Sygg's Labour Relations Incorporated

Commander / EDH 8-Rack Control Counterspell Discard Stax UB (Dimir) Unblockable Weenie

DreadKhan

Discard Payoff (13)

• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Shrieking Affliction
• 1x Liliana's Caress
• 1x Tinybones, Trinket Thief
• 1x Waste Not
• 1x Wheel of Torture
• 1x Court of Ambition
• 1x Creeping Dread
• 1x Geth's Grimoire
• 1x Rackling
• 1x Raiders' Wake
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Tergrid, God of Fright  ^Flip

Discard Engine (11)

• 1x Bottomless Pit
• 1x Cunning Lethemancer
• 1x Hypnotic Specter
• 1x Necrogen Mists
• 1x Oppression
• 1x Stronghold Rats
• 1x Court of Ambition
• 1x Creeping Dread
• 1x Raiders' Wake
• 1x Necrogoyf
• 1x Painful Quandary

Counter (8)

• 1x Counterbalance
• 1x Countersquall
• 1x Drown in the Loch
• 1x Negate
• 1x Forbid
• 1x Nimble Obstructionist
• 1x Saw it Coming
• 1x Stronghold Machinist

Removal (5)

• 1x Drown in the Loch
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Ravenform
• 1x Sudden Spoiling
• 1x Sower of Temptation

Stax (13)

• 1x Counterbalance
• 1x Winter Orb
• 1x Arena of the Ancients
• 1x Crawlspace
• 1x Ensnaring Bridge
• 1x Mana Vortex
• 1x Mana Web
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Static Orb
• 1x Tangle Wire
• 1x Noetic Scales
• 1x Rising Waters
• 1x Silent Arbiter

Weenie (11)

• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Ghostly Pilferer
• 1x Chasm Skulker
• 1x Cloud Spirit
• 1x Dimir Keyrune
• 1x Hypnotic Specter
• 1x Latch Seeker
• 1x Nadir Kraken
• 1x Nimble Obstructionist
• 1x Stronghold Rats
• 1x Sower of Temptation

Land (34)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Guildless Commons
• 15x Island
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 13x Swamp

Damage (2)

• 1x Loyal Subordinate
• 1x Underworld Dreams

Commander (1)

Ramp (12)

• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Charcoal Diamond
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Dreamscape Artist
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Sky Diamond
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Dimir Cluestone
• 1x Dimir Keyrune
• 1x Heraldic Banner

Draw (9)

• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Ghostly Pilferer
• 1x Tinybones, Trinket Thief
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Dimir Cluestone
• 1x Bident of Thassa
• 1x Court of Ambition
• 1x Geth's Grimoire
• 1x Reconnaissance Mission

Goad (1)

• 1x Bident of Thassa

Life Gain (1)

• 1x Bloodchief Ascension

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WORKERS OF LORWYN UNITE!!

This is my Union Tactics deck, a build based around mimicking the often fun strategies that labour unions use to exert leverage. Stax effects represent workers going on strike, both your creatures and your opponents are on the same side in this, they just want to hang out, have a beer and stay tapped down. This includes the nobodies that actually farm Mana on various lands, they're part of the workers' fight. Meanwhile, the Fat Cat players get caught in endless 'negotiations', which is the Discard/Payoff part, representing them hemorrhaging money while crying tears of blood. It's loads of fun for everyone (not crying said tears of blood)!

This deck threatens wins mostly via a combination of discard payoffs and small amounts of creature damage. On the plus side, I have some redundancy in my discard effects, but my creature selection is not going to be hurting people very badly, even if I've got a lot of them out. The idea is to get Sygg out, hope desperately that you aren't in a creature heavy pod (you have awful blockers) or aren't the main threat, and just draw tons of cards, drawing into both ways to discard and ways to ensure more card draws. Still, I feel like with threat of early discard I might do okay, force people to discard things like bigger creatures I can't deal with. I'd like to think of some defensive solutions for this deck, maybe more tokens or reanimation stuff. I'm not sure if I have enough Counterspells in here, but I think with the theoretically high level of card draw, it will feel like I'm running more.

Would love to have some suggestions for some defensive solutions, I guess Propaganda is pretty obvious. Is the mana base playable enough? I feel like with all those rocks, I'm pretty likely to end up with enough fixing to get by, since it's just a 2 color deck, and it's not an especially 'devoted' one.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	1 month
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 37 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.92
Tokens	Bird 1/1 U, Foretell, Squid 1/1 U, Tentacle 1/1 U, The Monarch, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	hi, EDH