Xantcha Dragon Dance

Commander / EDH* BR (Rakdos) Budget Control Infinite Combo Multiplayer Reanimator

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Sorcery (23)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x By Force
• 1x Cathartic Reunion
• 1x Chain Reaction
• 1x Cut / Ribbons
• 1x Dark Deal
• 1x Dark Petition
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Dimir Machinations
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Final Parting
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Languish
• 1x Last One Standing
• 1x Praetor's Grasp
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Syphon Mind
• 1x Tormenting Voice
• 1x Wheel of Fortune
• 1x Yahenni's Expertise

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Leyline of the Void
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Waste Not

Artifact (14)

• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Codex Shredder
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Helm of Obedience
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Nihil Spellbomb
• 1x Prismatic Lens
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Star Compass
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Land (36)

• 1x Badlands
• 1x Command Tower
• 9x Mountain
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Shivan Gorge
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Stensia Bloodhall
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 1x Sunscorched Desert
• 18x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Peak

Creature (5)

• 1x Gonti, Lord of Luxury
• 1x Mindblade Render
• 1x Overeager Apprentice
• 1x Sire Of Insanity
• 1x Worldgorger Dragon

Commander (1)

Instant (14)

• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Comet Storm
• 1x Cremate
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Fire Covenant
• 1x Imp's Mischief
• 1x Moonlight Bargain
• 1x Necrologia
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Seething Song
• 1x Shred Memory
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

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Maybeboard

Sorcery (28)

• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Bonus Round
• 1x Brainspoil
• 1x Bubbling Muck
• 1x Chain of Smog
• 1x Crux of Fate
• 1x Dead of Winter
• 1x Finale of Promise
• 1x Heat Shimmer
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Khorvath's Fury
• 1x Mana Geyser
• 1x Mind Rake
• 1x Mizzium Mortars
• 1x Mutilate
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Pyroclasm
• 1x Razaketh's Rite
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Ruination
• 1x Scheming Symmetry
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Twinflame
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Wild Guess
• 1x Winds of Change
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will

Creature (18)

• 1x Avatar of Fury
• 1x Bane of the Living
• 1x Bone Miser
• 1x Corpse Connoisseur
• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Dualcaster Mage
• 1x Dusk Legion Zealot
• 1x Humble Defector
• 1x Magus of the Wheel
• 1x Magus of the Will
• 1x Manaforge Cinder
• 1x Master of Cruelties
• 1x Royal Assassin
• 1x Sorceress Queen
• 1x Street Wraith
• 1x Taurean Mauler
• 1x Treasonous Ogre
• 1x Vampire Nighthawk

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Blood Moon
• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Bottomless Pit
• 1x Chains of Mephistopheles
• 1x Necrotic Plague
• 1x Phyrexian Scriptures
• 1x Tectonic Instability
• 1x Tectonic Reformation
• 1x War's Toll

Instant (12)

• 1x Arcbond
• 1x Bedevil
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Dismember
• 1x Fork
• 1x Rakdos Charm
• 1x Reverberate
• 1x Snuff Out
• 1x Terminate
• 1x Volcanic Offering
• 1x Wild Ricochet
• 1x Withering Boon

Land (11)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 1x Luxury Suite
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Shadowblood Ridge

Artifact (5)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Jet Medallion
• 1x Lion's Eye Diamond
• 1x Worn Powerstone

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Considering Fork and Reverberate as anti-counter magic, as well as Dualcaster Mage and for this reason I might bring back the Heat Shimmer / Twinflame combos, especially because the deck has some creatures in it now; or at least more than when I started it.

Currently the deck needs more board wipes and blockers; protection, because life goes down quick. Efficient card draw cards may be to plentiful as the inefficient card draw from Xantcha is fairly reliable. Considering Blasphemous Act and Damnation although the later is pretty pricey. also Crux of Fate and Arcbond .

So the idea is to ditch Worldgorger Dragon and then revive it with Animate Dead , Dance of the Dead or Necromancy . Worldgorger temporarily removes the dance, causing the dragon to die and the dance to return, which can be re-attached to the dragon, while within the cycle I can tap for infinite mana and activate xantcha for draw, until that person dies then xantcha returns under my control without her enter the battlefield triger to give her to someone else. But if I can draw Comet Storm or if I have a land that can deal damage under my control it's an instant win, or if I can stop the "Dragon Dance" with a kill spell or with a creature in my graveyard to connect to the dance instead of the dragon (thus stopping the dragon dance) or with by exiling the dragon from my graveyard I can play Ribbons and other sorcery speed stuff, because you can't cast non-instant speed stuff during the dance.

Otherwise I create a draw by creating a never-ending loop that no player can stop; thus the dragon consumes the world. This can actually be done on turn 1 with a dual land + Dark Ritual + Entomb + dance into a Comet Storm but odds are that won't happen, especially with my limited mana base.

Removed the Dualcaster Mage combo for Leyline of the Void + Helm of Obedience but I'm still not very happy with it. Might consider taking out secondary combo all together and just focus more on discard/control, as I can't find a combo that fits well and wins the game on the spot.

Changes so far:

Worn Powerstone -> Mana Crypt

Jeweled Amulet -> Fellwar Stone

Dark Tutelage -> Phyrexian Arena

Fractured Powerstone -> Wayfarer's Bauble

Chain of Smog -> Waste Not

Twinflame -> Leyline of the Void

Dualcaster Mage -> Helm of Obedience

Burnout -> Pyroblast burnout maybe still good?

Duress -> Codex Shredder

Last Laugh -> Gonti, Lord of Luxury

Pyroclasm -> Comet Storm

Ambition's Cost -> Diabolic Tutor

Ancient Craving -> Demonic Tutor

Last One Standing -> Vampiric Tutor last one standing is still pretty deece

Skeletal Scrying -> Reanimate

Vessel of Volatility -> ???

Arguel's Blood Fast   -> Bolas's Citadel

Overmaster -> Fire Covenant

Sweltering Suns -> Imp's Mischief

Pestilence -> Last One Standing

Jeweled Amulet feels bad on turn 6, when typically my win timer is turn 5-7 :/

I think I need more and better ramp, though the fact that xantcha almost always must be cast means that the win will always come a bit late, so interactivity is a must.

If you play lands that do damage they come back untapped in the worldgorger combo, and can be used at instant speed with your infinite mana resulting in infinite damage, but they need to be in play by the time you do the dance because you can't play them during the combo.

Bolas's Citadel is really strong if you can ramp it out, the deck definitely needs more ramp.

The top Xantcha Deck https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/xantcha-combo-control/

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 29 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 17 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.59
Tokens	Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	My EDH
Based on	Xantcha Worldgorger ($75) [BB SF C3] ShaperSavant EDH