Hermit Dragon [EDH] {Budget Reanimator}

Commander / EDH Combo Competitive Five Color Infinite Combo Reanimator Tokens

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Creature (23)

• 1x Anger
• 1x Apprentice Necromancer
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloodghast
• 1x Caller of the Claw
• 1x Cephalid Illusionist
• 1x Crypt Champion
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Devoted Druid
• 1x Fatestitcher
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Hermit Druid
• 1x Morselhoarder
• 1x Narcomoeba
• 1x Necrotic Ooze
• 1x Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind
• 1x Saffi Eriksdotter
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Spikeshot Elder
• 1x Stoneforge Mystic
• 1x Sylvan Caryatid
• 1x Weathered Wayfarer

Land (35)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Badlands
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Boseiju, Who Shelters All
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Plateau
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Taiga
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Curiosity
• 1x Prismatic Omen
• 1x Survival of the FittestGC
• 1x Sylvan Library

Artifact (3)

• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Sol Ring

Instant (24)

• 1x Ancient Grudge
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Enlightened TutorGC
• 1x Flaring Pain
• 1x Force of WillGC
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Guttural Response
• 1x Izzet Charm
• 1x Krosan Reclamation
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical TutorGC
• 1x Orim's Chant
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Pull from Eternity
• 1x Purify the Grave
• 1x Ray of Revelation
• 1x Render Silent
• 1x Shallow Grave
• 1x Silence
• 1x Vampiric TutorGC
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Careful Study
• 1x Chainer's Edict
• 1x Demonic TutorGC
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Sylvan Tutor
• 1x Unburial Rites
• 1x Vindicate

Commander (1)

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Creature (10)

• 1x Bringer of the Black Dawn
• 1x Bringer of the Blue Dawn
• 1x Bringer of the Green Dawn
• 1x Bringer of the Red Dawn
• 1x Bringer of the White Dawn
• 1x Child of Alara
• 1x Dosan the Falling Leaf
• 1x Fulminator Mage
• 1x Mother of Runes
• 1x Nether Traitor

Land (3)

• 1x Bazaar of Baghdad
• 1x Diamond Valley
• 1x Phyrexian Tower

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Attunement
• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Evolutionary Leap
• 1x Recurring Nightmare
• 1x Shivan Harvest

Artifact (3)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Phyrexian Altar

Instant (4)

• 1x Entomb
• 1x Gifts Ungiven
• 1x Intuition
• 1x Swan Song

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Channel the Suns
• 1x Exhume
• 1x Flux
• 1x Grim Discovery
• 1x Recoup
• 1x Rite of Replication

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The simplest version of the kill is: activate Hermit Druid. Win. Yes, it's actually that easy. There are no basic lands in this deck, so a single Hermit Druid activation mills your whole deck. Narcomoeba pops into play. Unearth Fatestitcher and/or play a land letting you bring Bloodghast into play... Next flashback Dread Return on Crypt Champion, which returns Saffi Eriksdotter. With the other Crypt Champion trigger on the stack, sacrifice Saffi Eriksdotter targeting the Crypt Champion, and repeat that loop a billion times. Then use Crypt Champion to return Caller of the Claw. That gives you a billion bears, and thanks to Anger, they all have haste. Ta da! Dead opponent.

Obviously, it's not always that simple, but there's a lot of resiliency built into this plan. Apprentice Necromancer and Shallow Grave help ensure that Hermit Druid is able to do his thing. Cephalid Illusionist and Lightning Greaves offer an alternate means of milling yourself if something happens to the Hermit Druid. The suite of flashback removal spells can deal with just about anything that might stop you from winning post-milling. This plan is remarkably hard to stop: it can even beat instant-speed graveyard hate sometimes, though it's somewhat painful to do so. By looping Krosan Reclamation and Pull from Eternity, you can (slowly) draw whatever cards you need, even if your whole graveyard and library are exiled!

Necrotic Ooze + Spikeshot Elder + Devoted Druid + Morselhoarder = Instant Win! You reanimate the Necrotic Ooze who has the abilities of all three others and thanks to Anger can tap for mana that turn. Then as a cost you place a -1/-1 counter on him. You maintain priority, remove the -1/-1 counter and add to your mana pool. Then once you have infinite red mana (never losing priority) you can ping infinitely (again, never losing priority between pings). Its one of the harder combos to stop. Once Dread Return resolves, you're home free.

Enchant Scion of the Ur-Dragon with Curiosity and turn him into Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind drawing cards until your opponent loses.

Date added	9 years
Last updated	9 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 64 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.17
Tokens	Bear 2/2 G