Shuffle Hulk

Commander / EDH* GWUB

Zerail

Land (28)

• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Forest
• 1x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Tarnished Citadel
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Freed from the Real
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Pattern of Rebirth
• 1x Survival of the Fittest
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Wild Growth

Creature (24)

• 1x Academy Rector
• 1x Apprentice Necromancer
• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Body Snatcher
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Cephalid Illusionist
• 1x Dark Confidant
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Gilded Drake
• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1x Leonin Relic-Warder
• 1x Narcomoeba
• 1x Noble Hierarch
• 1x Nomads en-Kor
• 1x Protean Hulk
• 1x Spellseeker
• 1x Viscera Seer

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Natural Order
• 1x Neoform
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Reanimate

Artifact (5)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Sol Ring

Commanders (2)

Instant (24)

• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Flash
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Memory's Journey
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Silence
• 1x Summoner's Pact
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Veil of Summer
• 1x Worldly Tutor

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Maybeboard

Creature (1)

• 1x Aven Mindcensor

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Toxic Deluge

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My impressions

Pros

• instant speed win
• wins without needing to multihulk
• has built in answers in almost all combo lines
• built in protection from removal and graveyard hate.
• wins with a single spell cast
• high combo density
• modular multi hulk lines and card packages for meta choices -multiple backup win conditions

Cons

• dead cards
• less interaction do to combo density and dead cards
• have to run a back up combo to answer Rest in Piece,Aven Mindcensor, Containment Priest. Deck still has answers though. -no way to return exiled combo pieces

The number of combos in this deck make it very consistent but at a trade off of deck slots. It feels good to play with clear lines to win games. I mostly felt as though a slower gameplan was preferred while accruing card advantage.

Shuffle Pile

Flash + Protean Hulk

Cephalid Illusionist + Nomads en-Kor + Viscera Seer + Blood Artist

Mill with Nomads en-Kor targeting Cephalid Illusionist until Narcomoeba is revealed and put into play

Sacrifice Narcomoeba to Viscera Seer to trigger Blood Artist

Continue milling until Kozilek, Butcher of Truth is revealed to shuffle the graveyard back into to repeat the loop.

If Kozilek, Butcher of Truth is revealed before Narcomoeba then continue milling until Narcomoeba is revealed, Sacrifice Narcomoeba before the Kozilek trigger resolves to have Narcomoeba back in graveyard before the shuffle resolves.

Built in protection from single target removal in the form of Memory's Journey for 1 green by milling the rest of the deck on top of whatever spell or ability is on the stack to have access to it.

Notably Cephalid Illusionist + Nomads en-Kor and Blood Artist are effectively dead draws and require multi hulk lines to discard them and reanimate them or just play them out early.

Layered Combos

Two Pair Show

These Combos lead into hulk piles

This combo set has 4 possible 2 card combinations not counting tutors.

Survival of the Fittest/Entomb + Necromancy/Apprentice Necromancer

Survival and Entomb both put Protean Hulk into graveyard so Necromancy or Necromancer can reanimate Protean Hulk and have a sacrifice trigger on end step triggering into a Hulk pile.

Survival of the Fittest doubles as a tutor and a one card win condition with a creature in hand. Cycle Protean Hulk into graveyard to get Apprentice Necromancer.

Entomb can protect the graveyard when Kozilek, Butcher of Truth is in deck

Necromancy helps recur pieces from graveyards during multi hulk lines

Apprentice Necromancer can be used in off turn Hulk piles as cheap reanimation

Three Pair Show

These Combos lead into Hulk piles but require an additional creature in play.

This line has 9 possible 2 card combinations not counting tutors adding to the count.

Pattern of Rebirth/Natural Order/Academy Rector+ Viscera Seer/Carrion Feeder/Altar of Dementia + any creature (green)

Pattern of Rebirth can get Kozilek, Butcher of Truth

Natural Order doesn't get a ton of value outside of it's combo line

Academy Rector is used in multi Hulk lines.

