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Timmy Tyranid

Commander / EDH Bracket 3 Budget Counters Hydra Ramp RUG (Temur)

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Ramp (18)

Pump (11)

Card Advantage (6)

Removal (5)

Land (36)

Ravenous (13)

Burn (5)

Cheating (1)

Copy Spell (1)

Commander (1)

Commander: Magus Lucea Kane

Counters (13)

Defense (10)

Untap (3)

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Burn (6)

Defense (3)

Removal (2)

Card Advantage (6)

Counters (2)

Counterspell (1)

Pump (1)

Ramp (5)

Ravenous (4)

Wanna make creatures big? I mean... REALLY big. I'm not talkin' about no 12/12's here sonny boy, we are talkin' about let's get some 20/20+ creature out. And copy it. And copy it again maybe. And it has Double Strike and Trample and Haste and what has science done!?!?

That is the goal of Timmy Tyranid. Make the biggest creatures ever seen that turn heads at any table! Experienced players will say "Yep, that's Tyranids!" but inside they will be weeping. Inexperienced players will not know what to do.

The strategy is this. During the first 4 turns you are trying to establish 3 things: Ramp, Trample, & Haste. Once you've established this tri-force of magic might, Magus Lucea Kain can come out. Then the music starts playing and the shenanigans begin; just start powering out rockin' critters and watch the table react!

Magus is a mana dork that gives out +1/+1 counters, but more than that she copies X spells. Look out for cards in the deck like Pemmin's Aura, Freed from the Real, and Unbound Flourishing to double her output or more! If you're not enjoying yourself when you're using Altered Ego to copy your opponent's best creature multiple times and put a metric dumpload of counters on those copies, we're not on the same page here.

There's a modest removal suite for stumbling blocks, but honestly if huge creatures don't work by themselves, Plan B involves All Will Be One, Warstorm Surge, and/or Banefire. I was running Simic Ascendancy in here as well but it's a lame win button in a deck that churns out counters this fast. I took it out immediately.

Though I consider this deck fun as heck, there's an itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny problem: the creatures are so large and threatening that every player will take one look at your first disgustingly huge creation(s), take one look at each other, and wordlessly agree to use every tool at their disposal to turn your deck off and/or pound you into dust. To that end, loath as I am to spare any mana from my tenacious Timmy tendencies, there are a few defensive cards in the deck. Leyline of Anticipation and even Kruphix, God of Horizons will make it easier to keep mana up for the likes of Aetherize, Arachnogenesis, Inspiring Call or Jaheira's Respite.

If you have any suggestions to help make this deck even more voracious or more viable, feel free to suggest or comment.

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Revision 11 See all

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-1 Archetype of Imagination maybe
+1 Heroic Intervention main
-1 Hungering Hydra maybe
-1 Invoke the Firemind maybe
-1 Reap the Past maybe
+1 Shared Roots main
-1 Stroke of Genius maybe
-1 Twinning Staff maybe