Muldrotha: Budget Elemental Tribe!

Commander / EDH Budget BUG (Sultai) Elementals Enchant Enchantment Sacrifice Theme/Gimmick

MadMork

Creature (25)

• 1x AEthersnipe
• 1x Cavalier of Gales
• 1x Cavalier of Night
• 1x Cavalier of Thorns
• 1x Deranged Assistant
• 1x Embodiment of Spring
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Forgotten Ancient
• 1x Gravebreaker Lamia
• 1x Gyre Engineer
• 1x Lord of Extinction
• 1x Merciless Executioner
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Night Incarnate
• 1x Plaguecrafter
• 1x Risen Reef
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Satyr Wayfinder
• 1x Shriekmaw
• 1x Sidisi, Brood Tyrant
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Siren Stormtamer
• 1x Splinterfright
• 1x Spore Frog
• 1x Wonder

Artifact (5)

• 1x Icon of Ancestry
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Nissa of Shadowed Boughs

Land (39)

• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Creeping Tar Pit
• 14x Forest
• 1x Hissing Quagmire
• 1x Ice Tunnel
• 2x Island
• 1x Jwar Isle Refuge
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Lumbering Falls
• 1x Mosswort Bridge
• 1x Necroblossom Snarl
• 1x Opulent Palace
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Primal Beyond
• 7x Swamp
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Woodland Chasm
• 1x Yavimaya Coast
• 1x Zagoth Triome

Instant (11)

• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Golgari Charm
• 1x Grisly Salvage
• 1x Growth Spiral
• 1x Harrow
• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Negate
• 1x Return to Nature
• 1x To the Slaughter
• 1x Vona's Hunger

Commander (1)

Enchantment (13)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Asceticism
• 1x Bastion of Remembrance
• 1x Cemetery Tampering
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Eel Umbra
• 1x Garruk's Uprising
• 1x Kaya's Ghostform
• 1x Khalni Heart Expedition
• 1x Pernicious Deed
• 1x Seal of Primordium
• 1x Snake Umbra
• 1x Spider Umbra

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Explore
• 1x Far Wanderings
• 1x Jarad's Orders
• 1x Neoform
• 1x Rampant Growth

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{B}{U}{G}

Muldrotha leads the Sultai Elementals into battle! We may not be fast, or have the cash, but we have the pizazz! The goal of this deck is to utilize flash and proliferate and a whole whack of creatures tooled up with counters. Why budget? Because I buy the decks I build!

I think the deck feels pretty good on paper. It will focus on getting the elementals ramped up with counters while utilizing Muldrotha to keep the graveyard productive for us. Additionally there is a smattering of life sources that can be used to juice up.

Updates

Here is where the log of updates will go for deck feedback.

Update 2.2

A pretty fine tuning update here. I ended up deciding that the power of the sacrifice cards was worth more to me than the destroy cards. The new mana dork filling in for Commander Sphere is also more fetchable with the cards I have.

Update 2.1

We're here to sacrifice creatures and play elementals! Hard as it is, Proliferate was not a mechanic that was bringing home the bread. I'm hoping that we'll see an increase in functionality by leaning even more into our commander.

This advice is from my local card shop. The fellas there pointed out that ultimately I want to be crushing the board and protecting myself as a slowly chip away at my opponent.

Update 2.0

Changes everywhere! We've started by pulling in a small contingent of non-elementals that provide all kind of useful help. The overall focus of the deck has sharpened to get Muldrotha on the board early and protect her while we get our creatures built up.

Update 1.3

In the last update I wondered what kinds of things could be applied to all creatures, because we want to be playing Elementals as frequently as we can. To compliment our board presence, I have swapped in a number of effects to modulate our forces. Lifelink, trample, and tap for mana has all been brought in to help get the most out of the creatures we have souped up with proliferate.

WE ARE NOW AT POWER LEVEL 5! For the amount of cash we are playing with that feels super solid for this tribe.

Update 1.2

Shoutouts to Kret and multimedia for some top notch advice. Great users with thoroughly explained suggestions.

A more varied mana base, some tutors, more and bigger creatures! A ton of changes here to up our competitive potential. The non-basic lands alone more than cover the needed mana and being just shy of green doesn't feel too bad.

At this point we're still at Power Level 4 however I think the improvements made have all been for the better. My gut suggests we might be able to squeeze more performance out by leveraging cards that add abilities to the Elemental subtype. If there was a "Creatures you control have Deathtouch" type enchantment or artifact that would help get the most out of this Tribe.

Update 1.1

Adjusted in a few more creatures, a few mana rocks, a couple of scrying cards that we needed. At this point I am feeling pretty solid here. We have lands to grab lands, a number of proliferate cards to cycle through the deck and keep juicing some monsters, and some protection spells to ensure as we build up tokens we don't have an unexpected knockout.

At this point according to we are currently sitting at Power Level 4.

Update 1

The first iteration of the deck! The majority of the creatures have some kind of +1/+1 counter which should synergize with the proliferate cards. Then we have some land fetching magic to help fuel the ramp, and Muldrotha to help with Cemetery Tampering and Seal of Primordium to keep cycling in the bigger elementals at cost.

Top Ranked	Achieved #15 position overall 2 years ago Achieved #14 position in Commander / EDH 2 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Budget 2 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH BUG (Sultai) 2 years ago
Date added	2 years
Last updated	1 year
Exclude colors	WR
Splash colors	UBG
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 25 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 21 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.07
Tokens	City's Blessing, Human Soldier 1/1 W, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	EDH decks