Empty the graves Nethroi EDH [PRIMER]

Commander / EDH BGW (Abzan, Junk) Mill Multiplayer Reanimator

Khan-10d

Creature (38)

• 1x Arasta of the Endless Web
• 1x Archon of Emeria
• 1x Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Beast Whisperer
• 1x Boneyard Lurker
• 1x Destiny Spinner
• 1x Dirge Bat
• 1x Doom Whisperer
• 1x Drannith Magistrate
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Faeburrow Elder
• 1x Fiend Artisan
• 1x Gemrazer
• 1x God-Eternal Rhonas
• 1x Incubation Druid
• 1x Karametra, God of Harvests
• 1x Karmic Guide
• 1x Luminous Broodmoth
• 1x Manglehorn
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar
• 1x Nylea, Keen-Eyed
• 1x Paradise Druid
• 1x Satyr Wayfinder
• 1x Sawtusk Demolisher
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Selfless Spirit
• 1x Skull Prophet
• 1x Stitcher's Supplier
• 1x Sweet-Gum Recluse
• 1x Temur Sabertooth
• 1x Underrealm Lich
• 1x World Shaper
• 1x Yahenni, Undying Partisan
• 1x Yasharn, Implacable Earth
• 1x Yeva, Nature's Herald

Land (34)

• 1x Brightclimb Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Castle Garenbrig
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dakmor Salvage
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Field of the Dead
• 5x Forest
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Indatha Triome
• 1x Mistveil Plains
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 3x Plains
• 1x Sandsteppe Citadel
• 4x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Tainted Field
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Temple of Malady
• 1x Temple of Plenty
• 1x Temple of Silence
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Undergrowth Stadium
• 1x Vault of Champions

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Austere Command
• 1x Bala Ged Recovery  ^Flip
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Genesis Wave
• 1x Turntimber Symbiosis  ^Flip
• 1x Winds of Abandon

Commander (1)

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Death's Oasis
• 1x Felidar Retreat
• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip
• 1x Guardian Project
• 1x Mirari's Wake
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Smothering Tithe

Instant (7)

• 1x Akroma's Will
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Mythos of Nethroi
• 1x Return of the Wildspeaker
• 1x Return to Dust
• 1x Songs of the Damned
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Artifact (5)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Netherborn Altar
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x The Great Henge

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The strat

This deck is a reanimator/light stax deck around Nethroi based on permanents, the tax pieces are minime but useful to slow down your opponents while you ramp, mill yourself, prepare for the nethroi's turn. The main win condition is the classic Finale of Devastation into God-Eternal Rhonas. No infinite combo here, the deck isn't competitive at all and doesn't want to be.

Nethroi

Nethroi, Apex of Death is a very interresting commander in many ways :

1. He have interresting keywords that allow you to be a threat and lifelink is a way to keep your life total okay.

2. The mutate cost is a bit expensive but it's worth the value : being able to bring back several threats in the battlefield for only 7 mana (that is alway less than casting every creatures you gonna bring back). Notice that his mutate cost is is only 2 colors of the 3, it can be a detail (on your turn 7 you should don't you any probleme to get your 3 colors) but it's conveniant when you consider some stax pieces like Hall of Gemstone

heading textThe 99 (not all because some are obvious)

Arasta of the Endless Web : First, the deck can be weak against flying based decks, Arasta is here to prevent some heavy damage in the air and to punish opponent to play instant or sorcery.

Archon of Emeria : a new stax piece that impact every players around the table, very usefull against some deck like Chulane, Teller of Tales or fast mana based like fetch land. As a Nethroi player, we are not very impact by this effect, in the early game, we just want to fill our graveyards and ramp to be prepare.

Aven Mindcensor : Another stax piece to limit the answers from the opponent, it limit the tutoring for boardswipe/graveyard hate. Notice that this card can be amazing with Winds of Abandon for a one side boardwipe whithout the draw back.

Avenger of Zendikar : it's a powerfull card for casual games, making lot of tokens it's alway a good thing when your plan is to overwhelm your opponents with creature, but the card is kinda weak.

Beast Whisperer : With 38 creatures, this guy is the perfect draw engine, easy to reanimate with Nethroi mutate ability (with only 2 power)

Colfenor, the Last Yew : this new card seems to be a great addition to the deck, easy to bring back, have his own recursion ability. We'll see in the future if he deserv his place !

Destiny Spinner : Only here because of her static ability that protect you from counterspells.

Drannith Magistrate : What a card in this deck, our commander need some preparation before it's worth to cast him, this little man help us to slow down our opponents while we prepare ourselves for Nethroi.

Faeburrow Elder : we run few 0/0 creatures in this deck to maximise the value of nethroi's ability, the elder is one of them because it can be a free mana dork.

Fiend Artisan : the deck use only two tutors, Eladamri's Call and Fiend Artisan. The artisan can be a threat, a tutor or a sacrifice outlet.

Gemrazer : a artefact/enchantment removal on a boby and one of the mutate creature of the deck, allow us to trigger Nethroi and deal with some threats.

God-Eternal Rhonas : Our first targuet with Finale of Devastation to end the game

Karametra, God of Harvests : As we run 38 creatures in the deck (minus some on them that here to be mutate on Nethroi), Karametra is a good way to ramp when we develop our board. With 13 lands that can be the targuet of her ability.

Luminous Broodmoth : This one is certainly one of the best value engine of the deck, turn every creature that dies in a flying threat for our opponents. If you add some ETB effect like The Great Henge, the card is a powerhouse in this deck.

Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar : Everything in this card is good in this deck : He have his proper recursion ability, he is a 0/0 that allow him to be a free creature in nethroi's batch, he's a great body with usefull keywords and a great finisher when he is boost by Rhonas and/or Finale of devastation.

Scavenging Ooze : As we can see in standard, this little ooze can be a good mutate targuet as +1/+1 counter works good with mutate. The Ooze is also our only graveyards' hate.

Selfless Spirit : Boardswipe's protection for our creatures, easily targuetable by Nethroi.

Work in progress...

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	16 - 0 Mythic Rares 43 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 6 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.53
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Cat Beast 2/2 W, Spider 1/2 G, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Commander, Future Builds, Interesting Decks