[Retired] Sacrificial Symposium

Commander / EDH Aristocrats BUG (Sultai) Casual Combo Infinite Combo Landfall Primer Sacrifice Tap/Untap Tokens

Crow_Umbra

Land (36)

• 1x Barkchannel Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Deathcap Glade
• 1x Demolition Field
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Dreamroot Cascade
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 1x Field of the Dead
• 3x Forest
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 1x Island
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Nurturing Peatland
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Rejuvenating Springs
• 1x Shipwreck Marsh
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Waterlogged Grove
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Woodland Cemetery
• 1x Yavimaya Coast
• 1x Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
• 1x Zagoth Triome

Artifact (3)

• 1x Altar of the Brood
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Conduit of Worlds

Creature (29)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Ruin Crab
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Scout
• 1x Bloodghast
• 1x Lotus Cobra
• 1x Tiller Engine
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat
• 1x Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• 1x Braids, Arisen Nightmare
• 1x Chasm Skulker
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Farhaven Elf
• 1x Morbid Opportunist
• 1x Scute Swarm
• 1x Springbloom Druid
• 1x Tireless Provisioner
• 1x Druid of Purification
• 1x Ertai Resurrected
• 1x Faerie Artisans
• 1x Reef Worm
• 1x Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
• 1x Junji, the Midnight Sky
• 1x Psychosis Crawler
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Tatyova, Benthic Druid
• 1x Tendershoot Dryad
• 1x Kodama of the East Tree
• 1x Protean Hulk

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Three Visits
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Syphon Mind

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Teferi, Master of Time

Commander (1)

Instant (16)

• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Deadly Dispute
• 1x Golgari Charm
• 1x Growth Spiral
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Lazotep Plating
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Plumb the Forbidden
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Arachnogenesis
• 1x Beast Within

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Dreadhorde Invasion
• 1x Bastion of Remembrance
• 1x Curse of the Restless Dead
• 1x Intruder Alarm
• 1x Retreat to Coralhelm
• 1x Retreat to Hagra
• 1x Dictate of Erebos

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Creature (33)

• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Quirion Ranger
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
• 1x Jolrael, Mwonvuli Recluse
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Scryb Ranger
• 1x Sygg, River Cutthroat
• 1x Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Minn, Wily Illusionist
• 1x Ophiomancer
• 1x Tribute Mage
• 1x Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
• 1x Wood Elves
• 1x Yahenni, Undying Partisan
• 1x Alandra, Sky Dreamer
• 1x Bloodline Keeper  ^Flip
• 1x Blossoming Tortoise
• 1x Gixian Puppeteer
• 1x Poison-Tip Archer
• 1x Spark Double
• 1x World Shaper
• 1x Meloku the Clouded Mirror
• 1x Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
• 1x Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1x Yedora, Grave Gardener
• 1x Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
• 1x Muldrotha, the Gravetide
• 1x Avenger of Zendikar

Enchantment (11)

• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x Concordant Crossroads
• 1x Exploration
• 1x Wild Growth
• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Bitterblossom
• 1x Pemmin's Aura
• 1x Pernicious Deed
• 1x Presence of Gond
• 1x Guardian Project
• 1x Teferi's Ageless Insight

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Pest Infestation
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Neoform
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Painful Truths
• 1x Living Death

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
• 1x Nissa of Shadowed Boughs

Artifact (11)

• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Talisman of Curiosity
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Resilience
• 1x Thornbite Staff
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir

Land (6)

• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Field of Ruin
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Undergrowth Stadium
• 1x Verdant Catacombs

Instant (5)

• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Force of Negation
• 1x Perplex
• 1x Force of Vigor

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Acquiring any advanced degree under normal circumstances requires a variety of sacrifices: time, money, sleep, and occasionally sanity. Acquiring a degree in the face of an interplanar, apocalyptic invasion requires additional sacrifices that are beyond our comprehension. Sometimes you have to sacrifice the corporeal forms of some underlings to really crank the magical strength up a notch, I suppose.

As a final step in attaining their magical Bachelors degrees(?) Zimone and Dina are teaming up to defend their thesis that they can defeat Phyrexia, or any other deck across from them at any table for that matter. Victory and graduation are achievable through the combined powers of friendship, necromancy, advanced mathematics, and combos.

