What EDHREC Doesn't Tell You About Muldrotha

Commander / EDH* BUG (Sultai)

ThallionDarkshine

Creature (26)

• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Hostage Taker
• 1x Massacre Girl
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Nezahal, Primal Tide
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Plaguecrafter
• 1x Razaketh, the Foulblooded
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Satyr Wayfinder
• 1x Shigeki, Jukai Visionary
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Spellseeker
• 1x Sphinx of Uthuun
• 1x Springbloom Druid
• 1x Thief of Sanity
• 1x Timeless Witness
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Ulvenwald Hydra
• 1x Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Tamiyo, Collector of Tales

Land (38)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cephalid Coliseum
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Cryptic Caves
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 7x Forest
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x High Market
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 5x Island
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Mosswort Bridge
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Opulent Palace
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 5x Swamp
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Woodland Cemetery
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Instant (8)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Cyclonic RiftGC
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Swan Song

Commander (1)

Artifact (12)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Executioner's Capsule
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Golgari Signet
• 1x Nihil Spellbomb
• 1x Oblivion Stone
• 1x Simic Signet
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Heartless Summoning
• 1x Kaya's Ghostform
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Pernicious Deed
• 1x Search for Azcanta  ^Flip
• 1x Titans' Nest

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Hi, and welcome to my Muldrotha primer. It’s been a few years since I wrote the first version, and there have been some major changes, with tons of powerful card releases and some shifts in some of my views.

First off, I stand by my broad point that building a deck purely according to EDHREC’s recommendations will leave you with a durdly value pile that will only serve to prolong the game and prevent opponents from having fun. However, most of the cards I dismissed out of hand as durdly value pieces that only function with Muldrotha in play are in many decks for a reason: they’re powerful cards. The important takeaway is not to overload on that effect and make room for cards that allow you to convert your massive card advantage into a win.

While I like my original broad point, I believe I missed the mark on much of the individual card recommendations, and ended up falling into the trap of still creating a durdly value pile (the final destination of a large portion of my decks). There remain two very important categories to consider if you want to avoid this pitfall: ramp / fast mana, and win conditions.

Mana ramp is where I believe I most missed the mark in my original primer, specifically the budget section. Cards like Bog Witch and the depletion lands may accelerate you slightly, but their downsides are tremendous. Bog witch comes down fairly late, and still only adds 2 mana a turn for the massive price of one of your precious cards. The depletion lands come in to play tapped, and having only 2 uses can often put you behind on future turns because your more expensive plays aren’t quite worth wasting a counter. Muldrotha remains incredibly mana hungry, but I’m sticking to the “good cards” moving forwards: 2-cmc rocks and ramp spells.

As for win conditions, I like the idea to build the deck as reanimator, and have stuck with that approach. However, I overlooked one minor problem: all the budget reanimation targets kinda suck as win conditions. Sure, I can get a big chunky Nezahal, Primal Tide early, and… punch people for 7 a turn? Most good big creatures don’t have great game-ending power, but are fantastic at generating value. So I ended up with this lovely deck that wanted to win the game but in practice ended up running big creatures into chump blocks turn after turn.

More coming soon maybe…

Original primer Show

Welcome to my Muldrotha primer. I recently built this deck, and have been having a blast playing it. However, while thinking about it just now, I realized that it doesn't fit with how EDHREC leads you to believe Muldrotha decks should be built. So, here is my breakdown of some ways that EDHREC's analysis misleads you about Muldrotha, and some things you should be doing with your Muldrotha decks.

Lessons about Muldrotha

Win Conditions

Please, for the love of God, include win conditions in your Muldrotha deck. If you look over the EDHREC page, there are no cards that I would consider a real win condition in the top cards. The average deck list has one measly win condition in Villainous Wealth. When I first built Muldrotha, I fell into this trap as well. I built a 100 card pile of removal whose only purpose was to stop everyone else from winning while accumulating value with Muldrotha. After goldfishing it a couple times, I realized that it probably wouldn't be able to actually win the game, so I jammed in a janky 4 card infinite combo. Still, the deck sat around all game making the other players' lives miserable. I'm here to tell you that no one enjoys you dragging out games forever replaying your Pernicious Deed from the graveyard over and over again. A 3 hour game where no one gets to do anything is not enjoyable. So please, run win conditions in your Muldrotha deck.

