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I really liked this deck as it is :("},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nCombo:"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nSetup:"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"-- "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Tourach, Dread Cantor"}},{"insert":" is on the bottom of the library (via cards like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Tel-Jilad Stylus"}},{"insert":" or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge"}},{"insert":" )\n-- "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Chromatic Sphere"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Selvala, Explorer Returned"}},{"insert":", or another permanent with a mana ability which draws is ready to use\n-- "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Jodah, the Unifier"}},{"insert":" is on the field\n-- "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Laboratory Maniac"}},{"insert":" is on the field\n-- 3 mana legendary in hand like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Saheeli Rai"}},{"insert":" or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"The Jolly Balloon Man"}},{"insert":" \n\nExecution:"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"-- Cast the 3 mana legendary\n-- Exile every card in your library as part of Jodah's ability resolution until you exile Tourach from the bottom\n-- As you're casting Tourach from exile, declare you are paying for his kicker cost and may activate mana abilities to do so\n-- Activate the mana ability which draws, drawing from your empty library and winning the game instantly\n\n\n\nGameplay/Overview:\n\nI do not bother ever attacking, this deck is designed to tutor for and protect its combo pieces and is designed to do so at the speed of a bracket 2 game. This deck could win with combat if it gets a board of legendaries, Jodah's first ability is no joke, but there's no reason to attract the ire of the table by swinging unless the combo has been made impossible. This rarely happens, though, as this deck runs plenty of ways to protect its unique combo pieces, labman, tourach, and jodah from everything from theft (i.e. airbending Jodah with aang when he's stolen) to graveyard hate (i.e. using mistveil plains to put a dead labman or tourach where it can be tutored for).\n\nThe mana abilities which draw cards and 3 mana legendary combo pieces are redundant but are not dead cards. Labman is a mostly dead card, but may be used with pyre of heroes to grab Arcade Ganon, makes coveted prize cheaper, and has some other utility as a human wizard. Tourach may be pyred into labman or many other 3 mana humans, pumps other legends for blocking with Jodah out, and could even be used to force discards in the rare circumstance that two black mana are available on cast. For a combo deck, this deck feels extremely cohesive, as it is built around the combo pieces.\n\nThe deck isn't oppressive in bracket 2, despite running one of the most popular and powerful WUBRG commanders, as I have given it many fatal flaws. While Jodah is usually considered very powerful, I intentionally do not use green ramp, opting to run ability/artifact-only dorks to synergize with the eggs that also serve as combo pieces. After \"tutoring\" out Tourach, Jodah's ability stops doing anything but revealing and shuffling my deck when I cast a 3 mana legendary, greatly reducing his utility. The deck has many ways to tutor 1 mana artifacts, but no especially-strong-by-themself artifacts like sol ring or sensei's divining top. Other factors which lower this deck's overall power level and prevent it from stealing wins early are the budget landbase, middle-of-the-road tutor package, unconventional toolbox cards, disruptible combo, and quite low salt score. This deck closes out the game by sticking combo pieces for a 5 part combo turn 9 or 10, it feels fair and consistent in bracket 2.\n\nOverall, I love playing this deck. It requires a lot of thought, there are not any specific cards that I always use a given tutor for. It requires getting creative when answering opponents attempts to disrupt its ability to combo, especially when Jodah is such a juicy target to remove or steal. It also feels great to win using a combo I invented by studying the rules very closely :)\n\nA few more little synergy packages:\n-- The angels have a linear cmc for pyre\n-- no enchantments and the fact its a human now make nova cleric a premium one drop\n-- It's technically possible to complete your party for coveted prize\n-- Dalakos + Deconstruction Hammer\n-- "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Dryad Arbor"}},{"insert":" is for when x=0 on "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Rocco, Cabaretti Caterer"}},{"insert":" \n-- Muldrotha can be tutored out with pyre on jegantha\n\nNotes:\n-- "},{"insert":{"card-link":"The Jolly Balloon Man"}},{"insert":" may not be used to kill tourach with the legend rule, he has protection from white.\n-- "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Jegantha, the Wellspring"}},{"insert":" is mainly to enable casting Jodah on your combo turn or for making commander tax affordable after he's removed. \n-- "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Aang, Swift Savior // Aang and La, Ocean's Fury"}},{"insert":" is a star of the deck, allowing winning on top of enemy win attempts, saving Jodah for the combo turn, getting Jodah back if he's stolen, or general disruption of enemy gameplans. There is usually no reason to transform it.\n-- Most of the recursion and dorks are for popping eggs over and over for both draw and ramp.\n\nI successfully performed this combo in a casual game at an LGS on 4/11/2026, which was probably world first, as no other Jodah decks on EDHrec contain the necessary pieces at time of writing.\n"}]}
Commander
Jodah, the Unifier
Legendary creatures you control get +X/+X, where X is the number of legendary creatures you control.
