Cadaverous Combo (ProsBloom EDH)

Commander / EDH

Shalok

Instant (10)

• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Desertion
• 1x Evacuation
• 1x Hinder
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Putrefy
• 1x Spell Crumple
• 1x Stroke of Genius

Sorcery (25)

• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Boundless Realms
• 1x Braingeyser
• 1x Bribery
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Curse of the Swine
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Revelation
• 1x Explosive Vegetation
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Increasing Ambition
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Life's Finale
• 1x Mind Spring
• 1x Minds Aglow
• 1x Prosperity
• 1x Recurring Insight
• 1x Regrowth
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Sever the Bloodline
• 1x Skyscribing

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Cadaverous Bloom
• 1x Collective Restraint
• 1x Mana Reflection
• 1x No Mercy
• 1x Phyrexian Arena

Artifact (2)

• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Sol Ring

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Jace Beleren

Creature (18)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Blood Celebrant
• 1x Bloodgift Demon
• 1x Coiling Oracle
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Harvester of Souls
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Orochi Leafcaller
• 1x Pharika's Mender
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Prophet of Kruphix
• 1x Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Sphinx of Uthuun
• 1x Wood Elves
• 1x Yavimaya Elder

Land (38)

• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Command Tower
• 7x Forest
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 7x Island
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 7x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Vivid Creek
• 1x Vivid Marsh
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Commander (1)

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This is a combo deck, the idea is to fuel massive draw X spells with Cadaverous Bloom and win by drawing your entire deck and playing Laboratory Maniac.

Some neat interactions with the deck, cards like Orochi leafcaller are in the deck to be able to repeatedly filter the mana from Cadaverous Bloom into blue mana for the draw spells. Damia is selected as the general for pure card advantage reasons. The deck has a lot of answers and two for ones in it, so a few counterspells, cards like acidic slime to deal with problem artifacts and enchantments and a good suit of wraths.

To protect the combo from sorcery speed removal the deck requires at least 7-mana to operate, Bloom, an X-draw spell (preferably two) and either a tutor or an enabler (Nomad or Leafcaller) in hand. If you don't have the enabler then you will not be able to guarantee you hit it and therefore may not be able to cast the next X-spell. Equally it is quite possible to miss with the first X-spell, if you hit the second it is very unlikely the combo will fizzle but the first one has the greatest possibility of failing. If you don't pull the trigger too early and have a decent amount of cards in hand for the 1st X-spell (I would recommend one for at least 10 to start with). And you don't play into obvious counter mana or removal mana (one of the biggest weaknesses of the combo is the Orochi Leafcaller) then combo will work a very high percentage of the time.

Other interactions to note, Enter the Infinite is a win on the spot if you have Bloom out and Reccuring Insight works very well once you have cast Prosperity or Skyscribing

This deck is strong, if I enter a game with it I am expecting to be competing for the win. As with most combo decks it struggles against heavy control so if someone in your meta plays a degenerate Grand Arbiter Augustin IV deck, first give them a slap and second don't play this deck as it just doesn't have the concentration of counterspells and recursion to fight through heavy control.

Date added	10 years
Last updated	9 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 46 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.47
Tokens	Boar 2/2 G, Copy Clone
Folders	Playing With Power