Muldrotha, the Gravetide

Commander / EDH BUG (Sultai)

samlowe106

Creature (37)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Doom Whisperer
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1x Golgari Grave-Troll
• 1x Gravebreaker Lamia
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Haywire Mite
• 1x Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
• 1x Kokusho, the Evening Star
• 1x Meren of Clan Nel Toth
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Noxious Gearhulk
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Plaguecrafter
• 1x Ramunap Excavator
• 1x Ravenous Chupacabra
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x River Kelpie
• 1x Rootcoil Creeper
• 1x Satyr Wayfinder
• 1x Shriekmaw
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Spore Frog
• 1x Springbloom Druid
• 1x Stitcher's Supplier
• 1x Tatyova, Benthic Druid
• 1x Thassa, Deep-Dwelling
• 1x The Gitrog Monster
• 1x Tireless Provisioner
• 1x Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
• 1x Vampire Hexmage
• 1x World Shaper
• 1x Yavimaya Elder

Land (35)

• 1x Barkchannel Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Clearwater Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dakmor Salvage
• 1x Dark Depths
• 1x Darkbore Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Deathcap Glade
• 1x Dreamroot Cascade
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 4x Forest
• 3x Island
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Lotus Field
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Opulent Palace
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Rejuvenating Springs
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Strip Mine
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1x Tranquil Thicket
• 1x Undergrowth Stadium
• 1x Waterlogged Grove
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Zagoth Triome

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Garruk Relentless  ^Flip
• 1x Kaito Shizuki
• 1x Vraska, Golgari Queen

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Explore
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Nature's Lore

Commander (1)

Artifact (9)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Cloud Key
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mesmeric Orb
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Binding the Old Gods
• 1x Imprisoned in the Moon
• 1x Kaya's Ghostform
• 1x Seal of Primordium
• 1x Secrets of the Dead
• 1x Sultai Ascendancy
• 1x The Eldest Reborn
• 1x Vessel of Nascency

Instant (4)

• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Entish Restoration
• 1x Growth Spiral
• 1x Harrow

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Sideboard

Creature (9)

• 1x Ancient Greenwarden
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Fiend Artisan
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Golgari Thug
• 1x Lazav, the Multifarious
• 1x Old Rutstein
• 1x Siren Stormtamer
• 1x Yarok, the Desecrated

Land (5)

• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Natural Order

Artifact (2)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Panharmonicon

Instant (2)

• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Growth Spiral

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Maybeboard

Creature (9)

• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Lord of the Forsaken
• 1x Lotus Cobra
• 1x Stinkweed Imp
• 1x Tireless Tracker
• 1x Titan of Industry
• 1x Wonder
• 1x World Breaker

Artifact (3)

• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Phyrexian Altar

Instant (6)

• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Golgari Charm
• 1x Grisly Salvage
• 1x Simic Charm
• 1x Sultai Charm

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Bala Ged Recovery  ^Flip
• 1x Careful Study
• 1x Ecological Appreciation
• 1x Mulch
• 1x Scapeshift

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x Font of Fertility
• 1x Journey to Eternity  ^Flip
• 1x Khalni Heart Expedition
• 1x Oversold Cemetery

Planeswalker (4)

• 1x Ashiok, Dream Render
• 1x Nissa of Shadowed Boughs
• 1x Wrenn and Realmbreaker
• 1x Wrenn and Seven

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The idea with this deck is to use your graveyard as a toolbox for permanents with powerful ETB effects (hence the lack of many instants/sorceries) and landfall effects, and play mitigate the downside to cards that require sacrificing permanents.

Plays

• Evoke Mulldrifter from your graveyard to draw cards each turn
• Evoke Shriekmaw to destroy a nonartifact, nonblack creature
• Return permanents like Glen Elendra Archmage, Seal of Primordium, etc. to the battlefield so you can use their effects later
• Repeatedly play Gray Merchant of Asphodel or Kokusho, the Evening Star to drain your opponents' health
• Play Noxious Gearhulk, Plaguecrafter, Ravenous Chupacabra, Reclamation Sage, etc. to remove threats
• Play Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath over and over again without escaping it
• Play Strip Mine to blow up one of your opponent's lands once each turn
• Play lands like Tranquil Thicket or Zagoth Triome that you previously cycled for card draw
• Combo Vampire Hexmage with Dark Depths to summon Marit Lage, then play both of them from the graveyard and do it again on the same turn (and then once on each of your following turns)
• Play Kaya's Ghostform from the graveyard to protect Muldrotha
• Play Imprisoned in the Moon any time it or the creature it enchants are put in the graveyard to hose creatures and commanders
• Play Bojuka Bog to nuke an opponent's graveyard
• Sacrifice a creature to Phyrexian Altar for {C}{C}, then use that mana to recast it
• Sacrifice a creature to Birthing Pod to tutor a creature with a strong ETB, then cast the creature you sacrificed from the graveyard

If Ramunap Excavator or Meren of Clan Nel Toth is on the field, you can do many of the above tricks.

