[EDH] Whats Yours Is Mine!

[Zeke]

As the name suggests, this is a fun little deck all about taking your opponent's cards and using them for your own nefarious means. Without further ado, the deck!

Deck

Takin Your Permanents: 18 1 Confiscate 1 Dream Leash 1 Control Magic 1 Treathery 1 Mind Control 1 Dominate 1 Dominating Licid 1 Blatant Thievery 1 Callous Oppressor 1 Keiga, the Tide Star 1 Memnarch 1 Sower of Temptation 1 Gilded Drake 1 Vedalken Shackles 1 Take Possession 1 Volition Reins 1 Evangelize 1 Empress Galina Taking Your Other Stuff: 10 1 Commandeer 1 Spelljack 1 Bribery 1 Acquire 1 Grinning Totem 1 Knowledge Exploitation 1 Muse Vessel 1 Ornate Kanzashi 1 Thada Adel, Acquisitor 1 Planeswalker's Mischief Card Draw/Tutor: 12 1 Future Sight 1 Fact or Fiction 1 Mind's Eye 1 Crystal Ball 1 Mystical Teachings 1 Mystical Tutor 1 Demonic Tutor 1 Vampiric Tutor 1 Mulldrifter 1 Diabolic Tutor 1 Fabricate 1 Trinket Mage

Fun Stuff To Do When Not Taking Stuff: 11 1 Time Stretch 1 Time Warp 1 Twincast 1 Voidmage Husher 1 Duplicant 1 Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir 1 Clone 1 Capsize 1 Vedalken Mastermind 1 Vensar, Shaper Savant 1 Crystal Shard Manas: 11 1 Solemn Simulacrum 1 Darksteel Ingot 1 Coalition Relic 1 Guilded Lotus 1 Sol Ring 1 Spectral Searchlight 1 Fellwar Stone 1 Sol Ring 1 Thran Dynamo 1 Mana Vault 1 Worn Powerstone 1 Expedition Map Lands: 36 (still solidifying, but a lot of islands and such)

The general is going to be a 5-color general (might just swich it up) so that I can utilize abilities of creatures and spells that I take.

As for the mana base, I'm still hammering it out, but it'll definitely have a good number of islands (quite a few of the "dual" variety) to help take advantage of Vedalken Shackles. I'm also thinking about some nice utility lands like Miren the Moaning Well and Riptide Laboratory.

Anything that I might be painfully missing that fits the theme?

-Zeke

[iWumbo]

So you plan on playing a 5cc general in order to use the 3 black tutors in your otherwise very blue deck?
I doubt the abilities of creatures your planning to steal are worth losing a consistent manabase over

Avarice Totem would fit your deck nicely btw, even tutorable with trinket mage

[Zeke]

Well, the mana base won't really be "ruined", as almost all the lands that will give me the off-color (aka non-blue) mana will also give me blue (dual lands from both a/b/u/r and ravnica for shackes, all the other blue-based duals that are available, etc).

I originally planned on making it mono blue, but in my play group there are quite a few creatures and spells being flung around that I'd love to play, but the mana won't let me if I go with a single color. Plus, it helps make cards like Ornate Kanzashi and Muse Vessel and Grinning Totem even more dangerous.

Avarice Totem seems nice! Especially if I can get someone tapped out and I have 10 mana up.

[Darklich528]

Mono-U will make Vedalken Shackles into a monster, plus you can run the more on-theme Empress Galina as the general.

Back To Basics is also a beating in mon-U.

[Zeke]

Hmmm, I'll have to test and see if there are enough reasons to play muse vessel and its ilk to take advantage of the multicolor general.

[HalfSlothHalfCamel]

I can tell you, for sure, that a mono-U deck with Empress Galina as your Commander, packed full of all the fun stealy effects you can come up with is great fun to play. I wouldn't even consider going into other colors for this type of deck.

[viperesque]

I agree. Mono-blue already has far too many cards to choose from. I might have the list I cut down into my Sakashima deck (as in, every on-theme card in existence - was a fun day spent on magiccards.info), if you're interested.

Speaking of which, I have dibs on this thread name!

No, I'm not serious. >_>

[Zeke]

My apologies for taking the deck title!

Only advantage of using a mono-blue general is perhaps utilizing the general more often. While that does seem well and good, I've played certain cards like muse vessel too much to not want to suss them in this deck. It fits the flavor so well.

I haven't had a chance to even build it yet, so I might try to at least play around with some of the concepts and see how it works out before throwing away the idea. The mono blue version obviously has been tried and tested, so I'm gonna give this a try.