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Keiga, the Dioscuri Envoy

Commander / EDH* Bracket 4 Clone Control Counterspell Flying Kamigawa Mono-Blue Shapeshifter

Andramalech

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Commander: Keiga, the Tide Star

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This is a Mono-Blue () deck based around Keiga, the Tide Star. This build is meant to exemplify clone-making tactics and exploiting that interaction with Keiga, in order to look at anything and says "that's mine now."

Taking Things that Aren't Yours

The name of the game is someone hurt my feelings with big creatures I could do nothing about such as Craterhoof Behemoth. So this will be my very first retaliatory deck, that is unironically also a retaliatory-focused build. My card choices are prioritizing holding up a bunch of mirrors until everyone starts getting nauseous and wants to vomit. Either from getting confused from the number of twins or from actually understanding what my intention is and responding appropriately to the situation- but I digress, we are here to copy stuff, sac shadow clones of Keiga, the Tide Star, which in turn will allow us to just straight up take stuff.

"...Keiga, the Tide Star (KAY-gah; Japanese: 京 けい 河 が ; literally: "Capital River"), was the great ryuu (divine dragon) of Kamigawa's islands. Keiga guarded Minamo and the Kamitaki Falls, and has since reincarnated as Kairi..."

..so Keiga is one of the coolest dragons in all of magic, in my honest opinion probably to most other fans because of the titular and pragmatically infamous, Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker which has long been known to be a combo monster. For myself, I happen to really like how Keiga is selective of their champions, and the reincarnation aspect makes it pretty tight as well.

Why are you doing this?

Why? Because f@#$% yOu, that's why. I sincerely believe that every single duelist has that ONE build that everyone knows why they built it, why it is so annoying/brutal/savage/unbareable, and it's because of a particular set of circumstances. To be put simply, I think everyone has their limits, and this is me exhibiting rightful and equal return force. My build will be reserved for high-powered/cedh territory builds. Now that is not to say my build is CEDH level, it's so clearly not. However, my intention is to hold up a bunch of counters and mirrors to delay/defend until I've copied my way into a goofy game-winner.

Come to think of it, I have already built a deck in such a capacity before, as I described."Greenbeans" would definitely constitute the same pre-requisites. I think that this build is just a lot of fun to go up against the nonsense decks that SaskiaKnight711 builds, which at times become a big ball of crazy creatures.

So regardless of what I face, I'm certain to find at least one player at each table who has stuff worth imitating.

Shadow Clone.. Justu..? Wait- we did that before..

The concept here is that unlike another build I have completed, our clones here are almost always going to be targeting the Tide Star. When we don't "look" (target) the dragon, we are focused on hitting something super shiny and relevant that's boardside.. for the moment. The secondary objective is to then obtain control of the original, whom we copied. This is assuming we don't already control them.

I think at some point I'm going to consider including Sakashima, but time will tell. I'm likely to detail that note as an update, though.

I don't really know what to anticipate about a build where I've never tackled a game from this kind of playstyle. It's truly out-of-pocket comfort for me because I typically want the game on my terms. However, after some play-testing I've seen good results against strong, goofy builds like goblins or zombies or pirates, even faced down a dinosaur deck and I would like to think that fundamentally this deck works like Judo- the re-direction of force is how you best win the game, with the stronger action on your opponents parts (in a purely creature/physical aspect) will result in stronger motions on your own part.

When put up against more spell focused decks or even fast decks that operate on 1/2 card combos, I had a much more difficult time operating this build. Yes, I had access to spells and counter tactics but the builds I went up against didn't have much in the way of usable creatures (so things like Dockside Extorionist which is albeit banned now, didn't even really do anything for the one shot value of ramp in tokens to treasures. But from here, what other bodies? Ivy Lane Denizen or Opposition Agent, Memnite, Rograhk, Son of Roghahh, Thrasios, Triton Hero, the list of bum targets goes on and on.) So from this perspective, in a lot of ways.. the deck fell way short before it ever had a chance to take off. The prospect of facing down a cedh deck is laughable at this point because I do NOT have the deck finely tuned to it's most effective degree. Even if it was, it would pale in comparison to the meta-defining characteristics of CEDH standards.

This build is still a whole bunch of fun and I love taking things that aren't mine! Please let me know if you happen to like the construction, as I've kept it private and only tested it as such up until now.

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