Yirch
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{"ops":[{"insert":"This deck utilises one of the worst commanders in the game, notorious for his uslessness, Ishi-Ishi (2005). I'm in love with this little fella, look at his goat!\n\nAll cards, bar three, were released prior to 2010. The deck aims to play Knowledge Pool so opponents have the ability to cast your spirits (and take damage from Ishi). This is the only Ishi-Ishi deck on EDHREC (apart from my non resticted version of the deck) that functions to then cast a bunch of unplayable spells to fill up the pool, limiting opponent options, allowing you to then play enough spirits to fill the rest of the pool, eventually. Then when opponents cast spells from the pool they can play spirits (take 2 damage from ishi), play harmful cards (might aswell take 2 damage) or play nothing. The deck has as many instant speed spirts/arcanes as possible, to snatch cards when opponents try to play them through the pool, it ends up feeling very controlly. In my opinion, this is the only semi-viable build for Ishi (it's stil awful).\n\nMind Slaver is very fun, you win the game in your soul when you pull off a Mind Slaver activation with the right setup. You can play cards from your hand and cards from their hand on the Mind Slaver turn, making them cast game losing spells and lots of spirts. Meanwhile you are replenishing the spirit pool and takening all their lovely spells, it's a beautifu thing.\n\nI wanted to set a self restriction to have most of the cards in the 99 be released before 2010 to keep to the contest's spirit. Knowledge Pool was released after 2010. Possibility Storm, also released after 2010, was included because it gives you the power to decide whether a player can put a spell in the pool or not (possibility storm top of stack on opponent casts). Additonally, Inventors Fair enables additional tutoring for Knowledge Pool and enables a pseudo tutor, Expedition Map, as tutors are light before 2010.\n\nI have suggested some great addtions to the deck if it wasn't to have a restriction on release date, ie cards released after 2010, notably Glorious End and all the extra Tutors.\n"}]}
Blockers of Knowledge
Blockers of Knowledge
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Enablers
Wheel of Fate
Suspend 4— (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay and exile it with four time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)
Each player discards their hand, then draws seven cards.
Each player discards their hand, then draws seven cards.
Sorcery
Enablers
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Iteraction/Insurance
Goblin Welder
: Choose target artifact a player controls and target artifact card in that player's graveyard. If both targets are still legal as this ability resolves, that player simultaneously sacrifices the artifact and returns the artifact card to the battlefield.
Creature - Goblin Artificer
Mages' Contest
You and target spell's controller bid life. You start the bidding with a bid of 1. In turn order, each player may top the high bid. The bidding ends if the high bid stands. The high bidder loses life equal to the high bid. If you win the bidding, counter that spell.
Instant
Iteraction/Insurance
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Land
Inventors' Fair
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control three or more artifacts, you gain 1 life.
: Add .
, , Sacrifice Inventors' Fair: Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Activate only if you control three or more artifacts.
: Add .
, , Sacrifice Inventors' Fair: Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Activate only if you control three or more artifacts.
Legendary Land
Land
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Ramp
Ramp
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Spirits & Arcanes
Overblaze
Each time target permanent would deal damage to a permanent or player this turn, it deals double that damage to that permanent or player instead.
Splice onto Arcane (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)
Splice onto Arcane (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)
Instant - Arcane
Spirits & Arcanes
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Tutors
Tutors
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Wincons
Knowledge Pool
Imprint — When this artifact enters, each player exiles the top three cards of their library.
Whenever a player casts a spell from their hand, that player exiles it. If the player does, they may cast a spell from among other cards exiled with this artifact without paying its mana cost.
Whenever a player casts a spell from their hand, that player exiles it. If the player does, they may cast a spell from among other cards exiled with this artifact without paying its mana cost.
Artifact
Possibility Storm
Whenever a player casts a spell from their hand, that player exiles it, then exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a card that shares a card type with it. That player may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then they put all cards exiled with this enchantment on the bottom of their library in a random order.
Enchantment
Wincons
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Additions Without Release Date Restriction
Glorious End
End the turn. (Exile all spells and abilities from the stack, including this card. The player whose turn it is discards down to their maximum hand size. Damage wears off, and "this turn" and "until end of turn" effects end.)
