EDH Nikya: RULES OF NATURE!!!

Commander / EDH Aggro Combo Ramp RG (Gruul)

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Creature (58)

• 1x Anger
• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Artisan of Kozilek
• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• 1x Balefire Dragon
• 1x Bane of Progress
• 1x Beast Whisperer
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Brutalizer Exarch
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Cavalier of Flame
• 1x Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1x Dark-Dweller Oracle
• 1x Duskwatch Recruiter  ^Flip
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Farhaven Elf
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Fierce Empath
• 1x Genesis
• 1x Greenwarden of Murasa
• 1x Gruul Ragebeast
• 1x Hammer Mage
• 1x Hydra Broodmaster
• 1x Imperial Recruiter
• 1x Inferno Titan
• 1x Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• 1x Ley Weaver
• 1x Magus of the Candelabra
• 1x Nullstone Gargoyle
• 1x Nylea, Keen-Eyed
• 1x Nyxbloom Ancient
• 1x Ogre Battledriver
• 1x Pathbreaker Ibex
• 1x Primordial Sage
• 1x Prowling Serpopard
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Regal Force
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Shaman of Forgotten Ways
• 1x Silklash Spider
• 1x Skullwinder
• 1x Somberwald Sage
• 1x Soul of New Phyrexia
• 1x Soul of the Harvest
• 1x Springbloom Druid
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Temur Sabertooth
• 1x Terastodon
• 1x Ulvenwald Tracker
• 1x Urabrask the Hidden
• 1x Vizier of the Menagerie
• 1x Voyaging Satyr
• 1x Walking Ballista
• 1x Wood Elves
• 1x Woodland Bellower
• 1x Zealous Conscripts

Land (37)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Cragcrown Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Endless Sands
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 6x Forest
• 1x Game Trail
• 1x Gruul Turf
• 1x High Market
• 1x Highland Forest
• 1x Memorial to Unity
• 1x Mosswort Bridge
• 6x Mountain
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Sheltered Thicket
• 1x Spinerock Knoll
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Temple of Abandon
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Commander (1)

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Vivien Reid

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Rhythm of the Wild

Artifact (1)

• 1x Perilous Vault

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Primal Surge

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Creature (7)

• 1x Hellkite Charger
• 1x Kodama of the East Tree
• 1x Manglehorn
• 1x Ohran Frostfang
• 1x Platinum Angel
• 1x Tireless Tracker
• 1x Wayward Swordtooth

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This deck centers around getting out big creatures fast using Nikya to get lots of mana.

Most of the ramp cards get more lands onto the battlefield to get more benefit from Nikya's ability. Beast Whisperer, Primordial Sage and Soul of the Harvest will draw tons of cards since almost every spell in the deck is a creature. From there the deck has two ways to win.

The first is a well-known infinite combo: Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Zealous Conscripts

This is pretty easy to achieve once you have Fauna Shaman without summoning sickness and Nikya. By the time you get Nikya out, you'll likely have 5 lands, and can probably get a 6th land in soon after. When untapped, this gives you 12 mana with the mana-doubling effect, and since your deck is all creatures you'll probably have at least two in hand to discard to Fauna Shaman. So you can use Fauna Shaman to get Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker, play Kiki-Jiki and make a copy of Fauna Shaman with haste, use the copy to get Zealous Conscripts, then play it and do the combo. Fauna Shaman can be tutored with Imperial Recruiter and Woodland Bellower.

The other way is to resolve Primal Surge, as every other card in the deck is a permanent. This should give you a powerful board state with many strong creatures with haste, and even a possible alternate win-condition with Shaman of Forgotten Ways. Just be careful to not deck yourself by draw effects, because while some like Soul of the Harvest are optional, others like Regal Force are not.

For when you pull off a Primal Surge win:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vfkzMAWWKE

Date added	5 years
Last updated	2 years
Key combos	Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Zealous Conscripts
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	18 - 0 Mythic Rares 40 - 0 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.40
Tokens	Copy Clone, Elephant 3-3 G, Emblem Vivien Reid, Hydra X/X G, Plant 0/1 G
Folders	Creature-based