Muldrotha, the Gravetide (idea for Dominaria)

Commander / EDH* BUG (Sultai) Competitive Multiplayer

Griffarian

Land (37)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Choked Estuary
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Opulent Palace
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x River of Tears
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Snow-Covered Forest
• 1x Snow-Covered Island
• 1x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Creature (33)

• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Bane of Progress
• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Disciple of Bolas
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Faerie Artisans
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1x Golgari Grave-Troll
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Hermit Druid
• 1x Kokusho, the Evening Star
• 1x Merciless Executioner
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Palinchron
• 1x Prime Speaker Zegana
• 1x Ravenous Chupacabra
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Satyr Wayfinder
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Spellskite
• 1x Stinkweed Imp
• 1x Triskelion
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Wood Elves
• 1x World Shaper

Instant (5)

• 1x Cyclonic RiftGC
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Vampiric TutorGC

Commander (1)

Artifact (9)

• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Lion's Eye DiamondGC
• 1x Mindslaver
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Vedalken Orrery

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Bitter Ordeal
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Demonic TutorGC
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Maelstrom Pulse
• 1x Victimize
• 1x Villainous Wealth

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Bear Umbra
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Monastery Siege
• 1x Pernicious Deed
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Rhystic StudyGC

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Maybeboard

Creature (8)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Kira, Great Glass-Spinner
• 1x Liliana, Heretical Healer  ^Flip
• 1x River Kelpie
• 1x Sidisi, Brood Tyrant
• 1x Taigam, Sidisi's Hand
• 1x Willbender
• 1x Woodfall Primus

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Mortal Combat
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Path of Discovery
• 1x Seal of Primordium
• 1x Search for Azcanta  ^Flip
• 1x Secrets of the Dead
• 1x Sultai Ascendancy

Artifact (4)

• 1x Lion's Eye DiamondGC
• 1x Mishra's Bauble
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1x Urza's Bauble

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Muldrotha, the Gravetide

These are personal ideas.

Cards with the A next to them are cards I am not 100% sure off.

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Why Sultai

I am very glad you have asked me this question! Sultai is the best! Sultai is life! Sultai is Death! Sultai is GOD!

• Muldrotha won't be a broken commander since it has a CMC of 6 mana, unlike Karador, Ghost Chieftain it will continue to pay a mana tax but it has more interaction with the grave.

Card Choices

• Muldrotha, the Gravetide: Simular to Karador, the card advantage you gain.
• Hermit Druid: Fastest way to dumb your cards in your graveyard. The reason why i only play 3 Basic lands.
• Pernicious Deed: A good global that is reusable
• Mindslaver: Control your biggest threat and redo it all the time, very mana intensive of 10 mana per turn.
• World Shaper: All those lands in your graveyard belong on the battlefield!
• Stinkweed Imp, Golgari Grave-Troll, Life from the Loam: You basicly draw the amount you dredge.
• Prime Speaker Zegana: More cards!
• Phyrexian Altar, Viscera Seer: The sac outlets.
• Spellskite, Lightning Greaves and Deadeye Navigator: Sometimes you need protection, all those evil people just wanna see your plans burn!
• Bitter Ordeal: Are you playing black and/or white? Let me check that library for a Bojuka Bog, Rest in Peace and other cards that could interupt my SMALL Card Advantage and remove it from the game FOREVER!
• Eternal Witness: Sometimes you need to cast your instant and sorcery spells twice!
• Avenger of Zendikar: Card Advantage alone does not win you the game, if an opponent has a Board Advantage and can bring your life total to 0. What good was that Card Advantage? This is where Avenger of Zendikar comes in. He brings with himself many 0/1 who can become huge if unchecked.
• Grave Titan: Same reason as with Avenger of Zendikar. It makes sure you have a board presence that protects you and can kill opponents.
• Grave Pact and Butcher of Malakir + Sac Outlet: Keeping the board clean of creatures is a step closer to victory.
• Fact or Fiction: It is simply to good!
• Mystic Remora: Currently in Maybe but it must go to Main since it is simply to good!
• Entomb: Currently in Maybe board but must go to Main because it is basicly a Tutor!
• Mortal Combat: Besides the great misspell of Kombat, it is an alternative win condition.
• Bane of Progress: In my opinion, a staple that must be in every green deck that is not Karametra, God of Harvests or any other artifact/enchantment deck with green.
• Taigam, Sidisi's Hand: Currently Maybe, but it needs to go Main but at the moment I have no idea what to swap.
• Willbender: Another protection against Bojuka Bog. "How dare they exile my cards?" Currently Maybe because Bitter Ordeal does it easier and if they dont have a Bojuka Bog you just exile another threat.
• Vedalken Orrery and Leyline of Anticipation: Moved from Maybe to Main because I still have cards in hand that could be game saving.

