Cruel Wheel of Pain (Kydele/Vial Smasher) (Commander / EDH MTG Deck)

Cruel Wheel of Pain (Kydele/Vial Smasher)

Commander / EDH Burn Competitive Cruel Control Discard Four Color Multiplayer

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Instant (13)

Sorcery (13)

Enchantment (7)

Artifact (14)

Creature (16)

Land (35)

Commanders (2)

Commander: foil Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix

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Enchantment (1)

1x Possibility Storm

Artifact (1)

1x Anvil of Bogardan

Creature (3)

Wheel until you burn everyone out.

I made another deck with Kydele with a variant with Akiri, Line-Slinger so i could abuse cards like Mycosynth Lattice and both my commanders to the maximum. Its a much more passive deck thats very tough and hard to stop.

This deck is much more agressive and fast. Instead of the we gain access to , and that makes us alot more threatening with us drawing cards and our opponents hurting because of it.

So lets get into it.

The Wheels

This section covers all of the wheel effects in the deck to help us abuse Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix's ability as well as what other threats in our deck revolve around wheeling:

Wheel of Fortune

Who can forget a classic. It the most basic wheel in the deck: discard hands, and draw 7 each.

Windfall

The wheel. A little more balanced and potentaily benefical wheel: everyone discards and whoever had the most cards in their hand, everyone draws the same amount.

Dark Deal

The wheel. Usually this isnt a favorite choice, but it gets the job done for what we want to do: everyone discards their hand, then draws that many they had in their hand -1.

Reforge the Soul

So this is a special wheel. Its Wheel of Fortune for 5 CMC, but if its the 1st card we drawn in the turn, we can cast it for and get the same effect. Wonderful miracle wheel.

Winds of Change

This is what I call a psuedo-wheel. Instead of discarding, we shuffle our hands into the deck and draw the same amount we had. In certain situations, this is much better for us, and it only cost to cast!

Molten Psyche

Another psuedo-wheel, with the added bonus to burn our opponents for each card they've drawn that turn if we control 3 or more artifacts. Neat.

Mindmoil

Not really a wheel, not really a psuedo-wheel. This card allows us to draw cards whenever we cast a spell, really fueling alot of effects in the deck.

Dragon Mage

Wheel of Fortune with wings. When this nasty 5/5 connects to a player, we all wheel.

Runehorn Hellkite

This is the new wheel dragon from Commander 2016. For 6 CMC we have another 5/5 in the air, that once in the graveyard we can pay and exile it to wheel. So even if we wheel it away, we can still profit from it. All of the value.

Time Spiral

This is a HUGE psuedo-wheel for us. We not only shuffle our hands into our decks but our graveyards as well and then draw 7...oh and we untap 6 lands. Basically a free spell and we get to refuel our deck of all our other wheel cards and the stuff we wheeled away. It's recycling!

Jace's Archivist

This is Windfall on a creature. For , we all Windfall at instant speed. Good disruption if we need it.

Whispering Madness

This multicolored Windfall is value for us. After we cast it we can cipher it effect onto one of our creature so that when that creature connects with a player we all Windfall. Its like having another Dragon Mage!

Ancient Excavation

This is another new wheel like card from Commander 2016. It's more alomg the lines of a super-filter. We draw cards equal to our hand size, then discard the same number we drew. This allows us to super sculpt our hands to get the most value out of it. Plus it can grab us a land if we really need a color early on in the game.

Whirlpool Warrior

This is another psuedo-wheel. It winds of changes upon ETB and then at instant speed we can sacrifice it and pay to do it again. Very powerful.

Teferi's Puzzle Box

This card is my favorite card in Magic and is appropriate to what we are trying to achieve. At the beginning of the draw step, that player puts the cards in their hand on the bottom of their deck and then draws that many cards. Crucial card for a few our our combos and ramp. Makes me excited to use it :)

The Pain

So what does all this wheeling mean for us? Well it means we can punish our opponents based on either the number of cards they draw or discard, or the number of cards we draw gain us an advantage.

Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix

With her being our commander, we can always abuse her ability, : For each card you've drawn this turn, add to your mana pool.

