* Opalescence + Parallax Wave combo
* Much of the normal Yorion nonsense
* Making people scoop on MTGO by blinking Fall of the Thran while I return Serra's Sanctum and Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx and they lose their lands again after I tapped mine for 15.
This deck is possibly too strong and I doubt I will play it for long. It is *gross* when it works. The MTGO meta of tap out yield all is just not prepared for this bullcrap.
Yorion Enchantments and Opalenonsense
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This deck does...so many nonsensical things it's hard to describe. It can make a ton of mana by blinking mana rocks with Yorion. It can set up a scenario where it spams elspeth conquers death and exclusion ritual until people want to die.
It can lock your opponents out of the board with the old double yorion skybind dance, wherein you blink all your enchantments with Yorion and skybind all of someone's lands or important permanents.
It can build its own seedborn muse by skybinding its own lands. IT can skybind all its own lands and then destroy everyone else's with Fall of the Thran.
It can dig 30 cards a turn cycle with ancestral knowledge or whirlpool rider or Induced Amnesia.
It can even interact just a little bit to protect itself, and lock the game down with forbid.
This deck is nowhere near tuned. I slapped it together in half an hour and got rid of cards that were too expensive.
The people who said this commander was just a watered down brago were absolutely incorrect
A few weird card choices you might wonder about.
altar of dementia and High Market - we need some sac outlets to support Academy Rector - she ain't gonna do it herself. altar of dementia can set up game ending locks with skybind+emeria shepherd where you mill yourself to even more oppressive lock cards and then lock everyone out -- or you can straight up mill everyone to death by sac'ing a bunch of fatties if needed. I've found having an open sac outlet to be pretty useful in these kinds of decks to protect creatures from Gilded Drake too.
Basalt Monolith -- when your commander can reset it, it's just a cheaper thran dynamo that makes 3 land hands keepable.
Land Tax it lets us keep more hands and it's a cheap pip for nykthos/sanctum
Sisay's Ingenuity the only 1 mana enchantment cantrip. There's always a dude you can slap it on and it's nice. It's been good so far.
ashiok's erasure it's for skybind. Truth be told it's pretty bad, but it does beat uncounterable spells which is nice.
consulate crackdown - I have no idea if it's good but it felt like a reasonable thing to try since can reset it it kinda locks people out of playing enchantments or artifacts. Probably too expensive.
parallax tide if you've followed Darren's aminatou deck you probably know how good this card is. With yorion it's next level. It makes itself free and sometimes more than free if you exile nykthos/sanctum/ancient tomb then cast Yorion. Furthermore, it plus parallax wave + Opalescence should make anyone scoop as you make infinite mana then exile all their lands forever.
stunt double it's a bit of a gimmick but it's a nice way to protect yorion if people try to remove him while his blink is on the stack, and it can also protect your other blink outlets. I think it should be very good.
Mystical Tutor with only a handful of targets...they're all important though. The big thing is Plea for Guidance is a one card combo in this deck basically (set up wave combo on its own). This is a really late game ploy but if you're untapping with 14 mana you can win with just plea->opal->wave. Plea is a bad card, but it has always been bonkers in my Golos deck so I'm trying it.
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