the Maelstrom deck is ignored and wins after casting their commander. This was about the time that Khans of Tarkir came out, and I immediately fell in love with the Temur. First of all, here is the deck. Downsides of course are it doesnt stop oracle consult. Leyline of Anticipation - This was not actually on my radar until I came to cEDH for criticism. This annoying message will go away once you do. Hopefully putting this primer out there will get some discussion going, and we can find the ultimate list for this build. I see your deck while browsing Moxfield, interesting conception, dont u think about trying [[Lurking Predators]] in it? Press J to jump to the feed. Note that, depending on the actual card/s stopping you, you can still get around this: For instance, a player thinking theyre safe behind a Ghostly Prison will be very, very sad when you make infinite copies of Zealous Conscripts, using the last copy to steal their Prison until EOT and letting you attack for free. Discord Server | I know that the deck doesnt look as competitive, but after playing in competitive pods, I can say, that it feels confidently. Youre not focused on casting Wanderer as fast as possible, youre worried about screwing up Zurs mana base. Tooth and Nail - Instant Win-Con. This annoying message will go away once you do. Hello r/edh, I am looking for competitive "multiplayer" lists of Maelstrom wanderer. We've updated our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. RUG (Temur), Casual EDH Deck with many infinite Combos, 2) Palinchron + Dead Eye Navigator or phantasmal image or vorinclex (or flameshadow conjuring or Sneak Attack): infinite colored mana. Being able to tutor out 2 creatures is wonderful. Attention! Late Game: Again, if youve gotten to this stage, things have gone wrong. For these reasons Im always on the lookout for better tutors, in particular cards that can search out Food Chain, among other cards. And I certainly wasnt going to win any games against the truly competitive decks. DMCA requests | For those unaware, youll draw your card for the turn, cast Wanderer, and since the card you tutored for is now two cards down, it will either be your first cascade (if the first revealed card is a land), or your second cascade (if the first card is another spell). Boom//Bust - This is used to help destroy everyone's lands so that I can slam down my Wanderer and beat everyone to death while they are recovering from the destruction Will eventually be replaced with Wildfire, Cultivate/Kodama's Reach/Explosive Vegetation - These are just generally great ramp cards that help me not miss land drops as well. DMCA requests | But, it is one of the few free counterspells that I would deem worth it for 3 mana. Best case scenario, I cascade into and draw 3 free cards and worst case, I have to wait a few turns. Keeping people on their toes and making them doubt what they knew about Wanderer made my games almost exceedingly simple. Venser, Shaper Savant - He helps me get rid of pesky Blightsteel/Darksteel Colossi and the like. Duplicant: The standard creature-based exile your dude answer. Kiki Exarch can go off pretty consistently, since we can tutor for them easily, or for something else that can grab them like Eldritch Evolution. Casual This card is incredible even in regular non-combo versions of Wanderer, casting such degenerately stupid cards as Apocalypse. The Planeswalkers: This is the section of the deck that initially started with about 10 cards, and has slowly dwindled down to 3 due to efficiency. Misthollow Griffin Temur Sabertooth - He bounces Maelstrom Wanderer back to my hand to help me cascade some more, Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre - besides being the only spell I cannot cascade into, he is mainly there as utility against decking myself or people who are trying to mill me (we have a player like that in my current meta) Eventually will be replaced with Kozilek, Butcher of Truth. If I am getting cocky, I may use his +2, but that rarely happens. Food Chain: The majority of the ramp in this deck is creature based to synergize with Food Chain. Articles and comments are user-submitted and do not represent official endorsements of this site. Palinchron - While being a major combo piece, he has built in evasion, and can help us cast more spells. But is it really better than having access to white and Black? I am looking for competitive "multiplayer" lists of Maelstrom wanderer. 