Muldrotha, the Gravetide

Commander / EDH BUG (Sultai) Competitive Control Infinite Combo Midrange

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Instant (15)

• 1x AEtherize
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Flash
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 1x Insidious Will
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Last Word
• 1x Opt
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Void Shatter
• 1x Wizard's Retort

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Crux of Fate
• 1x Dark Petition
• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Final Parting
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Mastermind's Acquisition
• 1x Victimize

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Evolutionary Leap
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Seal of Primordium
• 1x Secrets of the Dead
• 1x Unbridled Growth
• 1x Vessel of Nascency

Artifact (11)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Golgari Signet
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Perpetual Timepiece
• 1x Simic Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Tormod's Crypt

Creature (25)

• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Body Double
• 1x Crystalline Crawler
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Disciple of Bolas
• 1x Doom Whisperer
• 1x Elvish Visionary
• 1x Ezuri, Claw of Progress
• 1x Gonti, Lord of Luxury
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Kokusho, the Evening Star
• 1x Meren of Clan Nel Toth
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Protean Hulk
• 1x Ravenous Chupacabra
• 1x Riftsweeper
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Stinkweed Imp
• 1x The Gitrog Monster
• 1x Triskelion
• 1x Venser, Shaper Savant
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Wood Elves

Land (34)

• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dakmor Salvage
• 1x Endless Sands
• 1x Esper Panorama
• 6x Forest
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Grixis Panorama
• 1x Ipnu Rivulet
• 9x Island
• 1x Jund Panorama
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Mystifying Maze
• 6x Swamp
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Watery Grave

Commander (1)

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"My child grew from rot and ruin, yet she bloomed."

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This deck was a Ezuri, Claw of Progress , but i see how much my deck was fragile, even though he was strong. The Simic combination have many weaknesses and i decided to improve his power, and get better results. This deck is according to my financial conditions, and also my knowledge of the cards, so have a lot of things that can be greatly improved.

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Important: This deck have infinite combo.

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Why Play This Deck?

Pros & Cons

Pros

• Manipulation of a lot of areas in game.
• Can go Aggro, Combo and Control.
• You have how to get out of many situations.
• Can win at instant speed.
• Almost nothing can be our weakness.
• It's a midrange deck but, plays well in early, mid and late game.
• The "Core" of the deck it's very cheap

Cons

• Stax's deck can really slow us
• Cards like Leyline of the Void / Rest in Peace slow our game
• It's fragile against aggro and voltron.

Why Muldrotha, The Gravetide?

She's a very strong commander, and gave us a very strong ability of re-use all of ours permanents, that's amazing, help us to combo, not be so harmed when someone counter us, os just return our hates, or creatures to bring whatever we need. This Ability makes our game easier and more confident, and most important, we don't need Muldrotha, the Gravetide to win the game in almost all matches, that's right, she just help us to recycle or cast again our permanents resources, also you can have a very strong reanimator theme (I don't use a lot of reanimator because they are expensive, but it's something i will implement in the deck in the future), the Muldrotha, the Gravetide have a awesome advantage, we can mill ourselfes, and don't care at all of what goes to GY because we will bring back to the battlefield. In this deck, our GY it's a real extension of our hand, and this make us win or have a huge advantage in the game. You must been asking: "Why not use Tasigur, the Golden Fang or Thrasios, Triton Hero + some partner commander? Well, with our sweetie Muldrotha, the Gravetide have the full control of our GY, and bring back to us, whatever permanent we want, and she have a lot of synergy with a lot of combos, and this is amazing, but i must admit, it's most a personal opnion.

Should I Play This Deck?

You might enjoy playing this deck if you:

• If you like infinite combos.
• If you like a toolbox deck.
• If you like a creature based deck.
• If your meta is primarily either fast combo or midrange.

