Sygg, River Guide

[Soskei]

I'm quiet surprised I haven't seen any Sygg, River Guide EDH decks. I've found him quite useful in a Merfolk deck.

I went through Gatherer and searched for EVERY card with Merfolk in it's creature/spell type.

Here is the Deck I built:

Deck

General 01 Sygg, River Guide Creatures 02 Ambassador Laquatus 03 Blockade Runner 04 Coral Fighters 05 Deepchannel Mentor 06 Drowner Initiate 07 Drowner of Secrets 08 Fallowsage 09 Harpoon Sniper 10 Ink Dissolver 11 Judge of Currents 12 Leech Bonder 13 Lord of Atlantis 14 Merfolk Seer 15 Merrow Harbinger 16 Merrow Levitator 17 Merrow Reejerey 18 Merrow Witsniper 19 Prismwake Merrow 20 Rootwater Commando 21 Sandbar Merfolk 22 Sigil Tracer 23 Silvergill Adept 24 Silvergill Douser 25 Stonybrook Angler 26 Stonybrook Banneret 27 Streambed Aquitects 28 Tidal Warrior 29 Tideshaper Mystic 30 Veteran of the Depths 31 Vodalian Mage 32 Wake Thrasher 33 Wanderwine Prophets 34 Wellgabber Apothecary Enchantments 35 Copy Enchantment 36 Dream Leash 37 Forced Fruition 38 Oblivion Ring 39 Prison Term 40 Proper Burial 41 Memory Erosion 42 Merrow Commerce

Artifacts 43 Quicksilver Fountain 44 Trip Noose 45 Whispersilk Cloak Instants 46 Æthermage's Touch 47 Annul 48 Beacon of Immortality 49 Boomerang 50 Cancel 51 Counterbore 52 Counterspell 53 Enlightened Tutor 54 Neck Snap 55 Peek 56 Spell Syphon 57 Spy Network 58 Unsummon Sorceries 59 Aquitect's Will 60 Austere Command 61 Beacon of Tomorrows 62 Flow of Ideas 63 Ponder 64 Sanity Grinding 65 Serum Visions 66 Summon the School 67 Traumatize Lands 68 Mistveil Plains 69 Moonring Island 70 Nimbus Maze 71 Reliquary Tower 72-90 Island 91-100 Plains

Now, I've found a really nice Infinite Turn Combo.

If you can get out 4-5 Merfolk out into play (With the low cast costs of some of them, it usually not that hard). You put Wanderwine Prophets on one of the merfolk. Then you have a choice of options:

1. Attack a player with no ability to block (Lord of Atlantis + Islands, tapped out, etc...) and attack them.
2. Attach Whispersilk Cloak to Wanderwine Prophets.

Then, with Summon the School in your hand, you play it this way:

Attack with Wanderwine Prophets, sac a merfolk.
Next turn, play Summon the School. Attack, sac a merfolk token. Tap 4 Merfolk, return Summon the School to your hand.
Next turn, continue your previous turn.

In the end, you kill your target AND end up with an army of merfolk. With Lord of Atlantis and/or Merrow Reejerey in play, you can contend with just about anything anyone else can throw at you. Not to mention, with your army of Merfolk, you can mill a deck with Drowner of Secrets.

It's a pretty decent deck, with fast drops in the beginning, with lots of milling capability.

Let me know what you think. If you'd replace any cards with better ones.

[InsuranceMan]

If you're approaching the late gama and have plenty of mana, you can just keep replaying Sygg over and over after sacing him to the Prophets. I've gotten there before using that strategy, especially if you have some good equipment on board. It's unweildy, but it can get the job done.

No Stonybrook Schoolmaster? Find that fish immediately. Speaking of finding fish, where is Seahunter? I'm sure you meant to put that guy in here...

[There There]

Damn, I was totally going to do this.
I would try to take advantage of the abilities of wizards. You have some pretty useless merfolk so there's definitely room. voidmage prodegy, the scroll lady who lets you draw a lot of cards, patron wizard etc.

[InsuranceMan]

Originally Posted by There There

Damn, I was totally going to do this.
I would try to take advantage of the abilities of wizards. You have some pretty useless merfolk so there's definitely room. voidmage prodegy, the scroll lady who lets you draw a lot of cards, patron wizard etc.

That's exactly what I did. I started with a UW Fish deck, but the wizard aspect just outclassed merfolk side. Patron Wizard is a beast, Azami is the best card in the deck, and don't even get me started on how crazy Sage of Fables is. I'm never unhappy to draw Vedalken Aethermage!

It turns out to be a really fun deck, I'd build it if I were you. The deck is even better in smaller games.

[Soskei]

Ya, I dont know why I didnt come across a Seahunter in my search, but I have since substituted some cards. I'll be fixing that in my original post, and posting below what I sub'd.

[Helspont]

Trade the Blockade runner, terrible imo, for a Mistform Ultimus, it's a beefier and more utility friendly merfolk. If your looking to go infinite turns, find room for a Teferi, what blue deck doesn't run him? Also run the enchantment that only lets people play 1 spell a turn, it's name eludes me atm. Find room for a Fathom Trawl, drawing moar gas over possible lands will get you there faster. Empress Galina is a merfolk, quite nasty at ganking other generals. Thank you Oracle Overtaker is now a merfolk.

[Evilempire22]

How is Counterbore any good against a highlander deck?