Sekki, Ghost Piñata

Commander / EDH Attach Casual Counters Mono-Green Primer Ramp Tokens Toughness Matters

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Land (34)

• 1x Arena
• 1x Bonders' Enclave
• 1x Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1x Castle Garenbrig
• 1x Desert of the Indomitable
• 18x Forest
• 1x Mosswort Bridge
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Slippery Karst
• 1x Tomb of the Spirit Dragon
• 1x Tranquil Thicket
• 1x Tyrite Sanctum
• 1x War Room
• 1x Witch's Clinic
• 1x Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Artifact (14)

• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Champion's Helm
• 1x Coat of Arms
• 1x Emerald Medallion
• 1x Endless Atlas
• 1x Hammer of Nazahn
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mask of Memory
• 1x Mirror Shield
• 1x Shadowspear
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Sword of the Animist

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Garruk, Primal Hunter

Enchantment (16)

• 1x Abundance
• 1x Asceticism
• 1x Awakening Zone
• 1x Bear Umbra
• 1x Beastmaster Ascension
• 1x Colossal Majesty
• 1x Cryptolith Rite
• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Dragon Fangs
• 1x Gaea's Anthem
• 1x Leyline of Vitality
• 1x Parallel Lives
• 1x Snake Umbra
• 1x Spider Umbra
• 1x Spidersilk Armor
• 1x Utopia Sprawl

Sorcery (14)

• 1x Bala Ged Recovery  ^Flip
• 1x Collective Voyage
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Flare of Cultivation
• 1x Harmonize
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Migration Path
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Open the Way
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Shamanic Revelation
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Three Visits
• 1x Visions of Dominance

Commander (1)

Creature (15)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Champion of Lambholt
• 1x Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1x Fertilid
• 1x Grothama, All-Devouring
• 1x Kodama of the West Tree
• 1x Noble Quarry
• 1x Ohran Frostfang
• 1x Omnath, Locus of Mana
• 1x Runic Armasaur
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Tempting Licid
• 1x Toski, Bearer of Secrets
• 1x Ulvenwald Tracker
• 1x Vigor

Instant (5)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Khalni Ambush  ^Flip
• 1x Return of the Wildspeaker
• 1x Tamiyo's Safekeeping

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Maybeboard

Artifact (21)

• 1x Batterskull
• 1x Belt of Giant Strength
• 1x Blasting Station
• 1x Cauldron of Souls
• 1x Eldrazi Monument
• 1x Explorer's Scope
• 1x Gauntlet of Power
• 1x Haunted Cloak
• 1x Hero's Heirloom
• 1x Infiltration Lens
• 1x Inquisitor's Flail
• 1x Long-Forgotten Gohei
• 1x Mask of Avacyn
• 1x Nemesis Mask
• 1x Nim Deathmantle
• 1x Pariah's Shield
• 1x Ring of Kalonia
• 1x Staff of Nin
• 1x Stoneforge Masterwork
• 1x Thaumatic Compass  ^Flip
• 1x Tower of Calamities

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Garruk, Primal Hunter

Creature (19)

• 1x Bloodspore Thrinax
• 1x Defiler of Vigor
• 1x Drumhunter
• 1x Frontier Guide
• 1x Golden Guardian  ^Flip
• 1x Haruspex
• 1x Hexdrinker
• 1x Karametra's Acolyte
• 1x Llanowar Tribe
• 1x Nullmage Shepherd
• 1x Nurturing Licid
• 1x Phantom Nantuko
• 1x Rootweaver Druid
• 1x Shinen of Life's Roar
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Tireless Tracker
• 1x Topiary Stomper
• 1x Wood Elves
• 1x Woodland Bellower

Instant (4)

• 1x Inscription of Abundance
• 1x Prizefight
• 1x Titanic Brawl
• 1x Vines of Vastwood

Enchantment (15)

• 1x Alpha Status
• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Cartouche of Strength
• 1x Death's Presence
• 1x Elemental Resonance
• 1x From Beyond
• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Lure
• 1x One with the Kami
• 1x Predatory Urge
• 1x Primal Vigor
• 1x Rancor
• 1x Season of Growth
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Warbriar Blessing

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Awaken the Woods
• 1x Bushwhack
• 1x Collective Unconscious
• 1x Collective Voyage
• 1x Explosive Vegetation
• 1x Harmonize
• 1x New Frontiers
• 1x Search for Tomorrow
• 1x Soul's Majesty
• 1x Terramorph

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Sekki's basically just a big ol' ghost piñata, seriously. Smack him and dead things fall out, what's not to love?

THE OVERVIEW

So how does Sekki do? One look at the card and it's easy to mistake one crucial bit of information that, honestly, kinda gimps the deck if the builder isn't aware of it.

"So whenever Sekki would take damage, you instead remove that many counters, then make spirits equal to the number of counters you removed, right?"

Nonono.

The counter reduction is just an unfortunate side effect. If Sekki would receive damage, instead create that many 1/1 spirits, AND remove that many +1/+1 counters.

