Sedris - Let's Wheel Out The Dead

Commander / EDH Combo Reanimator UBR (Grixis)

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Land (35)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 5x Island
• 1x Leechridden Swamp
• 4x Mountain
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stensia Bloodhall
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 5x Swamp
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Watery Grave

Rites (9)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Phyrexian Delver
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1x Victimize
• 1x Whip of Erebos

Corpses (21)

• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Dragon Mage
• 1x Flayer of the Hatebound
• 1x It That Betrays
• 1x Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
• 1x Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• 1x Mogg Fanatic
• 1x Necrotic Ooze
• 1x Nezahal, Primal Tide
• 1x Palinchron
• 1x Pathrazer of Ulamog
• 1x Sepulchral Primordial
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Sire of Stagnation
• 1x Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
• 1x Void Maw
• 1x Void Winnower
• 1x Worldgorger Dragon
• 1x Zealous Conscripts

Acceleration (10)

• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence
• 1x Thran Dynamo

Misc (3)

• 1x Anger
• 1x Sundial of the Infinite
• 1x Waste Not

Commander (1)

Fuel (12)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Careful Study
• 1x Dreamscape Artist
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Forbidden Alchemy
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Magus of the Wheel
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Whispering Madness
• 1x Windfall

Hate (5)

• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1x Terminate
• 1x Vandalblast

Tutors (4)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Razaketh, the Foulblooded
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

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Sideboard

Land (3)

• 1x Island
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Swamp

Draw (1)

• 1x Cathartic Reunion

Misc (1)

• 1x Wonder

Rites (3)

• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Exhume
• 1x Stitch Together

Corpses (1)

• 1x Sphinx of Uthuun

Fuel (1)

• 1x Tormenting Voice

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Maybeboard

Other (6)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Etali, Primal Storm
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Pestermite
• 1x Phyrexian Delver
• 1x Thought Vessel

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"Sedris, the general that is mostly superfluous in his own deck" has become the lead motif for this deck. It was built bottom-up, as opposed to the typical top-down approach, of picking a general and then building the deck around it.

It's basically like an old-fashioned Reanimator deck, inspired in large part by a Rakdos Pauper deck I used to play. It focuses on using looting effects and wheels to pitch big fatties and combo pieces into the bin, to then reanimate them with a myriad of different effects, and ideally way before your opponents are able to mount a defence.

It can stall for time, for a while, by using effects like Jin-Gitaxias, Void Winnower, Sheoldred, etc. but my experience is that there are limits to how long this deck can keep going, in a defensive scenario, so it's better to go straight for the win than to durdle for value.

I've included a number of impactful combos and synergies in this build:

Deadeye Navigator is the ultimate kitchen multitool. It slices, it dices, it makes french fries in 7 different sizes! Or, in actual terms: It saves your creatures from being exiled from Unearth, provides infinite mana with Palinchron, provides protection from almost any targeted creature removal, and works extremely well with ETB's and activated abilities. Have Glen Eledra Archmage counter every non-creature spell? Steal the entire board with Zealous Conscripts? Recur all your instants and sorceries with Archaeomancer? Make as many copies as you can of creatures with Kiki-Jiki? Steal every creature out of your opponents' graveyards with Sepulchral Primordial? Deadeye Navigator has got your back!

Palinchron: Can protect itself and produce infinite mana, as long as you have Cabal Coffers, Urborg and at least 4 sources of blue mana among your lands. With Stensia Bloodhall or Leechridden Swamp among your lands, it also deals infinite damage to your opponents.

The storied Worldgorger Dragon + Animate Dead combo produces infinite mana. With Stensia Bloodhall on the field and enough mana sources to activate it, this will deal lethal damage to all opponents. Just be careful to not drop Worldgorger onto the field without a counterspell in hand, and ideally with your opponents tapped out. Instant speed removal targeting Worldgorger Dragon before its ETB trigger goes off makes you exile your entire board, and there's no way to remedy that, except with a counterspell.

Kiki-Jiki + Zealous Conscript - Make infinite Conscript copies and attack for lethal. Be mindful of the possibility of being hit with a Rakdos Charm with your 15 quintillion Conscript copies on the field, though.

There also a Buried Alive combo - Bin Necrotic Ooze, Mogg Fanatic and Kiki-Jiki. Unearth Nooze with Sedris, or bring it back in any other way if you have Anger in the bin, and then have it make infinite tapped copies of itself using Kiki's ability. Blow them up in your opponents' faces using the Mogg Fanatic's ability. This is the safest combo in the deck, as once you have Nooze down, there isn't much that can be done to stop it. If someone tries to remove Necrotic Ooze at instant speed, you'll just make more copies of it ahead of that spell or ability or the stack. A couple of Split Second spells, rarely run in Commander, is about the only way to stop it once the groundwork has been sorted out.

Rise of the Dark Realms + Flayer of the Hatebound in your graveyard or on the battlefield, with a well-filled graveyard, will send a lot of damage at your opponents.

As ever, I'd be happy to hear your perspectives and advice!

Date added	6 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	13 - 1 Mythic Rares 42 - 2 Rares 23 - 1 Uncommons 8 - 3 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.20
Tokens	Copy Clone, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Currently Built