Eriksdotter Makes Dad Proud

Commander / EDH* GW (Selesnya)

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Creature (34)

• 1x Blazing Archon
• 1x Boonweaver Giant
• 1x Champion of Lambholt
• 1x Dauntless Escort
• 1x Elvish Visionary
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Farhaven Elf
• 1x Felidar Guardian
• 1x Fiend Hunter
• 1x Gaddock Teeg
• 1x Heliod's Pilgrim
• 1x Hidden Herbalists
• 1x Karmic Guide
• 1x Lieutenant Kirtar
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Loyal Retainers
• 1x Luminous Broodmoth
• 1x Mentor of the Meek
• 1x Mirri, Weatherlight Duelist
• 1x Protean Hulk
• 1x Qasali Pridemage
• 1x Recruiter of the Guard
• 1x Renegade Rallier
• 1x Reveillark
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Skullwinder
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Soul Warden
• 1x Spore Frog
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Thragtusk
• 1x Vesperlark
• 1x Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger
• 1x Wall of Blossoms

Land (37)

• 1x Bountiful Promenade
• 1x Branchloft Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Brushland
• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 12x Forest
• 1x High Market
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 14x Plains
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Windswept Heath

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Aura Shards
• 1x Darksteel Mutation
• 1x Defense of the Heart
• 1x Fecundity
• 1x Gift of Immortality
• 1x Martyr's Cause
• 1x Mirari's Wake
• 1x Pattern of Rebirth

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Altar of Bone
• 1x Dusk / Dawn
• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Grow from the Ashes
• 1x Harmonize
• 1x Primal Growth
• 1x Slaughter the Strong

Commander (1)

Artifact (10)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Altar of the Brood
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Blasting Station
• 1x Culling Dais
• 1x Desecrated Tomb
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Selesnya Cluestone
• 1x Sol Ring

Instant (3)

• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

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Maybeboard

Creature (19)

• 1x Academy Rector
• 1x Canoptek Wraith
• 1x Delney, Streetwise Lookout
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
• 1x Enduring Innocence
• 1x Esper Sentinel
• 1x Extraction Specialist
• 1x Gigantomancer
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Haywire Mite
• 1x Kitchen Finks
• 1x Leonin Relic-Warder
• 1x Samwise the Stouthearted
• 1x Selfless Savior
• 1x Shalai, Voice of Plenty
• 1x Trostani Discordant
• 1x Twitching Doll
• 1x Witch Enchanter  ^Flip

Land (10)

• 1x Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1x Hushwood Verge
• 1x Krosan Verge
• 1x Minas Tirith
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Overgrown Farmland
• 1x Shifting Woodland
• 1x Sungrass Prairie
• 1x Wooded Bastion
• 1x Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Birthing Ritual
• 1x Guardian Project
• 1x Gutter Grime
• 1x Teleportation Circle

Artifact (1)

• 1x Arcane Signet

Instant (6)

• 1x Brought Back
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Flare of Fortitude
• 1x Momentous Fall
• 1x Silence
• 1x Veil of Summer

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Idyllic Tutor
• 1x Life's Legacy
• 1x Migration Path
• 1x Sevinne's Reclamation
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Three Visits

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Vivien on the Hunt

Battle (1)

• 1x Invasion of Shandalar  ^Flip

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A deck that is all about Selesnya Combos and Goodstuff. Saffi uses creatures like Blue mages uses Islands....

Depending on your board state, Saffi is extremely resilient, and can recover from board wipes in a single turn.

Major surgery required to fix this deck. You MUST get a sac outlet and protection for Saffi right away. Add in Idyllic Tutor, more draw, go down to 35 lands, and add another way to thin your deck. I think this deck needs two more spot removal and two more wipes. Since it can recover from wipes better than most decks it should have lots.

Neat Moves

{GW} Gift of Immortality Value
You can sac & recur Saffi once per turn if you have Gift of Immortality attached to Saffi but you don't have any of the other recurers on the board. THIS CAN ALSO BE DONE IN EVERY OTHER PLAYER'S END STEP. You can take advantage of this for a Wincon, Value Card, and any awesome ETBs that a creature might have, like Elvish Visionary or Farhaven Elf, or Sakura-Tribe Elder's self=sacing ability.

{GW} The Hatebear King
The only cards in the deck that are affected by Gaddock Teeg are: Birthing Pod , Harmonize , Pattern of Rebirth , Defense of the Heart , Panharmonicon , Mirari's Wake & the 'Dusk' half of Dusk / Dawn . There are numerous ways to remove him from the battlefield for a moment, play these spells, then bring him back.

{GW} Tutoring
Use Inventors' Fair to find Birthing Pod , or else an altar or Desecrated Tomb.

Enlightened Tutor will get you The Gift likely as your first choice, then maybe The Pod, after that it would be siutational, anything from Darksteel Mutation to Aura Shards.

There are so many ways to tutor creatures I won't go into them all.

{GW} WINCONS
A few options to close out the game:
1) flood the board with tokens from Desecrated Tomb
2) build up Champion of Lambholt to huge power and attack in while unblockable
3) build up your whole board with Gigantomancer (on order) and attack in
4) go infinite and kill with damage from Blasting Station
5) go infinite and mill out your opponents with Altar of the Brood or Altar of Dementia

Birthing Pod , Protean Hulk & Eldritch Evolution

There are other creatures of these CMCs, but these are the ones you are most likely to search for.

The optimal situation would be to have Solemn Simulacrum out and you can find your combo pieces one per turn sac'ing it to The Pod . Note that you don't actually have to find a creature if there is not one of the relevant CMC, The Pod is still a sac outlet. Also note, you can bounce The Pod with Felidar Guardian to use it twice in a turn.

