Skinny Nath

Commander / EDH BG (Golgari) Discard

bobrinkman

Land (38)

• 1x Blooming Marsh
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 7x Forest
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Mirrorpool
• 1x Nurturing Peatland
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Strip Mine
• 8x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Calming Verse
• 1x Casualties of War
• 1x Dark Deal
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Syphon Mind
• 1x Tasigur's Cruelty

Enchantment (17)

• 1x Attrition
• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Liliana's Caress
• 1x Malevolent Awakening
• 1x Megrim
• 1x Necrogen Mists
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Parallel Lives
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Quest for the Nihil Stone
• 1x Raiders' Wake
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Utopia Sprawl
• 1x Waste Not
• 1x Words of Waste

Artifact (14)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Anvil of Bogardan
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Geth's Grimoire
• 1x Golgari Signet
• 1x Memory Jar
• 1x Mindcrank
• 1x Mind's Eye
• 1x Mox Tantalite
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Slate of Ancestry
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Resilience

Commander (1)

Creature (16)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Cabal Therapist
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
• 1x Lord of Extinction
• 1x Massacre Wurm
• 1x Mindslicer
• 1x Myojin of Night's Reach
• 1x Sadistic Hypnotist
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Smothering Abomination
• 1x The Haunt of Hightower
• 1x Undercity Informer
• 1x Vulturous Zombie

Instant (5)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Golgari Charm
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Tower Defense

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This is a Nath deck that does NOT go wide (I got board of Craterhoof Behemoth and Triumph of the Hordes ), nor elf tribal.

The goal is to get advantage by limiting my opponents' hand sizes via discard. I use the elf tokens mostly as fuel to trigger more discard, mill, or other value. I kill my opponents through effects that burn them when they discard or mill.

The ramp package is designed to get Nath into play on turn 4, which is why I'm not playing some of the more expensive ramp pieces like Solemn Simulacrum or Burnished Hart .

Nath does not help you draw cards, so the priority in the early game (and especially when making mulligan decisions) is to find one of your card draw engines.

Some ways to win:

• Bloodchief Ascension + Mindcrank . Megrim , Liliana's Caress , and Raiders' Wake are backups for Bloodchief Ascension. If you have multiple of the black enchantments in play then Memory Jar can also be a wincon. Don't forget to keep some mana open, and hold off on your land drop, to take maximum advantage of the cards you get from Memory Jar.
• Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord + Lord of Extinction

Another nice synergy is Nath of the Gilt-Leaf + Sadistic Hypnotist . You can empty everyone's hands and the game goes into topdeck mode. In my experience this isn't as bad for your opponents as they fear ... usually by that point in the game a couple people have draw engines online (like Rhystic Study ) so they often have cards to play. But it does make it hard for the opponent to lay a trap or build a plan over multiple turns.

Painful Quandary is also really good.

Version 4 updates

• My appreciation for fetchlands has increased, so + Evolving Wilds , + Terramorphic Expanse , + Prismatic Vista , + Verdant Catacombs , cutting 2 Forest and 2 Swamp.
• I want Command Beacon in every deck, so cut another Swamp.
• Trying out the new MH1 lands, so cut another Swamp for Nurturing Peatland
• Decided Hero's Downfall and Vraska's Contempt weren't doing enough. Cut them for Assassin's Trophy (cheaper and more versatile) and Casualties of War (living the dream)
• Cut Mana Vault as I don't seem to find a time to untap it. Trying Mox Tantalite in its place, but it doesn't seem good. (Getting it bounced is pretty brutal.)
• Added Talisman of Resilience because I was short ramp. Cut Vampiric Rites to make room.
• Cut Torment of Hailfire because people were getting bored of it. This made room for The Haunt of Hightower which is more on flavor.
• Sadistic Sacrament was in the deck to fight combo, but our meta has evolved and I don't need it right now. Trying Cabal Therapist as something fun to spend elf tokens on.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	5 years
Key combos	Bloodchief Ascension + Mindcrank Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord + Lord of Extinction Nath of the Gilt-Leaf + Sadistic Hypnotist
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 44 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.05
Tokens	Copy Clone, Elf Warrior 1/1 G, Zombie 2/2 B