Occult Athreos

Commander / EDH Demons Enchantment Lifegain Reanimator Theme/Gimmick Tribal

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Land (32)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Concealed Courtyard
• 1x Crypt of Agadeem
• 1x Fetid Heath
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 6x Plains
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 12x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Field
• 1x Temple of Silence
• 1x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Austere Command
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Demonic TutorGC
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Immortal Servitude
• 1x Vindicate
• 1x Wrath of God

Creature (38)

• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Edgewalker
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Harvester of Souls
• 1x Mirror Entity
• 1x Ob Nixilis, Unshackled
• 1x Razaketh, the Foulblooded *f-pre*
• 1x Recruiter of the Guard
• 1x Rotlung Reanimator
• 28x Shadowborn Apostle
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Dark Prophecy
• 1x Debtors' Knell
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Exquisite Blood
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Land Tax
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Remembrance
• 1x Sanguine Bond

Commander (1)

Artifact (8)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Thrumming Stone
• 1x Vanquisher's Banner
• 1x Vedalken Orrery

Instant (5)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Mortify
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Teferi's Protection
• 1x Utter End

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Maybeboard

Creature (1)

• 1x Mentor of the Meek

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Secret Salvage

Artifact (1)

• 1x Bontu's Monument

Instant (1)

• 1x Swords to Plowshares

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Cultists and demons run this deck. Shadowborn apostles fuel tons of death triggers. Athreos as the Commander acts as a cheap source of recursion and direct face damage, and doubles as a beefy indestructible attacker. Athreos being B/W also gives access to some pretty good removal and recursion.

I try to win with this deck by dealing damage and controlling the board.

I'm still kinda learning the right way to run this deck. Since I have so few lands, I needed to learn how to Mulligan correctly. Ideally you want to start off with 3 lands, and at least one that can produce white Mana. I've won a couple games starting with 5 cards, 3 of them lands.. my ideal first 3 turns end up with 3 shadowborn apostles and athreos on the board. After I've cast my Commander and a couple shadowborn, I start looking for a way to capitalize on their deaths.. this isn't a combo deck per se, but an extremely efficient value engine. I've won most of my games with a sac outlet and a drain enabler.. thrumming stone with aetherflux reservoir, and sanguine bond with exquisite blood are my only real true combos. I don't rely on comboing out, but I generally Target the combo pieces with tutors, since all of my combo pieces are stand alone value Generators.

Top Ranked	Achieved #10 position overall 6 years ago
Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Exclude colors	URG
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 40 - 0 Rares 10 - 0 Uncommons 30 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.50
Tokens	Human Cleric 1/1 BW, Morph 2/2 C, Zombie 2/2 B
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