Hapatra - Golgari Countering

Commander / EDH* BG (Golgari) Combo Counters Sacrifice Snake

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Creature (28)

• 1x Ammit Eternal
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Channeler Initiate
• 1x Collector Ouphe
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Devoted Druid
• 1x Dusk Urchins
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Elvish Spirit Guide
• 1x Fiend Artisan
• 1x Fume Spitter
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Fynn, the Fangbearer
• 1x Generous Patron
• 1x Ivy Lane Denizen
• 1x Liliana's Standard Bearer
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Necrotic Ooze
• 1x Obelisk Spider
• 1x Ohran Frostfang
• 1x Sadistic Hypnotist
• 1x Scurry Oak
• 1x Seshiro the Anointed
• 1x Toski, Bearer of Secrets
• 1x Wickerbough Elder
• 1x Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Blowfly Infestation
• 1x Evolutionary Leap
• 1x Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip
• 1x Nest of Scarabs
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Sylvan Library

Land (34)

• 1x Agadeem, the Undercrypt  ^Flip
• 1x Bala Ged Sanctuary  ^Flip
• 1x Blooming Marsh
• 1x Darkbore Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 11x Forest
• 1x Gemstone Caverns
• 1x Karn's Bastion
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Nurturing Peatland
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 7x Swamp
• 1x Turntimber, Serpentine Wood  ^Flip
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Undergrowth Stadium
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Driven / Despair
• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Harvest Season
• 1x Natural Order
• 1x Night's Whisper

Commander (1)

Instant (14)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Force of Vigor
• 1x Grim Affliction
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Plumb the Forbidden
• 1x Rushed Rebirth
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Veil of Summer
• 1x Village Rites
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Artifact (8)

• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Contagion Clasp
• 1x Eldrazi Monument
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mox Amber
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Viridian Longbow

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Maybeboard

Creature (1)

• 1x Warren Soultrader

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My very first Deck to play Commander with. Started with her and only had most of the Amonkhet synergies, sucked, and now after two years I discovered her again since my collection has grown. Turns out that with the right setup she is an absolute powerhouse in the range of high midtier powerlevel.

Gameplan

The gameplan resolves heavily around Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons, but she can be substituted by the following card: Nest of Scarabs(even better than Hapatra in that it gives you a creature PER AMOUNT of poison counters spewed out, but those don't have deathtouch).

Having one of those enablers out gives all our spells the ability to turn into gears of mass cardadvantage/tokengeneration.

• TOKENGENERATION through COUNTERPLACING: Ammit Eternal, Banewhip Punisher, Channeler Initiate, Fume Spitter, Contagion Clasp, Grim Affliction, Black Sun's Zenith and the two best in this category Yawgmoth, Thran Physician, Devoted Druid

• CARDADVANTAGE: Seshiro the Anointed, Ohran Frostfang, Driven / Despair, honorable mention for Liliana, Dreadhorde General(love this card) and in my blackheavy meta Compost(clicks tongue NOICE), Yawgmoth, Thran Physician once again proving his worth in this deck and almost as good as him is Generous Patron

As you might have noticed Yawgmoth, Thran Physician really is the number one card in this deck...one might call it the golden pig of the deck and it is by far. Therefore alot of tutoring is dedicated for the lookalike of Alexi Laiho (if you don't know him, look for his band: he is the frontman of CoB and the absolute incarnation of Dr. Y)

Alot of the cards also do combo with each other very efficiently and I will try to name the possible combos here:

Combolines

COMBOLINE A

• Piece 1: Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons or Nest of Scarabs
• Piece 2: Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
• Result: (lose life and draw cards one at a time equal to the total toughness of creatures on board) - (Yawgmoth's own thoughness) = alot (also as many ETB and LTB triggers)
• CAUTION: this needs an initial creature other than Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons for sacrificing to start off
• add Piece 3: add Eldrazi Monument or Ivy Lane Denizen(he can't have Nest of Scarabs to combo)
• Result: draw as many cards as you have life (also as many ETB and LTB(not with Eldrazi Monument) triggers)
• CAUTION: this needs an initial creature other than Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons for sacrificing to start off, also with Eldrazi Monument you need a second legal target besides your already needed pieces to go off
• add Piece 4: one of Zulaport Cutthroat or Obelisk Spider
• Result: draw as many cards as you have life and drain/ping your opponents to death while doing so (also as many ETB and LTB triggers)

COMBOLINE B

• Piece 1: Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons
• Piece 2: Devoted Druid
• Piece 3: Ivy Lane Denizen
• Result: {INFINITY} {G} and {INFINITY} sneks

COMBOLINE C

• Piece 1: one of Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons or Nest of Scarabs
• Piece 2: Blowfly Infestation
• Piece 3: one of Zulaport Cutthroat or Obelisk Spider
• Result: {INFINITY} ETB and LTB triggers and {INFINITY} drain/ping
• CAUTION: for this you need an initial 1/1 token and a counterplacement
• Eldrazi Monument shuts this combo down as your tokens no longer die from a single counter

COMBOLINE D

• Piece 1: Necrotic Ooze
• Pieces 2 and 3 in the graveyard: Devoted Druid and Channeler Initiate
• Result: {INFINITY} mana of any colour, {INFINITY} amount of counters placed/removed, all of the activated abilities from ALL creatures in ALL graveyards

There might come up many other lines, but for a baseline I try to keep these lines in mind and work around with them, adapting to each game individually.

Utility

The slots that shall not be forgotten are the utility slots or cards that work wonderfully well in this deck:

• Fiend Artisan: Tarmogoyf which makes sneks become our combo/value pieces...yea that's good
• Ammit Eternal: each spell cast by opponents = a token for us with one of the enablers out
• Banewhip Punisher: makes a token and can destroy for only {B} in most cases
• Collector Ouphe: BIG OOF for artifact ramp
• Fynn, the Fangbearer: looks like infect is back on the menu boys
• Sadistic Hypnotist: tokens...gone...your hand...also gone
• Wickerbough Elder: perfect synergy for removing artifacts and enchantments
• Seshiro the Anointed: look...this is as much snake tribal as this deck gets
• Eldrazi Monument: easy to come by sacrifice fodder enables this and it protects our creatures nicely
• Skullclamp: skullclamp
• Dusk Urchins: draw them cards
• Viridian Longbow: sneks doing deadly archery is great for nobody usually...but this time it is good for us
• Growing Rites of Itlimoc  : poor man's Gaea's Cradle, also digs for creatures of which we have alot
• Evolutionary Leap: good usage of excess sneks
• Phyrexian Reclamation: so useful to get back our creatures, also can help to keep Hapatra castable
• Driven / Despair: even a small amount of tokens makes opponents feel the second half of this card by name
• Harvest Season: Catapults our creature ramp shell and our likely unblocked sneks into lots of mana territory. Look ma, all lands!
• I like to run some amount of protection from targeted removal, since a clever opponent will try to take out the most important parts of our engines: Veil of Summer and Heroic Intervention

I hope you like my description and would love to get some feedback from YOU. Also in real life I have a solid ophidiophobia, so if you like some therapy through confrontation, here you go. Make sure to leave a like and use some fancy snake tokens! :)

Date added	4 years
Last updated	1 month
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 39 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.32
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Insect 1/1 B, Snake 1/1 G, Snake 1/1 G w/ Deathtouch, Spirit 1/1 C, Squirrel 1/1 G
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