Death Breeds Life Breeds More Death

Commander / EDH BG (Golgari) Reanimator Tokens

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Creature (23)

• 1x Abhorrent Overlord
• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Catacomb Sifter
• 1x Creakwood Liege
• 1x Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
• 1x Liliana, Heretical Healer  ^Flip
• 1x Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
• 1x Mycoloth
• 1x Ob Nixilis, Unshackled
• 1x Pitiless Plunderer
• 1x Razaketh, the Foulblooded
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Savra, Queen of the Golgari
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Spore Frog
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Yahenni, Undying Partisan
• 1x Yavimaya Elder

Artifact (8)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Altar of the Brood
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Mimic Vat
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Spawning Pit *list*
• 1x Strionic Resonator
• 1x Vedalken Orrery

Instant (1)

• 1x Entomb

Land (40)

• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crypt of Agadeem
• 9x Forest
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x High Market
• 1x Hissing Quagmire
• 1x Khalni Garden
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Mosswort Bridge
• 1x Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Spawning Bed
• 10x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Temple of Malady
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Army of the Damned
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Dread Summons
• 1x Genesis Wave
• 1x Growth Spasm

Commander (1)

Enchantment (16)

• 1x Arguel's Blood Fast  ^Flip
• 1x Attrition
• 1x Awakening Zone
• 1x Bitterblossom
• 1x Black Market
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Fecundity
• 1x From Beyond
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip
• 1x Journey to Eternity  ^Flip
• 1x Parallel Lives
• 1x Pernicious Deed
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Revel in Riches

Planeswalker (4)

• 1x Garruk Relentless  ^Flip
• 1x Liliana, Death's Majesty
• 1x Vraska, Relic Seeker
• 1x Vraska the Unseen

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Like many Green/Black decks, this deck works to get the most out of creatures dying, on either side of the field. The focus currently is more on token generation than graveyard recursion. As such, I feel like Mazirek may be better suited as the commander, but I think Meren is a more cohesive fit. Any suggestions or ideas are welcome!

Recurring Token Generators

Awakening Zone - Eldrazi tokens are doubly good, both for being tokens and helping ramp

Bitterblossom - Classic token generator. Mass flying is good, especially early game

Creakwood Liege - 3/3 token every turn plus a G/B lord

Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder - He can be tricky to use, but if you have a free sac outlet he's great for pumping out lots of tokens quickly

From Beyond - Same as Awakening Zone, plus it can fetch an eldrazi if desperate

Liliana, Death's Majesty - Helps spur on graveyard recursion

Mycoloth - Big sac outlet for existing tokens, makes a potentially huge creature, and repopulates the tokens you sacked to grow him

Sac Outlets

Altar of Dementia - Believe it or not, mill is actually a valid strategy in this deck. The mass number of tokens plus Altar of the Brood and Altar of Dementia can churn through quite a bit of someone's deck

Ashnod's Altar - Fantastic classic ramp piece

Attrition - Useful for spot removal

Phyrexian Altar - Another classic ramp tool

Phyrexian Tower - Ramp sac outlet on a land

Razaketh, the Foulblooded - Sac outlet + tutor

Spawning Pit - sac outlet that generates more tokens. The card that inspired this deck

Viscera Seer - great early sac outlet

Westvale Abbey   - big sac outlet that turns a (relatively) useless land late-game into a heavy beater

Yahenni, Undying Partisan - Helps ensure you have a blocker, and with Grave Pact-like effects helps keep her relevant as the game goes on.

Tutors

Demonic Tutor - Standard, run-of-the-mill tutor

Diabolic Intent - Cheap tutor plus it sacs

Sidisi, Undead Vizier - It tutors, it sacs, and if you exploit herself with it, you can recur her each turn with Meren of Clan Nel Toth or other graveyard recursion effects

Garruk, the Veil-Cursed - His minus sacs a (typically worthless) creature for a Worldly Tutor

Entomb - Classic graveyard tutor

Wraths

Damnation - a classic

Liliana, Death's Majesty - Her ult isn't likely to be used often, as if she is protected enough to get to that point you probably have a good wall of tokens/valuable creatures, but it's still useful in a pinch

Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet combo mentioned below

Combos

Spawning Pit + Doubling Season + Phyrexian Altar/Ashnod's Altar - This combo was the seed that this deck grew out of. With double tokens + double counters, you can have infinite tokens plus infinite sac triggers. This lends itself to a whole family of combos

Meren of Clan Nel Toth + Spore Frog - Infinite fog (in 2P).

Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet + Grave Pact/Dictate of Erebos + free sac outlet - This generates a nice one-sided board wipe, and may even net you some zombies in multiplayer.

Chopping Block

Dread Summons - A useful X spell, but doesn't make as much splash as Torrent of Hailfire would, and I always find myself holding my mana back, waiting to cast it for more.

Vraska the Unseen - The removal is always good, but she doesn't seem to fit the overall theme of the deck as much. (Dropping her on the board with Doubling Season would be great though)

Possible Additions

Falkenrath Noble - Perhaps the greatest effect in a deck like this is the lifeleeching effect of cards like Zulaport Cutthroat Blood Artist, and Falkenrath Noble

Butcher of Malakir - Another Grave Pact effect

Smothering Abomination - A solid draw engine, though the upkeep cost prevents it from being able to be played on an unfavourable board

Torment of Hailfire - A big splashy X-Spell that we're able to fuel extremely well, between Black Market, Growing Rites of Itilmoc | Growing Rites, Phyrexian Altar, Ashnod's Altar, Cabal Coffers, etc.

Yavimaya Elder - Good recurrable sac target.

Living Death - A better Damnation?

Bitter Ordeal - additional mill tech, especially good late game.

Master of the Wild Hunt - Another cheap token generator

Changelog

01-27-18 - removed Grim Backwoods for High Market

01-27-18 - removed a swamp for Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

01-31-18 - removed Nacatl War-Pride for Avenger of Zendikar

01-31-18 - removed Ruthless Knave for Pitiless Plunderer, for more consistent treasure generation

02-01-18 - removed Altar's Reap for Strionic Resonator

02-02-18 - removed Ant Queen for Mimic Vat

02-03-18 - removed Carnage Altar for Reclamation Sage

02-03-18 - removed Quest for the Gravelord for Eternal Witness

02-03-18 - removed Harvester of Souls for Ob Nixilis, Unshackled - Decided to spread out the coverage of the deck a bit, swapping a (less consistent) draw effect, of which there are several already, for a bit of control over a very relevant aspect in Commander

02-03-18 - removed a forest for Temple of Malady

02-05-18 - removed Sylvan Offering for Genesis Wave

02-27-18 - removed Plague Boiler for Yavimaya Elder

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	16 - 0 Mythic Rares 44 - 0 Rares 14 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.67
Tokens	2/2 C Artifact Creature Spawn, Assassin 1/1 B w/ Player Killer, Copy Clone, Eldrazi Scion 1/1 C, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Emblem Liliana, Defiant Necromancer, Experience Token, Faerie Rogue 1/1 B, Harpy 1/1 B, Human 2/2 G, Human Cleric 1/1 BW, Pirate 2/2 B, Plant 0/1 G, Saproling 1/1 G, Thrull 1/1 B, Treasure, Wolf 1/1 B, Wolf 2/2 G, Worm 1/1 BG, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Migration