Slimey Eats His Food

Commander / EDH Aristocrats BG (Golgari) Saproling Tokens

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Creature (19)

• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Deathspore Thallid
• 1x Jade Mage
• 1x Joraga Treespeaker
• 1x Krav, the Unredeemed
• 1x Mycoloth
• 1x Nemata, Grove Guardian
• 1x Nullmage Shepherd
• 1x Psychotrope Thallid
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Skullmulcher
• 1x Sporemound
• 1x Tendershoot Dryad
• 1x Thelonite Hermit
• 1x Utopia Mycon
• 1x Verdeloth the Ancient
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Yavimaya Elder
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Instant (9)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Putrefy
• 1x Scatter the Seeds
• 1x Second Harvest
• 1x Tragic Slip

Artifact (8)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Eldrazi Monument
• 1x Golgari Signet
• 1x Grafted Exoskeleton
• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Land (36)

• 1x Blighted Fen
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 10x Forest
• 1x Foul Orchard
• 1x Golgari Guildgate
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Grim Backwoods
• 1x Jungle Hollow
• 1x Memorial to Folly
• 1x Mosswort Bridge
• 9x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Temple of Malady
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Infernal Offering
• 1x Primal Growth
• 1x Saproling Migration
• 1x Saproling Symbiosis
• 1x Search for Tomorrow
• 1x Spontaneous Generation

Commander (1)

Enchantment (18)

• 1x Attrition
• 1x Beastmaster Ascension
• 1x Black Market
• 1x Cryptolith Rite
• 1x Evolutionary Leap
• 1x Fecundity
• 1x Fertile Ground
• 1x Fists of Ironwood
• 1x Fungal Plots
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip
• 1x Life and Limb
• 1x Parallel Lives
• 1x Primal Vigor
• 1x Saproling Burst
• 1x Snake Umbra
• 1x Song of Freyalise
• 1x Verdant Embrace

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I bit heavily off of Wedge's list, don't @ me.

The key to this deck is redundancy. Lots of ways to make Saproling tokens (Saproling Migration, Saproling Burst, Spontaneous Generation), lots of ways to sacrifice them (Utopia Mycon, Deathspore Thallid, Viscera Seer), lots of card advantage (Fecundity, Skullclamp, Krav, the Unredeemed), lots of removal (Tragic Slip, Attrition, Beast Within), and tutors to find any piece that might be missing (Demonic Tutor, Diabolic Intent, Chord of Calling). Our commander,Slimefoot, the Stowaway, checks multiple boxes here, which makes him easily the best card in our deck.

You can get value out of keeping your saps alive (Cryptolith Rite, Beastmaster Ascension, Eldrazi Monument) or killing them (Grave Pact, Black Market, Blood Artist), and it takes practice to learn the rhythms of when to eat your food and when to play with it, when to cash in your Saprolings for value or when to build them up and attack with them. But when this deck gets going, it's as explosive and consistent as any EDH deck I've ever played. I've had games where it looked like I was doing stone nothing and ended up winning a turn or two later, with the insane amount of mana and number of cards this deck can throw around. Also, the combos.

• Life and Limb + Sporemound makes infinite saprolings, but it'll also make INFINITE SAPROLINGS. As in, the combo isn't optional, and will result in an uninterruptible loop unless you can either win at instant speed or destroy one of the combo pieces. Luckily, you have sac outlets for that exact thing, and either eating your saps and draining your opponents to death with Slimefoot or sacrificing Sporemound to interrupt the combo is very doable in your deck.
• Ashnod's Altar + Slimefoot, the Stowaway with any token doubler (Illusionist's Bracers, Primal Vigor, Parallel Lives) also goes infinite.
• Add a second token doubler and you can do the same thing with Utopia Mycon instead of Ashnod's Altar, though I've never actually pulled this off in a game.

A few more random notes:

• Slimefoot is weirdly templated: it does damage to your opponent when a saproling dies (these effects usually cause your opponents to lose life). That means that effects that trigger off of damage like Snake Umbra and Grafted Exoskeleton are fair game. And man, they're brutal.
• The biggest influence in how your deck plays out is in which repeatable sac outlet you draw. If you drew Skullclamp or Evolutionary Leap, sac liberally. If you drew Attrition, Deathspore Thallid, Krav, the Unredeemed, or Psychotrope Thallid, sac defensively. If you drew Utopia Mycon, sac opportunistically. Anything else, only sac when you're comboing off.
• I drew an infinity symbol on one of my Saproling token cards with a sharpie to show when I've gone infinite much more easily. It helps a lot.

Ok stop reading this and go play this deck. It's so so so good!

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Exclude colors	WUR
Key combos	Life and Limb + Sporemound Ashnod's Altar + Slimefoot, the Stowaway
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 32 - 0 Rares 30 - 0 Uncommons 17 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.14
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, City's Blessing, Copy Clone, Human Cleric 1/1 BW, Morph 2/2 C, Saproling 1/1 G, Saproling */* G