Muldrotha Toolbox

Commander / EDH BUG (Sultai) Reanimator

Owlteeth

Advantage (21)

• 1x Dakmor Salvage
• 1x Tolaria West
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Exhume
• 1x Golgari Thug
• 1x Grapple with the Past
• 1x Grisly Salvage
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Mulch
• 1x Satyr Wayfinder
• 1x Wall of Blossoms
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
• 1x Golgari Grave-Troll
• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Liliana, Dreadhorde General

Ramp (10)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Exploration
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Traverse the Ulvenwald
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Black Market

Combo (2)

• 1x Dark Depths
• 1x Thespian's Stage

Protection (2)

• 1x Glacial Chasm
• 1x Lightning Greaves

Manalands (29)

• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Fabled Passage *f-pre*
• 5x Forest
• 1x Golgari Guildgate
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 3x Island
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Opulent Palace
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Tranquil Thicket
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Vivid Marsh
• 1x Watery Grave

Removal (13)

• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Wasteland
• 1x Flaxen Intruder
• 1x Drown in Filth
• 1x Shriekmaw
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Imprisoned in the Moon
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Languish
• 1x Ravenous Chupacabra
• 1x Ritual of Soot
• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Massacre Girl

Commander (1)

Engine (14)

• 1x High Market
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Piper of the Swarm
• 1x Vivien's Arkbow
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Liliana, Heretical Healer  ^Flip
• 1x Nantuko Husk
• 1x Ramunap Excavator
• 1x Meren of Clan Nel Toth
• 1x The Gitrog Monster
• 1x Titania, Protector of Argoth
• 1x Grave Betrayal

Finisher (4)

• 1x Stonecoil Serpent
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat
• 1x Questing Beast
• 1x Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni

Hate (4)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Ashiok, Dream Render
• 1x Narset, Parter of Veils *f-pre*
• 1x Praetor's Grasp

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Other (18)

• 1x Cephalid Coliseum
• 1x Walking Ballista
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Devoted Druid
• 1x Hermit Druid
• 1x Phantasmal Image
• 1x Reassembling Skeleton
• 1x Survival of the Fittest
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Fatestitcher
• 1x Necrotic Ooze
• 1x Venser, Shaper Savant
• 1x Morselhoarder
• 1x Damia, Sage of Stone

Bad (3)

• 1x Dark Depths
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Fact or Fiction

Good (2)

• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Nantuko Husk

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Hello everyone! This Muldrotha list is my pet deck, and I have recently been trying to change it around a bit. I have a few cards I am looking to cut for various reasons, but I don't have anything in mind to replace them with. If you have any suggestions, they would be much appreciated! Other than that, feel free to read through the description for a bit of explanation on the deck and how it works. I am still working on writing up the description, so it's not complete yet, but let me know if there are any questions you have and I can be sure to answer them. Thanks for stopping by and looking at my list!

Card Categories Overview

Mana Lands: these are lands that I have included primarily for the ability to make mana with them or to mana fix. Even if there is another ability on the card, I am mostly running it for the mana production.

Ramp: Non land mana sources and ways to find lands.

Protection: These cards primarily help to combat hate and make it harder for my opponents to interrupt my game plan.

Advantage: These are included to help me either find more fuel for when I am going off, or to find the right card for the situation at hand.

Removal: These cards are used primarily to get rid of something I don't want to be going up against.

Hate: These are cards that I only really use to stop one specific thing in a game, whether it be a player, playstyle, or specific card, its all in here.

Finisher: These cards are to close out a game once I have gotten myself into a position to do so.

Engine: These cards are a way for me to continue grinding out value from some aspect of my deck. They keep me in the game once my resources start to dry up, or enable other cards to get me value.

Combo: Any cards purely dedicated to a combo go here. This means I really have no use for it outside of when I am going for it's combo.

Good: cards that I have in the deck and like, but that don't see enough play to warrant their inclusion. I want to replace these cards with a similar effect and try out some other options rather than replacing the card outright

Bad: These are the cards that I actively dislike playing. My playgroup is pretty casual, so this might be from them feeling overpowered, or from me just not liking the effect.

