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Commander / EDH Bracket 3 Crab Goad Mill UR (Izzet)

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Land (37)

Goad (8)

Good Stuff (7)

Crab (16)

Crab Support (8)

Untap (7)

Commander (1)

Commander: Red Death, Shipwrecker

Control (8)

Mill (8)

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Crab Rave!

Because there are not a lot of crabs in Magic, I focused on the best of them, then added support "packages" (Built on 8x8 theory) that facilitate the most common strategies. I could swap the mill or control out for a draw package to up your SCPGR (Seen Crabs per Game Rate). For best use of the commander, pick someone to be your "champion" who is best prepared to fight and give them the card draw while goading what was already going to attack. For best chaos, just pick whatever's least prepared to fight and force it into the arena to perish.

Below contains play recommendations and rule clarifications.

Chromeshell Crab this is a weird one, the only morph, if bad can replace. Gilded Scuttler: Potential game winner, buff to hell. Hedron Crab, Iceberg Cancrix, Ruin Crab: The Bread and Butter-sauce of the landfall combos. Scuttletide: If you have a draw engine, dump into this and load up on crabs, but watch out, there's no reshuffle contingency for self-mill out.
All are straightforward. Plenty more where they came from, if any don't feel good to play. Remember these dudes count as Crabs.
Goad is great for causing chaos by forcing other players to attack with things they don't want to lose or aren't ready to swing with yet. Most Goad critters are straightforward. Goad ends at the start of your turn, so feel free to goad yourself in second main phase if advantageous. Death Kiss: Does a lot of work, doubles your own, save popping monsterous until mana-maxed if possible. Disrupt Decorum, Geode Rager Game winners. Firkraag, Cunning Instigatorfoil Major facilitator, would be commander if theme was goad and not crab. Sly Instigator: Low priority unless you're champion making
Maximize the use of the commander. Crab Umbra: Expensive but reusable, great for protection on commander, but only bother with the cost if you have plenty of spare. Forensic Researcher: Kicks things into exile for Dreadlight Monstrosity
Altar of the Brood: Drop early, includes lands. Deepmuck Desperado: Not a Crab, but he's important. Keening Stone, Maddening Cacophony: Game winner. Memory Erosion: People will get mad at you for reminding them of this every time. Crab taxes, idk, sorry, what can ya do? Silent Gravestone: Important anti-anti-mill defense. If someone gets an Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre or similar effect, you can respond to the effect hitting the stack, exiling the graveyard before they can reshuffle. However, spells cast in response to this effect will still go to the graveyard and get reshuffled. Also asking for keeping 4 mana open is a lot, so not relevant until 40+ cards are milled.
Eluge, the Shoreless Sea: Each turn, not just yours. Illusionist's Bracers: Commander ability is not a mana ability, according to errata, and can be copied. Replicating Ring: Big time mana creator after 8 turns. Could add things to make this faster. Ring keeps making rounds of rings and all count as "Snow" for Iceberg Cancrix. Scrawling Crawler: Converts your draw into a curse. Best wait to cast until you feel you are ready to cut your champion off and kill them or when you are prepared for full-crab warfare. Until then, bluff as a counterspell lol. Stormtide Leviathan: don't drop this until you have Wonder in your graveyard or you want to stop the game in its tracks.
