Endless Forms Most Beautiful

Commander / EDH*

Anaconda

Creature (38)

• 1x Abattoir Ghoul
• 1x Accursed Witch  ^Flip
• 1x Atarka, World Render
• 1x Black Cat
• 1x Blastoderm
• 1x Blight Herder
• 1x Cloistered Youth  ^Flip
• 1x Consuming Aberration
• 1x Corpse Traders
• 1x Cromat
• 1x Delraich
• 1x Emperor Crocodile
• 1x Fog Bank
• 1x Ghoultree
• 1x Glacial Stalker
• 1x Harvest Hand  ^Flip
• 1x Hound of the Farbogs
• 1x Inexorable Blob
• 1x Invisible Stalker
• 1x Ishkanah, Grafwidow
• 1x Keening Apparition
• 1x Kindly Stranger  ^Flip
• 1x Mad Prophet
• 1x Merciless Executioner
• 1x Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker
• 1x Pale Rider of Trostad
• 1x Pine Walker
• 1x Pious Evangel  ^Flip
• 1x Reaper King
• 1x Sanitarium Skeleton
• 1x Scorned Villager  ^Flip
• 1x Smoldering Werewolf  ^Flip
• 1x Thing in the Ice  ^Flip
• 1x Tooth Collector
• 1x Uncle Istvan
• 1x Wall of Kelp
• 1x Werebear
• 1x Woodborn Behemoth

Land (12)

• 1x Abandoned Outpost
• 1x Blinkmoth Nexus
• 1x Castle Sengir
• 1x Forsaken City
• 1x Haunted Fengraf
• 1x Jungle Hollow
• 1x Mystic Monastery
• 1x Opulent Palace
• 1x Stensia Bloodhall
• 1x Unknown Shores
• 1x Warped Landscape
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Instant (3)

• 1x Burn Away
• 1x Grisly Spectacle
• 1x Survive the Night

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Imprisoned in the Moon
• 1x Skin Invasion  ^Flip

Artifact (2)

• 1x Cryptolith Fragment  ^Flip
• 1x Heavy Mattock

Commander (1)

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Army of the Damned
• 1x Behold the Beyond
• 1x Crater's Claws
• 1x Grave Exchange
• 1x Not Forgotten
• 1x Rise from the Tides
• 1x Slaughter Games
• 1x Sudden Disappearance

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Being a friend of top-down design, intertextuality and lore, this library is based on horror--and especially body-horror--genre of pop culture. The deck is a work in progress; Every card SHOULD be a reference to something in the genre. Because of limitations (a.k.a. cards available), I decided not to limit my self with popularity and quality. Instead, I decided to accept everything even remotely working with a reference (and this includes the art in a card, not only what the card does) to something, or to anything, in pop culture horror fiction.

Suggestions and all other comments are welcome!

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WORD FROM THE ARTIST

Please note my decks are always based on cards I have and own. I do not create 1500 euro decks of cards from the virtual database just to show off. Instead, I work with cards I actually have access to.

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"THE LORE"

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Commander Progenitus is Ogdru Jahad, the Dragon of Revelation. We might not use all five colours, but this remains to be seen...

What Horrors May Come:

• Smoldering Werewolf  : The werewolf form of It (Stephen King, you know?).

• Werebear : Half a man, half a bear, half a druid ("Born to be a man that becomes a bear is impressive... -Jaakko")!

• Uncle Istvan : A typical homicidal inbred from slasher-genre movies, such as Wrong Turn or Hills Have Eyes.

• Kindly Stranger  : The vvitch from a movie The VVitch.

• Emperor Crocodile : King of Lake Placid.

• Keening Apparition : Geena Davis from a movie Beetlejuice.

• Atarka, World Render : "The final boss" from a movie The Golden Child.

• Abattoir Ghoul : Leatherface.

• Corpse Traders : People who go and pick up corpses for you, like in The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.

• Survive the Night : Literally in any work belonging to slasher genre, and especially in a movie Cabin in the Woods.

• Tooth Collector : I could not figure out anything that resembles better the mad doctor from a movie Human Centipede (part I, that is).

• Harvest Hand  : "Olkinainen, olkinainen, tanssii ja huhuilee..."

• Invisible Stalker : Doctor Griffin.

• Ghoultree : Ghoulish tree from a movie Evil Dead, or the "final boss" in the original survival horror game Alone in the Dark.

• Cloistered Youth  : Regan MacNeil.

• Mad Prophet : Abdul Alhazred.

• Fog Bank : Fog from a movie The Mist.

• Blastoderm : Kothoga from a movie Relic.

