cEDH Ishkanah Reanimator

Commander / EDH BG (Golgari)

PrinceofAsphodel

Creature (30)

• 1x Apprentice Necromancer
• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Body Snatcher
• 1x Boreal Druid
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Collector Ouphe
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Disciple of the Vault
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Faerie Macabre
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
• 1x Lesser Masticore
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Melira, Sylvok Outcast
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Necrotic Ooze
• 1x Palladium Myr
• 1x Phyrexian Delver
• 1x Pili-Pala
• 1x Protean Hulk
• 1x Putrid Goblin
• 1x Razaketh, the Foulblooded
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Walking Ballista
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Leyline of the Void
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Survival of the Fittest
• 1x Sylvan Library

Land (28)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Blooming Marsh
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 3x Forest
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Gemstone Caverns
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Nurturing Peatland
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Artifact (9)

• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Lion's Eye Diamond
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Nihil Spellbomb
• 1x Null Rod
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Resilience

Commander (1)

Instant (16)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Fatal Push
• 1x Force of Vigor
• 1x Golgari Charm
• 1x Imp's Mischief
• 1x Insidious Dreams
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Shallow Grave
• 1x Snuff Out
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Dark Petition
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Life / Death
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Toxic Deluge

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The original idea behind this deck was a Spider Bomb strategy that involved making infinite mana, casting Ishkanah, and infinitely activating her ability to kill the table.

It isn't too easy making infinite mana in Golgari. Basalt Rings only make colorless, which Ishkanah can't use and Food Chain mana can't pay for her ability. At the end of the day I ended up going with just one line, one that I used in Oona in the past: Buried Alive into Shallow Grave to reanimate Necrotic Ooze with haste, then using Pili-Pala and Palladium Myr's abilities from the graveyard to make infinite colored mana.

The next step was trying to find out what to fill the rest of the deck with. I opted to go with a reanimator shell that could win with 2 different Hulk piles:

(1) Melira + Viscera Seer/Carrion Feeder + Putrid Goblin/Lesser Masticore + Disciple of the Vault/Zulaport Cutthroat (2)Viscera Seer/Carrion Feeder + Phyrexian Delver [reanimate Hulk] --> Mikaeus + Walking Ballista.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 50 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.12
Tokens	Spider 1/2 G, Zombie 2/2 B