Bloodstone Circle

Commander / EDH* BGW (Abzan, Junk) Competitive Hatebears Infinite Combo Primer Stax

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Creature (37)

• 1x Academy Rector
• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Boonweaver Giant
• 1x Boreal Druid
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Collector Ouphe
• 1x Containment Priest
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Drannith Magistrate
• 1x Duskwatch Recruiter  ^Flip
• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Fiend Hunter
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Karmic Guide
• 1x Kataki, War's Wage
• 1x Linvala, Keeper of Silence
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Manglehorn
• 1x Mindblade Render
• 1x Priest of Titania
• 1x Protean Hulk
• 1x Qasali Pridemage
• 1x Recruiter of the Guard
• 1x Reveillark
• 1x Saffi Eriksdotter
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Pattern of Rebirth
• 1x Survival of the Fittest
• 1x Sylvan Library

Land (30)

• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bountiful Promenade
• 1x Brushland
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Forest
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x High Market
• 1x Horizon Canopy
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Nurturing Peatland
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Razorverge Thicket
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Silent Clearing
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Tarnished Citadel
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Natural Order
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Commanders (2)

Instant (15)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Ad Nauseam
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Autumn's Veil
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Natural State
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Silence
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Veil of Summer
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Artifact (3)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Sol Ring

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Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you.

The artist formerly known as a Karador Hulkweaver Combo

Sweet Beautiful Centaur

Karador, Ghost Chieftain is somewhat of a pet card to me. He was the first legendary creature I went out and bought a single of for the express purpose of making a commander deck. Me and Karador have had many ups and downs throughout the years. He has been built as a "goodstuff" deck with just the best cards I had to begin with (which is to say he was god awful at first, but so were my friends' decks). Then he gradually went to spirit tribal since the first innistrad set had just come out and I heard tribal is a good way to go if you want a deck that works together (this wasn't much better than before, but it made me love cards from the Kamigawa block). Some of the cards in that iteration that I liked the best were token producers... so we now turned it into a token deck with waay too many enchantments and planeswalkers to be a deck that really ever utilized the commander. Then, after seeing another Karador deck played, I thought "Maybe I should reanimate thicc archons and praetors and dragons and ol' nasty terasty". This was a prosperous time in the deck's life, and this is when I accidently assembled about half of the reveillark and friends combo. Upon finding the combo, I started looking to the internet for single cards that I could add to the package for different infinite combos. Eventually Boonweaver came to my attention and the deck started to lean more and more into combo. Hulk gets unbanned and immediately yeeted into a sleeve. I started playing at Hobbytown for the Commander league and saw people playing fast combo decks at the top tables... and that gave me the excuse to make it quicker and more powerful with cards that I had already been eyeing for about 4 years.

Karador has been instrumental in my understanding how to play the game, but the deck is currently retired as a physical deck and I have decided to just make it the best deck possible as I continue to update. Therefore I have switched to Tymna/sidar

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

The Plan

The main goal of this deck is to create an infinite sac loop with a mixture of Karmic Guide, Reveillark, and Saffi Eriksdotter to a) infinitely drain with Blood Artist or Zulaport Cutthroat b) infinitely mill with Altar of Dementia c)use Boonweaver Giant or Protean Hulk to search for (nearly) all of my creatures in my deck.

If I don't have the combo, I will slow down the combos of others through HateBears like Thalia, Guardian of Thraben and Hushwing Gryff

The Combos

Boonweaver line

1) Get Boonweaver Giant on the battlefield via reanimation or Pattern of Rebirth

2) Boonweaver searches hand library and graveyard for pattern of rebirth and it attatches it to boonweaver

3) Sac boonweaver to one of the many sac outlets

4) Find Karmic Guide bringing back boonweaver to the field, which in turn brings back pattern of rebirth

5) Sac boonweaver to find Saffi Eriksdotter (or Fiend Hunter )

6) Use saffis ability targeting karmic guide.

7) Sac karmic guide and return karmic guide to the field because of saffis ability to bring back boonweaver and then pattern

8) Sac boonweaver again to find Reveillark

9) Sac rev to return saffi and guide and guide returns rev

10) Saffis ability targets guide

11) Sac guide to return boonweaver and pattern

12) sac boonweaver to find any creature

13) sac karmic guide so it can be brought back by reveillark

14) repeat from step 9 until you win

Protean Hulk follows an almost identical line, but you can get a few extra creatures with each hulk sac(up to 6 cmc each time) and it can win marginally quicker due to less steps.

Phyrexian Delver acts as Karmic Guide in a pinch during my Boonweaver Giant or Protean Hulk lines, but I need to be careful with my lifetotal.

There are alternate combos that use some of those pieces that I have for redundancy in the combo. Each needs a sac outlet to work

Fiend Hunter + Karmic Guide

Reveillark + Saffi Eriksdotter

Karmic Guide + Reveillark

Another combo that is contained within is Animate Dead + Leonin Relic-Warder . It doesn't need a sac outlet, but it needs something that can be used to bring a win, such as Blood Artist, Razaketh, the Foulblooded, or Altar of Dementia.

A notable exclusion from previous versions of this deck is Sun Titan. I had been considering taking him out for a long time, but he occasionally would win games for me. It is just that too often I couldn't/shouldn't cast him instead of being able to use him to full effect, and I never tutored for it because there are too many better options to tutor for. Farewell Sun Titan, you are gone but not forgotten.

Exile on a Stick

Fiend Hunter and Leonin Relic-Warder are some really interesting cards. One of my favorite things to do with them is to cause one of my opponent's permanents to exile permanently. To do this, we need to understand the stack.

When Fiend Hunter enters the battlefield, we need to hold priority so we can use an ability in response to the etb ability on the stack. We will sacrifice Fiend Hunter in response to the trigger and the leave the battlefield ability will go on top of the stack. This will cause the ltb to resolve first since it is at the top of the stack and nothing will return as nothing has yet been exiled, then the enter the battlefield resolves and you permanently exile the creature you target.

Speed

"Boonweaver Giant and Protean Hulk have too high of mana cost to be able to be part of a competitive deck!" -you probably. But that is where you are wrong bucko. There are a couple types of options this deck has to cheat the mana cost as early as turn 2 (could be earlier, but I will not be buying mox and LED any time in the forseeable future).

The first way is to use a reanimate effect to yoink them from the graveyard.

The second way is to put Pattern of Rebirth on a dork and sac it to start your wombo combo. You can easily find this with Academy Rector so it functions as a second copy of pattern most of the time.

Chord of Calling for Academy Rector, Eldritch Evolution for rector, Birthing Pod for rector, and Natural Order for Protean Hulk are all also quick ways to get the combo going.

Fastest Hands

Example of turn 2 kill using reanimation

T1: black land and Viscera Seer T2: black land Entomb Protean Hulk and then Reanimate him so you can sac him and go through your wombo combo

Example of turn 3 kill using pattern.

T1: Green land and Llanowar Elves T2: land and Altar of Dementia T3: land and Pattern of Rebirth on your mana dork, then sac your patterned dork to start the combo

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Top Ranked	Achieved #51 position overall 5 years ago Achieved #45 position in Commander / EDH 5 years ago Achieved #6 position in Commander / EDH Primer 5 years ago
Date added	5 years
Last updated	4 years
Key combos	Karmic Guide + Reveillark Fiend Hunter + Karmic Guide Animate Dead + Leonin Relic-Warder Reveillark + Saffi Eriksdotter
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 57 - 0 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.30
Tokens	Spirit 1/1 C
Folders	likes, Commander, Commander, Competitive, Deck ideas, EDH, EDH decks