Mamba Madness *PRIMER*

Commander / EDH BG (Golgari) Bracket 3

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Creature (30)

• 1x Ammit Eternal
• 1x Aphelia, Viper Whisperer
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Carnifex Demon
• 1x Channeler Initiate
• 1x Chatterfang, Squirrel General
• 1x Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Fynn, the Fangbearer
• 1x Hooded Blightfang
• 1x Jaheira, Friend of the Forest
• 1x Maha, Its Feathers Night
• 1x Massacre Girl, Known Killer
• 1x Meren of Clan Nel Toth
• 1x Mirkwood Bats
• 1x Necroskitter
• 1x Obelisk Spider
• 1x Ohran Frostfang
• 1x Pitiless Plunderer
• 1x Plaguemaw Beast
• 1x Poison-Tip Archer
• 1x Seshiro the Anointed
• 1x Spitting Dilophosaurus
• 1x Toski, Bearer of Secrets
• 1x Ulvenwald Tracker
• 1x Vhati il-Dal
• 1x Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Incremental Blight
• 1x Maelstrom Pulse
• 1x Three Visits

Land (35)

• 1x Ancient TombGC
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 7x Forest
• 1x Gaea's CradleGC
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 7x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Temple of Malady
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Undergrowth Stadium
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Woodland Cemetery
• 1x Yavimaya Hollow

Artifact (7)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Contagion Engine
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Viridian Longbow

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Vraska, Golgari Queen

Commander (1)

Enchantment (11)

• 1x Beastmaster Ascension
• 1x Blowfly Infestation
• 1x Cryptolith Rite
• 1x Exploration
• 1x Grave Betrayal
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Moldervine Reclamation
• 1x Nest of Scarabs
• 1x Parallel Lives
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x The Meathook Massacre

Instant (8)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Grim Affliction
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Putrefy
• 1x Splendid Agony
• 1x Sudden Spoiling
• 1x Worldly Tutor

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Welcome to Mamba Madness {B}{G}

Hi there! Welcome to the primer of this Golgari, wither, snake-token deck; commanded by Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons. For millennia, the plane of Amonkhet has been ruled over by a vast pantheon of ancient gods. During this time, while the gods protected it from outside influences, they battled amongst themselves often, and many a war was fought during their continual quest for more power. One such god, Rhonas (the god of Strength), found himself seeking the council of mortals, to gain an edge in tactical thinking outside the viewpoint of those whose existence by default was everlasting. The potential benefits of such aid were plentiful; especially since its usefulness would probably escape the notice of aloof deities, that considered mortal beings only worthy of notice when they paid them tribute. Rhonas’ quest led him to discover a human woman, whose political insights, natural leadership skills and quirky sense of humor impressed him. Combined with a vast intelligence, excellent skill at poison-craft, and her aptitude at extracting various lethal venoms from a variety of animals (most notably, snakes), he found in her a counselor and assassin that served his needs.

Unfortunately, during Hapatra’s tenure in these roles, Rhonas was killed by the Scorpion God. After zombification by Bolas, Rhonas was killed again by Gideon and his Blackblade. This left Hapatra masterless, but definitely not powerless. Quite the opposite, in fact. Rhonas had repaid her service, by granting her magical means to vastly increase the potency of her powers and skills. Now, the lethality of her poisons could not be matched by any other mortal. Her favorite was not just deadly and withering, but contained a magical ability to create venomous snakes out of the life-force the poison drained from its victims. This proved so effective, that the many creatures that make up her private army, have now coated their weapons, claws and fangs with it. So, one had best be careful not to provoke her, in order to prevent one from being overwhelmed by a poisonous, writhing mass of scales and fangs!

This deck is meant to be played casually. It’s not meant to be used in a competitive fashion, but of course anyone is welcome to try! Feel free to comment on anything you (dis)like throughout this primer; hope you will enjoy it!

Why Hapatra?

Deathtouch is arguably one of the best, most feared creature abilities out there, because it insta-kills anything non-indestructible that blocks it. Now imagine you’re not facing a few creatures with said ability, but an entire army of them AND their master who can create more of them based on just granting other creatures -1/-1 counters. This is a rather terrifying prospect for opponents by itself, but it gets even better. Hapatra has CMC2, which ensures she can hit the field well before most other commanders can. It’s quite likely, that this will lead to the first deathtouch snakes arriving during turn three. Her cheap casting cost also makes her relatively easy to resummon, in the event she gets killed.