Fast Mana / Ramp

Muldrotha is a ridiculously powerful magic card. When you have her on the battlefield recurring cards from your graveyard every turn, it's pretty nutty. However, your opponents will know this too, and will probably make it their life mission to keep your commander off the battlefield. For this reason, make sure to include enough fast mana and ramp to ensure some value out of Muldrotha the turn you play her and to make sure you can cast her early and often. For those of us with larger budgets, this could mean running things like Lion's Eye Diamond or Mana Crypt, while for the rest of us it could mean things like the depletion lands (Hickory Woodlot) or the ramp spellshapers (Bog Witch and Dreamscape Artist). Either way, make sure to include more than the typical durdly ramp cards that show up on the EDHREC page. Remember, if all your ramp is 3-cmc land ramp, the earliest you can play Muldrotha is turn 5. There are plenty of powerful ramp spells that play well with Muldrotha and are much more explosive.

Durdly Value Cards

Durdly value cards are bad in Muldrotha. This was one of the harder realizations I made about Muldrotha decks, since I love playing durdly cards that generate value over time. My decks are packed with things like Phyrexian Arena, Panharmonicon, and the like. Muldrotha doesn't want cards like that: she covers the value plan so you don't have to (to a certain extent). So Secrets of the Dead, River Kelpie, I've got news for you: you don't belong in Muldrotha decks. Muldrotha instead wants cheap, efficient cards that generate bursts of advantage. She wants cheap cards that are decent on their own, but when replayed from the graveyard every turn, become incredibly strong. Cards like Animate Dead, Nihil Spellbomb, or Mystic Remora.

Deck Overview / Card Choices

Now that I'm done lecturing you about all the mistakes you're making while building Muldrotha, lets talk about this deck. As I mentioned earlier, Muldrotha plays very well with cheap efficient cards that generate bursts of value, cards like reanimation spells. That's right, this is Muldrotha reanimator. I really like the idea of Muldrotha reanimator, since it answers a lot of the problems I mentioned earlier. Reanimating an expensive creature early game is a great win condition, big creatures play very well with the fast mana and ramp you want in a Muldrotha deck, and reanimation spells are some of the cheap spells that generate the most immediate value. Anyways, without further ado, let's move onto a breakdown of the card choices I made.

General Budgeting/Unbudgeting Thoughts

Low-Budget

The main thing affected by cutting the budget of this deck would be the tutor suite. It's not difficult to find alternative reanimation targets, the ramp package is already fairly cheap, and while we lose a couple more powerful board wipes, they can be easily replaced with somewhat worse options. To make up for this change, I would find room for more draw/mill engines, and lean more on Muldrotha to take over the game.

Budgetless

The main upgrades I would make to the deck would be improvements to the mana acceleration. I'm currently leaning on some fairly underpowered options to accelerate out my threats. Access to things like Mana Crypt and Lion's Eye Diamond would greatly increase the speed of the deck, helping it to be much more of a threat early.

Note - The card choices section may be out of date, so you may find discussions of cards that are no longer in the deck, or not find discussions of cards recently added to the deck.

Reanimation Targets

I tried to strike a balance between value creatures and game ending threats in my reanimation targets. It's all well and good to reanimate a Grave Titan in the early game, but if it immediately eats a Wrath of God and you spend the next few turns sitting around doing nothing, it's not that great. For this reason, about half of my reanimation targets also generate value immediately, refilling our hand or ramping us.

