Duplicant: The standard creature-based exile your dude answer. Warstorm Surge/Purphoros: Ill generally drop Purphoros if I have nothing else to do, because hes indestructible, so I have little fear of anyone actually dealing with him. The Problem with Wanderer is why you would prefer him over the First Sliver? I'm not a huge fan of that tier list because it ranks commanders based on the commander itself. Out came all the time magic. The Creatures: Finally the part that is most crucial to the deck. Worldly Tutor and Eldritch Evolution are worth their weight in gold, but unfortunately, almost every card we can use to look for a combo piece, only looks for one other combo piece, or is restricted. The ones that I run are Kiki/Exarch and Food Chain. Wanderer does not have this weakness, and not only has multiple combos available to it, but the deck isnt reliant on 1 or 2 strategies to win the game. This annoying message will go away once you do. Youre not trying to make yourself impenetrable, youre just trying to gum up the works while ramping yourself. Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir - When I'm comboing off, I don't want people to mess me up, and Teferi helps out with that. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts, Tasigur Control | Maelstrom Beats | UBx Doomsday Storm. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. As a backup plan it can still win with commander damage with the likes of xenagos and pathbreaker ibex. Not to mention that this is some of the best draw in the game Will eventually be replaced with Scroll Rack. Eternal Witness - In case I need to pull a card back from the grave, this is a nifty little card to use. > Infinite mana and cascades, Maelstrom Wanderer Double cascade.Sac Wanderer for GGGGGGGGG. To any Tier 2 competitive deck, Wanderer was a joke. I definitely would like to slowly build the deck up to be somewhat competitive, but I mostly play casual. Once youve got infinite mana and youre cascading through your library, there are your actual win conditions: Warstorm Surge/Purphoros, God of the Forge + Wanderer/Scourge/Misthollow Griffin: Basically any card that deals damage or does things when your creatures come into play. Am Hof 12-18, 50667 Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany +49 221 2613215 Website Menu. Attention! I simple dont see it as geared towards a cEDH meta. If you are basically running "goodstuff" wanderer, then probably not well. Jace, the Mind Sculptor - Brainstorm. 1x Maelstrom Wanderer *f-etch* 1x Manaweft Sliver; 1x Megantic Sliver; 1x Necrotic Sliver; 1x Oracle of Mul Daya; . Oracle of Mul Daya - Playing lands is great. As an example, with both Eternal Witness and Farhaven Elf on the board already: Sac Witness for UUUU. I've always loved the control of blue, the ramp and big creature of green, and the ferocity and destruction of red. Omniscience - One of the few cards I cannot cascade into, this card should appear pretty obvious. Search Bar. He would have to have 3-4 ramp cards to hit the board by turn 4, which is quite a stretch compared to something like Tazri FC or Zur Doomsday who don't need as much ramp and are far more consistent. Re-cast Griffin or Wanderer to deal infinite damage to your opponents. Unfortunately, Maelstrom has to play a good amount of ramp to ensure an early cast. It's too easy to disrupt his ramp which shuts his plan down entirely, and even the fastest lists which can power him out pretty reliably by turn 5 or 6 do so by sacrificing all their early game interaction to dump all their dorks and rocks onto the board. This site 2023 TappedOut.net, LLC Selective Memory will also just grab excess lands or ramp spells at a certain point, making sure that all I can draw from that point on is gas or combo. Maelstrom Wanderer is an 8 cost 7/5 Temur Legendary Elemental Creature that grants your creatures haste and has cascade, cascade. You can now import it in the MTG Arena client. In RUG colors you don't have much tutor options for Food Chain. Your cards dont have to cost a lot of mana to do great things. Nontheless i like your deck and concept and wish you good Luck with it, but it wont compete against "normal" cEDH decks. First of all, here is the deck. If you can get one more mana from somewhere or if any of your creatures costed more than three or you had more than two creatures.continue on.So you