Ayli, Frooty Loops (Primer)

Commander / EDH* Combo Control Lifegain Tempo WB (Orzhov)

Bababad

Creature (38)

• 1x Angel of Serenity
• 1x Auriok Champion
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Charming Prince
• 1x Corpse Knight
• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1x Fiend Hunter
• 1x Glorious Protector
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Karmic Guide
• 1x Kokusho, the Evening Star
• 1x Krav, the Unredeemed
• 1x Leonin Relic-Warder
• 1x Luminous Broodmoth
• 1x Lurrus of the Dream-Den
• 1x Massacre Girl
• 1x Massacre Wurm
• 1x Mentor of the Meek
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Necrotic Sliver
• 1x Regna, the Redeemer
• 1x Remorseful Cleric
• 1x Reveillark
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Soul Warden
• 1x Soul's Attendant
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Teysa, Orzhov Scion
• 1x Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
• 1x Veinwitch Coven
• 1x Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
• 1x Vizkopa Guildmage
• 1x Wall of Omens
• 1x Weathered Wayfarer
• 1x Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed

Land (36)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Castle Locthwain
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Concealed Courtyard
• 1x Emeria, the Sky Ruin
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Fetid Heath
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x High Market
• 1x Isolated Chapel *f-pre*
• 1x Kor Haven
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Orzhov Basilica
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 10x Plains
• 1x Snowfield Sinkhole
• 6x Swamp
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Austere Command
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Revival / Revenge
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Elspeth, Sun's Champion

Commander (1)

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Authority of the Consuls
• 1x Bitterblossom
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Gift of Immortality
• 1x Land Tax
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Solemnity

Artifact (6)

• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Ensnaring Bridge
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Thaumatic Compass *f-pre*  ^Flip

Instant (4)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Inkshield
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Utter End

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Sideboard

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Dance of the Dead

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Vindicate

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Maybeboard

Creature (22)

• 1x Angel of Destiny
• 1x Athreos, God of Passage
• 1x Cruel Celebrant
• 1x Flickerwisp
• 1x Kambal, Consul of Allocation
• 1x Liliana, Heretical Healer  ^Flip
• 1x Magister of Worth
• 1x Mangara, the Diplomat
• 1x Mindslicer
• 1x Mirror Entity
• 1x Ophiomancer
• 1x Ophiomancer
• 1x Puppeteer Clique
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Skyclave Apparition
• 1x Speaker of the Heavens
• 1x Sublime Archangel
• 1x Suture Priest
• 1x Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1x Witch of the Moors
• 1x Witch of the Moors
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Aura of Silence
• 1x Luminarch Ascension
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Seal of Cleansing

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Agadeem's Awakening  ^Flip
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Kaya, Ghost Assassin
• 1x Liliana, Dreadhorde General

Artifact (5)

• 1x Codex Shredder
• 1x Genesis Chamber
• 1x Lifeline
• 1x Mirage Mirror
• 1x Nim Deathmantle

Instant (4)

• 1x Corpse Dance
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 2x Wake the Dead

Land (1)

• 1x Indatha Triome

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Ayli, Frooty Loops

This deck is built around Sun Titan and other frooty loops in order to abuse ETBs, resource denial, attrition, and exile spot removal through Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim 's secondary ability. My ultimate goal is to use Ayli’s second ability to pick apart everyone else’s board states and eventually dominate through card/field advantage and resource removal.

Why Ayli,Eternal Pilgrim?

1. My first exposure to Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim was in a two-headed giant event with my playgroup. She was the MVP of my deck in limited and allowed me to both protect my pieces and remove their pieces. On top of all of this she has deathtouch as a 2 drop. After this event I knew I wanted to brew her as a commander. The benefits to having her as a commander is that she is a 2 drop, meaning I can get her out turn 2 before almost anyone else will have a creature out. She also prevents me from taking some damage early game since she has deathtouch and easy to recast.
2. The other benefits from having Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim as a commander is all of her abilities. Her first ability not only allows me to gain massive amounts of life but protects all of my pieces from exile removal. Her second ability allows me to remove problems late game and keeps the board in check. Both of these allow me to abuse ETBs and death triggers as well.
3. The built in sac outlet allows me to abuse the stack in order to perma exile stuff using Fiend Hunter and Angel of Serenity .

