Samsara

Commander / EDH Mono-Black

Aggronomics

Creature (26)

• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Blood Pet
• 1x Bloodghast
• 1x Butcher of Malakir
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Changeling Outcast
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Crypt Rats
• 1x Cryptbreaker
• 1x Doom Whisperer
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x God-Eternal Bontu
• 1x Gravecrawler
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Merciless Executioner
• 1x Nirkana Revenant
• 1x Pawn of Ulamog
• 1x Phyrexian Rager
• 1x Pitiless Plunderer
• 1x Plaguecrafter
• 1x Razaketh, the Foulblooded
• 1x Reassembling Skeleton
• 1x Vilis, Broker of Blood
• 1x Walking Ballista
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Artifact (13)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Bontu's Monument
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Desecrated Tomb
• 1x Genesis Chamber
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Jar of Eyeballs
• 1x Jet Medallion
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mindcrank
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Tormod's Crypt

Enchantment (10)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Arguel's Blood Fast  ^Flip
• 1x Bitterblossom
• 1x Carnival of Souls
• 1x Dark Tutelage
• 1x Dreadhorde Invasion
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Kaya's Ghostform
• 1x Open the Graves
• 1x Zombie Infestation

Instant (5)

• 1x Ad Nauseam
• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Commander (1)

Sorcery (11)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Finale of Eternity
• 1x Increasing Ambition
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Torment of Hailfire

Land (34)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 28x Swamp
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

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Samsara: How to Combo

Pieces to the Puzzle

Five Roles for the Combo

Rather than there being specific cards that create a combo ( Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Pestermite ), this combo has specific roles that can be filled by multiple different cards and the cards that fit each role can create a combo with any of the other cards in the other roles.

If each role is filled, then you've created an infinite loop!

There are a couple of situations where you'll need either an extra token producer or someway to gain life in order to not kill yourself off of ETB triggers

There are five roles that need to be filled for an infinite loop to be created:

1. Token Producers: Open the Graves ; Desecrated Tomb ; Genesis Chamber ; Pawn of Ulamog
2. Recursive Creatures: Bloodsoaked Champion ; Tenacious Dead ; Reassembling Skeleton ; Gravecrawler
3. Sacrifice Outlets: Krav, the Unredeemed ; Razaketh, the Foulblooded ; Phyrexian Altar ; Ashnod's Altar
4. Mana Producers: Pitiless Plunderer ; Carnival of Souls ; Phyrexian Altar
5. Win Conditions: Bontu's Monument ; Zulaport Cutthroat ; Blood Artist ; Exsanguinate ; Torment of Hailfire ; Walking Ballista

Even though all of these lead to a five card combo, it has a high amount of repetitive combo pieces. When you have one card of each category out, you create an infinite loop. No matter how you mix them, they will almost always create an infinite loop that will lead you to:

• Creating infinite mana
• Drawing our entire deck
• Draining your opponents

Even if we don’t somehow acquire the pieces necessary to create a loop, our deck’s goal is to just get as much value from our creatures as possible- via finite or infinite methods.

Step-by-Step Process of a Loop

The Field

Genesis Chamber (GC)

Ashnod's Altar (AA)

Reassembling Skeleton (RS)

Pitiless Plunderer (PP)

Zulaport Cutthroat (ZC)

The Step-by-Step Process of a Loop

1. Sacrifice RS to AA.
Triggers
• PP> +1 Treasure
• AA> +2
• ZC> +1 life, opponents -1 life
Result
• +1 treasure
• +2
2. Sacrifice treasure for , pay to return RS to the battlefield
Triggers
• GC> +1 myr
Result
• -1 treasure; -1
• +1 myr
3. Sacrifice Myr and RS to AA
Triggers
• 2x PP> +2 treasure
• 2x AA> +4
• 2x ZC> +2 life, opponents -2 life
Result
• +2 treasure
• +4
4. Sacrifice the treasure for , pay to return RS to the battlefield
Triggers
• GC> +1 Myr
Result
• -1 treasure
• -1
• +1 Myr
5. Sacrifice the Myr and RS to AA
Triggers
• 2x PP> +2 treasure
• 2x AA> +4
• 2x ZC> +2 life, opponents -2 life
Result
• +2 treasure
• +4

Overall Results of the Loop

• Every time that we complete the aforementioned loop, we get +1 Treasure and +3, along with Zulaport Cutthroat draining our opponents each time we sacrifice Reassembling Skeleton or a Myr token.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 30 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.77
Tokens	Bat 1/1 B, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Faerie Rogue 1/1 B, Morph 2/2 C, Myr 1/1 C, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie Army 0/0 B