Vial Smasher's Sixth Sense

Commander / EDH* Combo Competitive Control UBRG

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Land (30)

• 1x Badlands
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fiery Islet
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forest
• 1x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Taiga
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Waterlogged Grove
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Enchantment (10)

• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Compost
• 1x Curiosity
• 1x Keen Sense
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Steal Enchantment
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Training Grounds

Instant (29)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Ad Nauseam
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Deflecting Swat
• 1x Demonic Consultation
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Drown in the Loch
• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Fire Covenant
• 1x Flame Sweep
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Force of Negation
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Reap
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Tainted Pact
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Veil of Summer

Creature (9)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Runic Armasaur
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Sygg, River Cutthroat
• 1x Thassa's Oracle

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Ashiok, Dream Render
• 1x Jace, Wielder of Mysteries

Commanders (2)

Artifact (11)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Grafdigger's Cage
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Curiosity
• 1x Talisman of Dominance

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Pyroclasm
• 1x Toxic Deluge

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Sideboard

Instant (2)

• 1x Delay
• 1x Negate

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Exploration

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Narset, Parter of Veils

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"A fruit must rot before a seed can sprout"

-Yavimaya Saying

Introduction

Control in Competitive EDH?? What once sounded like a sub-optimal game plan is now a completely viable option for play. The play style of this deck is centered around the same idea as Rashmi, Eternities Crafter, playing spells on other peoples turns and accumulating card advantage while countering other players win attempts. The majority of this deck takes influence from scepter Thrasios, Triton Hero and other control variants.

This is a primer for Thrasios, Triton Hero and Vial Smasher the Fierce in 4 player Free-For-All competitive EDH. The deck performs well into a variety of different metas, being flexible enough to sit back and accumulate card advantage through stax, control out fast combo decks, and stop those annoying creature based decks.

If you’re unfamiliar with multiplayer competitive EDH format/meta and want to learn more about it, check out the discord server at cEDH Discord - feel free to come by and ask questions or just hang out and chat about Magic.

Deck Archetype

Adaptive Combo: Adaptive Combo is the ability of a deck to win via various overlapping routes to victory. in other words, you can you use parts of other combos or similar combo pieces to do the same combo. this allows for several avenues of victory by utilizing a similar concept. Along the same lines, the deck is very resilient to most kinds of hate because it consists of a very tight combo protection suite.

Control: The deck is built in a way where it's main priority is to establish a card advantage engine and then start shutting down peoples avenues of victory. controlling the board when there are 3 other opponents is hard, and the only way this can be done over several turns is by gaining card advantage to enable the constant threat of a counter or removal spell. With a plethora of counter spells, bounce spells, and creature removal, we are able to make plays that put us ahead of other players while slowing down the decks that are faster than us.

The Controlling nature of this deck makes it difficult to pilot at times since there are so many key decision points that require forethought and advanced knowledge of other peoples decks.

Strategy

Just like the Introductory quote suggests, the point of this deck is to ruin our opponents strategy so that our own strategy may bear fruit. The point of this deck is to quickly build an engine in order to out pace our opponents, with this engine we acquire large amounts of require card advantage all the while controlling the board with various counter and removal spells.

The deck operates similarly to Rashmi, Eternities Crafter, we want to throw a Keen Sense or Curiosity on Vial Smasher the Fierce and generate card draw by casting spells on other people's turns.

While playing this deck it is important to be patient. We are not playing a fast combo deck that likes to dive balls-deep into our combo. We want to exhaust the resources of our opponents first, before we try to go for the win. However, in some cases, you can jam your win condition early if you believe you have the counter magic to support it.

How to Combo

This combo costs and requires you to have Demonic Consultation + Thassa's Oracle in hand.

1. Cast Thassa's Oracle
2. Cast Demonic Consultation in response to the Thassa's Oracle trigger, exiling your entire library.
3. Let the Thassa's Oracle trigger resolve and win the game.

This combo can also be executed the same way using Tainted Pact. For further redundancy, you can also use Jace, Wielder of Mysteries to accomplish the same thing.

