Spider's Lair

Commander / EDH BG (Golgari) Delirium Spider Tokens

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Land (33)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Castle Locthwain
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkmoss Bridge
• 1x Deathcap Glade
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 4x Forest
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Haunted Mire
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Swarmyard
• 1x Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Tomb Fortress
• 1x Tranquil Thicket
• 1x Tree of Tales
• 1x Underground Mortuary
• 1x Undergrowth Stadium
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Vault of Whispers
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x War Room
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Black Market Connections
• 1x Curse of Clinging Webs
• 1x Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip
• 1x Journey to Eternity  ^Flip
• 1x Kaya's Ghostform
• 1x Mana Reflection
• 1x Moldervine Reclamation
• 1x Parallel Lives
• 1x Vessel of Nascency

Creature (17)

• 1x Arasta of the Endless Web
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Chatterfang, Squirrel General
• 1x Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Greater Tanuki
• 1x Nyxbloom Ancient
• 1x Pitiless Plunderer
• 1x Roaming Throne
• 1x Rotwidow Pack
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Satyr Wayfinder
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Shigeki, Jukai Visionary
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Timeless Witness
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Instant (14)

• 1x Arachnogenesis
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Baleful Mastery
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Deadly Rollick
• 1x Fake Your Own Death
• 1x Grisly Salvage
• 1x Harrow
• 1x Heroic Intervention *f-etch*
• 1x Infernal Grasp
• 1x Malakir Rebirth  ^Flip
• 1x Plumb the Forbidden
• 1x Second Harvest

Commander (1)

Sorcery (17)

• 1x Bala Ged Recovery  ^Flip
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Hour of Promise
• 1x Incarnation Technique
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Mulch
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Pir's Whim
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Rise of the Witch-king
• 1x Search for Tomorrow
• 1x Tempt with Discovery
• 1x Three Visits
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Artifact (9)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Blade of Selves
• 1x Conjurer's Closet
• 1x Helm of the Host
• 1x Matzalantli, the Great Door  ^Flip
• 1x Nim Deathmantle
• 1x Panharmonicon *f-etch*
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x The One Ring

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Maybeboard

Land (1)

• 1x Barren Moor

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Traverse the Ulvenwald

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The main idea of this deck is to make a TON of spider tokens; go WIDE. Powerful token duplication spells will help facilitate the token spam. Basically, we want to reanimate or flicker Ishkana as much as we can. This can be done with cards like Conjurer's Closet, Nim Deathmantle, Helm of Host (kinda like a flicker i guess?), etc. By setting up these flickers, we will make an army of spiders and use them to fuel our basic win con: to burn the opponent's lives with Ishkana's ability. We can also play some support win cons (Like Craterhoof Behemoth) to flesh out the deck's finishers. However, there is one thing holding us back right out of the gate: Delirium.

In order to sufficiently abuse Ishkana's Abilities, we need to hit Delirium as soon as possible. To get delirium quickly, we play a few mill spells that get us some additional value; namely: Grisly Salvage, "Mulch", Shigeki, Jukai Visionary etc. There is also an Incarnation Technique in the deck to help reanimate creatures we have milled previously (like Craterhoof), which also has the double plus of bringing back a second creature and mills our deck for an additional 5-10 cards in the process (especially to help regain delirium after an enemy Bojuka Bog or something like that).

Lastly, we need to set up tons of mana to pay for that hefty 6 colorless + 1 Black burn ability that Ishkana has. Yes, that means we're ramping; as much and as often as humanly possible. Luckily, we are in Green/Black, so ramping is available to us in absolute abundance. There's also the Cabal Coffers and Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth combo in here to give us tons of mana for whenever we need it, alongside multiple ways to search those cards out. Additionally, Mana Reflection, Nyxbloom Ancient, Seedborn Muse and Growing Rites of Itlimoc   are great mana producing/doubling cards as well. Seedborn Muse is especially lethal, since then Ishkana's burn ability can be used multiple times; between turns and even during the enemy's upkeep.

If you see ways I could probably improve this strategy, feel free to leave a comment :D!

Date added	2 years
Last updated	7 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 46 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 21 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.21
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Copy Clone, Shapeshifter 3/2 C, Spider 1/2 G, Squirrel 1/1 G, Timeless Witness 4/4 B, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Deck Inspiration, EDH matchups