Vague Ideas and Sometimes Squid

Commander / EDH Group Hug RUG (Temur)

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Instant (22)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Battle Hymn
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Counterflux
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Force of Negation
• 1x Harrow
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Negate
• 1x Saw it Coming
• 1x Second Harvest
• 1x Stroke of Genius
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Unwind
• 1x Vision Skeins
• 1x Wheel and Deal
• 1x Words of Wisdom

Land (24)

• 1x Bala Ged Sanctuary  ^Flip
• 1x Command Tower
• 3x Forest
• 1x Frontier Bivouac
• 8x Island
• 1x Ketria Triome
• 1x Lavaglide Pathway  ^Flip
• 2x Mountain
• 1x Rejuvenating Springs
• 1x Spirebluff Canal
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Taiga
• 1x Temple of Epiphany
• 1x Timbercrown Pathway  ^Flip

Artifact (16)

• 1x Anvil of Bogardan
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Feldon's Cane
• 1x Font of Mythos
• 1x Howling Mine
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Memory Jar
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Moonsilver Key
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Slate of Ancestry
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Curiosity
• 1x Talisman of Impulse
• 1x Thought Vessel

Creature (14)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Chasm Skulker
• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Drift of Phantasms
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Kami of the Crescent Moon
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Magus of the Wheel
• 1x Rattleclaw Mystic
• 1x Silver Myr
• 1x Spellskite
• 1x Sylvan Caryatid
• 1x Tangled Florahedron  ^Flip

Commander (1)

Sorcery (14)

• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Day's Undoing
• 1x Echo of Eons
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Nature's Spiral
• 1x Prosperity
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Regrowth
• 1x Triumph of the Hordes
• 1x Wheel of Fortune
• 1x Windfall
• 1x Winds of Change

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Cryptolith Rite
• 1x Dictate of Kruphix
• 1x Goblin Bombardment
• 1x Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip
• 1x Mass Hysteria
• 1x Parallel Lives
• 1x Rites of Flourishing
• 1x Teferi's Ageless Insight
• 1x Underworld Breach

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Sorcery (3)

• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Shamanic Revelation
• 1x Traverse the Ulvenwald

Instant (1)

• 1x An Offer You Can't Refuse

Creature (1)

• 1x Adrix and Nev, Twincasters

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Xenagos, the Reveler

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How to build your own Smothering Tithe:

Xyris, the Writhing Storm + Phyrexian Altar/Cryptolith Rite

That's it. That's the whole plan.

I figure out how to win after I'm swimming in mana. There's some token-y interactions like Battle Hymn, there's Drift of Phantasms as a way to tutor for Phyrexian Altar, and Chord of Calling is like free Consecrated Sphinx.

For the moment, there are no infinite combos and no "win the game" clauses. Not because I'm a combo-hating stick-in-the-mud -- just because I have plenty of infinite combo decks already, thankyouverymuch.

Updates

December 2020

I'm documenting this update because removing an Altar seems like a big deal to me.

I'm taking out Ashnod's Altar, Temple Bell, and Molten Psyche.

• Ashnod's Altar doesn't work the way I'd want it to. This deck has so little use for colorless mana that this isn't a substitute for Phyrexian Altar, it's just a disappointment.

• Molten Psyche looks like it could win games, but as I discovered with my Nekusar deck, it's hard to make my opponents draw enough to do real damage.

And in their places, I'm adding Growing Rites of Itlimoc, Triumph of the Hordes, and Goblin Engineer.

• Growing Rites of Itlimoc   has been on my acquire list for awhile. I finally got one! So, time to try it out.

• Triumph of the Hordes because I've finally admitted that sometimes I need to swing with the snakes.

• Goblin Engineer to get Phyrexian Altar faster.

July 2021

Put in a Wheel of Fortune instead of Altered Ego (even though I love the latter in theory, it's not useful)

Replaced a basic with Taiga

Took out Goblin Engineer for a new counterspell

Date added	3 years
Last updated	1 year
Exclude colors	WB
Splash colors	URG
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 42 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 20 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.57
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Morph 2/2 C, Snake 1/1 G, Squid 1/1 U