Ezuri Combo Elves *Primer*

Commander / EDH Competitive Elves Forest Infinite Combo Mono-Green Multiplayer Primer

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Creature (33)

• 1x Allosaurus Shepherd
• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Argothian Elder
• 1x Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
• 1x Beast Whisperer
• 1x Circle of Dreams Druid
• 1x Collector Ouphe
• 1x Copperhorn Scout
• 1x Devoted Druid
• 1x Elvish Archdruid
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Elvish Visionary
• 1x Endurance
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Heritage Druid
• 1x Kogla, the Titan Ape
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Marwyn, the Nurturer
• 1x Nyxbloom Ancient
• 1x Oakhame Adversary
• 1x Priest of Titania
• 1x Quirion Ranger
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Regal Force
• 1x Scryb Ranger
• 1x Seeker of Skybreak
• 1x Temur Sabertooth
• 1x Wirewood Channeler
• 1x Wirewood Symbiote
• 1x Yeva, Nature's Herald
• 1x Yisan, the Wanderer Bard

Land (28)

• 1x Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Deserted Temple
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Emergence Zone
• 10x Forest
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Pendelhaven
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Turntimber, Serpentine Wood  ^Flip
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x War Room
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wirewood Lodge
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Enchantment (10)

• 1x Aluren
• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Concordant Crossroads
• 1x Earthcraft
• 1x Kenrith's Transformation
• 1x Survival of the Fittest
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Utopia Sprawl
• 1x Viridian Revel
• 1x Wild Growth

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Genesis Wave
• 1x Glimpse of Nature
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Natural Order
• 1x Shamanic Revelation

Commander (1)

Instant (11)

• 1x Autumn's Veil
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Force of Vigor
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Shared Summons
• 1x Summoner's Pact
• 1x Veil of Summer
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Artifact (9)

• 1x Altar of the Brood
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Cloudstone Curio
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Staff of Domination
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir
• 1x Umbral Mantle

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Vivien on the Hunt

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Introduction

This is a fast combo creature deck that revolves around dropping as many creatures as we can onto the board and trying to combo out first before our opponents can. Early game revolves around dropping value creatures that ramp into more mana to set up for the "Infinite Mana Enablers". With this, we can use Ezuri, Renegade Leader's overrun ability to make our mana dorks Big and Beefy to one shot each opponent. The appeal to this deck comes from it having many different lines to make infinite mana, allowing it be very adaptive with the cards we are drawing in to.

Why Ezuri?

Ezuri, Renegade Leader is a powerful commander and is the definitive commander for this type of deck. Ezuri can protect our critical elves from spot removal or board wipes with his regeneration ability. This is crucial to the deck because once our elves are destroyed its hard to get them back. Ezuri's second ability is our primary wincon, so its nice to have one piece of our combo in our command zone, ready to use whenever we assemble a combo. His cost in relatively cheap which helps when we are short on creatures on the field.

In short, his pros are as follows:

• Offers protection to our creatures
• Offers a win con with his overrun ability
• Easy to ramp out into

His cons:

• Cannot produce mana (besides cards like Earthcraft)
• Cannot protect himself
• Usually sits in command zone until we can combo out

Combos

Infinite Mana

There is a multitude of ways to make infinite Mana in this deck. More than I could possibly list. Broken down, the most common lines include:

A big mana dork such as Priest of Titania and either Umbral Mantle or Staff of Domination

Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Quirion Ranger and either a big mana dork, or a haste enabler.

Temur Sabertooth +Wirewood Symbiote + a big mana dork + any other dork

Argothian Elder + Ashaya + haste or another creature

Argothian Elder + Wirewood Lodge + Land that taps for 2 or more mana.

For a much more comprehensive list of a majority of the infinite mana combos that can be found in this deck please check edhrec's combo page found here

Win Conditions

Swing for the heavens

Ezuri, Renegade Leader is our main win condition. We make infinite green mana to overrun the entire board, or at least kill 1/2 opponents. It is often beneficial to pump and swing, even if its not lethal.

Finale of Devastation can also be used for an overrun ability if Ezuri is unavailable.

Beast Within

This win condition is our outside of combat win condition. With Yeva or Emergence Zone, you can also complete this during someone else's turn.

1. Beast Within an opponent’s permanent
2. Cast Eternal Witness returning Beast Within to hand
3. Beast Within an opponent’s permanent
4. Bounce Eternal Witness to hand with Temur Sabertooth or Kogla
5. Replay Eternal Witness returning Beast Within to hand
6. Do this to all of your opponent’s permanents.

Afterwards you can keep targeting one of your own creatures to make an infinite amount of 3/3 beasts. You can also infinitely bounce kogla and have it fight your opponents 3/3 beasts, clearing their board entirely.

Single Card Discussion

Altar of the Brood

Definitely a weird card to see in cEDH. This is arguably my favorite card in magic, but I am not blinded by bias as to way I have this card in my current build. Placing this down early is extremely advantageous as you are able to drop so many dorks and permanents early on. Cracking a fetch land and playing a dork alone will mill each opponent by 3 cards. Although I have discovered many infinite ways to infinitely mill my opponents, the new strongest method is Altar of the brood + Ashaya + Quirion Ranger. With Ashaya on the field, Quirion Ranger can tap for 1 mana, bounce itself, and use the 1 mana floating to recast itself. Infinite Bounce = Infinite Mill. Cloudstone Curio + Aluren can also replicate this same effect with 2 creatures with 3cmc or less.

Budget Cuts

The most expensive card is this deck is Gaea's Cradle. The most budget friendly alternatives are cards that you should already run and that is Growing Rites of Itlimoc   and similarly Elvish Guidance.

Cavern of Souls is pretty necessary since we need our creatures to hit the field, so if you are cutting this for budgetary reasons I highly recommend Veil of Summer and Gaea's Herald to help keep our creatures safe from counter spells.

Sylvan Library can be cut for the slightly cheaper card Sensei's Divining Top or you can just run any alternative draw card such as Harmonize and Collective Unconscious.

The best alternative to Earthcraft is Cryptolith Rite, but for under a dollar, Song of Freyalise is also a very strong budget option.

Top Ranked	Achieved #11 position overall 5 years ago Achieved #5 position in Commander / EDH 5 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Competitive 5 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Elves 5 years ago
Date added	6 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 44 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.44
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Rhino Warrior 4/4 G
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