Snakes on a Planeswalker - Xyris EDH swarm

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

Hybrow

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

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

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 Long River's Pull
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Second Harvest
• 1x Strix Serenade
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Vision Skeins
• 1x Wheel and Deal
• 1x Words of Wisdom

Enchantment (11)

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

Commander (1)

Creature (13)

• 1x Balor
• 1x Chasm Skulker
• 1x Homunculus Horde
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Kashi-Tribe Elite
• 1x Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
• 1x Sakashima the Impostor
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Scrawling Crawler
• 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

---

Maybeboard

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Ominous Seas

Artifact (1)

• 1x Black Vise

Instant (1)

• 1x Massive Raid

---

Xyris, the Writhing Storm. Since her build, she has become one of my favorite decks to play. It was my first token swarm deck, and the fact that I give my opponents massive card draw also makes it so my echantments aren't targetted as much as others.

This deck utilizes Xyris to get massive ammounts of snakes on the board. These snakes can be used to simple attack, or can be thrown with Goblin Bombardment, used as a mill engine with Alar of the Brood, or after attacking hit everyone with Throne of the God-Pharaoh. Hero cards in this deck are Teferi's Puzzle Box and suprisingly Strixhaven Stadium

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 have currently 10 counterspells in here to help combat that.

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 54 - 0 Rares 11 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.75
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Copy Clone, Insect 1/1 UR, Manifest 2/2 C, Saproling 1/1 G, Snake 1/1 G, Squid 1/1 U
Folders	Ideas, Decks I like, Witty Bulger & The Witty Hill Gang, Awesome Decks I've Seen, Possible Decks, Cool Decks, EDH, EDH, Fun Decks, Other People