Go Forth and Die (Hulk Combo)

Commander / EDH BGW (Abzan, Junk) Combo Competitive Hatebears Reanimator Stax

keattz

Creature (34)

• 1x Academy Rector
• 1x Anafenza, the Foremost
• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Containment Priest
• 1x Dark Confidant
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Eidolon of Rhetoric
• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Ethersworn Canonist
• 1x Faerie Macabre
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Karmic Guide
• 1x Kataki, War's Wage
• 1x Linvala, Keeper of Silence
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Protean Hulk
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Renegade Rallier
• 1x Reveillark
• 1x Saffi Eriksdotter
• 1x Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
• 1x Thalia, Heretic Cathar
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Weathered Wayfarer

Artifact (7)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Null Rod
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Winter Orb

Land (31)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Brushland
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forest
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Horizon Canopy
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Tarnished Citadel
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Instant (9)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Commanders (2)

Enchantment (10)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Aura of Silence
• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Living Plane
• 1x Pattern of Rebirth
• 1x Root Maze
• 1x Stony Silence
• 1x Survival of the Fittest
• 1x Sylvan Library

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Natural Order
• 1x Reanimate

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This description is several years out of date.

Welcome to my Karador decklist, Go Forth and Die. My deck is a Boonweaver combo list, heavily inspired by Cobblepott's decklist Karador Multiplayer Boonweaver Combo/Control. The deck's plan A is a fast Boonweaver combo, but it can also play a slow grindy game and pick a better spot for Boonweaver or Blood Artist + any infinite sac pair.

Deck History

This deck evolved from my first EDH deck I built back in September 2013, with Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord as commander. BG was my favorite color combination, and Jarad just had so much text, it was great. I had a good amount of success dumping fatties into my graveyard, reanimating them, and then sacrificing them to Jarad, but I felt like the deck was too "one-shot." Outside of a few cards like Sheoldred, Whispering One, Phyrexian Processor, and Mimic Vat, there weren't many engines for fueling Jarad.

I wanted a stronger late game. I had recently been introduced to the reanimation shenanigans of Karmic Guide and Reveillark in my friend's Roon of the Hidden Realm, and I liked those cards more than Reanimate and Animate Dead because of their recurrability.

Then I discovered Karador. Karador did exactly what I wanted in the color combination that I wanted. As a limited junkie and an owner of a peasant cube, I love 2-for-1 creatures like Shriekmaw, and Karador really enables that strategy more than any other BGx commander.

The first incarnation of my Karador deck was much rampier than the current. Most games were won with Avenger of Zendikar and/or Craterhoof Behemoth. All my mana dorks allowed me to chump aggro decks while accelerating to my late game. I refined this strategies for over a year, but eventually my more competitive friends stopped playing and I was winning 80-90% of my games.

So I decided to tune down my deck a bit. I borrowed certain elements from my competitive list (e.g. less ramp, lower curve, low-cmc reanimation package), which sort of invalidated cards like Avenger, Craterhoof, and Tooth and Nail (you'll notice that almost all my 6+ drops are good targets for turn 2 Animate Dead.) Overall, the deck was a weaker midrange deck.

My meta was getting more competitive again around the time Meren of Clan Nel Toth came out. I decided to break my deck down into two decks: a casual Meren deck, and a fully-blown competitive Karador deck. That's where I am now. My competitive EDH meta is still early in development, but I'll keep my decklist up to date as I make small adjustments.