Now that Zimone and Dina have defeated Phyrexia, are they prepared to defeat the greatest evil known to the Multiverse - Student Loan Debt?

Based on my Moxfield deck list. That version may be more up to date as spoilers roll out, and has a much more extensive Maybe Board/Considering list.

Combos currently in the deck

The deck has a variety of different combo combinations which may get trimmed down through more play-testing.

Kodama of the East Tree lines

1.Golgari Rot Farm + Kodama of the East Tree + Tireless Provisioner / or Simic Growth Chamber/ or Dimir Aqueduct - Combo explanation

Outcomes: Infinite Treasures, infinite food tokens, infinite colored mana, infinite lifegain & lifegain triggers, infinite Landfall triggers.

2.Golgari Rot Farm + Kodama of the East Tree + Scute Swarm / or Simic Growth Chamber / or Dimir Aqueduct - Combo explanation

Outcomes: Infinite Scute Swarm tokens and Infinite Landfall triggers

3.Dimir Aqueduct + Field of the Dead + Kodama of the East Tree / or Golgari Rot Farm / or Simic Growth Chamber - Combo explanation

Outcomes: Infinite Landfall triggers, infinite Zombie tokens, & infinite ETB triggers.

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Zimone and Dina lines

4.Bloodghast + Intruder Alarm + Zimone and Dina + Dimir Aqueduct / or Golgari Rot Farm / or Simic Growth Chamber - Combo explanation

Outcomes: Infinite card draw & draw triggers, near infinite ETB & LTB triggers, near-infinite sacrifice/death triggers, near-infinite landfall triggers, near-infinite creature untaps, & puts all lands from library onto the battlefield.

5.Bloodghast + Retreat to Coralhelm + Zimone and Dina + Dimir Aqueduct / or Golgari Rot Farm / or Simic Growth Chamber - Combo explanation

Outcomes: Infinite card draw & draw triggers, near infinite ETB & LTB triggers, near-infinite sacrifice/death triggers, near-infinite landfall triggers, near-infinite creature untaps, & puts all lands from library onto the battlefield.

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Sakura-Tribe Scout Shenanigans

6.Dimir Aqueduct + Retreat to Coralhelm + Sakura-Tribe Scout / or Golgari Rot Farm / or Simic Growth Chamber - Combo explanation

Outcome is infinite Landfall triggers.

Any combo that creates an arbitrary number of creature tokens or landfall triggers can be augmented further with the inclusion of Altar of the Brood to deck out the table. Ruin Crab can achieve a similar finish with Landfall loops. Bastion of Remembrance and Zulaport Cutthroat can be used for combo loops that include death triggers, and Psychosis Crawler can be used in any combo that can draw out the deck.

Other wincons in the deck

Since the deck is a somewhat landfall build, ramping out & out-pacing other decks is certainly a possibility. For this reason the following cards can be win-cons in their own rights:

• Torment of Hailfire - "Wow, who knew Torment could be good in a deck that has access to creating lots of mana?"

• Psychosis Crawler - Can be an added element to any combo loop that could essentially draw out the deck.

Other alt win-cons & combos that could work here, but aren't actively in consideration

• Thassa's Oracle & Laboratory Maniac - The combo loops in this deck can certainly lead to decking oneself, making these viable alt win-cons. Not really my cup of tea though.

• Sanguine Bond + Exquisite Blood - The deck can be shifted to be more focused on Zimone and Dina's life gain / life loss aspect. I think the deck would need to have a greater emphasis on that element of her abilities to warrant inclusion.

• Syr Konrad, the Grim + Mindcrank - A near-infinite combo, or at least one that has the potential to mill deeply and repeat enough to do some serious damage. Again, I think this could fit better in a build of Zimone and Dina that may be more focused on abusing the life gain / life loss element of the deck.

• Presence of Gond - This can go infinite with some of the cards in the deck, but I figured it would be best to omit for now, and reduce how convoluted the combo-lines could get.

Ramp

The ramp in this deck is a mix of the usual creature-based mana dorks and 3cmc Mana accelerators, as well as sorceries that can efficiently fix our colors and put lands directly onto the battlefield. The upside of a more creature heavy ramp/acceleration package is that they can be used as sac-fodder once their primary utility is no longer as needed.