The Breakdown

Creatures

Hand and Mana Fixing

• Weathered Wayfarer : Allows me to tutor out some of my notable lands late game, such as Volrath's Stronghold and Emeria, The Sky Ruin , or good early game lands, such as Myriad Landscape , Maze of Ith , High Market , and Phyrexian Tower . Also ensures that I hit my land drops when I am behind on land.

• Burnished Hart : Allows me to ramp early game or late game, chose over Solemn Simulacrum since it is recurable by Sun Titan .

• Wall of Omens : Early game draw and big butt blocker that also gives me 4 life if I sac it with Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim 's first ability.

• Krav, the Unredeemed : A nice sac outlet in case I do not have Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim out. Also combos well with Regna, the Redeemer to draw a lot of cards and gain a lot of life.

• Sidisi, Undead Vizier : Creature based tutor that also works as a sac outlet if I really need one.

Resource Denial/Control

• Grand Abolisher : Prevents control decks from interfering on my turn and 1v1 it forces people to play on their turn.

• Kambal, Consul of Allocation : A meta choice that punishes people for playing any noncreatures which are usually a little more challenging to answer.

• Remorseful Cleric : Some slight graveyard hate that people cannot steal as easily as Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet so less likely to hurt me as well. Usually hold onto it until it is needed to play and sacrifice immediately.

• Teysa, Orzhov Scion : Another way to exile peoples creatures while also creating some flying tokens off of some of my other bodies. Goes infinite with Reveillark and Karmic Guide to remove all creatures or get an infinite amount of ETB or death drain using either Corpse Knight , Blood Artist , or Auriok Champion . Auriok Champion combos with Vizkopa Guildmage to drain opponents while giving me infinite life.

• Necrotic Sliver : A recursive body that can remove any permanent, in a big loop I can start removing lands in order to slow opponents down.

• Fiend Hunter : Along with a sac outlet allows me to permanently exile creatures opponents control. Also allows me to pocket an ETB from one of my creatures if needed. Chose over some other ones because of the phrasing, the fact that it is recurable by Sun Titan and Reveillark .

• Angel of Serenity : Along with a sac outlet, allows me to permanently exile 3 creatures opponents control or get 3 creatures from my graveyard back. Also gives me slight graveyard hate against others if sacrificed immediately.

• Mindslicer : Helps protect a good board by removing their hands and is recursive if I need to remove another hand. Really good to play on a durdle board since I can get almost anything back from my graveyard.

• Liliana, Heretical Healer  : Flips into a planeswalker that allows me to slowly pick apart peoples hands, reuse some key pieces to deny even more resources. If she ever gets to ult, it is completely backbreaking with any other creature.

• Massacre Girl : A wipe on a body that can easily be manipulated with sacrifice effects.

• Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite : A nice curve topper that makes each of my other bodies a bit bigger and usually kills or significantly weakens opponents boards.

• Kokusho, the Evening Star : A big body that swings/blocks in the air, sacrifices for a lot of life and can be looped to drain opponents significantly, if not completely.

• Sheoldred, Whispering One : Good static recursion while we also denying opponents creatures, will likely get removed immediately but will require a lot of removal to fully remove.

Tokens

• Grave Titan : An abusable ETB that allows me to build a large army that I can use as sac fodder to gain life/remove key pieces opponents control.

• Regna, the Redeemer : Allows me to build a small army of tokens with Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim or Krav, the Unredeemed .

• Sublime Archangel : Allows me to swing big when I need to and I can always sacrifice the creature after swinging to get even more life off of a body.