Sekki doesn't need counters at all to make the spirits.

It also just doesn't take damage, ever.

Meaning, ANYTHING that pumps its toughness by even 1, makes it immune to all forms of damage-related death (yes, even Deathtouch), while continuing to make as many tokens as it gets smacked for.

Does Sekki currently have a single, lowly +1/+1 counter on it? Then it gets smacked for 9?

Make 9 spirits.

(And then Sekki explodes into a pile of sad goo or something unless you boost its toughness.)

CARD INTERACTIONS

Literally Any Fight Effect

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These essentially read "Create X spirits, where X is target creature's power." If Sekki happens to still have swole stats, then it even works as creature removal as well, as intended.

Grothama, All-Devouring

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Basically, you now have an enormous target to swing at with Sekki, to absolutely no danger to itself if you've raised its toughness by 1. Now you have an extra 10 spirits laying around. Give Grothama indestructible with Hammer of Nazahn to ensure it sticks around so you can continue to beat it to a bloody pulp. "It" being Sekki.

Noble Quarry

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This shouldn't be too shocking, but if things are going in your favor, you should have a bunch of spirits laying around, ready to fistfight whatever your opponents brought to the table. Now, once you Bestow Noble Quarry onto Sekki, three-ish things happen:

1. Everything has to block Sekki if it's able. Sekki doesn't mind. Sekki eats damage for breakfast. Produce a (hopefully) buttload of spirits.

2. Your previously created spirits are now free to just... beat the crap out of your opponent. Everything they have that could block them just blocked Sekki.

3. If Sekki were to die somehow, but leaving your spirits intact, you can attack with Noble Quarry once more to guarantee your spirits get through. There's a joke here to be made about beating a dead horse, because it will ABSOLUTELY die, but yeah.

Tempting Licid

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Mostly has the same effect as Noble Quarry, and as you may expect, is also pretty darn good. This one however, comes with a fun little addition, in that so long as you keep 2 green mana floating around, you can stick it onto ANYONE'S creature when it attacks someone ELSE, forcing that other opponent's entire field to block the first opponent's creature. This will let the attacking player distribute damage any way they please, while also almost definitely killing the attacking creature. "But then we lose the Licid!" Well, yes, but no, just pay green to turn it back into a creature right after blockers are declared. Licid goes back to being a creature and you get to look at your opponents looking at YOU slightly angrily.

Visions of Dominance

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This card basically reads, assuming Sekki is still chilling with 8 +1/+1 counters on it: "For 5 total mana, make Sekki into a 38/38." If you can't make use of that I dunno what to tell you.

Vigor

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For once in my life, I have a valid reason to use this card in a deck. Both Sekki and Vigor have damage replacement effects, so when it comes to Sekki getting bludgeoned, you can choose which effect you want. Want Sekki to get swole for next time? Use Vigor. Want more spirits? Use Sekki. All your spirits? Yeah they hit the gym.

Collective Voyage

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This isn't even an interaction, but I'm bringing up its worth. This deck needs GAS. And this will almost certainly provide what you need to hit 8 mana to get to casting our friendly punching bag from the command zone. This helps the entire table, but, at the very least, it accelerates everyone by the same amount, for a SINGLE mana, and by helping the table out, maybe you'll make some friends? Piñatas are naturally a group activity, and it's always important to remember to invite your friends. Anyways, yes, it accelerates everyone by the same amount, but the difference is, now you can actually start playing the deck.

THE ISSUES??

So now, what issues does the deck currently have, that I would appreciate some input on?

1. What to do before I can ramp up to cast Sekki. I'm lowish on creatures, so pretty vulnerable during the early game.

2. Card draw. Turns out non-elf mono-green go-wide-not-tall kinda sucks at drawing cards consistently.

MAYBEBOARD SPECIAL MENTIONS!

So I've been adding 8 gorillion cards to the Maybeboard for the sake of keeping track of particularly useful cards, and so, I will list off some that I'm particularly fond of, but I'm not sure whether I should really run them. Feedback on any of these would be greeeaaaatly appreciated!

Alpha Status

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It's like Stoneforge Masterwork but double the boost, and naturally, goes away if Sekki ever goes away.

Belt of Giant Strength

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I've always wanted to use this card, but it's almost never worth using. The equip cost is either FAR too steep if the equip target is small, or the benefit of the equipment is meh if you use it on a large creature. But Sekki is special in that it's comprised entirely of +1/+1 counters, and so if you equip the belt at Sekki's initial 8/8 stats, it becomes an 18/18. Which is nice. Downside being, if you draw this after Sekki has lost those counters, then it's not worth equipping.

Blasting Station

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Infinite ETBs! And nothing to capitalize on them with (other than a small handful of token doublers) without restructuring a lot of the deck! Not too worried about this one, as I generally find infinites to be rather unfun, but I wouldn't mind hearing any interesting combos utilizing it that kinda work with the gameplan.

