The Chromatic Bastardization of Mana

Commander / EDH Budget Combo Cumulative upkeep Primer Prison Ramp Tap/Untap

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Land (34)

• 1x Aether Hub
• 1x Battlefield Forge
• 1x Branchloft Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Brushland
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Vestige
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Gemstone Mine
• 1x Grand Coliseum
• 1x Island
• 1x Karplusan Forest
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Mossfire Valley
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Pit of Offerings
• 1x Plains
• 1x Plaza of Heroes
• 1x Selesnya Sanctuary
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Skycloud Expanse
• 1x Sungrass Prairie
• 1x The World Tree
• 1x Thran Portal
• 1x Turntimber Symbiosis  ^Flip
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Vesuva
• 1x Waterlogged Grove
• 1x Yavimaya Coast
• 1x Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Draw Only Draw But Draw (3)

• 1x Caustic Bronco
• 1x Inspired Tinkering
• 1x Necropotence

Ramp (18)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Buried in the Garden
• 1x Channel the Suns
• 1x Chromatic Orrery
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Faeburrow Elder
• 1x Fertile Ground
• 1x Growth Spiral
• 1x Hour of Promise
• 1x Ignoble Hierarch
• 1x Kiora's Follower
• 1x Noble Hierarch
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Scout
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Tempt with Discovery
• 1x Wild Growth

Utility (8)

• 1x Atraxa, Grand Unifier
• 1x Earnest Fellowship
• 1x Emerald Charm
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Loran of the Third Path
• 1x Mirage Mirror
• 1x Ready / Willing
• 1x Titania's Command

Prison (6)

• 1x Blanket of Night
• 1x Hushbringer
• 1x Infernal Darkness
• 1x Mishra's Helix
• 1x Naked Singularity
• 1x Ritual of Subdual

Tutor (5)

• 1x Archdruid's Charm
• 1x Bring to Light
• 1x Planar Bridge
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Weathered Wayfarer

Commander (1)

Interaction (17)

• 1x Aether Gale
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Cut / Ribbons
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dregs of Sorrow
• 1x Fracturing Gust
• 1x Iridian Maelstrom
• 1x Jaded Response
• 1x Kozilek, the Great Distortion
• 1x Moment's Peace
• 1x Myojin of Night's Reach
• 1x Overwhelming Forces
• 1x Pernicious Deed
• 1x Spell Burst
• 1x Treachery
• 1x Tsabo's Decree

Draw/untap (5)

• 1x Esper Sojourners
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Pore Over the Pages
• 1x Time Spiral
• 1x Vizier of Tumbling Sands

Seedborn-type (2)

• 1x Awakening
• 1x Seedborn Muse

Big slurpy (1)

• 1x Debt to the Deathless

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Utility/ramp/etc (13)

• 1x Boseiju, Who Shelters All
• 1x Bringer of the Black Dawn
• 1x Emergency Powers
• 1x Imprisoned in the Moon
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mirran Safehouse
• 1x Reap and Sow
• 1x Restore
• 1x Saryth, the Viper's Fang
• 1x Stern Lesson
• 1x Voyaging Satyr
• 1x Weirding Wood

Dumps (10)

• 1x Bonders' Enclave
• 1x Deepfire Elemental
• 1x Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief
• 1x Fyndhorn Pollen
• 1x Gorilla Shaman
• 1x Predator, Flagship
• 1x Reiterate
• 1x Silence the Believers
• 1x Slaughter
• 1x Soul Conduit

Niche (6)

• 1x Armored Scrapgorger
• 1x Crooked Scales
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Killing Wave
• 1x Noxious Vapors
• 1x Thrilling Encore

Bombs (8)

• 1x Avacyn, Angel of Hope
• 1x Cabal Conditioning
• 1x Diabolic Revelation
• 1x Dread
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Tetzimoc, Primal Death
• 1x Tooth and Nail
• 1x Vilis, Broker of Blood

Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNv2RHR62Rs (6)

• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Jeska's Will
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Rhystic Study

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this is my prison deck centered around the historically novel Naked Singularity and less novel but still difficult to utilize Ritual of Subdual. i love these enchantments because they are highly unique in what they do; rather than increasing costs or preventing things from untapping, they cause mana to become something else. this results in players having the same amount of mana as before, but as wizards attempting to cast spells, the mana simply cannot be used. like filling a car with water instead of gasoline, you can turn the key but the engine won't start. Blood Moon is a card you are likely familiar with that works in a similar fashion, but it doesn't work on basic lands. Naked Singularity and Ritual of Subdual do. this can, with a bit of simple setup, consistently lock the rest of the table out of casting spells, and that's the primary goal of the deck.

these stax pieces are more at home under Omnath, Locus of All than any other commander i've ever tried. the corrupted incarnation of Omnath turns these expensive, usually unplayable cards into actual game-warping threats through land-type shenanigans and mana banking. they can consistently disrupt each opponent's mana generation for extensive periods of time, usually winning the game before their cumulative costs get too high. it's kinda like running multiple Contaminations that also mess up mono-black players.

This is a budget-friendly list, costing somewhere under $300 when going for stuff like specific printings and more heavily played cards. The primary goal is to get out Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth, turning everything into swamps, then either warping everyone's mana production with Naked Singularity (which now affects nonbasics, thanks to Urborg), or bank absurd amounts of black with the expected Cabal Coffers. Coffers works in tandem with Naked Singularity and Ritual of Subdual since they only change what type of mana is produced, not the quantity, and Omnath's mana conversion ability + a few mana dorks ensure that the deck is still able to cast it's own spells uninterrupted.

