Master Flicker [Primer]

Commander / EDH Combo Competitive Control Infinite Combo Mono-Blue Primer

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Instant (39)

• 1x Anticipate
• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cryptic Command
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Force of Negation
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x High Tide
• 1x Illusionist's Stratagem
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Intuition
• 1x Long-Term Plans
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Mindbreak Trap
• 1x Mission Briefing
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Narset's Reversal
• 1x Negate
• 1x Opt
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Peer Through Depths
• 1x Quicken
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Spell Pierce
• 1x Stroke of Genius
• 1x Supreme Will
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Tolarian Winds
• 1x Whispers of the Muse
• 1x Winds of Rebuke

Artifact (13)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Cursed Totem
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Sapphire Medallion
• 1x Sol Ring

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Chart a Course
• 1x Day's Undoing
• 1x Flood of Recollection
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Merchant Scroll
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Time Spiral
• 1x Timetwister
• 1x Treasure Cruise
• 1x Windfall

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Back to Basics
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Rhystic Study

Commander (1)

Land (27)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 17x Island
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Riptide Laboratory
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Sunscorched Desert
• 1x The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
• 1x Zhalfirin Void

Creature (7)

• 1x Baral, Chief of Compliance
• 1x Drift of Phantasms
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Spectral Sailor
• 1x Spellseeker
• 1x Spellskite
• 1x Thassa's Oracle

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Maybeboard

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Extract
• 1x Personal Tutor

Creature (1)

• 1x Vendilion Clique

Artifact (2)

• 1x Altar of the Brood
• 1x Isochron Scepter

Instant (1)

• 1x Dramatic Reversal

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Why you should play this deck: Show

1. Control heavy.

2. Sneaks a win.

3. C-c-c-combo.

Why you shouldn't play this deck: Show

1. Lacks a board presence.

2. It's an all-in strategy that's solely focused on the commander.

3. You like a deck with more variety.

The Nature of the Deck

The deck is 40% instant speed interaction. You will almost always have a response and you'll always have a good bluff. The play style is influenced partially from Land-Go Baral Control. This deck can win when another player is trying to win.

The Opening Hand

When drawing your opening hand an ideal hand would be a few rocks, interaction, two lands and draw. An opening hand should be a very low curve or a "free" spell you can pitch to, without losing a cantrip.

Good Hand:

2x Island

Mana Crypt

Mental Misstep

Day's Undoing

Anticipate

Back to Basics

Okay hand:

3x Island

Opt

Peer Through Depths

Force of Will

Fellwar Stone

A Bad hand would be a hand with less lands and no wheels. Your cantrips can ensure land drops and threaten interaction.

The Gameplan

How We Play

Elusive. You feign resolutions, yet never lie. You will always have a response.

So, do yourself a solid and Win on the stack

How We Win/The Jutsu

The main focus of the deck uses Ghostly Flicker + Naru Meha, Master Wizard to create an infinite mana loop.

The Loops Show

The Primary Loop

1) Naru Meha will resolve, her enter the battlefield effect (ETB) will trigger.

2) Target the previously casted Ghostly Flicker with her ETB.

3) A copy of Ghostly Flicker will go on the stack. You will target Naru Meha as your first target and a land of your choice as your second target (we'll choose an Island for the sake of demonstration).

4) The copy of Ghostly Flicker will resolve. An untapped island will enter the battlefield and so will Naru Meha.

5) Trigger! Naru Meha will enter again, this time, respond to the trigger by tapping your island for blue.

6) Repeat step 2.

• Repeat the loop ad nauseam to gain infinite mana.

LOOP VARIATIONS

Loop Variation 1:

Requires set-up**

• With an on-board Spellseeker/Via Step 3: Instead of targeting a land with Ghostly Flicker, you will target, Naru Meha, Master Wizard + Spellseeker to tutor for every instant and sorcery CMC two or less from your deck to your hand.

Loop Variation 2:

Requires Graveyard set-up**

• Having a graveyard won't be hard to obtain since cantripping is a natural part of the deck. You can also play this within the main loop.

