Bad Food

Commander / EDH* BRG (Jund)

leviathan_cross

Land (29)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Karplusan Forest
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Luxury Suite
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Nurturing Peatland
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Snow-Covered Forest
• 1x Snow-Covered Mountain
• 1x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 1x Taiga
• 1x Tarnished Citadel
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Food Chain
• 1x Survival of the Fittest
• 1x Sylvan Library

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Domri, Anarch of Bolas
• 1x Karn, the Great Creator

Creature (23)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Azra Oddsmaker
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Dark Confidant
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Destiny Spinner
• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Eladamri, Lord of Leaves
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Elvish Reclaimer
• 1x Eternal Scourge
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Oakhame Adversary
• 1x Ohran Frostfang
• 1x Priest of Titania
• 1x Squee, the Immortal
• 1x Sylvan Safekeeper
• 1x Vexing Shusher
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Walking Ballista

Artifact (15)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Conqueror's Flail
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Impulse
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence
• 1x Talisman of Resilience
• 1x Torpor Orb
• 1x Umezawa's Jitte
• 1x Winter Orb

Commanders (2)

Instant (19)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Ad Nauseam
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Deadly Rollick
• 1x Deflecting Swat
• 1x Fire Covenant
• 1x Force of Vigor
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Kolaghan's Command
• 1x Lightning Bolt
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Return to Nature
• 1x Tainted Pact
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Veil of Summer

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A challenge was posed to me to build a deck helmed by Tana, the Bloodsower. If I tabled a pod at my LGS's EDH Night, my friend would buy me a dinner. I was allowed to use any card in my collection, but I could not run Tymna the Weaver as a partner, obviously. I had to actually win with Tana. At first I was gonna just build another U/Gx deck and use Kraum, Ludevic's Opus or Thrasios, Triton Hero, but as I flipped through my binder, I saw her: Reyhan, Last of the Abzan. It was then I realized I had to build the memiest Food Chain deck I possibly could, and thus Bad Food was spawned.

This is a Food Chain combo deck that aims to get Tana out as early as possible and assemble Food Chain to infinitely cast and exile Reyhan to pump Tana and the rest of my board to infinite size, and swing out. The plan B is to have a wide board of Saprolings that can beat down, or casting a huge Finale of Devastation for the win. This isn't a deck I'm expecting to win every game.

Edit Due to the new death trigger ruling, it for some reason also affects commanders going to exile, so a new extra step I must take to keep the dream alive is sacrificing Reyhan instead of exiling her to food chain. I’ve added Viscera Seer as I can pod a saproling into it.

Certain out of the ordinary deck building choices I made:

Torpor Orb: Not the best card, but there's a surprising amount of Korvold, Fae-Cursed King, Urza, Lord High Artificer and Thassa's Oracle decks running around my meta. Also happens to stunt Chulane, Teller of Tales lists looking to abuse ETB's. It's been surprisingly effective, I just wish it was on a critter.

Karn, the Great Creator: Again, with a few Urza players in my meta, this deck folds to strategies that go over it. Initially, I had planned to run Collector Ouphe, but with all of my rocks, my equipment and pod in the deck, I ultimately had to cut it. Sadly, no real synergies with Karn in the list, but I couldn't find a better option.

Birthing Pod and Survival of the Fittest: Despite how I have no Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker lines in the deck, pod still plays surprisingly well with both my generals as I can pod saprolings into dorks or Sylvan Safekeeper, and I can pod Reyhan to both pump Tana and grab my only 4 drop Oakhame Adversary. This deck uses survival in the most fair way possible by dumping late game dorks into either food hits, Walking Ballista or any of my card advantage critters. Sometimes it is a 2 mana do nothing, but when its good, its gas.

Eladamri, Lord of Leaves: This is a bit of a weird one as it sort of nonbos with any of my equipment and my whole gameplan of pumping Tana, but he serves to ensure Tana and Oakhame can both get through and accrue their value while also being a mass Lightning Greaves for my board from nasty Fire Covenants. When his job is done, he either gets podded into a food chain hit, or I just kill him with Food Chain itself.

Ohran Frostfang: No, this isn't a cEDH card (yet). Yes it makes Ad Nauseam worse and its 100% ready to eat a path, but if it sticks and I've already got a small swarm of Saprolings, then its an engine that can easily draw me 5+ extra cards a turn. It's a real pet card of mine that I try to jam into any creature heavy deck I can, even if its not on theme because its just a complete bomb that I can pod into, or tutor out with Green Sun's Zenith and Finale. I implore anyone who hasn't played with it yet to try it out and see what I mean.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 64 - 0 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.01
Tokens	Saproling 1/1 G, Spirit 1/1 C, Treasure