I had the idea to create a U/W EDH deck that would just totally mess with the game and the players, without much of an attempt to actually win. I'm looking for card ideas that are somewhere along the lines of these:
Basically, any U/W or Colorless card that has the potential to make people groan or laugh, or say "What?!?" or "This is ridiculous" or are just funny/weird is what I'm looking for. I've already looked through Conspiracy, so I'm looking for cards from other sets.
Opposition, Cowardice, etc. - Tappety Tap or Bouncety Bounce, either way you can really mess with people. There are tons of repeatable tap or bounce effects that you could use.
Why U/W? When people build this deck (and it's incredibly common, regardless of what the creator thinks I actually think it's tied for the deck I've seen the most with Kaalia) they do WUR.
@Forgotten One
I think you've shown me two of my new favorite cards! Dovescape and Shared Fate: Bahahaha!
You've already given me lots of options now that I'll have to choose from! Thanks for the big list!
*Someone was using Eye of the Storm in a match a while ago along with a bunch of other WTF cards, and all the guys were giggling and freaking out because the game became so convoluted. It was a blast to watch!
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I'm loving these suggestions! Keep 'em coming!
Well, there's good ol Knowledge Pool combo-ing with a certain law, a certain laboratory, and certain ethersworn creature. All four cards probably mess with the game enough on their own to merit inclusion in the deck as well.
Is it a crime to be different and not choose to be a carbon copy of everyone else? I chose U/W because I wanted to. I'm perfectly content making mine unique from other peoples' creations, and I, in fact, prefer it. No one in my local meta plays this color set alone. Most have done Esper W/U/B if using U/W together. I do face a lot of Blue and Red players.
This deck is meant to screw with the game. Despite having a lot of funky cards for this purpose, Red is also an aggressive color, and that's not what I want. I have my Modern mono-red Burn or R/U Controlled Burn decks for that style.
Some of us, as a rule of law, do not like to perpetuate certain unfun combos, even if it's just theory in the arcane laboratory that is MTGS. . . there is no way to shoehorn "ethersworn canonist" into this.
@Ophidian Eye
Sorry! That comment wasn't meant for you! It was supposed to be for the other guy that was complaining that I didn't include Red.
I was going to post this:
Thanks for the first suggestion of Knowledge Pool. The rest are too vague since I don't actively study decklists and all that stuff. I'll assume the Law is Rule of Law, and the Ethersworn creature to be...Ethersworn Canonist which I've never seen until now.
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Is it a crime to be different and not choose to be a carbon copy of everyone else? I chose U/W because I wanted to. I'm perfectly content making mine unique from other peoples' creations, and I, in fact, prefer it. No one in my local meta plays this color set alone. Most have done Esper W/U/B if using U/W together. I do face a lot of Blue and Red players.
This deck is meant to screw with the game. Despite having a lot of funky cards for this purpose, Red is also an aggressive color, and that's not what I want. I have my Modern mono-red Burn or R/U Controlled Burn decks for that style.
"The deck idea itself isn't very unique. Choosing WU isntead of WUR while keeping the same idea doesn't make it more unique. If the deck idea has never been seen at your playgroup, then playing WUR or WU doesn't make a difference to them, but makes your deck less great at it's intended meaning." is my opinion.
Feel free to disregard it. If you want help check these out:
"The deck idea itself isn't very unique. Choosing WU isntead of WUR while keeping the same idea doesn't make it more unique. If the deck idea has never been seen at your playgroup, then playing WUR or WU doesn't make a difference to them, but makes your deck less great at it's intended meaning." is my opinion.
Feel free to disregard it. If you want help check these out:
See? That was what I was looking for the first time! This was a helpful post.
I admitted that Red has funky stuff that have the right flavor for what I want.
"Despite having a lot of funky cards for this purpose, Red is also an aggressive color, and that's not what I want."
I don't want to have to deal with using a tri-colored deck. I use Mardu for my Standard deck, but I still prefer 2-colors over 3.
