![]() ![]() This deck is pretty budget except for the fetch lands, including the wincons. So talk to your playgroup, but I think this whole deck is so much less powerful than other “fair” decks that are a drag to play against, like Prosper, Tome-Bound, Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow or other obnoxious nonsense commanders! Budget Options Don’t let them talk you out of it! Rule 0 Violations Check Remember that most of the cards that stack the bottom allow you to draw a card first, which means you can play River and then one of those, grabbing the wincon you need off the bottom before dropping more cards down there, if you need to. ![]() Draw off the top until you need to and then switch to drawing from the bottom. The key to this deck is to play the cards to stack the bottom of your library with your wincons and then play River Song to get them. And you don’t have a ton of counter magic. If they’re not going to let your commander live, you’ll have a hard time finding the pieces for your wincons. They’re key in this deck, though, because you’ll often want a shuffle effect, for the same reason you see them paired with Brainstorm in constructed formats. I try to avoid those in my EDH decklists, as they’re expensive and if you already own them you don’t need my advice to include them. What’s different here than usual are fetch lands. Some dual lands, some artifact ramp like Sol Ring, as you’d expect. If a few highly disruptive infinite combos violate your playgroup style, be sure to check out that section. I’ll highlight those options at the end of the piece, but I’ve suggested a few combo finishes to take advantage of the commander. There are other classic Izzet wincons you can try, like tokens or direct damage, but that takes up card space to enable, and the downside of a deck like this is that if the commander isn’t on the battlefield, all the durdly overcosted card draw spells do very little. Turning that into a win really needs combo finishes. That’s partially why we don’t have a lot of scry cards in this deck, as they work with River, but their rate isn’t as useful since they’re costed as if anyone might use them to manipulate the top of their library. We want effects that allow us to order cards on the bottom of our library, allowing us to reserve one or more for the top of the library, which we’ll not be using when River is on the battlefield, giving us exceptional selection. So if we focus on getting cards to the bottom, we’ve got to use that for card selection. That opponent choice is why hardly anyone builds a deck around Ob Nixilis, Unshackled as a commander. There’s no way this does enough to win a game, especially given the state of cards with that kind of text, which, for an Izzet Commander deck, usually have that word “may,” seen on cards like Noble Benefactor and Eager Construct. The trap on River Song is the second set of text, which adds counters and dishes out damage whenever opponents scry, surveil, or search their libraries. We’re all about getting cards off the bottom. Search for Azcanta / Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin 1 Search for Azcanta / Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin
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