Karador's T3 Instakill

Commander / EDH BGW (Abzan, Junk) Combo Discard Infinite Combo

Blakkhand

Creature (20)

• 1x Benevolent Bodyguard
• 1x Bloodghast
• 1x Dark Confidant
• 1x Dimir House Guard
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Hermit Druid
• 1x Karador, Ghost Chieftain
• 1x Karmic Guide
• 1x Krovikan Horror
• 1x Mesmeric Fiend
• 1x Mother of Runes
• 1x Reveillark
• 1x Riftsweeper
• 1x Rotting Rats
• 1x Sylvan Safekeeper
• 1x Tidehollow Sculler
• 1x Wall of Roots
• 1x Weathered Wayfarer

Land (36)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Brushland
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Gemstone Mine
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hall of the Bandit Lord
• 1x Horizon Canopy
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Razorverge Thicket
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 1x Tarnished Citadel
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Tendo Ice Bridge
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Survival of the FittestGC

Artifact (5)

• 1x Jeweled Amulet
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Null Rod
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top

Instant (14)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Congregation at Dawn
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Enlightened TutorGC
• 1x Mortify
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Putrefy
• 1x Shred Memory
• 1x Summoner's Pact
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Vampiric TutorGC
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Sorcery (23)

• 1x Cabal Therapy
• 1x Castigate
• 1x Cruel Tutor
• 1x Demonic TutorGC
• 1x Distress
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Duress
• 1x Gerrard's Verdict
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Hymn to Tourach
• 1x Idyllic Tutor
• 1x Imperial SealGC
• 1x Inquisition of Kozilek
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Maelstrom Pulse
• 1x Mind Shatter
• 1x Mind Twist
• 1x Sylvan Tutor
• 1x Thoughtseize
• 1x Unmask
• 1x Vindicate
• 1x Wrench Mind

Commander (1)

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The one and only goal of this deck is to put out the following combo in a 1v1 EDH format using the U.S. banlist.

The Combo

T1 Land and tutor (possibly Vampiric Tutor, Imperial Seal, Sylvan Tutor, Worldly Tutor, or Sol Ring, all the tutors going for Hermit Druid)
T2 Land, Hermit Druid (if you did Sol Ring last turn, play Demonic Tutor first)
T3 Activate Hermit Druid (dumps your library into your graveyard), land, Bloodghast from graveyard, unearthed Rotting Rats to discard a combo piece, Dread Return for Reveillark, Cabal Therapy the Reveillark, fetching a sac outlet (I like Dimir House Guard) and Karmic Guide, the guide fetches Reveillark, sac the guide and the Reveillark, fetching the guide and Wall of Roots, which you repeat exactly 927 times to generate 927 mana, then fetch Krovikan Horror, and use your infinite recursion to do exactly 927 damage to whatever (pro tip: use it on your opponent)

If for some reason your Dread Return is countered, simply dredge Life from the Loam next turn to fetch Volrath's Stronghold, which can also set up this combo.

Another way of winning is to simply use Survival of the Fittest to put Dimir House Guard and Karmic Guide in your hand and Wall of Roots, Reveillark, and Krovikan Horror in the graveyard.

The Protection

Mother of Runes because she is awesome protection. Sadly you still have to deal with summoning sickness.

Benevolent Bodyguard See above. One use but no summoning sickness.

Grand Abolisher lets you have your turn to your self.

Sylvan Safekeeper heavy cost to activate, but the best protection we have. Cheap, multi-use, and no summoning sickness

Lightning Greaves Less awesome since it doesn't protect from instant speed removal, but it gives haste! (no time for wraths)

The discard gauntlet of Thoughtseize, Duress, Castigate, Distress, Inquisition of Kozilek, Hymn to Tourach, Gerrard's Verdict, Wrench Mind, Unmask, Cabal Therapy, Mind Shatter, Mesmeric Fiend, Tidehollow Sculler and Mind Twist is there because it beats everything

The Removal

Vindicate THE removal

Putrefy versatile instant speed removal

Mortify see above

Maelstrom Pulse Versatile removal that hits everything but lands, plus it kills tokens

Abrupt Decay in competitive environments where the curve is as low as possible, this is the second best removal in the deck

Swords to Plowshares Best creature removal ever

Path to Exile see above

Nature's Claim a beautifully cheap Naturalize

The Tutors

They go for Hermit Druid, no explanation needed

Miscellaneous

Null Rod kills so many strategies

Crop Rotation fetches Bojuka Bog against enemy GY shenanigans, Cavern of Souls against blue, and Hall of the Bandit Lord against everything else, all at instant speed

Riftsweeper prevents me from being crippled by exile effects

Eternal Witness sometimes things land in the graveyard

Idyllic Tutor and Enlightened Tutor are there to fetch Survival of the Fittest

Sensei's Divining Top and Scroll Rack are staples

Weak Cards

Gerrard's Verdict and Wrench Mind allow them to choose what to discard

Cruel Tutor is a really sucky tutor

Fauna Shaman is card disadvantage with summoning sickness that dies to removal

Sensei's Divining Top it's slow, minimal card advantage, and useless when I have a tutor in hand

Notable Exclusions

Sol Ring, Mana Crypt, and Ancient Tomb, there isn't enough colorless mana in costs

Diabolic Tutor, too high of a mana cost

Natural Order, high cost, and I don't know if I have enough creatures

Cards in Consideration

Stupor, seems like okay disruption.

Blackmail, kind of bad disruption, but the cost is nice.

Funeral Charm, instant speed discard! Also some small degree of removal.

Weird Harvest, in hand tutor, but gives the opponent some nasty CA

One more land, since I sometimes have a hard time getting to three

Date added	12 years
Last updated	11 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 62 - 0 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	101
Avg. CMC	2.18
Tokens	Spirit 1/1 C