92 Basics Turn 6 Deterministic Win

Commander / EDH BG (Golgari) Budget Combo Jank Theme/Gimmick

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Instant (3)

• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Shallow Grave

Land (93)

• 1x Dakmor Salvage
• 46x Forest
• 46x Swamp

Creature (3)

• 1x Elvish Spirit Guide
• 1x Psychosis Crawler
• 1x Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre

Commander (1)

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Maybeboard

Land (8)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x City of Traitors
• 1x Crystal Vein
• 1x Ebon Stronghold
• 1x Havenwood Battleground
• 1x Hickory Woodlot
• 1x Lake of the Dead
• 1x Peat Bog

Instant (1)

• 1x Noxious Revival

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Gaea's Blessing

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What this deck is:
      a cheap combo deck with a deterministic win in the cleanup step of the sixth turn.
What this deck is not:
      resilient. Any countermagic, removal, or grave hate will kill the combo (it has to be at instant speed, though).

Edit: The eight lands in the maybeboard can push the combo to turn five. Feel free to play pretty much any 92 legal lands you like. As long as you can cast your commander quickly, it doesn't really matter.

First, there's a few things you need to know.

drawing off Dakmor Salvage

If you discard Dakmor Salvage with The Gitrog Monster in play, you'll trigger a draw that you can use to dredge Dakmor Salvage back to your hand. If you dredge at least one land into the grave, then you'll trigger another draw, which you can use to build your hand.

the specifics of the cleanup step

I recommend looking at the actual rules, it's maybe half a page long. The relevant bits are: First, discard to hand size. If no abilities have been triggered, end the turn, otherwise put the abilities on the stack and continue like in any other step. When the last ability resolves, start another cleanup step.

Now just follow these five steps to victory!

step 1: setup

Keep your first hand. Nothing else matters as long as there's seven cards in it. If you're playing 1v1, try to draw first. Draw-land-go your first five turns. On turn six, cast The Gitrog Monster , and go to cleanup with eight cards in hand.

step 2: draw everything

Discard a land, trigger The Gitrog Monster , draw a card, and restart cleanup step. Keep doing this until you have both Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre and Dakmor Salvage in hand. Discard and dredge Dakmor Salvage to go up to nine cards in hand. Keep cycling through your deck by discarding lands until there's only one or zero cards left.

step 3: shuffle

Discard Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre and a land. If there's still a card in your library, draw first, if not, shuffle first.

step 4: reanimate Psychosis Crawler

Discard and dredge Dakmor Salvage until you have 12 cards in hand, then discard Psychosis Crawler and 4 lands. Before resolving any of the draws, cast Crop Rotation to get a Swamp by exiling Elvish Spirit Guide then cast Dark Ritual and Shallow Grave to reanimate the Psychosis Crawler .

step 5: win

You should still have eight cards in hand, so just cycle through your deck by discarding lands, repeatedly triggering Psychosis Crawler until everyone else is dead. Shuffle if necessary (be sure to use Dakmor Salvage to go up to nine cards in hand before discarding the shuffler).

Elvish Spirit Guide , Crop Rotation , Dark Ritual , Shallow Grave just to reanimate one creature feels very inefficient. Please tell me if you have any ideas that are cheaper or use fewer cards.

Top Ranked	Achieved #51 position overall 6 years ago
Date added	6 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 2 - 0 Rares 3 - 0 Uncommons 1 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.00
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