1x Maelstrom Wanderer; 1x Orzhov Advokist; 1x Portal Mage; Instant (2) 1x Illusionist's Gambit; 1x Volt Charge; Land (11) . Also, could someone link a competitive list? DMCA requests | The win conditions are the same as most other highly competitive decks: Necrotic Ooze Combo, Hermit Druid, and/or Laboratory Maniac. Release to the winds looks amazing, but now Im trying to test other cards . Keen Sense - This is a relatively new addition to the deck, but I added it since A) it does go infinite with Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind and B) I like drawing cards. Articles and comments are user-submitted and do not represent official endorsements of this site. The spell you cast due to the first cascade ability will go on the stack on top of the second cascade ability. Remand - This card allows me to either counter an opponent's spell, or put Maelstrom back into my hand and draw a card. Repeat for infinite mana of all colors. Same with any other aggressive creatures, such as Avenger of Zendikar; there is no secondary plan of winning through big cascades and attacking. The faster we hit Food Chain, the more likely we are to win. Help | As more testing and tweaks are made, Ill add additional cut cards here as well; for now, this is the most updated list I have. Overall, I'd agree that Wanderer is place pretty solidly in Tier 2. My win rate skyrocketed. Our second combo functions in much the same way: the typical Deadeye Navigator + Palinchron infinite mana loop. The ones that I run are Kiki/Exarch and Food Chain. Comments. EDHREC Home Commanders Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder As Card Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder (Commander) $7.99 $6.71 0.76 TIX 4425 decks (0.202%) Rank #108 Navigation By Theme By Budget All Cheap Expensive Links Aetherhub Archidekt Deckstats Moxfield MTGGoldfish MTGStocks Scryfall Average Type Distribution I kept the deck's CMC < 8 to ensure every cascade hits. Complete Comment Tutorial! Will eventually be replaced with Worldly Tutor, Skyshroud Claim - More ramp, plus it grabs Dual Type Lands. Often it will have done its job already, and even 3 cards makes it more than worth the mana I spent to keep it up for a turn or so. This combo works by exiling the Griffin or Scourge to Food Chain for X+1 colored mana; you use X of that mana to re-cast from exile the Griffin/Scourge, netting a single mana. This collection is out of date, you may to see the latest version [EDH] Maelstrom Keruga Commander / EDH RUG (Temur) Emzed Creature (33) 1x Agent of Treachery 1x Angrath's Marauders 1x Apex Devastator 1x Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle 1x Beanstalk Giant 1x Cavalier of Thorns 1x Drakuseth, Maw of Flames 1x Enigma Thief 1x Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma Ancestral Vision - This card was added since I didn't have another place to put it and I love the card, but since I have added it, it has only benefited me. This is a fantastic resource. Current testing has dropped me to the minimum of Force of Will and Mana Drain (with the added bonus of ramping to Wanderer), but ultimately I think the correct number is somewhere around 4-6 counterspells. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts, Tasigur Control | Maelstrom Beats | UBx Doomsday Storm. Complete Comment Tutorial! I certainly CAN recover from losing a tutored-for card, but its a huge liability and often not worth it. This card, while it does give your opponent a choice in the matter, can make things very difficult for them, since it causes them to choose which cards you want, and most cards in the deck are highly synergistic. Sac Wanderer for GGGGGGGGG (9 green). Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker - This card is the most broken card in the deck, in my opinion. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Maelstrom Wanderer Commander EDH Deck *CASCADE* - Magic MTG Ready-to-Play Custom at the best online prices at eBay! Gamble is the textbook example of this, and I will often not cast Gamble unless its in the first few turns of the game when my hand is 5+ cards. Privacy statement | By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. Maelstrom Wanderer. Once we have infinite mana, we can then cast Maelstrom Wanderer an infinite amount of times, cascading through our entire library. Only because the Wanderer has two Cascade trigger? Top16. It also draws a lot of hate, but you can usually get at least 2-4 cards out of it and it draws a removal spell, so thats something. Ramping to Wanderer was all there was, and if I didnt hit Wanderer early, I probably wasnt winning that game. How can he hold against other competitive commanders? [[Vannifar]] has an infinite win line with maelstrom out and can get it from any creature on the battlefield. Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Zealous Conscripts: Kiki/Conscripts create infinite attacking tokens, swinging at each opponent simultaneously for infinite damage. [[Kiki Jiki]] goes infinite with 3 cards flat out, but can have some other interesting interactions. With the ramping you did in the first few turns, its entirely possible to have a turn 5, 6 or 7 Oops! If you are a resident of California, you have the right under the CCPA to opt out of the sale of personal information to third parties. See our privacy policy. 