• Wall of Kelp : Monstrous kelp from a movie The Rift (also known by name "Endless Descent")

• Woodborn Behemoth : A King's version of Wendigo from his horror novel Pet Sematary (unfortunately not appearing in the movie).

• Delraich : The thing from a movie The Thing.

• Reaper King : Demon from a movie Jeepers Creepers

• Ishkanah, Grafwidow : Pennywise the Clown.

• Cromat : World-eating entity from a German horror movie Die Farbe.

• Pine Walker : Especially for me the closest resemblance (due to the atmosphere in the card) to Lovecraftian "Ithaqua", a Wendigo the wind-walker. Also author Eero Korpinen uses same type of a "final boss" in same kind of environment in Finnish horror novella Jouluksi kotiin.

• Merciless Executioner : Jason.

• Scorned Villager  : a modern Little Red Riding Hood (that is, Lexi Belle...)

• Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker : Kurt Barlow.

• Inexorable Blob : The Blob

• Glacial Stalker : A huge arctic troll from a movie Trolljegeren.

• Blight Herder : "Clover".

• Thing in the Ice  : The thing from a movie Harbinger Down.

• Consuming Aberration : The monster from a leading Finnish lovecraftian horror novel Keskiyon mato Ikaalisissa by S. Albert Kivinen.

• Hound of the Farbogs : Hound from a movie Omen.

• Sanitarium Skeleton : Joseph Curwen him self.

• Pale Rider of Trostad : Slender Man.

• Pious Evangel  : Father Callahan from Salem's Lot (the book as well as the film adaptations).

• Accursed Witch  : The entity from a movie Blair Witch Project.

• Black Cat : The cat from King's Pet Sematary

Features and Other Memorable Moments:

• Burn Away : Fire was used, for example, to abolish "Things".

• Blinkmoth Nexus : Mystery in the X-Files original episode S01E20.

• Crater's Claws : A paw of an angry and evil god as seen in the end of a movie Cabin in the Woods.

• Unknown Shores : The mind-twisting place(s) from the Lovecraft's novel At the Mountains of Madness.

• Cryptolith Fragment  : Poltergeist.

• Heavy Mattock : The murder weapon used in Hinterkaifeck murder mystery, a real event in Germany in 1922 of which a horror novel was written in 2006 under title "Tannod" (spelled with Scandinavian O w/ dots) by a German author Andrea Maria Schenkel.

• Haunted Fengraf : The cemetary from King's Pet Sematary

• Castle Sengir : The vampire castle from a movie Vampire Killers, or from the Castlevania -game series.

• Grisly Spectacle : A scene from a movie (or from a comic book) From Hell.

• Grave Exchange : Joseph Curwen replacing Charles Dexter Ward.

• Not Forgotten : Dead brother returning in a King movie Sometimes They Come Back.

• Warped Landscape : Randolph Carter's dream-quest to find unkown Kadath.

• Stensia Bloodhall : The Marsten House from King's Salem's Lot.

• Rise from the Tides : Dead crew of Black Pearl invading Port Royal.

• Imprisoned in the Moon : Monsters imprisoned in the moon in a movie Apollo 18.

• Wooded Foothills : Almost all survival horror happens in wooded foothills of sort, for example like in a movie Dead Snow.

• Army of the Damned : Hordes of zombies rising, like in but not restricted to very intense film called Zombi (a.k.a. Zombi 2 and Zombie the Flesheaters).

• Skin Invasion  : "Eldrazi" from a King-movie The Mist rooting in.

• Mystic Monastery : The monastery from a movie The Golden Child.

• Opulent Palace : The palace from a movie Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

• Slaughter Games : "Reminder: All Emergency Services Will Be Suspended."

• Sudden Disappearance : Traditional theme in horror genre (example given: a movie Aliens), but also seems to have happened in real history too!

• Forsaken City : City build with non-Euclidean geometry.

• Abandoned Outpost : Hadley's Hope, Abandoned (and scorched) Norwegian research station, or... you name it!

• Jungle Hollow : Breeding place for unhuman horrors, such as anacondas.

• Behold the Beyond : The world is coming to an end - in various different works of the genre, such as but not restricted to Hellboy.

Date added	9 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 18 - 0 Rares 25 - 0 Uncommons 18 - 0 Commons
Cards	66
Avg. CMC	4.09
Tokens	0/1 U Creature Plant Wall, Clue, Eldrazi Scion 1/1 C, Morph 2/2 C, Ooze 3/3 G, Spider 1/2 G, Spirit 1/1 W, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	RAKENTAMINEN KESKEN