1 CMC - Spore Frog & Llanowar Elves & Soul Warden
2 CMC - Elvish Visionary & Sakura-Tribe Elder & Qasali Pridemage & Gaddock Tegg & Hidden Herbalists & Wall of Blossoms
3 CMC - Renegade Rallier & Loyal Retainers & Heliod's Pilgrim & Mentor of the Meek & Fiend Hunter & Mirri, Weatherlight Duelist , Recruiter of the Guard & Skullwinder
4 CMC - Solemn Simulacrum & Felidar Guardian
5 CMC - Karmic Guide & Reveillark & Thragtusk
6 CMC - Sun Titan
7 CMC - Boonweaver Giant & Protean Hulk
8 CMC - Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger
9 CMC - Blazing Archon

How the combos work

{GW} Saffi Eriksdotter Combo:
You need 1) Saffi, 2) a way to recur her, 3) a sac outlet, & possibly 4) a value card
1) Saffi Eriksdotter
2) Karmic Guide OR Reveillark OR Sun Titan OR Renegade Rallier OR Loyal Retainers
3) Blasting Station OR Altar of Dementia OR Ashnod's Altar OR Birthing Pod OR Eldritch Evolution OR Primal Growth OR Culling Dais
4) Fecundity , Aura Shards , Champion of Lambholt , Soul Warden , Altar of the Brood , Desecrated Tomb

Sac Saffi to target her 'immortality' to any one of 2).
Saffi enters the graveyard.
Any effects from a Value Card due to a creature dying trigger.
Sac creature 2) to a sac outlet 3).
Creature 2) enter the graveyard, and recurs due to Saffi's 'immortality'.
Any effects from a Value Card due to a creature dying trigger.
Any effects from a Value Card due to a creature entering the battlefield trigger.
Creature 2)'s ETB recurs Saffi to the battlefield.
Any effects from a Value Card due to a creature entering the battlefield trigger.
Repeat, if possible.

{GW} Boonweaver Giant Combo:
When Boonweaver enters play, tutor Pattern of Rebirth and attach it to him.
Sac Boonweaver to tutor Karmic Guide which returns Boonweaver and Pattern.
Sac Boonweaver again to tutor Fiend Hunter, who exiles Karmic Guide.
Sac Fiend Hunter to return Karmic Guide, who then returns Boonweaver and Pattern.
Sac Boonweaver again to tutor Reveillark.
Sac Karmic and then Reveillark to return both Karmic and Fiend Hunter.
Use Karmic to return Boonweaver and Fiend Hunter to exile Karmic Guide.
Sac Boonweaver to go get anything.
Sac Fiend Hunter to return Karmic Guide, which returns Reveillark.
Repeat the last two steps to get every creature out of your library.

{GW} Karmic Guide / Reveillark Combo:
If you don't have Saffi you can still do some magic with a sac outlet, value creature and Karmic Guide / Reveillark:

You need to have a value creature in the graveyard. If not, sac one.
Sac Karmic Guide.
Sac Reveillark, its leave the battlefield trigger brings back Karmic Guide and the value creature.
Karmic Guide's trigger brings back Reveillark.
Repeat.

{GW} Sun Titan / Gift of Immortality Combo:
Can be used if Sun Titan is on the battlefield when you play the Gift, or if the Gift is in the graveyard when you play Sun Titan.
Attach the Gift to Sun Titan.
Sac Sun Titan. Sun Titan and the Gift go to the graveyard.
Sun Titan returns to the battefeld, and target his ETB at the Gift. Repeat.

{GW} Sac Outlets (which may be Wincons)
Blasting Station gives unlimited damage
Altar of Dementia gives unlimited mill
Ashnod's Altar gives unlimited colourless mana
Culling Dais - you can only do this once a turn, but it can draw you a lot of cards

{GW} Value Cards or Creatures:
Aura Shards - no one can have Artifacts or Enchantments except you
Altar of the Brood - mill someone out once you are infinite
Reclamation Sage or Sylvok Replica - Destroy permanents
Protean Hulk - get lots of creatures fast
Desecrated Tomb - flood the board with bats
Renegade Rallier OR Sun Titan - recur a land card to the battlefield - RAMP with the fetches!
Elvish Visionary - Draw a card
Eternal Witness OR Skullwinder - Recur a card
Farhaven Elf OR Sakura-Tribe Elder - tutor a Basic Land
Fiend Hunter - Exile a creature
Spore Frog OR Kami of False Hope - you can Fog the board every turn with the Fog Frog or King Kami, they also self-sacrifice
Champion of Lambholt provides huge protection fast
Fecundity gives unlimited card draw
Soul Warden - gain lots of life cheaply


{GW} How Fiend Hunter & Leonin Relic-Warder work:
These 2 cards (along with few black cards like Faceless Butcher ) are broken, and their flaw has been addressed and not repeated since by Wizards. The issue is that their exile and return triggered abilities are separate. That means they are placed on the stack separately. So if you have an instant-speed sac outlet you can get rid of something for good:

Play Fiend Hunter , it's ETB ability triggers.
Select a creature your opponents controls as the exile target.
Without relinquishing priority, sac Saffi, pointing her protection at Fiend Hunter .
Sac Fiend Hunter , it's LTB ability triggers.
Stack the triggers so that the LTB trigger resolves first.
LTB trigger resolves, without a target in Exile to turn, so it fizzles.
It's ETB trigger resolves and the creature is exiled, thus permanently.
Any subsequent Fiend Hunter (from recurring it, blinking, etc) is a different creature, so it does not 'know' the exiled card.
You can also use these cards on your permanents, just resolves the triggers in the other order.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	2 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 36 - 0 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.29
Tokens	Bat 1/1 B, Beast 3/3 G
Folders	Commander - Tier A