Snakes on a Planeswalker - Xyris EDH swarm

Commander / EDH Casual Forcefeed Group Hug RUG (Temur) Weenie

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Land (35)

• 1x Bountiful Landscape
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Cragcrown Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 5x Forest
• 1x Frontier Bivouac
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 8x Island
• 1x Ketria Triome
• 1x Mosswort Bridge
• 3x Mountain
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Riverglide Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Spire Garden
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Taiga HP

Enchantment (12)

• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x Dictate of Kruphix
• 1x Fervor
• 1x Fevered Visions
• 1x Goblin Bombardment
• 1x Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip
• 1x Ominous Seas
• 1x Parallel Lives
• 1x Rites of Flourishing
• 1x Roar of Resistance
• 1x Standstill
• 1x Words of Wind

Instant (21)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Artifact Mutation
• 1x Counterflux
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Deflecting Swat
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Dream Fracture
• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Growth Spiral
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Invert Polarity
• 1x Jwari Disruption  ^Flip
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Rewind
• 1x Second Harvest
• 1x Strix Serenade
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Vision Skeins
• 1x Wheel and Deal
• 1x Words of Wisdom

Artifact (12)

• 1x Altar of the Brood
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Decanter of Endless Water
• 1x Eldrazi Monument
• 1x Howling Mine
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Strixhaven Stadium
• 1x Teferi's Puzzle Box
• 1x Temple Bell
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Throne of the God-Pharaoh

Commander (1)

Creature (12)

• 1x Chasm Skulker
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Kashi-Tribe Elite
• 1x Ludevic, Necro-Alchemist
• 1x Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
• 1x Sakashima the Impostor
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Spark Double
• 1x The Locust God
• 1x Twenty-Toed Toad
• 1x Zenith Chronicler

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Burning Inquiry
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Minds Aglow
• 1x Molten Psyche
• 1x Wheel of Fortune
• 1x Wheel of Misfortune
• 1x Windfall

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Maybeboard

Instant (3)

• 1x Long River's Pull
• 1x Peerless Recycling
• 1x Sazacap's Brew

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Mind Spiral
• 1x Wear Down

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Every once and a while I will go looking for a commander/deck that does something that I havent already built. Xyris, the Writhing Storm sparked my interest. I didn't have a token swarm deck of any kind already in my toolkit. so thought this would be a fun option.

This deck utilizes getting massive amounts of snakes on the board by causing all other players to draw a ton. I have now played this a ton with my friends and it is probably one of my top 3 decks to pull out and play. The hero cards in this deck are Teferi's Puzzle Box, Throne of the God-Pharaoh, and Goblin Bombardment.

The only issue I seem to run into, is because I am letting people draw and wheel through there cards, we usualy end up with the best stuff in everyones deck seeing play. While this does sometimes cause me trouble, it also makes for quicker games, and everyone loves to draw

I woud welcome any suggestions. (Dont want Purphy or Impact Tremors as I already have 2 different ETB damage decks ( Heart of Black Coal - Ayara ETB trigger EDH and The Fat Red Line - Purphoros EDH )

Heroes

• Teferi's Puzzle Box – If this and my commander can stay on the table for a round I will usually have 10-20 snakes by my next turn.
• Throne of the God-Pharaoh – If I attack with 15 snakes, even if 5 of them end up dying to blockers, I then go on to do 10 damage to each opponent.
• Goblin Bombardment – This one is usually a game ender. I can attack to kill a couple people then throw my snakes a the last player.
• Altar of the Brood – Mill isn't usually a viable option for the entire table, but there is always that one player who already has built a draw or wheel strategy into his deck. In my time playing this deck, I have only ever milled one person out, but its still an extra thing people have to worry about.
• Sakashima the Impostor and/or Spark Double – These are almost always copies of my commander. Basically like having a couple extra Parallel Lives in play.

Top Ranked	Achieved #15 position overall 4 years ago Achieved #10 position in Commander / EDH 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Casual 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Group Hug 4 years ago
Date added	4 years
Last updated	1 week
Exclude colors	WB
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 53 - 0 Rares 12 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.74
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Copy Clone, Insect 1/1 UR, Kraken 8/8 U, Manifest 2/2 C, Saproling 1/1 G, Snake 1/1 G, Squid 1/1 U
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