Culling-Curio Sek'Kuar

Commander / EDH BRG (Jund) Combo Midrange Tokens

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Creature (29)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Fiend Artisan
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Imperial Recruiter
• 1x Liliana's Standard Bearer
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Magus of the Moon
• 1x Manglehorn
• 1x Murderous Redcap
• 1x Nether Traitor
• 1x Oakhame Adversary
• 1x Opposition Agent
• 1x Priest of Gix
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Sylvan Ranger
• 1x Temur Sabertooth
• 1x Thunderscape Familiar
• 1x Vexing Shusher
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Wall of Blossoms
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Contamination
• 1x Goblin Bombardment
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Rhythm of the Wild
• 1x Survival of the Fittest
• 1x Sylvan Library

Land (30)

• 1x Badlands
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 6x Forest
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Grove of the Burnwillows
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 4x Mountain
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Taiga
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Artifact (11)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Cloudstone Curio
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Nim Deathmantle
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thorn of Amethyst

Commander (1)

Instant (13)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Ad Nauseam
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Fire Covenant
• 1x Imp's Mischief
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Veil of Summer

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Culling Ritual
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Wheel of Fortune

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Creature (12)

• 1x Beast Whisperer
• 1x Faerie Macabre
• 1x Fire Ants
• 1x Golgari Thug
• 1x Grim Initiate
• 1x Orcish Lumberjack
• 1x Plaguecrafter
• 1x Razaketh, the Foulblooded
• 1x Runic Armasaur
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Stitcher's Supplier
• 1x Vizier of the Menagerie

Artifact (3)

• 1x Altar of the Brood
• 1x Lion's Eye Diamond
• 1x Scroll Rack

Enchantment (10)

• 1x Blood Moon
• 1x Evolutionary Leap
• 1x Fecundity
• 1x Impact Tremors
• 1x Impending Disaster
• 1x Living Plane
• 1x Pernicious Deed
• 1x Shivan Harvest
• 1x Stranglehold
• 1x Underworld Breach

Instant (4)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Plunge into Darkness
• 1x Shred Memory
• 1x Terminate

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Bitter Ordeal
• 1x Burning Inquiry
• 1x By Force
• 1x Eldritch Evolution *f-pre*
• 1x Hull Breach
• 1x Life / Death
• 1x Praetor's Grasp
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Victimize

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This is a Sek'kuar combo deck that uses Cloudstone Curio and Nim Deathmantle as combo pieces for abusing ETB and Dies triggers to either generate advantage, break parity under stax, or assemble some janky infinite combos.
The goal is to increase the number of interactions between cards in the deck. ie Redcap can combo with Curio, Deathmantle, and Rhythm, and each of those cards interact with others. Curio has loops with Wall of Blossoms; Deathmantle combos with anything + Sek'Kuar + Ashnod's; and Rhythm allows hasted dorks and can loop that way with Curio.

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Cloudstone Curio

Cloudstone Curio requires recasting, so it doesn't have the benefit of being able to sacrifice to an Altar outlet like with Nim Deathmantle.
Instead it'll be used to break Dockside Extortionist. This will require being flexible and changing the combo based on the number of treasures and what is available. Once Dockside makes 4 treasures, it can pay for itself and for a 1 cmc dork while generating infinite mana and storm.
Cards like Wall of Blossoms/Elvish Visionary, Imperial Recruiter, and Murderous Redcap can serve as outlets.
Generating infinite mana isn't necessary though. With no 1 cmc creatures and 4 treasures, Elvish Visionary can draw the deck and find one. If one doesn't exist, a cost reducer like Thunderscape Familiar can lower creature costs to produce infinite mana, or 0 cmc fast mana and rituals can allow you to switch to a Deathmantle combo.

Nim Deathmantle

Nim Deathmantle combos heavily with Sek'Kuar and Ashnod's Altar. Any creature can be sacrificed and 2 mana and a 3/1 Graveborn, also sacrificed for 2 mana. Allowing you to pay for Deathmantle and get infinite ETB and Dies triggers. Wall of Blossoms again fits into this combo to draw the deck and replace itself with something that will win. Murderous Redcap can be used, even without Sek'Kuar because of Persist. You could even use Dockside Extortionist to make infinite colored mana.

Dockside has the flexibility in potentially producing enough mana to pay for Deathmantle and more, allowing it to be sacrificed to Goblin Bombardment for infinite damage or Viscera Seer to scry to a wanted card. If infinite mana is created without needing to sacrifice a Graveborn, this also means you can guarantee casting Sek'Kuar from the command zone and swinging with infinite 3/1 hasties.

When all else fails, infinite gravestorm still means that Zulaport Cutthroat can drain everyone.

Nether Traitor

Nether Traitor is a bit of an outlier. It doesn't do anything extra for Cloudstone or Deathmantle combos, but it has Deathmantle's ability built in. With Sek'Kuar, we can guarantee that sacrificing Nether Traitor results in receiving another creature that can also be sacrificed and trigger the ability. Phyrexian Altar can produce the black mana required from one of the sacrifices and any color from the token.

Zulaport just wins the game, but the infinite mana can be used to fuel other pieces. Like Cloudstone or Deathmantle combos that don't come up even on mana with Dockside or Ashnod's. Being able to produce infinite mana and then use Cloudstone to bounce between Nether Traitor and Elvish Visionary/Murderous Redcap will win.

Phyrexian Altar + Nether Traitor + Sek'Kuar = Infinite death triggers/etb + colored mana, involves 2 sacrifices

Date added	8 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 45 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.06
Tokens	Graveborn 3/1 BR, Treasure