Oversoul
The Tentacled One
Coming up in October, the group formerly known as Magic of Browns Point (relabeled South Sound Magic) will be running an "Utter Chaos" event, where we build $150-budget Commander decks for other players who pilot. I had the oldest commander in the "Infinite Summer" $200 event, and I thought it might be fun to let players pilot something much older, something they wouldn't normally see or get a chance to use.
So I challenged myself to squeeze a deck out of a budget that was mostly gone due to this guy...
I could submit my list and then the deck would probably be over-budget by October, but that would be fine if the list was valid at the time of submission. Well, I made it work. I came in just below the maximum, at $149.58 just as I was about to submit it...
...and then I realized that, unlike the summer event, this one prohibits two-card infinite combos. Rasputin Dreamweaver + Eldrazi Displacer is a two-card infinite mana combo, and is kind of Plan A for this deck. Oops.
So I've scrapped the whole thing. But I already have the decklist I was going to use. So here it is...
Commander:
1x Rasputin Dreamweaver
1x Acrobatic Maneuver
1x AEtherize
1x Anticipate
1x Arcane Denial
1x Artisan of Kozilek
1x Azorius Locket
1x Bane of Bala Ged
1x Blink of an Eye
1x Brainstorm
1x Catalog
1x Cloudblazer
1x Cloudshift
1x Deceiver of Form
1x Decree of Justice
1x Desolation Twin
1x Displace
1x Dovin's Veto
1x Drift of Phantasms
1x Eldrazi Displacer
1x Elite Guardmage
1x Elixir of Immortality
1x Emergency Powers
1x Ephemerate
1x Essence Flux
1x Essence Scatter
1x Exile
1x Fact or Fiction
1x Fiend Hunter
1x Frantic Search
1x Fumigate
1x Ghostly Flicker
1x Holy Day
1x Impulse
20x Island
1x Kor Cartographer
1x Lat-Nam's Legacy
1x Lavinia of the Tenth
1x Luminate Primordial
1x Meteor Golem
1x Mind Spring
1x Momentary Blink
1x Myr Battlesphere
1x Nevermaker
1x Nevinyrral's Disk
1x Ojutai's Command
1x Opt
17x Plains
1x Precognitive Perception
1x Prismite
1x Prophetic Prism
1x Pull from Tomorrow
1x Reflector Mage
1x Release to the Wind
1x See Beyond
1x Slinn Voda, the Rising Deep
1x Soul Warden
1x Soulherder
1x Supreme Will
1x Think Twice
1x Thraben Inspector
1x Time Wipe
1x Treasure Cruise
1x Wash Out
1x White Sun's Zenith
Now I need to come up with something else.
So I challenged myself to squeeze a deck out of a budget that was mostly gone due to this guy...
I could submit my list and then the deck would probably be over-budget by October, but that would be fine if the list was valid at the time of submission. Well, I made it work. I came in just below the maximum, at $149.58 just as I was about to submit it...
...and then I realized that, unlike the summer event, this one prohibits two-card infinite combos. Rasputin Dreamweaver + Eldrazi Displacer is a two-card infinite mana combo, and is kind of Plan A for this deck. Oops.
So I've scrapped the whole thing. But I already have the decklist I was going to use. So here it is...
Commander:
1x Rasputin Dreamweaver
1x Acrobatic Maneuver
1x AEtherize
1x Anticipate
1x Arcane Denial
1x Artisan of Kozilek
1x Azorius Locket
1x Bane of Bala Ged
1x Blink of an Eye
1x Brainstorm
1x Catalog
1x Cloudblazer
1x Cloudshift
1x Deceiver of Form
1x Decree of Justice
1x Desolation Twin
1x Displace
1x Dovin's Veto
1x Drift of Phantasms
1x Eldrazi Displacer
1x Elite Guardmage
1x Elixir of Immortality
1x Emergency Powers
1x Ephemerate
1x Essence Flux
1x Essence Scatter
1x Exile
1x Fact or Fiction
1x Fiend Hunter
1x Frantic Search
1x Fumigate
1x Ghostly Flicker
1x Holy Day
1x Impulse
20x Island
1x Kor Cartographer
1x Lat-Nam's Legacy
1x Lavinia of the Tenth
1x Luminate Primordial
1x Meteor Golem
1x Mind Spring
1x Momentary Blink
1x Myr Battlesphere
1x Nevermaker
1x Nevinyrral's Disk
1x Ojutai's Command
1x Opt
17x Plains
1x Precognitive Perception
1x Prismite
1x Prophetic Prism
1x Pull from Tomorrow
1x Reflector Mage
1x Release to the Wind
1x See Beyond
1x Slinn Voda, the Rising Deep
1x Soul Warden
1x Soulherder
1x Supreme Will
1x Think Twice
1x Thraben Inspector
1x Time Wipe
1x Treasure Cruise
1x Wash Out
1x White Sun's Zenith
Now I need to come up with something else.