Whenever you cast a legendary spell from your hand, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a legendary nonland card with lesser mana value. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Whenever you cast a legendary spell from your hand, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a legendary nonland card with lesser mana value. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Commander
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bottomer
bottomer
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combo pieces
Tourach, Dread Cantor
Kicker (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.)
Protection from white
Whenever an opponent discards a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Tourach.
When Tourach enters, if it was kicked, target opponent discards two cards at random.
Protection from white
Whenever an opponent discards a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Tourach.
When Tourach enters, if it was kicked, target opponent discards two cards at random.
Legendary Creature - Human Cleric
combo pieces
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Eggs
Eggs
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haste
Saheeli Rai
+1: Scry 1. Saheeli Rai deals 1 damage to each opponent.
−2: Create a token that's a copy of target artifact or creature you control, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types. That token gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.
−7: Search your library for up to three artifact cards with different names, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
−2: Create a token that's a copy of target artifact or creature you control, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types. That token gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.
−7: Search your library for up to three artifact cards with different names, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Legendary Planeswalker - Saheeli
The Jolly Balloon Man
Haste
, : Create a token that's a copy of another target creature you control, except it's a 1/1 red Balloon creature in addition to its other colors and types and it has flying and haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.
, : Create a token that's a copy of another target creature you control, except it's a 1/1 red Balloon creature in addition to its other colors and types and it has flying and haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.
Legendary Creature - Human Clown
Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
You may activate abilities of creatures you control as though those creatures had haste.
+1: Untap up to one target creature.
−2: Mill three cards, then you may return a creature card with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
+1: Untap up to one target creature.
−2: Mill three cards, then you may return a creature card with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Legendary Planeswalker - Tyvar
haste
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Land
Path of Ancestry
This land enters tapped.
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Land
Land
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Pop eggs
Forensic Gadgeteer
Whenever you cast an artifact spell, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with ", Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Activated abilities of artifacts you control cost less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.
Activated abilities of artifacts you control cost less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.
Creature - Artificer Vedalken Detective
Pop eggs
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Protection
Protection
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Recursion
Angel of Indemnity
Flying, lifelink
When this creature enters, return target permanent card with mana value 4 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Encore (, Exile this card from your graveyard: For each opponent, create a token copy that attacks that opponent this turn if able. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.)
When this creature enters, return target permanent card with mana value 4 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Encore (, Exile this card from your graveyard: For each opponent, create a token copy that attacks that opponent this turn if able. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.)
Creature - Warrior Angel
Arcade Gannon
: Draw a card, then discard a card. Put a quest counter on Arcade Gannon.
For Auld Lang Syne — Once during each of your turns, you may cast an artifact or Human spell from your graveyard with mana value less than or equal to the number of quest counters on Arcade Gannon.
For Auld Lang Syne — Once during each of your turns, you may cast an artifact or Human spell from your graveyard with mana value less than or equal to the number of quest counters on Arcade Gannon.
Legendary Creature - Human Doctor
Bag of Devouring
Whenever you sacrifice another nontoken artifact or creature, exile it.
, , Sacrifice another artifact or creature: Draw a card.
, , Sacrifice this artifact: Roll a d10. Return up to X cards from among cards exiled with this artifact to their owners' hands, where X is the result.
, , Sacrifice another artifact or creature: Draw a card.
, , Sacrifice this artifact: Roll a d10. Return up to X cards from among cards exiled with this artifact to their owners' hands, where X is the result.
Artifact
Fabrication Foundry
: Add . Spend this mana only to cast an artifact spell or activate an ability of an artifact source.
