Jodah, 5C Monstrosities

Commander / EDH* Combo Five Color Goodstuff Ramp

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Land (38)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 3x Forest
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Rupture Spire
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Wasteland
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Creature (26)

• 1x Artisan of Kozilek
• 1x Atarka, World Render
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Captain Lannery Storm
• 1x Composite Golem
• 1x Dragonlord Kolaghan
• 1x Dread Cacodemon
• 1x Emrakul, the Promised End
• 1x Furnace Dragon
• 1x Grozoth
• 1x Hypnox
• 1x Iona, Shield of Emeria
• 1x Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1x Kozilek, the Great Distortion
• 1x Myojin of Night's Reach
• 1x Myojin of Seeing Winds
• 1x Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1x Scourge of the Throne
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x The Ur-Dragon
• 1x Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
• 1x Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
• 1x Utvara Hellkite
• 1x Zacama, Primal Calamity

Artifact (8)

• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Boros Signet
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Treasure Map  ^Flip

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Garruk Wildspeaker
• 1x Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker

Commander (1)

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Dragonstorm
• 1x Farseek
• 1x In Garruk's Wake
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Merciless Eviction
• 1x Overwhelming Forces
• 1x Pirate's Pillage
• 1x Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1x Time Stretch
• 1x Tooth and Nail

Instant (9)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Hornswoggle
• 1x Negate
• 1x Spell Swindle
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Sylvan Reclamation
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Dawn's Reflection
• 1x Market Festival
• 1x Omniscience
• 1x Smothering Tithe

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Creature (30)

• 1x Akroma, Angel of Wrath
• 1x Archetype of Endurance
• 1x Ashen Rider
• 1x Autochthon Wurm
• 1x Avacyn, Angel of Hope
• 1x Blightsteel Colossus
• 1x Bringer of the Black Dawn
• 1x Crystalline Crawler
• 1x Desolation Twin
• 1x Dragonlord Atarka
• 1x Drogskol Reaver
• 1x Hellkite Overlord
• 1x Iname as One
• 1x It That Betrays
• 1x Karrthus, Tyrant of Jund
• 1x Myojin of Cleansing Fire
• 1x Myojin of Infinite Rage
• 1x Overseer of the Damned
• 1x Palinchron
• 1x Progenitus
• 1x Ramos, Dragon Engine
• 1x Scourge of the Throne
• 1x Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Spirit of the Night
• 1x Trench Gorger
• 1x Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger
• 1x Wood Elves
• 1x Worldspine Wurm
• 1x Zetalpa, Primal Dawn

Sorcery (11)

• 1x Aminatou's Augury
• 1x Brass's Bounty
• 1x Brilliant Ultimatum
• 1x Conflux
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Enter the Infinite
• 1x Expropriate
• 1x Insurrection
• 1x Plague Wind
• 1x Traverse the Ulvenwald
• 1x Unexpected Results

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Dream Halls
• 1x Eldrazi Conscription
• 1x Mirari's Wake
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Sandwurm Convergence

Artifact (3)

• 1x Akroma's Memorial
• 1x Fist of Suns
• 1x Temporal Aperture

Land (2)

• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 1x Boros Garrison

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The idea is to ramp to 9 mana, so you can play Jodah, Archmage Eternal and at least one spell for the alternative mana cost while maintaining priority. Any suggestions are welcome.

I like the flavor of this deck as a menagerie of Magic's various villains and abominable creatures. We have Nicol Bolas, the Eldrazi, Demons, Horrors, Dragons, Myojin (at least the black one is evil), a Praetor, a Leviathan, Iona (her ability feels very evil) and an Elder Dinosaur (looks evil)! There are also Liliana and an evil Garruk depicted in the sorceries. Extra turns as one of the most feared effects in the game are included as well. For me, the deck resembles the underground facility in the film Cabin in the Woods, where the monsters from all the different fictional universes are kept.

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Composite Golem + ( Artisan of Kozilek or Rise of the Dark Realms ) is very nice with Jodah.

Zacama, Primal Calamity + Jodah is another nice combo.

Grozoth can be transmuted for Artisan of Kozilek or Rise of the Dark Realms to be resurrected by them later on.

I also have a Dragonstorm package: Atarka, World Render + Dragonlord Kolaghan + The Ur-Dragon + Scourge of the Throne + Utvara Hellkite .

There's a cool line of play, where you have Jodah + Composite Golem on the battlefield, transmute Grozoth for Rise of the Dark Realms , sac Composite Golem and cast Rise of the Dark Realms , put Composite Golem and Grozoth from the graveyard onto the battlefield. With the triggered ability get Artisan of Kozilek , Zacama, Primal Calamity , Dragonstorm and whatever to your hand. Sac Composite Golem to cast Artisan of Kozilek and get back Composite Golem , sac Composite Golem to cast Zacama, Primal Calamity , untap lands and then cast Dragonstorm . With at least three additional copies of Dragonstorm on the stack, get Dragonlord Kolaghan and some other dragons and swing with the whole squad (dragons + Artisan + Zacama + Grozoth if you can pay 4). In magical christmas land this can happen on turn 3:

• Turn 1: Play Breeding Pool , play Sol Ring , play Fellwar Stone (needs to produce green and [red or white or blue]), play Birds of Paradise
• Turn 2: Play Sacred Foundry , play Composite Golem
• Turn 3: Play Island (we now have 7 mana without Composite Golem ), play Jodah, transmute Grozoth and so on

Update (08th march 2019): Tubbybite suggested to include Tooth and Nail as it is a great card in itself and works particularly well with the Grozoth combo. When Jodah, Archmage Eternal is on the field you only have to cast the entwined Tooth and Nail for WURBG + 2 colorless and search for Composite Golem and Grozoth . The rest of the combo works almost as before and you get to cast a Dragonstorm with at least 4 additional copies!

Top Ranked	Achieved #9 position overall 6 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Five Color 5 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Ramp 5 years ago
Date added	6 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	18 - 0 Mythic Rares 49 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	5.77
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Dragon 6/6 R, Treasure
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