The Returned King of a Greater Realm

Commander / EDH BGW (Abzan, Junk) Goodstuff Hatebears Infinite Combo Multiplayer Reanimator

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Creature (41)

• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Bane of Progress
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 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 Gaddock Teeg
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Karmic Guide
• 1x Kataki, War's Wage
• 1x Linvala, Keeper of Silence
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Massacre Wurm
• 1x Meren of Clan Nel Toth
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Mindslicer
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Plaguecrafter
• 1x Protean Hulk
• 1x Recruiter of the Guard
• 1x Remorseful Cleric
• 1x Reveillark
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Shalai, Voice of Plenty
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Spore Frog
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Walking Ballista
• 1x Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

Land (36)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Blooming Marsh
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Bountiful Promenade
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 4x Forest
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Murmuring Bosk
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Razorverge Thicket
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Commander (1)

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Living Plane
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Pattern of Rebirth
• 1x Pernicious Deed
• 1x Survival of the Fittest
• 1x Sylvan Library

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Winds of Abandon

Artifact (4)

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

Instant (4)

• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

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The Returned King of a Greater Realm

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Introduction

This is my semi-casual (75%) multiplayer Karador deck that is resilient and can win in multiple different ways. I started initially with Meren and decided to combine it and my Ayli deck into Karador in an attempt to consolidate the decks I have. It was initially tuned to a competitive meta with hatebears/boonweaver but I realized that it wasn't fun to pilot and most pod I play in was semi-casual which prompt me to build it in this direction.

Strategy

This deck is build to grind and survive through value and recursion over the course of the game. It is also important to never overextend dumping cards in the graveyard as a simple graveyard hate can put us behind. I do run some limited graveyard protection like Shalai, Voice of Plenty that protects against player targeted graveyard hate like Bojuka Bog, Nihil Spellbomb, Agent of Erebos, and Angel of Finality.

Combos

This deck revolves around resolving a Protean Hulk and a way to kill it to instantly win the game. Once the hulk dies, there are two possible winning lines depending on the game state:

• Get Karmic Guide + Viscera Seer with Protean Hulk
• Karmic Guide will reanimate Protean Hulk
• Sacrifice Protean Hulk to get Reveillark and another 1 cmc creature
• Now you can loop Karmic Guide and Reveillark to get every creature costing 6 or less cmc out of your deck and win via Blood Artist

The second line is less complicated and is as follows:

• Get Karmic Guide + Viscera Seer with Protean Hulk
• Karmic Guide will reanimate Protean Hulk
• Sacrifice Protean Hulk to get Mikaeus, the Unhallowed and Walking Ballista
• Now you can loop Mikaeus, the Unhallowed and Walking Ballista to ping everyone to death

To further elaborate on how the Carrion Feeder + Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + Walking Ballista combo work:

• Walking Ballista will come in at 1/1 thanks to Mikaeus, the Unhallowed's buff. Sac ballista to Carrion Feeder or any other sac outlets which will trigger undying for it to return with a +1/+1 counter. Remove the counter to deal 1 damage to a player. Repeat ad infinitum to kill the entire table.

The other infinite combo is enabled with a sac outlet and ends the game with Altar of Dementia/Blood Artist:

• Fiend Hunter + Sun Titan/Karmic Guide
• Karmic Guide + Reveillark/Fiend Hunter
• Saffi Eriksdotter + Sun Titan/Karmic Guide/Reveillark

Notable Exclusions

The following are combos that I may replace my current ones in the future if I decided to want to take my deck in another direction:

• Phyrexian Devourer + Triskelion + Necrotic Ooze: With triskellion and devourer in the graveyard, a necrotic ooze on the battlefield would have the ability to add +1/+1 counters by milling your own deck, and also remove +1/+1 counters to deal damage to players. In essence, you will be miling your own deck to deal X damage among your opponents where x = the sum of every cmc left in your deck.

• Triskelion + Mikaeus, the Unhallowed = Win by infinite damage

• Leonin Relic-Warder + Animate Dead/Dance of the Dead = Infinite loop by first casting Animate Dead resurrecting Leonin Relic-Warder from graveyard then exile the Animate Dead/Dance of the Dead with the Leonin Relic-Warder's triggered ability and the Leonin Relic-Warder dies. Repeat ad infinitum

• Necrotic Ooze + Phyrexian Devourer + Triskelion: You want to have Phyrexian Devourer & Triskelion in the graveyard. You want to have Necrotic Ooze on the battle field. Using Necrotic Ooze's ability you have all the activated abilites of cards in the graveyard. Using Phyrexian Devourer's effect you exile a bunch of cards to make Necrotic Ooze huge. Then using Triskelion you blow up each +1/+1 counter to do damage to every opponent.

• Melira, Sylvok Outcast + Puppeteer Clique + Altar of Dementia

• Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + Triskelion

I've used to include a Necrotic Ooze combo package for my alternatic win condition. Necrotic Ooze (in play) + Devoted Druid + Channeler Initiate + Walking Ballista (all three in graveyard or Walking Ballista in hand) = generate infinite mana with druid and initiate and use it to activate ballista to win. All three of the yard combo pieces could be tutored with Buried Alive to win on the spot. A full explanation of the combo is as follows:

• Necrotic Ooze in play and Devoted Druid + Channeler Initiate + Walking Ballista in yard
• Use Necrotic Ooze to activate Devoted Druid's ability to tap for a green mana and put a -1/-1 counter on it to untap it
• Use Necrotic Ooze to activate Channeler Initiate's ability to tap to remove the -1/-1 counter on it to generate a mana of any color
• Use Necrotic Ooze to activate Devoted Druid's ability to put a -1/-1 counter on it to untap it
• Use Necrotic Ooze to activate Channeler Initiate's ability to tap to remove the -1/-1 counter on it to generate a mana of any color
• Repeat the last two steps to generate infinite mana
• Use infinite mana to dump infinite +1/+1 counters using Walking Ballista's ability on Necrotic Ooze to infinite ping everyone to death with Walking Ballista's second ability.

Footnotes

Still in the process of tweaking as I playtest.

''Death tried to uncrown me. But now I return, king of a greater realm.'' - Karador

Top Ranked	Achieved #10 position overall 7 years ago
Date added	7 years
Last updated	4 years
Key combos	Carrion Feeder + Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + Walking Ballista
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 57 - 0 Rares 14 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.95
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Experience Token, Morph 2/2 C
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