Strengths and Weaknesses

The following parameters have been used to determine the strength of the deck. For each, a score of 5 (very good), 4 (good), 3 (mediocre), 2 (bad) or 1 (very bad) has been allocated; when totalized this score represents the power rating of the deck.

• Mana: indicates the availability of mana sources within the deck.
• Ramp: indicates the speed at which mana sources within the deck can be made available.
• Card Advantage: indicates availability of filter- and draw resources represented within the deck.
• Overall speed: indicates the deck’s potential for pace, based on resource availability and mana curve.
• Combo: indicates the measure of combo-orientation of the deck.
• Army: indicates the deck’s creature-army strength.
• Commander: indicates how much the deck is commander-oriented/dependent (less dependency is better).
• Resilience: indicates the measure in which the deck can prevent and take punches.
• Spellpower: indicates the availability and strength of high-impact spells.

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Mana: 3

Just a few mana resources in this one, as the average casting cost of stuff in this deck isn’t that high, nor does it need lots of mana for activating abilities. In total, it features three dorks, two rocks, one card that can generate mana through exiling lands, two cards that enable tokens to generate mana by tapping and one card that generates treasure based on creatures dying.

Ramp: 2

As mentioned in the previous section, this deck isn’t in a grand hurry to conjure up large sums of mana, so the same goes for additional lands. Therefore, it only contain three ramp options (one of which, can be repeated every turn).

Card Advantage: 4

The ability to draw on lots of new stuff during games, is what makes EDH-decks exciting to play (more so than modern- or standard decks, because every card in them is unique). Seven options to draw more cards are in here, six of which are repeatable. On top of this, the deck includes three tutors and two cards with which opposing permanents can be stolen.

Overall speed: 4

Kick-starting this deck is relatively easy, mostly because of how fast Snakey-lady can join the field. Once she has arrived, a multitude of steps can be taken to increase the deck’s battlefield presence fast. Let’s also not forget, that the deck has some cheap teeth in the form of non-permanents to fight off the opposition. Combine this with a modicum of good resources, and one is in for a treat, performance-wise.

Combo: 2

A few have been included, to spice things up a little. Most of them resolve around getting infinite ETB/LTB triggers and use that for draining purposes, forcing opponents to sacrifice all their stuff or to simple draw one’s deck.

Army: 4

Though the deck doesn’t contain much in terms of battlecruisers, boy do its creatures have an impact on the state of things. Aside from card:Hapatra, Vizier of Poison|Hapatra’s snakes, which are terrifying enough by themselves, many creatures in here have the power to wither others into oblivion. These are supported by a plethora of drainers, assassins and token generators.

Commander: 3

Without its commander, this deck can still mess things up brilliantly when facing opposing decks. However, her ability to generate creatures with deathtouch makes life a lot easier, so it’s definitely preferably to have her around, versus her not being there at all.

Interaction: 5

The bread and butter of this deck! In order to get snakes, the deck needs wither effects; preferably wither effects that can be deployed on opposing forces. Twelve of these have been included, along with a few that can only be used on the deck’s own creatures (hey, these still generate snakes!). A lot of creatures are expected to die, so abilities that drain opponents as a result of that are legion (nine options). Aside from this, the deck contains some destruction options, some forced sacrifice and some theft.

Resilience: 4

Quite a decent amount of life-gain going on in this deck; nine different options. Aside from that, two recursion cards have been included.

Spellpower: 3

A bit more focus on permanents rather than one-use spells, but still, some honorable mentions should go out to a few very strong enchantments and sorceries which can cause mass opposing sacrifice, mass draw, mass drain, mass wither and mass boost.

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Total power score: 34

We can safely say that this deck will perform admirably in most circumstances. Plenty of resources to go around, great at destroying opposing stuff while creating an excellent board-presence for itself; all without the need for copious amounts of prerequisites. Facing discard-, mill- or spell-slinging decks could in some cases prove problematic for it, but most other strategies can be dealt with.

