Eldritch Necrotic Ooze

Modern BG (Golgari) Combo Competitive Infinite Combo Midrange Rock

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Creature (23)

• 1x Channeler Initiate
• 4x Devoted Druid
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 2x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Grim Poppet
• 2x Kitchen Finks
• 1x Lotleth Troll
• 2x Necrotic Ooze
• 3x Quillspike
• 2x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Thornling
• 3x Walking Ballista

Land (23)

• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 3x Forest
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Hissing Quagmire
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 2x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 2x Swamp
• 4x Twilight Mire
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 4x Verdant Catacombs
• 2x Woodland Cemetery

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Collective Brutality
• 2x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Maelstrom Pulse
• 2x Traverse the Ulvenwald

Instant (5)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 3x Fatal Push
• 1x Makeshift Mannequin

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Liliana of the Veil
• 1x Liliana, the Last Hope

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Sinister Concoction

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Sideboard

Creature (6)

• 1x Emrakul, the Promised End
• 2x Fulminator Mage
• 2x Phyrexian Obliterator
• 1x Wickerbough Elder

Artifact (1)

• 1x Nihil Spellbomb

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Damnation
• 2x Inquisition of Kozilek
• 1x Sadistic Sacrament
• 2x Thoughtseize

Instant (2)

• 1x Savage Summoning
• 1x Slaughter Pact

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Necrotic Ooze. Walking Ballista. Infinity. Need I say more?

This is a midrange/combo hybrid deck that is based upon various combos and synergies with Necrotic Ooze. The plan is to stay alive in the early game using disruptive elements to interact with and disrupt my opponent's plans while pressuring the opponent and filling the graveyard with combo pieces. The main win condition is comboing off with Necrotic Ooze (more on that below) or death by general aggro. In game two, the hybrid nature of this deck allows it to capitalize on its opponent's weakness. If our opponent is prepared or has heavily sideboarded for the combo element of this deck, it can shift into an almost pure midrange Rock deck post board. It is this ability to adapt to our opponent's weakness and shift from combo to midrange that gives this deck the edge.

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Infinite Combos using Necrotic Ooze

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Assumes the listed creatures are in the graveyard and that Necrotic Ooze is in play.

• Devoted Druid + Quillspike = infinite power/toughness. This is done by tapping Necrotic Ooze for , untapping it with Devoted Druid's untap ability, and spending the to remove the resulting -1/-1 counter and give Necrotic Ooze +3/+3. Repeat ad infinitum.

• Devoted Druid + Quillspike + Thornling = infinite trample damage. This is done by using Thornling 's ability to grant trample after above combo has been done.

• Devoted Druid/Cinderhaze Wretch + Grim Poppet = infinite -1/-1 counters to distribute among creatures. To accomplish this, activate Devoted Druid's ability to untap itself, regardless of whether Necrotic Ooze is actually tapped, and then use Grim Poppet 's ability to remove a -1/-1 counter from itself and put one on target creature until all creatures you want are dead.

• Devoted Druid/Cinderhaze Wretch + Channeler Initiate = infinte mana. This is done by adding a -1/-1 counter to the ooze and removing it for a mana of any color over and over.

• Devoted Druid/Cinderhaze Wretch + Channeler Initiate + Walking Ballista = infinite damage. This is done by adding a -1/-1 counter to the ooze and removing it for a mana until you can put enough +1/+1 counters on the ooze to kill your opponent. This can also be done if the Walking Ballista is in play rather than the graveyard.

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Combos NOT involving Necrotic Ooze

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Assumes listed creatures are in play.

• Devoted Druid + Quillspike = infinite power/toughness
  To accomplish this, tap Devoted Druid for , untap it by placing a -1/-1 counter on it, then spend the to remove the counter and give Quillspike +3/+3. Repeat ad infinitum.

• If the above combo is done with Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons in play, you will end up with an arbitrarily large number of snakes.

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Other card Synergies and Descriptions

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• Grim Flayer does pretty much everything we want a support creature to do. It fill the graveyard and applies pressure to our opponents and is relevant both early and late in the game.

