Ezuricrats - Simic Aristocrats (Epoe5000)

Commander / EDH Aristocrats Counters GU (Simic) Reanimator Sacrifice Stompy Tokens Tokens Voltron

Epoe5000

Creature (35)

• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Beast Whisperer
• 1x Benevolent Hydra
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloodspore Thrinax
• 1x Cankerbloom
• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Champion of Lambholt
• 1x Chasm Skulker
• 1x Cold-Eyed Selkie
• 1x Cradle Clearcutter
• 1x Delighted Halfling
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Fathom Mage
• 1x Forgotten Ancient
• 1x Gyre Sage
• 1x Hangarback Walker
• 1x Hooded Hydra
• 1x Iridescent Hornbeetle
• 1x Iron Apprentice
• 1x Kami of Whispered Hopes
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Marwyn, the Nurturer
• 1x Mycoloth
• 1x Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate
• 1x Pir, Imaginative Rascal
• 1x Rampant Rejuvenator
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1x Servant of the Scale
• 1x Skullwinder
• 1x Termagant Swarm
• 1x Toothy, Imaginary Friend
• 1x Wood Elves

Land (36)

• 1x Access Tunnel
• 1x Barkchannel Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Demolition Field
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 9x Forest
• 1x High Market
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 5x Island
• 1x Karn's Bastion
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Miren, the Moaning Well
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Otawara, Soaring City
• 1x Plaza of Heroes
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Tangled Islet
• 1x Tranquil Thicket
• 1x Waterlogged Grove

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Evolutionary Leap
• 1x Fecundity
• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Hardened Scales
• 1x One with the Kami
• 1x Tribute to the World Tree

Battle (1)

• 1x Invasion of Shandalar  ^Flip

Commander (1)

Instant (8)

• 1x Arachnogenesis
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Fungal Rebirth
• 1x Galadhrim Ambush
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Momentous Fall
• 1x Return of the Wildspeaker

Artifact (7)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Spawning Pit *list*
• 1x The Great Henge
• 1x The Ozolith

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Bala Ged Recovery  ^Flip
• 1x Life's Legacy
• 1x Natural Order
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Rishkar's Expertise
• 1x Unnatural Restoration

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Creature (16)

• 1x Aether Channeler
• 1x Aviation Pioneer
• 1x Evolution Sage
• 1x Foundation Breaker
• 1x Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1x Hydroid Krasis
• 1x Kalonian Hydra
• 1x Master Biomancer
• 1x Ochre Jelly
• 1x Old One Eye
• 1x Renata, Called to the Hunt
• 1x Swarm Shambler
• 1x Tervigon
• 1x Tyranid Prime
• 1x Vengevine
• 1x Walking Ballista

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Awaken the Woods
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Metamorphosis
• 1x Neoform
• 1x Pest Infestation
• 1x Regrowth
• 1x Shamanic Revelation
• 1x Three Visits
• 1x Windfall

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Aquatic Incursion
• 1x Gutter Grime
• 1x Ordeal of Nylea
• 1x Perilous Forays
• 1x Sylvan Library

Instant (3)

• 1x Entish Restoration
• 1x Evolution Charm
• 1x Plasm Capture

Artifact (2)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x The Golden Throne

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This deck is a color-pie break deck that weeks to make aristocrats work in Simic colors. The deck works by leveraging +1/+1 counter and token synergies to make a large number of tokens and mana to quickly outvalue your opponent. Ezuri, Claw of Progress is the perfect commander to balance these strategies.

So what makes this deck unique? We take advantage of cards that create tokens for each counter on them when they die or when counters are placed on creatures such as Hangarback Walker, Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate, Termagant Swarm, Hooded Hydra, One with the Kami, Iridescent Hornbeetle, and Mycoloth (as well as just good mass token creators like Avenger of Zendikar) to create mass amounts of creature fodder which trigger Ezuri and can then be sacrificed to any of our various sac outlets to generate even more amounts of mana (Ashnod's Altar and Phyrexian Altar), generate card advantage (Birthing Pod, Natural Order, and Evolutionary Leap), and create more tokens (Spawning Pit).

Other sacrifice outlets focus on being able to "pop" the large creatures when we want to get their effect like Greater Good, Life's Legacy, and Momentous Fall. After generating value, the cycle repeats itself: use creature token triggers to trigger Ezuri, create a large creature, sacrifice it for value, generate more tokens, repeat. Other cards like Chasm Skulker, Toothy, Imaginary Friend, and Rampant Rejuvenator also synergize well with this style of play, though instead of generating tokens, they generate card advantage or ramp.

Due to the aristocrats theme, we also run many Eternal Witness-like cards including Eternal Witness, Skullwinder, Unnatural Restoration, Bala Ged Recovery  , Fungal Rebirth, and Invasion of Shandalar   to make sure we can get as much value as possible from each creature.

We also use the typical Ezuri shenanigans to generate lots of ramp, draw, and value through Gyre Sage, Kami of Whispered Hopes, Marwyn, the Nurturer, Cradle Clearcutter, Selvala, Heart of the Wilds, Fathom Mage, Cold-Eyed Selkie, and Champion of Lambholt, among others.

The deck win is very flexible as you can either go wide or go tall, especially using a well-timed Champion of Lambholt, Access Tunnel, or Rogue's Passage to get your large creatures through.

Much of the rest of the deck supports the strategy with many forms of card draw, Mana Drain that works great with casting X-spells, and counter support cards like Hardened Scales, Benevolent Hydra, Ozolith, the Shattered Spire, The Ozolith, and Pir, Imaginative Rascal.

As with all my decks, it has been balanced with sufficient draw/tutor (17 cards), interaction/removal (8 cards), and ramp (15 cards) so that you can always have a good play experience.

Hope you enjoy breaking the color pie and experiencing aristocrats in a fun and unique way!

Date added	1 year
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 47 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.00
Tokens	2/2 C Artifact Creature Spawn, Beast 3/3 G, Elf Warrior 1/1 G, Experience Token, Insect 1/1 G, Manifest 2/2 C, Morph 2/2 C, Plant 0/1 G, Saproling 1/1 G, Snake 1/1 G, Spider 1/2 G, Spirit 1/1 C, Squid 1/1 U, Thopter 1/1 C, Tyranid 1/1 G