Circle of Life

Commander / EDH Aristocrats BG (Golgari) Casual Infinite Combo Saproling Tokens

chino_layne

Breeder (15)

• 1x Awakening
• 1x Deathspore Thallid
• 1x Elvish Farmer
• 1x Fungal Plots
• 1x Mycoloth
• 1x Necrogenesis
• 1x Saproling Migration
• 1x Saproling Symbiosis
• 1x Scatter the Seeds
• 1x Second Harvest
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Spontaneous Generation
• 1x Spore Swarm
• 1x Tendershoot Dryad
• 1x Verdant Embrace

Ramp (10)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Cryptolith Rite
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Emerald Medallion
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Manascape Refractor
• 1x Sol Ring

Removal (10)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Attrition
• 1x Butcher of Malakir
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Maelstrom Pulse
• 1x Nullmage Shepherd
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Windgrace's Judgment

Land (34)

• 1x Blooming Marsh
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 13x Forest
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Holdout Settlement
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 9x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Unclaimed Territory
• 1x Undergrowth Stadium
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Draw (10)

• 1x Evolutionary Leap
• 1x Fecundity
• 1x Keen Sense
• 1x Liliana, Dreadhorde General
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Skullmulcher
• 1x Snake Umbra
• 1x Species Specialist
• 1x Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

Tutor (4)

• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Commander (1)

Combo (13)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Heartstone
• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Jade Mage
• 1x Life and Limb
• 1x Parallel Lives
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Pitiless Plunderer
• 1x Primal Vigor
• 1x Sporemound
• 1x Sprout Swarm
• 1x Utopia Mycon

Infect (3)

• 1x Grafted Exoskeleton
• 1x Phyresis
• 1x Triumph of the Hordes

---

Why Slimefoot?

Aristocrats in the best tribe for it, since most cards you want in a Saproling deck also double as sac outlets.

Furthermore, your Saprolings can double as protection while you drain the table, or work your way to a combo. Put them in front of attackers and then sac them for added benefits! Not to mention, you're gaining life when they die, no matter what.

Everything you want in an aristocrats deck can be found here: easy sacrifice engines, ways to protect yourself, easy fodder generation, and an aristocrat in the Command Zone!

Finally, Slimefoot is a cutie. So why not?

Combo!

Type of Combos

There are really only two different combos in this deck. However, there are many ways to accomplish each one.

1- Generate infinite Saprolings / Forests

2- Infinitely generate/sacrifice Saprolings and infinitely drain each opponent.

The second combo is the one with far more iterations, and generally what you're going to be able to more easily piece together.

List of Combos

• Life and Limb + Sporemound = Infinite Saprolings/Forests
• Slimefoot, the Stowaway + Doubling Season/Parallel Lives/Primal Vigor/Illusionist's Bracers + Ashnod's Altar = Infinite Damage
• Slimefoot, the Stowaway + Doubling Season + Parallel Lives + Primal Vigor + Illusionist's Bracers + Utopia Mycon/Phyrexian Altar = Infinite Damage (Note: Only 3 of the 4 listed token doublers are necessary)
• Slimefoot, the Stowaway/Blood Artist/Zulaport Cutthroat + Sporoloth Ancient + Doubling Season + Fungal Plots + Utopia Mycon/Phyrexian Altar = Infinite Damage
• Jade Mage + Ashnod's Altar + Phyrexian Altar/Utopia Mycon + Doubling Season/Illusionist's Bracers/Parallel Lives/Primal Vigor + Slimefoot, the Stowaway/Blood Artist/Zulaport Cutthroat = Infinite Damage

Obviously, there are several types of combos, and many ways to assemble each one, making them extremely versatile.

Choices

While you are in the best two colors to tutor for what you need (although white would be a welcome help), I have decided to not put any tutors in this deck, and instead substitute those for large amounts of draw.

This functions twofold, both making the deck more versatile in playstyle, to avoid trying to combo out as soon as possible, making you find more interesting interactions to win. It can also provide you many surprising routes to victory, so that your opponents can't keep track of every route you can take.

However, if you were looking for a more competitive build, cards like:

• Evolutionary Leap
• Fecundity
• Genesis Wave
• Keen Sense
• Path of Discovery
• Phyrexian Arena
• Skullclamp
• Sensei's Divining Top
• Snake Umbra
• Sylvan Library

Can all be replaced with tutors, such as:

• Beseech the Queen
• Brainspoil
• Cruel Tutor
• Demonic Tutor
• Diabolic Intent
• Dimir House Guard
• Dimir Machinations
• Grim Tutor
• Imperial Seal
• Insidious Dreams
• Mastermind's Acquisition
• Spoils of the Vault
• Vampiric Tutor
• Worldly Tutor

All of which are excellent replacements.

I have also decided not to put Altar of Dementia, a very popular card for this kind of effect, in, as Slimefoot or any other Aristocrat would kill every opponent much faster than Altar of Dementia could kill even one.

Vraska

Finally, the inclusion of the Vraska planeswalkers is a bit controversial, and is perhaps not the most powerful choice (despite the useful removal built into some of them). They're included not necessarily as especially synergistic choices to Slimefoot's overall strategy, but because pulling off the alt. win with their ultimates is incredibly empowering , and Slimefoot is very useful for creating the tokens to protect them, and finding Doubling Season quickly with big draw potential.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	3 years
Exclude colors	WUR
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 38 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.09
Tokens	City's Blessing, Saproling 1/1 G, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Current Decks (Commander)