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Mimeoplasm: Mill self, profit!

Commander / EDH* BUG (Sultai)

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I'm updating the description again, because I recently overhauled this deck to change it back to the way it was before. In short, I hated how this deck plays with a landfall theme. Many of the cards that drew upon a land entering or leaving costed too much mana, and it made the deck inconsistent when all it needed to do is find Tireless Tracker each game. Another problem was that in often couldn't win after a Living Death would resolve, leaving me to solitaire by playing lands on my own turn only until I gained enough value to leave countermagic/Cyclonic Rift up, then pass and hope it gets back to me. It wasn't fun for anyone.

Here's the [current] general gameplan with this deck: Ramp early and hard with land based ramp such as Lotus Cobra, Azusa and Exploration, tutor Tireless Tracker or Survival of the Fittest as soon as possible, draw cards based on my creatures power with cards like Greater Good, Momentous Fall and Disciple of Bolas or with Tireless Tracker to continue accelerating, and slowly build the graveyard until I can make an attempt for Victimize or Living Death to win with the combination of Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord + Lord of Extinction . The typical graveyard building cards are Hermit Druid, Mesmeric Orb, Survival of the Fittest and Buried Alive, although drawing copious amounts of cards and discarding them on cleanup step also works. The deck runs enough control to keep people off their gamewinning plans and defend to graveyard, and a lot of grave toolbox cards such as Meren and Havengul Lich to make use of our creatures that die, or better yet, make use of creatures that kill themselves, such as Mulldrifter, Sakura-Tribe Elder, and Plaguecrafter. There are also plenty of cards in the deck with the soul purpose of accruing value, such as Seedborn Muse, or combos such as Alchemist's Refuge + Seedborn Muse to maintain control of the game and maximize the ability to use other tricky cards such as Trickbind and Glen Elendra Archmage.

Trick to keep in mind with Buried Alive: The three cards I usually get with it are Rune-Scarred Demon, Body Double, and Krosan Tusker. From there, I play the commander, Mimeoplasm, to copy Body Double with counters equal to Krosan Tusker, making a 12/12 flying demon that does commander damage. Now, what to get depends on if we already have one of the card-drawing engines going on or not, but if my hand is empty, I usually get Momentous Fall. The reason for this is that people tend to get scared of Mimeoplasm if they don't have a way of dealing with flying, and remove it. So, in this case, it's best to get an instant speed response, attack to bait the removal spell, and then sac it to Momentous Fall, which was the plan all along. With one of our land drop increasing cards, drawing that much usually puts us on a path to victory.

I suppose I would be remiss is I did not mention another one of my favorite combos from the deck, Greater Good + Meren of Clan Nel Toth + Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath . Once enough experience is earned, which is fairly easy to do, Uro can be recurred straight to the battlefield repeatedly with Meren. Now, this is already pretty decent, getting Uro's etb every turn, but what really kicks it into high gear is Greater Good. Since sacrificing Uro not escaping is a trigger, we can respond to it by sacrificing it to Greater Good, making the etb turn into Draw 7, discard 3, put a land into play, and gain 3 life. It's a little bit difficult to pull off, but if we do, we get all this value for zero mana every turn. Quite good.

I greatly prefer how the deck plays now to the previous version. The trickiness and emphasis of finding the right pieces to build engines is much more fun the solitairing on my own turn. However, recently I've been having problem; no matter how many times I goldfish it or play it in a pod, I cannot seem to find good opening hands. This has been happening quite a bit, where my opening hand has no early game cards, or it doesn't have enough lands. It's quite perplexing; maybe some of the synergy pieces need to be cut for more ways of getting lands or more cheap grave setup cards like Careful Study, because it's exceedingly rare that I get the right combination of cards early game unless my pod allows me to mulligan like 5 times.

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Revision 34 See all

(2 weeks ago)

+1 Compulsive Research side
Date added 9 years
Last updated 2 weeks
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This deck is Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

7 - 1 Mythic Rares

52 - 0 Rares

15 - 0 Uncommons

12 - 1 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 3.39
Tokens Beast 3/3 G, City's Blessing, Clue, Experience Token, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders 8-Deck EDH Pod, All Commander Deck I Actually Own IRL
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