Anafenza Protean Boonweaver

Commander / EDH BGW (Abzan, Junk) Combo Competitive Infinite Combo Multiplayer Toolbox

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Land (35)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Brushland
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Forest
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hashep Oasis
• 1x Horizon Canopy
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Sandsteppe Citadel
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Bastion
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Artifact (3)

• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Skullclamp

Creature (30)

• 1x Academy Rector
• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Boonweaver Giant
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Cartel Aristocrat
• 1x Dark Confidant
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Felidar Guardian
• 1x Fiend Hunter
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Karmic Guide
• 1x Leonin Relic-Warder
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Protean Hulk
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Recruiter of the Guard
• 1x Renegade Rallier
• 1x Reveillark
• 1x Saffi Eriksdotter
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Angelic Renewal
• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Pattern of Rebirth
• 1x Survival of the Fittest
• 1x Sylvan Library

Commander (1)

Instant (15)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Natural State
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Slaughter Pact
• 1x Snuff Out
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Tainted Pact
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Altar of Bone
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Fragmentize
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Vindicate

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This is a competitive Abzan combo deck filled with redundant game-winning combos. This description highlights the most the powerful interactions and deck-building considerations. Please remember to click +1 Upvote if you enjoy the deck.

Combine:

• Viscera Seer or Carrion Feeder or Cartel Aristocrat

with:

• Protean Hulk
• Boonweaver Giant
• Academy Rector and at least one other creature
• Pattern of Rebirth attached to any other creature
• Renegade Rallier and Saffi Eriksdotter or Angelic Renewal
• Renegade Rallier and Karmic Guide and Dance of the Dead or Animate Dead
• Sun Titan and Saffi Eriksdotter or Fiend Hunter or Angelic Renewal
• Reveillark and Saffi Eriksdotter or Fiend Hunter or Felidar Guardian or Karmic Guide
• Karmic Guide and Saffi Eriksdotter or Fiend Hunter or Felidar Guardian
• Leonin Relic-Warder and Dance of the Dead or Necromancy or Animate Dead
• Karmic Guide and Sun Titan and Dance of the Dead or Necromancy or Animate Dead

and:

• Blood Artist or Zulaport Cutthroat for infinite life loss.

Why Anafenza, the Foremost?

A few reasons.

1. Anafenza is efficient. She's cheap to cast and holds many would-be attackers at bay.
2. Anafenza is a hatebear. Exiling creatures on their way to the graveyard randomly hoses a ton of strategies, and it doesn't affect our combo.
3. Anafenza is green. Unlike Alesha, Who Smiles at Death, this deck can make use of Survival of the Fittest, Birthing Pod, and Eternal Witness.
4. Anafenza is the perfect CMC for Birthing Pod. If you find Felidar Guardian you will usually win on the spot.

Felidar Guardian is busted (aka Birthing Pod is busted)

If you combine Reveillark and Karmic Guide with a sacrifice outlet, and Felidar Guardian is either on the battlefield or in the graveyard, then you can generate infinite mana. Usually, this is set up with a complicated Birthing Pod chain.

Start by using a Birthing Pod on a 3-CMC creature (such as Anafenza) to find Felidar Guardian and use it to untap Pod. Then use Pod again, this time on Felidar Guardian to find Karmic Guide. Karmic Guide's ability triggers and returns Felidar Guardian to the battlefield, which untaps Pod again. Then use Pod on Felidar Guardian again, and find Reveillark. All this costs , and it only requires a resolved Birthing Pod and Anafenza on the board.

At this point if you also have a sacrifice outlet, you have access to infinite mana using Felidar Guardian to untap your lands, and if there are any creatures in your hand or graveyard which trigger by creatures entering the battlefield or dying, then you also have an infinite number of those triggers.

Tips on Tutoring

Tutors are an integral part of this deck and because it has such a complex combo (requiring several cards, not just one or two) playing the tutors well can make the difference between winning and losing.

• If you want a combo piece and have no others in your hand or graveyard and you don't have access to seven mana, the best creature to search for is Saffi Eriksdotter or Reveillark and the best non-creature is Pattern of Rebirth or Birthing Pod.
• If you want a combo piece and have seven mana, the best card to search for is Protean Hulk or Boonweaver Giant (obviously).
• The black tutors can be used to find versatile removal spells, like Vindicate, in addition to combo pieces. Importantly, they can also find lands and graveyard hate via Bojuka Bog.
• The green tutors are best used to find pieces of the combo, but they can also find interaction with Harmonic Sliver and Reclamation Sage.
• The first activation of Yisan, the Wanderer Bard can gain life, deal damage, and hate the graveyard thanks to Deathrite Shaman, ramp/fix your mana with one of the Llanowar Elves variants, or find a sacrifice outlet in Viscera Seer or Carrion Feeder. Subsequent activations usually find combo pieces.
• Thanks to Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers and Hashep Oasis filling in as extra forests, Tainted Pact can find any card in the deck, but choosing to exile cards can get tricky. Generally, try to save Tainted Pact for when you need cards with the greatest redundancy (lands and removal are good candidates). Always maneuver away from spots where you need to cast this card as an emergency solution. More than other tutors, Tainted Pact gets better the longer you go without casting it. If you have the mana, consider casting Tainted Pact and taking the first real tutor. Only find specific combo pieces if you strongly believe that you will win the game the same turn.

Top Ranked	Achieved #51 position overall 6 years ago
Date added	8 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 54 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.31
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Spirit 1/1 C
Folders	Commander, interesting, cEDH, EDH, Cool EDH