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The One Ring
Indestructible When The One Ring enters, if you cast it, you gain protection from everything until your next turn. At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life for each burden counter on The One Ring. {T}: Put a burden counter on The One Ring, then draw a card for each burden counter on The One Ring.
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Tishana's Tidebinder
Flash When this creature enters, counter up to one target activated or triggered ability. If an ability of an artifact, creature, or planeswalker is countered this way, that permanent loses all abilities for as long as this creature remains on the battlefield. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)
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Into the Flood Maw
Gift a tapped Fish (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they create a tapped 1/1 blue Fish creature token before its other effects.) Return target creature an opponent controls to its owner's hand. If the gift was promised, instead return target nonland permanent an opponent controls to its owner's hand.
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Vedalken Aethermage
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) When this creature enters, return target Sliver to its owner's hand. Wizardcycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Wizard card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
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Cytoplast Manipulator
Graft 2 (This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another creature enters, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.) {U}, {T}: Gain control of target creature with a +1/+1 counter on it for as long as this creature remains on the battlefield.
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Gemstone Caverns
If this card is in your opening hand and you're not the starting player, you may begin the game with Gemstone Caverns on the battlefield with a luck counter on it. If you do, exile a card from your hand. {T}: Add {C}. If Gemstone Caverns has a luck counter on it, instead add one mana of any color.
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Kitsa, Otterball Elite
Vigilance Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card. {2}, {T}: Copy target instant or sorcery spell you control. You may choose new targets for the copy. Activate only if Kitsa's power is 3 or greater.
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Path of Ancestry
This land enters tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
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It has lots of great info on control playpatterns and the deck's wincons. \n\nThe changes I have made, make the deck a bit slower but optimise it for casual play while maintaining the same deck philosophy as the wizards of ozu:\nplay more wizards to better make use of azami's draw ability"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"play draw-go and do almost everything at instant speed"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"no backups or alt-wincons"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n\n Cards that are great in cEDH were cut, for example "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mental Misstep"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mindbreak Trap"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Disrupting Shoal"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Counterbalance"}},{"insert":", etc . Unless your 'bracket 4' meta is cEDH decks with a few pet cards thrown in, the listed counters just aren't as effective. I've also removed some of the stax elements like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Winter Moon"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Back to Basics"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Harbinger of the Seas"}},{"insert":". There's just no way this deck can survive the hate you'll get for playing this. There's room for stax in bracket 4 imo, but it has to fit into the deck's game plan. I have also cut some cards that could allow for an earlier azami, for example "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Lotus Petal"}},{"insert":" ,"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mox Diamond"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Gemstone Caverns"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Saprazzan Skerry"}},{"insert":" . I feel no need to rush out azami and losing cards or lands for early ramp just isn't worth it in the long run.\n\nCards added to the deck are primarily toolbox-like wizards and some instants that can solve problems you're more likely to encounter in casual:\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Portal Mage"}},{"insert":" disrupts combat and has flash."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Surgespanner"}},{"insert":" It's a bit expensive, but when you tap it with azami and pay 1U you get to draw a card and bounce a permanent. yes, any permanent. not a non-land, any. also your own, so this can function as an oboro breezecaller in mystic sanctuary loops or bounce the board in sigil tracer loops. Bouncing a flash ETB wizard or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"The One Ring"}},{"insert":" can be relevant to."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Razorfin Abolisher"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Vodalian Illusionist"}},{"insert":" offer pseudo removal, while the latter can also function as protection for your own creatures. Razorfin abolisher is also going out as soon as something better get's printed or when i decide to include "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Valley Floodcaller"}},{"insert":" . It's pretty niche but can be powerfull if you see a lot of counters matters decks."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Vedalken Mastermind"}},{"insert":" can protect any of your permanents, so bounce wizards with a usefull ETB, bounce "},{"insert":{"card-link":"The One Ring"}},{"insert":" for repeated protection, or it can function as an alternate oboro breezcaller in mystic sanctuary loops."