(Although I love the idea of using Goblin Game...)
You could also consider Conjured Currency if you really want to mess with the board state.
If you're open to the idea of the slightly more funky red cards: Possibility Storm is a card that most people need to read several times to truly realise how insane things are about to get!
You could also consider Conjured Currency if you really want to mess with the board state.
If you're open to the idea of the slightly more funky red cards: Possibility Storm is a card that most people need to read several times to truly realise how insane things are about to get!
If I go red at all, I'll likely drop white since I don't really want to deal with 3 colors of mana with how high the avg CMC is gonna be here...
I assume you're using Gwafa Hazid, Profiteer, right? Other than him, Grand Arbiter Augustin IV is a good "ha ha, I'm making everything miserable" general. But I like Gwafa since the counters don't actually go away, so you can recast him and his effect will immediately resume.
Some pillowfort cards like Aurification would be a nice idea. War Tax lets you Propaganda for all of single players attacks, rather than all attacks against you. Illusionist's Gambit and Reins of Power can fit in well; reins can even donate some creatures to a person being attacked by another opponent.
Holy Day et al will be good to save someone for an attack to provoke retaliation.
Legerdemain is an often unheard of card that can get some laughs. Avarice Totem can achieve a similar effect by investing 10 mana to steal something and keep the totem or 15 to exchange two of your opponents' cards.
bear in mind that you can only end up tapping them for U, W, and x. but yea its pretty good card that one, until your opponents remember that they don't suffer from mana burn anymore and activating mana abilities can't be interacted with.
but at least you can stop counterspells, end of turn trickery, so on.
Rules changes have nerfed Piracy pretty badly. Now you'd almost need it to be a instant, so you could cast it on your opponents upkeep for a silence effect for UU. Instead, it's just, "counter me, or just float all your mana make sure to cast any spells you want before the end of your opponent's first main phase."
Okay, silly things in blue. I have to say a lot of the effects here I'm seeing lean more towards stax than silliness. Check out Eye of the Storm, and Forced Fruition. They get silly fast, and troll the table without the overt hatefulness of something like Humility.
I must admit, I'm quite surprised Shahrazad is still considered legal for Commander since she has been banned in every other format...
Shahrazad is not legal in Commander. Any card banned in Vintage is also banned in Commander. This is why Ante cards, manual dexterity cards, and Conspiracies are also not legal in Commander.
Reverse the Sands
Celestial Convergence
Teferi's Puzzle Box
Zur's Weirding
Omen Machine
Acorn Catapult
Mystic Barrier
Basically, any U/W or Colorless card that has the potential to make people groan or laugh, or say "What?!?" or "This is ridiculous" or are just funny/weird is what I'm looking for. I've already looked through Conspiracy, so I'm looking for cards from other sets.
Thanks in advance!
Mage's Contest
Ice Cave
Cultural Exchange
Embargo
That's all I can think of for now.
Stasis, Rising Waters - For when you really don't want any friends
Back to Basics - Non-basic hate
Dovescape - Classic WTF card
Shared Fate - I'm still not quite sure what would happen if one of these ever found its way into play
Humility, Meishin, the Mind Cage - Making creatures as useless as possible
Eye of the Storm, Puca's Mischief - UW 'chaos' cards
Opposition, Cowardice, etc. - Tappety Tap or Bouncety Bounce, either way you can really mess with people. There are tons of repeatable tap or bounce effects that you could use.
Cultural Exchange and Divine Intervention for sure!
@Forgotten One
I think you've shown me two of my new favorite cards! Dovescape and Shared Fate: Bahahaha!
You've already given me lots of options now that I'll have to choose from! Thanks for the big list!
*Someone was using Eye of the Storm in a match a while ago along with a bunch of other WTF cards, and all the guys were giggling and freaking out because the game became so convoluted. It was a blast to watch!
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I'm loving these suggestions! Keep 'em coming!
^^^Not much of a suggestion is it?
