Herbicidal Tendencies - Voltron Stats Alteration

Commander / EDH BG (Golgari) Budget Casual Counters Tokens Voltron

CasualCombos

Creature (22)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Blood Seeker
• 1x Butcher of Malakir
• 1x Clackbridge Troll
• 1x Corpsejack Menace
• 1x Deathbringer Regent
• 1x Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder
• 1x Essence of the Wild
• 1x Falkenrath Noble
• 1x Forgotten Ancient
• 1x Hunted Troll
• 1x Kothophed, Soul Hoarder
• 1x Poison-Tip Archer
• 1x Rot Shambler
• 1x Sangromancer
• 1x Sengir Autocrat
• 1x Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1x Terastodon
• 1x Vindictive Vampire
• 1x Vulturous Zombie
• 1x Winding Constrictor
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Awaken the Erstwhile
• 1x Blood Divination
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Explosive Vegetation
• 1x Find / Finality
• 1x Harmonize
• 1x Infest
• 1x Massacre
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Ruinous Path

Land (35)

• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 12x Forest
• 1x Foul Orchard
• 1x Golgari Guildgate
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Jungle Hollow
• 1x Khalni Garden
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Polluted Mire
• 1x Quicksand
• 1x Slippery Karst
• 10x Swamp
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Tranquil Thicket

Instant (10)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Cast Down
• 1x Deathsprout
• 1x Golgari Charm
• 1x Inspiring Call
• 1x Skeletal Scrying
• 1x Tainted Strike
• 1x Tragic Slip
• 1x Warriors' Lesson
• 1x Wrap in Vigor

Commander (1)

Enchantment (12)

• 1x Aspect of Mongoose
• 1x Canopy Cover
• 1x Deathreap Ritual
• 1x Engineered Plague
• 1x Illness in the Ranks
• 1x Infernal Genesis
• 1x Moldervine Reclamation
• 1x Night of Souls' Betrayal
• 1x Pestilence
• 1x Revel in Riches
• 1x Soul Channeling
• 1x Virulent Plague

Artifact (10)

• 1x Genesis Chamber
• 1x Golgari Locket
• 1x Golgari Signet
• 1x Jar of Eyeballs
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Moss Diamond
• 1x Nuisance Engine
• 1x Ring of Xathrid
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

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From one of the mostly overlooked "B-Team" Commanders of C19 to a fully operational Token Hate Voltron Commander which comes with a DIY Elesh Norn package. At the End of your turn, Grismold, the Dreadsower creates a 1/1 Plant Creature Token for each player. The aim of this deck is to destroy these (and other) tokens immediately to trigger Grismold and the aristrocrat package. Also, if you have this one friend who runs Avenger of Zendikar in every single deck, you make that person very very sad.

Stats Down

Your main tools to permanently lower the stats of creatures on the board are Night of Souls' Betrayal, Virulent Plague, Engineered Plague, Illness in the Ranks, and making use of Pestilence.

Butchered at Birth

Cards like Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder, Nuisance Engine, and Infernal Genesis can create lots of tokens which immediately die to your stats down effects, triggering Grismold, the Dreadsower and tons of other cards.Hunted Troll and Clackbridge Troll become some serious threats in this deck.

Thank you for Dying!

While Blood Seeker pings an opponent for each creature entering the battlefield under his control, some cards profit heavily from Grismold, the Dreadsower + Illness in the Ranks or any other card that does the same thing. Each of your endsteps with these effects in play trigger the following: Syr Konrad, the Grim pings your opponents for 4 damage, Kothophed, Soul Hoarder makes you draw 3 cards and lose 3 life (this works since Grismold states that "each opponent creates" a token), Sangromancer gains you 9 life, Revel in Riches creates three treasures, and Butcher of Malakir makes all opponents sacrifice another creature.

Making everyone very sad

Two cards which are insanely strong in this deck are Essence of the Wild and Awaken the Erstwhile. Essence of the Wild replaces your 1/1 Plant Token which would instantly die with a 6/6, this gets even more disgusting with Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder and Infernal Genesis. Note that the copies are still considered Tokens in these cases and will suffer from Illness in the Ranks and similar effects but you will still get an army of 5/5 or 4/4 creatures out of it.Grismold, the Dreadsower + Awaken the Erstwhile + Virulent Plague = All Players discard their hands, the Zombie Tokens die Immediately and Grismold's stats get slightly out of hand. Tainted Strike can end the game quickly for one of your opponents.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 19 - 0 Rares 40 - 0 Uncommons 17 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.51
Tokens	1/1 B Creature Minion, Beast 3/3 G, Elephant 3-3 G, Faerie 1/1 U, Goat 0/1 W, Myr 1/1 C, 0/1 C Artifact Creature Pest, Plant 0/1 G, Plant 1/1 G, Serf 0/1 B, Thrull 1/1 B, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B