General strategy

Primarily, this deck aims to win through the application of combat damage to opponents. In order to reach them more easily, we either need to get rid of opposing creatures that block our way OR we need to make them very reluctant to block our creatures in the first place. Fortunately, Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons can help us with both, in that she can generate snakes with the deathtouch ability, which makes blocking (or getting blocked by) them a very perilous endeavor.

Secondly, the deck aims to profit from the deaths of its creatures as well as the deaths of opposing creatures. For this, it’s not even strictly necessary to attack with the snakes generated by Hapatra (although we still definitely want them to be created though). Profit from their deaths can be obtained in terms of mana, card-draw, token generation and most notably, lots and lots of pain, forced-sacrifice and drain!

In general, we’re going to try and aim for an early Hapatra, with the first snakes appearing soon after she’s entered the field. These can be brought forth through the allocation of -1/-1 tokens, which can be done by other creatures, but also through the use of non-permanents. Snakes will be kept as defenders at first, while the deck builds up in other ways; namely through resources that benefit from creatures dying. Once these have arrived, the deck will switch to offensive mode and wreack havoc with opposing creatures before drowning opponents in scales and fangs.

Starting hand

At least three cards in the starting hand ought to be lands (or two lands and a cheap-to-cast rock (like Arcane Signet or Sol Ring) or a cheap ramp card like Exploration, Nature's Lore or Three Visits. It is recommended not to start a game without this hand; even if one has to mulligan down to three cards. The ideal hand would also contain some additional ramp and/or low-cost draw options or maybe a cheap life-gain opportunity.

Early game

During the first phase of a game, this deck will strive to accomplish the summoning of Hapatra to the field at the earliest convenience and get some snake-generation kicked off. We want this happening early, because most players will be very reluctant to engage opponents that can block with deathtouch; especially during early game phases as losses sustained are harder to recover from. If at all possible, we’ll also try to obtain spells that allow us to benefit from the deaths of creatures.

Some basic resources should appear first. Aside from the ones mentioned above, try to get a dork online, like Birds of Paradise, Channeler Initiate or Elves of Deep Shadow. If you have enough mana on turn two to summon Hapatra, do it (more resourcing can wait for the subsequent turns). During the turn after Hapatra arrived, try to use her in an attack against an opponent who doesn’t have defenses yet OR use a spell/other creature that distributes -1/-1 tokens, to have Hapatra generate her first deathtouch snake. Some good creatures to start with include Ammit Eternal, Baleful Ammit, Necroskitter and Obelisk Spider. We can also use enchantments to help out, like Blowfly Infestation, or even non-permanents like Grim Affliction and Splendid Agony.

For some early reactions on deaths that either benefit us or harms the opposition, we can have Blood Artist, Pitiless Plunderer, Poison-Tip Archer, Zulaport Cutthroat or even Meren of Clan Nel Toth enter the field.

Mid-game

When some defenses have been put in place, it’s time to use any surplus snakes Hapatra can generate in some other creative ways than just as attackers or blockers. First off, we can use them as mana dorks, should the occasion call for it, by summoning cards like Cryptolith Rite or Jaheira, Friend of the Forest. We can also use them to eliminate creatures without actually attacking/blocking with them. The snakes can assassinate other creatures in a ‘fight’, orchestrated by Ulvenwald Tracker. Another way path to assassination, is to equip one of the snakes with Viridian Longbow (as weird as that sounds).

Attacking with the non-surplus snakes however, should continue and should be made more effective when possible. The snakes’ deathtouch-ability for instance, can be exploited via Fynn, the Fangbearer or Hooded Blightfang. When snakes die as the result of an attack, they can still cause havoc amongst opposing lines when they’re being supported by cards like Dictate of Erebos and Grave Pact. In case the snakes connect directly with opponents and deal damage, we can increase the usefulness of this by having it result in more draw for us, through cards like Seshiro the Anointed or Toski, Bearer of Secrets.

