Tana and Tymna Pod shell

Commander / EDH*

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Land (26)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Badlands
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Plateau
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Taiga
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Creature (13)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Felidar Guardian
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Village Bell-Ringer
• 1x Yisan, the Wanderer Bard

Artifact (4)

• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Sol Ring

Instant (3)

• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Imperial Seal

Commanders (2)

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Survival of the Fittest
• 1x Sylvan Library

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Sideboard

Creature (19)

• 1x Anafenza, the Foremost
• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Dark Confidant
• 1x Eidolon of Rhetoric
• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1x Ethersworn Canonist
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Imperial Recruiter
• 1x Kinjalli's Sunwing
• 1x Linvala, Keeper of Silence
• 1x Magus of the Moon
• 1x Manglehorn
• 1x Qasali Pridemage
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Sire Of Insanity
• 1x Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
• 1x Vexing Shusher
• 1x Vryn Wingmare

Artifact (6)

• 1x Damping Sphere
• 1x Null Rod
• 1x Sphere of Resistance
• 1x Tangle Wire
• 1x Thorn of Amethyst
• 1x Trinisphere

Instant (4)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Natural State
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Blind Obedience
• 1x City of Solitude
• 1x Luminarch Ascension
• 1x Root Maze
• 1x Rule of Law

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Maybeboard

Creature (23)

• 1x Academy Rector
• 1x Anafenza, the Foremost
• 1x Auriok Salvagers
• 1x Dosan the Falling Leaf
• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1x Ghave, Guru of Spores
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Inferno Titan
• 1x Karmic Guide
• 1x Kitchen Finks
• 1x Leonin Relic-Warder
• 1x Loyal Retainers
• 1x Melira, Sylvok Outcast
• 1x Meren of Clan Nel Toth
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Protean Hulk
• 1x Razaketh, the Foulblooded
• 1x Renegade Rallier
• 1x Saffi Eriksdotter
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Walking Ballista
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Pattern of Rebirth
• 1x Splinter Twin

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Natural Order
• 1x Reanimate

Artifact (4)

• 1x Lion's Eye Diamond
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Umezawa's Jitte

Instant (2)

• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Entomb

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This is the shell for a Tana/Tymna Pod deck, that you can cram any number of packages and plans into. This main group is missing 5-10 lands, and is running all ten fetches and all six shocklands- depending on build and colour balance 2-3 shocks and 1-2 fetches can be removed, and painlands, fastlands, Horizon Camopy, Grove of the Burnwillows, and basics can be slotted in at will. This shell is the stuff you will basically run in any version of this deck. The only reason not to to run these is budget or some weird hyper-meta reason like you play multiple Ruric Thar Strangehold decks a lot and so you can never use your tutors or something like that. These are the most versatile, powerful, and efficient cards in the colours, and running without these things is basically a self-imposed handicap. You have the basic Kiki combo, lands, the dorks, the best rocks for mana and ramp. The best Black tutors, Enlightened for Pod, Worldly for combo creatures, Sylvan Library because its the best card advantage in your colours. Dark Confidant might well be considered for the shell, but some of the midrangier versions take a beating from him, so I left him out. consider him an honourary member of the shell, though. If you can keep your average CMC below 3, I'd probably still run him.

The sideboard is a fairly basic utility hatebear/stax package. Gaddock Teeg is bad, I don't like it. I'm a fan of the fliers like Kinjalli Sunwing and Vryn Wingmare, but the higher drops hatebears like those are very much personal calls. It should be noted Hushwing Gryff is pretty good, but be aware it shuts off our own combos, so I don't personally run it. You're still 15-20 cards shy of a full deck with this package.

The maybeboard is a bulkier, midrangier redundant combo and midrange package with big beatsticks, card advantage, and a couple of Hulk and Razaketh combos. Infinite life, infinite mana, compact wins. The best think about the Rallier+Saffi and Melira+Finks combos is that the cards are individually quite strong. You're 10+ cards shy of a full deck with this whole mess of cards.

The Acquireboard is a junky land-based disruption/reanimation package with a Doubling Season and some Planeswalkers thrown in for giggles. This is kinda what passes for stax in worse pods. This is mainly here to show that you can skew pretty far down the power level chart and still have something that plays BASICALLY the same kind of grindy midrange game. A lot of people at this power level don't like land destruction, but eh. Maybe its a learning experience? This is actually exactly 100 cards. Somebody run this exact list and tell me how it goes.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 7 Mythic Rares 36 - 15 Rares 3 - 8 Uncommons 8 - 4 Commons
Cards	53
Avg. CMC	1.81
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Copy Clone, Saproling 1/1 G
Based on	Tana and Tymna Blood Pod - Primer LabManiac_Luke EDH