S(aproling)MG

Commander / EDH Aristocrats BG (Golgari) Budget Combo Infinite Combo Saproling

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Creature (37)

• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Deathbloom Thallid
• 1x Deathspore Thallid
• 1x Elfhame Druid
• 1x Elvish Archdruid
• 1x Elvish Farmer
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Epicure of Blood
• 1x Essence Warden
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Immaculate Magistrate
• 1x Ivy Lane Denizen
• 1x Izoni, Thousand-Eyed
• 1x Korozda Guildmage
• 1x Llanowar Dead
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Marwyn, the Nurturer
• 1x Mycoloth
• 1x Pitiless Plunderer
• 1x Poison-Tip Archer
• 1x Priest of Titania
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Rendclaw Trow
• 1x Savage Thallid
• 1x Savra, Queen of the Golgari
• 1x Sporemound
• 1x Sporesower Thallid
• 1x Sporoloth Ancient
• 1x Thallid
• 1x Thallid Devourer
• 1x Thallid Germinator
• 1x Thallid Shell-Dweller
• 1x Utopia Mycon
• 1x Verdant Force
• 1x Vitaspore Thallid
• 1x Wirewood Channeler
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Enchantment (12)

• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Fungal Plots
• 1x Golgari Germination
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Heartless Summoning
• 1x Life and Limb
• 1x Necrogenesis
• 1x Parallel Lives
• 1x Primal Vigor
• 1x Sporogenesis
• 1x Verdant Embrace

Artifact (5)

• 1x Altar of the Brood
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Darksteel Plate
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Umbral Mantle

Instant (2)

• 1x Second Harvest
• 1x Spore Swarm

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Vraska, Golgari Queen

Commander (1)

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Diabolic Revelation
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Fungal Sprouting
• 1x Increasing Ambition
• 1x Morbid Bloom
• 1x Saproling Migration
• 1x Saproling Symbiosis

Land (35)

• 18x Forest
• 17x Swamp

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This is almost certainly not new, but I had a lot of fun searching through the Oracle and making this deck. It runs 2 different "infinite" combos - the first being Marwyn, the Nurturer + Umbral Mantle , Priest of Titania + Umbral Mantle , or Elvish Archdruid + Umbral Mantle , and the second being Life and Limb + Sporemound . For those who aren't familiar, these combos produce infinite green mana and infinite Forest/Saprolings respectively.

These are, I'm sure, the first combos anyone would add as they are ridiculously simple to execute, but added into this mess are two pet cards of mine, namely Altar of the Brood and Heartless Summoning. If you get off either one of the combos with one or both of these cards on the table you will not need to worry about sack outlets and the like (read as: things that get targeted for removal first because they are more obviously scary in an aristocrats deck) you will mill your opponents and/or all your saprolings will die immediately, thus pinging your opponents down. Both are fun little twists on the basic premise of any aristocrats strategy.

Beyond that the deck just wants to ramp with elves and get disposable blockers on the board with saproling generators. To back up the combo we're running some tutor effects (Diabolic Tutor, Diabolic Revelation, and Increasing Ambition) and some protective auras and equipment. This deck will be mana intensive to set up, but once you have the pieces in hand you aren't going to have too much trouble playing these cards out.

More budget variants can drop things like Doubling Season and Parallel Lives and instead run cheaper utility spells - Krosan Grip, Harmonize, Cast Down, Murder, Doomblade, Cryptolyth Rite, etc. - or some land ramp options - Kodama's Reach, Explosive Vegetation, Rampant Growth, and Skyshroud Claim. At its core this deck only really cares about playing 4-5 cards, including the commander, so the guts of this deck can just consist of whatever Black-and-Green-goodstuff you have lying around.

Easy upgrades include a more rounded manabase and better supportive/utility cards, such as those described above. Please let me know your thoughts and suggestions.

P.s. I just learned today that Ashnod's Altar + Ivy Lane Denizen + Rendclaw Trow (or any green persist creature) goes infinite, and given that I already had 2 of the 3 cards in I've gone ahead and added this combo, swapping out one of the worse saproling generators.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Key combos	Life and Limb + Sporemound Priest of Titania + Umbral Mantle Elvish Archdruid + Umbral Mantle Marwyn, the Nurturer + Umbral Mantle Ashnod's Altar + Ivy Lane Denizen + Rendclaw Trow
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 22 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 18 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.32
Tokens	Emblem Vraska, Golgari Queen, Insect 1/1 BG, Saproling 1/1 G, Treasure
Folders	Personal Brews and Prototypes