You won't like playing this deck if you:

• If you don't like combos. This deck can be aggro but most of the times you need to be combo to win the game, it's the major plan of the deck.
• If you don't like to get focused. My friends always try to take me from the game first, can be frustrating.
• If you don't like long turn. This deck always need a long time to make our turns.
• Don't like a creature based deck
• If you like a full aggro deck

My Local Metagame

• Nekusar, the Mindrazer :Card draw and discard.
• Brago, King Eternal :Inifnite ETB trigger.
• Darien, King of Kjeldor :Soldier tokens tribal.
• Kytheon, Hero of Akros  :Aggro.
• Baral, Chief of Compliance :Counter Tribal.
• Azami, Lady of Scrolls :Combo.
• Ezuri, Renegade Leader :Elves aggro.
• Krenko, Mob Boss :Tokens i guess.
• Daretti, Scrap Savant :Lockgame and combo.
• Zada, Hedron Grinder :Make tokens and make they big.
• Lazav, Dimir Mastermind :Mill and control.
• Rakdos, Lord of Riots :Eldrazi aggro.
• The Scorpion God :-1/-1 Theme and combo.
• Meren of Clan Nel Toth :Reanimator.
• Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons :-1/-1 Theme and tokens.
• Rashmi, Eternities Crafter :Control.
• Kess, Dissident Mage :Spells based deck.
• Prossh, Skyraider of Kher :Voltron and have a little combo.
• Mayael the Anima :Big creatures.
• Rafiq of the Many :Voltron.
• Derevi, Empyrial Tactician :Stax, control and combo.
• Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper :// Tymna the Weaver Abzan Combo.
• Narset, Enlightened Master :Taking Turns.
• Damia, Sage of Stone :Combo and generic sultai deck.
• Sidisi, Brood Tyrant :Aggro tokens and reanimator.
• Marchesa, the Black Rose :Taking control of enemies creatures, aggo and Dethrone.
• Animar, Soul of Elements :Morph and control.
• Sliver Overlord :Silver tribal aggro.
• General Tazri :Allies tribal aggro.
• Reaper King :Scarecrow tribal aggro.
• Atraxa, Praetors' Voice :Super Friends combo.
• Najeela, the Blade-Blossom :Warriors tribal and combo,
• Maelstrom Wanderer :Cascade forever.

The Combos

Infinite Mana

This is the "core" combo in our deck until now, because it's simple and budget, and it's quite simple.

1. Play Peregrine Drake and untap whatever 5 lands, but one of them must produce at least one .
2. Play Deadeye Navigator use the Soulbound trigger in Peregrine Drake when enters the battlefield.
3. Pay to exile Peregrine Drake , and before resolves tap another 3 lands, The Peregrine Drake will enter the battlefield and untap 5 lands, and you have 3 mana on pool, so you pay and repeat the process, you will always put more mana in pool than you use to make the ability making infinite mana.

Infinite Mana 2

This it another "core" combo in deck.

1. Play Peregrine Drake and untap whatever 5 lands, but one of them must produce at least one .
2. Play Ghostly Flicker targeting Peregrine Drake and whatever another thing, then tap 2 other lands in before resolves, then the Peregrine Drake and the other thing will enter the battlefield, and untap 5 lands.
3. Play Archaeomancer targeting Ghostly Flicker in GY, then play Ghostly Flicker targeting Archaeomancer and Peregrine Drake , before resolves, tap 2 lands, when resolves Peregrine Drake ETB will untap 5 lands, and when Archaeomancer ETB you will target Ghostly Flicker , bringing back to our hand. After that we will have 2 mana on pool, and tap 3 to cast Ghostly Flicker and repeat the process, you will always produce more mana than you use to cast Ghostly Flicker , making infinite mana.

The Enablers

This part it's what we use to win the game, we wave options of what card use to win, we can make infinite mana and use the soulbound trigger of Deadeye Navigator (or also use Archaeomancer + Ghostly Flicker instead of Deadeye Navigator ) on:

• Elvish Visionary and buy our entire deck, and buy something to win the game.
• Gonti, Lord of Luxury and exile the entire deck of our opponents, and they will lose the game in they Draw Step.
• Gray Merchant of Asphodel to make infinite damage and infinite life.
• Triskelion to make infinite damage, Triskelion enters the battlefield with 3 +1/+1 counters, and we can remove 1 +1/+1 counter to do one damage in a target player or creature.
• Venser, Shaper Savant to return everything we can target on the battlefield and return to our opponents hand, and whenever an opponent plays a card, before enters the battlefield, we return to our opponent hand, they can't do anything for the rest of the game.