54 - 3 Rares. As such, we run a combination of tutor-based ramp and mana artifacts such as Sol Ring, Grim Monolith and the signets. You now have 17 mana in pool.Cast Wanderer for URGGGGGGGG. Copied to clipboard. As an example, with both Eternal Witness and Farhaven Elf on the board already: Sac Witness for UUUU. Copied to clipboard. Wanderer does not have this weakness, and not only has multiple combos available to it, but the deck isnt reliant on 1 or 2 strategies to win the game. Double cascade.Sac Wanderer for GGGGGGGGG. Contact | That can be a pretty powerful jedi mind trick to opponents who dont know what were trying to do. You can now import it in the MTG Arena client. Attention! Infinite mana of all colors; notably, not just limited to creatures like Food Chains mana is. You have helped me tune my deck and I wanted to share it with you in depth. Once youve got infinite mana and youre cascading through your library, there are your actual win conditions: Warstorm Surge/Purphoros, God of the Forge + Wanderer/Scourge/Misthollow Griffin: Basically any card that deals damage or does things when your creatures come into play. We dont often need more than any one other particular card - well have Glen Elendra in play already, or Food Chain in hand, or Defense of the Heart in play, etc. Kalamax, the Golem Enabler (EDH / Commander). Unfortunately and only due to the fact that it has access to blacks true tutors. I wasnt going to beat Prossh to Food Chain; I wasnt going to keep Zur off the field; I wasnt faster at ramping than Sidisi. If you turn your deck into a Food Chain / Twin wanderer deck then you can compete against tier 2 decks. Maelstrom Wanderer (Commander / EDH MTG Deck) This collection is out of date, you may click here to see the latest version Maelstrom Wanderer Commander / EDH* RUG (Temur) JarlBigJohnson Acidic Slime 1x 1x Apex Devastator 1x 1x Avenger of Zendikar 1x 1x Balefire Dragon 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x Help | Tap Kiki to make a copy of Conscripts and go off. Black gives access to the best tutors and removal in the entire game, and Sidisi herself serves as the combo in the command zone that allows the rest of the deck to do its thing. Maybe you dropped an early Food Chain that got exiled; maybe somebody hit you with Praetors Grasp and managed to get rid of Deadeye Navigator. That's his primary function. Articles and comments are user-submitted and do not represent official endorsements of this site. Have the token Dualcaster copy the original epiphany. Thanks in advance. Specific tutors can find you what you need, but of course have RUGs peculiar little twists with them: Bring To Light, Foresight/Manipulate Fate, Gamble, Selective Memory, Impulse, Intuition, Long-Term Plans and Worldly Tutor all either search for specific types of cards, OR have the very strong possibility of screwing you over when theyre supposed to help you. An aggressive powerhouse creature who is a three for one card thanks to its double cascade. Help | Does it do what it's supposed to and able to keep it's engine going? [[Deflecting Swat]] may seem odd in that scenario, and yes it will fizzle. Early Game: Yes, were still going to ramp. A second answer to indestructible or otherwise nigh-unbeatable creatures, we can just steal the ones that are a huge threat or otherwise stopping us from going off. Out game the big, splashy spells. Feeds | How can he hold against other competitive commanders? Let's all work together and get Maelstrom Wanderer banned. She is also super easy to flip, and getting the ramp/draw off her +1 is fantastic. Maelstrom Wanderer is an 8 cost 7/5 Temur Legendary Elemental Creature that grants your creatures haste and has cascade, cascade. $104. Casual Maelstrom Wanderer is a unique creature because its base power and toughness aren't the only big things on it. You certainly CAN, if you have nothing else to do or want to get in some combat damage.but were not going to be cascading into anything dumb. net Accueil Decks Constructeur de Deck Collection Forum. Sure, there are times when you can hypothetically hit two ramp spells.But even if that's the case it still serves you to cast this powerful commander on the following turn if it dies. Nacatl War-Pride Contact | Primal Command - This is another tutor used to get whichever creature I need, plus it doubles up as removal for pesky non-creature permanents and stopping me from decking myself. However, this is a flex slot. Search Bar. I will be glad to hear your comments and ideas, as well as if someone tries to test it in their cEDH pods. However, the amount of free wins you can gain off this card is ridiculous and should not be discounted for just that reason. Terms of Use | So, I actually have