Viscera Seer part of the final shuffle pile

Carrion Feeder part of the final shuffle pile

Altar of Dementia alternate win condition with Leonin Relic-Warder and Necromancy

Single Pair Show

This combo gets around Grafdigger's Cage and Rest in Peace Effects that this deck can't win through with hulk piles.

Bloom Tender + Freed from the Real

Arbor Elf + Freed from the Real + Wild Growth/Utopia Sprawl

Two card infinite mana combo for Thrasios, Triton Hero.

Noxious Revival + Memory's Journey Loops to cast any spell in the deck infinitely

Noxious Revival + adds value to Fetchlands by effectively turning one card in hand into a second land drop when need be. Tutors into one card win conditions or at worst is added protection for the shuffle line for free when in hand.

Memory's Journey adds value in the Shuffle Line with protection for G and twice for 1GU when in hand

Assassin's Trophy Pay off: Destroy all Permanents at instant speed

Nature's Claim Pay off: Life

Silence Pay off: Opponents locked to Instants only

Swan Song Pay off: Creatures

Pongify Pay off: Creatures

Flash Pay off: Instant speed any creature in the deck

Relic Warder Combo Show

This combo is a backup win condition but we just happen to want to run all the pieces anyways.

Leonin Relic-Warder + Necromancy + Blood Artist

Leonin Relic-Warder + Necromancy + Altar of Dementia

Leonin Relic-Warder is also added protection in our multi hulk lines to answer on board artifacts and enchantments.

Necromancy is a combo piece and a way to recur and trigger hulk lines with Protean Hulk in graveyard.

Blood Artist is a part of our shuffle combo, Leonin Relic-Warder combo and acts as a hate piece against mirror match strategies.

Altar of Dementia is a part of the 3 pair combo line.

Random combos Show

These are random three card combos that can happen.

8 possible combinations with reanimate.

-Reanimate+Entomb/Survival of the Fittest+Carrion Feeder/Viscera Seer/Pongify/Altar of Dementia

Flash+Body Snatcher+ Entomb/Survival of the Fittest+Pongify/Carrion Feeder+Viscera Seer/Altar of Dementia

Hulk Piles

Double answer pile Show

• Gilded Drake + Leonin Relic-Warder + Apprentice Necromancer

Answer Pile Show

• Spellseeker + Viscera Seer + Grand Abolisher/Gilded Drake/Leonin Relic-Warder

• Spellseeker gets Reanimate

Weak to one shot graveyard hate but can get the breakfast win condition online through a Linvala, Keeper of Silence or Cursed Totem. Sorcery Speed and requires an additional black mana.

Nomads en-Kor in hand Show

• Spellseeker + Viscera Seer+ Blood Artist

• Spellseeker gets Reanimate

• Reanimate Protean Hulk

• Sac Protean Hulk to Viscera Seer

• Get Body Snatcher and Cephalid Illusionist

• Discard Nomades en-Kor

• Sac Body Snatcher to put Nomades en-Kor into play

This line is sorcery speed and requires an additional black mana.

Leonin combo Show

• Spellseeker + Viscera Seer +Leonin Relic-Warder

• Spellseeker gets Reanimate

• Reanimate and sac hulk

• Academy Rector + Blood Artist

• sac Leonin Relic-Warder

• sac Academy Rector

• get Necromancy on Leonin Relic-Warder

Cephalid Illusionist in hand Show

• Academy Rector + Viscera Seer + Nomads en-Kor

• Sac Academy Rector for Necromancy on Protean Hulk

• Sac Protean Hulk

• Body Snatcher + Blood Artist

• Body Snatcher Discards Cephalid Illusionist

• Sac Body Double to return Cephalid Illusionist

This line is weak to all forms of interaction.