Recursion

• Sun Titan : Recursion Targets

  Sun Titan is one of the key recursion pieces in deck, capable of recurring over 30 different cards in the deck excluding lands. Some of the best recursion targets for Sun Titan include:

  • Creatures: Sun Titan can recur 17 of the 32 creatures in deck, some of these key creatures include: Teysa, Orzhov Scion , Fiend Hunter , Grand Abolisher , Liliana, Heretical Healer  , Necrotic Sliver , and Doomed Artisan . A few other ideal targets that not have been mentioned above include:

    • Athreos, God of Passage : Allows me to strategically replay creatures and makes them pay life to get rid of things that are actually annoying them.

    • Flickerwisp and Charming Prince : Allows me to get an additional ETB from Sun Titan to recur another abuse a different ETB. Charming Prince also allows me to either scry when recurred with Sun Titan or gain some life. I chose to keep both because they do slightly different things and both are really good targets for Sun Titan .

  • Enchants/Artifacts: While almost every enchant and artifact in deck is recursive with Sun Titan except Dictate of Erebos and Lifeline , some of my favorite enchantments and artifacts to recur with Sun Titan include: Animate Dead , Necromancy , Gift of Immortality , Nim Deathmantle , Aura of Silence , and Ensnaring Bridge .

  • Lands: Almost any mentioned in the notable lands tab are worth recurring with Sun Titan , though my favorite lands to recur include Myriad Landscape and Emeria, The Sky Ruin .

• Reveillark : Creature Recursion Targets

  Reveillark is capable of recurring 15 creatures in deck, with the most important targets being Karmic Guide and Teysa, Orzhov Scion . These three together give me infinite sacrifice to exile creatures, which also means infinite creatures entering the battlefield and creatures dying.

• Karmic Guide : Creature Recursion Targets

  While both Sun Titan and Reveillark recur almost all of the creatures in deck, there are some important creatures that they cannot hit, these are recurable by Karmic Guide . The main targets for Karmic Guide include: Sun Titan , Reveillark , Grave Titan , Kokusho, the Evening Star , Sheoldred, Whispering One , and Sidisi, Undead Vizier .

• Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed : Creature and spell recursion

  Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed stands separate from the other recursion in deck because it is also able to recur instant and sorcery speed spells, this allows it to be extremely versatile in use. It loops well with a Living Death , helps seal a game with Torment of Hailfire , or just allows me to reuse a spot removal with Anguished Unmaking or Utter End . This also allows me to get Dictate of Erebos back if I need it. Also, secretly can kill someone due to it having semi-unblockable.

Care Package

Spot Removal

• Anguished Unmaking and Utter End : Removes almost anything at instant speed. Both of these are also recurrable by Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed .

• Swords to Plowshares : Removes any creature for good in case people sneak something early game or I am not set up later on in the game.

Board wipes

• Austere Command : Can be used to wipe the board of big drops but keep my board of little drops. Also mass enchant and artifact removal if needed.

• Toxic Deluge : Wipes the board of everything, including indestructible creatures. Paying the life usually doesn't hurt since Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim gives me a large buffer.

Recursion

• Living Death : A good board wipe/recursion spell since I am usually exiling all of their creatures and can sac my board before hand to recur everything, giving my more ETBs which will usually remove the little stuff they get back.

• Corpse Dance : Allows me to continuously recur creatures to get multiple ETBs a turn, this helps a lot since I can control which creature is on top of my graveyard with Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim most of the time.

• Wake the Dead : Allows me to get back creatures to rebuild my board permanently through recursion dorks during their combat phase or randomly block stuff they thought would be unblockable.

• All of these are also recurrable by Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed

Tutors and wins

• Vampiric Tutor and Demonic Tutor : Recurrable by Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed .

• Torment of Hailfire : Either ends the game or clears the board and hands. A finisher just in case things aren't going my way. Also can be recurred by Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed .

Chants and Facts

Mana Fixing/Ramp

• Chromatic Lantern : Fixes the colors so I can reliably get all the colors I need to abuse Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim 's second ability multiple times while keeping my plains count high for Emeria, The Sky Ruin .
• Commander's Sphere : A mana rock that can also be sacrificed to draw and then recurred with Sun Titan .
• Land Tax and Thaumatic Compass  : Allow me to ensure I hit my land drops and get the colors that I need. Thaumatic Compass   also flips to be another Maze late game to protect my life buffer even more.

