Sidisi's Apostles

Commander / EDH

rguilbault

Artifact (11)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Arena of the Ancients
• 1x Bontu's Monument
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Pyramid of the Pantheon
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thrumming Stone

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Ambition's Cost
• 1x Ancient Craving
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Secret Salvage
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will

Land (28)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 23x Swamp
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Creature (35)

• 1x Archfiend of Depravity
• 1x Dark Confidant
• 1x Faerie Macabre
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Harvester of Souls
• 1x Razaketh, the Foulblooded
• 1x Rune-Scarred Demon
• 26x Shadowborn Apostle
• 1x Xathrid Necromancer
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Attrition
• 1x Death Match
• 1x Death Pits of Rath
• 1x Gate to Phyrexia
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Greed
• 1x Oversold Cemetery
• 1x Phyrexian Arena

Commander (1)

Instant (7)

• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Culling the Weak
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Goryo's Vengeance
• 1x Imp's Mischief
• 1x Songs of the Damned
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Liliana of the Veil

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The goal of this deck is to live the dream and churn through the deck one Shadowborn Apostle at a time and between Grim Haruspex and Zulaport Cutthroat, end the game.

How to get there: by turn 3 you should fairly consistently have 6 Shadowborn Apostles on the battlefield. You want to try to wait until end of turn before you're next up: sacrifice the Apostles to go find Razaketh, the Foulblooded. Now untap, draw and hopefully you have a couple cheap creatures to cast, e.g. Shadowborn Apostles. To live the dream you have to fetch Grim Haruspex, Zulaport Cutthroat and Phyrexian Altar. Then you get to sacrifice Apostles to the Altar to cast Apostles and draw a card. You don't net any mana, you just replace the card and churn through until you can reach Yawgmoth's Will and figure out how to cast it. If you can pull it off, you will have a pretty good chance of drawing through most of the deck and each sacrifice will kindly dwindle opponents life totals with Zulaport Cutthroat in play. Sidisi, Undead Vizier guarantees you access to a tutor to help along the process is you're not living the dream T3 or 4.

Is the deck resilient? Hell no. Jester's Cap would wreck its house pretty hard and even Extract or Praetor's Grasp would make me sad. Nobody plays Infinite Obliteration or similar effects, so I can at least fear not that all my Shadowborn Apostles would be taken from me (thus allowing Contamination and Attrition to do things to mess with people before I fizzle out...I suppose 20+ Shadowborn Apostles rumbling someone also might add up over the course of the game.

The deck is meant to be kinda fun and maybe slightly/sorta competitive. To wit, I lived the dream the one time I played it...almost afraid to play it again.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 24 - 0 Rares 11 - 0 Uncommons 31 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.25
Tokens	Morph 2/2 C, Zombie 2/2 B