Hermit Brood | Sidisi Combo

Commander / EDH

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Land (31)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Cephalid Coliseum
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Gemstone Mine
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 1x Tarnished Citadel
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Wasteland
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Artifact (8)

• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Tormod's Crypt
• 1x Winter Orb

Instant (24)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Daze
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Intuition
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Memory's Journey
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Shallow Grave
• 1x Songs of the Damned
• 1x Stifle
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Unsubstantiate
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Deep Analysis
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Regrowth
• 1x Sylvan Tutor
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Commander (1)

Creature (22)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Elvish Spirit Guide
• 1x Eternal Scourge
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Fatestitcher
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Hermit Druid
• 1x Knacksaw Clique
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Narcomoeba
• 1x Necrotic Ooze
• 1x Phantasmagorian
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Riftsweeper
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Sylvan Safekeeper
• 1x Thornling

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Food Chain
• 1x Pernicious Deed

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Knacksaw Clique is a card which is severely underrated. When you have it in the graveyard, along with a blue mana producer such as Bloom Tender, you can exile-mill your opponent's libraries with Necrotic Ooze at instant speed with zero interaction outside of Split Second!

This deck runs two main combos with backup. Knacksaw Nooze (discussed above), and Laboratory Maniac after a mass mill. Cards like Memory's Journey provide extra resiliency to graveyard removal effects, and Sylvan Safekeeper provides protection for Nooze on-board.

To get the them up and running, you will need to mass-mill your own library. We run two ways of doing this easily. Firstly and more obviously we run a basic-less list with Hermit Druid. His ability allows us to mill our entire library for a total of 1GG. Secondly we have Food Chain and Eternal Scourge for infinite creature-mana, to infinitely cast Sidisi, Brood Tyrant. This method nets us the Zombie creature tokens, which we can use as fuel for Dread Return.

Dread Return is the bread and butter for this deck. It allows us to sacrifice three creatures to return either Necrotic Ooze or Laboratory Maniac to the battlefield. We can make reuse of this effect in a pinch by having card: Rift Sweeper come into play. This is also a fantastic card for getting around pesky Extract effects.

Once you have Necrotic Ooze on the board with your library in your graveyard, you can pay G to give him haste with Thornling's ability. You can go to town exiling your opponent's libraries at this point. If they try to respond, remind them that you can respond to their removal or board wipes with mass library exile. Instant speed wins are spicy.

If you're in a pinch and somebody has exiled your Necrotic Ooze, you should be using Dread Return to get Laboratory Maniac. If somebody exiles your graveyard before you can get the combo online (for example, in response to Dread Return), then I'm afraid there's not a lot else you can do.

My meta is currently filled with Tormod's Crypt effects, so I'm looking at finding ways to prevent them from happening. The deck runs a nice free-counter package, like Pact of Negation, Daze, and Force of Will. Riftsweeper was added to the deck after I was hit with the new Grenzo, Havoc Raiser after putting Food Chain on top of my library with Vampiric Tutor.

That's all for now, more to come!

Top Ranked	Achieved #26 position overall 8 years ago
Date added	8 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 56 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	1.94
Tokens	Ape 3/3 G, Bird 2/2 U, Spirit 1/1 C, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	2. cEDH Decklists, Proxy deck