Recursion

• Lifeline : One of the few cards in deck that I cannot get back from my graveyard, but allows me to abuse ETBs with Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim 's first ability with any ETB creature.
• Phyrexian Reclamation : One of the best 1 drops in commander. The slight life loss is easily mitigated and allows me to replay the same creature over and over. Also protects my creatures from graveyard hate.
• Nim Deathmantle and Gift of Immortality : These allow me to break ETBs and keep reusing the same creature. All of these are also recurable by Sun Titan . Gift of Immortality on Sun Titan allows me to gain a lot of life and protect my Sun Titan from even the trickiest of exile removal.
• Animate Dead and Necromancy : Enchantments that Sun Titan can recur while getting other creatures back as well from the graveyard.

Control/Hand fixing

• Phyrexian Arena and Sensei's Divining Top : allow me to draw extra cards and fix my next draws to be the most impactful.
• Bitterblossom : Creates bodies in the background that can be used as sac fodder to exile things with Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim or block opponents swings so I can maintain my life buffer.
• Aura of Silence : Enchantment removal that is recurable by Sun Titan while also placing a small tax on enchantments if no removal is necessary.
• Authority of the Consuls : Great early game to slow down swings, protects me from haste and gives me small amounts of life.
• Ensnaring Bridge : Prevents big creatures from swinging on me since my hand size is never above 7 and usually around 3 or 4 cards.

Planeswalkers

• Elspeth, Sun's Champion : Included mostly for her plus and neg. Gives me bodies to use as sac fodder and allows me to partially wipe the board while keeping most of my important pieces and getting rid of big creatures.
• Kaya, Ghost Assassin : Allows me to pocket ETBs and prevent my big ETB creatures from removal outside of my turn. My favorite creatures to put under Kaya, Ghost Assasin are Grave Titan and Sun Titan , however Angel of Serenity is also a good target to get cards back and then use her to exile things when she re-enters the battlefield.

Noteworthy Lands

Recursion

• Emeria, The Sky Ruin : sets up a nice recursion loop with Sun Titan or other creatures in my deck to abuse ETBs a lot.

• Volrath's Stronghold and Mistveil Plains : helps protects my pieces in my yard from graveyard exile or being stolen by other decks in my meta. Volrath's Stronghold also allows me to replay creatures over and over.

Sac Outlets

• High Market and Phyrexian Tower allows me to abuse the stack and save my pieces from exile removal in case Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim is too expensive to replay.

Mazes

• Maze of Ith , Spires of Orazca , and Kor Haven help prevent players from being able to hit me.

Thespian's Stage

• Can copy Maze of Ith 's or other players good lands to benefit me as well.

Frooty Loops and Silly locks

Small loops

Immortal Loops

• Gift of Immortality + Sun Titan + Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim : If Gift of Immortality is attached to Sun Titan I can use Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim 's first ability to gain as much life as I have mana for since as Sun Titan re-enters the battlefield it recurs Gift of Immortality onto him.

  • If I have Vizkopa Guildmage out I can also drain that much life from my opponents.

• Gift of Immortality + a sacrifice outlet = a recursion every turn: While Gift of Immortality on Sun Titan is ideal, even on other creatures with good ETB's and Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim I can get an ETB each turn that by sacrificing the creature before their end step and then having Gift of Immortality reattach at the end step.

• Another similar way to abuse ETB through sacrifice outlets in this deck is Lifeline . Though this also works for opponents creatures and is less abusable with Sun Titan .

Living Death

• Living Death + Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed : If Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed is in the graveyard when Living Death is cast, I can use Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed to recur Living Death to my hand. Depending on what else is in my graveyard, I usually am able to permanently exile at least one of their creatures and get multiple ETBs and death triggers by looping Living Death a couple times.

