fungi Are Not Food *PRIMER*

Commander / EDH* BGW (Abzan, Junk) Counters Cruel Control Infinite Combo Stax Tokens

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Land (37)

• 1x Brushland
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dark Depths
• 5x Forest
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Sandsteppe Citadel
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 10x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Instant (8)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Aura Mutation
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Inspiring Call
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Creature (19)

• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Butcher of Malakir
• 1x Corpsejack Menace
• 1x Erebos, God of the Dead
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Karmic Guide
• 1x Mentor of the Meek
• 1x Mycoloth
• 1x Puppeteer Clique
• 1x Razaketh, the Foulblooded
• 1x Reyhan, Last of the Abzan
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Smothering Abomination
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Utopia Mycon
• 1x Winding Constrictor
• 1x Woodfall Primus
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Artifact (11)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Golgari Signet
• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Selesnya Signet
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Trinisphere

Commander (1)

Enchantment (17)

• 1x Anointed Procession
• 1x Asceticism
• 1x Aura Shards
• 1x Black Market
• 1x Cathars' Crusade
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Earthcraft
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Hardened Scales
• 1x Necrogenesis
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Parallel Lives
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Primal Vigor
• 1x Retribution of the Ancients
• 1x Sylvan Library

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Harmonize
• 1x Vindicate
• 1x Wrath of God

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Maybeboard

Creature (7)

• 1x Bloodspore Thrinax
• 1x Juniper Order Ranger
• 1x Kitchen Finks
• 1x Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Sigil Captain
• 1x Thalia, Guardian of Thraben

Artifact (4)

• 1x Sphere of Resistance
• 1x Static Orb
• 1x Vedalken Orrery
• 1x Winter Orb

Instant (1)

• 1x Teferi's Protection

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Fungi are the interface organisms between life and death. In this case, my life, and your death.

Competitive Stax In Progress

Preface Show

I'm interested in squeezing out all the inefficiencies, and making the deck more brutal in general. I am trying to fit in the maybeboard cards, but aside from that, here are the main suggestions I'm looking for.

1. While I draw fine with the deck, and produce all the mana I could ever want, I feel as if the deck needs more utility pieces. I often find myself with nothing useful in hand to answer the threats facing me. While I do have enchantments like Aura Shards and Retribution of the Ancients to answer threats even without a hand, I'd like to fit more options.
2. If you see a card and know of something that just does its job better, I want to make that switch. Im going for as finely tuned as possible without buying ridiculous crap like The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale.
3. I want opinions on which combos to keep and which pieces to skip out on, based on others' experience running them. All the combos are fun to play, but if they are to clunky I don't want to use them.

Thanks for taking the time to view my deck, and if you liked it, don't forget to leave a +1!

Introduction

Hey! You! Yeah you... Do you like shrooms, winning, plants, hella lotta mana, shrooms, cards for dayz, watching your opponents struggle, infinite combos, shrooms, destroying everything, shrooms, kicking puppies, stealing candy from small children, more shrooms, and just being a generally unpleasant person? If you answered yes to at least half of these questions, then I hate your guts. But... this deck may be for you.

I made this deck because my new meta demands a more cruel approach to commander than my previous one. Here you can't really get away with just pointing the finger at someone else and hoping you won't get noticed. You can get away with garbage like Keranos Land Destruction though, so I decided to build something that'll really give my opponents hell.

So... Why Ghave? As a commander, he is very versatile and resilient, as well as generally powerful. He can attract hate from opponents and shrug it off with relative ease when built properly. Moreover, you can fit a lot of different win conditions into both his colors and his playstyle. Whether you want to combo out, grind out your opponents, or just get big, you can do it.

This is a competitive stax list in the process of being built. The main pieces still being acquired are the tutors, and the deck is still fairly strong without it, which ought to say something about it.

The Strategy

The endgame of the deck is to assemble a combo to gain a token sacrifice loop, and abuse that loop with your stax pieces, until you've given yourself sufficient advantages to close out the game. The faster you can set the combo up the better, but you do have pieces to slow your opponents down while you set it up, giving you a cushion of time to set up. Our general combo pieces include cards to add counters, cards to double tokens, mana cards, and stax cards.

All of the Mana!

The mana cards are the main thing we want to use to abuse Ghave's token making ability. All three of them do the same general thing, turn tokens into mana, which you will use to make more tokens. Ashnod's altar only needs one other doubling effect for infinite tokens, either of the other ones require Doubling Season, Primal Vigor, or any other combination of two effects to go infinite.

• Ashnod's Altar
• Phyrexian Altar
• Earthcraft

Counter Doublers

Counter doublers and token doublers both serve the same purpose: Going infinite. If you get out a single copy of any card that does either with an altar, you can continuously produce tokens. With doubled tokens, you can sacrifice one to an altar for mana, and the other to replace the counter Ghave used up. With counters doubled you can create one token to make mana, then another to replace both counters.

• Doubling Season - Serves both functions.
• Primal Vigor - Serves both functions.
• Cathars' Crusade - Does a fantastic job making tokens as it puts a counter on the token you made, allowing you to not require any extra cards to make the combo work.
• Corpsejack Menace
• Hardened Scales
• Winding Constrictor
• Reyhan, Last of the Abzan

Token Makers

• Doubling Season
• Primal Vigor
• Parallel Lives/Anointed Procession
• Mycoloth - It doesn't necessarily enable the combo to go infinite, but it is strictly better to put counters on it than on Ghave, and it makes a lot of tokens after a round or two on the table, so it is on this list.
• Necrogenesis - Also doesn't technically go infinite in any way, but it is relevant grave hate, so it got included.

Combos

When you have the setup to create combos in place there is no small amount of pieces to add to the loop to end games quickly, though not every single one will be mentioned here.

• Blood Artist and friends - Every card that likes to watch things die will drain your opponents in a single turn when you activate your loop, so they were an easy include.
• Pact Effects - Each of these will watch things die and clear the board, which is why there aren't many board wipes in the deck.
• Woodfall Primus - This will do what a Smokestack would do much more quickly, though it requires a more thorough setup to activate. Basically if you can put a +1/+1 counter on it before you use it on a sac outlet, especially an altar to produce mana, you can one sided board wipe all lands, artifacts, enchantments, and planeswalkers, and have quite simply won the game.
• Puppeteer Clique - This card use the same combo idea as Primus, only they work with creatures, and require the extra help of a pact effect to work. The idea is to sac clique with a pact out, thus forcing opponents to sac a creature, have clique come back, thus taking a sacrificed creature, then putting a counter on clique to remove the -1/-1 counter, and repeating the loop for a non-red Insurrection. Quite a fun game ending combo.
• Dark Depths - More of a nonbo than a combo, because Doubling Season doubles the ice counters when it is out, and not the legendary token, but that really doesn't matter when you have infinite mana. A 20/20 flying indestructible is nothing to sneeze at. It is only in the deck as an alternate road to victory if you happen to need it.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 50 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 5 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.16
Tokens	Human Cleric 1/1 BW, Marit Lage, Saproling 1/1 G
Folders	Fun decks I've seen