Tatyova Retreat - Artifactless

Commander / EDH*

Roryrai

Instant (21)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Harrow
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Memory's Journey
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Negate
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Spell Pierce
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Unsubstantiate
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Earthcraft
• 1x Exploration
• 1x Overburden
• 1x Retreat to Coralhelm
• 1x Trade Routes

Creature (19)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Coiling Oracle
• 1x Drift of Phantasms
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Llanowar Scout
• 1x Lotus Cobra
• 1x Nissa, Vastwood Seer  ^Flip
• 1x Oboro Breezecaller
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Scout
• 1x Skyshroud Ranger
• 1x Sylvan Safekeeper
• 1x Walking Atlas
• 1x Wayward Swordtooth

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Gaea's Blessing
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Regrowth
• 1x Scapeshift
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Splendid Reclamation
• 1x Summer Bloom
• 1x Three Visits
• 1x Time Warp

Commander (1)

Land (40)

• 1x Alchemist's Refuge
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 18x Forest
• 11x Island
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Artifact (2)

• 1x Amulet of Vigor
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir

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Why no artifact mana?

Memes. A lot of people at my LGS think Sol Ring , Mana Crypt , and the other good artifact mana are busted and should all be banned, though everyone still runs them anyway because they're really good cards. I'm intentionally not running any of them because it's funny to have a deck that's still effective and can mostly keep up with the artifact mana despite not having any in the deck. The deck would absolutely be better with Sol Ring , Mana Crypt , and Mana Vault at a minimum, and could probably benefit from some Moxen as well.

Value interactions

• Retreat to Coralhelm + Sakura-Tribe Scout or similar

• Retreat to Coralhelm + Earthcraft

• Retreat to Coralhelm + Birds of Paradise or similar

• Overburden + way to put extra lands into play

• Scapeshift / Boundless Realms / Splendid Reclamation + Lotus Cobra / Amulet of Vigor

• Oboro, Palace in the Clouds + Burgeoning

• Trade Routes + Burgeoning

• Sylvan Safekeeper + Splendid Reclamation

Infinite

Infinite landfall can be obtained with the following lines. Sakura-Tribe Scout can be replaced with any similar creature.

• Oboro, Palace in the Clouds + Retreat to Coralhelm + Sakura-Tribe Scout

• Oboro Breezecaller + Retreat to Coralhelm + Sakura-Tribe Scout

• Trade Routes + Retreat to Coralhelm + Sakura-Tribe Scout

With Tatyova this draws your deck. It is recommended to put all lands into play as you draw them during this process, so that you can actually have mana once your deck is in your hand.

From there, win the game using Memory's Journey loops.

1. If Lotus Cobra or all of your spot removal is in your yard, retrieve the Cobra and one piece of Removal with Regrowth , Noxious Revival , or Memory's Journey . If both are in your yard, use Memory's Journey . Don't flashback Memory's Journey . We need it to win.

2. Play Lotus Cobra .

3. Exile Tatyova with Reality Shift , or bounce her with Unsubstantiate , or do literally anything to get her off the field. If you use Reality Shift , manifest nothing because your library is empty. Removing Tatyova is necessary to float infinite mana because Tatyova's draw is not a "may" trigger.

4. Use the infinite landfall loops above to make infinite mana of any color off of Lotus Cobra.

5. Recast Tatyova, which gives infinite draw again.

6. Cast Beast Within targeting some permanent an opponent has.

7. Cast Memory's Journey , putting Beast Within (and later Noxious Revival as well) back in your library.

8. Draw the cards you shuffled back in.

9. Cast Noxious Revival (paying with mana) to put Memory's Journey back on top of your library.

10. Draw Memory's Journey .

11. Repeat 6-10 until your opponents have lots of 3/3 beasts and nothing else.

12. Repeat 6-10, but loop Reality Shift instead of Beast Within to manifest every card in their libraries and finally exile the last manifest.

13. Pass the turn once your opponents have no permanents and no cards in their library.

Alternatively, loop Time Warp to take infinite turns (preventing decking yourself with recursion spells) and kill the table with creature beats. Infinite tokens can also be produced by looping Beast Within on Tatyova.

Note that the loops can also be performed with Gaea's Blessing in place of Memory's Journey .

Using these loops allows us to skip running Laboratory Maniac and instead focus our deck slots on interaction and cards that progress our game plan, minimizing dedicated “combo only” cards and increasing overall card quality.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 26 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 21 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.10
Tokens	Ape 3/3 G, Ashaya, the Awoken World, Beast 3/3 G, Bird 2/2 U, City's Blessing, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Manifest 2/2 C
Folders	EDH, EDH
Based on	Tatyova paper list Roryrai EDH