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Thalia and The Gitrog Monster with a go-wide aristocrats style build, and big landfall threats to fall back on. We can use token generators such as Scute Swarm, Felidar Retreat, Rampaging Baloths and Avenger of Zendikar to flood the board, or win with quality creatures and highly synergistic landfall effects. Explosive landfall trigger turns can be found using any of our combos with Kodama of the East Tree, or with Scapeshift.

Many ramp creatures make good sac-fodder for our commanders, as do the token generators. We also have some anthem effects in Maja, Bretagard Protector and Ravos, Soultender to help us go wide.

We make use of the sacrifice on the commander to feed good standalone aristocrats cards like Cruel Celebrant, Smothering Abomination, Pawn of Ulamog, Pitiless Plunderer, and Blood Artist/Zulaport Cutthroat - these creatures can all provide ping damage/utility on their own in conjunction with the commander, as well as a payoff when the combo is assembled. As we're not going all-in on aristocrats, we have only two 'free' sac outlets: Yahenni, Undying Partisan and Carrion Feeder. These have been chosen over Viscera Seer etc as they are better on their own if we don't have the full combo.

There's lots of redundancy, but the main combos are:

Teysa Karlov is sort of win more, but this is good when we're not going all-in on the combos and we can win with doubled Blood Artist triggers on a non-infinite board, and she does enable a secondary aristocrats combo. We are not using the Teysa, Orzhov Scion and Darkest Hour combo, but you could put this together. Don't be afraid to use some combo pieces for value in the early game, e.g. to draw with Smothering Abomination and Teysa, as there's redundancy in the deck.

To help find our combo pieces, we run Eladamri's Call, Chord of Calling and Sidisi, Undead Vizier. If you're struggling to find a bounceland, Crop Rotation can fetch one from your deck, and a Crucible of Worlds effect will let you sac it and play it from the yard.

To remove graveyard hate enchantments/artifacts, we have Nature's Claim, Assassin's Trophy. Lightning Greaves and Heroic Intervention can protect our commander. Recursion available in Eternal Witness. We can win without infinite combos, so GY hate isn't the end of the world.

As we run Kodama of the East Tree, I've also thrown in Ravos, Soultender as an alternate partner commander for fun.

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Replace Read the Bones with Grapple with the Past as pseudo-draw and a way to recur a combo piece

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100% Casual

Competitive

Date added 1 year
Last updated 1 year
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This deck is Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

9 - 0 Mythic Rares

43 - 0 Rares

22 - 0 Uncommons

16 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 3.10
Tokens Bear 2/2 G, Beast 4/4 G, Cat Beast 2/2 W, Copy Clone, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Elemental 5/3 G, Food, Human Warrior 1/1 W, Insect 1/1 G, Plant 0/1 G, Treasure
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