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Deadeye Navigator - I had a friend watch me Whip of Erebos back Deadeye and tell that it was nice to see someone using Deadeye in a non-degenerate way. Immediately following this comment, I flickered the Deadeye to keep him around and paired him with an Eternal Witness. Deadeye is one of the nuttiest cards in this deck, and serves a couple main purposes. First, he flickers our cheap value creatures in the early game to ramp, tutor up cards, or fill our graveyard. Next, he flickers our reanimation targets to actually close out the game or protect them from removal. Finally, he can flicker Muldrotha to reset her, letting you play multiple of a single card type from your graveyard in a turn. Oh right, and when he flickers a creature with a reanimation aura attached, it falls off, letting you replay it from the graveyard.

Grave Titan - This one is pretty straightforward: he makes a zombie army and kills people.

Gray Merchant of Asphodel - This guy is the easiest way to kill people outright when paired with Deadeye. The lifegain he provides can also get you out of some tough spots.

Nezahal, Primal Tide - I think this is one of the greatest budget reanimation targets. He draws cards, lets you dump cards into the grave to be reanimated, and basically never dies. I had a game where my opponent tried to bounce my board of giant creatures. I flickered Nezahal, then the next turn discarded them all to him and brought back my entire board with Living Death.

Razaketh, the Foulblooded - This card is probably the best reanimation target since Sheoldred, Whispering One. He turns your random value creatures into whatever you need at the time, protects himself by finding counterspells, and is an 8/8 flying trampling monster.

Sepulchral Primordial - This guy is very dependent on your meta. If you don't have many creature decks around, he might not be very good, but otherwise stealing the best creature from each opponent is pretty sweet.

Sphinx of Uthuun - A decently sized flier that refills your hand and graveyard when he enters.

Ulvenwald Hydra - I am very fond of this card because of what it does in my Trostani deck, but I was surprised to see how powerful it felt in this deck. There aren't all that many utility lands to fetch, but just ramping while making a giant hydra is pretty good.

Reanimation

Half of the reanimation suite is hyper-efficient reanimation that can be reused with Muldrotha. One of the most powerful late game plays with this deck is playing Muldrotha and then replaying a reanimation enchantment from the graveyard to generate two must-kill threats. The other reanimation consists of Phyrexian Delver for a creature-based Reanimate and some of the most powerful effects in our colors. At some point I want to slot a Reanimate into the deck, simply to add to the Spellseeker tutor suite, but for now I'm sticking with enchantment-based reanimation.

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Animate Dead, Dance of the Dead, Necromancy - Our three enchantment-based ways to reanimate creatures. They are incredibly good because we can replay them from our graveyard with Muldrotha, putting out two powerful threats in a turn. In addition, if you flicker the creature they reanimated, they will fall off, letting you replay them to reanimate something else. Of them, Necromancy is the best, since it can be played at instant speed, potentially disrupting opposing reanimation or cancelling out grave hate.

Journey to Eternity   - Both sides of this card are very powerful. Protecting a creature from removal or reusing a creature's etb/ltb/death trigger is very useful, and the instant speed reanimation of its flipped side is very strong. While it can occasionally be difficult to get it to flip, its power level in the flipped state more than justifies its inclusion.

Living Death - This is one of the nuttiest cards in the game if you use it right. We have a reasonable amount of graveyard hate and plenty of tutors to find it, so often this can board wipe your opponents while returning a board full of giant creatures to your board.

Phyrexian Delver - A Reanimate on a stick, this guy lets you do some very powerful things when flickered with Deadeye Navigator, tutored with Birthing Pod, or even just played from your hand.

Graveyard Fillers

I like my self mill pieces to have some utility outside of simply dumping cards into the graveyard, whether letting me draw a card, recur something from the grave, or any number of other possibilities. I could see running a do-nothing self mill piece only if it dumps a lot of cards into the graveyard. I'm talking things like Mesmeric Orb or Dreamborn Muse, that dump 5 or more cards into your graveyard each turn. However, my favorite way to dump cards into the graveyard is with Fact or Fiction / Vessel of Nascency style effects, that let you fill your hand and graveyard simultaneously.

