Rot-Your-Life-Away Special

Commander / EDH BG (Golgari) Bracket 2 Mill Reanimator Sacrifice Tokens

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Creature (38)

• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Festerleech
• 1x Molt Tender
• 1x Spore Frog
• 1x Stitcher's Supplier
• 1x Apprentice Necromancer
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Bloodghast
• 1x Circle of the Land Druid
• 1x Fiend Artisan
• 1x Marionette Apprentice
• 1x Nether Traitor
• 1x Priest of Forgotten Gods
• 1x Reassembling Skeleton
• 1x Skull Prophet
• 1x Undead Butler
• 1x Wight of the Reliquary
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat
• 1x Ayara, First of Locthwain
• 1x Braids, Arisen Nightmare
• 1x Royal Assassin
• 1x Six
• 1x Warren Soultrader
• 1x Fell Beast of Mordor
• 1x Poison-Tip Archer
• 1x Terror of Towashi
• 1x Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
• 1x Amzu, Swarm's Hunger
• 1x Golgari Grave-Troll
• 1x Lord of Extinction
• 1x Shriekmaw
• 1x Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1x Aatchik, Emerald Radian
• 1x Izoni, Thousand-Eyed
• 1x Massacre Wurm
• 1x Rottenmouth Viper
• 1x Abhorrent Overlord
• 1x Hornet Queen

Land (36)

• 1x Blooming Marsh
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dakmor Salvage
• 1x Darkbore Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Deathcap Glade
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 7x Forest
• 1x Karn's Bastion
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Necroblossom Snarl
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 11x Swamp
• 1x Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1x Temple of Malady
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Undergrowth Stadium
• 1x Viridescent Bog
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Crop Sigil
• 1x Chthonian Nightmare
• 1x Dredger's Insight
• 1x Ripples of Undeath
• 1x Illicit Masquerade
• 1x Polluted Cistern / Dim Oubliette

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Grist, the Hunger Tide

Commander (1)

 ^Flip

Instant (7)

• 1x Grisly Salvage
• 1x Mausoleum Secrets
• 1x Peerless Recycling
• 1x Plunge into Darkness
• 1x Saw in Half
• 1x Fell the Profane  ^Flip
• 1x V.A.T.S.

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Exhume
• 1x Quag Feast
• 1x Bala Ged Recovery  ^Flip
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Victimize
• 1x Season of Loss

Artifact (4)

• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Broodheart Engine

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Creature (8)

• 1x Emperor of Bones
• 1x Webstrike Elite
• 1x Carrion Grub
• 1x Fumulus, the Infestation
• 1x Moldgraf Millipede
• 1x Swarm of Bloodflies
• 1x Zask, Skittering Swarmlord
• 1x Chitin Gravestalker

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Bushwhack
• 1x Unearth
• 1x Deluge of Doom
• 1x Coiling Rebirth

Artifact (2)

• 1x Carrion Cruiser
• 1x Debris Beetle

Instant (3)

• 1x Entomb
• 1x Force of Despair
• 1x Reincarnation

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Initially I was fairly apathetic towards Commander from a deckbuilding standpoint. I felt 100 cards and no duplicates would just mean you gotta find a bunch of cards that are more or less synonyms, something rather frustrating when in regular decks you can just have 4 copies. Turns out this style of deckbuilding is more enticing than I anticipated. It's difficult to strike a good balance and more often than not I find myself agonizing over cutting just a single card! Being able to have only one copy of each card makes each of them feel a lot more valuable than in conventional decks where you can simply trim away 4 copies to 3.

Anyhow, this deck is intended as a Commander version of my regular deck; it mills itself to get valuable things in the grave and prospers off of this. It's easy to bring stuff back and several cards love it when there's a bunch of stuff in the grave. That, or cards that can exit the grave on their own without the need for an extra, in-between step.

For my Commander I chose Grist, Voracious Larva  , obviously, as Grist is my all-time favorite MtG character and I'm incapable of building anything outside of a Black/Green identity. Grist, the Hunger Tide is better for an Insect tribal deck, but this is more focused on slowly draining your opponent of life and reanimation with a more heavy focus on Black, which Grist, the Plague Swarm   interacts with more. Larva is also a very good first turn play. Plus, she's just so cute.

Overall the goal is to swarm the field with a bunch of small things, rather than reanimating a few huge creatures. This, combined with a few other creatures that deal chip damage to all opponents whenever something dies, hopefully will slowly but steadily wither my opponents away until only dust remains.

UPDATE: I've used this deck for the first time and managed to win the game! I'm pretty proud of how this all worked out. This is definitely the most "me" deck.

Date added	5 months
Last updated	15 hours
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 47 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.98
Tokens	Harpy 1/1 B, Insect 1/1 BG, Insect 1/1 BG, Insect 1/1 G, Insect 1/1 G w/ Flying, Deathtouch, Servo 1/1 C, Treasure