Ezuri: Count Your Blessings

Commander / EDH Counters Elves GU (Simic) Multiplayer

Miyazeaux

Creature (37)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Coiling Oracle
• 1x Den Protector
• 1x Devoted Druid
• 1x Gyre Sage
• 1x Incubation Druid
• 1x Priest of Titania
• 1x Sage of Hours
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Steelbane Hydra
• 1x Champion of Lambholt
• 1x Chasm Skulker
• 1x Cold-Eyed Selkie
• 1x Courser of Kruphix
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Evolution Sage
• 1x Marwyn, the Nurturer
• 1x Nadir Kraken
• 1x Pir, Imaginative Rascal
• 1x Plaxcaster Frogling
• 1x Rishkar, Peema Renegade
• 1x Trygon Predator
• 1x Wood Elves
• 1x Beast Whisperer
• 1x Fathom Mage
• 1x Forgotten Ancient
• 1x Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1x Herald of Secret Streams
• 1x Master Biomancer
• 1x Toothy, Imaginary Friend
• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Bane of Progress
• 1x Prime Speaker Zegana
• 1x Craterhoof Behemoth

Land (37)

• 1x Alchemist's Refuge
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 11x Forest
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 1x Inkmoth Nexus
• 7x Island
• 1x Karn's Bastion
• 1x Llanowar Reborn
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Novijen, Heart of Progress
• 1x Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Waterlogged Grove
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Simic Ascendancy
• 1x Hadana's Climb  ^Flip
• 1x Song of the Dryads
• 1x Guardian Project
• 1x Path of Discovery

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Tezzeret's Gambit
• 1x Triumph of the Hordes

Commander (1)

Instant (8)

• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Inspiring Call

Artifact (7)

• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Simic Signet
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Lifecrafter's Bestiary
• 1x Sword of Truth and Justice
• 1x The Great Henge

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Nissa, Voice of Zendikar
• 1x Oko, Thief of Crowns

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Tuned Ezuri +1/+1 counter synergy build. The core game plan is play out Ezuri, play creatures with power 2 or less to get experience counters, place +1/+1 counters on creatures and finally exploit synergies of creatures to profit.

Win conditions: infinite turns by targeting Sage of Hours every combat with Ezuri out and 5+ experience counters. Alternatively (and more commonly), smash with a lot of big-ish creatures buffed by Triumph of the Hordes or Craterhoof Behemoth.

Rationale:

Cards that add redundancy to Ezuri's ability (i.e. cards that place +1/+1 counters on other creatures) are heavily prioritized, as my meta is growing to prey on decks that are too reliant on the commander.

My meta is almost 100% blue decks, has a lot of white removal floating around, and has a lot of decks that are very reliant on their commanders' abilities to function. Due to this, there are a few meta picks:

• Trygon Predator to block Kaalia of the Vast and Brago, King Eternal with upside

• Sword of Truth and Justice for relevant color protection and highly synergistic triggered ability

• Oko, Thief of Crowns for his +1 that completely shuts down abilities of the commanders of the following meta decks: Brago, King Eternal, Kaalia of the Vast, Niv-Mizzet, Parun, Tatyova, Benthic Druid, Grand Arbiter Augustin IV. Oko is actually ridiculous as a removal source.

Key cards that serve multiple roles in the deck, thus making them critical to the strategy:

• Plaxcaster Frogling: a complete house. Puts counters on itself on entry, can graft counters (even ones added later with Ezuri's ability) to other creatures, and has a protective ability. It's a bummer that it gives shroud instead of hexproof (if someone tries to remove a creature you're targeting with Ezuri's ability, it will fizzle both the removal and Ezuri's ability) but if you can get a counter on Ezuri himself it's great protection.

• The Great Henge: wow. A source of +1/+1 counters onto creatures, card draw, and ramp (albeit later game ramp). This does everything our deck wants to do.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 46 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 5 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.06
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Elk 3/3 G, Experience Token, Food, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Manifest 2/2 C, Morph 2/2 C, Plant 0/1 G, Squid 1/1 U, Tentacle 1/1 U