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Little bit of background: The first commander deck I ever built in MTG featured Savra, Queen of the Golgari. She was a great starter, but as I became more familiar with the game, I found her to be underpowered and no amount of deck edits could do what I wanted from a deck, until Mazirek appeared, and Savra found her way into a similar deck, but powered by a more utilitarian commander.

You've basically got three main types of sac triggers: mana generators (Ashnod's Altar), tutors (Sidisi, Undead Vizier) and ramp (Archfiend of Depravity).

Other cards in this deck create tokens, that either have natural sacrifice ability (Pawn of Ulamog), or can be sacrificed by one of the other abilities in the deck (Golgari Germination).

With Mazirek's ability, you want to be able to make the best use out of the counters that your creatures will be getting. Hardened Scales and Corpsejack Menace are important ramps for counters.

Special acknowledgement goes to Mycoloth for playing all three roles, gaining counters, being a sacrifice trigger as well as creating tokens.

For late game, use the following creatures as your 'finishers':

Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord and of course, Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest

There is one key combination that allows this deck to go infinite, making all of your creatures infinitely strong and scary. You will need to have the following cards on the field:

Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest

Ashnod's Altar

Animation Module

and any creature to sacrifice.

Basically, you sacrifice the other creature to Ashnod's Altar which puts a counter on all creatures due to Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest. Since the counter requirement is fulfilled for Animation Module, use the mana generated from Ashnod's Altar to pay for a Servo token. You can then infinitely loop this combo, making Mazirek (and the rest of your creatures that are on the field) infinitely large.

This combo seems like it has a lot of pieces, but with the tutors present in this deck, it is simple to execute.

This deck has 3 built-in win conditions.
First and foremost, combat is going to be your leading win condition. Mazirek ramps fast, and hits even harder. You can also use Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord to carry you to a swift, ultimate victory.
Secondly, Revel in Riches. This combined with Pitiless Plunderer ramps up Treasure tokens very quickly, and is an excellent non-combat win condition.
Last but not least, token generation. For the win with Epic Struggle, it is just too simple to generate 20 creatures with the amount of native token generation in this deck.

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Revision 14 See all

(6 years ago)

+1 Carrion Feeder maybe
+1 Crovax the Cursed maybe
+1 Mortician Beetle maybe
-1 Starved Rusalka maybe
Date added 6 years
Last updated 6 years
Exclude colors WUR
Legality

This deck is Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

2 - 0 Mythic Rares

27 - 0 Rares

25 - 0 Uncommons

22 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 2.91
Tokens Eldrazi Scion 1/1 C, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Saproling 1/1 G, Servo 1/1 C, Treasure
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