Thada Adel, Stealer of the Ramp

Commander / EDH* Artifact Artificer Mono-Blue Ramp Unblockable

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Creature (23)

• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Archetype of Imagination
• 1x Arcum Dagsson
• 1x Colossal Whale
• 1x Colossus of Akros
• 1x Darksteel Colossus
• 1x Glasspool Mimic  ^Flip
• 1x Inkwell Leviathan
• 1x Memnarch
• 1x Merfolk Sovereign
• 1x Mizzium Meddler
• 1x Myr Retriever
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Psychosis Crawler
• 1x Pursued Whale
• 1x Sai, Master Thopterist
• 1x Scourge of Fleets
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Stormtide Leviathan
• 1x Treasure Mage
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Trophy Mage
• 1x Vedalken Archmage

Instant (6)

• 1x AEtherize
• 1x Aetherspouts
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x High Tide
• 1x Whir of Invention

Sorcery (13)

• 1x Aether Gale
• 1x Aquitect's Will
• 1x Blatant Thievery
• 1x Curse of the Swine
• 1x Karn's Temporal Sundering
• 1x Mass Manipulation
• 1x Notorious Throng
• 1x Saheeli's Artistry
• 1x Sleep
• 1x Spectral Deluge
• 1x Stolen Identity
• 1x Thoughtcast
• 1x Whelming Wave

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Aqueous Form
• 1x Curiosity
• 1x Curious Obsession
• 1x Mirrodin Besieged
• 1x Mirrormade
• 1x Sea's Claim
• 1x Spreading Seas
• 1x The Antiquities War
• 1x Thopter Spy Network

Land (35)

• 35x Island

Commander (1)

Artifact (13)

• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Coldsteel Heart
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Loxodon Warhammer
• 1x Mask of Memory
• 1x Quicksilver Fountain
• 1x Relic of Progenitus
• 1x Rogue's Gloves
• 1x Sky Diamond
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Star Compass
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

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Main strategy

1. Get a Gollum cosplay, you will need it.

2. Get Thada Adel, Acquisitor on the field ASAP.

3. Make her get through by hitting either the unlucky blue player or with the help of Spreading Seas, Quicksilver Fountain, etc.. Funny collateral effect: punishisng the hybris of playing WAY TOO MANY COLOURS (>2) by screwing other people's manabase.

4. Get as many cheap mana rocks as possible from their library. Please get ALL the Sol Rings if you can. Verbal violence on Reddit is allowed against the ones who stand for a Sol Ring ban if you play this deck, they want to take it to Mordor. Riot if they ban it (they won't).

5. CONGRATULATIONS! You just ramped in mono-blue, achievement unlocked.

6. Lots of mana --> big blue beefy boys. If you don't have them in your hand identify the player hiding things like Blightsteel Colossus or Hellkite Dragon in their library and take them, you deserve them, they're yours.

Collateral coolness

With Artifacts (a lot, you should end up with a serious treasure, but in particular):

• Antiquities of War's chapter three is the best way to weaponize the little treasures you get from your "friends", and can easily take a player off with the right timing (e.g. after a Whelming Wave. The other two chapters are ok too
• Arcum Daggson is incredibly efficient here, and opens to a turn 5 Inkwell Leviathan

With Thada:

• Notorious Throng as she's a Rogue
• Merfolk Sovereign to hit even that weird guy that doesn't play Islands (wtf dude are you serious lmao just add blue)
• Loxodon Warhammer and expecially other people's expansive artifacts (nice $20 swords you have there, Benjamin) can turn the strategy from Ramp to Voltron as necessity reclaims it. Remember that it isn't easy to get rid of enchantments attached to lands, so Thada is often inherently unblockable.

Budget considerations

As always, I wanted to keep the deck under 150$ (Card Kingdom), and seems like I still have room for few tiny upgrades, but I don't want to waste it on "too-linear" upgrades like Minamo, School at Water's Edge or Sea Gate Restoration  . Something more in-theme with the strategy and flavour is better apreciated.

I think that the most expansive cards I included, Memnarch and Caged Sun, are perfect for the deck and I'm not looking forward to substitute these two in paricular. Also, I love the Memnarch, don't touch my Memnarch. For what concerns the rest of the cards, I'd like to hear some cost-efficient tip.

Cool NOMBOS that make Gollum irritated

• Thopter Sky Network + Thada Adel, Acquisitor
• Inkwell Leviathan + Saheeli's Artistry or any copy spell
• Mirrodin Besieged and the fact that I'm playing only like 20 artifacts and 1 loot effect, but it's too cool to cut

Overall, I like this concept I came up with. Nonetheless I think sssserious improvements are possssible, I am fully open to ssssuggestions.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Key combos	Inkwell Leviathan + Saheeli's Artistry
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 34 - 0 Rares 13 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.83
Tokens	Boar 2/2 G, Copy Clone, Faerie Rogue 1/1 B, Myr 1/1 C, Pirate 1/1 R, Thopter 1/1 C
Folders	EDH