get at least 3 double cascades, 6 spells, with just that. Currently, my metagame involves a healthy mix of midrange, stax and control strategies. Complete Comment Tutorial! Magic the Gathering, FNM is TM and copyright Wizards of the Coast, Inc, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc. All rights reserved. Manipulate Fate can tutor for Misthollow Griffin/Eternal Scourge, but nothing else. Contact | Zealous Conscripts - the final Splinter Twin piece I will talk about, this creature can also help me take entire board states, Now that I've given you a brief description of each card in the deck and what they do, here are the primary combos, Kiki-Conscripts: Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Zealous Conscripts - This is the original combo I built the deck around, Infinite Mana: Palinchron + DEN or Food Chain + Misthollow Griffin/Kiki-Conscripts Combo - Helps me cascade through my deck or cast any spell I want. By Fukushima Hirok. Xenagos, the Reveler - Xenagos comes with a bit of built in protection, plus he helps ramp, which is great when your commander is an eight drop. 10/10, would run again.Defense of the Heart: In a truly competitive environment, this can ALMOST be considered a waste of mana, since your opponents will either never have more than 1 creatures (their commander) in play, or will destroy it before it triggers. A well-timed Tormods Crypt, Leyline, or even a Bojuka Bog will stop the entire deck from not only functioning but removing all possible win conditions at the same time. I play Maelstrom Wanderer, albeit a very untuned more budget version. Defense of the Heart - My current meta is very creature heavy, and when I decided to put this card in, it became an instant win-con should it stick. Copied to clipboard. [[Tibalts Trickery]] and [[Mana Drain]] refund your spell, while [[Red Elemental Blast]] and [[Pyroblast]] can also destroy blue permanents. Cryptic Command - If we cascade into this, we can tap down our opponents' creatures and bounce a permanent, or if we want to (and can afford if), we counter Maelstrom Wanderer and cascade some more. Going through cards like [[Kioras Follower]]->[[Pestermite]]->[[Fatestitcher]]->[[Zealous conscripts]]->Unearth Fatestitcher -> kiki Jiki But, Vannifar can make simpler plays like tutoring dockside by killing a bird. Sliver has different pattern of play, I want to try a goodstuff cEDH conception of deck and optimise it as much as possible. Hopefully putting this primer out there will get some discussion going, and we can find the ultimate list for this build. So thats it! This will require TappedOut.js included in your blog. Maybe you find some inspiration and synergies. I would leave out everything that costs more then the wanderer and include release to the winds, more artifact (fast) mana and palinchron for the dockside extortionist. Will eventually be replaced with Worldly Tutor, Skyshroud Claim - More ramp, plus it grabs Dual Type Lands. Rarity (main - side) 14 - 0 Mythic Rares. On the other hand, we also have tutors such as Manipulate Fate, which is perfect for our deck. TappedOut.js Blog Widget. Nissa, Vastwood Seer - Putting her down and fetching a forest is nice. It all depends on how the deck is built. Drop roadblocks to discourage people from attacking you with things like Lotus Cobra, Glen Elendra Archmage, Wood Elves, etc. My personal information may be used for the purposes defined in the privacy policy. Animar also likes playing combo. The only downside is not having Jeleva which is typically your backup plan. You dont particularly care how many times you can do this, as long as you can hit your combo pieces while doing it, because when you combo off, Wanderer becomes free and you can cascade through everything. Maybe you dropped an early Food Chain that got exiled; maybe somebody hit you with Praetors Grasp and managed to get rid of Deadeye Navigator. We lack any real tutors because we dont have black; we also lack strong removal because were not black or white. Being able to wait until the last minute to cast a spell really brings out the Blue player in me, and I have always loved having it down. RUG (Temur). Add to folder Copy. Garruk Wildspeaker - Helps untap lands to cast more spells, provides blockers, and, if needed, can make Maelstrom Wanderer stronger with trample to hit even harder. RUG (Temur). She is also super