Illuna, Apex of Wishes | EDH Three Ways [Commander Strategies for Every Player]

In this video, Joel discusses three different ways to build a Commander deck for Illuna, Apex of Wishes, a new commander just spoiled in Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths! Joel discusses a strong build, that focuses on free spells, that cheats out powerful cards like Maelstrom Wanderer and Ugin the Spirit Dragon. He also describes a fun build that emphasizes Ghidorah, King of the Cosmos and elementals. And finally, the mean build, which uses brutal cards like Warp World, Eye of the Storm, and Confusion in the Ranks. Figure out your playgroup, so you can tune your deck for success!
About the Three-Ways Series:
Some people like their chicken wings sweet while others prefer them scorching hot; either way, you are eating chicken. Magic the Gathering is a game with many different rules and building a Commander deck that works takes some time and strategy. Understanding the commander of your deck will help inform a deck-building plan that works for you. In this series, Joel discusses different ways to build different Commander decks. This broad-strokes approach will give you a basic breakdown of the commander and three different ways you can build your deck to work with its abilities, without providing a full deck-tech.
What is Commander:
Commander, officially recognized on June 17, 2011, originated from a format called EDH (Elder Dragon Highlander-- there can only be one). The first time we played EDH was around 2009. It is easily the best way to play Magic: The Gathering. The idea was to have a casual format with 100 cards and only a single copy of any one card, with a General: a singular Legendary Creature card in its own zone that can be cast any time, once you have the mana for it. If your general is removed, it goes up by a casting cost of 2 for each time it is removed. Once WOTC officially recognized the format and printed the first Commander product, your General was instead called your Commander and instead of the format being called EDH, it instead became recognized as Commander. If you ever hear anyone say EDH, they are talking about Commander. Make sure to know the cards that are banned in the format before building your deck (listed below).
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[@Drazatis]

For me, the “fun” way to play Illuna is to storm out. Picture this; no creatures in the deck. No artifacts. The only nonland permanents are Omniscience, Thousand Year Storm, and Eye of the Storm. Make a body for Illuna with a manland or a token producer and storm off. Kinda a glass canon because you can get unlucky and exile 60 cards from your deck and not be able to storm off, but that’s the kinda variance I’m willing to go with.

[@JakeandJoelareMagic]

Yeah I love that approach.

[@red_spect3r833]

I did something similar, my targets were Maelstrom Wanderer, Omniscience, Eldrazi Conscription, Metallurgic Summonings, and Sunbird’s Invocation. I like the idea of Thousand Year Storm, may or may not swap Invocation for it.

[@salfazlucario2660]

and how r u mutating illuna?

[@red_spect3r833]

SALFAZ LUCARIO You mutate on top of a token

[@aeonblade64]

@Drazatis do you have a example deck list for this? I want to try this out but don't know how to build this kind of deck

[@101roborobo]

Cascade isnt on etb is on cast

[@jorgeluislamarquezela693]

Where are the 3 decklist for this Iluna :O

[@zachkeller7344]

Love the video, this video is way to high quality for how little views this has I will definitely be shouting you guys out next to my friends and whenever I can go to the lgs again. Keep it up

[@JakeandJoelareMagic]

Zach, we appreciate you! That's awesome, made our day to hear. Glad you enjoyed it. I'll be making more of these as we see more Ikoria

[@THECaptainPlanetHD]

yep that's youtube these days

[@elliotgandersen]

I really like how added the Ghidorah aspect of this, as I want to build a Ghidorah deck. I also like the mean cards for my Ian Malcom Chaos Deck.

[@adamstilber8382]

Tbh, I was thinking of making an Illuna EDH deck that was focused on the mutate mechanic. It would include multiple creatures that had indestructible and hexproof as their only ability as a sort of mutate foundation as well as multiple creature that could mutate for cheap with some cards to manipulate the top card of my library.

[@marcodragon4995]

I actually happened to get Illuna from a random drop in MTGA, and decided to just try and throw together a Brawl deck with Illuna as Commander. Now I'm a pretty inexperienced player, and the past two Brawl decks I'd tried to build were complete failures, but Ive had a surprising amount of success with Illuna, and I found the deck really fun to play! Although EDH and Brawl aren't entirely the same, I'm glad videos like this exist to help me learn more about how to play my fave Commander

[@JakeandJoelareMagic]

Thanks for the positive vibes! I also have a stream replay of me playing this deck if you want to see how it operates

[@Badassest]

Geddorah looks badass, the chaos version tho- holy cow, i didnt know there was that many chaos cards! I have chaos wand- which is super irritating enough lol. Illuna is scary- a bit OP if you asked me, but definitely a commander that will be in demand!

