Muldrotha, The Consultation Tide

Commander / EDH* BUG (Sultai) Combo Competitive Multiplayer

Kradz

Land (30)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Blast Zone
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cabal Pit
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Cephalid Coliseum
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forest
• 1x Island
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Nurturing Peatland
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Snow-Covered Forest
• 1x Snow-Covered Island
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Waterlogged Grove
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Artifact (8)

• 1x Aether Spellbomb
• 1x Cursed Totem
• 1x Lion's Eye Diamond
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Nihil Spellbomb
• 1x Sol Ring

Instant (22)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Drown in the Loch
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Flash
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Intuition
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Negate
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Tainted Pact
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Veil of Summer
• 1x Winds of Rebuke

Enchantment (12)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Dance of Many
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Pernicious Deed
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Seal of Primordium
• 1x Seal of Removal
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Wild Growth
• 1x Zur's Weirding

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Windfall

Commander (1)

Creature (21)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Divining Witch
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Gilded Drake
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Night Incarnate
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Phantasmal Image
• 1x Priest of Titania
• 1x Protean Hulk
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Spellseeker
• 1x Sylvan Safekeeper
• 1x Thassa's Oracle

Planeswalker (4)

• 1x Ashiok, Dream Render
• 1x Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
• 1x Karn, the Great Creator
• 1x Oko, Thief of Crowns

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Maybeboard

Instant (6)

• 1x Demonic Consultation
• 1x Force of Negation
• 1x Force of Vigor
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Natural State
• 1x Pact of Negation

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Exploration

Artifact (5)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Life from the Loam

Creature (3)

• 1x Collector Ouphe
• 1x Runic Armasaur
• 1x Trinket Mage

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Narset, Parter of Veils
• 1x Tamiyo, Collector of Tales

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Let me start out by saying:

If you're playing Muldrotha, the Gravetide and you've made it to late game with a loaded graveyard, you've won.

Muldrotha is a one-card engine and can utilize cards other commanders would find laughable; Seal of Removal becomes an "I'm gonna keep you off your combo/commander/value engine for a single U a turn" or "let's protect Muldrotha from targeted removal for a single U a turn- if that". Dance of Many becomes a 2-mana clone that sacs itself if need be. Nihil Spellbomb , Aether Spellbomb , and MindStone become re-castable cantrips and pinch-worthy removal for 1 to 2 mana. Night Incarnate (still beta testing this one) becomes an Anger of the Gods that keeps opponents off of their Thrasios, Notion Theif, and other various hatebears that can be cast once a turn. Oh, and Zur's Weirding ... let's not forget about this machine of a card. Just cast it once- see what happens.

I've been playing this deck for a while (the original list was heavily inspired by Spleenface's Make No Gravetide Image deck) and trust me, I love it. However, one issue keeps resurfacing time and time again: if she's not on the field, you can't win. It doesn't mean you're losing, it just feels terrible.

So, how's a Cedh player fix that issue? Simple: take the commander out of the combo. Enter: Consultation combo.

Now granted, we don't actually play Demonic Consultation like the normal consultation decks (in all honestly, it doesn't give Muldrotha much value other than being a wincon that's hard to cast back from the yard) however, we do play some spicey tech that other decks would probably turn their noses up to: Divining Witch . Our re-castable, flash-hulk-able, consultation-on-a-stick. He's our own personal Hermit Druid .

So, here's our wincons:

Flash Hulk lines

Flash + Protean Hulk is probably one of the most compact wincons in the format, so why not use it?

Hulk lines:

1. End of last opponnet's turn or during your upkeep, before you draw:

2. Laboratory Maniac + Spellseeker tutoring Tainted Pact and casting. Exile library, draw card, win game.

3. turn before yours, before upkeep (to remove summoning sickness) into draw:

4. Laboratory Maniac +diving witch+ Sylvan Safekeeper . Upkeep-> activate Witch, exile library, win game with Safekeeper backup

5. Turn before yours, Tainted Pact in yard:

6. Labratory Maniac+ Snapcaster Mage / Eternal Witness -> targeting Pact in yard + Sylvan Safekeeper (if grabbed the Mage), casting back Pact from yard.

Image combo

If all else fails (or you just casually find the pieces in your yard, which happens quite frequently) you can always fall back to Muldrotha's signature combo:

Muldrotha, the Gravetide + Lion's Eye Diamond + Phantasmal Image / Dance of Many + Animate Dead / Necromancy + any of your re-castable cantrips ( Aether Spellbomb , Nihil Spellbomb , MindStone)

when Image enters, copy Muldrotha. Being a "new card" it allows you to reset all of your previous muldrotha's casts. cast LED, sac LED adding , recast and sac LED adding . Now, cast your first enchantment for turn, being the Animate Dead targeting your original Muldrotha. She enters, sacing the Image and once again resetting your casts for the turn. Cast the LED again and repeat the process until you have unbounded mana of any color, your storm count through the roof, and then proceed to cast all of your permanents from the yard. Replace the LED with one of your cantrip artifacts after you've established unlimited mana to draw your deck and follow through with Jace, Wielder of Mysteries or Laboratory Maniac to call it a day.

At this point, you can also loop Eternal Witness and Winds of Rebuke to mill out yards if need be.

Admittedly, there are certain cards in this deck that are total meta choices: Cursed Totem , Night Incarnate are just to name a few. I play a very Hulk and Pod heavy meta, so these cards tend to help more than hinder me. Plus, my commander tends to out-value the typical creature-based decks the longer she stays on the field.

There ya have it, folks: Consultation Muldrotha. I'll be making updates slowly as I go (the other wincon I've been considering is Bolas's citadel + top + aetherflux, but that one loses to Null Rod and Rule of Law effects) but for the meantime, this is it.

Cheers

Date added	5 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 52 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	1.99
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Copy Clone, Elk 3/3 G, Food
Folders	Kradz's Kreations