Discard Kozilek Show

• Body Snatcher + Viscera Seer + Carrion Feeder or Sylvan Safekeeper + Dryad Arbor

• Sac Body Snatcher to Viscera Seer

• Reanimate Protean Hulk with Body Snatcher then sac with Viscera Seer

• Body Snatcher Discards Kozilek, Butcher of Truth

Graveyard shuffles into deck. This can be good to get final pile pieces shuffled back into deck.

Bloom Tender Pile Show

I'm not sure that this is great pile but its something that can be done.

• Body Snatcher + Viscera Seer + Sylvan Safekeeper + Dryad Arbor

• Body Snatcher returns hulk to get Bloom Tender + Academy Rector

• Academy Rector gets Freed from the Reel onto Bloom Tender

Ramp

• Carpet of Flowers

• Wild Growth

• Green Sun's Zenith fetching Dryad Arbor

• Arbor Elf

• Avacyn's Pilgrim

• Birds of Paradise

• Bloom Tender

• Elves of Deep Shadow

• Noble Hierarch

• Deathrite Shaman

• Mana Crypt

• Mox Diamond

• Sol Ring

• Chrome Mox

Protection

• Dispel

• Flusterstorm

• Force of Will

• Mental Misstep

• Pact of Negation

• Silence

• Swan Song

• Gitaxian Probe if one player leaves mana up you can proactively check their hand

• Green Sun's Zenith Fectching Sylvan Safekeeper

• Sylvan Safekeeper

• Noxious Revival Free protection during Shuffle pile

• Memory's Journey Protection during Shuffle pile

Card Selection

• Brainstorm Card Selection

• Ponder Card Selection

• Preordain Card Selection

• Sylvan Library Card draw

• Mystic Remora Card draw

• Dark Confidant Card advantage engine that can trigger draws off Tymna the Weaver as well

Interaction

• Assassin's Trophy best all around answer to permanents and doubles as a way to lock out the game in Thrasios, Triton Hero combo lines

• Chain of Vapor cheap temporary catch all answer to permanents

• Deathrite Shaman ramp and graveyard hate

• Gilded Drake best creature answer excluding against symmetrical hate effects like Containment Priest

• Leonin Relic-Warder combo piece, hulk pile answer, interaction from hand.

• Noxious Revival narrow but hits Opponents graveyard too

• Pongify Cheap creature removal and you can always kill a protean hulk with it.

Dead cards

• Kozilek, Butcher of Truth is a necessary combo piece that is dead in hand.

• Cephalid Illusionist is a part of the breakfast combo. Necessary but useless otherwise.

• Nomads en-Kor is a part of the breakfast combo. Necessary but useless otherwise.

• Blood Artist is a part of our shuffle combo, Leonin Relic-Warder combo and acts as a hate piece against mirror match strategies.

• Narcomoeba is a necessary combo piece that is dead in hand

• Body Snatcher is necessary to add consistency to the deck. It is possible to cast from hand but typically only with a Protean Hulk and a sac outlet in play.

• Reanimate doesn't progress the game by definition but provides redundancy for destroyed creatures. It also adds lines with Spellseeker for multi hulk lines.

• Dryad Arbor isn't completely dead in hand but is far from an ideal draw. It turns off Green Sun's Zenith as a Ramp target and is a turn slower from hand.

Dead cards are cards that don't progress the game in a meaningful way or can't be played do to restrictions like cost. Some dead cards are necessary for combos but some can be layered for added value making them no longer dead cards.

Viscera Seer is an example of this.

Tutors

• Eladamri's Call
• Enlightened Tutor
• Entomb
• Lim-Dul's Vault
• Mystical Tutor
• Summoner's Pact
• Vampiric Tutor
• Worldly Tutor
• Demonic Tutor
• Diabolic Intent
• Green Sun's Zenith
• Imperial Seal
• Natural Order
• Pattern of Rebirth
• Survival of the Fittest
• Spellseeker
• Academy Rector

Date added	6 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 55 - 0 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	1.78
Tokens	Ape 3/3 G, Bird 2/2 U, Spirit 1/1 C
Based on	Shuffle Hulk ShaperSavant EDH