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Altar of Dementia - This is one of the most powerful sacrifice outlets ever printed, letting us fill our graveyard in the early game, and potentially mill opponents out later on. Having a free sacrifice outlet is fairly important to let us save our important pieces from exile, but at the moment this is the only one in the deck.

Kiora, Master of the Depths - In this deck we don't really care about her +1 ability, we're just interested in using her -2 ability to fill both our graveyard and hand very quickly. With Muldrotha on the field, we can activate her -2 ability twice a turn after the first turn we play her. Her ultimate basically doesn't exist, since we're basically never going to uptick her, though I guess I can imagine a world where we steal someone's Deepglow Skate to ult her immediately.

Perpetual Timepiece - I didn't have this card in the initial draft of this deck. In a vacuum, it's a pretty mediocre option, but the ability to save important pieces from graveyard hate is very strong.

Satyr Wayfinder - Another cheap way to help us hit our land drops while dumping cards into the graveyard.

Sidisi, Brood Tyrant - This is certainly not the best deck for Sidisi, but gradually filling our graveyard while building an army of zombies is pretty powerful.

Tamiyo, Collector of Tales - I'm not yet sold on this card, mostly because I don't like +1'ing to just mill 4. However, using her as a Regrowth is pretty strong, and her static ability can sometimes come in handy.

Underrealm Lich - I've really enjoyed what this card brings to the deck. It offers some great draw filtering, and dumps the cards not selected into the graveyard for future use. He's mostly here as a 5-drop to pod into that offers value over time, and fills that role admirably. In addition, he can prevent you from decking out if you find yourself in a situation where you accidentally mill too deep.

Vessel of Nascency - An Impulse that you can play every turn from your graveyard and also puts the other cards into your graveyard seems pretty good.

World Shaper - This card's pretty nutty. It's a Splendid Reclamation that also helps you get lands in the graveyard to recur. Like with Journey to Eternity  , it's occasionally hard to kill this to get the lands back, but the power level makes it worth the risk.

Ramp / Fast Mana

When Muldrotha is on the field, and you're sitting there using your 20 card graveyard as an extension of your hand, things are good. If you can't get Muldrotha out fast, or if she gets removed constantly, you can't make use of your graveyard effectively, and the deck feels pretty mopey. I split the ramp between cheap, efficient fast mana and slower ramp that can be very powerful when replayed from your graveyard every turn.

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Bog Witch - Being able to use any card from your hand as a Dark Ritual is pretty good, especially when you can discard a reanimation target to the witch and spend the mana on a reanimation spell. This lets you rush out an early Muldrotha, and helps you do more the turn you play her.

Dimir Aqueduct, Golgari Rot Farm, Simic Growth Chamber - Yes, they're not "real" ramp, but they help you keep hitting your land drops to help you move into the late game and keep doing consistently powerful things. They can also do neat things like reset a depletion land or Bojuka Bog, or maybe even bounce your commander who got turned into an incredibly useful forest land.

Dimir Signet, Golgari Signet, Simic Signet - Some of the best acceleration out there: they fix your mana, ramp you very efficiently, and can be played from the graveyard with Muldrotha if you mill over them. I like them much more in this build than in more defensive Muldrotha builds, since in those you generally are wiping with Pernicious Deed, Oblivion Stone, etc. much more often.

Elvish Rejuvenator, Farhaven Elf, Solemn Simulacrum - These are our slowest ramp tools, but make up for it with the value we can generate off of them by replaying them turn after turn with Muldrotha.

Hickory Woodlot, Peat Bog, Saprazzan Skerry - These have been some of my favorite ramp cards in this deck. Sometimes they can make your mana a bit clunky, since you only want to use the extra mana they provide on important plays, but being able to accelerate out an early Muldrotha is definitely worth the potential downsides. Plus, being able to jam mana acceleration into a land slot is always a good deal.

Kiora, Master of the Depths - This is not in here as a ramp card. I'm not sure why I'm even talking about it here. Maybe once in a blue moon you'll uptick her to have access to a little more mana in a turn, but that's not her purpose in the deck.