By now, the amount of -1/-1 counters that can be distributed per turn has increased. With Hapatra around, this leads to even more snakes. Creatures within the deck that can contribute to this include Carnifex Demon, Massacre Girl, Known Killer and Plaguemaw Beast. Contagion Engine can greatly expand on the counter-distribution as well. Then there are non-permanents like Black Sun's Zenith and Incremental Blight that can really apply the wither-hurt. The reward of all these efforts can be doubled, by getting Parallel Lives onto the battlefield. There’s other token generators in the deck that benefit from this too, like Chatterfang, Squirrel General and Nest of Scarabs.

End-game

It’s time to end things. With enough creatures around, we can summon Craterhoof Behemoth or cast a huge Finale of Devastation and attack with an army of humungous snakes. We can also ensure nothing that gets killed by our snakes ever truly dies and comes back into our service through the use of Grave Betrayal. Once opposing creatures have been dealt with, the ultimate ability of Vraska, Golgari Queen can also be used to kill off opponents. In cases where that’s still not good enough, one of the deck’s infinite combos can deal the killing blow.

Combos

• Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons/Nest of Scarabs + Blowfly Infestation: Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons/Nest of Scarabs must be on the battlefield and Blowfly Infestation must be on the battlefield. You control at least two other creatures with toughness equal to one. You have a way to put a -1/-1 counter on a creature.
  1. Put a -1/-1 counter on any creature you control with toughness equal to one.
  2. The creature dies as a state-based action due to having zero toughness.
  3. Hapatra/Nest and Blowfly Infestation trigger.
  4. Resolve the Hapatra trigger, creating a 1/1 Snake creature token.
  5. Resolve the Blowfly Infestation trigger, putting a -1/-1 counter on any creature you control with toughness equal to one.
  Rinse and repeat for infinite death triggers, infinite ETB’s and infinite LTB’s.
• Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons/Nest of Scarabs + Yawgmoth, Thran Physician + Blood Artist/Zulaport Cutthroat: Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons/Nest of Scarabs must be on the battlefield. Yawgmoth, Thran Physician must be on the battlefield. Blood Artist/Zulaport Cutthroat must be on the battlefield. You control at least one additional creature. Your life total is at least 2. An opponent controls a creature.
  1. Activate Yawgmoth by paying 1 life and sacrificing a creature, targeting any creature an opponent controls.
  2. The sacrificed creature dies, triggering Zulaport Cutthroat, causing each opponent to lose 1 life and you to gain 1 life.
  3. Resolve the Yawgmoth ability, putting a -1/-1 counter on a creature an opponent controls, and causing you to draw a card.
  4. Hapatra's second ability triggers, creating a 1/1 Snake creature token.
  Repeat. This can destroy all creatures opponents control, destroy any creature that enters the battlefield under an opponent's control, infinite -1/-1 counters, near-infinite card draw, near-infinite death triggers, near-infinite draw triggers, near-infinite ETB, near-infinite life-gain triggers, near-infinite life loss, near-infinite LTB and near-infinite sacrifice triggers.
• Devoted Druid + Quillspike: Devoted Druid must be on the battlefield. Quillspike must be on the battlefield. Devoted Druid does not have summoning sickness.
  1. Activate Devoted Druid's first ability by tapping it, adding {G}.
  2. Activate Devoted Druid's second ability by putting a -1/-1 counter on it, untapping itself.
  3. Activate Quillspike by paying {G} and removing a -1/-1 counter from Devoted Druid, giving Quillspike +3/+3 until end of turn.
  Repeat for an infinitely large Quillspike until the end of turn.
• Chatterfang, Squirrel General + Pitiless Plunderer: Chatterfang, Squirrel General must be on the battlefield. Pitiless Plunderer must be on the battlefield. You control at least two additional Squirrels. Mana needed: {B}.
  1. Activate Chatterfang by paying {B} and sacrificing two other Squirrels.
  2. The Squirrels die, triggering Pitiless Plunderer twice, creating two Treasure tokens and two 1/1 Squirrel tokens.
  3. Activate a Treasure token by tapping and sacrificing it, adding {B}.
  Repeat. Resolve all Chatterfang abilities, causing any number of target creatures to get +2/-2 until end of turn any number of times. Infinite colored mana, infinite death triggers, infinite ETB, infinite LTB, infinite sacrifice triggers, infinite treasure tokens. Reduce all opponents' creatures to 0 toughness.

