Okay, most cards are quite self-explanatory.

The first goal is to get Kiki-Jiki out. You can either go there straight: maybe play a mana artifact on turn 2 or 3 and put him on the table in turn 4. There are Wayfarer’s Bauble, Coalition Relic, Everflowing Chalice, Worn Powerstone, Myriad Landscape,Thought Vessel, Mind Stone and Fellwar Stone which can enable this. Ideally, you play a Mana Stone on Turn 2, and in Turn 3 you can play a cc 4 creature, on Turn 4 Kiki-Jiki and copy the creature.

For further ramp, you have Thran Dynamo, Gauntlet of Power & Gauntlet of Might and Caged Sun, Solemn Simulacrum, Treasonous Ogre and Emrakul’s Hatcher, Koth of the Hammer, Mana Geyser and Sword of the Animist. While you cannot totally avoid creature removal to your Kiki-Jiki there are a few protections like Lightning Greaves and Shunt here, and also Price of Glory which makes it at least costy.

But Kiki-Jiki can also help you ramp:the obvious cards are Pilgrim’s Eye and Solemn Simulacrum of course, but which most players don’t know is, that a copied card just gains the characteristics of the original card, not any counters, effects or „animated“ conditions. Get it ? So if you animate a mountain with Koth of the Hammer and you then copy this mountain or an animated Mutavault or a Mishra’s Factory you get a copy of the land into play – and as it isn’t a creature, it won’t be sacrificed at the end of turn.

Also, we can prevent our tokens from getting sacrificed by either sacrificing them before (for fun and profit, of course!): Ashnod’s Altar, Phyrexian Altar, Goblin Bombardment and High Market can do the trick, while Sundial of the Infinite can even safe you from sacrificing: just put the sac trigger on the stack and then activiate the Sundial.

Though every creature can of course be sacrificed, some creatures like it even more to be sacced – eenemies‘ creatures for example (get them with Molten Primordial, Insurrection or Zealous Conscripts). Some cards trigger when hitting the grave: Solemn Simulacrum is always good, Treasure Keeper, Wurmcoil Engine and Hoarding Dragon also do the trick.

As you may have noticed, there are some cards which (can) do direct damage: Outrage Shaman for example. Let’s calculate: if you have a Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker out, it’s plus from the Shaman -> dealing Damage, then the Copy hits the board (and Mana costs are copied, too !), adding another for stunning Damage. Okay, this is just for creatures, but look at Fanatic of Mogis or Spawn of Thraxes or Demanding Dragon or Combustible Gearhulk youself.

While there are even more combos around Kiki-Jiki, this Deck doesn’t run many Goblins, so Lightning Crafter is not included or cards like Gamble, which proactively searches for combos. Nevertheless, combos are included and can occur: most famous is Zealous Conscripts but also Combat Celebrant can go infinite (if the enemy has no blockers at all which is rare), as does Thornbite Staff with a sacrifice outlet and creatures which have enters the Battlefield effects. (which requires at least 4 cards). But as Kiki-Jiki itself is costy, these combos doesn’t trigger off like an cEDH Deck in turn 1 or 2, nor constantly, so I (and my groups) are okay with that.

Thanks for reading my Primer and have fun playing Teamcommander ! Rujak.