Myriad Landscape - Another decent ramp tool that only takes up a land slot. It's about as slow as the creatures that ramp on etb, and compensates for it with the value it generates, as well as only taking up a land slot.

Sakura-Tribe Elder - You may wonder why I'm putting this in a separate category from the other ramp creatures. It's because this card is so much better than the others. Ramping one turn earlier makes a huge difference, and because this sacrifices itself you can abuse it much more easily. It's basically the bridge between the slow ramp and the fast ramp. It is fast (coming down on turn 2), and generates lots of value (by reusing it from your graveyard turn after turn).

Sol Ring - It's Sol Ring.

Ulvenwald Hydra - This card provides a lot of utility to the deck, as well as just being a powerful beater that ramps you on etb. You can find Bojuka Bog to exile someone's graveyard, Command Beacon to eliminate commander tax, Cephalid Coliseum to sculpt your hand and dump cards into your graveyard, a depletion land to generate lots of mana for the following turn, a bounce land to help you keep hitting your land drops, and so much more. Alright no, that's actually about it, but it's still really good.

World Shaper - If you can get this to die, the payoff is ridiculous. You can easily bring back 3 or 4 lands with this, and often it will do so much more than that, maybe even doubling your mana.

Interaction

I feel like I'm a bit lighter on interaction than most Muldrotha lists, and this is partially by design. I want to be the main threat at the table, protecting my threats using my interaction, rather than being the Muldrotha player who simply sits there repeatedly removing every opposing card. The removal is split between powerful and efficient instants and sorceries that cannot be replayed with Muldrotha and slower permanent-based removal to generate advantage over time.

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Arcane Denial, Swan Song - I'm only running 2 counterspells, but they can be found fairly easily with Spellseeker or any of our unconditional tutors. Both are cheap and not very color intensive, so we can hold them up while developing huge threats fairly easily.

Beast Within - One of the best removal spells out there: it hits anything at instant speed and leaves behind only a probably-useless beast token.

Bojuka Bog - Graveyards can be a powerful resource for many decks, and taking care of that can be very important. This is a great way to deal with them that only takes up a land slot. We can also bounce it with our bounce lands to make sure your reanimator opponents never get to have fun.

Caustic Caterpillar - Just having this guy on the field is a huge deterrent against players developing powerful artifacts or enchantments. He can be replayed from your graveyard very cheaply, and being able to remove things at instant speed is quite strong.

Cyclonic Rift - One of our three non-recurrable board wipes, included because it's Cyclonic Rift, and that's pretty ridiculous. Oh, we can find this with Spellseeker, so that's cool.

Executioner's Capsule - Like with Caustic Caterpillar, this discourages people from playing powerful creatures and can remove threats at instant speed, serving as a deterrent for people targeting you with their creatures already on board. We can also find this with Trinket Mage.

Fleshbag Marauder, Plaguecrafter - Our ways to get rid of powerful indestructible or untargetable threats. Plaguecrafter is especially good, since it always does something, even when an opponent has no creatures on board.

Living Death - We can easily find graveyard hate, so this is pretty much an unconditional board wipe that returns our graveyard to the field.

Nihil Spellbomb - It hits graveyards, it cycles, and it gets found by Trinket Mage. This card doesn't look all that spectacular, but it can put in a lot of work.

Oblivion Stone - A recurrable board wipe that we can set up to leave us with a powerful threat afterwards. Like other removal effects that sit on board, it also deters opponents from doing things.

Pernicious Deed - This can be much more expensive mana-wise than Oblivion Stone, and misses planeswalkers, but allows us to easily wipe all but our big powerful creatures, maybe even every turn.

Reality Shift - A great creature removal spell that exiles, leaving the opponent with a probably-useless 2/2. We can find this with Spellseeker.

Song of the Dryads - This is one of the most efficient ways to stop problematic permanents permanently. I always knew it was good, but watching as my friend's voltron commander sat around as a useless forest all game doing nothing felt really good. Plus, we can replay this from our graveyard if it happens to get removed.