Also, there is definitely some overlap between categories and cards, so I have organized this into the categories based on what I personally use each card for most often.

Gameplan

The basic idea of this deck is to use Muldrotha as a toolbox to find answers whenever necessary. By usig the graveyard as an extension of your hand, you can have so many cards available to you that very few situations are truly unbeatable. I have focused on keeping as many instants and sorceries out of this deck as possible, because Muldrotha cannot do much with them. The basic strategy is to ramp up to a Muldrotha while stocking the graveyard, and start applying pressure to your opponents in whatever way you think is the most oppressive for that player's situation, while also being flexible enough to pivot into an entirely new plan at any moment. While you keep your opponents held down with your endless stream of answers to their board, you can build up a win condition of your own, choosing whatever strategy is the hardest for your enemies to deal with.

Most of the cards in this deck can be used in multiple ways, and by sequencing your plays correctly you can likely survive any situation you run into. The flexibility of the deck is my favorite aspect, because no two games are the same. You are playing a very reactive strategy, but one that can go on the offensive when the time is right.

Detailed Category Breakdown

Mana Lands Show

Not much to say here, some lands have bonus effects but mostly its just the typical lands to run a 3 color deck.

Ramp Show

Noteworthy inclusions are: Crop Rotation, Sakura-Tribe Elder, and Black Market.

Crop Rotation allows me to find any land in my deck for almost no cost, and since I have a land for almost every situation that might arise, this card alone has the potential to win games when used properly.

Sakura-Tribe Elder is very easily recurable, and it has a built in sac trigger. With a Meren of Clan Nel Toth or a Black Market out, this card is still useful even after all the basics have been found out of my deck.

Black Market ramps up very quickly, not only off my creatures but off everyone's. Because I already kill my own creatures very frequently, this card is going to be giving me insane amounts of mana after only one or two turns.

Protection Show

Glacial Chasm and Lightning Greaves are the only dedicated protection that I have. Part of the reason for that is that I don't care about my creatures dying, because I can just play them again or sacrifice them in response to removal, and I am still getting value out of them. I still run the greaves because it gives haste for an equip of 0, and it can be used to almost guarantee the survival of Muldrotha. Glacial Chasm is a bit of an interesting card, because if you don't know when to go get it, you can really screw yourself over. That said, when you need it, its very easy to fetch up and very hard to deal with. It dodges most removal and deals with most threats, while being replayable from the graveyard. With an Exploration effect in play, the upkeep cost basically disappears, making this even better.

Advantage Show

Dredge: Dakmor Salvage, Golgari Thug, Life from the Loam, and Golgari Grave-Troll all serve the same basic purpose of being in my graveyard when I draw. The dredge is the main draw of these cards, although Loam can help me sustain mana through a gitrog monster, or bring back a key land that got blown up. Although less common, Golgari Grave-Troll makes an excellent finisher in a pinch.

Tolaria West and Beseech the Queen are both very strong cards here. Tolaria West can hit any land in my deck, as well as guarantee me a finisher in Stonecoil Serpent. Beseech the Queen can find me any answer I am looking for. I try to keep my average CMC low because I am planning on playing many cards each turn, so I am able to find most of my deck very early on with this card.

Phyrexian Metamorph: By being able to copy most relevant threats in commander, and not even relying on colored mana to do so, this little dude is easily my favorite card to topdeck. since he is an artifact creature, he can be cast twice a turn off muldrotha, meaning you can steal a powerful ETB and then follow it up with a powerful static effect. There have been so many games I won off the back of this guy. Don't forget that Darksteel Citadel is an artifact, too. One extra mana can be the difference between a win and a loss, so don't forget that it is a valid line to copy a land with metamorph.

jace, weilder of mysteries: I usually just target myself with the +1, but I have won a game with the Laboratory Maniac ability before, so there's that upside.

