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Commander / EDH BG (Golgari) Casual Dredge Ramp Spider Tokens Tokens

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Creature (23)

• 1x Arasta of the Endless Web
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Courser of Kruphix
• 1x Erebos, God of the Dead
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Golgari Thug
• 1x Greenwarden of Murasa
• 1x Nyx Weaver
• 1x Pilgrim's Eye
• 1x Ramunap Excavator
• 1x Rotwidow Pack
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Satyr Wayfinder
• 1x Scute Swarm
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Splinterfright
• 1x Stinkweed Imp
• 1x Stitcher's Supplier
• 1x Temur Sabertooth
• 1x Timeless Witness
• 1x Vigor
• 1x Watcher in the Web
• 1x World Shaper

Enchantment (10)

• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x Cryptolith Rite
• 1x Kaya's Ghostform
• 1x Moldervine Reclamation
• 1x Parallel Lives
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Sinister Concoction
• 1x Vessel of Nascency
• 1x Wilderness Reclamation
• 1x Zendikar Resurgent

Sorcery (17)

• 1x Bala Ged Recovery  ^Flip
• 1x Benefaction of Rhonas
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Dark Petition
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Explosive Vegetation
• 1x Far Wanderings
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Increasing Ambition
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Migration Path
• 1x Nissa's Pilgrimage
• 1x Seasons Past
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Splendid Reclamation
• 1x Treasured Find

Instant (10)

• 1x Arachnogenesis
• 1x Dark Dabbling
• 1x Deathsprout
• 1x Golgari Charm
• 1x Grisly Salvage
• 1x Malakir Rebirth  ^Flip
• 1x Putrefy
• 1x Realms Uncharted
• 1x Second Harvest
• 1x Sudden Reclamation

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Nissa, Vital Force

Commander (1)

Land (31)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 15x Forest
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 6x Swamp
• 1x Swarmyard
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Vault of Whispers
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Artifact (7)

• 1x Conjurer's Closet
• 1x Golgari Locket
• 1x Helm of the Host
• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Strionic Resonator

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(Update: This deck will likely be retired soon. It does the one thing really well, creating lots of spider tokens and mana that is. It's won me plenty of games with an acceptable ratio of losses. I'm sort of bored with her now.)

OK this probably isn't technically a tribal deck as there are many non-spider creatures. But this was a tricky commander to make efficient and a contender in my playgroup. The non spiders are creatures with great benefits to the strategy of making lots of spider tokens and keeping them and myself alive. This deck uses Dredge to help get Delirium as well as instants, enchantments, and other goodies to fill that yard. The obvious win condition is to spawn oodles of spiders and drain my opponents to death with Ishkanah. Now I've added Rotwidow Pack as an alternative (and admittedly more efficient) backup win-con. I was also going for a build that would let me cycle Ishy through the grave and the battlefield to spam more tokens and avoid the commander tax; I would appreciate some pointers in this department. I've found Kaya's Ghostform to be a very useful card in this department. I recently added Temur Sabertooth, so hopefully I ramp well enough for that bounce effect to be threatening. I'm picturing: return Ishy to hand and stop something big with an indestructible kitty, then on my turn recast Ishy from hand for more baby spiders, rinse-wash-repeat. I've included Arachnogenesis, Vigor, Dark Dabbling, Golgari Charm, and Watcher in the Web as ways for my spider swarm to hold on to every last inch of life.

Like I said, this was one of the more difficult decks I've crafted and it went through two or three other builds before the list you see today. After hammering out the nuances of the mechanics and buffing the deck to a sparkly shine, I think it is finally on track. Adding Cryptolith Rite, Strionic Resonator, and Illusionist's Bracers probably doubled or tripled the efficiency of everything I was already trying to do. Conjurer's Closet and Helm of the Host are also quite efficient in their own rights, but can be clunky in other respects. Other than the focus on spider tokens, there is an almost absurd amount of ramp in here and plenty of grave diddling spells to try and make things come out in my favor.

That's about all the key strategies with this. I enjoy this deck a lot.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 29 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 20 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.35
Tokens	Copy Clone, Emblem Nissa, Vital Force, Insect 1/1 G, Spider 1/2 G, Timeless Witness 4/4 B
Folders	Commander, not my decks, Commander, Good Decks, Cheap Commanders, EDH Inspiration