EDH Winter Elves with Nath

Commander / EDH* BG (Golgari) Discard Elves Landfall Lands Sacrifice

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Land (40)

• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Blooming Marsh
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dakmor Salvage
• 1x Dark Depths
• 1x Darkbore Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Drownyard Temple
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Field of the Dead
• 2x Forest
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Gilt-Leaf Palace
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Pendelhaven
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 2x Snow-Covered Forest
• 2x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Strip Mine
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Tranquil Thicket
• 1x Undergrowth Stadium
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Woodland Cemetery
• 1x Woodland Chasm
• 1x Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Creature (28)

• 1x Beledros Witherbloom
• 1x Creakwood Liege
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
• 1x Elderfang Disciple
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Reclaimer
• 1x Elvish Rejuvenator
• 1x Emrakul, the Promised End
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Llanowar Visionary
• 1x Marwyn, the Nurturer
• 1x Nissa, Vastwood Seer  ^Flip
• 1x Priest of Titania
• 1x Ramunap Excavator
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Sadistic Hypnotist
• 1x Sylvan Safekeeper
• 1x Tergrid, God of Fright  ^Flip
• 1x The Gitrog Monster
• 1x Tireless Provisioner
• 1x Titania, Protector of Argoth
• 1x Tourach, Dread Cantor
• 1x Ulvenwald Hydra
• 1x Underrealm Lich
• 1x Wirewood Herald
• 1x Witherbloom Apprentice

Planeswalker (4)

• 1x Liliana of the Veil
• 1x Nissa of Shadowed Boughs
• 1x Nissa, Vital Force
• 1x Wrenn and Seven

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Binding the Old Gods
• 1x Exploration
• 1x Waste Not

Commander (1)

Sorcery (15)

• 1x Arterial Flow
• 1x Chain of Smog
• 1x Dark Deal
• 1x Death Cloud
• 1x Hour of Promise
• 1x Ill-Gotten Gains
• 1x Into the North
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Mind Rake
• 1x Natural Order
• 1x Nylea's Intervention
• 1x Splendid Reclamation
• 1x Sylvan Scrying
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Worm Harvest

Artifact (6)

• 1x Anvil of Bogardan
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Zuran Orb

Instant (2)

• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Crop Rotation

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Creature (3)

• 1x Courser of Kruphix
• 1x Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Driven / Despair
• 1x Tasigur's Cruelty

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Nath and the Winter Elves

Snow-covered Lands

The Snow-covered lands were originally in the deck for Sun Stone, but stayed in the deck even after the artifact was cut. They still have relevance with cards like Into the North. And it can't really be winter elves without snow, now can it?

Dark Depths and Other Lands

Much of the deck is about value lands and ways to find them. Most obvious is the tried-and-true Dark Depths and Thespian's Stage-combo for a 20/20 Marit Lage. There's a plethora of ways to find the two lands, including Sylvan Scrying, Into the North, Expedition Map, Crop Rotation, Traverse the Ulvenwald (with Delirium) and Ulvenwald Hydra.

Along with the Marit Lage-combo, there are also other targets to search for. Gaea's Cradle can make a ton of mana in the deck with all the Elf tokens. Oran-Rief, the Vastwood makes the tokens a real threat. Strip Mine and Ghost Quarter are useful land destruction, and Bojuka Bog is graveyard removal. There's also Pendelhaven for utility, Dakmor Salvage to go with Worm Harvest, Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth for mana fixing and Westvale Abbey   ready to transform into a big demon.

Dredging Life from the Loam and returning lands can grind out opponents, and Worm Harvest works wery well with lands in the graveyard (and Dakmor Salvage in particular). Crucible of Worlds and Crucible on legs, Ramunap Excavator, keep the land engines going.

Nath and Discard

Nath of the Gilt-Leaf does like his discard. Good synergies with Nath include Anvil of Bogardan (one discard each draw step), Ill-Gotten Gains (mass discard), Contamination (Nath can generate tokens to sacrifice and keep people off non-black colors), Geier Reach Sanitarium (discard for everybody), Mind Slash /Sadistic Hypnotist (sacrificing a creature to make an opponent discard and creating a new token with Nath can clear out hands in a hurry) and Smallpox / Death Cloud for creature removal and discard. Raiders' Wake and any attacker on the turn Nath comes into play will generate at least some value.

Elves and Craterhoofs

There's also an elf deck here. Elves of Deep Shadow, Heart Warden, Fyndhorn Elves/Llanowar Elves, Deathrite Shaman and Priest of Titania are in the deck for ramp. Sometimes it's all about ramping up to or Natural Ordering to a big Craterhoof Behemoth.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	13 - 0 Mythic Rares 43 - 0 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	99
Avg. CMC	3.07
Tokens	Ashaya, the Awoken World, Elemental 5/3 G, Elf Warrior 1/1 G, Emblem Nissa, Vital Force, Emblem Wrenn and Seven, Food, Human Cleric 1/1 BW, Marit Lage, Pest 1/1 BG, Treasure, Treefolk */* G w/ Reach, Worm 1/1 BG, Zombie 2/2 B
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