Big Loops and Locks

Infinite Loops

• Exile: Teysa, Orzhov Scion + Karmic Guide + Reveillark
  • Sacrifice all three to Teysa, Orzhov Scion , then with Reveillark ’s death trigger, return Teysa, Orzhov Scion and Karmic Guide to the battlefield. On ETB have Karmic Guide return Reveillark . Repeat until you are happy with how empty the board is.
• Life Gain: Teysa, Orzhov Scion + Karmic Guide + Reveillark + Auriok Champion
  • With Teysa, Orzhov Scion ’s ability, sacrifice Karmic Guide , Reveillark and either Teysa, Orzhov Scion or Auriok Champion . Use Reveillark ’s ability to return the other two and Karmic Guide ’s ETB to bring back Reveillark .
  • As long as there is one creature out to target with Teysa, Orzhov Scion ’s exile ability this can be stacked to go infinite.
• Drain: Teysa, Orzhov Scion + Karmic Guide + Reveillark + Blood Artist or Corpse Knight or Auriok Champion + Vizkopa Guildmage
  • This is the same principle as the infinite life gain but can also drain people using Vizkopa Guildmage ’s second ability or a creature that drains on death trigger or ETB.
  • Main difference is when using Blood Artist you cannot sacrifice Blood Artist to Teysa, Orzhov Scion ’s ability, making it a lot more thwartable. But so long as you do it in response you can still stack it properly.
• All of these loops are possible at instant speed in response to other answers, this makes them more secure and much easier to go off.

Sun Titan Lock

The ultimate control lock in this deck includes Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim , Sun Titan , Gift of Immortality , Flickerwisp , and Ensnaring Bridge in order to prevent people from swinging on me while I slowly gain more and more life and eventually use Sun Titan as sac fodder to exile everything on their board.

• Flickerwisp and Charming Prince allow me to flicker Ensnaring Bridge either on my turn so I can swing with Sun Titan or on their turn when they try to remove it.

• Gift of Immortality on Sun Titan means that each time I sacrifice Sun Titan to Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim 's abilities, it comes back brings Gift of Immortality back with it immediately. This requires 2 instant speed removals which will likely not fully exile it anyway. If I am sure that Sun Titan is safe I can also use Gift of Immortality to get an ETB from Sun Titan to recur a different 3 drop or under (usually Flickerwisp or Charming Prince ).

• If I have out Volrath's Stronghold or Phyrexian Reclamation , I can get Sun Titan back almost immediately.

Necromancy

• Necromancy or Animate Dead + Sun Titan + Karmic Guide + a sac outlet: Allows infinite recursion of Sun Titan and Karmic Guide . Since Karmic Guide has protection from black, Animate Dead and Necromancy fall off as soon as Karmic Guide enters the battlefield. If you recur Sun Titan with Karmic Guide 's ETB then you can get Necromancy or Animate Dead back with Sun Titan . As long as you can sacrifice Sun Titan this keeps going.

Silly Interactions

Permanent exile

• Fiend Hunter + A sac outlet: permanently exile's a single creature if you sacrifice it in response to it exiling the creature on the stack.

• Angel of Serenity + a sac outlet: permanently exile up to 3 creatures on the battlefield or in opponents graveyards if you sacrifice it in response to it exiling on the stack.

Token Maddness

• Regna, the Redeemer + Krav, the Unredeemed or Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim or Auriok Champion : Gets 2 bodies each end step, allows me to slowly build an army.

• Kaya, Ghost Assassin + Grave Titan : gives me an army of zombies while protecting my Grave Titan from removal.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	14 - 0 Mythic Rares 49 - 1 Rares 13 - 1 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.44
Tokens	Companion Zone, Emblem Elspeth, Sun's Champion, Faerie Rogue 1/1 B, Foretell, Inkling 2/1 WB, Soldier 1/1 W, Spirit 1/1 W, Treasure, Warrior 1/1 W, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	EDH decks, Current Commanders, Refrence, Stolen EDH