At the beginning of your next end step, you lose the game.
At the beginning of your next end step, you lose the game.
Instant
Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate
Omarthis enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
Whenever you put one or more +1/+1 counters on another colorless creature, you may put a +1/+1 counter on Omarthis.
When Omarthis dies, manifest a number of cards from the top of your library equal to the number of counters on it.
Whenever you put one or more +1/+1 counters on another colorless creature, you may put a +1/+1 counter on Omarthis.
When Omarthis dies, manifest a number of cards from the top of your library equal to the number of counters on it.
Legendary Creature - Spirit Snake
Scrapyard Recombiner
Modular 2 (This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)
, Sacrifice an artifact: Search your library for a Construct card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
, Sacrifice an artifact: Search your library for a Construct card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Creature Artifact - Construct
Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
If a source you control would deal noncombat damage to an opponent or a permanent an opponent controls, it deals double that damage to that player or permanent instead.
, Discard two cards: Put an indestructible counter on Solphim. ( can be paid with either or 2 life.)
, Discard two cards: Put an indestructible counter on Solphim. ( can be paid with either or 2 life.)
Legendary Creature - Horror Phyrexian
The One Ring
Indestructible
When The One Ring enters, if you cast it, you gain protection from everything until your next turn.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life for each burden counter on The One Ring.
: Put a burden counter on The One Ring, then draw a card for each burden counter on The One Ring.
When The One Ring enters, if you cast it, you gain protection from everything until your next turn.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life for each burden counter on The One Ring.
: Put a burden counter on The One Ring, then draw a card for each burden counter on The One Ring.
Legendary Artifact
Tibalt's Trickery
Counter target spell. Choose 1, 2, or 3 at random. Its controller mills that many cards, then exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card with a different name than that spell. They may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then they put the exiled cards on the bottom of their library in a random order.
Instant
Wheel of Misfortune
Each player secretly chooses a number 0 or greater, then all players reveal those numbers simultaneously and determine the highest and lowest numbers revealed this way. Wheel of Misfortune deals damage equal to the highest number to each player who chose that number. Each player who didn't choose the lowest number discards their hand, then draws seven cards.
Sorcery
Additions Without Release Date Restriction
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Maybeboard
Maybeboard
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{"ops":[{"insert":"This deck utilises one of the worst commanders in the game, notorious for his uslessness, Ishi-Ishi (2005). I'm in love with this little fella, look at his goat!\n\nAll cards, bar three, were released prior to 2010. The deck aims to play Knowledge Pool so opponents have the ability to cast your spirits (and take damage from Ishi). This is the only Ishi-Ishi deck on EDHREC (apart from my non resticted version of the deck) that functions to then cast a bunch of unplayable spells to fill up the pool, limiting opponent options, allowing you to then play enough spirits to fill the rest of the pool, eventually. Then when opponents cast spells from the pool they can play spirits (take 2 damage from ishi), play harmful cards (might aswell take 2 damage) or play nothing. The deck has as many instant speed spirts/arcanes as possible, to snatch cards when opponents try to play them through the pool, it ends up feeling very controlly. In my opinion, this is the only semi-viable build for Ishi (it's stil awful).\n\nMind Slaver is very fun, you win the game in your soul when you pull off a Mind Slaver activation with the right setup. You can play cards from your hand and cards from their hand on the Mind Slaver turn, making them cast game losing spells and lots of spirts. Meanwhile you are replenishing the spirit pool and takening all their lovely spells, it's a beautifu thing.\n\nI wanted to set a self restriction to have most of the cards in the 99 be released before 2010 to keep to the contest's spirit. Knowledge Pool was released after 2010. Possibility Storm, also released after 2010, was included because it gives you the power to decide whether a player can put a spell in the pool or not (possibility storm top of stack on opponent casts). Additonally, Inventors Fair enables additional tutoring for Knowledge Pool and enables a pseudo tutor, Expedition Map, as tutors are light before 2010.\n\nI have suggested some great addtions to the deck if it wasn't to have a restriction on release date, ie cards released after 2010, notably Glorious End and all the extra Tutors.\n"}]}