Bloodspore Thrinax

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Cast this bad boy, eat a bunch of spirits, and now every Spirit that falls out of Sekki beyond this point is SWOLE. Also combos really well with One with the Kami and were I to include Bloodspore, I'd entirely toss Kami in too.

Cauldron of Souls

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Sekki revival tool! Persist puts a -1/-1 counter on Sekki, making it come in as only a pathetic, puny little 7/7. I'll let you mull the worth of that over in your head. But yeah because +1/+1 counters and -1/-1 counters cancel eachother out, you can persist Sekki as much as your little heart desires. I'd say maybe a regenerate effect might come in more handy though, if only because there are options like Regeneration, Nurturing Licid, or the included Asceticism which, while costing mana, are repeatable more than once per rotation.

Elemental Resonance

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A surprisingly solid little ramp card thing. Play it once you've cast something worth around 4 or 5 mana and you should be all set to cast Sekki soon after. Might be a huge removal magnet though? Kinda reminds me of... a green Black Market, which yes, is also always a huge removal magnet.

Golden Guardian  

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Honestly, this gets less useful if you let it transform, so if Sekki is tiny, or if you can either buff the Guardian, or give it Indestructible, you essentially get X= Guardian's Power Spirits per every 2 mana you shove into it, which is kinda dope. Downside being that Grothama, All-Devouring exists and while it's probably harder to make tokens with Grothama, Guardian needs extra cards to set itself up, and if you mess it up it transforms and is far less useful to us.

Inquisitor's Flail

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It's like Inquisitor's Flail, without any of the downsides! In fact, this card genuinely functions like a budget Parallel Lives that only doubles tokens created via combat damage, but also doubles the damage Sekki throws hands with, so I think it's a fine addition honestly, especially if you're worried about cash money. Has the added benefit of boosting fight effects as well of course, if you've got those around.

Nemesis Mask

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"Everything must block equipped creature" is insanely powerful in this deck, and adding yet another source of this seems like a fun time to me. Lure is in the same boat, but it's an aura, so is fragile.

Nurturing Licid

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More Sekki protection in the form of regenerate. Simple, effective, you get the drill. Namely just to deter targeted removal. Honestly the worst thing about this card is the art.

One with the Kami

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Kind of a weird one, since Sekki isn't always really huge. Let's say hypothetically however, that you have an 8/8 Sekki, and equip this to ANY creature you control, then someone sends our little punching bag to the shadow realm with removal. Sekki will then produce 8 spirits upon dying, which you may then sacrifice to its reanimation effect, bringing it back to the field good as new. If this were spirit tribal, I'd 110% throw this in, but because my only source of spirits is Sekki, I'm not sure whether I should rely on it for any meaningful Spirit production, especially since if Sekki gets tiny, the payoff is REALLY meh, to the point where if Sekki runs out of +1/+1 counters and dies because it's a 0/0, dude wouldn't produce ANYTHING with this. Best use I can see is actually equipping it to Toski, Bearer of Secrets just to keep it safe and to deter people from blowing up Sekki when it's still a large lad.

Pariah's Shield

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Fantastically cool card that you basically never get to see, and at first glance is a sorta pricy equipment that says:

"YOU ARE NOW SEKKI"

and converts all damage you take into Spirits. Except all it actually says is

"Nobody is going to damage you with anything, and then they'll blow it up."

Now, to be fair, that does provide itself with a useful niche as a combat deterrent, since again, NOBODY with a brain will try to damage you with this out and equipped to Sekki, but overall, I think 8 mana for a 110% removal magnet isn't particularly worth it, and the slot would be better served given to something else.

Tower of Calamities

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You play this card and then you PAY EIGHT MANA to shoot Sekki for TWELVE WHOLE DAMAGE and then you MAKE TWELVE SPIRITS and it's COOL and SPLASHY and GAHH THE URGE TO RUN THIS KEEPS ME AWAKE AT NIGHT.

EDITS

Edit 01/22/2023: Swapped out Infiltration Lens and Primal Vigor with Ohran Frostfang and Runic Armasaur

Edit 01/23/2023: Swapped out Sylvan Library for Abundance

Edit 01/25/2023: Swapped out Search for Tomorrow for Collective Voyage

Edit 01/28/2023: Swapped out Terramorph for Migration Path, a basic Forest for Bonders' Enclave, Topiary Stomper for Harmonize, Stoneforge Masterwork for Coat of Arms, and Mask of Avacyn for Garruk, Primal Hunter

Edit 02/05/2023: Swapped out 3 basic Forests for Tranquil Thicket, Desert of the Indomitable, and Slippery Karst

Edit 09/13/2024: Swapped out Wood Elves for Flare of Cultivation and Explosive Vegetation for Open the Way

Top Ranked	Achieved #1 position overall 1 year ago
Date added	2 years
Last updated	2 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 42 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.12
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Spirit 1/1 C, Wurm 6/6 G
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