Other Tips

• Lands you sacrifice to The Gitrog Monster, Harrow, Lotus Field, etc. or lands with cycling can be played from the graveyard, which mitigates their additional costs and can allow you to guarantee landfall triggers on future turns.
• Golgari Grave-Troll, Dakmor Salvage, Stitcher's Supplier, Satyr Wayfinder, etc. will help you fill up your graveyard.
• You'll often want Gravebreaker Lamia to either send Golgari Grave-Troll to your graveyard to begin filling it quickly, or use so you can immediately play whatever card it tutored, or just to make graveyard plays more efficient.
• The bounce lands like Golgari Rot Farm can bounce lands for landfall triggers on cards like Tireless Tracker.
• If you plan to sacrifice or kill a creature, attach Skullclamp first to draw more cards.
• This deck also has a lot of landfall triggers. The Gitrog Monster, Azusa, Lost but Seeking, Oracle of Mul Daya, etc. all help you play extra lands which will then trigger Tatyova, Benthic Druid, Tireless Provisioner, etc.

Unfortunately, the deck doesn't have much of a response to graveyard hate. If an opponent has a Leyline of the Void or similar, it can severely limit your options, so try to stay in a position where you can recover from a graveyard nuke with just what you have on board and in your hand. It's totally worth it to pay delve costs, especially if a graveyard wipe would put you in a bad spot.

Notes to Deckbuilders

Muldrotha (and Sultai in general) is a very fun deck to build. You have a lot of great options and lines of play at both high and low budgets. Here are some things I've learned and thought about while building Muldrotha:

• Because Muldrotha, the Gravetide costs so much and has no innate evasion, it's often quite punishing when she dies, so the deck has also been constructed to have some redundancy/work well without Muldrotha.
• This deck is more of a graveyard toolbox card than a load-up-the-graveyard dredge deck. Loading up the graveyard with cards like Golgari Grave-Troll and Mesmeric Orb is always a means to an end.
• Try to avoid instants and sorceries -- they don't synergize with Muldrotha nearly as well as permanents with ETBs or activated abilities do.
• This particular deck synergizes quite poorly cards like Splendid Reclamation, Living Dead, and Dread Return because the deck isn't constructed to load up the graveyard and then cheat cards in from it. The toolbox nature of the deck means that cheating your entire graveyard out at once could mean that a lot of cards like Acidic Slime don't have useful targets. You might also mill instants or sorceries and be unable to cast them!
• If you're going to keep cards like Birthing Pod in, make sure your creatures curve to support it! Pod decks sometimes have a bit of a learning curve in commander because they require you to memorize your curve and quickly determine if you even have any options to tutor out when you sacrifice a given creature. If you aren't familiar with your deck, you might sacrifice a creature to Pod only to realize you can't tutor out anything.
• If you're going to play Panharmonicon and/or Yarok, the Desecrated, I highly recommend familiarizing yourself with the rulings for these cards -- they're a bit tricky. (Also, if you have both out at the same time, you get a total of three triggers, NOT four!)
• Bloodghast, Vengevine, Hollow One, or Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis are great in 60 card formats, but aren't as strong in EDH as they are in Modern. If you want to play them, they'll definitely provide some value, but there are a lot of other cards worth playing instead.
• Muldrotha is a pretty big target, but you don't need her to stay out for the deck to function. It's better to spend that mana on alternative threats so you can divert pressure away from Muldrotha, or have a backup plan if she dies. However, if you find that Muldrotha dies too quickly at your table, consider adding in a Swiftfoot Boots or Lightning Greaves.
• If you choose to play Second Chance, you can potentially get infinite extra turns if you can burn yourself to 5 life or less. You can pull it off by playing Second Chance first, then casting Toxic Deluge, then casting Muldrotha on the same turn. (Or dig through your library with Doom Whisperer.)
• If you want to sacrifice creatures to play them for their ETB again, Altar of Dementia (to mill yourself), Viscera Seer (to search through your library), or Phyrexian Altar (to get mana) are good choices.
• Lord of the Forsaken helps you cast cards from your graveyard. I didn't include it because it comes in a bit too late to be useful.
• Villainous Wealth can be a very fun win condition, but it takes a lot of mana and inconsistent.
• Wonder can make it easier for you to get damage through, or it can allow you to counter flying threats. However, this deck doesn't have many attacking creatures that benefit from flying, or many engines to put it into the graveyard.
• There are lots of great budget cards like Khalni Heart Expedition or Font of Fertility that you can recur with Muldrotha and will help you hit landfall triggers.
• Consider testing Yarok, the Desecrated as an alternate commander.

Date added	2 years
Last updated	10 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	13 - 5 Mythic Rares 38 - 6 Rares 26 - 4 Uncommons 14 - 4 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.28
Tokens	Blood, Emblem Kaito Shizuki, Emblem Vraska, Golgari Queen, Experience Token, Food, Human 2/2 G, Insect 1/1 G, Marit Lage, Ninja 1/1 U, Plant 0/1 G, Treasure, Wolf 1/1 B, Wolf 2/2 G
Folders	Commander
Based on	Muldrotha, the Gravetide copy Dragonfly123 EDH