easy to flip, and getting the ramp/draw off her +1 is fantastic. So what's the communities experience on this commander? This is why, for instance, Enigma Sphinx saw a fair amount of usage at first, followed in time by Etherium-Horn Sorcerer and Maelstrom Wanderer, the latter of which quickly vaulted in demand. Pod line: Sacrifice Archmage to Pod to find Conscripts, untapping Pod, and then Pod the persisted Archmage into Kiki-Jiki. This will require TappedOut.js included in your blog. The Planeswalkers: This is the section of the deck that initially started with about 10 cards, and has slowly dwindled down to 3 due to efficiency. Maelstrom Wanderer gives itself haste. Deadeye Navigator - He goes infinite with Palinchron, he can put our graveyard into our hands with Eternal Witness, and can do some major damage when combined with Purphoros or Warstorm Surge. 50 - 0 Rares. I have no issues with budget, and i'm looking for a list to take to the edh events at GP Atlanta. Cast Dualcaster, copying epiphany to create a token of Dualcaster. Eldritch Evolution: Again, using your creatures to their utmost. Worldly Tutor will find any of our creatures, but we cant find Food Chain. This annoying message will go away once you do. An aggressive powerhouse creature who is a three for one card thanks to its double cascade. This is pretty fun. Goal of the deck is to cast general as fast as possible, and win at the spot with a few good cascades or trying to resolve food chain combo, or dockside + sabertooth combo for infinite mana and overcasting all spells in the library with your commander. Casting cards like Foresight, making my opponents not just read the card, but actively confusing them as to my game plan. Complete Comment Tutorial! They also, of course, work with Food Chain. He's fun in the right meta, but a total glass canon. The most important distinction, for our build of Wanderer however, is this: Were not actually trying to cast Wanderer! Maybe even a temur sabertooth as this goes infinite with docksite and helps you get your wanderer back once in infinite mana mode. A copy is created even if the spell that caused Kalamax's ability to trigger has been countered by the time that ability resolves. Exploration - I enjoy playing lands so much, that I wanted to put down an additional one every turn, especially since I can draw a lot of cards very quickly May replace with Burgeoning. Current testing versions of this list are running both Time Warp and Capture of Jingzhou, just to give me a bit of extra reach and another turn to hit a combo; both may be cut for more actual control cards. In most builds, your early plan for Wanderer consists of one thing: Ramp. Complete Comment Tutorial! Card Odds Draw hand. Also, could someone link a competitive list? So thats where I currently am. Commander Showdown Yidris vs Maelstrom Wanderer. Jace, the Mind Sculptor - Brainstorm. The individual strengths of the cards and synergies between them do not put control or power into your hands besides a generic beatdown plan. Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Zealous Conscripts: Kiki/Conscripts create infinite attacking tokens, swinging at each opponent simultaneously for infinite damage. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts, https://www.moxfield.com/decks/R_83Q4nuj0GV-LzOFVy6uQ. My current list and the one Ill be running for Marchesa is here: https://scryfall.com/@Shadowrulz/decks/88fc58e0-4cb2-428f-8181-15e2705f5a67. However, because our game plan is to throw wrenches into the works, it is completely acceptable to forego ramping on a turn if you can instead cause havoc for other players. You can now import it in the MTG Arena client. Either way, I'm happy. However, this is a flex slot. DMCA requests | net Accueil Decks Constructeur de Deck Collection Forum. Intuition is essentially the same: Other decks that use Intuition, such as Mimeoplasm or Sidisi or Sharuum, truly dont care what hits the grave and what doesnt, because all three cards are beneficial no matter where they go. Here is my list. Youre not particularly ramping into anything - youre not trying to hit Wanderer mana as soon as possible - but the value it can give you if you start chaining dudes together is undeniable. https://www.moxfield.com/decks/d4KPWun9o0yfflaCVNW7ng. My MW deck. And, he's too cutthroat for casual. Sylvan Library, Frantic Search, and