A while ago, I made a deck built around Unexpected Results and various cards with cascade. The basic idea was to ramp into Unexpected Results, which would then hit a land or, more commonly, a spell. The key part of the deck was that every spell in the deck had cascade and a CMC of five or greater, which guaranteed that they would inevitably cascade into another copy of Unexpected Results and start the chain again. Add in a few cards like Maelstrom Wanderer, Brilliant Ultimatum, and Mind's Desire, and you can potentially play out your entire deck off a single spell, with a one-of Serene Remembrance to shuffle used copies of Unexpected Results back into the deck.
I've wanted to port the deck to EDH for a while, but there simply haven't been enough cascade cards to fill out a deck. Enter Commander Legends, which brings with it a bunch of new cascade cards. It also brings two commanders to support the cascade archetype, Averna, the Chaos Bloom and Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty. This opens up the possibility of some total nonsense.
Averna, the Chaos Bloom is my personal pick for the helm of this deck. Averna's ability to put a land from the cascade'd cards onto the battlefield allows for a ton of ramp if you're doing multiple cascades per turn. This should also thin the deck over time, increasing the chance of chaining off. There are 15 cards with cascade in Temur.
Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty may be a more consistent option for this deck. Limiting to only blue and green cards significantly limits how many cards that naturally have cascade that can be played. However, Imoti also grants cascade to every spell in your deck with CMC 6 or greater, which also opens up a ton of additional options. However, the number of cards which naturally have cascade in Simic is lower, with only 9.
Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder is an already-available option. Similar to Imoti, Yidris can grant cascade to spells you cast. However, Yidris only grants it to spells cast from hand, which means you can't chain them as effectively. Adding black only allows for two more cascade cards to be included, for a total of 17.
Ramos, Dragon Engine would be my default pick for a five-color commander for this deck, although Golos, Tireless Pilgrim is always an option. There aren't that many white cascade cards, but five colors does bring the total number up a bit further, to 21. Five colors also allows stuff like Brilliant Ultimatum and Maelstrom Nexus.
Also: I'll call out Garbage Elemental (the one with cascade) as an additional include if your playgroup allows it.
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Still very much a work in progress. It isn't possible to fill out the entire deck with cascade cards, so currently brainstorming other inclusions. May be worth running stuff like Ancestral Vision to cheat out, Time Warp effects for another shot (because our turns won't be long enough already), or perhaps Selective Memory or Mana Severance for deckthinning.
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- Tibalt's Trickery
- Temporal Aperture
- Ancestral Vision (and other 0 mana spells)
- Jadzi, Oracle of Arcavios // Journey to the Oracle