Flash Hulk "Combo"

This combo it's an extension of the infinite mana combo, because, only doing mana don't win the game. This combo also bring to us one part of infinite mana combo.

1. Plays Flash targeting Protean Hulk , he will ETB and dies, triggering, he can tutor some creatures and bring to our battlefield

Now, what we can bring with this combo? In most of situations we use to bring combo pieces, according to what we have on the battlefield of course.

• The Drop One:We always want to have Viscera Seer or Ashnod's Altar in he battlefield, and almost all the time i bring Viscera Seer with Flash Hulk and another card
• The Drops Two:They are Elvish Visionary / Riftsweeper / Sakura-Tribe Elder and we almost never caugh unless we really want they.
• The Drops Three:To be fair, it's not so difficult to bring Stinkweed Imp / Wood Elves , because of the voltron meta or just to feed our GY, and sometimes the game it's to early and bring to us another land it's a good option.
• The Drops Four: Disciple of Bolas / Ezuri, Claw of Progress / Meren of Clan Nel Toth / Ravenous Chupacabra / Solemn Simulacrum , i almost never bring these with this combo, unless the situation it's asking for, but you will literally feel if you need to bring this pieces to the battlefield.
• The Drops Five: Doom Whisperer / Sidisi, Undead Vizier / The Gitrog Monster / Body Double , these are the most common drops that i use in this combo (if i isn't close to combo) because they help us to find our combo or gave us some advantage.
• The Combro Drops: Deadeye Navigator / Gonti, Lord of Luxury / Gray Merchant of Asphodel / Peregrine Drake / Triskelion / Venser, Shaper Savant : If the situation it's good and you can bring a piece to make the combo, just do it, when you use Flash Hulk combo, the ideal situation its bring one of these cards.

Flash Hulk recommendations

This Combo it's truly great, but you need to know what option take.

• If you have tutor in hand, or Deadeye Navigator , and/or have a combo finisher in your hand: Peregrine Drake + Viscera Seer
• If you have a piece of combo in the board, and another piece it's in the GY: Body Double + Viscera Seer .
• If you need some protection or just feed your GY: Stinkweed Imp .
• If you don't have so much thing at all, your game are going very slow: The Gitrog Monster or Doom Whisperer .

The helpful ETB resources.

It's an extension of what we can use with infinite mana or not, to help us in some situations, use the soulbound trigger of Deadeye Navigator (or also use Archaeomancer + Ghostly Flicker instead of Deadeye Navigator ) on:

• Disciple of Bolas sometimes we will need this to recover life or make draws, or just kill a creature to recast with our commander ability.
• Ravenous Chupacabra to kill some or all creatures of our opponents.
• Riftsweeper to bring back our exiled resources to our deck, and most of time bring combo pieces back.
• Sidisi, Undead Vizier to tutor a card or more than one, and also can help us to kill a creature that we want to, if we don't have Viscera Seer or Ashnod's Altar on the battlefield.
• Solemn Simulacrum and/or Wood Elves to "burn" our basic lands from deck, and have a better chance to buy what we want.
• The Gitrog Monster , when a card gave us a permition, if we blink this card, we get a new permition, that is, we can get a lot of extra lands per turn.
• Muldrotha, the Gravetide , because we will be able to cast more than one type of the same permanent from the GY.

Deck Description/Strategy

What i want to do?

• Nº1 Strategy: Using the conventional infinite mana combo with Archaeomancer with Ghostly Flicker or Deadeye Navigator , and use to blink Peregrine Drake , and after that use Gonti, Lord of Luxury , Gray Merchant of Asphodel , Triskelion , Elvish Visionary or Venser, Shaper Savant .