Toxic Deluge - One of the best board wipes around, it comes down incredibly early and deals with indestructible and regeneration. Sometimes there can be creatures on board big enough that this is too expensive to use, but most of the time it's just a 3-cmc unconditional wipe. Oh, and you can choose the x-value to leave you with a bunch of giant creatures.

Draw / Tutors

I stayed fairly light on card draw, instead favoring to generate card advantage by replaying cheap cantripping permanents with Muldrotha. In addition, the card draw engines I did include are very powerful, and can be easily found using our tutors. Meanwhile, the tutors are pretty much all permanent based and can find a wide range of targets, allowing me to easily find what I need in any situation.

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Buried Alive - One of the most powerful tutor effects for graveyard-based decks. In this deck especially, you can get a wide variety of things, either a set of value creatures, a set of reanimation targets, or anything in between. One package I like is Deadeye Navigator, Phyrexian Delver, and any creature whose etb effect you want to abuse. You can reanimate Delver with a reanimation spell, getting back Deadeye, then flicker the Delver to get back the other creature.

Diabolic Intent - A poor man's Demonic Tutor. Sometimes sacrificing a creature to it can even be an upside though, with Journey to Eternity   and World Shaper both in the deck. Either way, we pretty much always have some random value creature around to sacrifice to it.

Entomb - This card can do some pretty nutty thing and enable some incredibly broken starts. Opening T1 Entomb into T2 reanimation spell is one of the most powerful things you can do. It can be found off of Spellseeker, instant speed helps avoid telegraphing your plays, and it can find any permanent to replay with Muldrotha, or even a non-permanent to buyback another way.

Fauna Shaman - Much like Diabolic Intent, this is a powerful poor man's version of another ridiculous card. This one makes a decent impression of Survival of the Fittest. It's a lot slower, but the things it can do are just as ridiculous. You can turn your useless reanimation targets in hand into ramp to get off your feet, then later tutor up reanimation for them. I'm almost tempted to put this in the next section with the other ridiculous one-card value engines, but I'm not sure it quite makes it there.

Fierce Empath - This finds any of our reanimation targets, albeit to hand, but it's not like they're bad when played from hand, just more expensive.

Kiora, Master of the Depths - As I keep mentioning, Kiora is only in the deck to -2 over and over again, helping us hit our land drops while filling our hand with value creatures, and our graveyard with random stuff.

Mystic Remora - One of the few actual draw engines in the deck, it's only in the deck because of its incredibly high efficiency. Paying 1 mana for 1 or 2 cards is very powerful, especially when you can just replay it from the graveyard with Muldrotha once its cumulative upkeep becomes too high.

Neoform - Much like its much more broken ancestor Birthing Pod, this can accomplish some incredibly powerful things. Pretty much any opener with this and a cheap creature lets you ramp out Muldrotha early, and later in the game it can do much more powerful things, upgrading expensive etb-creatures into ones with powerful static abilities.

Sidisi, Undead Vizier - Diabolic Intent on a stick, it's a little more expensive, but can be recurred by Muldrotha or our reanimation spells, tutored by creature tutored, etc.

Skullclamp - Another of our draw engines, cashing in a value creature for 2 cards is pretty ridiculous, especially when it costs only 1 mana. We can also find this with our Trinket Mage.

Spellseeker - This card is incredibly powerful, finding removal, counters, or another tutor.

Sphinx of Uthuun - Fact or Fiction on a stick seems really strong, especially since we can reanimate it, flicker it, etc. Fills your hand and your graveyard very quickly.

Trinket Mage - In my opinion, this card is one of the most powerful restricted tutor effects in any Muldrotha deck. If you are on a budget, this finds powerful value engines like Nihil Spellbomb, and if you are running a more expensive build, you can find your Lion's Eye Diamond or Mana Crypt to play out Muldrotha really early.

