An Affliction Upon Thee

Commander / EDH

fullmetal030

Land (31)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Deserted Temple
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 4x Forest
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Strip Mine
• 5x Swamp
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold
• 1x Wasteland
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Enchantment (10)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Bitterblossom
• 1x Contamination
• 1x Mind Slash
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Pernicious Deed
• 1x Song of the Dryads
• 1x Survival of the Fittest
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Waste Not

Creature (23)

• 1x Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• 1x Bloodghast
• 1x Cinderhaze Wretch
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Devoted Druid
• 1x Doomwake Giant
• 1x Eidolon of Blossoms
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Faerie Macabre
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Grim Poppet
• 1x Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
• 1x Necrotic Ooze
• 1x Phyrexian Devourer
• 1x Ramunap Excavator
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Riftsweeper
• 1x Shauku, Endbringer
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Triskelion

Instant (10)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Dismember
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Snuff Out
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Commander (1)

Sorcery (16)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Death Cloud
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Exhume
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Jarad's Orders
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Pox
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Regrowth
• 1x Smallpox
• 1x Torment of Hailfire

Artifact (9)

• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Golgari Signet
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Tormod's Crypt

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Let's face it Pharika is not a great general. Just by looking at this list I would expect a lot of responses such as "please just play Nath". But we are trying to make snakes here so screw that. I have always loved underplayed generals as well so here we are.

The deck is not a full blown stax deck or anything but works on the axis of devastating board states with pox effects or going for an ooze combo. There is also a nice Contamination lock with either Bitterblossom or Pharika until you can find it providing you have some snake fodder. Beyond that the rest of the deck is ramp/dorks, tutors, and removal.

So what is Pharika good for? For one she can slow the game down and play good politics while also acting as a gy hate piece. Someone getting attacked and need a DT chump blocker? Why not give them one? Also, as stated before shes just pretty decent gy hate for creatures. Giving the opponent a 1/1 is usually not the biggest problem you're going to face.

The first thing I think of when I see 1/1 token generation on a card is Skullclamp. Most magic players understand how broken this card is. Pharika can turn your dead dorks into snakes to clamp or protect yourself (usually the former).

As already mentioned to actually win you either want to slow the game to a snails pace with a lock or pox effect when in an advantageous position or ooze them out. The Ooze combos are described below.

Necrotic Ooze has always been one of my favorite combo cards so I went ahead and included a package for it. Generally the best way to get these cards into the gy is through survival just like the old extended decks (to bad i recently sold my judge foil survival :/). Buried Alive + Reanimate or animate dead works just as well.

Ooze combos:

Devoted Druid + Grim Poppet + Necrotic Ooze - pretty well known combo. repeatable mass removal and generates a ton of mana to possibly win. This can easily win with Tormemt of Hailfire if there are enough creatures on board.

Cinderhaze Wretch + Grim Poppet + Necrotic Ooze - Mass discard as well as removal.

Necrotic Ooze + Phyrexian Devourer + Triskelion - Going to win the game most of the time. Remove cards with devourer until you have enough counters to remove with triskelions ability and there you go.

Devoted Druid + Necrotic Ooze + Shauku, Endbringer - I have always loved shauku for some reason so I included her. remove a creature get a +1/+1 counter untap with a -1/-1 counter they cancel and keep going.

If you have any suggestions for cards or are wondering why I am running a certain card feel free to ask. All suggestions will be taken into consideration.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Key combos	Necrotic Ooze + Phyrexian Devourer + Triskelion Buried Alive + Reanimate Cinderhaze Wretch + Grim Poppet + Necrotic Ooze Devoted Druid + Grim Poppet + Necrotic Ooze Devoted Druid + Necrotic Ooze + Shauku, Endbringer
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 49 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.46
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Enchantment Snake 1/1 BG, Faerie Rogue 1/1 B, Zombie 2/2 B