Dorks

This quantity may change, especially if I choose to convert one of the Accelerator slots. I could see Azusa, Lost but Seeking swapped out for Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath, Fyndhorn Elves, or Elves of Deep Shadow if she feels largely superfluous.

• Birds of Paradise
• Elvish Mystic

Accelerators

Cards that can help us get extra lands or other means of extra mana onto the field.

• Sakura-Tribe Scout - If we draw her early game, she can be used for sneaking some lands into play. Scout can also be utilized in combo loops with Retreat to Coralhelm and a bounce land.
• Growth Spiral - A bit of redundancy with Zimone and Dina, but helps gets lands into play to set up on End Steps.
• Lotus Cobra - Definitely more of an accelerator than a dork since Cobra can balloon in mana production with additional Landfall triggers.
• Azusa, Lost but Seeking - Extra land drops.
• Farhaven Elf
• Springbloom Druid
• Tireless Provisioner - Green gets treasures some how. Kinda like if Lotus Cobra could also get you lifegain on top of everything else.
• Seedborn Muse - An accelerator in the sense that she helps keep mana up for removal and interaction.

Sorceries

• Farseek
• Nature's Lore
• Three Visits

Draw

Although Zimone and Dina have draw stapled onto them, it is helpful to have a variety of instances to keep the engine humming, and proc their first ability when possible. The deck features a mix of draw effects that include Cycling and lands that can sacrifice themselves to draw (extra good here with Conduit of Worlds - shocker), cantrips, burst draws, and repeatable but incremental drawing effects.

Land-based drawing

• Fetid Pools
• Nurturing Peatland
• Waterlogged Grove
• Zagoth Triome

Everything else

• Mystic Remora - The likelihood of having more mana available via ramp and Zimone & Dina makes the cumulative upkeep maintainable longer than other decks may be able to afford to.
• Deadly Dispute
• Growth Spiral
• Plumb the Forbidden
• Braids, Arisen Nightmare
• Morbid Opportunist
• Guardian Project
• Teferi, Master of Time
• Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
• Tatyova, Benthic Druid

Removal & Interaction

Removal

Cards that can remove single or multiple targets. I try to make a decent chunk of my removal be Instant speed preferably, and/or able to hit a variety of permanent types:

• Boseiju, Who Endures - "Wow, this is extra good with Conduit of Worlds"
• Demolition Field - For those pesky utility lands that otherwise go unchecked. "Wow, this is extra good with Conduit of -"
• Assassin's Trophy
• Cyclonic Rift - Good card is good.
• Golgari Charm - Can be used against opposing token strategies to cut them off at the legs before they get anthemed up and truly unmanageable.
• Reality Shift
• Beast Within
• Braids, Arisen Nightmare - Can help proc Zimone & Dina's first ability, but offers another outlet to sac tokens, but most likely lands. "Wow, this is extra good with Cond-"
• Druid of Purification - One of my favorite pieces of removal from the past couple years. I enjoy the interactive element of encouraging table talk when people pick their targets for removal.
• Ertai Resurrected - Cool flexibility for removal or countering options.
• Teferi, Master of Time - Can protect himself well enough with the phasing ability.
• Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
• Dictate of Erebos

Interaction

Effects that either help protect my resources, or prevents opponents from interacting with their own as intended. This is the general catch-all category I use for things like counterspells, protection effects, and Stax/tax pieces.

Counterspells

• Swan Song
• Counterspell
• Mana Drain
• Muddle the Mixture
• Ertai Resurrected

Protection effects

• Golgari Charm
• Heroic Intervention
• Lazotep Plating
• Swiftfoot Boots
• Arachnogenesis

Resource denial

• Bojuka Bog - Can technically be slotted into Removal, since it removes a graveyard. Resource denial/removal for decks that care about their graveyard.

• Tiller Engine - Can tap down permanents at instant speed in conjunction with Zimone and Dina's activated ability.

• Torment of Hailfire - Depending on game state, can force opponents to sacrifice or discard resources to try to mitigate some of the life loss.

