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Commander / EDH BUG (Sultai) Gyruda, Doom of Depths

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Lands (35)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dakmor Salvage
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Field of Ruin
• 5x Forest
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 3x Island
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 1x Mosswort Bridge
• 1x Opulent Palace
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Rejuvenating Springs
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Undergrowth Stadium
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Yavimaya Coast
• 1x Zagoth Triome

Mill (6)

• 1x Golgari Thug
• 1x Grisly Salvage
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Shadow Kin
• 1x Sidisi, Brood Tyrant
• 1x World Shaper

BIG BOIS (2)

• 1x Colossus of Akros
• 1x Rampaging Baloths

Reanimation (2)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Persist

Cycling (1)

• 1x Generous Ent

Draw (11)

• 1x Arcanis the Omnipotent
• 1x Deep Analysis
• 1x Demonlord Belzenlok
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Mental Journey
• 1x Sire of Stagnation
• 1x Sphinx of the Second Sun
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Twilight Prophet
• 1x Vilis, Broker of Blood

Ramp (11)

• 1x Bramble Familiar
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Incubation Druid
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Regal Behemoth
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Shigeki, Jukai Visionary
• 1x Skull Prophet
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Three Visits
• 1x Wose Pathfinder

Removal (9)

• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Golgari Charm
• 1x Incubation / Incongruity
• 1x Masked Vandal
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Noxious Gearhulk
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Tear Asunder
• 1x Terastodon

Board Wipes (3)

• 1x Bane of Progress
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Massacre Wurm

Top Deck Manipulation (2)

• 1x Titans' Nest
• 1x Vizier of the Menagerie

Commander (1)

Companion (1)

Cheaters (9)

• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Deadbridge Chant
• 1x Elvish Piper
• 1x Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
• 1x Kodama of the East Tree
• 1x Monster Manual
• 1x Nissa, Steward of Elements
• 1x One with the Multiverse
• 1x See the Unwritten

Win Cons (5)

• 1x Dragon Throne of Tarkir
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
• 1x Sun Quan, Lord of Wu
• 1x Surrak and Goreclaw

Utility (3)

• 1x Biomancer's Familiar
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Wilderness Reclamation

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Sideboard

Companion (1)

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Maybeboard

Lands (12)

• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Castle Vantress
• 1x Demolition Field
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Forest
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Temple of Malady
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Temple of the False God

Ramp (7)

• 1x Circuitous Route
• 1x Explosive Vegetation
• 1x Growth Spiral
• 1x Ilysian Caryatid
• 2x Rampant Growth
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum

Utility (5)

• 1x Archetype of Endurance
• 1x Crashing Drawbridge
• 1x Lazav, the Multifarious
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Soul of New Phyrexia

Mill (2)

• 1x Perpetual Timepiece
• 1x Tracker's Instincts

Draw (1)

• 1x Prime Speaker Zegana

Flicker (1)

• 1x Deadeye Navigator

Considering (11)

• 1x Alpha Deathclaw
• 1x Damnable Pact
• 1x Defiler of Flesh
• 1x Exponential Growth
• 2x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Hydra Broodmaster
• 1x Hythonia the Cruel
• 1x Majestic Genesis
• 1x Mana Reflection
• 1x Profane Command

Cheaters (6)

• 1x Arbiter of the Ideal
• 1x Call of the Wild
• 1x Gamekeeper
• 1x Nissa of Shadowed Boughs
• 1x Quicksilver Amulet
• 1x Reason / Believe

Top Deck Manipulation (6)

• 1x Contingency Plan
• 1x Elven Chorus
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 2x Riverwise Augur
• 1x Sphinx of Jwar Isle

Cycling (2)

• 1x Elvish Aberration
• 1x Troll of Khazad-dum

Win Cons (3)

• 1x End-Raze Forerunners
• 2x Thunderfoot Baloth

BIG BOIS (8)

• 1x Ancient Stone Idol
• 1x Apex Devastator
• 2x Ghalta, Primal Hunger
• 1x Impervious Greatwurm
• 1x Rust Goliath
• 1x Vigor
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine

Board Wipes (6)

• 1x Cloudthresher
• 1x Flood of Tears
• 1x Languish
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Whiptongue Hydra
• 1x Yahenni's Expertise

Expensive (5)

• 1x Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
• 1x Ancient Silver Dragon
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Scroll Rack

Removal (5)

• 1x Artisan's Sorrow
• 1x Baleful Mastery
• 1x Kenrith's Transformation
• 2x Price of Fame

EXPENSIVEEE (2)

• 1x Jeweled Lotus
• 1x Mana Crypt

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Well, I made this deck a long time ago. I came back to it and tried to spruce it up a bit.

When companions came out, I wanted to make Gyruda work. And I saw someone play Tasigur semi-recently and thought it was a really cool deck. Sorta graveyard, but the main goal is to keep getting back what you need, and culling your graveyard to make that happen. One way to do this is ramp hard (by using Tasigur to keep getting back ramp spells), then cast big X spells like Exsanguinate.

The main focus here is to ramp and cast big creatures. But, life isn't always fair. And sometimes you need to cheat things in. So, the main theme behind this deck is to cheat out big creatures with stuff like Elvish Piper. And, this is where Gyruda comes into play. as well I probably could have played off of Gyruda's ability more and gotten copy effects/etc, but I didn't want that to be the only plan. I wanted Gyruda to be more of a.. well, got nothing better to do, so let's throw him down!

Overall, the even mana restriction doesn't hinder the deck too much in my opinion. I did find some ways to get around not being to do things mana efficiently on odd mana, with things such as Incubation and Incongruity (which does count as a 4cmc cost, since its 1+3). Also, on turn 3, you can pay the Companion cost to put Gyruda into your hand. (Sadly... I made this when there was no such cost. But, I rather have them exist than not at all).

I did a... sorta budgety deck? There are some lands in there can are not so budgety.. and definitely could add some lands so it can be stronger (fetch lands, etc). If you want to make it more budget friendly, take out the shock lands and in some other dual lands, like Woodland Chasm or Tangled Islet. These lands are semi-important since there are a lot of searching for "Forests". You could also add in the scry lands, like Temple of Mystery, to help playoff of Gyruda

For even more power, I have the Expensive (and EXPENSIVEEE) categories in the Maybe board that you can switch out for stuff pretty easily I think. Change a big draw creature for a draw card and etc.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	14 - 0 Mythic Rares 39 - 1 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.09
Tokens	Beast 4/4 G, City's Blessing, Elephant 3-3 G, Food, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Manifest 2/2 C, On an Adventure, The Monarch, Zombie 2/2 B