Vadrok, Raugrin's Fangs

Commander / EDH Mutate RUW (Jeskai, America) Spellslinger

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Land (37)

• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x Clifftop Retreat
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Deserted Beach
• 1x Elegant Parlor
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Fiery Islet
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 6x Island
• 1x Meticulous Archive
• 3x Mountain
• 1x Nimbus Maze
• 3x Plains
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Raugrin Triome
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stormcarved Coast
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Sunbaked Canyon
• 1x Sundown Pass
• 1x Thundering Falls

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Aria of Flame
• 1x Gadwick's First Duel
• 1x Jeskai Ascendancy
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Timely Ward

Creature (17)

• 1x Cloudpiercer
• 1x Cubwarden
• 1x Dreamtail Heron
• 1x Everquill Phoenix
• 1x Huntmaster Liger
• 1x Leonin Lightscribe
• 1x Lore Drakkis
• 1x Octavia, Living Thesis
• 1x Pollywog Symbiote
• 1x Porcuparrot
• 1x Pouncing Shoreshark
• 1x Regal Leosaur
• 1x Sea-Dasher Octopus
• 1x Storm-Kiln Artist
• 1x The Locust God
• 1x Vulpikeet
• 1x Whitemane Lion

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Become Brutes
• 1x Cathartic Reunion
• 1x Council's Judgment
• 1x Day's Undoing
• 1x Dismantling Wave
• 1x Divine Reckoning
• 1x Echo of Eons
• 1x Mythos of Vadrok *f-pre*
• 1x See the Truth
• 1x Sevinne's Reclamation
• 1x Solve the Equation
• 1x Stream of Thought

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Jace, Mirror Mage

Battle (1)

• 1x Invasion of Segovia  ^Flip

Commander (1)

Instant (15)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Archmage's Charm
• 1x Blink of an Eye
• 1x Boros Charm
• 1x Evacuation
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Generous Gift
• 1x Increasing Vengeance
• 1x Mercadia's Downfall
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Run Away Together
• 1x Saving Grasp
• 1x Snap
• 1x Thrill of Possibility

Artifact (11)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Archaeomancer's Map
• 1x Crystal Shard
• 1x O-Naginata
• 1x Raugrin Crystal
• 1x Skyclave Relic
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Conviction
• 1x Talisman of Creativity
• 1x Veilstone Amulet
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

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Elemental Dinosaur Cat. That alone sold me on Vadrok. But the fact that most were downplaying his ability and that the art on the showcase version was awesome also drew me to give him a shot.

This is a pretty straightforward deck. Use Vadrok, mutate a bunch, get benefits from casting non-creature spells and mutating. But here are the basics.

Vadrok is fine as either a mutate target or to mutate onto something. He can still donate flying and first strike to something in a pinch, or a mutate trigger. He won't win the game through combat damage, not always, but give him a few good mutations and he can go to town.

One of the best things you can do in this deck is to rescue your mutation stack. Cards like Blink of an Eye and Saving Grasp will return it all to your hand to mutate in the future, and fizzle any attempts at killing Vadrok. It also lets him get around commander tax. And if you're lucky, Become Brutes would be in the graveyard and able to place an aura on Vadrok's stack to swing in without missing any tempo from bouncing him.

A good target is Octavia, Living Thesis. If you're able to get the required amount of instants and sorceries in your graveyard, she costs UU, and furthermore has Ward 8, making her very hard to spot remove. She's even good to sit on her own, as the Magecraft trigger will make Vadrok's mutation pile an 8/8 with a single mutation or cast.

A great surprise mutation is Sea-Dasher Octopus. Mutate onto Vadrok as a response and maybe you can fish a counter or some sort of other answer from the graveyard. Pouncing Shoreshark also fits here, but is more costly for leaving mana open.

The best thing you could start with is Leyline of Anticipation. It gives all your mutations flash and lets you respond with some of your more powerful spells. Vadrok likes casting things over and over to get value, either out of things like repeated triggers of Leonine Lightscribe and Jeskai Ascendancy or damage from Aria of Flame. Mercadia's Downfall is particularly dangerous if you have a good amount of flash or recursion running, as even a single cast can put someone dangerously close to dead from commander damage.

A good sequence is a bunch of mutate cards in hand, Vadrok out in some capacity, and Frantic Search in your graveyard. Most of your mutations cost no more than four mana, so you only go down one mana when you mutate, and keep drawing and discarding cards for future use. And with either Pollywog Symbiote or Storm-Kiln Artist you could even be netting mana, if you play your cards correctly. And if you have the previously mentioned payoff cards going, you could even end the game in one swing.

Sevinne's Reclamation is very useful when in the yard. It usually assumes you would be paying its Flashback cost and therefore getting the benefit of copying it only once. But with a Vadrok mutation, you not only get the spell for free, you copy it for free, and it stays in the graveyard for future use.

Your graveyard will be a resource, so don't worry about discarding cards if you're able to make use of them that turn from the grave. Cards like Cathartic Reunion will be powerful tools, as they're still card advantage if you're able to mutate often.

And if you run low on cards, Echo of Eons and Day's Undoing can reset your hand. Just be warned that both also shuffle your graveyard back into your deck, so if you don't have to cast them, it might be better to wait if you've got a good thing going on. Also don't forget that Day's Undoing ends your turn if cast during it, exiling itself in the process. But if you discard it, you could flash mutate on someone else's turn and get to keep it in your graveyard too. So plan accordingly.

Thanks so much, hope you enjoy!

Date added	3 years
Last updated	20 hours
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 44 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.98
Tokens	Cat 1/1 W w/ Lifelink, Copy Clone, Cursed, Elephant 3-3 G, Feather, Insect 1/1 UR, Kraken 1/1 U, Manifest 2/2 C, Monster, Treasure