• Faerie Artisans - Can steal beneficial ETBs with the token copies they produce.

• Teferi, Master of Time - The phasing can temporarily remove threats, more often than not that are aggro.

• Junji, the Midnight Sky - Can potentially steal creatures from opponents' graveyards, which has the potential to interrupt combos.

Additional Synergies

This section is more so for some of the smaller categories which are still important to making the deck flow smoothly, or work with various aspects of Zimone and Dina.

Death Triggers

A handful of cards that care about other creatures dying, or have some benefit when they are destroyed.

• Zulaport Cutthroat - Can be part of combo loops involving "infinite" sacrifice loops, or simply ping opponents over the course of a game.

• Bastion of Remembrance - Ditto as Cutthroat, but creates a token for chump blocking or sac fodder.

• Chasm Skulker - Make many squids.

• Morbid Opportunist - Can help get additional draw as things die around the table. I like this a bit more than Midnight Reaper and Grim Harspex, especially since it looks at any creature dying.

• Reef Worm

• Dictate of Erebos - I'm sacrificing creatures, so I have to include lol. Also devious to flash in, in response to removal.

• Junji, the Midnight Sky

Landfall

Not the primary focus of this deck, but integral to some of the combo lines. In general the Landfall is meant more as accentual value-generating pieces.

• Field of the Dead

• Ruin Crab - A combo piece that can deck out all opponents at once with the right loops. Will not be played against decks that want to utilize their graveyards.

• Bloodghast - Sac fodder all star.

• Lotus Cobra - More ramp/mana acceleration. Can be fetched with Protean Hulk to create mana for Landfall loop combos.

• Curse of the Restless Dead - I will be enchanting myself with this the majority of the time.

• Retreat to Coralhelm - Untap Zimone and Dina or Scry 1 as needed.

• Retreat to Hagra - Can ping opponents and enhance any combo loop that utilizes landfall.

• Scute Swarm

• Tireless Provisioner - Mana acceleration and lifegain I suppose.

Token generators

• Field of the Dead

• Dreadhorde Invasion - Aka, bootleg Bitterblossom

• Arachnogenesis

• Bastion of Remembrance - One off instance.

• Chasm Skulker

• Curse of the Restless Dead - I will be enchanting myself with this 9 times out of 10.

• Scute Swarm

• Faerie Artisans - Can potentially copy ETB effects from whatever opponents play.

• Reef Worm

• Tendershoot Dryad

Tutors

Gotta find those combo pieces and counterspells somehow.

• Crop Rotation - To find all of the Bounce Lands
• Demonic Tutor
• Muddle the Mixture
• Protean Hulk - I usually fetch some combination of Ruin Crab, Sakura-Tribe Scout, Bloodghast, Lotus Cobra, Tiller Engine, or Zulaport Cutthroat. The combination of what gets tutored depends on whatever combo pieces I already have on board &/or in hand. I like Tiller Engine a bit more than Amulet of Vigor for this deck, since it can get tutored up by Hulk. Tiller & Lotus Cobra are mostly fetched up to help generate mana as I'm going through loops, in case I need it for whatever reason.

Under Consideration

• Diabolic Intent
• Neoform
• Grim Tutor

Alternate build routes - WIP

Coming soonish

Top Ranked	Achieved #1 position overall 1 year ago
Date added	1 year
Last updated	1 year
Key combos	Golgari Rot Farm + Kodama of the East Tree + Scute Swarm Golgari Rot Farm + Kodama of the East Tree + Tireless Provisioner Bloodghast + Intruder Alarm + Zimone and Dina Bloodghast + Retreat to Coralhelm + Zimone and Dina Dimir Aqueduct + Retreat to Coralhelm + Sakura-Tribe Scout Dimir Aqueduct + Field of the Dead + Kodama of the East Tree
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 57 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.81
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Bird 2/2 U, City's Blessing, Copy Clone, Fish 3/3 U, Food, Human Soldier 1/1 W, Insect 1/1 G, Kraken 9/9 U, Manifest 2/2 C, Saproling 1/1 G, Spider 1/2 G, Squid 1/1 U, Treasure, Whale 6/6 U, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie 2/2 B w/ Decayed, Zombie Army 0/0 B
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