{"ops":[{"insert":"Facing down three opponents, each of them likely to have packed their decks with cheap-or-free non-creature counterspells, is a bit of a nightmare scenario for a storm deck. But that's the baseline in cEDH. All the best cards in the format - "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Rhystic Study"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mystic Remora"}},{"insert":","},{"insert":{"card-link":"Flusterstorm"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mindbreak Trap"}},{"insert":", etc - are especially good against storm. And everyone knows better than to give the storm player a chance.\n\nBut what if instead of storming off on our own turn, we were responding to some threatening spell cast by an opponent? Well for one thing, that would mean any counterspells we draw will always have a target, meaning we can run way more of them than a typical storm list. For another, it will take a lot of the heat off. Being able to go for a win at instant speed, at the exact moment when the table has run out of interaction, is always a strong attribute for a deck to have. But in a storm deck, where a sequence that begins as a desperate search for a counterspell can end in a win attempt, it becomes impossible for our opponents to know when to counter our spells, and when to let them resolve.\n\nSo we've established that being able to consistently go for storm turns at instant speed would be pretty good, but how do we do it? The core of this deck is a combo between our commander - "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Elsha of the Infinite"}},{"insert":" - the 8 "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Etherium Sculptor"}},{"insert":"-esque effects in the deck. With both of those in play, the deck contains 30 or so artifacts that can be cast off the top of the deck, for free, at instant speed, and an equally high number of effects that allow us to manipulate the top card of our deck.\n\nThis odd deck construction enables a gameplan where whenever an opponent does something that the table agrees we should try to stop, we can start churning through our deck, ostensibly in search of a counterspell, meeting little to no resistance, maybe even being protected by our opponents. But in that churning, we'll start to build up a mana advantage, or stumble across "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Sensei's Divining Top"}},{"insert":", and then suddenly it's too late for our opponents.\n\nThe downside is that this takes some setting up. Even running all the ramp available in our colors and adopting an aggressive mulligan strategy, this deck isn't going to be doing its thing until turn 3 or 4. There is a very reasonable amount of interaction in here, so it's not like the deck is completely defenseless in the first few turns, but it doesn't exactly compare favorably to other the other decks of the format, or to more conventional Elsha builds until it comes online.\n\nSo why play this deck over any of the more optimal decks you could play instead? Honestly mostly because the play pattern is unique, and at the end of the day even cEDH is typically just played for fun. But if you're sitting down at a table with 2-3 slower decks, you could do worse than this list.\n\nCore Win Loop\n1) Have "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Elsha of the Infinite"}},{"insert":" and some version of "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Etherium Sculptor"}},{"insert":" in play\n2) Draw your deck with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Sensei's Divining Top"}},{"insert":"\n3) Cast "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Drafna's Restoration"}},{"insert":" to put "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Lion's Eye Diamond"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Conjurer's Bauble"}},{"insert":", and one other arbitrary artifact on top of your library\n4) Cast "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Lion's Eye Diamond"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Conjurer's Bauble"}},{"insert":" from the top of your library\n5) Use "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Conjurer's Bauble"}},{"insert":" to put "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Drafna's Restoration"}},{"insert":" on the bottom of your library, and draw the random artifact from before, leaving Restoration as the only card in your library\n6) Discard the random artifact from before to "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Lion's Eye Diamond"}},{"insert":", making 3 mana\n7) Repeat steps 3 - 6 to make infinite mana\n\nGrinding Station\n8) Repeat step 3 but also grab "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Grinding Station"}},{"insert":" and an additional arbitrary artifact\n9) Cast "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Grinding Station"}},{"insert":" and one of the arbitrary artifacts from the top of your library\n10) Sacrifice the artifact to "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Grinding Station"}},{"insert":" to mill an opponent, then continue repeating this loop until all your opponents are milled out\n11) Use "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Codex Shredder"}},{"insert":" to return "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Faerie Mastermind"}},{"insert":" to your hand, then cast and activate him to force your opponents to draw from empty libraries\nGlaring Fleshraker\n8) Shuffle "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Glaring Fleshraker"}},{"insert":" into your empty deck with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Wand of Vertebrae"}},{"insert":" or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Feldon's Cane"}},{"insert":"\n9) Use "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Ransom Note"}},{"insert":" to cloak "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Glaring Fleshraker"}},{"insert":", and then turn it face up\n10) Continuing the core loop now causes infinite life loss for our opponents\n11) If the "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Drafna's Restoration"}},{"insert":" infinite loop is unavailable, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Glaring Fleshraker"}},{"insert":" is still lethal with"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Sensei's Divining Top"}},{"insert":"\n\nPyxis of Pandemonium\n8) Play "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Pyxis of Pandemonium"}},{"insert":" and activate it while your deck is empty to mill each opponent, but not yourself\n9) Use "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Codex Shredder"}},{"insert":" to put "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Chain of Vapor"}},{"insert":" into your hand\n10) Cast "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Chain of Vapor"}},{"insert":" to put "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Pyxis of Pandemonium"}},{"insert":" into your hand, then discard it with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Lion's Eye Diamond"}},{"insert":"\n11) Repeat until all opponents are out of cards, then finish with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Faerie Mastermind"}},{"insert":" \n"}]}