Riding in My Mazirek-i

Commander / EDH Aristocrats BG (Golgari) Competitive Counters Infinite Combo Sacrifice Tokens Value Engine

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Creature (36)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Nested Shambler
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Duskshell Crawler
• 1x Korozda Guildmage
• 1x Nether Traitor
• 1x Putrid Goblin
• 1x Reassembling Skeleton
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Tangled Florahedron  ^Flip
• 1x Catacomb Sifter
• 1x Chatterfang, Squirrel General
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Nadier's Nightblade
• 1x Scurry Oak
• 1x Scute Swarm
• 1x Springbloom Druid
• 1x Woe Strider
• 1x Wood Elves
• 1x Disciple of Bolas
• 1x Ivy Lane Denizen
• 1x Pitiless Plunderer
• 1x Rampant Rejuvenator
• 1x Ruthless Technomancer
• 1x Smothering Abomination
• 1x Whisper, Blood Liturgist
• 1x God-Eternal Bontu
• 1x Herd Baloth
• 1x Iridescent Hornbeetle
• 1x Mycoloth
• 1x Puppeteer Clique
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Protean Hulk

Land (33)

• 1x Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkbore Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Deathcap Glade
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Field of the Dead
• 3x Forest
• 1x Jund Panorama
• 1x Necroblossom Snarl
• 1x Nurturing Peatland
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 4x Snow-Covered Forest
• 4x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 5x Swamp
• 1x Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1x Temple of Malady
• 1x Undergrowth Stadium
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Woodland Cemetery
• 1x Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Instant (9)

• 1x Malakir Rebirth  ^Flip
• 1x Deadly Dispute
• 1x Plumb the Forbidden
• 1x Rushed Rebirth
• 1x Tend the Pests
• 1x Fungal Rebirth
• 1x Harrow
• 1x Vona's Hunger
• 1x Szat's Will

Commander (1)

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Dig Up
• 1x Pest Infestation
• 1x Deadly Brew
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Agadeem's Awakening  ^Flip
• 1x Bala Ged Recovery  ^Flip
• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Make an Example
• 1x Natural Order
• 1x Reprocess

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Retribution of the Ancients
• 1x Evolutionary Leap
• 1x The Meathook Massacre
• 1x Awakening Zone
• 1x Journey to Eternity  ^Flip
• 1x Dictate of Erebos

Artifact (4)

• 1x Animation Module
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Bootleggers' Stash

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Maybeboard

Creature (9)

• 1x Walking Ballista
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Bloodbriar
• 1x Loaming Shaman
• 1x Mer-Ek Nightblade
• 1x Vindictive Vampire
• 1x Krav, the Unredeemed
• 1x Shriekmaw
• 1x Syr Konrad, the Grim

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Deathreap Ritual
• 1x Greater Good
• 1x The Eldest Reborn

Artifact (2)

• 1x Jeweled Lotus
• 1x Staff of Domination

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Killing Wave

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Garruk Relentless  ^Flip
• 1x Liliana, Dreadhorde General

Instant (2)

• 1x Culling the Weak
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

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I liked Mazirek so much I pushed him to be as competitive as possible for whatever reason. This deck is gross. Enjoy.

The goal is to get Mazirek out as fast as possible, then sacrifice permanents to pump our creatures (while maybe also clearing the opponent's board of creatures,) then swing in for lethal with our creatures/Commander. The deck for the most part is about as optimized as I can get it without being cEDH. Everything in the Maybeboard is all considerations and or weaker versions of cards I already have. My biggest concerns are lack of protection for Mazirek, may start cutting out more "useless" or undervalued cards in favor of cards such as Heroic Intervention or Village Elder.

Card Explanations:

0-1 Drops: Show

NOTE: THESE ARE ALL CHEAP CMC-WISE

• Carrion Feeder: Sac outlet, gives himself double counters effectively if you have Mazirek out
• Caustic Caterpillar: Artifact/Enchant removal on a sacrificing body. Perfect!
• Gilded Goose: Generates Food Tokens (which sacrifice themselves), also sacrifices Foods to ramp
• Nested Shambler: Likes wearing counters, gives us more bodies when it dies
• Viscera Seer: Sac outlet, psuedo-card draw
• Crop Rotation: Seek out any land we want by sacrificing a land (likely for Field of the Dead)
• Malakir Rebirth  : MDFC Land, can also get a creature back that we want
• Phyrexian Reclamation: Cheap way to allow us to get things back from our yard if we need to
• Retribution of the Ancients: Uses our counters as removal (gets around Indestructible)
• Sol Ring: Duh.
• Vampiric Rites: Sacrifices to gain us life and draw us cards

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• Duskshell Crawler: Ensures that we're able to punch through effectively by utilizing our counters, gives us a free counter
• Fiend Artisan: Benefits from having creatures in the yard, sacrifices a creature to tutor a card
• Putrid Goblin: Likes dying, is an infinite creature in this deck
• Reassembling Skeleton: Likes dying, is an infinite creature in this deck
• Sakura-Tribe Elder: Sacrifices itself to ramp
• Zulaport Cutthroat: Benefits from creatures dying (which happens a lot) -- considering Blood Artist in this slot
• Altar of Dementia: Alternate win-con, sacrifice a creature to mill our opponents
• Deadly Brew: Synergizes well with our Commander, gets us back a creature we want
• Deadly Dispute: Effectively Village Rites, gives us a Treasure that's synergistic
• Diabolic Intent: Basically an on-theme version of Demonic Tutor
• Evolutionary Leap: Sacrifice a creature to dig for another creature (hopefully hitting combo pieces)
• Life's Legacy: Can give us huge card advantage for being on-theme
• Plumb the Forbidden Lets us draw cards by sacrificing creatures
• Tend the Pests A better, less expensive version of Carrion; Sacrifices a creature to create tons of sacrifice fodder

