Old Stickfingers

Commander / EDH BG (Golgari) Control Reanimator Rock

wirsindallein

Ramp (10)

• 1x Joraga Treespeaker
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Hardbristle Bandit
• 1x Overgrown Zealot
• 1x Poison Dart Frog
• 1x Enduring Vitality
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Silhana Starfletcher
• 1x Ondu Giant
• 1x Moldering Gym / Weight Room

Lands (36)

• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 15x Forest
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Strangled Cemetery
• 1x Svogthos, the Restless Tomb
• 15x Swamp
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

Creature Removal (4)

• 1x Chupacabra Echo
• 1x Ravenous Chupacabra
• 1x Shriekmaw
• 1x Noxious Gearhulk

Sweepers (4)

• 1x Rancid Earth
• 1x Culling Ritual
• 1x Massacre Girl
• 1x Massacre Wurm

Graveyard Exile (2)

• 1x Cremate
• 1x Ambush Wolf

Recursion (10)

• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Valgavoth's Faithful
• 1x Bonebind Orator
• 1x Oversold Cemetery
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Under the Skin
• 1x Timeless Witness
• 1x Coiling Rebirth
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Vampire Soulcaller

Mill/Filter (8)

• 1x Valgavoth's Onslaught
• 1x Cache Grab
• 1x Grapple with the Past
• 1x Say Its Name
• 1x Tapping at the Window
• 1x Commune with Evil
• 1x Acolyte of Affliction
• 1x Liliana, Death's Majesty

Enchant/Artifact Removal (4)

• 1x Break Down the Door
• 1x Creeping Mold
• 1x Foundation Breaker
• 1x Acidic Slime

Utility (4)

• 1x Fiend Artisan
• 1x Wight of the Reliquary
• 1x Graveblade Marauder
• 1x Ygra, Eater of All

Silver Bullets (2)

• 1x Spore Frog
• 1x Tajuru Preserver

Commander (1)

Draw (7)

• 1x Ravenous Squirrel
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Stargaze
• 1x Darkstar Augur
• 1x Diresight
• 1x Beast Whisperer
• 1x Hollow Marauder

"Nonland" Removal (4)

• 1x Tear Asunder
• 1x Windgrace's Judgment
• 1x Rottenmouth Viper
• 1x Meteor Golem

Protection/Voltron (4)

• 1x Horned Helm
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak
• 1x Brawn

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Maybeboard

Preferred Ramp Package (10)

• 1x Arboreal Grazer
• 1x Collective Voyage
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Hardbristle Bandit
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Tempt with Discovery
• 1x Moldering Gym / Weight Room

Tutor (1)

• 1x Final Parting

Lands to Get (7)

• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Demolition Field
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Restless Cottage
• 1x Shifting Woodland
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Witch's Cottage

Recursion (2)

• 1x Journey to Eternity  ^Flip
• 1x Meren of Clan Nel Toth

Silver Bullets (3)

• 1x Collector Ouphe
• 1x Riftsweeper
• 1x Seedborn Muse

Flash (2)

• 1x Winding Canyons
• 1x Vivien, Champion of the Wilds

Rampcursion (2)

• 1x Aftermath Analyst
• 1x Undergrowth Recon

Draw (1)

• 1x Greater Good

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Essentially, a Golgari control deck. When I think about "ideal" magic, my thought goes to stories of old tournament play. When you hear people talking about game winning moments, it always comes down to both players having answers for things - and if they don't have answers for things, they have ways to reliably dig for them.

Stickfingers is probably one of my favorite legendaries, and I'd been trying to figure out how to make the best use of him for a while. Back in October, I taught a friend how to play. One of the things I explained to him was that, if you build your deck right, your graveyard is just an extension of your hand. And so things clicked.

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Doing The Thing
The Thing for this deck is milling creatures with useful effects into the graveyard, recurring them to your hand, and then playing them as needed. Stickfingers' on-cast trigger effectively guarantees that at least a few of them are available right away. That's really the big thing here: Your graveyard is your toolbox.
Oh, and we have a few ways to sacrifice creatures for value. You know, if you need to play that Ravenous Chupacabra again.

Ultimately, this deck has a lot of answers, all of which gradually prep us for taking over with a more explosive, game winning play.

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Winning With The Thing
Of course, there is a wincon.
First: Stickfingers commander damage. We are aiming to control the board, and stickfingers himself is not that expensive to cast if X is 0 - even if he's got some tax. So we just need to get him in and get him swinging. Brawn definitely helps with this.
Second: Living Death. Our graveyard is going to be full of creatures. A lot of those creatures remove other creatures when they enter. Cast a living death, break parity, swing for big numbers.
Third: Massacre Wurm. Combine with Living Death, or Massacre Girl, or Culling Ritual, or really anything. It kind of just does its thing on its own, too.
Four: Ygra, Eater of All in combination with a wipe like Massacre Girl or Culling Ritual. Eat your wheaties and swing.

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On the Chopping Block:
These cards are slated to be removed for cards in the Maybe board, unless they prove to be more useful than anticipated.
Meteor Golem
Graveblade Marauder
Horned Helm
Whispersilk Cloak
Swiftfoot Boots
Anything in my ramp package that isn't part of the maybe board's "ideal ramp" category

Future Swaps
Noxious Gearhulk -> Undercity Eliminator

Date added	1 week
Last updated	6 days
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 14 - 0 Rares 27 - 0 Uncommons 22 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.27
Tokens	Copy Clone, Darkstar Augur 1/1 B, Food, Manifest 2/2 C, Timeless Witness 4/4 B, Zombie 2/2 B