Erinis, Gloom Stalker

Legendary Creature — Halfling Ranger

Deathtouch

Whenever Erinis, Gloom Stalker attacks, return target land card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (7)

jamochawoke on Uurg eats everything

3 months ago

This is a super fun little combo deck! But it can get shut down pretty easily. I'd suggest putting some key Commander pieces in that you're missing... and thankfully there's a TON of things that work with a land-based deck archetype like this in those colors.

First off, you need to complete your Cultivator combo with Splendid Reclamation for getting all those lands out of your own yard in a very big way (Cultivator probably becomes the biggest thing in your game at this point)!

Centaur Vinecrasher or Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar are superb alternate or additional beatsticks for Cultivator with tons of synergy with your commander that also dig themselves out of the graveyard after they get immediately removed like in my games!

Terravore is nice if you never hit Cultivator in your games (or it gets hated out).

Constant Mists basically you get eternal fog in a deck like this whenever you want if it doesn't get countered.

Entish Restoration, Dig Up, and Beseech the Queen for synergistic tutors.

Kagha, Shadow Archdruid, Elvish Reclaimer, Grisly Salvage, World Shaper, Circle of the Land Druid, Stinkweed Imp, Winding Way, Life from the Loam, Scapeshift, and Satyr Wayfinder for digging through the deck faster while also rotating lands. Life From the Loam is ESPECIALLY GOOD for its dredge ability in this deck so you can keep casting it. Scapeshift is the single most powerful cycler you could run but it's very $$$ and doesn't synergize completely with this deck (it's more for landfall decks, but it can still work with this too).

The utility lands Witch's Cottage, Mortuary Mire, Memorial to Folly can help get your creatures back out of the 'yard.

The utility lands Witch's Clinic, Rogue's Passage, Ghost Quarter, Strip Mine, Wasteland, Field of the Dead, Thespian's Stage, Restless Cottage, Boseiju, Who Endures, and Takenuma, Abandoned Mire would all help your deck's overall resilience and ability to deal with threats.

Either Abundance or Rishkar's Expertise could be a game-ending bomb for you. Rishkar's is great if your commander has enough power. You can draw a ton of your deck, likely hit a tutor you cast for free, then if your hand is flooded with lands you discard down to 7 putting all those lands in your 'yard making your commander even bigger! Abundance isn't as synergistic, but is basically a creature tutor spell for Cultivator Colossus if you decide to not run any other beaters or utility creatures.

Assassin's Trophy for instant-cast targeted removal of EVERYTHING.

Tear Asunder and Abrupt Decay are less-good Assassin's Trophy but at least Decay can't be countered.

Casualties of War for when you need to get rid of a lot of different pests that turn.

Return to Nature for instant-cast targeted removal of Enchantment/Artifact or Graveyard card.

Drown in Filth for a land-synergistic targeted removal that gets around indestructible.

Terror Tide for land-synergistic boardwipe that also gets around indestructible.

Nurgle's Conscription, Froghemoth, and Bojuka Bog for some enemy graveyard hate.

Rain of Filth for a MASSIVE spike in mana for that turn.

Worm Harvest for generating a TON of tokens off of the lands in your 'yard.

Titania, Protector of Argoth or Rampaging Baloths for much, much bigger tokens.

Gitrog, Horror of Zhava and The Gitrog Monster for super frog-land-pseudocycling synergy!

Brawn since you're putting things in your 'yard anyways you might as well give your commander and other beatsticks Trample for free! Trample has saved me so many times in games. No reason not to run it in this deck tbh.

Erinis, Gloom Stalker, Ayula's Influence, and Old Rutstein for more synergy with your commander's ability.

Life / Death for making an army out of your lands or pulling something out of your 'yard.

The planeswalkers Nissa of Shadowed Boughs and Vraska, Golgari Queen can give you alternate win-cons while also being synergistic with your commander.

If you don't need more combo stuff and just need another big beatstick alternate for the Colossus it's hard to go wrong with Yargle and Multani's power (plus the stained glass alt-art is sick!). But unfortunately it doesn't come with the cool yard recovery abilities of the other beatsticks I mentioned and doesn't have trample or evasion, but it does have more power than Emrakul!

SteelSentry on Anyone else play without Commander …

11 months ago

I've seen the argument a lot that Commander damage wins outside of Voltron decks are pretty rare, but I enjoy that if you can rack it up near a kill it forces slower decks to commit to the table or make unfavorable blocks. My Erinis, Gloom Stalker/Agent of the Shadow Thieves deck has never gotten a commander damage kill, but I often end up eating the likes of Blood Artist, Rashmi, Eternities Crafter, etc. more or less for free.

I've certainly been on the recieving end of that dilemma, but it's an interaction that feels integral to the format at this point.

pedroedmarcos on Maelstrom Wanderer and Jodah. the …

1 year ago

Hey there,

I'm building a new EDH deck, and its the first time I'm playing with cascade. My question is, Maelstrom wanderer will cascade twice. But What if I cascade into a Jodah? and another legendary creature (let's say Erinis, Gloom Stalker)? Will Jodah see the the other cascade and trigger his effect?

Poly_raptor on Frog and Blonde Real Estate

1 year ago

Nice build! I was looking at brewing something similar but then i got distracted by Slimefoot and Squee

An interesting card i found was Erinis, Gloom Stalker if you attack with it and your commander at the same time you can stack the triggers so Thalia resolves first, sacrificing a land and then resolving Erinis, bringing that same land back. Great value with scry lands or Bojuka Bog for repeated value!

+1 from me :)

SteelSentry on Pattern Recognition #269 - Hidden …

1 year ago

I'd like to shout out, in the same vein as the frog, Moment's Peace and Prismatic Strands. One Fog is annoying, but if you're trying to pick your target for your cat holding 5 swords, you're probably not going to go after the guy that not only screwed up an earlier combat, but has another one locked and loaded, face up on the table.

Also, Constant Mists is back-breaking for some opponents in my Erinis, Gloom Stalker deck.

lcarl3035 on

1 year ago

This is a Rage-Inducing deck that I played a version of once. A few suggestions:

• Basilisk Collar or Gorgon's Head might be good to give a creature without deathtouch, deathtouch.
• Erinis, Gloom Stalker might be good for ramp, if you do add in lots of nonbasic land destruction(e.g.Wasteland)
• Hornet Nest is a good chump blocker that gives you insects with deathtouch.
• Finally, You could add Kura, the Boundless Sky just because :)

legendofa on So what are the Background …

1 year ago

Haven't built any of these yet, but here's a few that caught my eye.

Erinis, Gloom Stalker + Scion of Halaster for that pauper dredgey goodness.

Burakos, Party Leader + Folk Hero might have to stretch a bit on the Wizards, but it could be doable.

Karlach, Fury of Avernus + Haunted One for a pretty good representation of my current D&D character.

Ganax, Astral Hunter + Feywild Visitor because Dragons like Treasure.