Tana and Tymna, Take Two

Commander / EDH BRGW Combo Hatebears Partner

DarkMech

Lands (33)

• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Brushland
• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 4x Forest
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Grove of the Burnwillows
• 1x Indatha Triome
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Nurturing Peatland
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Plains
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Shatterskull Smashing  ^Flip
• 1x Silent Clearing
• 1x Spire Garden
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Sunbaked Canyon
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Tectonic Edge
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Tutors (9)

• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Worldly Tutor
• 1x Yisan, the Wanderer Bard

Stax (16)

• 1x Anafenza, the Foremost
• 1x Archon of Emeria
• 1x Aura of Silence
• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Collector Ouphe
• 1x Deafening Silence
• 1x Drannith Magistrate
• 1x Eidolon of Rhetoric
• 1x Gaddock Teeg
• 1x Leyline of the Void
• 1x Linvala, Keeper of Silence
• 1x Root Maze
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Stony Silence
• 1x Tangle Wire
• 1x Thalia, Guardian of Thraben

Ramp (14)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Faeburrow Elder
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Priest of Titania
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Wild Growth

Interaction (8)

• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Deadly Rollick
• 1x Destiny Spinner
• 1x Fire Covenant
• 1x Manglehorn
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

Commanders (2)

Reanimation (9)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Inferno Titan
• 1x Karmic Guide
• 1x Life / Death
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Sire Of Insanity

Combo Pieces (5)

• 1x Felidar Guardian
• 1x Goblin Sharpshooter
• 1x Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• 1x Splinter Twin
• 1x Village Bell-Ringer

Utility (4)

• 1x Azra Oddsmaker
• 1x Loyal Apprentice
• 1x Luminarch Ascension
• 1x Quirion Ranger

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If you're familiar with cEDH, you probably know of the blue-less stax/combo decks helmed by Tana, the Bloodsower and Tymna the Weaver - the most famous example being Meta-Pod by infiniteimoc and Lerker. If you aren't familiar, the goal of this deck is to slow the game down with hatebears and stax pieces while keeping our hand filled with Tymna the Weaver until we can assemble one of our infinite combos to win the game (or beat our opponents down with a bunch of mana dorks and Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite). The infinite combos are:

• Felidar Guardian + Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker or Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Village Bell-Ringer : Activating Kiki-Jiki targeting either other creature allows you to generate infinite hasty attackers. Swing for the fences. Bell-Ringer and Kiki can help hardcast this combo by untapping/copying mana dorks, but the typical way you'll assemble this one is via Birthing Pod or Yisan, the Wanderer Bard chains or Buried Alive and a reanimation spell (see below).
• Splinter Twin + Village Bell-Ringer : Infinite hasty attackers, and infinite mana if you have at least one dork in play. The only way to assemble this one is hardcasting the pieces, so you'll do it less often than the Kiki combos, but sometimes you have an Enlightened Tutor and finding Birthing Pod won't be lethal (or you turned it off yourself with Collector Ouphe).
• Goblin Sharpshooter + Splinter Twin : Enchant Sharpshooter, tap it to copy itself, then tap the copy to kill any random creature. Untap both Sharpshooters, then tap the enchanted one to make a third copy. Tap one copy to ping an opponent, then tap the other copy to kill the first copy. This untaps the two remaining Sharpshooters, allowing you to repeat ad infinitum. Since you need to untap with Sharpshooter, this combo is really only helpful if you can't win through combat for some reason or if your other pieces are inaccessible. That said, Sharpshooter is great at taking out fields of tokens and mana dorks and Splinter Twin also combos with Bell-Ringer, so the opportunity cost of including this combo is very low.

This is my (second) take on the archetype, built for a much lower budget and a more casual meta than the most tuned cEDH lists. Many of the card choices are the same as the more tuned builds, but I'll briefly comment on the things that are different:

• The reanimation package: Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite and Inferno Titan are great hammers to have access to when people are trying to win with creatures, and reanimation is the most efficient way to get them into play. Buried Alive + any reanimation spell can also be an instant win by getting Felidar Guardian + Karmic Guide + Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker .
• Anafenza, the Foremost and Scavenging Ooze: I wanted additional graveyard hate on top of Leyline of the Void, and both of these pieces are asymmetrical and can double as competent beatsticks.
• Eidolon of Rhetoric: Tax effects and Trinisphere are less impactful when your opponents' spells are more expensive anyways, so if I want people to only be able to cast one spell per turn I want to commit. Thalia, Guardian of Thraben still made the cut here because a large portion of our deck dodges her tax and she attacks reasonably well in the early turns. Possibly should be Ethersworn Canonist.
• Swords to Plowshares and Deadly Rollick: Big creatures exist, and I want to be prepared for them.
• Caustic Caterpillar and Manglehorn: Being creatures makes these tutorable and lets them attack and block, so I gave them the nod over Force of Vigor. I could just be wrong about these, though.
• Stony Silence, Arcane Signet, Faeburrow Elder, Abrupt Decay, unorthodox lands: Budget substitutions. I'm too poor for free mana rocks, dual lands, Bloom Tender, and Null Rod.
• no Blood Moon effects: At the tables I play at, people tend to run more than a few basics, so moons are much less effective at shutting people out.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	3 years
Exclude colors	U
Key combos	Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Village Bell-Ringer Felidar Guardian + Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker Splinter Twin + Village Bell-Ringer Goblin Sharpshooter + Splinter Twin Felidar Guardian + Karmic Guide + Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 52 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.47
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Copy Clone, Saproling 1/1 G, Thopter 1/1 C