(Wydwen, the Biting Gale

by Matt Cavotta)

Hello ladies, gentlemen, and nonbinary card sharks. Before getting into the meat and potatoes of Dimir Voltron Kinda-Combo, I want to quickly clear up what this series is about for any new readers and also that one guy who left a mean comment. You know who you are.

You know how budget deck techs take a strong commander and try to help you pilot them without breaking the bank?

This is the opposite.

Here we take objectively bad or otherwise underwhelming commanders that are outclassed by others in nearly every way and see if they have any potential by dumping garbage loads of dollarydos on top of them.

What we aren't doing is taking completely useless commanders and spending $30,000 on them for the meme. You aren't gonna see any vanilla Legends losers or Portal Three Kingdoms historical reenactment enthusiasts at the helm, we want them to have some sort of compelling mechanical hook.

We also don't just include expensive cards for absolutely no reason. There doesn't need to be a good reason for a single, just some sort of justification. So I'll run a copy of The Abyss

One last note: I tend to put stupid combos in my decks because I love that jank. My first deck that wasn't a flimsy trench coat full of Llanowar Elves

Spending Way Too Much on Wydwen, the Biting Gale EDH

With that all out of the way, we're gonna take that $13,000 bus crash settlement and use it to fuel Wydwen, the Biting Gale

ahem

Anyways, Wydwen is hot stuff because you can flash her out and back into your hand on a dime, which lets you drop her right after a board wipe and piss in your opponents' mouths with commander damage while keeping her safe, sterile, and available at all times.

Now high-budget Dimir Faerie Voltron is all well and good, but let's say you want to get really stupid with it.

May I introduce, your new gods.

1. Leyline of Anticipation

, Vedalken Orrery

, Shimmer Myr

You drop one of these bad persons and your opponents probably won't quite catch onto your plans right away. The first two are pretty commonplace, Shimmer Myr's a little weird but whatever it must be some kind of artifact combo deck.

2. Brass Squire

In the words of a famous union-busting rat, It's a surprise tool that'll help us later!

3. Clock of Omens

Wait what

4. Horizon Stone

, Doubling Cube

Aight, this is where it gets stupid.

The grand plan (that isn't technically a combo kill since we're not just generating infinite mana and playing Exsanguinate

Oh also I wrote all of that before remembering that Hammer of Nazahn

Highlights

Taking a moment to gush about one of my favorite cards, Midnight Clock

I love Force of Despair

Eon Frolicker

Wincons

The main way you win without Horizon Stone

Zur's Weirding

I do want to make a note about extra turn spells in EDH. I don't like 'em. I've sat through so many games at my LGS where someone takes 10 extra turns and goes as aggravatingly slow as possible without actually killing anyone. I've also been that dickhead trying to piece together a win in an Izzet combo deck and drawing the game out for 20 minutes as I copy Time Warp

Weaknesses

Honestly this list is pretty strong and functions much more consistently than either of my previous builds (linked here cough cough). It's half of your standard Dimir flash/control and half equipment/voltron, with a little bit of Naomi combo stupidity thrown in for fun. I would like to point out that the deck lacks targeted removal with all of the board wipes, and it can be a little slow to get going without drawing the Mana Crew, but otherwise it's a nice lil' stabby countery deck.

Go forth my children, bounce thine lands and sew thy discord. Also seriously try out Eon Frolicker