, , Exile one or more other artifacts you control with total mana value X: Return target artifact card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.
, , Exile one or more other artifacts you control with total mana value X: Return target artifact card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.
Artifact
Recursion
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Removal
Removal
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Tutor
Celestial Reunion
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may choose a creature type and behold two creatures of that type.
Search your library for a creature card with mana value X or less, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. If this spell's additional cost was paid and the revealed card is the chosen type, put that card onto the battlefield instead of putting it into your hand.
Search your library for a creature card with mana value X or less, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. If this spell's additional cost was paid and the revealed card is the chosen type, put that card onto the battlefield instead of putting it into your hand.
Sorcery
Coveted Prize
This spell costs less to cast for each creature in your party. (Your party consists of up to one each of Cleric, Rogue, Warrior, and Wizard.)
Search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. If you have a full party, you may cast a spell with mana value 4 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.
Search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. If you have a full party, you may cast a spell with mana value 4 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.
Sorcery
Pyre of Heroes
, , Sacrifice a creature: Search your library for a creature card that shares a creature type with the sacrificed creature and has mana value equal to 1 plus that creature's mana value. Put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Activate only as a sorcery.
Artifact
Tezzeret, Cruel Captain
Whenever an artifact you control enters, put a loyalty counter on Tezzeret.
0: Untap target artifact or creature. If it's an artifact creature, put a +1/+1 counter on it.
−3: Search your library for an artifact card with mana value 1 or less, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
−7: You get an emblem with "At the beginning of combat on your turn, put three +1/+1 counters on target artifact you control. If it's not a creature, it becomes a 0/0 Robot artifact creature."
0: Untap target artifact or creature. If it's an artifact creature, put a +1/+1 counter on it.
−3: Search your library for an artifact card with mana value 1 or less, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
−7: You get an emblem with "At the beginning of combat on your turn, put three +1/+1 counters on target artifact you control. If it's not a creature, it becomes a 0/0 Robot artifact creature."
Legendary Planeswalker - Tezzeret
Vedalken Aethermage
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
When this creature enters, return target Sliver to its owner's hand.
Wizardcycling (, Discard this card: Search your library for a Wizard card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
When this creature enters, return target Sliver to its owner's hand.
Wizardcycling (, Discard this card: Search your library for a Wizard card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
Creature - Wizard Vedalken
Tutor
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Companion
Jegantha, the Wellspring
Companion — No card in your starting deck has more than one of the same mana symbol in its mana cost. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for as a sorcery.)
: Add . This mana can't be spent to pay generic mana costs.
: Add . This mana can't be spent to pay generic mana costs.
Legendary Creature - Elemental Elk
Companion
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Maybeboard
Kibo, Uktabi Prince
: Each player creates a colorless artifact token named Banana with ", Sacrifice this token: Add or . You gain 2 life."
Whenever an artifact an opponent controls is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control that's an Ape or a Monkey.
Whenever Kibo attacks, defending player sacrifices an artifact of their choice.
Whenever an artifact an opponent controls is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control that's an Ape or a Monkey.
Whenever Kibo attacks, defending player sacrifices an artifact of their choice.
Legendary Creature - Monkey Noble
Lich
As this enchantment enters, you lose life equal to your life total.
You don't lose the game for having 0 or less life.
If you would gain life, draw that many cards instead.
Whenever you're dealt damage, sacrifice that many nontoken permanents. If you can't, you lose the game.
When this enchantment is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you lose the game.
You don't lose the game for having 0 or less life.
If you would gain life, draw that many cards instead.
Whenever you're dealt damage, sacrifice that many nontoken permanents. If you can't, you lose the game.
When this enchantment is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you lose the game.
