Nightmare Creatures

Commander / EDH Praetor Tokens

Mo0nMasTer

Land (38)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cascading Cataracts
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Emergence Zone
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 6x Forest
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x High Market
• 1x Khalni Garden
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Taiga
• 1x Tarnished Citadel
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Urza's Saga
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Artifact (4)

• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Sol Ring

Instant (22)

• 1x Artifact Mutation
• 1x Aura Mutation
• 1x Banish into Fable
• 1x Beckon Apparition
• 1x Call the Coppercoats
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Emerald Charm
• 1x Fungal Infection
• 1x Kaya's Guile
• 1x Mardu Charm
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Practical Research
• 1x Raise the Alarm
• 1x Reverberate
• 1x Rith's Charm
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Synthetic Destiny
• 1x Szat's Will
• 1x Twincast
• 1x Valakut Awakening  ^Flip
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Verdant Command

Creature (10)

• 1x Archetype of Endurance
• 1x Avacyn, Angel of Hope
• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1x Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Tidespout Tyrant
• 1x Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
• 1x Urabrask the Hidden
• 1x Void Winnower
• 1x Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger

Commander (1)

Sorcery (20)

• 1x Aether Mutation
• 1x Alliance of Arms
• 1x Beck / Call
• 1x Bring to Light
• 1x Callous Dismissal
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Echo of Eons
• 1x Experimental Overload
• 1x Game Plan
• 1x Lingering Souls
• 1x Mass Polymorph
• 1x Migratory Route
• 1x One Dozen Eyes
• 1x Profane Tutor
• 1x Release the Dogs
• 1x Saproling Migration
• 1x See Beyond
• 1x Syphon Flesh
• 1x Time Reversal
• 1x Time Spiral

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x Cryptolith Rite
• 1x Exploration
• 1x Utopia Sprawl
• 1x Wild Growth

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Sideboard

Instant (5)

• 1x Cerulean Wisps
• 1x Divergent Transformations
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Perplexing Test
• 1x Sundering Growth

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Launch the Fleet
• 1x Toll of the Invasion
• 1x Urza's Ruinous Blast
• 1x Winds of Change

Creature (2)

• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Triskelion

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Maybeboard

Sorcery (15)

• 1x Crashing Footfalls
• 1x Devout Invocation
• 1x Gather the Townsfolk
• 1x Goblin War Party
• 1x Grizzly Fate
• 1x Increasing Devotion
• 1x Last Stand
• 1x Nomads' Assembly
• 1x Oversimplify
• 1x Rise from the Tides
• 1x Saproling Symbiosis
• 1x Solve the Equation
• 1x Spectral Procession
• 1x Triumph of the Hordes
• 1x Wargate

Creature (8)

• 1x Aurelia, the Warleader
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Iona, Shield of Emeria
• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Sphinx of the Second Sun
• 1x Tawnos, Urza's Apprentice
• 1x Young Pyromancer

Artifact (3)

• 1x Jeweled Lotus
• 1x Proteus Staff
• 1x Umbral Mantle

Instant (4)

• 1x Benevolent Offering
• 1x Seed Spark
• 1x Sundering Growth
• 1x Windgrace's Judgment

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Paladin Class
• 1x Shark Typhoon
• 1x Training Grounds

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Deck goals: Fast and fun to pilot

This deck uses tokens and Polymorph effects to cheat out big oppressive creatures to beat our opponents to death with.

Ramp

Turn one Codie, Vociferous Codex is possible with Mana Crypt or Crop Rotation into Ancient Tomb with Mox Diamond/Chrome Mox, almost all artifacts and enchantments are for ramp to get Codie, Vociferous Codex out by turn two. Crop Rotation also works well for ramping into Ancient Tomb on turn one or two. Once Codie, Vociferous Codex is out then by turn two or three we can cast five cost spells or greater depending on our luck. Creature ramp makes the Polymorph less effective so there is none in this deck.

A word on tokens

This deck relies heavily on token generation, which with Codie, Vociferous Codex's cascade ability is pretty fast. It's easy to build up five or more tokens each turn by cascading from one token generator into another.

Game Plan

The show stoppers once we get enough tokens out are Mass Polymorph and Synthetic Destiny, playing either of these cards will be pretty upsetting to the game. The more tokens the merrier but keep in mind there are only ten creature cards in the deck so we don't actually need to spend too much time building up tokens to bring out the big guns. The creatures in our deck are chosen to be as mean and oppressive as possible so it doesn't take a lot of them to be effective.

Keeping things consistent

There are plenty of tutors in the deck to ensure our consistency with dropping our baddies on the board. Profane Tutor in particular turns any of our one cost spells into a Demonic Tutor with Codie, Vociferous Codex's cascade ability.

We will sometimes want to put cards back in our deck. For this we have a few helpers: See Beyond and Valakut Awakening   give us sone card advantage while letting us put things directly into our deck. Winds of Change, Time Spiral, Echo of Eons, Game Plan, Time Reversal and Volrath's Stronghold also help keep our cards where we want them. Practical Research and Geier Reach Sanitarium can also help us with ramp and getting things we don't want in our hands.

I like cheating in big scary creatures and having a more interactive play experience, but you could replace the scary creatures with ones that combo off of eachother if you want to win asap. Triskelion + Mikaeus, the Unhallowed for example would win instantly and take less time to set up.

Any suggestions are welcome! Please comment with any thoughts or opinions, I have had a bunch of fun with this deck so far and I like the challange of building around Codie, Vociferous Codex.

Date added	2 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	14 - 1 Mythic Rares 52 - 6 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 4 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.77
Tokens	Beast 5/5 G, Bird 1/1 W, Construct 0/0 C, Dog 1/1 W, Human Soldier 1/1 W, Insect 1/1 G, Knight 2/2 W w/ Vigilance, Plant 0/1 G, Saproling 1/1 G, Soldier 1/1 W, Spirit 1/1 C, Spirit 1/1 W, Spirit 1/1 WB, Squirrel 1/1 G, Thrull 0/1 B, Warrior 1/1 W, Weird X/X UR, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie Army 0/0 B