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Commander / EDH* BG (Golgari) Counters

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Sacrifice (24)

• 1x Abyssal Gatekeeper
• 1x Apprentice Necromancer
• 1x Archfiend of Depravity
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Butcher of Malakir
• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Disciple of Bolas
• 1x Disciple of Griselbrand
• 1x Font of Fertility
• 1x Font of Return
• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Hell's Caretaker
• 1x Merciless Executioner
• 1x Mycoloth
• 1x Razaketh, the Foulblooded
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Slum Reaper
• 1x Vampiric Rites
• 1x Victimize
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Whisper, Blood Liturgist

Draw (6)

• 1x Altar's Reap
• 1x Armorcraft Judge
• 1x Disciple of Bolas
• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Harvester of Souls
• 1x Vampiric Rites

Control (2)

• 1x Naturalize
• 1x Reclamation Sage

Prevention (2)

• 1x Fog
• 1x Haze Frog

Recursion (2)

• 1x Hell's Caretaker
• 1x Ramunap Excavator

Land (38)

• 1x Bayou
• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Command Tower
• 12x Forest
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Nephalia Academy
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Primal Druid
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 12x Swamp
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Retrieval (8)

• 1x Apprentice Necromancer
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Dutiful Attendant
• 1x Font of Return
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Primal Druid
• 1x Reclaim
• 1x Victimize

Life (4)

• 1x Disciple of Bolas
• 1x Disciple of Griselbrand
• 1x Vampiric Rites
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Protection (3)

• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Sylvan Safekeeper

Mana (2)

• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Sol Ring

Discard (1)

• 1x Greater Good

WinCon (1)

• 1x Epic Struggle

Commander (1)

Counters (9)

• 1x Animation Module
• 1x Bloodbriar
• 1x Corpsejack Menace
• 1x Hardened Scales
• 1x Mycoloth
• 1x Retribution of the Ancients
• 1x Rishkar, Peema Renegade
• 1x Rot Shambler
• 1x Winding Constrictor

Tokens (7)

• 1x Blisterpod
• 1x Carrier Thrall
• 1x Golgari Germination
• 1x Mycoloth
• 1x Pawn of Ulamog
• 1x Pitiless Plunderer
• 1x Revel in Riches

Other (3)

• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Footsteps of the Goryo
• 1x Nature's Spiral

Tutor (3)

• 1x Fierce Empath
• 1x Razaketh, the Foulblooded
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier

Finisher (1)

• 1x Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord

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Other (20)

• 1x Attrition
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Catacomb Sifter
• 1x Crovax the Cursed
• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Evolutionary Leap
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Krav, the Unredeemed
• 1x Mortician Beetle
• 1x Ouphe Vandals
• 1x Parallel Lives
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Plaguemaw Beast
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Sifter of Skulls
• 1x Squandered Resources
• 1x Steely Resolve
• 1x Sylvok Replica
• 1x The Gitrog Monster

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Little bit of background: The first commander deck I ever built in MTG featured Savra, Queen of the Golgari. She was a great starter, but as I became more familiar with the game, I found her to be underpowered and no amount of deck edits could do what I wanted from a deck, until Mazirek appeared, and Savra found her way into a similar deck, but powered by a more utilitarian commander.

Sac Triggers

You've basically got three main types of sac triggers: mana generators (Ashnod's Altar), tutors (Sidisi, Undead Vizier) and ramp (Archfiend of Depravity).

Other cards in this deck create tokens, that either have natural sacrifice ability (Pawn of Ulamog), or can be sacrificed by one of the other abilities in the deck (Golgari Germination).

Counters

With Mazirek's ability, you want to be able to make the best use out of the counters that your creatures will be getting. Hardened Scales and Corpsejack Menace are important ramps for counters.

Special acknowledgement goes to Mycoloth for playing all three roles, gaining counters, being a sacrifice trigger as well as creating tokens.

For late game, use the following creatures as your 'finishers':

Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord and of course, Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest

Infinite Combos

There is one key combination that allows this deck to go infinite, making all of your creatures infinitely strong and scary. You will need to have the following cards on the field:

Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest

Ashnod's Altar

Animation Module

and any creature to sacrifice.

Basically, you sacrifice the other creature to Ashnod's Altar which puts a counter on all creatures due to Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest. Since the counter requirement is fulfilled for Animation Module, use the mana generated from Ashnod's Altar to pay for a Servo token. You can then infinitely loop this combo, making Mazirek (and the rest of your creatures that are on the field) infinitely large.

This combo seems like it has a lot of pieces, but with the tutors present in this deck, it is simple to execute.

Win Conditions

This deck has 3 built-in win conditions.

Combat

First and foremost, combat is going to be your leading win condition. Mazirek ramps fast, and hits even harder. You can also use Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord to carry you to a swift, ultimate victory.

Treasure Tokens

Secondly, Revel in Riches. This combined with Pitiless Plunderer ramps up Treasure tokens very quickly, and is an excellent non-combat win condition.

Token Generation

Last but not least, token generation. For the win with Epic Struggle, it is just too simple to generate 20 creatures with the amount of native token generation in this deck.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	5 years
Exclude colors	WUR
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 26 - 0 Rares 25 - 0 Uncommons 23 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.91
Tokens	Eldrazi Scion 1/1 C, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Saproling 1/1 G, Servo 1/1 C, Treasure