Removal Show

Strip Mine and Wasteland are insane value, because I can replay lands from the yard, but my opponents most likely can't. these two lands can sometimes be enough to keep someone off their commander for the rest of the game if you have to. I tend to use them more for targeted removal of opposing Dark Depths or Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx. It is also really useful to be able to take someone off of a color completely if they don't have a robust manabase.

Shriekmaw and Fleshbag Marauder are both extra valuable because they kill themselves, so I can use them again the next turn. This makes it even more difficult to deal with for my opponents as well, beacuse rather than using a creature exile effect, they now need a graveyard exile effect.

Imprisoned in the Moon can keep a commander off the field until it is dealt with. Because the card doesn't change zones, you can't return it to the command zone to dodge the removal.

Languish, Ritual of Soot, and Massacre Girl are all able to wipe the board pretty well. Massacre Girl is probably the best because not only does she come with a body, but she is recurable with muldrotha.

Hate Show

one of my friends has a Meren of Clan Nel Toth deck, so I have to be able to deal with her graveyard while leaving mine alone, and I can't afford a Leyline of the Void, so Bojuka Bog is a necessity.

Ashiok, Dream Render is super useful to have out, because it also acts as protection. By preventing searching and drawing attention, Ashiok is able to effectively protect all of my other cards. Ashiok also is able to remove my opponent's graveyards, so that's further hate on the other GY decks.

Narset, Parter of Veils is a very quick way to shut down other blue decks, and has the bonus of being able to dig for answers if I need to.

Praetor's Grasp is a silver bullet that can remove any one problem card from the game before its owner even sees it. That combined with the ability to play the stolen card yourself makes this an irreplaceable card in my opinion.

Finisher Show

Stonecoil Serpent actually dodges a decent amount of removal, while also being a good mana sink. Being playable off either the artifact or creature for turn is just extra flexibility that can help you end a game when you see the opportunity.

Questing Beast can sneak under tokens, and tht is a common archetype for my playgroup. That and not being able to stop my damage is very very strong. The haste is extra spicy because I can use it the turn I replay it off Muldrotha.

Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni is not only my personal favorite card, but also very difficult to deal with. She has built in regeneration for a very low cost, is able to take advantage of my removal from earlier in the game, and has a decent power/toughness for closing out the game. She can also get Menace off Piper of the Swarm to be even harder to deal with.

Engine Show

Ashnod's Altar, Nantuko Husk, Carrion Feeder, and (to a lesser extent) High Market are all able to freely sacrifice my other creatures. While the free sacrifice is what I am looking for, the upside brought by altar and the creatures is too strong to ignore. The only problem I have is that because the creatures have no evasion, I can rarely swing in with them. I would like to find something else to run in place of them, but for now they are still doing their jobs.

Piper of the Swarm, Liliana, Heretical Healer  , Grave Betrayal, and Titania, Protector of Argoth are all able to churn out creatures with little extra effort on my part. If my graveyard gets attacked, these are good ways for me to still pull out ahead of my opponents.

The Gitrog Monster, Ramunap Excavator, and Crucible of Worlds let me get even more value out of my lands than I already was. Pair any of them with Titania, and the game is basically over.

Combo Show

The Dark Depths + Thespian's Stage combo is insanely powerful, and I can tutor for it in one turn if I get any two of my tutors. With the easy recursion of lands, this combo is actually really resilient, and with the power of Marit Lage, I couldn't pass it up. Unfortunately, I rely too heavily on this combo right now, so if I don't find some more finishers to cover the weaknesses of this deck, I will likely cut this combo to keep games more interesting. I dislike ending every game with a Marit Lage.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	2 years
Exclude colors	WR
Key combos	Dark Depths + Thespian's Stage
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 34 - 0 Rares 26 - 0 Uncommons 17 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.00
Tokens	Bear 2/2 G, Elemental 5/3 G, Emblem Liliana, Defiant Necromancer, Experience Token, Marit Lage, Morph 2/2 C, On an Adventure, Rat 1/1 B, Zombie 2/2 B