[EDH] Norin the Wary

[FTW]

Sometimes the red mage just wants to get his Uthden Troll on...

The objective of this deck is to have no objective. It is pure chaos.

Although, aside from trolling the table, there are several abusive combos/interactions that give you an unfair advantage. For those who are not familiar with Norin in EDH, he is dirt cheap and blinks himself in and out of play. This means you can abuse interactions that trigger when you cast a creature or when a creature enters the battlefield...

This is probably very similar to other Norin builds, except I am creature-light and incorporating the new combo of Possibility Storm + FATTY, which completely messes up all opponents while simultaneously Polymorphing your deck onto the board.

First, the deck.


//Commander: 1
Norin the Wary

//Enchantments: 11
Electropotence
Pandemonium
Warstorm Surge
Confusion in the Ranks
Price of Glory
Possibility Storm
Stranglehold
Blood Moon
Grip of Chaos
Repercussion
Smoke

//Artifacts: 21
Sol Ring
Mana Crypt
Mana Vault
Mind Stone
Worn Powerstone
Darksteel Ingot
Thran Dynamo
Gauntlet of Might
Caged Sun
Sensei's Divining Top
Genesis Chamber
Skullclamp
Mind's Eye
Teferi's Puzzle Box
Oblivion Stone
Planar Portal
Crucible of Worlds
Expedition Map
Helm of Possession
Sculpting Steel
Relic of Progenitus

//Creatures: 5
Archwing Dragon
Darksteel Colossus
Blightsteel Colossus
Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
Molten Primordial

//Sorcery: 17
Gamble
Faithless Looting
Wheel of Fortune
Reforge the Soul
Shattering Spree
Chain Reaction
Wake of Destruction
Ruination
Aftershock
Mogg Infestation
Incendiary Command
Jokulhaups
Thieves' Auction
Insurrection
Blasphemous Act
Rolling Earthquake
All is Dust

//Instant: 7
Shattering Pulse
Chaos Warp
Fork
Reverberate
Reiterate
Wild Richochet
Word of Seizing

//Planeswalker: 2
Chandra Ablaze
Karn Liberated


//Lands: 36
Buried Ruin
Kher Keep
Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
Cavern of Souls
Darksteel Citadel
Scrying Sheets
Strip Mine
Wasteland
Bloodstained Mire
Wooded Foothills
Scalding Tarn
Arid Mesa
Boseiju, Who Shelters All
Mouth of Ronom
22 Snow-Covered Mountain


Possibility Storm can be found by Gamble or Planar Portal. While this screws up every other players' plays, it has the added bonus of Polymorphing your commander into massive fatties.

There's a lot of non-basic mana hate, typical of red.
There are a lot of lock pieces that limit what opponents can do.
There is some damage-dealing mass-removal, which combos nicely with Repercussion in a creature-light deck.
Pandemonium effects go nuts with Norin automatically blinking in and out during every player's turn!
There are reactive spell copying creature stealing tricks that allow you to use your opponents' decks against them.
There are several cards that make all players cycle through hands, helping you draw into good stuff while disrupting control players holding tricks and combo players trying to assemble something.

You can do stuff like Confusion in the Ranks + cast Norin or make a Kher Keep token to steal control of opposing creatures.

Suggestions? Other card synergies with Norin to exploit?

[imnotbrown]

//Commander: 1
Norin the Wary


I like the deck as a whole, but I feel that with so few creatures, Skullclamp may not be needed. I really only see it being used on norin, and with cards like Gauntlet of Might and Caged Sun, he's going to really restrict your plays so that you can needlessly make him cost more to draw extra cards, or make him unclampable so that you can double your mana. So what I would do is:
-Skullclamp
+Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
Kozilek will have more use with your chaos enchantments, powers out earlier with your mana doubling, and still draws you cards.

[FTW]

Yeah, the goal was just to use it on Norin or Genesis Chamber tokens or Kher Keep tokens. Red doesn't have access to much card drawing so I figured any little bit helps. You don't have to do it a lot of times. Norin pretty much never dies, unless someone bothers to use an activated ability and you can't respond by casting a spell, so I figured losing him 2-3 times to draw 4-6 cards was enough to warrant Skullclamp's inclusion. You can't abuse it like in other decks, but one card that draws you 4-6 is still pretty amazing in a monored deck IMO...

True, you can't use it on Norin after a Gauntlet or Caged Sun, so that's serious anti-synergy since you need that mana to recast Norin....

Any other draw effects I could use?

[imnotbrown]

Wheel of fate isn't terrible. Unfortunately, you didn't pick a great color for draw power. What you do have access to, though is plenty of filtering. You already have faithless looting, for example, which is good, and I'd also recommend that you swap out some cards for similar ones with cycling. I still feel like norin himself would not work well with skullclamp. particularly because after the first time you use him for skullclamp, assuming you haven't already dropped a doubler, casting him again for further clamping isnt as efficient anymore.

And there's always tibalt.