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Evolution Tasigur Evolved: Black Wings 2.0

Commander / EDH* BUG (Sultai) Competitive Reanimator

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That is not dead which can eternal lie, and in strange eons even death may die. Consult Scepter Reanimator

Reanimator IS viable in EDH again, and I have a pack of 8/8 fliers to hammer the point (and the nauseam players) home

The evolution of Evolution Tasigur, this is a deck for the post-flash era. You can grind with the best decks at the table and land a stupid value engine early or transmute your CMC 6 (cast for 1) commander into a multitutor or massive draw engine that wins the game. Half your tutors are wincons, your mana is wincons, your wincons are beatsticks.

While the deck at first glance seems to be a reanimator deck it should not be thought of as one. Eldritch Evolution is a one-card-wincon with Tasigur, grabbing Vilis, Broker of Blood or Razaketh, the Foulblooded directly to play. While obvious, this also lets you shave down the reanimation package to the bare minimum, reducing dead cards and increasing interaction.

That leads to a second major part of the deck philosophy. If we have reduced reanimation we can only run creatures that out right win the game on resolution. Nothing that grinds value-- and because of our reliance on evolution, the max CMC is 8, so no Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur

The end result is an average CMC of 1.85, which means we can run ad nauseum. This brings our one-card-wincon count up to 2 which is very strong and gives the deck its primary strength, flexibility.

On a moment's notice you can switch between a consultation build, a reanimator build, a nauseum build* or a grindy scepter build, whichever suits the needs of the board state. The deck is a true jack of all trades and doesn't sacrifice card quality to get there-- it's just as comfortable grinding at turn 8+ as explosively going off on turn 3.

Initial testing gives this a critical turn of 3 (where you realistically and commonly threaten a win) while holding interaction 95% of the time

Win conditions:

Thassa's Oracle + Demonic Consultation or Tainted Pact: Your fastest independent of boardstate win condition, this comes on turn 3 if you have no U/B generating mana dorks. Turn 2 if you do.

Isochron Scepter + Dramatic Reversal: another crowd favorite, as long as you have mana on board you win. it requires buildup, so it's better in the mid to late game, but it still fits the deck because it's the most efficient way to win after landing your next win condition...

Eldritch Evolution: For 3 mana and Tasigur, the Golden Fang who will usually come out for just B, you can summon in either Razaketh, the Foulblooded to initiate a game ending tutor chain or Vilis, Broker of Blood for obscene card draw (usually enough to win on the spot).

Razaketh, the Foulblooded: You know the drill. Sacrifice a mana dork to grab Death + Life . Sacrifice lands to get your win. Easier said than done though since you will often require mana post razaketh. That's why we can't run pure consultation, we need a way to go mana positive, and landing a Mana Crypt or Mana Vault lets you build scepter up from nothing after Reanimating razaketh.

You also have a very efficient post razaketh consultation line if the board state (usually stax) prevents you from using scepter. Initiate your life line as usual, but tutor Dark Ritual Entomb Reanimate. Cast Ritual, Cast Entomb, search for Thassa's Oracle and reanimate it. Then with the Devotion trigger on the stack sacrifice oracle to grab Demonic Consultation and cast it with the last mana from ritual.

Ad Nauseam The average CMC here is 1.79, this will dig super deep and usually net you whatever you need to go off or initiate one of the other win cons.

Reanimate or Death + Life + Vilis, Broker of Blood can honestly be considered a win condition all on its own. You will immediate draw 8, usually netting a fetch land, draw another 3 from the fetch and the resulting shockland and if you don't have enough ingredients to combo there you did something wrong.

Weaknesses

ad nauseum. Yes, our ACMC is 1.79, which is good enough to naus with, but this deck is not a dedicated naus deck. You WILL occasionally have a naus that goes like 'Vilis, Broker of Blood, Razaketh the Foul Blooded, Notion Thief, Force of Will, GG, Cry.' You will rarely if ever main phase Ad Nauseam. Instead you will typically use it during an end step to punish a failed win or any opening an opponent gives you.

Stax. You rely on scepter, you rely on the GY, you will get wrecked by stax and this version of Tasigur eschews Seedborn Muse/Training Grounds as not to screw up the early game. In the super late game this easily comes back to bite you as other decks that do run these will eat you alive.

Notion Thief may come out for Seedborn Muse. The deck gets a little shaky trying to grind late vs a lot of the meta if you get disrupted and Muse will gape stax decks wide. This is a meta call though, as typically you will want to more proactive lines.

Notable Exclusions

Lion's Eye Diamond+Eternal Witness While this is currently in for testing, it's always on the fence. Let's get the big one out of the way. While this deck runs Razaketh, it's not really a Razakats deck. It can go fast, but it is not designed to; this deck is designed to punish openings HARD and has the tools to do so and make those openings. But it doesn't have the tools to race the spate of turbo decks in the meta. As such any opportunity to reanimate in the first 2 turns will likely be spent on Vilis.

[EDITOR'S NOTE: After more extensive testing this does not belong in the main package. A secondary build that drops Vilis and tries to focus more on Ad Naus as a primary game plan will leverage these better]

Razaketh comes out Turn 3-4 when your board is built for it, it's more of a slow finisher, and it's a devastating one, but it needs time or deck slots to set up, and this deck is designed to exploit time. What we don't have is deck slots.

Gilded Drake Remember not having deck slots? Yeah, this is one of those concessions. It hurts, it sucks, but the only way to layer our strategies is the cut things that don't advance them.

Survival of the Fittest Another hard choice, but with only 2 animation targets and a stripped down animation suite this card does not keep up. Eldritch Evolution fills so many of its rolls more efficiently that it's the better answer 9 times in 10, and the deck is too tight on slots to justify that last 1/10.

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Casual

95% Competitive

Date added 4 years
Last updated 3 years
Legality

This deck is Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

13 - 0 Mythic Rares

49 - 0 Rares

17 - 0 Uncommons

18 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 1.76
Tokens Ape 3/3 G, Bird 2/2 U, Emblem Jace, Vryn's Prodigy, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Spirit 1/1 C
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