The Drake Equation [PDH]

[Oversoul]

Iridescent Drake is one of my favorite cards. So when I got into Pauper EDH, I knew I had to build a deck helmed by this thing. Mono-blue auras don't pack much of a punch at common, but the core gameplan here is to set up Iridescent Drake + False Demise + Ashnod's Altar and sink that infinite mana into stuff. The rest of the deck is just there to help pave the way for that eventuality.

Commander:
1 Iridescent Drake

1 Aarakocra Sneak
1 Abjure
1 Aether Tradewinds
1 Arcane Denial
1 Arcane Signet
1 Archaeomancer
1 Ashnod's Altar
1 Aura Finesse
1 Blink of an Eye
1 Boomerang
1 Brainstorm
1 Candlekeep Sage
1 Capsize
1 Careful Study
1 Cartouche of Knowledge
1 Cloud of Faeries
1 Contempt
1 Deep Analysis
1 Dreamscape Artist
1 Drift of Phantasms
1 Eel Umbra
1 Enchantment Alteration
1 Evanescent Intellect
1 Fall from Favor
1 False Demise
1 Fate Foretold
1 Fellwar Stone
1 Frantic Search
1 Gaseous Form
1 Gitaxian Probe
1 Impulse
1 Infiltrator's Magemark
31 Island
1 Lat-Nam's Legacy
1 Lonely Sandbar
1 Lórien Revealed
1 Mind Stone
1 Muddle the Mixture
1 Mulldrifter
1 Mystic Sanctuary
1 Ornithopter of Paradise
1 Peregrine Drake
1 Ponder
1 Rousing Read
1 Run Away Together
1 Sage's Row Denizen
1 Seat of the Synod
1 Shrieking Drake
1 Shrine Steward
1 Silver Myr
1 Sky Diamond
1 Snap
1 Stasis Cell
1 Step Through
1 Thassa's Devourer
1 Think Twice
1 Third Path Savant
1 Thirst for Meaning
1 Tocasia's Dig Site
1 Traveler's Cloak
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Tymora's Invoker
1 Unsummon
1 Vanishing
1 Vedalken Aethermage
1 Void Snare
1 Volrath's Curse
1 Wayfarer's Bauble
1 You Find the Villains' Lair

 

[Oversoul]

Other than the Wombat deck ,this is the one that needs the most adjustment. My Iridescent Drake deck got stuck in its first game because most of my tools to control problem creatures were auras, and I was facing an opponent with Neurok Stealthsuit. Even though he expended resources taking down our other opponent, I was pretty much stuck for a while. Eventually I drew Ashnod's Altar and managed to sac my Shrine Steward (enchanted with False Demise) and Iridescent Drake to get False Demise on the commander and generate infinite colorless mana. I got to durdle for one turn with infinite colorless mana as I dug for answers before running out of blue. Then he attacked me for the win. The infinite combo is extremely powerful here, but the rest of the deck is rather slow and might need tweaking.