• Nº2 Strategy: Using cards like Ezuri, Claw of Progress and Meren of Clan Nel Toth and go aggro. We have resources for many situations, and this is great, we can manipulate the field of our enemies, we can brings things from graveyard and from outside of the game, all the areas of the game are in our favor, we can have control of almost the entire game.

Opening Hand & Early game.

Of course the opening hand can be different according the situation.

• Aggro Match: It's good that you have a counter or a hate, and also some cards to ramp and speed your game, also it's good if you have AEtherize .
• Control Match: Most of your hand must be ramp, because if you play a combo piece or something like that, ir get countered, you will speedly get back with Muldrotha, the Gravetide .
• Combo Match: You get two option a ramp based hand with some counters/hates, or just a not slow hand, because if you can't prevent the combo to win, you must combo first.
• Diversified Match: The most common situation, and the best in my opnion, it start with a counter, some lands/ramps, and a combo piece, and maybe a hate.

In the early game, basically you must be very careful according to the match, if you are in a very aggro match you must slow down your game a little bit because if you don't, you will probably lost. If the match it's control, just do the things, if you get counter don't matter after all, because eventually you will be able to do the combo again. If you are in a most combo match, i recommend the obvious, counters and hates, and slow down a little bit your game plan, but in the most of the matchs, you need ramp very quickly to win the game, some matches i have like 18 lands and my opponents have 10~12, and this advantage can be everything to us.

Mid/Late Game

This is where our deck shines, because all happen so fluid, everything doesn't matter after all because almost ever you will succeed in your plans, and you be able to do your game quite fast and with no worries at all. If you don't have a good way or plan to make your game or win in this point, just recicle your resources to "burn" your deck, like ramping or just drawing card, and also mill your deck.

Single Card Discussion

Back From Exile

• Riftsweeper :It's bad because shuffle a card from outside of the game from your deck, but you have some tutors in the deck, so isn't so bad, and you can blink this creature several times and maybe bring everything back from exile.

Back From GY

• Archaeomancer : We can bring our insant and sorcery for our hands and we also can use Ghostly Flicker or Deadeye Navigator

Boardwipe

• Crux of Fate : I use this because of the CMC, and also i have a Prossh, Skyraider of Kher in my local meta game and some others dragon EDH.


• Nevinyrral's Disk : It's here in case i need an instant speed boardwipe (will change for Oblivion Stone )

Combo Pieces

• Deadeye Navigator : Blink creatures that have an ETB according to the situation or win the game.


• Ghostly Flicker : Use this card with Archaeomancer and Peregrine Drake to make infinite mana.


• Gonti, Lord of Luxury : This is a alternative way to win the game exiling the entire deck of our opponents.


• Gray Merchant of Asphodel : Now in my meta have some EDH that kill with damage triggers or just do a lot of damage, and several times i almost die because i didn't have any lifegain source, and also, combos out.


• Peregrine Drake : This card it's for infinite mana, with Deadeye Navigator or Archaeomancer with Ghostly Flicker .


• Stinkweed Imp : It's here for the dregde combo, that i don't have yet, but also help us to feed the GY.


• Triskelion : With this card we can kill our opponents and creatures that bother us like Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir , Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger , Nekusar, the Mindrazer , or a creature that is bad for us, this card is great with Ezuri, Claw of Progress and Deadeye Navigator or Archaeomancer with Ghostly Flicker , remove him several times from the battlefield, and do damage in our opponents or creatures.


• Venser, Shaper Savant : This is one of the most important card in this deck, this card it's very good against cards that can't be countered, or we can use when our opponents will attack us, a very powerful card, we can also use with Deadeye Navigator or Archaeomancer with Ghostly Flicker after making inifite mana to return everything (or almost everything) to the hands of our opponents. It's also good against Cavern of Souls , Dragonlord Dromoka , Karmic Justice , and stuff like that.

