Venser, The Human Superball

Commander / EDH Bracket 4 Mono-Blue

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Instant (20)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Capsize
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cryptic Command
• 1x Cyclonic RiftGC
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Evacuation
• 1x Forbid
• 1x Force of WillGC
• 1x High Tide
• 1x Long-Term Plans
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mystical TutorGC
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Pull from Tomorrow
• 1x Snap
• 1x Stroke of Genius
• 1x Turnabout

Land (37)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x High Market
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Riptide Laboratory
• 1x Sanctum of Eternity
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 28x Snow-Covered Island
• 1x Terrain Generator

Creature (19)

• 1x Aether Channeler
• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Azami, Lady of Scrolls
• 1x Baral, Chief of Compliance
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Consecrated SphinxGC
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Displacer Kitten
• 1x Dreamscape Artist
• 1x Gilded Drake
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Naban, Dean of Iteration
• 1x Palinchron
• 1x Phantasmal Image
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Spellseeker
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Wan Shi Tong, Librarian

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Concentrate
• 1x Devastation Tide
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Flood of Tears
• 1x Lorien Revealed
• 1x Plea for Power
• 1x Solve the Equation

Commander (1)

Artifact (11)

• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Crystal Shard
• 1x Endless Atlas
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Extraplanar Lens
• 1x Gauntlet of Power
• 1x Sapphire Medallion
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Rhystic StudyGC

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Jace, the Mind Sculptor
• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker

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Sideboard

Instant (12)

• 1x An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Dissipate
• 1x Force of Negation
• 1x Mission Briefing
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystic Confluence
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Sublime Epiphany
• 1x Swan Song

Creature (5)

• 1x Barrin, Tolarian Archmage
• 1x Fog Bank
• 1x Hullbreaker Horror
• 1x Malevolent Hermit  ^Flip
• 1x Sower of Temptation

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Confounding Conundrum
• 1x Equilibrium

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Narset, Parter of VeilsGC

Land (1)

• 1x Scrying Sheets

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Crush of Tentacles
• 1x Finale of Revelation
• 1x Merchant Scroll
• 1x Recurring Insight
• 1x Sea Gate Restoration  ^Flip

Artifact (2)

• 1x Diviner's Wand
• 1x Meekstone

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Maybeboard

Creature (3)

• 1x Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Spellskite

Artifact (2)

• 1x Coldsteel Heart
• 1x Elixir of Immortality

Instant (3)

• 1x Disappearing Act
• 1x Rewind
• 1x Unsubstantiate

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Bribery
• 1x Mind Spring
• 1x Wash Out

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I accidentally deleted the original version of this deck, which means all of the updates and the original description have been yeeted into the void. While I am sad about that, I finally got around to rewriting the description, so here we go.

This is a mono-blue EDH control deck. While it's gone through many changes over the years, I would say Venser has easily been, consistently, one of my best performing decks. Now that I have a real Force of Will, the only thing this deck is really missing is Mana Crypt. This deck is not meant to be cEDH, but it could be with no budget and a handful of changes. Currently it is simply high power, I'd say an 8/10, perhaps pushing a 9/10.

So what is our gameplan with this deck? Throughout it's many changes the win condition has always been the same: Go Infinite with Palinchron. We have a few ways of going infinite with Palinchron, namely one of our four mana doublers, but there are ways without them, such as Deadeye Navigator and Phantasmal Image, and ways without Palinchron, such as Archaeomancer, Turnabout, Riptide Laboratory and enough mana to continue a loop. The typical way it uses infinite mana is to use a draw X spell to draw my entire library and then deck everyone else, but bouncing everyone's permanents, including their lands, usually provokes concessions. This can be done with Riptide Laboratory of Sanctum of Eternity with Venser and infinite land untaps, Venser with Deadeye Navigator and infinite mana, or Venser and Naban with infinite mana.

Until then, we play evasive. The deck runs quite a few ways of bouncing all nonland permanents, not only to make use of our many etb creatures, but primarily to slow down our opponents because there are very few strategies that are not hosed by bouncing their entire board repeatedly. While this deck is strong, and has quite a few good card draw spells, it's usually not good enough to control three players by itself, so often politics are required to keep people from ganging up on it. Propaganda and Maze of Ith are also good for this. Counterspells are used to prevent people from getting their game winning plays, but typically it's not a permanent solution and only good to stall for time, because this is a combo deck at it's heart.

The deck has been build with some ramp, but not enough ramp to get out of the gate fast consistently, which I'd say it probably it's biggest weakness. It does have quite a bit of synergy though, and can do a lot of tricks with Venser as the commander. With two lands that can return Venser to hand, Crystal Shard and Naban, if we ever run out of cards, Venser is a pretty reliable way to keep people off us long enough to get card draw or a way to win the game. Overusing Venser is only when we draw the set of cards that do this and we are required to to not die, because overusing the commander can mean we are appraised as a higher threat. Generally though, the deck tries to lay low and counter the right spells and bounce permanents long enough to go infinite.

Date added	2 years
Last updated	4 hours
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 3 Mythic Rares 34 - 15 Rares 18 - 8 Uncommons 13 - 2 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.10
Tokens	Ape 3/3 G, Bird 1/1 W, Bird 2/2 U, Copy Clone, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Manifest 2/2 C, Octopus 8/8 U, Treasure
Folders	8-Deck Built-From-Scratch 3's and 4's, All Commander Deck I Actually Own IRL