The Circle of Life

Commander / EDH Enchantment Reanimator

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CardDraw (18)

• 1x Brutalizer Exarch
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Elvish Visionary
• 1x Evolutionary Leap
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Harvester of Souls
• 1x Jarad's Orders
• 1x Liliana Vess
• 1x Plea for Guidance
• 1x Reprocess
• 1x Rites of Flourishing
• 1x Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Smothering Abomination
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Soul of the Harvest
• 1x Sterling Grove
• 1x Vampiric Rites

Defense (21)

• 1x Abzan Charm
• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Attrition
• 1x Aura Shards
• 1x Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim
• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Brutalizer Exarch
• 1x Butcher of Malakir
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Faith's Reward
• 1x False Prophet
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Hornet Queen
• 1x Oblation
• 1x Oblivion Ring
• 1x Resolute Archangel
• 1x Sphere of Safety
• 1x Storage Matrix
• 1x Story Circle
• 1x Thragtusk
• 1x Withering Boon

Land (41)

• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Emeria, the Sky Ruin
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 12x Forest
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 11x Plains
• 10x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Windswept Heath

Ramp (12)

• 1x Boundless Realms
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Dictate of Karametra
• 1x Early Harvest
• 1x Farhaven Elf
• 1x Fertilid
• 1x Rites of Flourishing
• 1x Rude Awakening
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Yavimaya Granger

Recursion (8)

• 1x Emeria Shepherd
• 1x Emeria, the Sky Ruin
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Karmic Guide
• 1x Lifeline
• 1x Reveillark
• 1x Reya Dawnbringer
• 1x Sun Titan

WinCon (3)

• 1x Debt to the Deathless
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x White Sun's Zenith

Commander (1)

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Other (9)

• 1x Aegis of the Gods
• 1x Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim
• 1x Bonds of Mortality
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Survival of the Fittest
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Yosei, the Morning Star

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The deck basically works by shuffling creatures between graveyard and battlefield to abuse ETB triggers, relying heavily on recursion to ensure that it always has an answer to every problem. Eventually you win either by grinding people out with continuous value off of reincarnating creatures, forcing them to fight the same battles again and again, or you use Rude Awakening/Early Harvest to get huge amounts of mana and kill them with one of your three game-enders (Debt to the Deathless, Exsanguinate, White Sun's Zenith). What makes the deck so good is that every time a creature comes out of your deck, you opponents will have to deal with it again and again. Cards like Elvish Visionary and Farhaven Elf go from decent to pivotal if drawn early because they will each pull many cards over the course of the game. Evolutionary Leap makes you hard to deal with if it stays out for long, since each activation means another creature in your hand or graveyard, which means more utility at your fingertips whenever you happen to need it. A little weak to combo since it lacks blue for counterspells (looking into off-color options), but absolutely KILLS casual decks that just have board wipes and big threats, since you don't care about either. If forced, you can often end the game early by casting Early Harvest, Rude Awakening (first mode) or Dictate of Karametra into Debt to the Deathless. Lots of tutors means a fair chance of making this work quickly, and Grand Abolisher is a won't-stay-dead creature that prevents people from tampering with your combo. If you don't have a win con in hand, just cast Reprocess, sacking everything except Grand Abolisher, then use Faith's Reward to bring everything back and draw like thirty cards while untapping all those lands! If you don't get your game ender in there, you'll certainly get a tutor to find it.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	8 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 40 - 0 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.24
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Cat 2/2 W, Insect 1/1 G w/ Flying, Deathtouch, Morph 2/2 C