These cards are in Maybe and this is the reason why:

• Sword of Feast and Famine: Best of the swords but I feel Bear Umbra does it's job a little bit better since it triggers on the attack. Since you can cast so many cards with your commander you need alot of mana between the 2 main phases. And both can be recast from the graveyard.
• River Kelpie: Very good card for in this deck but I feel a little overkill in card draw (what? He must be ill, someone get him a doctor!). With his persist + Mikaeus, the Unhallowed it can be very hard to be removed but with Muldrotha, the Gravetide, your graveyard is technically your hand and with the Dredge mechanic it goes faster. The main reason why it is a Maybe and not a Main is because it's 5 CMC.
• Path of Discovery: With each creature that enters the battlefield, you explore, it helps to throw stuff in the graveyard and makes your creatures grow, but there is allready so many options to throw cards in the graveyard that I made room for other cards. But I placed it in Maybe.

The Combos

• Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + Triskelion: Kill everybody.
• Mindslaver + Muldrotha, the Gravetide + 10 mana: Not fun for your opponents but it wins you the game. In non competitive games, I advice not to use this or you won't have any friends left (speaking out of experience).
• Palinchron + Deadeye Navigator = Infinite mana, execute with Villainous Wealth and leave target with around 5-8 cards in library. Kill everybody but keep the Villainous Wealth's target as last victim of your greed.

Hermit Druid's ability resolved, hope you have World Shaper and Phyrexian Altar in graveyard and Muldrotha, the Gravetide on the Battlefield + enough mana. Cast World Shaper as the creature and the Phyrexian Altar as the artifact, sacrifice World Shaper to the Phyrexian Altar and place all lands from your graveyard that were put there from Hermit Druid's ability on the battlefield.

Explanations

Since the deck rellies on casting your cards from the graveyard, you need to fill that graveyard and there are many ways you can do this. In the Sultai colours, the main mechanics are Mill and Dredge.

When I was building this deck I thought about those 2 mechanics and felt like the Dredge mechanic was far better and much faster in Card Advantage.

Example: You cast a sorcery spell Tome Scour you throw the top 5 cards in your graveyard and it's gone. If you dredge Stinkweed Imp you mill 5 cards in your graveyard and gain 1 card in your hand and you can cast Stinkweed Imp and let it serve as a blocker. When it dies, you simply can Dredge again the next draw.

That being said: nothing beats Hermit Druid!

Strength and Weakness

The Strengths

• You have a huge Card Advantage when the Commander is on the battlefield.
• Sultai are the best colours! Sultai is Life! Sultai is GOD!

The Weaknesses

• Most of your Card Advantage comes from your graveyard thus exile graveyards effects could be a huge set back.
• The card Back to Basics destroys the mana base since this deck only runs 3 Basic Lands. With Bitter Ordeal and Krosan Grip you should anticipate it and try to remove it before it shuts you down.
• Your Card Advantage rellies on your Commander being on the battlefield and since the card itself has no protection, you need to create the protection and sometimes that protection comes to late. With a 6 CMC, after couple of removal spells, it becomes uncastable, this is where Command Beacon sees it's value.
• Things that fly can hurt you, our best aerial defence is Stinkweed Imp.

Updates

• 9th of April 2018: Added Lion's Eye Diamond and removed Chromatic Lantern.
• 9th of April 2018: Fixed Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + Triskelion in Combo. Did not need Sac outlet.
• 13th of March 2018: Added Plays Accordion Block.
• 11th of March 2018: Added Skullclamp to main and removed Butcher of Malakir (too expensive)
• 11th of March 2018: Added Farseek and removed Farhaven Elf
• 11th of March 2018: Added Entomb and moved Search for azcanta to maybe.
• 11th of March 2018: Added Leyline of Anticipation and moved Liliana, Heretical Healer   to maybe.
• 11th of March 2018: Added Vedalken Orrery and removed Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger (too expensive)
• 11th of March 2018: Added Triskelion to main and moved Woodfall Primus to maybe.
• 11th of March 2018: Added Villainous Wealth and removed Grim Flayer
• 11th of March 2018: Added Palinchron and removed Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 11th of March 2018: Added Fact or Fiction to main and moved Skullclamp to maybe.
• 10th of March 2018: Added Explanations Accordion Block.
• 10th of March 2018: Updated the Strength and Weaknesses.
• 10th of March 2018: Created this Deck on Tappedout.

Plays

First play (Commander was a proxy) in a 1 versus 1 against B/W Tymna the Weaver and Ravos, Soultender deck and ignoring the Duel Commander banlist (with Sol Ring, etc).

• 13th of March 2018: The results were very bad. I lost both games. The problem in this match up was that the commander has no protection. The moment it was played, it got removed... The Partner commander player tactic was putting pressure early game by attacking my lifetotal. With Tymna the Weaver, he could draw an additional draw and having his removal at hand. Another weakness of the commander is, the moment it is played, he can't hardly cast anything that same turn so mana ramp is important or have Flash abilities like Leyline of Anticipation. My next game with this deck is Saturday 17th of March in a Multiplayer EDH game.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 60 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.51
Tokens	Copy Clone, Plant 0/1 G, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Commander, Commander, Combo, Decks to look at for ideas, deck's to keep a eye on, Commander/EDH