Mind Rack (Nath Budget)

Commander / EDH* BG (Golgari) Budget Discard Pox Stax Tokens

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Discard (13)

• 1x Bottomless Pit
• 1x Dark Deal
• 1x Delirium Skeins
• 1x Mind Slash
• 1x Mind Twist
• 1x Necrogen Mists
• 1x Nezumi Bone-Reader
• 1x Oppression
• 1x Persecute
• 1x Sadistic Hypnotist
• 1x Tasigur's Cruelty
• 1x Unnerve
• 1x Words of Waste

Stax (8)

• 1x Anowon, the Ruin Sage
• 1x Descent into Madness
• 1x Desolation
• 1x Magus of the Abyss
• 1x Meekstone
• 1x Pox
• 1x Smallpox
• 1x Smokestack

Land (37)

• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 15x Forest
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Jungle Hollow
• 17x Swamp
• 1x Vivid Marsh
• 1x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip

Ramp (12)

• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Archdruid
• 1x Explosive Vegetation
• 1x Farhaven Elf
• 1x From Beyond
• 1x Joraga Treespeaker
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Marwyn, the Nurturer
• 1x Priest of Titania
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Wood Elves

Draw (9)

• 1x Bloodgift Demon
• 1x Geth's Grimoire
• 1x Graveborn Muse
• 1x Moldervine Reclamation
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Smothering Abomination
• 1x Syphon Mind
• 1x Vampiric Rites
• 1x Waste Not

Wincon (6)

• 1x Death Cloud
• 1x Ezuri, Renegade Leader
• 1x Overrun
• 1x Overwhelming Stampede
• 1x The Haunt of Hightower
• 1x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip

Commander (1)

Removal (12)

• 1x Attrition
• 1x Bane of Progress
• 1x Barter in Blood
• 1x Creeping Corrosion
• 1x Eyeblight's Ending
• 1x Force of Vigor
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Putrefy
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Rend Flesh
• 1x Seeds of Innocence
• 1x Tragic Slip

Tokens (5)

• 1x Creakwood Liege
• 1x From Beyond
• 1x Imperious Perfect
• 1x Sylvan Offering
• 1x Waste Not

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Budget Nath Stax. The game plan of the deck is to keep opponents in topdeck mode while pumping out tokens ( Parallel Lives ), which can also be sac'd for value / keeping the lock. The Deck wants to ramp up fast to Nath, then quickly empty hands.

It wins through either powering through tokens faster than the opponent can keep up due to stax effects ( Pox , Death Cloud , Smokestack , Desolation , Descent into Madness ), or by overwhelming the enemy with trample on a token army ( Overwhelming Stampede , Overrun , Beastmaster Ascension ).

It's important to be emptying hands quickly and effectively as you will be drawing a lot of hate. The ramp is heavy and, importantly, creature and land based, running no rocks and very few artifacts. One reason is, we need lots of lands and creatures for when Death Cloud goes off. But also, Nath's weak point when Death Cloud goes off is artifact mana opponents may have, which is why the deck is packed with mass artifact removal ( Bane of Progress , Seeds of Innocence , Creeping Corrosion ).

Null Rod is an optional upgrade for higher budget that would shine in this deck, as is Bitterblossom .

Date added	8 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 28 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.29
Tokens	Eldrazi Scion 1/1 C, Elf Warrior 1/1 G, Human Cleric 1/1 BW, Treefolk X/X G, Worm 1/1 BG, Zombie 2/2 B
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