[@JakeandJoelareMagic]

lol Chaos decks can be such a pain XD

[@alecfras]

The new Brash Taunter from M21 is a gigantic flavor win for King Ghidorah that's also strong as hell! Anyone who has seen the movie knows that King Ghidorah is impervious to normal weapons (only Godzilla can hurt him), he absorbs damage and then sends it back in the form of energy blasts, and he fights. I mean, COME ON!!! Brash Taunter is also maximum value as a mutate target because it's a 1/1 so you know that all the value is packed into the abilities. I swear, it's as if they designed it with the King Ghidorah promo in mind. I'm just so happy about it!! :D

[@bobbyz5443]

These videos are great even if you’re. It interested in making the specific deck. There are always so many cards I didn’t know existed that I can put in other decks!

[@voidlessky8048]

I made mine into a weird thing goal get infinite mana and lore drakkas with a copy target spell and abuse the legend rule. Congrats now you have your entire deck out on the field and the your wish effect procing 50 times before you are done

[@ericstittjr9222]

I built illuna storm with the only nonland permanent being omniscience

[@ravencross6669]

My take on this deck is that you should run only giant game ending nonland permanents. Running the creature lands, dryad arbor, spells that make tokens(dragon fodder etc), green spell ramp (cultivate etc). So the game plan is I'm going to play early creature token and ramp spells then I'm going to mutate my commander and hit an eldrazi titan or our favorite 11/11 trample infect blightsteel Colossus

[@JakeandJoelareMagic]

Yeah, for sure. Guaranteeing you hit a game-ender is definitely a good strategy. Free permanents are always good!

[@Badassest]

Loving the chaos version, might go with that, fun tho seems fun lol, saved this vid for reference😁

[@Badassest]

Definitely want colossification, storm's herald, fling and such as well😃

[@JakeandJoelareMagic]

I have a live replay of this deck when I streamed it avail if you haven't seen how the deck operates

[@travislehenbauer4472]

Good stuff

[@JakeandJoelareMagic]

JJB! Miss you man

[@thrash208]

I find my build a "fun" build. I went all in with the top deck. Cards like etali, chaos wand, mind dilation, sunbirds evocation. Casting random free spells off the top of my deck and my opponents deck

[@lifeinthefoyer8687]

I threw kinnan bonder prodigy into my Illuna deck. It works really well for getting the extra mana in when you need it

[@JakeandJoelareMagic]

Yeah, Kinnan can get nutty

[@toedrag-release]

Its my mutate commander deck its just for fun not really competetive but its kinda a laugh and really fun to play with.

[@OfaThousandSons]

Does food chain work with the mutate ability? I was thinking of food chain illuna play whole deck in one go.

[@JakeandJoelareMagic]

So, I love this idea. But I believe food chain would check illunas cmc, which is 5 & wouldn't check the mutate cost of 6

[@OfaThousandSons]

Jake and Joel are Magic I have a build if it works if it doesn’t I’ll prolly just do the ideals of free stuff.

[@golemmoon6220]

@@OfaThousandSons it works with Food chain. I already asked other people that play competitive commander. Even i was thinking if it was possible.

[@ravencross6669]

Food chain combo only works with cards that supply other creatures to be sacced to food chain because food chain doesn't account for commander tax so it works with cards like prosh but not illuna. And besides you run out of things to mutate it onto

[@golemmoon6220]

@@ravencross6669 there are three cards that can be casted from exile, Squee the immortal, misthollow griffin and Eternal scourge. Generate infinite mana with one of the creatures that can be casted from exile and then cast it one more time one of them, then cast Illuna for Mutate cost, then repeat the proces until you find your wincon.

[@valcandestr0yer]

Put deck list in description!!!

[@JakeandJoelareMagic]

These are mostly strategies and synergies! Joel will be coming up with a decklist just as soon as we can brew the deck and play with the cards.

[@benjaminkaye5119]

I built Illuna w ghidorah , but went with a haste extra damage theme.

[@OfaThousandSons]

So one other thing so you get to mutate illuna on top of maelstrom wanderer and cascade twice again?

[@JakeandJoelareMagic]

I don't think so.. the cascade would only trigger when MW etbs

[@OfaThousandSons]

Jake and Joel are Magic ahh so it’s just for the haste so the deck it’s just temur good stuff

[@GoatOfThunder]

Ghidorah, but no creatures. Only mana ramp, man-lands, and bombs.

[@nickodos1]

That "mean" deck sounds like tons of fun. Should have named that one the "fun" deck

[@JakeandJoelareMagic]

A lot of times Strong, Fun, & Mean overlap a ton