Enchantment
Maybeboard
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Deck Info
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Description
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I really liked this deck as it is :("},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nCombo:"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nSetup:"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"-- "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Tourach, Dread Cantor"}},{"insert":" is on the bottom of the library (via cards like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Tel-Jilad Stylus"}},{"insert":" or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge"}},{"insert":" )\n-- "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Chromatic Sphere"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Selvala, Explorer Returned"}},{"insert":", or another permanent with a mana ability which draws is ready to use\n-- "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Jodah, the Unifier"}},{"insert":" is on the field\n-- "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Laboratory Maniac"}},{"insert":" is on the field\n-- 3 mana legendary in hand like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Saheeli Rai"}},{"insert":" or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"The Jolly Balloon Man"}},{"insert":" \n\nExecution:"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"-- Cast the 3 mana legendary\n-- Exile every card in your library as part of Jodah's ability resolution until you exile Tourach from the bottom\n-- As you're casting Tourach from exile, declare you are paying for his kicker cost and may activate mana abilities to do so\n-- Activate the mana ability which draws, drawing from your empty library and winning the game instantly\n\n\n\nGameplay/Overview:\n\nI do not bother ever attacking, this deck is designed to tutor for and protect its combo pieces and is designed to do so at the speed of a bracket 2 game. This deck could win with combat if it gets a board of legendaries, Jodah's first ability is no joke, but there's no reason to attract the ire of the table by swinging unless the combo has been made impossible. This rarely happens, though, as this deck runs plenty of ways to protect its unique combo pieces, labman, tourach, and jodah from everything from theft (i.e. airbending Jodah with aang when he's stolen) to graveyard hate (i.e. using mistveil plains to put a dead labman or tourach where it can be tutored for).\n\nThe mana abilities which draw cards and 3 mana legendary combo pieces are redundant but are not dead cards. Labman is a mostly dead card, but may be used with pyre of heroes to grab Arcade Ganon, makes coveted prize cheaper, and has some other utility as a human wizard. Tourach may be pyred into labman or many other 3 mana humans, pumps other legends for blocking with Jodah out, and could even be used to force discards in the rare circumstance that two black mana are available on cast. For a combo deck, this deck feels extremely cohesive, as it is built around the combo pieces.\n\nThe deck isn't oppressive in bracket 2, despite running one of the most popular and powerful WUBRG commanders, as I have given it many fatal flaws. While Jodah is usually considered very powerful, I intentionally do not use green ramp, opting to run ability/artifact-only dorks to synergize with the eggs that also serve as combo pieces. After \"tutoring\" out Tourach, Jodah's ability stops doing anything but revealing and shuffling my deck when I cast a 3 mana legendary, greatly reducing his utility. The deck has many ways to tutor 1 mana artifacts, but no especially-strong-by-themself artifacts like sol ring or sensei's divining top. Other factors which lower this deck's overall power level and prevent it from stealing wins early are the budget landbase, middle-of-the-road tutor package, unconventional toolbox cards, disruptible combo, and quite low salt score. This deck closes out the game by sticking combo pieces for a 5 part combo turn 9 or 10, it feels fair and consistent in bracket 2.\n\nOverall, I love playing this deck. It requires a lot of thought, there are not any specific cards that I always use a given tutor for. It requires getting creative when answering opponents attempts to disrupt its ability to combo, especially when Jodah is such a juicy target to remove or steal. It also feels great to win using a combo I invented by studying the rules very closely :)\n\nA few more little synergy packages:\n-- The angels have a linear cmc for pyre\n-- no enchantments and the fact its a human now make nova cleric a premium one drop\n-- It's technically possible to complete your party for coveted prize\n-- Dalakos + Deconstruction Hammer\n-- "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Dryad Arbor"}},{"insert":" is for when x=0 on "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Rocco, Cabaretti Caterer"}},{"insert":" \n-- Muldrotha can be tutored out with pyre on jegantha\n\nNotes:\n-- "},{"insert":{"card-link":"The Jolly Balloon Man"}},{"insert":" may not be used to kill tourach with the legend rule, he has protection from white.\n-- "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Jegantha, the Wellspring"}},{"insert":" is mainly to enable casting Jodah on your combo turn or for making commander tax affordable after he's removed. \n-- "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Aang, Swift Savior // Aang and La, Ocean's Fury"}},{"insert":" is a star of the deck, allowing winning on top of enemy win attempts, saving Jodah for the combo turn, getting Jodah back if he's stolen, or general disruption of enemy gameplans. There is usually no reason to transform it.\n-- Most of the recursion and dorks are for popping eggs over and over for both draw and ramp.\n\nI successfully performed this combo in a casual game at an LGS on 4/11/2026, which was probably world first, as no other Jodah decks on EDHrec contain the necessary pieces at time of writing.\n"}]}