Brainstorm type cards all act to expose more of our library. Other people can view your private deck by using this url, Seems there are no cards in the Acquireboard. Temur Sabertooth - He bounces Maelstrom Wanderer back to my hand to help me cascade some more, Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre - besides being the only spell I cannot cascade into, he is mainly there as utility against decking myself or people who are trying to mill me (we have a player like that in my current meta) Eventually will be replaced with Kozilek, Butcher of Truth. I've been on this subreddit for a while now, and I've noticed that no one (so far as I've seen) has made a primer for the Maelstrom Wanderer, so I decided to work on it. Palinchron - While being a major combo piece, he has built in evasion, and can help us cast more spells. Terms of Use | 7 - 0 Uncommons. Early Game: Yes, were still going to ramp. For instance Lord of Tesserhorn is listed tier 5, but you could easily copy and paste a grixis storm list and be able to compete at tier 1/2. What scenario are you playing jokulhaups in? I Agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Only because the Wanderer has two Cascade trigger? The creatures are what make this deck. As such, we're letting you know that we've updated our Privacy Policy to reflect the new rule set forth by the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). win and just drop a Birthing Pod into Conscripts into Kiki into win. Mystic Remora/Rhystic Study: The upkeep on Remora is not generally a big deal, though I will almost always let it die after about 2 turns around the table. See our privacy policy. $104. Can fetch Purph+Griffin if you already have Food Chain; Kiki+Conscripts to just kill the table, DEN+Palinchron to get infinite mana, or can just search up things like Rec Sage and Glen Elendra Archmage to protect your game plan or destroy something thats stopping you from going off. Commander / EDH* I began playing EDH around 2012 or so, and it very quickly overtook every other format for me in terms of fun and complexity. Ever wondered why Channel was banned? You have helped me tune my deck and I wanted to share it with you in depth. February 15, 2017 by Joseph Schultz. The Artifacts: As you can see, the artifacts aren't a large chunk of the deck, and are mostly just the standard ramp package. For these reasons Im always on the lookout for better tutors, in particular cards that can search out Food Chain, among other cards. http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/maelstrom-wanderer-combo-1/. Updates Add. Keen Sense - This is a relatively new addition to the deck, but I added it since A) it does go infinite with Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind and B) I like drawing cards. So you can see how, even with nothing else going on with the board, if youve dropped a few dudes and Food Chain, you can generate some insane value and possibly just win from there. Cast stuff for free. And even I will concede the fact that First Sliver is outright better. Yidris rewards you for playing multiple spells in a turn, obviously from hand, and can quickly steamroll your opponents if given the chance to connect via combat damage. Maelstrom Wanderer is a unique creature because its base power and toughness aren't the only big things on it. etc. The spell you cast due to the first cascade ability will go on the stack on top of the second cascade ability. Best case, I counter a spell. If I am getting cocky, I may use his +2, but that rarely happens. Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind - I draw a lot of cards, and if I can convert that draw power into damage, that's a lot of damage. Not bad whatsoever but OP doesn't seem to be adhering to many of the deck building philosophies of cEDH, Maelstrom wanderer - (G) (SF) (txt) (ER)peregrine drake - (G) (SF) (txt) (ER)deadeye navigator - (G) (SF) (txt) (ER)dockside extortionist - (G) (SF) (txt) (ER)Kiki Jiki - (G) (SF) (txt) (ER)Vannifar - (G) (SF) (txt) (ER)Kioras Follower - (G) (SF) (txt) (ER)Pestermite - (G) (SF) (txt) (ER)Fatestitcher - (G) (SF) (txt) (ER)Zealous conscripts - (G) (SF) (txt) (ER)Defense of the heart - (G) (SF) (txt) (ER)Tibalts Trickery - (G) (SF) (txt) (ER)Mana Drain - (G) (SF) (txt) (ER)Red Elemental Blast - (G) (SF) (txt) (ER)Pyroblast - (G) (SF) (txt) (ER)Deflecting Swat - (G) (SF) (txt) (ER)Terror of the Peaks - (G) (SF) (txt) (ER)Gruul Ragebeast - (G) (SF) (txt) (ER)[[cardname]] or [[cardname|SET]] to call. Open now : 11:00 AM - 12:00 AM. Deceiver Exarch - A redundancy for the Splinter Twin combo, he can also help generate a lot of mana if we have Gaea's Cradle on the field. So there are a few ways to win that were trying to go for at any given point. DMCA requests | Mid Game: Tutors and removal. Privacy statement | After you have infinite mana, you can do stuff such as bouncing entire boards or taking infinite turns. Digging for Food Chain? Feeds | Additionally, we can cascade in whatever order we want, as the cards we dont want to cast simply go on the bottom of the library, to be cascaded into again. This has to be one of the best cards for the deck in the last year or two. This Maelstrom Wanderer deck tech comes from the mind of our very own Joe Cherries! Complete Comment Tutorial! The only way this could be any better is if we had access to white for Academy Rector. One of the strengths of Combo Wanderer is its ability to sit quietly, unassuming, stopping any majorly annoying plans from seeing fruition until you can pull the trigger on one of your own combos. Garruk Wildspeaker - Helps untap lands to cast more spells, provides blockers, and, if needed, can make Maelstrom Wanderer stronger with trample to hit even harder. The Maelstrom Wanderer is my personal favorite commander and he fits my preferred playstyle as well, so I wanted to do him justice. But really, your early game plan involves delaying people, blowing up particularly troublesome artifacts or enchantments, and otherwise tutoring for either lands or combo pieces. Top16. Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker - This card is the most broken card in the deck, in my opinion. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. TappedOut.js Blog Widget. This annoying message will go away once you do. He seems much slower than other combo decks. A quick history of the me and the deck. Review. Competitive Maelstrom Wanderer EDH. 1 - 1 Commons . Help | He seems much slower than other combo decks. Often it will have done its job already, and even 3 cards makes it more than worth the mana I spent to keep it up for a turn or so. These are pretty typical, but for reference: Tooth and Nail: If unanswered, will win you the game. He would have to have 3-4 ramp cards to hit the board by turn 4, which is quite a stretch compared to something like Tazri FC or Zur Doomsday who don't need as much ramp and are far more consistent. Feeds | 11/10/2020. Discord Server | Sidisi, Brood Tyrant: Sidisi can arguably do what we do, only better; the reason for this is strictly due to the addition of black to her mana cost. Gain control of - and untap - Birthing Pod, sacrificing the Archmage for Kiki-Jiki this time. Tooth and Nail - Instant Win-Con. [[Defense of the heart]] leverages a soft lockdown and instant win if played on the right turn. Commander / EDH Hello r/edh, I am looking for competitive "multiplayer" lists of Maelstrom wanderer. That spell will resolve before you exile cards for the second cascade ability. Playing two lands from the top of my library, wells that is just the cherry on top. I'm sorry if this is not your typical primer, I've never done one before, but I enjoy this deck so much and wanted it to have some sort of a primer. More Casual Feedback More Competitive . Attention! $639. I have been a [[Maelstrom wanderer]] player since his Planechase release and have seen an incredible amount of iterations of my deck. DMCA requests | my fault for not including that, Multiplayer. Double Cascade.Sac Wander the last time for GGGGGGGGG. He wont do anything more than ping your opponents for 2-6 damage, but incremental damage is incremental damage. - by cascading into Regrowth and similar cards to put them back in hand or into the library. Kalamax upgrade for Christmas : EDH. Please take a moment to review them and accept to continue. Attention! In our build its actually not beneficial at all to drop Wanderer as early as possible. + I played him for a year and a half and never could beat tier one decks without a solid fuck up on thier part or really good luck. 54 - 3 Rares. Purphoros, God of the Forge - Used to get around people that have pillow forted themselves with hexproof and the like, when combined with almost any of my