• Scavenging Ooze is just a very useful card for midrange decks in general, and it has the additional benefit of giving its ability to Necrotic Ooze while it is in the graveyard.

• Eternal Witness plays the role of smoothing our plays out. It can grab a removal/discard spell for us to use again and attack or block as necessary. It can also recur a dead Necrotic Ooze and provide a little additional value with Lotleth Troll or Fauna Shaman in the late game.

• Lotleth Troll falls into a similar roll as Pack Rat. Although it is not as good at flat-out ending games, it is much more cost effective to just pitch cards than pay the rat's cost.

• Kitchen Finks is our way to buy the time needed to combo off with Necrotic Ooze. It also happens to synergize quite well with Quillspike on offense.

• Fauna Shaman is amazing for getting the perfect combination of creatures into the graveyard.

• Eldritch Evolution is an incredible tutor for this deck. It can take any combo creature we have in play and send it to the graveyard while putting Necrotic Ooze directly into play. In this deck, it even has the added perk of still getting value even when it is countered or remanded because we generally want our creatures in the graveyard.

• Liliana of the Veil does pretty much everything we want. Her plus slows down the opponent while letting us put relevant combo pieces into the graveyard. Her minus shrinks the opponents board and can deal with many hard-to-interact-with creatures if the conditions are right. She is also a planeswalker, so that's good for delirium.

• Liliana, the Last Hope is also an amazing planeswalker for this deck. I run one in place of a second Eternal Witness as she fills a similar role, but has a much higher ceiling if she sticks around. At her worst, she will come down and do an Eternal Witness impression and then die to either bolt or creatures. In this case she has filled the graveyard, returned a desirable creature to your hand, bought time by forcing the opponent to target her, and put the planeswalker card type in the graveyard for your delirium count. At her best she will come down and kill something and end up winning you the game a few turns later with her ultimate.

• Sinister Concoction is a wonderful little kill spell that hits everything from Tarmogoyf to Emrakul, the Aeons Torn. It allows us to efficiently use out mana by playing it early and being quite cheap when we need it. It is also extremely useful for setting up delirium as it is an enchantment that mills and allows us to pitch combo pieces from out hand.

• Collective Brutality is currently being tested as a jack of all trades, master of none kind of card. It has the potential to 3-for-3 burn and aggro decks while still being relevant against combo and control.

• Fatal Push and Maelstrom Pulse deal with many problematic cards in the Modern format.

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The Sideboard

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Should the combos with Necrotic Ooze not prove effective, either from poor match-ups or sideboard hate, our sideboard allows us to transform into a Midrange deck using Phyrexian Obliterator.

Having Phyrexian Obliterator in the sideboard allows us to adjust how focused the deck is on either combo or midrange. As the deck is capable of both, this gives us an edge in game 2 once we know which strategy our opponent is weaker to and can sideboard accordingly.

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Feedback greatly appreciated on the following:

• I'm currently testing Channeler Initiate as replacement for Morselhoarder . While both allow the ooze to create arbitrarily large amounts of mana, there are some key differences. Morselhoarder often just sits in the hand waiting to be discarded while channeler initiate can be cast early as a beater or mana source. Necrotic ooze can make the mana while it is summoning sick if Morselhoarder is used, while channeler initiate requires tapping.

• Testing Emrakul, the Promised End as an anti control finisher.

• How does the SB look assuming an unknown meta?

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Thank you for taking the time to read this! Let me know what you think of the deck as well as any questions or suggestions you have.

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Necrotic Ooze Combo Compendium

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SCORE: 5 | 5 COMMENTS | 1864 VIEWS | IN 4 FOLDERS

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for a list of combos and abilities that work well the ooze.

Top Ranked	Achieved #15 position overall 11 years ago
Date added	11 years
Last updated	6 years
Exclude colors	WR
Key combos	Devoted Druid + Quillspike
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 5 Mythic Rares 37 - 6 Rares 15 - 2 Uncommons 0 - 2 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.35
Tokens	Emblem Liliana, the Last Hope, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	ciuppa, Modern Awesome Decks, Fun Decks (foreign), modern, Billig, Modern-Combo, modern, golgari, lolz, nice decks