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• Academy Manufactor: Gives us more things to sacrifice from making Treasures/Clues
• Catacomb Sifter: Gives us a little Scion for ramp, lets us Scry off things dying
• Eternal Witness: Gets us back any card from the yard, a sac target once it resolves
• Fain, the Broker: Upside, followed by upside, followed by negligible text, AND you can potentially use him more than once
• Grim Haruspex: Draws us cards for our nontokens dying (which will happen a lot)
• Grismold, the Dreadsower: Gives us (and our opponents) things to sacrifice, likes wearing counters
• Keskit, the Flesh Sculptor: Allows us to make use of artifact tokens/creatures we aren't using, helps us dig for pieces
• Nikara, Lair Scavenger: Likes other things dying wearing counters for card draw (considering Skyclave Shadowcat here)
• Pawn of Ulamog: Gives us TONS of mana for non-tokens creatures dying
• Rendclaw Trow: An infinite creature, also likes wearing counters due to Wither
• Scurry Oak: Goes infinite with Mazirek and a sac outlet, huge card for us if you can find it early
• Scute Swarm: Creates sacrifice fodder, can run away with the game if left unchecked
• Springbloom Druid: A slightly worse Harrow on a stick
• Tireless Provisioner: Makes us treasure for playing lands, decent card
• Woe Strider: Free sac outlet, lets us dig for cards
• Agadeem's Awakening  : MDFC Land, can get us back a ton of creatures that we want
• Ashnod's Altar: An infinite combo piece more often than not, can also ramp us
• Bala Ged Recovery  : MDFC Land, can also get us back a creature if need be
• Bastion of Remembrance: Gives us sacrifice fodder, likes things dying (which will happen often)
• Eldritch Evolution: Lets us tutor up pretty much anything we want depending on what we sacrifice
• Fungal Rebirth: Can help us pull an important creature out of the yard, also gives us bodies so long as something died
• Golgari Germination: Gives our non-tokens second lives as more sacrifice fodder
• Harrow Lose a land to gain 2 untapped basics, good synergy
• Inspiring Call: Cares about counters, can give us massive card advantage, also can serve as board-wipe protection
• Pox: Bigger cousin of Smallpox, so much synergy it's basically a finisher for us
• Ulvenwald Mysteries: Nontokens dying gives us Clues, Clues dying gives us more bodies, great synergy
• Vona's Hunger: Political card, synergizes well with the Commander

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• Disciple of Bolas: Can give us massive card/life advantage if we have Mazirek out and pumping things
• Pitiless Plunderer: Creates Treasures that sacrifice to ramp, like things dying (which will happen often)
• Savra, Queen of the Golgari: Huge value for us when we sacrifice things, forces opponents to sacrifice as well
• Spike Breeder: Infinite combo piece, wears counters well, makes sacrifice fodder
• Whisper, Blood Liturgist: Sacrifices 2 to get back a creature we want

5+ Drops: Show

• Archfiend of Depravity: Keeps our opponent's boards clear, also gives us INSANE value depending on how wide they go
• Clackbridge Troll: Strong political card, synergizes well with the Commander, gives us nothing but upside
• God-Eternal Bontu: Insane value. Gives us tons of counters, as well as drawing tons of cards.
• Herd Baloth: Redundancy for Scurry Oak, does the same thing but with bigger creatures
• Sidisi, Undead Vizier: Lets us tutor if we sacrifice a creature. Great value here.
• Tergrid, God of Fright  : Works well with Dictate of Erebos, gives us creatures from our graveyard OR anybody else's that we want
• Dictate of Erebos: Makes sure our opponents don't have a wide board, synergizes well with our Commander
• Moldervine Reclamation: Good synergy, will end up drawing lots of cards and gaining us a lot of life
• Turntimber Symbiosis  : MDFC Land, can also dig for a creature and maybe put counters on said creature

Combo Lines:

Main Infinite Combos:

• Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest + Sac Outlet + Scurry Oak / Herd Baloth = Infinite Sacrifice triggers
• Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest + Sac Outlet +/- Rendclaw Trow +/- Putrid Goblin +/- Any Other Creature = Infinite Sacrifice triggers

Infinite Combo Pieces/Interactions

• Adding a Zulaport Cutthroat (or similar effects) to these two lines results in infinite ping damage triggers.
• Adding a Pawn of Ulamog to the Rendclaw/Putrid line results in infinite colorless mana.
• Adding a Pitiless Plunderer to these two lines results in infinite colored mana (and another line of infinite sac triggers thanks to Treasures)
• Adding an Altar of Dementia to these two lines results in infinite mill.
• Adding a Dictate of Erebos will infinitely clear our opponent's fields.
• Adding an Ulvenwald Mysteries to the Rendclaw/Putrid line will result in infinite Clues.
• Adding a Catacomb Sifter to these two lines results in infinite Scry.
• Adding a Retribution of the Ancients to these two lines results in infinite removal.
• Adding a Savra, Queen of the Golgari to these two lines gives us infinite life in both lines, and infinite sac triggers from our opponents in the Rendclaw/Putrid line.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 43 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.93
Tokens	Beast 4/4 G, City's Blessing, Copy Clone, Eldrazi Scion 1/1 C, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Goat 0/1 W, Insect 1/1 G, Pest 1/1 BG, Saproling 1/1 G, Servo 1/1 C, Squirrel 1/1 G, Thrull 0/1 B, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B