Old Combos

There are two main strategies for winning with this deck:

Infinite Swans Show

Only attempt this combo if you have mana rocks that enable to you to produce 3 or more mana.

Cast Isochron Scepter exile Dramatic Reversal from your hand. Activate Isochron Scepter casting a copy of Dramatic Reversal. This will untap your Isochron Scepter and whatever other nonland permanents you control. This allows you to float mana from your rocks in response to the activation of Isochron Scepter. You will gain an infinite amount of mana.

Now cast Thrasios, Triton Hero, you can now draw your entire deck. Once you draw your entire deck cast Copy Artifact exiling Swan Song. Cast any instant or sorcery spell you want, hold priority and activate the second copy of Isochron Scepter which is a Copy Artifact that has exiled Swan Song to counter that spell. Hold Priority and use your first Isochron Scepter to cast Dramatic Reversal. Let Dramatic Reversal resolve, untapping both Isochron Scepter's. Re-use the now untapped second Isochron Scepter to cast Swan Song, targeting your own Swan Song. Let it resolve to get a 2/2 Bird token. Use the first Isochron Scepter again to untap both of your Scepters, while still keeping the original spell on the stack. You then repeat these steps until you have an infinite number of swans.

Jace, Wielder of Mysteries Show

The way this combo works is by casting Jace, Wielder of Mysteries and drawing a card with an empty library.

In order to get to this state we have two powerful cards which enable speedy ways to deck yourself: Demonic Consultation and Tainted Pact. If you have one of these cards and Jace, Wielder of Mysteries, you can cast Jace, Wielder of Mysteries and then cast either Demonic Consultation or Tainted Pact naming a card that is not in your deck or just exiling all the cards in your library. Then activate Jace, Wielder of Mysteries ability to draw a card and win the game.

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Drawing Your Deck Show

There are several paths one can take to achieve the game winning state mentioned earlier. The best way takes the form of drawing your library. There are three main methods of drawing your deck:

Bloom Tender + Freed from the Real: This combo works to get you infinite mana of whatever color of permanents you have on the battlefield. This allows you to dump the infinite mana into Thrasios, Triton Hero to draw the deck.

Isochron Scepter + Dramatic Reversal + Thrasios, Triton Hero: Infinite mana being dumped into Thrasios, Triton Hero which allows you to draw your deck.

Isochron Scepter + Dramatic Reversal + Sensei's Divining Top: With these cards in play you activate Sensei's Divining Top to draw a card and in response activate Isochron Scepter + Dramatic Reversal to untap Sensei's Divining Top. Then activate Sensei's Divining Top again to draw a card. You can repeat this process to draw your deck.

Reap loops Show

With Reap + Narset's Reversal + Noxious Revival + infinite mana of all the colors you need + two black permanents that your opponents control, you can loop any spell you want. The combo works like this:

1. You first cast whatever spell you want to loop, most of the time the spell is likely to be Assassin's Trophy. The reason, this card can remove all your opponents permanents and leave them with nothing on the board.

2. Cast Reap targeting Assassin's Trophy hold priority and cast Narset's Reversal targeting Reap and returning it to your hand. Narset's Reversal will return Reap and Assassin's Trophy to your hand and then go to the graveyard.

3. Now we cast Noxious Revival placing Narset's Reversal on top of our library.

4. We draw Narset's Reversal using whatever means we have to draw a card (most likely Thrasios, Triton Hero).

5. With Noxious Revival in the graveyard we cast Assassin's Trophy destroying another land or something.

6. Cast Reap targeting Noxious Revival and Assassin's Trophy (since there are two black permanents your opponents control) holding priority, cast Narset's Reversal returning Reap to your hand and copying it.

7. We have now established a loop. To continue this loop repeat steps 1-6 returning as many cards as you can with Reap each iteration.

The point of this loop is to make it safe to pass the turn once you have created infinite swans.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 56 - 1 Rares 20 - 2 Uncommons 11 - 1 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	1.86
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Treasure