Perpetual Murder Machine

Casual BG (Golgari)

ClockworkSwordfish

Land (23)

• 6x Forest
• 1x Grim Backwoods
• 4x Overgrown Tomb
• 4x Underground Mortuary
• 4x Verdant Catacombs
• 4x Woodland Cemetery

Sorcery (6)

• 2x Benefaction of Rhonas
• 4x Commune with the Gods

Creature (16)

• 3x Evershrike
• 2x Faunsbane Troll
• 4x Kami of Transience
• 4x Lotleth Troll
• 3x Setessan Champion

Enchantment (7)

• 2x Aspect of Mongoose
• 1x Giant Inheritance
• 4x Rancor

Instant (8)

• 4x Royal Treatment
• 4x Tear Asunder

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Enchantment (2)

• 1x Lord Skitter's Blessing
• 1x Sleeper's Guile

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Curse of the Werefox

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Evershrike is a really cool and stylish design. An ominous, mystical dragon-like spirit that can revive itself with the power of enchantment... very inspiring! Of course, we can't wait until turn five for such a beauty - you can flout that mana cost by reanimating him out of your graveyard so long as you have a cheap and decent aura to spare. The best enabler for Evershrike, then, is the classic Rancor - for a paltry {G}{B}{B}, you can pull Evershrike out of your graveyard as a 6/4 with Flying and Trample. Does he get killed off? No problem: Rancor goes right back to your hand, ready to reanimate the Shrike once more. You just can't keep a good elemental down.

Okay, so we're at least in black and green. Commune with the Gods lets you dig for a Rancor while conveniently dumping a Shrike in the bin. Any that you draw can be fed to a Lotleth Troll. Aspect of Mongoose serves as a backup Rancor, not being as cheap or pumping power but giving you a still-impressive 4/4 with flying and shroud for four mana, recurrable as needed. The more recent Giant Inheritance is a fun one-of.

Of course, your elemental spirit can't be expected to do all of the work by itself. He also has an understudy in the form of Kami of Transience. If it dies while enchanted, it will recur itself at the end of the turn. And since you'll probably slap a Rancor or the like on it as soon as you've played it, it should often swell to an impressive 4 or 5 power pretty easily.

Top Ranked	Achieved #22 position overall 6 months ago Achieved #2 position in Casual 6 months ago
Date added	7 months
Last updated	7 months
Exclude colors	W
Legality	This deck is Casual legal.
Rarity (main - side)	34 - 0 Rares 10 - 0 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.35
Tokens	Monster, Royal