The Combo

1. Have a sac outlet in play
2. Get Pattern of Rebirth onto the battlefield by (a) reanimating Boonweaver Giant, (b) sacrificing Academy Rector, or (c) hard casting Pattern (or Boonweaver)
3. If you don't have Boonweaver, sacrifice the enchanted creature to get it with Pattern
4. Sacrifice Boonweaver to get Karmic Guide to reanimate Boonweaver
5. Sacrifice Boonweaver to get Fiend Hunter
6. Target Karmic Guide with Fiend Hunter, then sac Fiend Hunter, use Karmic Guide to reanimate Boonweaver
7. Sacrifice Boonweaver to get Reveillark
8. At this point you can create a Lark -> Karmic Guide + Fiend Hunter -> Lark + Boonweaver -> ... loop to get any number of creatures out of the library. Usually you want Blood Artist

Card Breakdown

Combo

• Blood Artist - wins the game with any infinite pair
• Boonweaver Giant
• Karmic Guide
• Pattern of Rebirth
• Reveillark

Tutors

• Academy Rector - usually puts Pattern of Rebirth into play (needs another creature)
• Birthing Pod - honestly not amazing but still you can usually get a good advantage out of it
• Demonic Tutor
• Diabolic Intent
• Eladamri's Call
• Enlightened Tutor - usually finds Survival, but can also find Animate Dead or Pattern of Rebirth
• Entomb
• Fauna Shaman
• Green Sun's Zenith
• Imperial Seal
• Shred Memory
• Survival of the Fittest - best card in the deck, never play it without access to G
• Vampiric Tutor
• Weathered Wayfarer
• Worldly Tutor

Hate

• Aven Mindcensor - very annoying for all of your opponents, especially because they can't tutor for removal. Note that you can find this with Survival and flash it in in response to a tutor
• Containment Priest - powerful against most unfair creature-based strategies, can be flashed in with Survival. It's not a huge deal that it shuts us down, since a sac outlet is necessary to perform the combo anyway
• Eidolon of Rhetoric - slows the table down (completely hoses storm) until we can combo
• Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite - shuts down many creature-based strategies (Azami, Narset, Prossh, Hermit Druid), good Loyal Retainers target
• Gaddock Teeg - only really good against big spell decks, but can be GSZed into
• Kataki, War's Wage - slows down fast mana, keeps other stax decks from establishing hard locks
• Linvala, Keeper of Silence - necessary against many commanders
• Peacekeeper - one of our only answers to aggro decks
• Spirit of the Labyrinth - we're not often drawing many cards a turn, but this hoses many blue decks, storm, etc. Note that Dark Confidant gets around this ("put into your hand")
• Stony Silence - the ultimate artifact deck hoser

Taxes

• Hokori, Dust Drinker - pretty effective against most decks, it's important to have some mana dorks in play before dropping him
• Thalia, Guardian of Thraben - we're usually running more creatures than anyone else
• Winter Orb - once again, we get around this effect with our mana dorks
• Vryn Wingmare

Ramp

• Avacyn's Pilgrim
• Birds of Paradise
• Carpet of Flowers - if you play against lots of islands or lots of Winter Orbs, you should consider this card
• Chrome Mox
• Deathrite Shaman
• Elves of Deep Shadow
• Elvish Mystic
• Fyndhorn Elves
• Llanowar Elves
• Mana Crypt
• Mox Diamond - not sure how good this is without paris mulligans

Recursion

• Animate Dead
• Dance of the Dead
• Eternal Witness
• Loyal Retainers
• Reanimate
• Sun Titan

Card Draw

• Dark Confidant
• Grim Haruspex - I've been impressed with this, people would generally rather kill a hatebear
• Sensei's Divining Top
• Skullclamp
• Sylvan Library

Removal

• Qasali Pridemage - generally for removing opposing graveyard-hate or Torpor Orb
• Reclamation Sage
• Shriekmaw - sometimes you gotta kill something
• Swords to Plowshares

Sac Outlets

• Altar of Dementia - backup wincon if Blood Artist is exiled
• Viscera Seer

Karador is my favorite commander. I've played hundreds of games and spent countless hours researching other Karador lists and EDH in general. I've tried to record the most important info on this page, but feel free to ask me any questions in the comments. Also, I like when people send me suggestions on what to add, but I love when people suggest what to cut. Lastly, be sure to +1 the deck if you like it or found it helpful!

(You can find my old Karador deck on MTGSalvation)

Date added	10 years
Last updated	3 years
Exclude colors	UR
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 59 - 0 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.16
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