Bombs, mana sinks & solid things to abuse w/ untaps Show

are Myojin of Night's Reach, Planar Bridge, Mishra's Helix, Chromatic Orrery, Dregs of Sorrow, Spell Burst, Pernicious Deed, and of course the mana-warping trio that the deck is centered around: Naked Singularity, Ritual of Subdual and Infernal Darkness.

if you're looking for potential replacements, consider Decree of Pain, Plaguebearer, In Garruk's Wake, Kindred Dominance or Well of Knowledge.

Closin' it out Show

The game usually ends with a large Debt to the Deathless or Cut / Ribbons, fueled by Cabal Coffers abuse. Of course, Awakening or Seedborn Muse can also get the job done so long as omnath is in play. The second way it tends to end is by overloading Cyclonic Rift and slamming down a prison piece like Ritual of Subdual. The table will then be stuck in play-artifacts-or-die mode which usually ends things on the spot.

Lastly, a less sound way to win is Mishra's Helix with Seedborn Muse, or instead of Seedborn, Awakening + a permanent untapper (e.g. Vizier of Tumbling Sands since Awakening doesn't untap artifacts). With a large pool of mana, you can also make it near impossible to cast spells with Spell Burst :)

Potential changes for lower budgets Show

While I cannot recommend these changes, budgets are budgets. If you'd like an even cheaper variant of this list, consider the following:

• replace Vampiric Tutor with Telling Time
• replace Necropotence with Escape to the Wilds or Night's Whisper
• replace Overwhelming Forces with Decree of Pain (honestly not a bad change anyways since the cycling effect is relevant in a pinch, just really sucks recasting Omnath) (edit: Overwhelming Forces is a dollar now, thank you thunder junction!)
• replace Time Spiral with Emergency Powers
• replace Myojin of Night's Reach with Cabal Conditioning
• replace Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth with Realmwright (but really you shouldn't since it makes Naked Singularity entirely reliant on Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth or Blanket of Night)
• replace Plaza of Heroes with a basic
• replace Turntimber Symbiosis   with a basic forest
• replace City of Brass with some other fancy land you have in your collection i guess lol!! filter lands that turn green into other stuff are great.
• replace Grand Coliseum with a basic (i know the card is bad!!! it's an inside joke between me and a bud so i'm obligated to include it)

budget/deck restrictions... Show

There are some self-imposed restrictions that were followed when building this. I believe that these sort of restrictions leads to a healthier game overall with fewer total blowouts due to mulligans.

• No expensive, difficult to acquire mana-positive rocks e.g. Mana Crypt // Chrome Mox. Dockside Extortionist and Jeska's Will aren't rocks but fall under this category as well, but Dark Ritual and other rituals without nonsense taped onto them are fine
• No game-warping goodstuff like Rhystic Study, Smothering Tithe, free commander spells
• As little off-theme goodstuff as possible! The strongest card that can be considered that that I'm running right now is Cyclonic Rift, which is considerably on-theme as a finisher with Ritual of Subdual. Heroic Intervention is probably the sole piece of zero-synergy goodstuff in here. Hushbringer affects a total of one included creature. Ya get the idea.
• Under $300 total for the whole list, barring for tame pet cards like Nova Pentacle and cards that are overpriced for other reasons like Overwhelming Forces (nvm! thank you thunder junction!).

Why no Reality Twist? Show

So Reality Twist is a pet card of mine that seems like it'd be right at home in this deck! It's not. It's near impossible to play in any deck, no matter how built-around it is, simply because it's a "5c" card identity-wise in commander. Why is Naked Singularity so much better then, despite costing more and doing the same thing? Simple reason - the intense presence of {U} in the card's costs, both casting and cumulative. Even with a perfect manabase triple blue is rough in 5c. Cards like Necropotence work perfectly fine because of Omnath's conversion ability, but having to pay an increasing amount of {U} each turn for an effect that doesn't hit islands in the first place is essentially impossible. It's also just kinda bad in comparison to the other three similar cards in the list which are weirdly consistent when you get around to them... and have manageable upkeep costs. So yeah, bummed I can't play it but I'll still love the art of the card forever. Maybe Omnath will suddenly become 5c-but-blue in the future and Reality Twist will finally have it's home.

NAQ (never asked questions) Show

1. what's up with the deck's name IDIOT my mom doesn't like swaers? // "gerund or present participle: bastardizing. change (something) in such a way as to lower its quality or value, typically by adding new elements." omnath is a stinky manabomination who got really messed up by phyrexian influence and mana. the deck is centered around warping mana production but also being able to play uninhibited through it. so chromatic (5c) bastardization (tarnishing) of mana (omnath)
2. are you stupid? // ye
3. are you bald? // not yet
4. when will you be bald eta? // whenever i want to be
5. is omnath bald? // hell yeah brother give'm the ol' bald slap
6. omnath gay? // are all 5c commanders gay? i don't think omnath has a concept of attraction in there anywhere but then again if they are an amalgamation of mana all you really gotta do is make the mana gay, man.
7. why are you writing this segment literally no one asked, you've acknowledged that yourself // i have a headache and everything else is too high effort
8. what kind of hat would omnath wear? // some kind of roman circlet. i'd like to imagine they have a good taste in aesthetics
9. does omnath work out? // 5c omnath has fallen out of the self-care loop since their original mono-green appearance. they now invest in stocks and try to shake up the market through underhanded tactics
10. does omnath regret what they've done? do they feel guilt? // no
11. i played this deck at a table with a bunch of wagies and they told me to heck off and die filthy stax player what do i do? // this is a prison deck and they are obviously too silly to know anything but regurgitated rhetoric (sheepscud) so ignore them? also depict them as the most rancid wojak you have
12. what wojak is omnath // gem
13. should i take any of this seriously // no
14. what is Draw Only Draw But Draw? // a reference to something that means a lot to me

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Date added	1 year
Last updated	1 week
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 64 - 0 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.70
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