Counters

• Arcane Denial : Just because isn't always i have two island to untapped :v.


• Counterspell : Cheap counter.


• Insidious Will : Can help us in an specific situation.


• Last Word : Good against combos or something like that.


• Void Shatter : Exile a combo piece of something that's important it's a good thing.


• Wizard's Retort : Can cost less.

Deck To Hand

• Dark Petition : Just a regular tutor that sometimes gave us mana.


• Evolutionary Leap : This is great, we can send a creature to GY and we have a lot of interations with that, and bring another creature card to our hand, almost always another piece of combo.


• Final Parting : Great because also send to the graveyard.


• Mastermind's Acquisition : Just a Regular tutor.


• Sidisi, Undead Vizier : A creature with ETB trigger that make us tutor and we can use Deadeye Navigator to tutor more than one card.

Deck To The Battlefield

• Eldritch Evolution : We tutor a creature and we can have this back with Riftsweeper , in another section i will make an relation of all options of what bring to the field with this card.


• Green Sun's Zenith : This card it's a great, bring something to the battlefield, in another section i will make an relation of all options of what bring to the field with this card.


• Protean Hulk : Basically we will kill this a lot of times to bring our important or situational creatures, in another section i will make an relation of all options of what bring to the field with this card.

Draw And Filter

• Disciple of Bolas : Almost don't cast this, but we can use to kill to draw some cards or to kill Protean Hulk , Kokusho, the Evening Star and Stinkweed Imp or trigger Meren of Clan Nel Toth .


• Doom Whisperer : Great card, we can filter our draw and also send something for the GY.


• Elvish Visionary : We can use with with Deadeye Navigator or Archaeomancer with Ghostly Flicker .


• Mind Stone : It's here most for the draw, i will remove this eventually.


• Opt : Isn't very good, but i will change this card.


• Secrets of the Dead : Amazing card, works very well with Muldrotha, the Gravetide .


• Unbridled Growth : It's here just for the draw but also helps a lot with mana, and it's great with Muldrotha, the Gravetide .

Miscellaneous

• Animate Dead : Just amazing, a lot of times help us to combo.


• AEtherize : Great to prevent some infinite combat step combo, or just help us.


• Body Double : We almost ever will use to copy combo cards like: Peregrine Drake , Deadeye Navigator , Protean Hulk or Sidisi, Undead Vizier .


• Dark Ritual : For a while this card here don't have much purpose yet, but in the future will have.


• Flash : This is one of my favorite cards in MTG, because we can put a big mana creature on the field, or use a creature in instant speed, but we also use for Protean Hulk .


• Kokusho, the Evening Star : It's here for die, but in the future will win games.


• Perpetual Timepiece : Great card, mill us, and also prevent GY to be exiled.


• Vessel of Nascency : Just for mill.


• Leyline of Anticipation : Cast everything in instant speed it's a good thing.

Experience Counter

• Ezuri, Claw of Progress Meren of Clan Nel Toth : These cards have so much synergy, we can do our creatures bigger if the meta is aggro, and bring a creature from the GY in end phase. We can kill our creatures with Ashnod's Altar , Victimize or Viscera Seer to get more experience counters and if we need make an more aggro game.

Kill Your Own Creatures

Ashnod's Altar and Viscera Seer : These cards are almost the heart of the deck, we can use these for put creatures in GY and re-cast them, prevent a creature to be exiled, and also make , and scry 1, but in most situations, we want to kill our own Protean Hulk or just kill things for Meren of Clan Nel Toth trigger.

Victimize We can use to bring our combo back from GY, and also kill the Protean Hulk or something like that.

Ramp

• Crystalline Crawler : This card it's a very good ramp in my opnion, and also it's amazing with Ezuri, Claw of Progress .


• Dimir Signet , Gilded Lotus , Golgari Signet , Simic Signet and Sol Ring : Don't have much to say, i guess.


• Lotus Petal : Currently this card isn't make so much, but when i finally have the cards for the Dredge Combo, will be great.


