1x Sword of Light and Shadow
• 1x Winter Orb
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Land (2)

• 1x Glacial Chasm
• 1x Sanctum of Eternity

Instant (6)

• 1x Brain Freeze
• 1x Displace
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Mana Short
• 1x Reset
• 1x Withdraw

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Arcane Laboratory
• 1x Mirrormade
• 1x Stasis

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Merchant Scroll
• 1x Mind's Desire
• 1x Replication Technique

Creature (4)

• 1x Baral, Chief of Compliance
• 1x Floodgate
• 1x Perplexing Chimera
• 1x Spellseeker

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Welcome to my one-of-a-kind Venser build! Be warned, your opponents are not going to like you for playing this deck. But we're in mono blue, so I guess that's kind of a given.

Our commander can be a versatile utility piece, or he can be our road to victory. It all depends on how stabilized we are. Let's get into the nitty-gritty.

Game Plan

The main idea is to cast Venser, Shaper Savant over and over, bouncing troublesome spells and permanents. "But how can we bounce Venser around, if he can only bounce one thing at a time?" you might ask.

The answer is, make him bounce two things at a time! Naban, Dean of Iteration, Panharmonicon, Reflections of Littjara, Galecaster Colossus, and Hullbreaker Horror each provide the effect of doubling our commander's effect (if you're really into it, you can also run Tidespout Tyrant). With any of these cards out, we can use Venser to bounce himself as well as something else. This means, that with enough mana, we can keep on bouncing people's stuff! Be warned, these cards are essential to our game-plan. Stay cautious, and whenever possible, use Venser to protect them.

Now, the next main issue is that we need mana. The most efficient way to recast one card over and over, would be to reduce that card's cost, and we have many ways to do that: Sapphire Medallion, Helm of Awakening, and Stonybrook Banneret each serve this purpose, but more efficient versions of these include Semblance Anvil and Urza's Incubator, since they half our commander's casting cost on their own. But the most efficient of all is a card we all know and love: Omniscience. You might be seeing the beginnings of combo potential in this deck.

The other way we gain a lot of mana is through mana-doublers. These are Caged Sun, Gauntlet of Power, Extraplanar Lens, and even High Tide (because of these I tend to keep my non-basic land count low). Combine these with some untappers, like Frantic Search, Finale of Revelation, Turnabout, Peregrine Drake and the Great Whale, to make your turns a joyride. For you.

Combos

• Omniscience + Venser, Shaper Savant: Play and bounce Venser infinitely. Either pair this with Altar of the Brood, or have a Naban effect out to bounce everyone else's stuff.

• Panharmonicon + Peregrine Drake/Great Whale + Venser, Shaper Savant: Infinite mana. Each time you cast Venser, have him bounce himself and a land-untapper. Your land-untappers untap lands twice, so you end up with enough to do it over and over.

• Gauntlet of Power/Caged Sun/Extraplanar Lens + Peregrine Drake/Great Whale + Naban, Dean of Iteration + Venser, Shaper Savant: Also infinite mana. A little bit harder to assemble, because Naban only affects Venser, so to make the untappers worthwhile you have to make them untap double mana.

• Deadeye Navigator + Peregrine Drake/Great Whale: Deadeye Navigator is a good card.

• Archaeomancer/Salvager of Secrets + Ghostly Flicker + (Having islands tap for 3): With Archaeomancer on the board, tap one land to cast Ghostly Flicker, targeting said Archaeomancer and an Island. Archaeomancer's trigger gets you back Flicker. And so on.... Give this a Panharmonicon or a Tidespout Tyrant for payoff, or just make your islands tap for 4 to get infinite mana!

• Cloudstone Curio + Peregrine Drake + Great Whale: With Curio, each untapper will bounce the other back to your hand, allowing you t untap again (infinitely)! To generate infinite mana, either get a mana doubler, a Panharmonicon or replace one of the untappers with a Clever Impersonator/Spark Double.

Being THAT Guy

Look, cards like Stasis and Winter Orb are... well... good cards. But if you're not at a table of CEDH players, don't expect these to earn you any new friends.

However, there is a reason I put them into the Maybeboard; they do synergize with our commander a great deal. All we need to do is Jazz Hands either of these off the board immediately before our own turn, so that we get to untap, while nobody else does (fun).

What do you think? Is there anything that I left out in this deck? Feel free to let me know in the comments below!

Date added	4 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 32 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.31
Tokens	Copy Clone, Emblem Teferi, Temporal Archmage, Frog Lizard 3/3 G