Anafenza Combo

Commander / EDH BGW (Abzan, Junk)

TheSilentWyvern

Creature (38)

• 1x Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit
• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Boreal Druid
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Eldrazi Displacer
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Elvish Visionary
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Hermit Druid
• 1x Karmic Guide
• 1x Kitchen Finks
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Massacre Girl
• 1x Melira, Sylvok Outcast
• 1x Pitiless Plunderer
• 1x Protean Hulk
• 1x Qasali Pridemage
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Recruiter of the Guard
• 1x Renegade Rallier
• 1x Reveillark
• 1x Saffi Eriksdotter
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Selfless Squire
• 1x Spore Frog
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Tithe Taker
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Land (34)

• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1x Bountiful Promenade
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Field of Ruin
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forest
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Indatha Triome
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Lush Portico
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Murmuring Bosk
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Plains
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Shadowy Backstreet
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Underground Mortuary
• 1x Undergrowth Stadium
• 1x Vault of Champions
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Aura Shards
• 1x Bastion of Remembrance

Commander (1)

Instant (10)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Get Lost
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Rally the Ancestors
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Teferi's Protection
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Farewell
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Uncage the Menagerie

Artifact (6)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Elspeth, Sun's Champion

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So this is a combo-centric deck looking to win with one of 3 combos, Kitchen Finks/Melira, Reveillark/Karmic Guide/Renegade Rallier/Saffi Eriksdotter. There is some redundancy to ensure we go off should someone try to remove one of our combo peices.

Combo Peices: We need Kitchen Finks' Persist trigger...to not happen...entirely. Persist will get the Finks out of the yard once it's died. But we need some more peices to keep it from getting the -1/-1 counter. Melira, Sylvok Outcast and Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit, these each allow us to go infinite, each keeps the Finks from getting the -1/-1 counter by putting a +1/+1 counter on it. So it will come back from the yard again. Melira also gives us the added bonus of protecting us from Infect. Karmic Guide/Reveillark and Renegade Rallier/Saffi work pretty similarly, requiring a sac outlet to start looping sacrifices and reanimations. Reveillark combo can also be used for utility since it gets back 2 creatures. Blood Artist and Zulaport Cutthroat are how we win. Each time a Persist creature "dies" they trigger, and we drain for 1. Just add a sac outlet to the mix. Ashnod's Altar, Viscera Seer..

Why is Anafenza the Commander? I always wanted to make an Anafenza Commander since I started playing Commander. My previous build was a +1/+1 centric build that was too slow and rarely did much before I was run over. So I chose her for her 1st ability. She shuts off other graveyard based decks while leaving our yards be. How nice. So a fair amount of the deck is to hate out our opponents with a few fun synergies. The rest is just value. I'm looking for advice on potential upgrades, all suggestions are welcome. Thank you in advance.

-12/13/2017 Update- Changed out a few basics for fastlands.

-9/20/2018 Update- Updated the deck after making changes based on local meta matchups and wanting to try other things out in the list. Core of the deck is still the same.

-2/22/20- Massive update. Retooled the deck to be more tutor centric and have a mass reanimation plan.

-6/5/2024- Wow it has been quite some time since I played around with this decklist. Updated with...newish? Cards? Same core plan. Admittedly, rebuilding this.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	6 months
Exclude colors	UR
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 50 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 17 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.47
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Emblem Elspeth, Sun's Champion, Human Soldier 1/1 W, Map, Soldier 1/1 W, Spirit 1/1 WB, Treasure