(S)pawn Sacrifice

Commander / EDH* BG (Golgari) Eldrazi Tokens

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Land (36)

• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Eldrazi Temple
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 6x Forest
• 1x Foul Orchard
• 1x Golgari Guildgate
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Grim Backwoods
• 1x Jungle Basin
• 1x Jungle Hollow
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Miren, the Moaning Well
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Sanctum of Ugin
• 6x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Temple of Malady
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Tomb of the Spirit Dragon
• 1x Unclaimed Territory
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Instant (5)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Altar's Reap
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Golgari Charm
• 1x Grisly Salvage

Creature (23)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Artisan of Kozilek
• 1x Blisterpod
• 1x Brood Butcher
• 1x Brood Monitor
• 1x Catacomb Sifter
• 1x Conduit of Ruin
• 1x Deceiver of Form
• 1x Eldrazi Mimic
• 1x Emrakul, the Promised End
• 1x Endbringer *f-pre*
• 1x Eyeless Watcher
• 1x It That Betrays
• 1x Kozilek, the Great Distortion
• 1x Matter Reshaper
• 1x Pathrazer of Ulamog
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Sifter of Skulls
• 1x Smothering Abomination
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Spore Frog
• 1x Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
• 1x Void Winnower

Sorcery (12)

• 1x All is Dust
• 1x Behold the Beyond
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Jarad's Orders
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Nissa's Revelation
• 1x Primal Growth
• 1x See the Unwritten
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Commander (1)

Enchantment (13)

• 1x Asceticism
• 1x Awakening Zone
• 1x Black Market
• 1x Deadbridge Chant
• 1x Defense of the Heart
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Evolutionary Leap
• 1x From Beyond
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Journey to Eternity  ^Flip
• 1x Parallel Lives
• 1x Path of Discovery
• 1x Spreading Plague

Artifact (10)

• 1x Aetherworks Marvel
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Cryptic Gateway
• 1x Eldrazi Monument
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Thran Dynamo

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Creature (5)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Conduit of Ruin
• 1x Desolation Twin
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Ulamog's Crusher

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Barter in Blood
• 1x Skittering Invasion
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Artifact (4)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Quicksilver Amulet
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Black Market
• 1x Emrakul's Influence
• 1x Spreading Plague

Instant (4)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Not of this World
• 1x Tribute to the Wild
• 1x Worldly Tutor

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(S)pawn Sacrifice is built around the premise of generating Eldrazi Spawn tokens to sacrifice to Meren of Clan Nel Toth to grow our experience counters and cheat out giant Eldrazi from the graveyard

Tokens:

Tokens are an important aspect of this deck, as they feed Meren. To get as many tokens as possible we have a number of token generaters, as well as some doublers, like Parallel Lives and Second Harvest. Beyond the number of Eldrazi that bring Scions and Spawns with them when they ETB, this deck also runs From Beyond and Awakening Zone to generate them as part of our upkeep.

Sacrifice value:

Our Eldrazi tokens already give us mana when they sac, but we also have some additional value we can get with their death. Smothering Abomination gives us card draw, Ashnod's Altar gets us extra mana, Evolutionary Leap gets us creature draw, and (while not technically a sacrifice) Skullclamp gets us more card draw.

Betrayal Engine:

The real magic of this deck is It That Betrays. This is one of the main wincons of this deck. it uses Dictate of Erebos and Grave Pact to force our opponents to sacrifice their creatures, which will then return them under our control. Plus, with all the Annihilator eldrazi, we'll be hoovering up permanents from everyone elses board. Finally, we put the nail in the coffin with All Is Dust, a nice one-sided boardwipe that gives us our opponents creatures so we can finish them off.

Bring out your dead:

In addition to Meren's graveyard recursion, we also have a number of ways to cheat out big Eldrazi from our hand, in particular Aetherworks Marvel (which synergizes nicely with our sacrificing), Cryptic Gateway, and Quicksilver Amulet.

Top Ranked	Achieved #56 position overall 6 years ago
Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 45 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.50
Tokens	Eldrazi Scion 1/1 C, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Energy Reserve, Experience Token
Folders	Stolen EDH ideas