Card Choices

Lands

Reliable sources of mana, and some utility:

• Ancient Tomb: access to more mana at the cost of some life.
• Bloodstained Mire/Marsh Flats/Misty Rainforest/Verdant Catacombs/Windswept Heath/Wooded Foothills: the lands used to filter through the deck, which makes it easier to find cards that impact strategy quicker.
• Command Tower/Exotic Orchard/Mana Confluence/Reflecting Pool: great all-color mana lands that have very few disadvantages in their use.
• Gaea's Cradle: generation of mana based on all critters (including the snakes).
• Llanowar Wastes/Tainted Wood/Temple of Malady/Twilight Mire/Undergrowth Stadium/Woodland Cemetery: lands that provide Golgari mana, that depending in circumstances enter the battlefield tapped or untapped. The best MTG has to offer on this front has been incorporated, except for the original dual lands which are outside most players’ price-range.
• Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth: just some mana-fixing, in case it’s needed.
• Westvale Abbey  : sacrifice a few tiny creatures for one very dangerous, big one.
• Yavimaya Hollow: a great tool to keep valuable creatures alive and kicking.

Mana and ramp

The cards used to accelerate mana-availability:

• Arcane Signet: cheap-to-cast, comes into play untapped and grants Golgari mana.
• Birds of Paradise: one of the most quintessential dorks in MTG; excellent in multi-color decks that feature green.
• Channeler Initiate: more beneficial to summon after Hapatra joins the field.
• Cryptolith Rite: let’s make all our creatures mana sources.
• Elves of Deep Shadow: some black mana (for a bit of life).
• Exploration: grants a lot of opportunity to play more lands per turn-cycle when this deck is used in the most common occurring EDH-playgroup size of four players.
• Jaheira, Friend of the Forest: tokens ought to be mana sources too.
• Nature's Lore/Three Visits: cheap-to-cast, green ramp spells; some of which bring untapped lands onto the battlefield.
• Pitiless Plunderer: none of our creatures will die in vain.
• Sol Ring: are there EDH decks without this card?

Card Advantage

The mechanisms that provide card advantage:

• Diabolic Intent: so THAT’s the only thing keeping me from the perfect card? Sold!
• Finale of Devastation: a tutor that can make all the deck’s creatures explode with power.
• Grave Betrayal: one of the most evil cards imaginable to steal all opposing creatures as soon as they die.
• Moldervine Reclamation: for EVERY death, this deck gets to draw and gets life.
• Necroskitter: so much fun to combine with wither-powers.
• Ohran Frostfang: not just the snakes have deathtouch now, and it all elicits draws!
• Phyrexian Arena: consistent additional draw at the start of every turn.
• Seshiro the Anointed: when snakes connect, this deck gets to draw.
• Skullclamp: equip it to a snake, watch the snake die, draw two cards. Simple.
• Toski, Bearer of Secrets: you’d better not let these creatures through, it’ll make you lose even faster.
• Worldly Tutor: any creature we need, gets dug out of our library and put on top.
• Yawgmoth, Thran Physician: an excellent producer of -1/-1 counters that enables draw at the same time.

Wither

Let the -1/-1 counters flow!

• Ammit Eternal: not particularly long for this world, especially in larger play-groups, but that’s ok; he leaves a progeny of snakes behind when he goes (in case Hapatra is around).
• Black Sun's Zenith: this card has the potential to be a snaky-Armageddon starter.
• Blowfly Infestation: it died and now passes on its disease to something else.
• Carnifex Demon: potentially infects lots of (opposing) creatures with terrible disease.
• Contagion Engine: everything just got a lot sicker.
• Grim Affliction: it looks bad, and it might get worse!
• Incremental Blight: you’re sick! You’re sicker! And you … you’re terminal!
• Massacre Girl, Known Killer: when it comes to the spreading of disease, you’ve got to let the professional handle it.
• Obelisk Spider: placing -1/-1 counters just got particularly lethal.
• Plaguemaw Beast: potentially sacrifice one snake, to generate many!
• Spitting Dilophosaurus: stunning them, so that it becomes easier to eat them.
• Splendid Agony: making the multiverse a sicker place.

Damage and destruction

Some things we just cannot allow continuing to exist.

