Tymna&Tana, a Song of Life and Death

Commander / EDH

Hole.

Creature (42)

• 1x Anafenza, the Foremost
• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Eidolon of Rhetoric
• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Felidar Guardian
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Gaddock Teeg
• 1x Ghave, Guru of Spores
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Inferno Titan
• 1x Karmic Guide
• 1x Kataki, War's Wage
• 1x Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• 1x Linvala, Keeper of Silence
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Manglehorn
• 1x Mother of Runes
• 1x Phyrexian Revoker
• 1x Razaketh, the Foulblooded
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Recruiter of the Guard
• 1x Renegade Rallier
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Selfless Spirit
• 1x Sire Of Insanity
• 1x Stoneforge Mystic
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Sylvan Safekeeper
• 1x Thalia, Heretic Cathar
• 1x Tireless Tracker
• 1x Village Bell-Ringer
• 1x Weathered Wayfarer
• 1x Yisan, the Wanderer Bard

Land (33)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Battlefield Forge
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Concealed Courtyard
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Fire-Lit Thicket
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 3x Forest
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 3x Plains
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Instant (5)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Boros Charm
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Wear / Tear

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Life / Death

Commanders (2)

Artifact (9)

• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Selesnya Signet
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1x Umezawa's Jitte
• 1x Winter Orb

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Ashes of the Abhorrent
• 1x Blood Moon
• 1x Sylvan Library

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Nahiri, the Harbinger

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DISCLAIMER: this is my main paper EDH deck. I know there are some sub-optimal pieces, but in this list I'll add only the card I already own (the only exception is Elesh Norn, but with Iconic Master it will be easier to put my hands on one). This is not really a brew of mine; it is largely inspired by the cEDH subreddit BloodPod lists and Keepflyin 1vs1 deck (check him out, great youtube content). This is quite a "meta" deck, due to its approach to the game. Some hate cards may be dead in your playgroup, and some thinking ahead in deckbuilding is required to perform decently. My meta is not really 100% competitive, so I coul tune the deck down and play an un-optimized (but personal and fun) version. This is more like a midrange-hatebears with some convoluted path to get a pretty straightforward combo.

Partner Commanders in their 3 and 4 color combinations are still a undiscovered and really unoptimized field (with the exeption of tymna/thrasios and tymna/kraum, I guess). By putting some monetary effort into the manabase (you don't need ABU duals to be consistent, if you play green), you can get really creative without giving up speed. Playing with 2 cards in the command zone is almost like starting the game with one more card in hand. Tymna is really good on her own and you don't need much more than just Tana to draw some cards. When everything else goes wrong, you still have a pretty decent backup plan with the two cards sitting in the command zone.

The deck plays a ton of hatebears. Having a relevant effect coming on a body is the best thing you can ask for, if your plan is swinging hard to get some cards from Tymna. There are couple creature tutors and a bit of healthy interaction in form of removals. Our wincons, if the game goes long an we can't simply kill people by beating them to death, come in the form of Birthing Pod (resolving it with 3 mana untapped and a three means chaining its activations into the combo), Yisan line with some mana producing dorks to back it up, or Buried Alive and a reanimation spell. All of them will eventually turn into a Felidar Kiki Combo. Side note: after producing infinite tokens, you have one last untap trigger. Podding a one-drop into Blood Artist means winning EoT with the tokens dying.

Life/Death is an amazing card in this deck. Most of the time, Death is the most relevant half. We have some sweet reanimation targets, and Buried Alive is a wincon anyway. The "Life" part is also relevant, since it enables two really interesting lines of play. Casting Life with a Yisan sitting on 2 verses means winning no matter how many dorks you have in play. You only need three lands: tap the bard at 3 and get Village Bell-Ringer; he untaps all creatures (our lands), so we can Yisan at 4 into Felidar Guardian, blinking the Bell-Ringer, and Yisan again at 5 into Kiki. If we manage to put Raziketh into play and another creature to sac, tutoring Life means having some nice creatures to sacrifice after we flood their sweet mana. Playing good old Cradle would let us go crazy, but it's quite a lot of money, to be honest. Anyway, we can still do some degenerate stuff with the Bell-Ringer untap ability. The math depends on the boardstate (easier if we have some tokens or hatebears to sacrifice to preserve our lands), but with some lands or mana producing dorks we pull off a really convoluted combo.

Any kind of feedback is truly appreciated!

Date added	7 years
Last updated	5 years
Exclude colors	U
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	16 - 0 Mythic Rares 48 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.67
Tokens	Clue, Copy Clone, Saproling 1/1 G