This is huge. With all of the card draw in the deck she easily taps for alot of mana. With this we can dump it into cards like Gemstone Array to turn her colorless mana into colored mana to cast other spells in our hand.

If we have any excess mana, Kruphix, God of Horizon will save any mana for us to use on other turns.

We can also equip her with either Umbral Mantle or Sword of the Paruns and as long as she taps for atleast mana we can continously and her to generate mana. With that we can pump up an spell (Banefire, Fireball, or Exsanguinate), dump it into Staff of Domination and draw out for a Laboratory Maniac win, or cast big threats easier for a win.

Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind

Pinging people or creatures for every card we draw seems very profitable to me. Oh, and he draws us cards? AND he is a 4/4 in the air? Value with wings.

Nekusar, the Mindrazer

Everyones favourite "group hug" card. He lets everyone draw an extra card in their draw step...he punishes our opponents for each card they draw by pinging them for 1 per card. We are so nice to other players ;)

Chasm Skulker

This is a very sneaky card. It can just explode out of nowhere...literally. For every card we draw it get a +1/+1 counter on it, and when it dies we get 1/1 blue Squid creature token with islandwalk onto the battlefield where was the number of +1/+1 counters on it.

Horizon Chimera

This isn't really pain for our opponents. But it does help us stay in the game. With all of the cruel control in the deck, you will more than likely be the highest target for threat assessment at the table, and people will be swinging at you. This gives us life gain for every card we draw, and we draw alot. When your hard to kill, your opponents will be groaining with disgust.

Leovold, Emissary of Trest

This is a beautiful card. Your opponents can only draw 1 card a turn. Period. This makes our wheel effects that much more powerful. While we are drawing our full compliment of cards, our opponents are discarding and only getting 1 card. Plus whenever he or we are targeted by a spell, we draw a card. Value.

He also locks our opponents our of a hand when we us the Leovold Lock combo of Leovold, Emissary of Trest + Teferi's Puzzle Box . This forces our opponents to draw their card for the turn, trigger the puzzle box, our opponents discard, and then they can't draw their compliment of cards thanks to Leovold's effect. Brutal.

Notion Thief

This card can pop up out of nowhere to disrupt our opponents. Being able to flash him in whenever we wheel to draw the cards our opponents would draw instead can really put us ahead, we have a huge hand while opponets have 0 cards in hand. Sneaky lil' thief ;)

Psychosis Crawler

This is very similar to Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind. For ever card we draw, each of our opponents loses 1 life. He also has a Power and Toughness equal to the number of cards in our hand, so he can get very big.

Sphinx's Tutelage

This is a neat enchantment that can really mill our opponents out. Whenever we draw a card we target and opponent and they reveal the top 2 cards of their deck. If they are both nonland cards that share a color, they put them into their graveyard and repeat this process until they fail to match, and then also put those into the graveyard. We can also filter for to trigger this ability at instant speed. Such a devestating card.

Waste Not

This card punishes our opponents whenever they discard a card, which tends to happen alot in a wheel deck...how about that :)

The formula for effects is the following:

discarded a creature = 2/2 black zombie token on our battlefield
discarded a land card = we gain to our mana pool
discarded a noncreature, nonland card = we draw a card

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So im dissatisfied with how little Liliana's Caress and Megrim have been performing...its not enough "umph" and i wanted to do more with Vial Smaher, the fierce rather than her just being here for color identity, so i threw in infect enablers that not only work with Vial Smaher but also Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind, Nekusar, the Mindrazer, and Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix when equipped with Umbral Mantle:

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Want to fit in Phyresis but dont know what to swap out for it

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Revision 4 See all

(7 years ago)

+1	Corrupted Conscience	main
-1	Liliana's Caress	main
-1	Megrim	main
+1	Tainted Strike	main

Top Ranked	Achieved #29 position overall 7 years ago
Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Exclude colors	W
Key combos	Leovold, Emissary of Trest + Teferi's Puzzle Box
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 52 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.08
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Bird 2/2 U, Squid 1/1 U, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	EDH, EDH Ideas, Others' Decks, edh ideas, Decks to Consider (Y), EDH, Commander, cool decks, Vial Smasher & Kydele
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