MTG Salvation

Welcome to my Cromat EDH deck! I personally believe that Cromat is by far the most flexible EDH general, and its easy to build a deck that has absolutely no theme relation at all to him. This makes him the most unpredictable to play against.

Well here is my, "Mage Madness," idea for EDH. It is my idea to make a deck if possible of mostly wizards with ultility tricks to mess up my opponents. After annoying them to death I wish to crush them with my battlemages or with Cromat.



Only problem I see, is that I probably won't find the the right trick at the right time.

bump!
how do I tag the deck? :/

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Thank you for your help!

bump! seriously at least one person comment. I honestly thought this was a fun idea. :/

They hate my Cromat too lol. How has it worked for you? I totally love mine, but my list looks like crap until you see it in action, completely crazy deck.

Are the battle mages and anthem effects working for you? I thought about doing something kind of like that, no anthems as they feel a little weak. Really wanted the volvers, masters,and battlemages...amonge others.

I've been looking for an either decent 5 color general, or something fun. The way you've built it makes me want to rebuild with more of a blast from the past kind of theme.

This is so awesome. I love the idea! I can definitely think of a few cards that would be great.

Riptide Laboratory - reuse those Wizards, man!

Glen Elendra Archmage - good on its own, and a near-lock with sage of fables.

Venser, Shaper Savant - great wizard.

Coat of Arms - go for broke, man.

Conflux - getting any 5 wizards would probably be awesome.

Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir - great wizard, and lets your battlemagi become combat tricks!

Magus of the Future - powerful wizard, and since your deck has a nice low curve, you'd get a LOT of mileage out of him.

Azami, Lady of Scrolls - usually good.

Diviner's Wand - too funny not to run.

Information Dealer - you'll always find what you need.

Inspired Sprite - also good.

Nameless One - come ON!!

Patron Wizard - REALLY annoying.

Sigil Tracer - this is cool.


Vedalken Æthermage - WIZARDCYCLING. Must go in.

To make room, I think I'd remove: Sage of Epityr (not good enough), Magi of the Scroll and Grim Lavamancer (both good cards, but 2 damage just isn't enough in EDH to kill anything), Magus of the Library (rarely as good as you hope), Boros Guildmage (but I might add Golgari Guildmage... saccing battlemagi to recur other battlemagi seems good), Leyline of Vitality (not enough impact), and maybe even Aven Mindcensor, since he's a little too specific for this kind of a deck. Then just play around!

I love it, so much.

Go balls deep with Nameless One!!!

P.S. I think this is just awesome in every way.

I knew there was a land that helped wizards, I just couldn't remember the name! I'll cut a plain and forest for Riptide Laboratory, and Mikokoro, Center of the Sea (which I forgot to include). I think I'll ditch the Greater Auramancy completely as it seems better to abandon some of the enchantments I have, besides if they destroy something it will be with something like Fracturing Gust and the Greater Auramancy will not be able to protect me.
I will also replace the Leyline for the Coat of Arms (although it seems a risky card).This deck does not have as a curve as it seems it does since kicking mages is extremely important to gain advantage.

Golgari Guildmage is not a wizard! :x

Thank you guys for the great help!

Updated! It looks much, much better now. Thank you for all the suggestions!
Also, does anyone have any suggestions as how to replace Greater Auramancy for a card of similar cost and as how to fit in Glen Elendra Archmage?

P.S. I don't really like Vedalken Æthermage chiefly because if I'm not playing against slivers the card loses some value and I like to take maximum advantage out of every card.

I'd replace Greater Auramancy and Cloud Key with Asceticism + Sterling Grove.

Fponk mentions some great wizards to add to this build (Glen Elendra Archmage and Azami, Lady of Scrolls are almost mandatory), but a few more wizards and support cards to consider are...
Anathemancer - Against the right opponent (Karn, most 5CC generals) this guy is gonna be 7-8 points to the face.
Crystal Shards/Erratic Portal - Get extra mileage out of your battle magi or other EtB effect creatures.
Dimir Guildmage - Reusable card drawing is pretty handy.
Etched Oracle - is now a wizard. Pretty neat!
Izzet Chronarch - Awesome power. Not great in your deck yet, but you should/could consider dropping a lot of your pump effects for more powerful gold utility spells like Vindicate, Decimate, Hull Breach, Putrefy, and Prophetic Bolt.
Mangara of Corondor - A decent creature alone, but especially awesome with Crystal Shards for shenanigans.
Selesyna Guildmage - A great way to defend yourself or pump the wizard people for the win.

As for who you can/should cut to make room for these cards, I recommend dropping Sage of Epityr, Nightscape Apprentice, Sunscape Apprentice, Boros Guildmage, and some of the pump effects. I think this build is better off being tricky, pecking away at people, and waiting for Cromat to win it. Lost Auramancers (too hard to use) and the "Emissary" cycle (approximately 200% worse than Battlemagi) would be next on my list of cuts.

After much thought, and contemplation I have decided to make the following changes:
Coat of Arms (it is very likely another general plays tribal theme as well) > Erratic Portal
Greater Auramancy > Sterling Grove (its just better)
Sunscape Apprentice (not very good) > Glen Elendra Archmage (it combos with Sage of Fables)
Nightscape Apprentice (not very good) > Azami Lady of Scrolls

How does this look?