Savra, I Hardly Knew Ya

Commander / EDH

SpaceNinja

Creature (40)

• 1x Abhorrent Overlord
• 1x Ant Queen
• 1x Blood Speaker
• 1x Bloodghast
• 1x Brain Weevil
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Butcher of Malakir
• 1x Cadaver Imp
• 1x Champion of Stray Souls
• 1x Creakwood Liege
• 1x Dawntreader Elk
• 1x Demon of Death's Gate
• 1x Doomed Necromancer
• 1x Doomgape
• 1x Eater of Hope
• 1x Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder
• 1x Fallen Angel
• 1x Gleancrawler
• 1x Golgari Guildmage
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Hell's Caretaker
• 1x Korozda Guildmage
• 1x Lord of Extinction
• 1x Marsh Flitter
• 1x Mitotic Slime
• 1x Reaper of the Wilds
• 1x Reassembling Skeleton
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Savra, Queen of the Golgari
• 1x Sengir Nosferatu
• 1x Shriekmaw
• 1x Skeletal Vampire
• 1x Slum Reaper
• 1x Stronghold Assassin
• 1x Tenacious Dead
• 1x Verdant Force
• 1x Viridian Emissary
• 1x Viridian Zealot
• 1x Vulturous Zombie
• 1x Yavimaya Elder

Land (36)

• 12x Forest
• 1x High Market
• 1x Lotus Vale
• 1x Miren, the Moaning Well
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 13x Swamp
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Vivid Grove
• 1x Vivid Marsh
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Attrition
• 1x Awakening Zone
• 1x Bitterblossom
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Perilous Forays

Artifact (2)

• 1x Golgari Signet
• 1x Sol Ring

Instant (5)

• 1x Altar's Reap
• 1x Evolution Charm
• 1x Mystic Melting
• 1x Naturalize
• 1x Relic Crush

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Caravan Vigil
• 1x Creeping Renaissance
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Down / Dirty
• 1x Harmonize
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Nature's Spiral
• 1x Primal Command
• 1x Seek the Horizon
• 1x Vigor Mortis

Commander (1)

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Sideboard

Creature (7)

• 1x Desecration Demon
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Loathsome Catoblepas
• 1x Pawn of Ulamog
• 1x Phyrexian Gargantua
• 1x Primeval Titan
• 1x Shadowborn Demon

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Vraska the Unseen

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Grave Betrayal
• 1x Greed

Instant (3)

• 1x Launch Party
• 1x Rescue from the Underworld
• 1x Tribute to Hunger

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Gild
• 1x Grave Exchange
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Undercity Plague

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Maybeboard

Creature (15)

• 1x Cloudthresher
• 1x Garza's Assassin
• 1x Hunting Moa
• 1x Kjeldoran Dead
• 1x Mindslicer
• 1x Mitotic Slime
• 2x Nether Traitor
• 1x Ondu Giant
• 1x Pawn of Ulamog
• 1x Pilgrim's Eye
• 1x Quagmire Druid
• 1x Skullmulcher
• 1x Sporecap Spider
• 1x Terra Stomper

Land (2)

• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Khalni Garden

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Canopy Cover
• 1x Gravity Well
• 1x Quest for Renewal
• 1x Seal of Primordium

Artifact (4)

• 1x Basilisk Collar
• 1x Carnage Altar
• 1x Grafted Wargear
• 1x Skullclamp

Instant (2)

• 1x Darkness
• 1x Slingbow Trap

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Consuming Vapors
• 1x Corpsehatch
• 1x Dead Reckoning
• 1x Disturbed Burial
• 1x Growth Spasm
• 1x Hurricane
• 1x Lab Rats
• 1x Nighthaze
• 1x Stir the Grave
• 1x Worm Harvest

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Savra, Queen of the Golgari EDH deck.

Built in real life and it works swimmingly. Reminder to self to add some cards: Disturbed Burial, Corpse Dance , Carrion Call , Corrupted Harvester , Dross Hopper , Flesh Allergy , Fume Spitter , Putrefax and Slice in Twain , Sylvok Lifestaff , and to get the Grave Pact back: Dowsing Shaman , Nature's Spiral , Reclaim or Restock , and Rofellos's Gift .

Each card has some synergy with Savra by either making creatures, sacrificing creatures, or bringing back the creatures you sacrificed.

Blood Speaker is a good creature to tutor. Not only is he a black creature that can sacrifice itself, but he can get your Demon of Death's Gate, which can sacrifice 3 creatures to come in early. With Savra in play - that means each opponent is going to sacrifice a LOT of creatures.

If life loss becomes a problem, Ant Queen makes for a fine token generator, as does Mycoloth.

The one thing I wasn't able to get into this deck was the ability to toss a big creature in the graveyard for some reanimation. Since I'm running Dread Return and Zombify , I thought it would be great to have a Terastodon in the yard by turn 4, but cards that discard don't seem to fit in the deck. The only close swap I could have done would be to take out Malevolent Awakening and replace it with Tortured Existence , but you lose the sacrifice aspect, which the deck relies on. Since the deck needs a creature to sacrifice AND a sac outlet, I have to accept the fact that reanimation is for another deck.

Please comment if you have ideas, and as always, include what you would take OUT to put your suggestions in, which as we know is the difficult part.

Date added	14 years
Last updated	10 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 3 Mythic Rares 36 - 4 Rares 19 - 5 Uncommons 14 - 7 Commons
Cards	101
Avg. CMC	3.94
Tokens	Assassin 1/1 B w/ Player Killer, Bat 1/1 B, Bat 1/2 B, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Faerie Rogue 1/1 B, Goblin Rogue 1/1 B, Gold, Harpy 1/1 B, Insect 1/1 G, Ooze 1/1 G, Ooze 2/2 G for Mitotic Ooze, Saproling 1/1 G, Thrull 1/1 B, Worm 1/1 BG, Zombie 2/2 B