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Reality Spasm"}},{"insert":" has multiple uses. It can tap down potential attackers, untap some of your opponents land if they need some mana to remove something you can't. It can replace dramatic reversal in "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Sigil Tracer"}},{"insert":" loops or function as a ritual if you can untap nyktos."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Progenitor's Icon"}},{"insert":" : a 3 cmc rock that can let us play a wizard at instant speed without any mana investment. Pretty good imo. Also produces U for sigil tracer loops."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Cryptic Command"}},{"insert":" : main use is to tap all creatures, but can function as a win in sigil tracer loops (bounce permanent)"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Reality Shift"}},{"insert":" : It's more expensive than pongify/hybridization, but i really like manifesting everybody's library as an out in sigil tracer loops."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Arcane Denial"}},{"insert":" : one of the best counterspells ever."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Vendilion Clique"}},{"insert":" : hand disruption at instant speed? yes please. End step tutor to top? Flash it in before they go to their main phase. Niche interaction: you can target yourself and bottom a card for later use. "},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Voidmage Husher"}},{"insert":" : Not as good as tishana, but it's repeatable and i like countering abilities in casual, because a lot of removal and nasty stuff is ability based instead of spell based in cEDH."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Merfolk Trickster"}},{"insert":" : Also not as good as tishana, but still a solid effect at instant speed on a wizard"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Narset's Reversal"}},{"insert":" : a pet card, with more uses than most people realise. Copying someone else's tutor is pretty obvious. It's also a pseudo counterspell that can bounce and copy your spell that's targetted with a counterspell. The card can \"reset\" sigil tracer loops. cast it targetting dramatic/spasm, copy narset's reversal with sigil tracer targetting the original, bouncing it and creating a copy, which targets the original dramati/spasm. Copy dramatic/spasm with sigil tracer and let the stack resolve. You now have everything untapped, your untap spell and narset's reversal back in hand. This is pretty niche imo, but it allows you to do certain \"mana neutral\" loops that can draw your deck, then play additional rocks to start a mana positive loop. I love this card."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nNotable exclusions, aka \"Why aren't you runnig card X recomended by EDHREC?\" (most of these are also adressed in the cEDH primer)\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Thassa's Oracle"}},{"insert":"/ "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Laboratory Maniac"}},{"insert":" /"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Jace, Wielder of Mysteries"}},{"insert":" : winning with thassa's oracle should go like this: cast oracle, exile library: win. not, draw library, cast oracle: win. If you've already drawn your library, you really shouldn't need an oracle effect to win. "},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Isochron Scepter"}},{"insert":" : sigil tracer is just better: it's a wizard, it can copy anything (not just your own spells!), doesn't exile dramatic reversal, doesn't have isochron's weakness of having to resolve, with an additional 1U, you can just copy reversal again in response."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Triskaidekaphile"}},{"insert":" : a backup wincon that has to survive a turn, we don't need it. It is hower an efficiently costed wizard with a relevant ability, i'd play it if i could make room for it, but there isn't anything i could justify cutting for it."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Baral, Chief of Compliance"}},{"insert":" and other instant/sorcery cost reduction : this isn't a spellslinger deck. most of our instants are already pretty cheap. Play talrand for spellslinger control."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"High Tide"}},{"insert":" : great card, but outside reality spasm and oboro, we don't run the tools to untap our islands like a jace high tide deck would. Yes it allows for explosive turns, but doesn't match the playstyle of this deck."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Pongify"}},{"insert":" / "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Rapid Hybridization"}},{"insert":" : This deck runs 20+ counterspells, do we really also have to be the one destroying creatures? We have the stack interaction, let others bring the removal and graveyard hate."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Cursecatcher"}},{"insert":" / "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Spellstutter Sprite"}},{"insert":" / "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Martyr of Frost"}},{"insert":" : excluded for the same reasons as mental misstep. Yes they're 1 cmc wizard, but the way they counter stuff isn't that relevant in casual."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Archmage Emeritus"}},{"insert":" : if you think you need more draw besides azami, you either haven't played with or against azami, or you're running not enough wizards! We really don't need this."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir"}},{"insert":" : he's way to expensive and when you can cast him, you should cast azami. And if you do have the mana to spare after having already cast azami, what does this card contribute to your control plan? You're locking others out of instant speed interaction, are you sure you can keep 3 players in check all on your own?"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"}]}
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