Is it a crime to be different and not choose to be a carbon copy of everyone else? I chose U/W because I wanted to. I'm perfectly content making mine unique from other peoples' creations, and I, in fact, prefer it. No one in my local meta plays this color set alone. Most have done Esper W/U/B if using U/W together. I do face a lot of Blue and Red players.
This deck is meant to screw with the game. Despite having a lot of funky cards for this purpose, Red is also an aggressive color, and that's not what I want. I have my Modern mono-red Burn or R/U Controlled Burn decks for that style.
Some of us, as a rule of law, do not like to perpetuate certain unfun combos, even if it's just theory in the arcane laboratory that is MTGS. . . there is no way to shoehorn "ethersworn canonist" into this.
Sorry! That comment wasn't meant for you! It was supposed to be for the other guy that was complaining that I didn't include Red.
I was going to post this:
Thanks for the first suggestion of Knowledge Pool. The rest are too vague since I don't actively study decklists and all that stuff. I'll assume the Law is Rule of Law, and the Ethersworn creature to be...Ethersworn Canonist which I've never seen until now.
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It won't let me use the quote feature properly. Two more posts.
Also you are correct, with the third card being Arcane Laboratory.
"The deck idea itself isn't very unique. Choosing WU isntead of WUR while keeping the same idea doesn't make it more unique. If the deck idea has never been seen at your playgroup, then playing WUR or WU doesn't make a difference to them, but makes your deck less great at it's intended meaning." is my opinion.
Feel free to disregard it. If you want help check these out:
Fyi, the red side of this isn't for aggresive cards. It's for cards like:
See? That was what I was looking for the first time! This was a helpful post.
I admitted that Red has funky stuff that have the right flavor for what I want.
"Despite having a lot of funky cards for this purpose, Red is also an aggressive color, and that's not what I want."
I don't want to have to deal with using a tri-colored deck. I use Mardu for my Standard deck, but I still prefer 2-colors over 3.
(Although I love the idea of using Goblin Game...)
Dovescape loves Guile, or so I am told. And Hive Mind loves Pact of Negation and Intervention Pact.
Worldpurge?
Mana Maze?
Mana Breach?
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StaffIf you're open to the idea of the slightly more funky red cards: Possibility Storm is a card that most people need to read several times to truly realise how insane things are about to get!
Bahaha! That sounds fantastic!
Any specific black cards come to mind?
If I go red at all, I'll likely drop white since I don't really want to deal with 3 colors of mana with how high the avg CMC is gonna be here...
Conjured Currency looks fun for sure!
Some pillowfort cards like Aurification would be a nice idea. War Tax lets you Propaganda for all of single players attacks, rather than all attacks against you. Illusionist's Gambit and Reins of Power can fit in well; reins can even donate some creatures to a person being attacked by another opponent.
Holy Day et al will be good to save someone for an attack to provoke retaliation.
Legerdemain is an often unheard of card that can get some laughs. Avarice Totem can achieve a similar effect by investing 10 mana to steal something and keep the totem or 15 to exchange two of your opponents' cards.
im assuming most people haven't heard of any of them
Legacy - Solidarity - mono U aggro - burn - Imperial Painter - Strawberry Shortcake - Bluuzards - bom
ill have to add something back in... something like... snowfall, infinite authority, piracy!
Legacy - Solidarity - mono U aggro - burn - Imperial Painter - Strawberry Shortcake - Bluuzards - bom
but at least you can stop counterspells, end of turn trickery, so on.
Legacy - Solidarity - mono U aggro - burn - Imperial Painter - Strawberry Shortcake - Bluuzards - bom
Okay, silly things in blue. I have to say a lot of the effects here I'm seeing lean more towards stax than silliness. Check out Eye of the Storm, and Forced Fruition. They get silly fast, and troll the table without the overt hatefulness of something like Humility.
Oh Rider, my heart will go on...
Shahrazad is not legal in Commander. Any card banned in Vintage is also banned in Commander. This is why Ante cards, manual dexterity cards, and Conspiracies are also not legal in Commander.