quite a bit to add in here. Magic the Gathering, FNM is TM and copyright Wizards of the Coast, Inc, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc. All rights reserved. Orcish Lumberjack - Used to squeak out a little bit more mana. . Again, were not running black or white; were not going to be hitting your Avacyn with Swords to Plowshares or giving anything -X/-Xso we need to dip into artifacts to find our answers. While the mana base is not optimized just yet, the rest of the deck is for the most part. . Check out the full decklist here:https://bit.ly/3a65Fh7 Looking to support me and have awesome merch?Click here: https://teespring.com . Pathbreaker Ibex Ive been a Magic player since 1997; my very first starter deck was Mirage, and the very first rare I ever opened was Phyrexian Dreadnought. I'm sorry if this is not your typical primer, I've never done one before, but I enjoy this deck so much and wanted it to have some sort of a primer. By Fukushima Hirok. Oracle of Mul Daya - Playing lands is great. Feeds | I was never interested in [[Maelstrom Wanderer]] before but after reading him again and seeing all the big creatures I can cheat out I'm very interested. Exploration - I enjoy playing lands so much, that I wanted to put down an additional one every turn, especially since I can draw a lot of cards very quickly May replace with Burgeoning. Worldly Tutor and Eldritch Evolution are worth their weight in gold, but unfortunately, almost every card we can use to look for a combo piece, only looks for one other combo piece, or is restricted. Maelstrom Wanderer gives itself haste. Comment: Important! Wanderer is strictly a means to an end. One of the strengths of Combo Wanderer is its ability to sit quietly, unassuming, stopping any majorly annoying plans from seeing fruition until you can pull the trigger on one of your own combos. The counterspell package in here is also geared towards Maelstrom himself and while using him for value, it would be terrible to lose him it. Discord Server | Save. Im playing this deck for 5-6 years, it has gone through a lot of changes over time, I won 4 out of 5 semi-competitive tournaments in my area and looking here for maybe some ideas for improvement. Not only does it have a respectable body that will stop a fair amount of creatures from coming your way, its also 100% expendable past its ETB ability, which, if youre not hip on reading, will dig you six cards deep into your library if you need it to. Reply . The best Commander competition @Hareruya (Japan) 51. Please take a moment to review them and accept to continue. Omniscience - One of the few cards I cannot cascade into, this card should appear pretty obvious. See what removal you can dig for. Other people can view your private deck by using this url, Seems there are no cards in the Acquireboard. Yeah, I know that he would be bad in some pods with heavy stax or very fast combo decks as Zur, or turbo nause, but in long games, when your opponents trying to stop each other, it has a potential. 1x Maelstrom Wanderer 1x Mizzix, Replica Rider 1x Nalfeshnee 1x Omnath, Locus of Rage 1x Rampaging Baloths 1x Ramunap Excavator 1x Rashmi, Eternities Crafter 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder 1x Solemn Simulacrum 1x Sweet-Gum Recluse 1x Temur Sabertooth 1x Tireless Provisioner Sorcery (12) 1x Cultivate 1x Decimate 1x Farseek 1x Genesis Ultimatum Ramp hard. Additionally, our land/artifact ramp comes into play untapped and ready to go, giving us greater ramping abilities, whereas mana dorks require a turn before theyre online. Combo Wanderer has two immediate weaknesses that come to mind: Fast combo/control: Zur, ANT Sidisi, Yisan, Tasigurthese decks can pretty much ignore what were doing as they either develop their own board, or just combo off without caring. I can't think of any other ways to fetch it besides Gamble, which is obviously a gamble. Imperial Animar lists can be very strong and very fast, but based on the strategy theyre trying to push theres not a lot of room for actual control, and the deck frequently loses to any tier 1 strategy or well-placed removal on Animar himself. Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder: Yidris is also a Maelstrom general, and hes even a combo general, but his focus is much more on storm than anything else. More Casual Feedback More Competitive . Sidisi, Brood Tyrant: Sidisi can arguably do what we do, only better; the reason for this is strictly due to the addition of black to her mana cost. The Instants: You will notice that I do run some counterspells in this deck, and that is because most of them double up into either allowing me to cascade more, or causing my opponents to have board state problems. Duplicant is a bit expensive, but again, synergizes with Food Chain, gets rid of Eldrazi like a champ, and works well with the other creature-based strategies in the deck. He seems to also be crushed by any kind of stax, since his ramp would be slowed down. MTGGoldfish, Inc. is not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast LLC. Gain control of - and untap - Birthing Pod, sacrificing the Archmage for Kiki-Jiki this time. Redirecting abilities is powerful. Consecrated Sphinx: The Sphinx is a good card to ramp into and drop early, if you have it. Thanks. To any Tier 2 competitive deck, Wanderer was a joke. In RUG colors you don't have much tutor options for Food Chain. Contact | $639. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts, https://www.moxfield.com/decks/R_83Q4nuj0GV-LzOFVy6uQ. Wizards of the Coast, Magic: The Gathering, and their logos are trademarks of Wizards of the Coast LLC. All original content on this page is 2012-2023 MTGGoldfish, Inc. and may not be used or reproduced without consent. Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind - I draw a lot of cards, and if I can convert that draw power into damage, that's a lot of damage. Attention! Hi everyone! Discord Server | All it does it make me a target. Food Chain - Besides going infinite with Misthollow Griffin and allowing me to cascade through my deck, this allows me to sacrifice my tokens from the Kiki-Conscripts combo to cascade infinitely and also gives me a little bit more mana when I might not have enough lands. Updates Add. A well-timed Tormods Crypt, Leyline, or even a Bojuka Bog will stop the entire deck from not only functioning but removing all possible win conditions at the same time. Date added: 3 days: Last updated: 10 hours: Legality: This deck is Commander / EDH legal. You can cast it on turn 2 and immediately pull out Misthollow/Scourge and 1 or 2 other cards (usually Selective Memory and/or Foresight), drawing a card, and making sure the second piece of your combo is safe and sound in Exile until youre ready for it. 1x Maelstrom Wanderer *f-etch* 1x Manaweft Sliver; 1x Megantic Sliver; 1x Necrotic Sliver; 1x Oracle of Mul Daya; . Wanderer doesnt care about combat damage, and in fact doesnt even really care about casting your commander at all unless it wins the game that turn. Youre here because you, like me, recognize the true power of the Maelstrom. You may enjoy playing Combo Wanderer if you: Like having a win condition safe and sound in the command zoneEnjoy interacting/reacting with your opponentsLike when a game ends the same way 90% of the time. Youre not particularly ramping into anything - youre not trying to hit Wanderer mana as soon as possible - but the value it can give you if you start chaining dudes together is undeniable. This annoying message will go away once you do. This site 2023 TappedOut.net, LLC Birds of Paradise - A 1 drop mana dork is nice, and while it is a one of, it never fails to help me win. - by cascading into Regrowth and similar cards to put them back in hand or into the library. Fun to watch the first time but gets old if it's the only play option. The reality is that paying 8 mana to play the slots isn't a reliable wincon. Krosan Grip - a near uncounterable Naturalize is always nice, especially against cards that can win your opponents the game. There you go. . The Artifacts: As you can see, the artifacts aren't a large chunk of the deck, and are mostly just the standard ramp package. This will require TappedOut.js included in your blog. Zealous Conscripts - the final Splinter Twin piece I will talk about, this creature can also help me take entire board states, Now that I've given you a brief description of each card in the deck and what they do, here are the primary combos, Kiki-Conscripts: Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Zealous Conscripts - This is the original combo I built the deck around, Infinite Mana: Palinchron + DEN or Food Chain + Misthollow Griffin/Kiki-Conscripts Combo - Helps me cascade through my deck or cast any spell I want. Maelstrom Wanderer cEDH (Commander / EDH MTG Deck) This collection is out of date, you may click here to see the latest version Maelstrom Wanderer cEDH Commander / EDH RUG (Temur) KrizpMango 0 Group Ordering Land (35) Ancient Tomb Arid Mesa 1x Bloodstained Mire 1x Breeding Pool 1x Cavern of Souls 1x City of Brass 1x Command Beacon 1x Command Tower Terms of Use | This card is a bomb. Going through cards like [[Kioras Follower]]->[[Pestermite]]->[[Fatestitcher]]->[[Zealous conscripts]]->Unearth Fatestitcher -> kiki Jiki But, Vannifar can make simpler plays like tutoring dockside by killing a bird. Anger of the Gods - Used to clear out the little creatures (there are a ton in my meta) and to make sure that my Maelstrom Wanderer doesn't have to fight a ton of chump blockers since he doesn't have trample. Go combo or go home. Currently, my metagame involves a healthy mix of midrange, stax and control strategies.