Snapcaster Mage/Via Step 3: Can enter the combo at any time to cast any instant or sorcery from your graveyard. You will choose Naru Meha, Master Wizard + Snapcaster Mage as your ghostly flicker copy targets.

Loop Variation 3:

The Exit Strategy

1. Upon resolution, of the ghostly flicker copy, instead of sending Naru Meha to exile, you'll send her back to the command zone.

2. The original ghostly flicker will trigger another round of priority.

3. Maintain priority and cast a cantrip.

4. Maintain priority once more and cast Naru Meha

5. Naru Meha will enter for a final time to double your cantrip spell.

Loop 3.5: The Exit Strategy pt. 2

Via Loop 3 - Step 5:

1. With Riptide Laboratory on the field. Activate it as a response to the cantrip copy on the stack.

2. When priority triggers, re-cast Naru Meha from your hand.

3. Copy the original ghostly flicker and target Naru Meha and Riptide.

4. The trigger will go on the stack. Target the cantrip spell.

5. Activate Riptide and send Naru Meha back to your hand.

6. Repeat step 2.

How Do We Kill Our Opponents?

Plan A:

Cantrip through your deck until you reach Stroke of Genius or Blue Sun's Zenith. Target yourself to draw your entire library, bounce Naru Meha back to your hand, then re-cast one of the X draw spells to target your opponents, bounce and re-cast for the second and third kill.

Plan B:

Ghostly Flicker + Naru Meha, Master Wizard + Sunscorched Desert pinging your opponents.

Plan C: CUT

Altar of the Brood + Naru Meha, Master Wizard + Release to the Wind milling your opponents.

Plan C 2.0 [CUT]

Isochron Scepter:

• Dramatic Reversal + Isochron Scepter for infinite mana.

• Cast Isochron Scepter early game for value, ghostly flicker later to imprint Dramatic Reversal.

• While in ghostly flicker loop target isochron scepter to imprint sorcery spells and activate scepter on the stack.

The Illusionist's Loop:

Illusionist's Stratagem + Naru Meha, Master Wizard

Illusionist's Stratagem + Naru Meha, Master Wizard + Thassa's Oracle

I have recently added the stratagem loop back in due to Thassa's Oracle. Thassa's oracle will help you dig through your deck for more advantage.

With oracle on the field: You can start the loop by constantly targeting thassa's oracle, end the loop with 1 or 0 cards left in you library. Thassa's oracle re-enters the battlefield for the trigger to win you the game.

Without oracle: you will simulate this win condition to Ad Nauseam on an opponent's end step. Untap with one to few cards in your library, cast thassa's oracle during your main phase and win.

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Updates:

05/08/19

IN

Narset's Reversal

Riptide Laboratory

OUT

1x Island

Illusionist's Stratagem

05/11/2019

IN:

Gilded Lotus

OUT:

Thran Dynamo

08/21/19

IN:

The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Timetwister

Whispers of the Muse

OUT:

2x Island

Mystic Confluence

10/22/19

IN:

Mystic Sanctuary

Intuition

Arcane Signet

Force of Negation

Flooded Strand

Scalding Tarn

Polluted Delta

Misty Rainforest

Zhalfirin Void

OUT:

Gilded Lotus

5x island

Prismatic Vista

Arcane Denial

Fact or Fiction

03/21/20

IN

Thassa's Oracle

Illusionist's Stratagem

Spellskite

Spectral Sailor

Wavebreak Hippocamp

Expedition Map

Mindbreak Trap

Top Ranked	Achieved #1 position overall 5 years ago
Date added	5 years
Last updated	4 years
Key combos	Dramatic Reversal + Isochron Scepter Ghostly Flicker + Naru Meha, Master Wizard Illusionist's Stratagem + Naru Meha, Master Wizard Altar of the Brood + Naru Meha, Master Wizard + Release to the Wind Ghostly Flicker + Naru Meha, Master Wizard + Sunscorched Desert Naru Meha, Master Wizard + Spellseeker Illusionist's Stratagem + Naru Meha, Master Wizard + Thassa's Oracle
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 35 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 24 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.18
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Manifest 2/2 C
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