• Abrupt Decay: hide your low-cmc but high-value stuff!
• Assassin's Trophy: it dies … but have a land.
• Grave Pact: we lose some, you lose some.
• Krosan Grip: forget about it, it’s as good as gone.
• Maelstrom Pulse: non-land permanents beware! Especially when there’s more than one of the same.
• Putrefy: it’s not just gone, … it’s already rotten!
• The Meathook Massacre: unfortunately, it’s massive debuf ability is not an actual wither-effect, but it’s still plenty powerful; not to mention what it does when stuff actually dies.
• Ulvenwald Tracker: it matches up opposing creatures to deathtouch creatures; turning such a confrontation into a draw at least.

Pain

• Blood Artist: whenever something dies, he extracts their controllers’ blood to paint art.
• Hooded Blightfang: deals a crazy amount of damage (and gets us a similar amount of life) whenever Hapatra’s snakes attack.
• Mirkwood Bats: the many, many tokens that are created and killed in this deck will lead to so much drain with these winged pals.
• Poison-Tip Archer: her arrows dipped in something lethal, ready to strike your stuff dead.
• Zulaport Cutthroat: unlike Artist, he drains all, instead of just one.

Boosts, Protection, Tokens and Utility

All the wonderful cards we couldn’t fit in any of the above categories:

• Aphelia, Viper Whisperer: Hapatra can use some help when it comes to generating Snakes; not to mention with the distributing of more pain than one can possibly imagine!
• Beastmaster Ascension: potentially turns the deck’s snakes into much stronger behemoths (not to mention the rest of the creatures in there).
• Chatterfang, Squirrel General: every snake comes with a free squirrel! Also synergizes well with treasure token generation.
• Craterhoof Behemoth: picture an army of fifty, poisonous 6-feet snakes. Got it? Good. Now picture that same thing, only this time the snakes are 50 times bigger!
• Deathrite Shaman: the ultimate recycling enabler, using opposing graveyards for raw materials.
• Fynn, the Fangbearer: the snakes just got twice as poisonous.
• Lightning Greaves/Swiftfoot Boots: Hapatra’s footwear; excellent for evading opposing spells.
• Maha, Its Feathers Night: makes it very easy to kill creatures with -1/-1 counters.
• Meren of Clan Nel Toth: death is final? Nah!
• Nest of Scarabs: with disease come flesh-eating insects, intent on devouring your innards.
• Parallel Lives: more tokens? Hell yes!
• Sudden Spoiling: the answer to: how do we kill creatures with hexproof and indestructible?
• Vhati il-Dal: a 10/10 requires a lot of -1/-1 counters to kill off, but a 10/1 creature only requires one.
• Viridian Longbow: equip this to creature with deathtouch and watch opposing creatures crumble.
• Vraska the Unseen: both with ultimate abilities that can potentially end games within a few turns.

Notable exclusions

• Corrosive Mentor: considered but not added because only black creatures would be affected (which would exclude all of Hapatra’s snakes).
• Crumbling Ashes: currently looking for one, haven’t come across one yet.
• Flourishing Defenses: fun but the deck already features plenty of cheaper token generation.
• Generous Patron: very cool card, but there’s enough card-advantage opportunity in the deck for now. If it’s ever found lacking, this card will be seriously considered.
• Second Harvest: nice card to suddenly double snake tokens, but hasn’t really been needed thus far while operating the deck; it already seems to generate plenty of tokens without this.
• Stinging Shot: excellent card, but too specific as it needs a flying creature before it becomes effective.
• Triumph of the Hordes: has been banned by our playgroup.
• Wickerbough Elder: was part of the deck in the past, but traded in for a cheaper non-permanent that could get rid of cards.

Thank you for reading!

Appreciate the time you took to read this primer. Hopefully it was entertaining and useful to you. If so, feel free to leave a +1 and/or feedback of any kind in the comments below. Thanks again!

Date added	1 week
Last updated	6 days
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	16 - 0 Mythic Rares 44 - 0 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.05
Tokens	Emblem Vraska, Golgari Queen, Experience Token, Human Cleric 1/1 WB, Insect 1/1 B, Snake 1/1 B, Snake 1/1 G, Snake 1/1 G w/ Deathtouch, Squirrel 1/1 G, Treasure