Vadrok and Roll

Commander / EDH Combo Control Counterspell Infinite Combo Mutate RUW (Jeskai, America) Voltron

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Land (32)

• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Battlefield Forge
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fiery Islet
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 5x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 5x Mountain
• 1x Needle Spires
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 2x Plains
• 1x Raugrin Triome
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfur Falls

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Myth Realized
• 1x Darksteel Mutation
• 1x Underworld Breach
• 1x Jeskai Ascendancy
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Smothering Tithe

Artifact (7)

• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Shadowspear
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Scroll of the Masters
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Crystal Shard

Creature (21)

• 1x Cloud of Faeries
• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Dreadhorde Arcanist
• 1x Gilded Drake
• 1x Sprite Dragon
• 1x Thing in the Ice  ^Flip
• 1x Birgi, God of Storytelling  ^Flip
• 1x Cephalid Constable
• 1x Chasm Skulker
• 1x Grinning Ignus
• 1x Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin
• 1x Lore Drakkis
• 1x Markov Blademaster
• 1x Sea-Dasher Octopus
• 1x Kykar, Wind's Fury
• 1x Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion
• 1x Toothy, Imaginary Friend
• 1x Docent of Perfection  ^Flip
• 1x Pouncing Shoreshark
• 1x Dream Trawler
• 1x The Locust God

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Wheel of Fate
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Cathartic Reunion
• 1x Thrilling Discovery
• 1x Sevinne's Reclamation
• 1x Wheel of Fortune
• 1x Windfall
• 1x Time Wipe

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Dack Fayden
• 1x Narset, Parter of Veils
• 1x Saheeli, Sublime Artificer

Commander (1)

Instant (20)

• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Curfew
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x High Tide
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Abrade
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dovin's Veto
• 1x Fists of Flame
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Snap
• 1x Winds of Rebuke
• 1x Deflecting Swat
• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Intuition
• 1x Teferi's Protection

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Instant (7)

• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Silence
• 1x Mystic Reflection
• 1x Run Away Together
• 1x Temur Battle Rage
• 1x Unsubstantiate

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Restore Balance
• 1x Jeska's Will
• 1x Supreme Verdict

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Search for Azcanta  ^Flip
• 1x Imprisoned in the Moon
• 1x Wild Research
• 1x Whirlwind of Thought
• 1x Metallurgic Summonings
• 1x Thousand-Year Storm

Artifact (2)

• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Cloudstone Curio

Creature (6)

• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Feather, the Redeemed
• 1x Leonin Warleader
• 1x Talrand, Sky Summoner
• 1x Malignus
• 1x Stormsurge Kraken

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(Still need to format description so warning it may be difficult to read)

Voltron! Control! Tempo! Combo! Why choose one when you could choose all?

When I was looking for a new commander deck to make I stumbled upon Vadrok, Apex of Thunder. I don’t know why I never thought of this card before, but it is absolutely amazing as it allows you to build a deck in a variety of ways due to being able to recur non-creature permanents mana cost 3 or less.

After some inspiration I decided to take this deck in direction of a Voltron Control mix and here’s why:

For starters in my experience most decks in EDH games under cEDH level create some sort of board presence with creatures, be it wide or tall. With Vadrok you already need creatures for the mutate ability so why not use creature that give you yourself a threatening boardstate. Mutating Vadrok onto cards like Markov Blademaster, Toothy, Imaginary Friend, or Dream Trawler allow you to quickly take opponents out via commander damage and make a creature few would want to swing into. Likewise cards like Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin and Docent of Perfection   allow you to go wide. And then you have Cehpalid Constable and Thing in the Ice   being great creatures to mutate into that give us board control.

This boardstate allows us to play control without the downside of being randomly attacked due to the little blockers available. For that we have a selection of bounce spells that work two ways, also allowing us to bounce our mutate stack and use Vadrok’s ability again, a selection of counterspells, and of course more permanent forms of removal.

And finally we do have a few combos within the deck and if you get the pieces here’s how you can win that way:

Main Combo:

Smothering Tithe/Hullbreacher + Underworld Breach + Wheels (Generate Mana, Access to whole Library)

How to win:

Step 1: Once you have access to your library, configure a infinite mana combo

(Dockside Extortionist (5/7) + Lore Drakkis/Vadrok + Snap)

Or

(High Tide + Lore Drakkis + Cloud of Fairies + Snap)

Step 2: Once you have infinite mana you can go for a kill using one of the following loops

1. Cast Lore Drakkis
2. Mutate Vadrok into it
3. With Vadrok's mutate trigger cast bounce spell of choice, target your mutate pile and bounce it to hand
4. With Lore Drakkis's mutate trigger return to hand the spell we are looping
5. Cast the spell we returned to our hand
6. Repeat steps 1-5

(EX target Lightning Bolt/Reality Shift)

Or

1. Cast Dack Fayden
2. Activate Dack Fayden targeting opponent
3. Cast Lore Drakkis
4. Mutate Vadrok into it
5. With Vadrok's mutate trigger cast bounce spell of choice, target your mutate pile and bounce it to hand
6. With Lore Drakkis's mutate trigger return to hand a Chain of Vapor
7. Bounce Dack Fayden back to hand
8. Repeat steps 1-7

Top Ranked	Achieved #19 position overall 2 years ago Achieved #12 position in Commander / EDH 2 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Counterspell 2 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Mutate 2 years ago
Date added	3 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 49 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.48
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Emblem Dack Fayden, Goblin 1/1 R, Human Wizard 1/1 U, Insect 1/1 UR, Manifest 2/2 C, Servo 1/1 C, Spirit 1/1 W, Squid 1/1 U, Treasure