He That Betrays

Commander / EDH Combo Infinite Combo Reanimator UBR (Grixis)

thewyzman

Cards (10)

• 1x Anticipate
• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Careful Study
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Forbidden Alchemy
• 1x Izzet Charm
• 1x Monastery Siege
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Sphinx of Uthuun

Combo (7)

• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Deceiver Exarch
• 1x Ever After
• 1x Feldon of the Third Path
• 1x Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• 1x Necrotic Ooze
• 1x Zealous Conscripts

Control (8)

• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Forbid
• 1x Negate
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Sundial of the Infinite
• 1x Treachery
• 1x Vandalblast

Defense (4)

• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Monastery Siege
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Dredge (5)

• 1x Altar of the Brood
• 1x Codex Shredder
• 1x Extract from Darkness
• 1x Ghoulcaller's Bell
• 1x Monastery Siege

ETB (9)

• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Bogardan Hellkite
• 1x Corpse Connoisseur
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Lord of the Void
• 1x Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1x Sepulchral Primordial
• 1x Sphinx of Uthuun

Kill (4)

• 1x Dreadbore
• 1x Evil Twin
• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 1x Pongify

Mana (41)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Desolate Lighthouse
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Encroaching Wastes
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Grixis Panorama
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 2x Island
• 1x Molten Slagheap
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Rakdos Carnarium
• 4x Snow-Covered Island
• 2x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 5x Swamp
• 1x Swiftwater Cliffs
• 1x Tainted Isle
• 1x Tainted Peak
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Vivid Marsh

Reanimate (9)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Beacon of Unrest
• 1x Conjurer's Closet
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Ever After
• 1x Sepulchral Primordial
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Teferi's Veil
• 1x Whip of Erebos

Rocks (5)

• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Sol Ring

Steal (1)

• 1x Treachery

Support (5)

• 1x Flameshadow Conjuring
• 1x Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker
• 1x Nightscape Familiar
• 1x Rooftop Storm
• 1x Vedalken Orrery

Tutor (3)

• 1x Demonic Collusion
• 1x Lord of the Void
• 1x Trinket Mage

Commander (1)

---

Maybeboard

Other (17)

• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Drownyard Temple
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Fascination
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Impaler Shrike
• 1x Insidious Dreams
• 1x Mizzium Mortars
• 1x Pilfered Plans
• 1x Rise from the Grave
• 1x Simic Manipulator
• 1x Stitch Together
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Treasure Cruise
• 1x Zephyr Scribe

---

WHY SEDRIS?

Zombie. King. Commander. Reanimation. Cruelty.

OBJECTIVE

The ultimate goal is to be a fairly competitive combo deck with win cons within Grixis colors, arguably the best colors for win cons in the game.

THE COMBOS

Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + either Zealous Conscripts or Deceiver Exarch ... with help from Necrotic Ooze or Feldon of the Third Path if they're in the yard, and a handful of tutors to find them, from creature-based ETBs like Corpse Connoisseur and Rune-Scarred Demon, to spell-based Demonic Collusion or even Buried Alive/Entomb.

If we get our win cons in the yard together, a sneaky card from SOI, Ever After , becomes a 6-mana win.

POWER OVERWHELMING

The sheer potential power of this deck is in the various interactions within, the combos and synergies that make opponents look twice when they realize what just happened. You can imagine such a play when:

• Sedris, the Traitor King/Whip of Erebos returns a creature like Lord of the Void to play, then Flameshadow Conjuring makes a copy of it for just m; swing in combat; REAP YOUR REWARDS! Results are even more amazing when considering ETB creatures like Sepuchral Primordial or Rune-Scarred Demon! If that wasn't enough, we get Teferi's Veil or Conjurer's Closet to AT LEAST DOUBLE everything at EOT, and KEEP them on board!

CARD CHOICES

Talking charms, Izzet Charm is really in just for the loot effect. Dimir Charm is much too limited to be useful outside of stacking an opponent's yard with fatties to steal. Grixis Charm would barely be useful if this was a zombie deck (which it isn't), but Crosis's Charm is probably the most useful of the charms, generally speaking, as a Disperse/Doom Blade/Smelt, but the 3-color cost can be burdensome and I've chosen to fill the slot with more consistent cards.

THE CLOCKWORK

What really makes this clock tick is LOOT mechanics... letting us search for what we need while pitching what we don't, especially our ETB guys like Grave Titan and Lord of the Void, who we'll eventually look to unearth later on. Previous iterations of the deck also included more wraths, mill effects, and reanimation cards, but I've chosen the path of winning swiftly over a slower, grindier game.

What gives this deck board presence are the effects that overwrite the exile effect from the unearth. A blink from Deadeye Navigator, phase from Teferi's Veil, the ability from Sundial of the Infinite, or triggers from Conjurer's Closet, will all overwrite the exile clause from unearth and grant us that creature permanently (often even giving us another copy!).

CHALLENGES

We aren't without our weaknesses. This deck's biggest challenge is a smooth mana base; three colors isn't too easy to pull off consistently without the collection of fetches, and trying to run a control shell makes it that much more difficult.

Of course, we're pretty much without an early board presence, so there's always that chance we don't even get enough time to find our pieces before it's too late.

I've tossed in a few counterspells, but if our opponents know what to counter to stop us from winning, our curve is a fairly high one, and we become susceptible to losing turns. On that same token, typically not having a wide board means we're especially vulnerable to sacrifice effects, anything from Innocent Blood to Dictate of Erebos, the latter of which we really can't even deal with (without boarding in Disperse-like spells and/or Annul specifically for that).

Top Ranked	Achieved #46 position overall 8 years ago
Date added	8 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 37 - 0 Rares 25 - 0 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.52
Tokens	Ape 3/3 G, Copy Clone, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Best of all Formats, edh decks, EDH decks I want, EDH