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Commander / EDH* Combo Competitive Mill Necropotence Theme/Gimmick WUB (Esper)

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Land (30)

• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dark Depths
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hall of Heliod's Generosity
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Irrigated Farmland
• 2x Island
• 1x Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
• 1x Mistveil Plains
• 7x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Shelldock Isle
• 1x Silent Clearing
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windbrisk Heights

Creature (45)

• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Cavalier of Dawn
• 1x Inverter of Truth
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 39x Persistent Petitioners
• 1x Possessed Skaab
• 1x Spellseeker

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Devastation Tide
• 1x Doomsday
• 1x Eradicate
• 1x Idyllic Tutor
• 1x Secret Salvage
• 1x Selective Memory

Artifact (6)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Azor's Gateway  ^Flip
• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Thrumming Stone

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Jace, Wielder of Mysteries

Commander (1)

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Ancestral Knowledge
• 1x Demonic Pact
• 1x Endless Horizons
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Necropotence

Instant (5)

• 1x Counterbore
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Surgical Extraction

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STRAP IN LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, because today we're looking at one of the doofiest decks in any format; Esper Self-Exile with Aminatou, the Fateshifter !

This deck runs wincons and payoffs akin to selfmill decks such as Jace, Wielder of Mysteries and Lab Maniac, but we get there by way of WAY MORE BALLSY cards like Endless Horizons , Selective Memory , and good ol' Doomsday !

For two reasons, we are running this style of deck as a Persistent Petitioners deck. 1) the Petitioners can mill us either one-at-a-time or in groups of four (which bypasses summoning sickness). And 2) we want more consistency and redundancy, so by having X copies of a single card in our deck, cards like Surgical Extraction , Eradicate and Counterbore can be a clutch way of simulating a Doomsday-like effect.

Now, of all the Esper commanders, why did I choose Aminatou and not a more typical Doomsday commander like Zur the Enchanter ? Well, Doomsday-Zur is already a well established tier-1 deck, and doesn't have much room for flexing creative deckbuilding. Aminatou also has the means to draw us a card on the turn that we mill ourselves to 0, thereby nullifying Lab Man's weakness to pretty much every removal spell in existence.

On top of this, Aminatou can goof around with some ETB effects with her -1. Such spice includes resetting the Cumulative Upkeep and peeking another 10 cards deep with Ancestral Knowledge (another awesome card that can exile your library preeeeeetty quickly), prevent Demonic Pact from killing you (no Donate spice in this list, grinding continuous value from the pact is game-winning enough for us), grabbing 2-cmc or less spells with Spellseeker (hello Cyclonic Rift !), returning good stuff back to our hand with Possessed Skaab , and blowing up lota of permanents with the core2020 Cavalier of Dawn ! Cavalier of Gales seems cool too, but Tappedout doesn't have it here yet.

We would also be remiss to not include Thrumming Stone , in the event that we end up drawing it, you can potentially ripple 4 into enough Petitioners to accidentally mill them out (even with 39 petitioners, 9 groups of 4 petitioners milling 12 cards each means 108 cards milled per round, as well as however many 1/3 blockers)!

Date added	4 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 36 - 0 Rares 5 - 0 Uncommons 42 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.60
Tokens	Golem 3/3 C, Marit Lage