• Sakura-Tribe Elder : A permanent ramp card, and also "burns" the deck.


• Solemn Simulacrum : "burns" our deck, also gave us a card when dies.


• The Gitrog Monster : This is here for two reasons, because the dredge combo that i will put in deck, and also because it's just great, we can send a land for GY, and get one extra draw, and every land that goes to the GY gave us draw, just amazing.


• Wood Elves : I just like this card a lot.

Hates

• Beast Within and Hero's Downfall This part it's VERY important, i opt for 2 different removal with a single color and odd number because of Iona, Shield of Emeria and Void Winnower . I was using Pongify but i change for Reality Shift because exiles.


• Krosan Grip : Oh i love this card, stop a lot of combos.


• Ravenous Chupacabra : Isn't so good but i will be using for a while.


• Seal of Primordium : Just because i also need a artifact/enchant hate that was a permanent because the Muldrotha, the Gravetide ability.


• Tormod's Crypt : This card it's great in this deck, a free GY hate that we use constantly.

The Eldritch Evolution Study

These are the combinations that i think they are mofe efficient to combo, but something you will bring another creature to help you according to the situation, but you know what to do in the most of the time.

• Viscera Seer : Just don't use in him because it's not worthy.
• Elvish Visionary : Could be a very good option, because with this card we can bring some value to the battlefield with Ezuri, Claw of Progress , Meren of Clan Nel Toth , Ravenous Chupacabra or Solemn Simulacrum , these cards can help us to have some sustain or just make a way for our game, or we can also bring a combo piece to the battlefield Venser, Shaper Savant Gonti, Lord of Luxury or Archaeomancer and win the game.
• Wood Elves and Stinkweed Imp :These cards can bring us very good cards, we can put on the battlefield The Gitrog Monster , Sidisi, Undead Vizier , Body Double or Doom Whisperer and help us to make our game or something like that, also we can bring combo pieces Gray Merchant of Asphodel or Peregrine Drake .
• Whatever Drop 4:If you already have Peregrine Drake on the battlefield, you bring Deadeye Navigator and if you already have the infinite mana on the battlefield Triskelion
• Whatever Drop 5 and 6:If you already have a combo piece in the battlefield, just bring what it's missing, with drop 5 and/or 6, you can pretty much bring whatever combo piece to the battlefield. But if you don't have nothing in the battlefield bring Protean Hulk .
• Protean Hulk :If all of your combo pieces are in the deck, you pretty much insta win, because, you will trigger first the Protean Hulk and bring Viscera Seer and Peregrine Drake and with Eldritch Evolution bring Deadeye Navigator and use the soulbound trigger on the Peregrine Drake , you are make infinite mana and after that you win (already explained how).

The Green Sun's Zenith Study

These are the creatures that we can bring to the battlefield.

• Elvish Visionary : VERY situational, almost ever doesn't worthy to bring this, because we will pay 3 mana to get one draw, and unless you already make infinite mana, but don't have a way to win, your GY it's empty, or you are really needing a draw and it's very early game, don't bring that card.
• Ezuri, Claw of Progress : Situational but a lot of times can help us if the match are very aggro.
• Meren of Clan Nel Toth : Great card, sometimes we are almost doing the combo but we already already cast a creature card from the GY with Muldrotha, the Gravetide ability, and if we have Leyline of Anticipation on the battlefield, we can pretty much win in the end step.
• Protean Hulk : If you have a sacrifice outlet, just bring this, will help you to bring what we need, just check the Flash Hulk "Combo" in The Combos section.
• Riftsweeper : Sometimes we need to bring this because some combo cards it's banned, great way out.
• Wood Elves : Just Don't.
• Sakura-Tribe Elder : Just Don't 2.
• The Gitrog Monster : Great Option, sometimes our game are slow, this can really help us feeding our GY and gaving us more draw, really amazing.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	2 years
Exclude colors	WR
Splash colors	UBG
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 27 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 23 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.24
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Experience Token, Manifest 2/2 C