Vivien, Champion of the Wilds - Most of the time this will be a 3-cost Divination that can be replayed from the graveyard. It can help you dig for ramp creatures in the early game, and later on dig for bombs. Its static ability cannot be underestimated either: flashing in Muldrotha or another threat on your opponent's end step is incredibly powerful.

One-Card Value Engines

These are the cards your opponents literally cannot let stick on the table. They shape the game by themselves, generating ridiculous amounts of value turn after turn, and easily getting you the win if they are not taken care of in a timely fashion. Luckily for us, we happen to have one such value engine in our command zone, but it's always good to include redundancy in your decks.

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Birthing Pod - This card is ridiculous in pretty much any creature based deck. It lets you generate more value off of your early game creatures, and eventually chains up to cheating out your reanimation targets, this time from your deck. In addition, because of the composition of our reanimation targets, this can easily turn one reanimation target that has already generated its value with its etb trigger into another that generates persistent value over time.

Thief of Sanity - After watching a couple videos of what this card is doing in standard, I knew I had to find a deck for it. Gonti, Lord of Luxury decks are incredibly powerful, mostly because they are built to give you multiple Gonti triggers. However, this generates multiple triggers on its own, without having to include potentially weak support pieces in your deck. You can also dump opposing fatties into the graveyard off of its trigger to set up your reanimation.

Razaketh, the Foulblooded - If you can reanimate this guy with a couple of creatures on board, everything becomes easy. You can find counters for their big plays, removal for their threats, or more reanimation to build an even more threatening board.

Assorted Support Pieces

These cards don't quite fit in anywhere else, but offer a lot of value to the deck in various ways.

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Bramble Sovereign - I love this card so much, but it's hard to find a deck that can use it very well. I think this is one of those decks. Because you're usually trying to cheat out your big creatures with reanimation spells, it's very easy to have an extra 2 mana to copy them. Plus, just doubling up an early value creature can be very strong.

Eternal Witness - One of the best recursion effects out there, this gives you access to the part of your graveyard that Muldrotha can't recur, which is very nice.

Lightning Greaves - You know what's better than a Grave Titan? A Grave Titan with haste. This lets you swing out immediately with your giant creatures while protecting them from removal, which is very powerful.

Maybeboard

These are cards I haven't yet found a spot for, or unsure of their effectiveness in the deck.

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Sylvan Safekeeper - I really like the idea of this card, and just generally having more protection for Muldrotha and powerful reanimated threats. Sacrificing a land is a pretty appreciable downside in this deck that really wants mana to cast cards from the graveyard and keep replaying Muldrotha, but keeping threats on board could be more important.

Bear Umbra - I like the idea of what this card can do in theory. It seems to hit all the bases: protects your commander while giving you mana to abuse her ability. However, I think it might be a bit too fragile in practice. I will definitely be considering it moving forwards.

Imprisoned in the Moon - For now I'm comfortable with just one transformation effect in the form of Song of the Dryads. However, if I run into a lot of decks that are incredibly focused on certain permanents (their commander, for example), I may swap this in for a different removal spell.

Massacre Girl - I really like the idea of this as a board wipe that can be easily found with creature tutors and reanimated. I'm not yet sure how often the ability will be applicable, but I'll be paying attention to board states and noting when this card would be applicable.

Prime Speaker Vannifar - This is Birthing Pod! On a stick! And yeah, that makes it quite a bit worse, since you can't activate it the turn it comes down, and it dies to creature removal. But still, it's a second copy of pod, and that's pretty nutty. I'll definitely be trying this out to see how it feels.

Reanimate - I really like the idea of a reanimation spell that can be tutored by Spellseeker, but for now I'm sticking with a suite of three enchantment-based reanimates.

Thanks for reading! Any comments or suggestions on the deck or the primer are welcome.

Top Ranked	Achieved #27 position overall 6 years ago
Date added	6 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 35 - 0 Rares 25 - 0 Uncommons 18 - 0 Commons
Cards	101
Avg. CMC	3.03
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Bird 2/2 U, Copy Clone, Manifest 2/2 C, Timeless Witness 4/4 B
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