Sidisi - Dredge solitaire

Commander / EDH BUG (Sultai) Dredge Mill Theme/Gimmick Tokens Zombie

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Creature (46)

• 1x Aftermath Analyst
• 1x Agent of Erebos
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Blight Titan
• 1x Blossoming Tortoise
• 1x Bramble Familiar
• 1x Canoptek Scarab Swarm
• 1x Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1x Cryptbreaker
• 1x Deathbloom Ritualist
• 1x Deranged Assistant
• 1x Dimir Strandcatcher
• 1x Doom Whisperer
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Golgari Grave-Troll
• 1x Golgari Thug
• 1x Gravespawn Sovereign
• 1x Grim Giganotosaurus
• 1x Grimgrin, Corpse-Born
• 1x Hedron Crab
• 1x Izoni, Thousand-Eyed
• 1x Likeness Looter
• 1x Loaming Shaman
• 1x Lotus Cobra
• 1x Ludevic, Necrogenius  ^Flip
• 1x Millikin
• 1x Nullmage Shepherd
• 1x Nyx Weaver
• 1x Patchwork Crawler
• 1x Phenax, God of Deception
• 1x Rootcoil Creeper
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Sivriss, Nightmare Speaker
• 1x Skull Prophet
• 1x Snarling Gorehound
• 1x Stinkweed Imp
• 1x Tato Farmer
• 1x The Gitrog Monster
• 1x The Master, Transcendent
• 1x The Mycotyrant
• 1x Timeless Witness
• 1x Vile Entomber
• 1x Vilespawn Spider
• 1x Wonder
• 1x World Shaper
• 1x Zellix, Sanity Flayer

Land (38)

• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cephalid Coliseum
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dakmor Salvage
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 1x Field of the Dead
• 2x Forest
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Hall of the Bandit Lord
• 1x Hedge Maze
• 1x Island
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Nurturing Peatland
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Port of Karfell
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 1x Svogthos, the Restless Tomb
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Undercity Sewers
• 1x Underground Mortuary
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Waterlogged Grove
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Zagoth Triome

Commander (1)

Artifact (6)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Conduit of Worlds
• 1x Embalmer's Tools
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Matzalantli, the Great Door  ^Flip
• 1x Mesmeric Orb

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Cemetery Tampering
• 1x Mist of Stagnation
• 1x Out of the Tombs
• 1x Path of Discovery

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Dread Return
• 1x From the Catacombs
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Worm Harvest

Battle (1)

• 1x Invasion of Amonket

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Maybeboard

Creature (8)

• 1x Corpse Connoisseur
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Genesis
• 1x Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
• 1x Lord of Extinction
• 1x Mirror-Mad Phantasm
• 1x Soul of Innistrad
• 1x Turntimber Sower

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Quasiduplicate
• 1x Spitting Image

Instant (1)

• 1x Entomb

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Deadbridge Chant
• 1x Nature's Will

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I guess you would call this a dredge deck or something like a "self mill". The idea is to keep milling your own library and get all kinds of different benefits from it, the most obvious one being Sidisi, Brood Tyrant. Since the most important card type in a Sidisi deck is "Creature", I've tried to maximize the amount of creatures to improve my chances of getting a zombie with each mill effects. The other cards caring about Card Type X going to the graveyard are Turntimber Sower and The Gitrog Monster.

Because of the the way Sidisi is worded, a lot of small mill effects are of course more desirable than let's say something like Traumatize. I've included the rough calculations of my odds of hitting with each kind of mill effect. The actual numbers in game are of course dependent on what has been drawn so far.

Mill 1
Cards: Deranged Assistant, Millikin, Embalmer's Tools, Mesmeric Orb
Chance to hit a Land card ~38%
Chance to hit a Creature card ~44%

Mill 2
Cards: Dakmor Salvage, The Mending of Dominaria, Nyx Weaver, Extractor Demon, Splinterfright
Land ~62%
Creature ~69%

Mill 3
Cards: Life from the Loam, Hedron Crab, World Shaper, Sidisi, Brood Tyrant
Land ~76%
Creature ~82%

Mill 4
Cards: Gisa and Geralf, Golgari Thug
Land ~85%
Creature ~90%

Mill 5
Cards: Geralf's Mindcrusher, Stinkweed Imp
Land ~91%
Creature ~95%

Other mill effects
Golgari Grave-Troll, Phenax, God of Deception, Altar of Dementia, Jace, Memory Adept

Now, couple of words to people who are here looking for ideas and are thinking about building a Sidisi deck of their own: this style of deck is extremely non-interactive. It can often feel like playing solitaire. If you are doing this with physical cards, you'll also be struggling with trying to fit your graveyard on the battlefield. From what I've gathered from my opponents' reactions is that it is cool "once in a while" sort of deck, but they'd definitely not want to play against it for too many consecutive games.

The deck is actually surprisingly resilient to graveyard hate, while being almost completely immune to stuff that prevent graveyard targeting (Ground Seal etc) since that ain't really what you are going for. It is usually fine with the graveyard getting exiled couple of times since the high density of mill effects ensures that you can pretty easily get going again. If they keep forcing you to refill your 'yard over and over again though, you'll quickly run into the very real risk of decking yourself.

Having played this deck for many years now, I'd say the most common methods for ending the game are:
1) Just creature beats. The deck generates pretty nice amounts of tokens and it does so pretty fast.
2) Laboratory Maniac. I first included it as kind of a joke, but since it's pretty darn easy for the deck to just empty out it's library and reanimate the Maniac with Dread Return, I have certainly resorted to it more than a few times.
3) Some sort of lockdown with Possessed Portal or Mist of Stagnation.
4) Mill your opponents! Phenax, God of Deception and Altar of Dementia play the key role here. This should only be done against some sort of Fog decks or against Moat effects but I have done it a few times.

Date added	9 years
Last updated	9 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 53 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.42
Tokens	Incubator, The Initiative, Treasure, Worm 1/1 BG, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Commander