Not Quite a Zombie Apocalypse

Commander / EDH* BUG (Sultai) Infinite Combo Mill Reanimator

Roryrai

Instant (8)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Dream Twist
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Gnaw to the Bone
• 1x Reincarnation
• 1x Rescue from the Underworld
• 1x Thought Scour
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Extract from Darkness
• 1x Glimpse the Unthinkable
• 1x Life / Death
• 1x Soul Exchange
• 1x Stitch Together
• 1x Tempt with Immortality
• 1x Victimize
• 1x Vigor Mortis
• 1x Zombify

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Deadbridge Chant
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Sultai Ascendancy
• 1x Think Tank

Artifact (7)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Mesmeric Orb
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Liliana Vess

Creature (30)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Artisan of Kozilek
• 1x Avatar of Woe
• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Champion of Stray Souls
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Desecration Demon
• 1x Doomed Necromancer
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Forgotten Creation
• 1x Geralf's Masterpiece
• 1x Ghoultree
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Hedron Crab
• 1x Hydra Omnivore
• 1x It That Betrays
• 1x Kheru Lich Lord
• 1x Kokusho, the Evening Star
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Mirror-Mad Phantasm
• 1x Moldgraf Monstrosity
• 1x Pathrazer of Ulamog
• 1x River Kelpie
• 1x Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Soul Swallower
• 1x Symbiotic Wurm
• 1x The Gitrog Monster

Land (35)

• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dakmor Salvage
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 2x Forest
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 5x Island
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Nephalia Drownyard
• 1x Opulent Palace
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 9x Swamp
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Woodland Cemetery
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Commander (1)

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Sideboard

Creature (1)

• 1x Dralnu, Lich Lord

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The zombies don't really do much, actually. Well, they get sacrificed. So there's that.

This is going to be my next big project, I'm thinking. The general idea is that I mill myself to fill up my graveyard, and while doing that Sidisi, Brood Tyrant gives me guys to defend myself with. Proceed to reanimate big things and win.

I focused less on controlling the board with this deck, opting instead to try and force my opponent to constantly deal with what I bring out until I finally overwhelm their removal.

Yes, it dies to mass exile, but doesn't every reanimate deck? So far it's proved pretty effective and fun to play.

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Useful uses for cards:

Brainstorm -- Put a creature from my hand onto the top of my library, to be milled into my graveyard.

Vampiric Tutor/Liliana Vess -- Put a creature on top of my library, to be milled into my graveyard.

Laboratory Maniac -- So that self-mill is a viable win-con.

Mirror-Mad Phantasm -- This card is just hilarious. It's like Psychic Spiral, but strictly better for what I need it for.

Deadeye Navigator -- This card is broken. See "Deadeye Navigator Combos" below.

Gnaw to the Bone -- For lots of survivability.

Dralnu, Lich Lord -- This makes my graveyard a much more viable place to store cards to play later.

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Card Combos:

Sensei's Divining Top + Sultai Ascendancy /Think Tank -- This is some of the most ridiculous topdeck manipulation I've ever played with.

Altar of Dementia + Sidisi, Brood Tyrant -- If you hit a creature with the mill off the zombie, you get another zombie. This combo has at times allowed my to go through a large chunk of my deck, giving me a lot more material to work with.

Laboratory Maniac + River Kelpie -- Reanimate the Lab Maniac with no cards in your library, the trigger off of the Kelpie wins me the game instantly.

Dread Return + Laboratory Maniac + 3 creatures on the field -- Reanimate the Lab Maniac with no cards in my library. This means that if I can get my whole deck into my graveyard I basically just win.

Crucible of Worlds + River Kelpie - Free cards.

Kokusho, the Evening Star + Phyrexian Altar + Sheoldred, Whispering One -- Kokusho recursion engine. Enough said.

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Now the fun combos (read infinite combos):

Hell's Caretaker + Thornbite Staff -- Infinite sacrifice and reanimate. Combine this with a token generator (Avenger of Zendikar, Symbiotic Wurm or Grave Titan) and make infinite tokens.

Champion of Stray Souls + Phyrexian Altar + Thornbite Staff + an ETB or SAC trigger that creates more than five tokens (Avenger of Zendikar or Symbiotic Wurm) -- Another infinite tokens combo.

Avenger of Zendikar + Deadeye Navigator + Phyrexian Altar -- With more than two lands this is also infinite tokens.

Blood Artist + Phyrexian Altar /Altar of Dementia + Blood Artist -- Self-explanatory with infinite tokens.

Archaeomancer+ Victimize+Phyrexian Altar+Avenger of Zendikar -- This one is a bit bizarre, but it's another infinite token generator. Sacrifice the Avenger of Zendikar and the Archaeomancer and a token to make BBB to pay for Victimize. Then choose Archaeomancer and Avenger of Zendikar as it resolves, sacrificing another plant token. Reanimate those two, getting more tokens off of the Avenger of Zendikar and returning Victimize to hand off of the ETB of Archaeomancer. This also works with Symbiotic Wurm.

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Deadeye Navigator combos:

Acidic Slime + Deadeye Navigator -- Blow up all of the things.

Deadeye Navigator + Rune-Scarred Demon -- Demonic Tutor costs 1U now. What?

Deadeye Navigator + Eternal Witness -- Probably the best graveyard recursion you could ask for.

Avenger of Zendikar + Deadeye Navigator + Phyrexian Altar -- See above.

Deadeye Navigator + Kheru Lich Lord -- This one I'm not quite sure about yet, but I believe that if you reanimate something with the Kheru Lich Lord, Soulbond it to the Deadeye Navigator, and then flicker the reanimated creature, it removes the exile replacement effect and lets you keep the creature. I could be wrong about this but I think it's the same interaction as Obzedat, Ghost Council and Whip of Erebos, where the exile replacement effect doesn't apply because the creature is already leaving the battlefield for exile.

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I think that's the bulk of them, if I find any more I'll add them. And if anyone sees one I've missed let me know.

Date added	9 years
Last updated	8 years
Key combos	Hell's Caretaker + Thornbite Staff Dread Return + Laboratory Maniac Deadeye Navigator + Eternal Witness Altar of Dementia + Sidisi, Brood Tyrant Deadeye Navigator + Rune-Scarred Demon Sensei's Divining Top + Sultai Ascendancy Laboratory Maniac + River Kelpie Crucible of Worlds + River Kelpie Kokusho, the Evening Star + Phyrexian Altar + Sheoldred, Whispering One Champion of Stray Souls + Phyrexian Altar + Thornbite Staff Avenger of Zendikar + Deadeye Navigator + Phyrexian Altar Blood Artist + Phyrexian Altar Altar of Dementia + Blood Artist Deadeye Navigator + Kheru Lich Lord
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 36 - 1 Rares 27 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.17
Tokens	Insect 1/1 G, Plant 0/1 G, Zombie 2/2 B