Straightforward, save for boardwipes and direct kills against very important targets. Let the rest go, including the commander, as it can be recast for relatively cheap.
Evolving Wilds, Terramorphic Expanse, Izzet Boilerworks, Myriad Landscape: Try not to crack these until you have at least one guy with Landfall. Ghost Town, Oboro, Palace in the Clouds, Undiscovered Paradise: Greatly facilitate Landfall, but consume your land play per turn, so use tactically.
1x Arcane Signet (TDC) 1x Burnished Hart (FDN) 1x Consecrated Sphinx (2X2) 1x Coronation of Chaos (CLB) 1x Counterflux 1x Cut Your Losses (SNC) 1x Delay 1x Desertion 1x Disdainful Stroke 1x Dispel 1x Draining Whelk 1x Dramatic Reversal (SLD) 1x Exclude 1x Fractured Sanity (CLB) 1x Grenzo, Havoc Raiser (TDC) 1x Harbinger of the Seas (MH3) 1x Hazoret's Monument (DMC) 1x Homarid Explorer (DOM) 1x Hullbreaker Horror (INR) 1x Humble Defector (OTC) 1x Inexorable Tide (PIP) 1x Insidious Will 1x Instruments of War (J22) 1x Kefnet's Monument (AKH) 1x Kindred Charge (SPG) 1x Marvin, Murderous Mimic (DSK) 1x Memory Lapse 1x Misdirection 1x Mocking Doppelganger (CLB) 1x Modify Memory (CLB) 1x Muddle the Mixture 1x Mystic Confluence 1x Narset, Parter of Veils (MB2) 1x Prisoner's Dilemma (MKC) 1x Psychosis Crawler (BLC) 1x Public Enemy (SNC) 1x Pyroblast 1x Red Elemental Blast 1x Rewind 1x Ricochet Trap 1x Rite of the Raging Storm (MKC) 1x Ruby Medallion (MH3) 1x Sapphire Medallion (MH3) 1x Shapesharer (LRW) 1x Shell Shield (ZNR) 1x Shiny Impetus (TDC) 1x Slagwurm Armor (PSAL) 1x Steam Vents (CLU) f 1x Stubborn Denial 1x Stuffy Doll (CLB) 1x Summary Dismissal 1x Tasha's Hideous Laughter (MB2) list 1x Terisian Mindbreaker (BRO) 1x Time Stop 1x Unsubstantiate 1x Vandalblast (OTC) 1x Wizard Class (BLC) 1x Zurzoth, Chaos Rider (NCC) pound Control 1x AEtherize (FDN) 1x Aethersnatch 1x Cyclonic Rift (RVR) 1x Dismiss 1x Dissipate 1x Dissolve 1x Engulf the Shore (GN2) 1x Faerie Trickery 1x Hinder 1x Negate 1x Spectral Deluge (KHC) 1x Spell Crumple 1x Spelljack 1x Stoic Rebuttal 1x Swan Song 1x Void Shatter 1x Wash Out (2X2) 1x Wild Ricochet pound Crab 1x Ancient Crab (AKH) 1x Armored Cancrix (M14) 1x Crystacean (J25) 1x Fortress Crab (M20) 1x Hard Evidence (H2R) 1x Hightide Hermit (MYS1) 1x Jwari Scuttler (ROE) 1x King Crab (ULG) 1x Purple-Crystal Crab (J25) 1x Salvage Scuttler (AER) 1x Shorecomber Crab (J25) 1x Skitter Eel (CLU) 1x Thassa's Emissary (THS) 1x Vexing Scuttler (EMN) 1x Wishcoin Crab (M21) pound Crab Support 1x Banner of Kinship (FDN) 1x Bloodline Pretender (MOC) 1x Brass Herald (CMR) 1x Call to the Kindred (DKA) 1x Icon of Ancestry (LCC) 1x Konda's Banner (CHK) 1x Molten Echoes (VOC) 1x Obelisk of Urd (ZNC) 1x Shared Animosity (LCC) 1x Stoneforge Masterwork (OGW) 1x Urza's Incubator (MH3) 1x Vanquisher's Banner (LCC) pound Draw 1x Curse of Verbosity (CLB) 1x Flow of Ideas (SHM) pound Goad 1x Agitator Ant (MKC) 1x Bident of Thassa (BLC) 1x Bloodthirsty Blade (MKC) 1x Maeve, Insidious Singer (GN3) f pound Good Stuff 1x Aqueous Form (CMR) 1x Archetype of Imagination (DSC) 1x Dissipation Field (CLB) 1x High Tide (DMR) 1x Insurrection (CMM) 1x Isochron Scepter (MB2) 1x Taurean Mauler (TDC) pound Land 1x Frostboil Snarl (DRC) 1x Stormcarved Coast (INR) 1x Temple of Epiphany (TDC) pound Mill 1x Archive Trap (ZEN) 1x Fraying Sanity (PIP) 1x Mesmeric Orb (BRR) 1x Soul-Guide Lantern (DRC) 1x Sphinx's Tutelage (SPG) 1x Tormod's Crypt (M21) 1x Traumatize (M14) pound Untap 1x Distant Melody (LCC) 1x Magewright's Stone (RVR) 1x Shore Up (BLB) 1x Vizier of Tumbling Sands (CMM) 1x Wake Thrasher (J22)

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