Hermit Druid, Infinite Mana

Commander / EDH

rguilbault

Land (28)

• 1x Badlands
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Gemstone Caverns
• 1x Gemstone Mine
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Taiga
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Sorcery (13)

• 1x Deep Analysis
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Timetwister
• 1x Unburial Rites
• 1x Unearth
• 1x Wheel of Fortune
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will

Instant (28)

• 1x Ancient Grudge
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Delay
• 1x Demonic Consultation
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Fire Covenant
• 1x Flash
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Memory's Journey
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Silence
• 1x Songs of the Damned
• 1x Summoner's Pact
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Wear / Tear
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Artifact (6)

• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring

Commander (1)

Creature (22)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Blighted Bat
• 1x Cephalid Illusionist
• 1x Channeler Initiate
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Devoted Druid
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Fatestitcher
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Hapless Researcher
• 1x Hermit Druid
• 1x Jace, Vryn's Prodigy  ^Flip
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Narcomoeba
• 1x Necrotic Ooze
• 1x Noble Hierarch
• 1x Nomads en-Kor
• 1x Protean Hulk
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Walking Ballista
• 1x Wall of Roots

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Sylvan Library

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Sorcery (1)

• 1x Cabal Therapy

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All other people's combos jammed into one playable, competitive deck:

• Flash Protean Hulk and go grab Nomads en-Kor, Grand Abolisher, Hapless Researcher and Cephalid Illusionist
• do the 'Cephalid Breakfast' combo to mill the deck (target Cephalid Illusionist with Nomad en-Kors ability, milling 3 cards at a whack)
• sacrifice Narcomoeba, Nomads en-Kor and Cephalid Illusionist to flashback Dread Return to bring Laboratory Maniac out of the bin
• sacrifice Hapless Researcher to draw with empty library and win

If that somehow fails to live up to the hype, then we plod along for the Hermit Druid self-mill and depending on what you got going on:

• you unearth Fatestitcher, tap it to untap the land you used to unearth it (or something better)
• sacrifice Narcomoeba, Fatestitcher and Hermit Druid to flashback Necrotic Ooze
• while maintaining priority, active Blighted Bats ability to give Necrotic Ooze haste so you can activate Devoted Druid to put a -1/-1 counter on it, then activate Channeler Initiate to put a colored mana in your pool; note: Wall of Roots gives you access to the you need to activate Blighted Bats ability
• do this infinite numbers of times so you can activate Walking Ballista's ability to ping people to death

This deck combines streamlined chunks of other decks so that it is pretty efficient. I may be making some poor/sub-optimal card choices in some places, but slots are tight and I'm trying to make the most of what I have available. Cabal Therapy is likely a good card to consider adding to get me out of a jam at the end where I have a piece in hand that I want in the graveyard...but if I have enough pieces where they need to be, the hope is I can always cast the card if need be (if I go infinite mana).

Date added	8 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 52 - 0 Rares 28 - 0 Uncommons 18 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	1.86
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Emblem Jace, Vryn's Prodigy, Spirit 1/1 C