In Soviet Russia, Food Chain Eat You (Version 3.0)

Commander / EDH* Aggro Combo Competitive Infinite Combo Stax Toolbox

Lilbrudder

Creature (37)

• 1x Academy Rector
• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Azami, Lady of Scrolls
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Captain Sisay
• 1x Drift of Phantasms
• 1x Edric, Spymaster of Trest
• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Eternal Scourge
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Gaddock Teeg
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
• 1x Hokori, Dust Drinker
• 1x Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
• 1x Judge's Familiar
• 1x Kataki, War's Wage
• 1x Linvala, Keeper of Silence
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Loyal Retainers
• 1x Mausoleum Wanderer
• 1x Noble Hierarch
• 1x Qasali Pridemage
• 1x Sakashima the Impostor
• 1x Sanctum Prelate
• 1x Scryb Ranger
• 1x Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
• 1x Thalia, Heretic Cathar
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Vryn Wingmare
• 1x Walking Ballista
• 1x Weathered Wayfarer

Land (31)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Brushland
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Flagstones of Trokair
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Gemstone Caverns
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Horizon Canopy
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Razorverge Thicket
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Bastion
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Idyllic Tutor
• 1x Timetwister

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker

Commander (1)

Enchantment (10)

• 1x Aura Shards
• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Food Chain
• 1x Living Plane
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Stasis
• 1x Sterling Grove
• 1x Stony Silence
• 1x Survival of the Fittest
• 1x Sylvan Library

Instant (8)

• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Artifact (8)

• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Null Rod
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thorn of Amethyst
• 1x Winter Orb

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A brew inspired by maddoxmtg's and Glix's Derevi decks.

This is a hybrid deck in many ways. It employs various stax effects to slow down the rest of the table while leaving me relatively unaffected. These stax effects buy me time to assemble Food Chain +Eternal Scourge. Once this combo is assembled exiling and recasting Derevi an arbitrarily large number of time converts Food Chain s infinite creature only mana into infinite colored mana, untap target permanent, and tap target permanent. With this I can almost always lock down the table completely or draw my deck and kill the table that turn with one of my 15 Food Chain outlets:

Walking Ballista: Boom goes the dynamite!

Eldritch Evolution : Sacrafice Derevi to get Azami or Ballista

Mikokoro, Center of the Sea: Infinite draw and I will be the only one with resources

Weathered Wayfarer: Grabs Mikokoro

Captain Sisay: Grabs Azami

Birthing Pod: Grabs Azami

Azami, Lady of Scrolls: Infinite card draw which allows me to assemble a hard lock or just win with ballista

Survival of the Fittest: Grabs Azami or ballista

Fauna Shaman: Grabs Azami or ballista

Eladamri's Call : Grabs Azami or ballista

Idyllic Tutor: Grabs survival of the fittest

Tezzeret the Seeker : Grabs pod

Chord of Calling: Grabs Azami and ballista

Trinket Mage: Grabs ballista

Drift of Phantasms: Grabs a bunch of cards on this list which then grabs azami or ballista.

This deck also merges elements found in Captain Sisay and Edric, Spymaster of Trest decks and aims to go wide by flooding the board with tiny value creatures and legends of all shapes and sizes.

This deck is a giant middle finger to many of the fast combo and spellslinger decks in cEDH. With so many aggressively costed creatures with evasion I can bleed Ad Nauseam and Necropotence decks enough to keep them fair most games.

In this version of the deck once I go infinite, I can either kill the table with a massive Walking Ballista or Cyclonic Rift, then mass land destruction my opponents with Living Plane+Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite to secure victory.

In addition to the improved win condition, this version also has eliminated a large number of difficult to cast cards (i.e Voidmage Prodigy) to put less strain on the mana base.

The addition of many new stax pieces allows the deck to slow down the table much more effectively without losing much speed. The following cards have proven to be well worth slots: Thorn of Amethyst, Hokori, Dust Drinker; Sanctum Prelate ; Sakashima the Impostor ; Null Rod; Stony Silence; Living Plane; Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite; Linvala, Keeper of Silence and Mystic Remora.

While the raw power cannot be denied, Stasis and Static Orb are too disruptive to MY gameplan and require too many cards to effectively get around thier restrictions. (I am testing this assumption further with stasis atm).

There remain a handful of great cards I have not included due to lack of room. These include: Aura of Silence; trinishere; Glen Elendra Archmage etc.

Overall the deck feels faster (at locking down the board) and not much slower (at ending the game). I am pretty happy with the heavier stax focus, but I am always open to new ideas on how to improve the build. Thank you!

Date added	7 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 66 - 0 Rares 12 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.38
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U
Folders	EDH, Interesting Brews, Derevi Lists, EDH Ideas
Based on	Derevi is HUNGRY!!! maddoxmtg EDH