Ranar? I Barely Know Her!

Commander / EDH Exile WU (Azorius)

davinq

Blink Enablers (18)

• 1x Abuelo, Ancestral Echo
• 1x Another Round
• 1x Brago, King Eternal *f-etch*
• 1x Charming Prince
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Displacer Kitten
• 1x Ephemerate
• 1x Felidar Guardian
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x Guardian of Ghirapur
• 1x Icewind Stalwart
• 1x Mystic Reflection
• 1x Restoration Angel
• 1x Soulherder
• 1x Teleportation Circle
• 1x Thassa, Deep-Dwelling
• 1x Venser, the Sojourner
• 1x Yorion, Sky Nomad

Removal/Offensive Blink (11)

• 1x Aligned Hedron Network
• 1x Doomskar
• 1x Eldrazi Displacer *f-pre*
• 1x Flickerwisp
• 1x Galepowder Mage
• 1x Ixidron
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Ravenform
• 1x Revoke Existence
• 1x Skyclave Apparition
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

Land (34)

• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Deserted Beach
• 1x Escape Tunnel
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Gates of Istfell
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Irrigated Farmland
• 9x Island
• 1x Memorial to Genius
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Mystifying Maze
• 10x Plains
• 1x Port Town
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Shire Terrace
• 1x Skycloud Expanse
• 1x Temple of Enlightenment

Value/Blink Targets (10)

• 1x Aether Channeler
• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Cathars' Crusade
• 1x Divine Visitation
• 1x Geist-Honored Monk
• 1x Hanged Executioner
• 1x Intangible Virtue
• 1x Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation  ^Flip
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Spark Double

Protection (7)

• 1x Cosmic Intervention
• 1x Drogskol Captain
• 1x Eerie Interlude
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Saw it Coming
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Tishana's Tidebinder

Commander (1)

Acceleration (11)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Heraldic Banner
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Prismatic Lens
• 1x Sailor of Means
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Stoic Farmer
• 1x Talisman of Progress

Advantage (8)

• 1x Azor's Gateway  ^Flip
• 1x Behold the Multiverse
• 1x Extraordinary Journey
• 1x Jacob Hauken, Inspector  ^Flip
• 1x Mentor of the Meek
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Wall of Omens
• 1x Watcher for Tomorrow

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Other (27)

• 1x Blade Splicer
• 1x Captain of the Watch
• 1x Cloudblazer
• 1x Conjurer's Closet
• 1x Deputy of Detention
• 1x Fiend Hunter
• 1x Flicker of Fate
• 1x Glimmerpoint Stag
• 1x Glorious Protector
• 1x Harmonious Archon
• 1x Hero of Bretagard
• 1x Invocation of Saint Traft
• 1x Mistmeadow Witch
• 1x Mnemonic Wall
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Pithing Needle
• 1x Planar Incision
• 1x Regal Caracal
• 1x Ruin Ghost
• 1x Saltskitter
• 1x Sandsteppe Outcast
• 1x Settle Beyond Reality
• 1x Shepherd of the Cosmos
• 1x Spectral Deluge
• 1x Sunfall
• 1x Turn to Mist
• 1x Twining Twins

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Dissatisfied with the way Brago blink plays out (even when I find the necessary combo pieces swiftly, the way it's built to shut the game down is not fun to play against, hence "Brago, Game Eternal"), and despite the fact that it means I would be running three decks now whose commanders produce spirit tokens ( Kykar, Wind's Fury doing a prowess thing with them, and Millicent, Restless Revenant just going full-tilt typal), I think Ranar is best-suited to filling the blink niche that I've always had in my deckertoire since I started playing EDH in 2013.

The trick, I think, to making Ranar blink tick is to just blink as much as possible. It's entirely possible to get 15+ tokens by turn six if sequencing the likes of Charming Prince, Guardian of Ghirapur and of course Felidar Guardian. Even slower returns like Flickerwisp can accrue serious value bouncing each other across opponents' turns after you've had an aggressive, swingy-turn to produce some backup, for example.

Unlike Kykar and Millicent, too, this Ranar build is less interested in spirits themselves (with the exception of a spare Drogskol Captain for protection). Instead, the focus is less on prowess and less on spirits and more on tokens themselves (and a handful of go-tall zags like Hero of Bretagard. Though I've yet to invest in an Anointed Procession, it is perhaps only a matter of time.

Pet card: Secret Lair printing of Regal Caracal because I'm not running a cats deck and eager to find other places for those cards. Here it can be flickered like Geist-Honored Monk (the other pet card as one of my first foils in Magic) as a redundancy option for Ranar (that's still cheaper than recasting him).

Note: "Korean" cards aren't actually Korean; I've just flagged the cards that overlap with my Millicent, Restless Revenant deck (in addition to a few other overlaps they also share 95% of a mana base).

Date added	7 months
Last updated	1 month
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 38 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.18
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Angel 4/4 W w/ Vigilance, Bird 1/1 U, Bird 1/1 W, Copy Clone, Emblem Venser, the Sojourner, Illusion */* U, Spirit 1/1 W, Treasure