combos, he will win me the game. Fact or Fiction - I like drawing cards, and I feel I've made that pretty clear here. Terms of Use | Contact | Thanks in advance. Bring To Light will roundabout tutor for Misthollow (via Manipulate Fate), or one of your creature combos (via Fierce Empath/Imperial Recruiter), but again, no Food Chain. Food Chain - Besides going infinite with Misthollow Griffin and allowing me to cascade through my deck, this allows me to sacrifice my tokens from the Kiki-Conscripts combo to cascade infinitely and also gives me a little bit more mana when I might not have enough lands. Combo Wanderer has become one of my best decks, and because people are always expecting a certain sort of playstyle from certain generals, I can win games that often times I had no business winning, even among the competitive generals. Ramp hard. MW gives you two cards right away, and Animar has protection from the two best removal colors and can kill a player as early as T3. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. It is not geared towards cedh but it is tried and tested to be about a 65-70% win rate in my high power paper meta. Let the copied epiphany resolve, having a token of Dualcaster etb. 2.1) with infinite mana you get infinite damage with infinite recasts of maelstrom with deadeye (pair/exile) or food chain or temur sabertooth (bouncing) or evolutionary leap (sac) or kiki jiki (legendary rule), flameshadow conjuring and infinite hasty palinchron tokens, 2.2) tooth and nail combo: deadeye and palinchron for infinite mana and infinite recasts of maelstrom, 3) Eternal Witness or archaeomancer + Time Warp or Temporal Manipulation + Dead Eye Navigator: infinite Turns, 4) food chain and squee: infinite colored mana. Help | . This list has suffered in being sort of my back burner list, but its also been the deck Ive had put together the longest; probably more than a year at this point. TappedOut.js Blog Widget. You can now import it in the MTG Arena client. You may enjoy playing Combo Wanderer if you: Like having a win condition safe and sound in the command zoneEnjoy interacting/reacting with your opponentsLike when a game ends the same way 90% of the time. Orcish Lumberjack - Used to squeak out a little bit more mana. Birds of Paradise - A 1 drop mana dork is nice, and while it is a one of, it never fails to help me win. Gamble can and will make you discard the card youre looking for. Each instance of cascade triggers and resolves separately. Solid tier 2. It was frustrating to be like every other Wanderer deck out there; it was frustrating to know that my opponents could destroy something like a Grim Monolith, and set me back from any meaningful game plan for several turns. Magic the Gathering, FNM is TM and copyright Wizards of the Coast, Inc, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc. All rights reserved. Press J to jump to the feed. Comments. Is it a good balance between strong and fair? Edit #1: Updated the list to what I have as of 23-06-2016. Feeds | You can now import it in the MTG Arena client. Intuition: Choose the opponent who hasn't seen the Food Chain soft combo before and stack it against obvious threats they've seen win games like Tooth and Nail and Consecrated Sphinx. You now have RRRUUUGGGGGGGGGG (16 mana) in pool.Cast Wanderer for RUGGGGGGGGGG. This is a subreddit dedicated to playing the Commander format of Magic: The Gathering at the highest power level possible. Nov 25, 2021 Taking an extra turn can really mess up your opponents because it, well, puts you another turn ahead of them. Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger - Used to slow down opponents and ramp even faster. Karn Liberated - Used to take out problem permanents and disrupt hands. Youre here because you, like me, recognize the true power of the Maelstrom. If you turn your deck into a Food Chain / Twin wanderer deck then you can compete against tier 2 decks. All it does it make me a target. Discord Server | Thanks in advance. 1995-2023 Wizards. He allows me to drop my opponents' life totals down so that if I have to kill them by brute force, I can. Terms of Use | This site 2023 TappedOut.net, LLC These allow you to cause serious problems for players that otherwise thought they could proceed unimpeded. > General goes unblocked and the defending player has to handle X 3/3s that all have trample and +7/+7.