Scion Druid Win

Commander / EDH* Combo Competitive Five Color

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Instant (25)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Ad Nauseam
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Memory's Journey
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Pull from Eternity
• 1x Shallow Grave
• 1x Silence
• 1x Spell Pierce
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Sorcery (13)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Postmortem Lunge
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Regrowth
• 1x Sylvan Tutor
• 1x Timetwister
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Wheel of Fortune

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Survival of the Fittest
• 1x Sylvan Library

Artifact (5)

• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Sol Ring

Creature (18)

• 1x Apprentice Necromancer
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Dark Confidant
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Devoted Druid
• 1x Fatestitcher
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Hermit Druid
• 1x Lotleth Troll
• 1x Moltensteel Dragon
• 1x Morselhoarder
• 1x Narcomoeba
• 1x Necrotic Ooze
• 1x Niv-Mizzet, Dracogenius
• 1x Noble Hierarch
• 1x Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon
• 1x Worldgorger Dragon

Land (31)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Badlands
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Gemstone Caverns
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Taiga
• 1x Tarnished Citadel
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Commander (1)

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Maybeboard

Instant (5)

• 1x Ad Nauseam
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mental Misstep

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Windfall

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Necropotence

Artifact (1)

• 1x Sensei's Divining Top

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Fully optimized Hermit Druid combo deck. It wins by turn 3 95% of the time in a vacuum. Turn one wins are difficult, but possible with the proper starting hand.

The strategy is simple: Activate Hermit Druid, win. A single activaiton pitches the entire library and puts Narcomoeba into play. Fatestitcher can also be unearthed if a third creature is needed. Dread Return is then cast from graveyard targeting Necrotic Ooze. Several other important creatures will be entombed alongside Necrotic Ooze, namely Morselhoarder and Devoted Druid. Together, they form an infinite mana combo. From there, it's a simply matter of Nooze killing everyone through infinite activations of Niv-Mizzet, Dracogenius . Any important parts of the combo that accidentally wind up in hand can be discarded via Lotleth Troll.

The great thing about this combo is that it can be assembled a multitude of ways. Aside from Druid and Cephalid Illusionist + Lightning Greaves, it can also be put into play using Intuition, Buried Alive, Survival of the Fittest, and fauana shaman. Getting Devoted Druid and Hoarder into the GY and Nooze into play via casting or reanimating is all it takes. From there, Scion can be cast. He entombs Skyrthix and Niv-Mizzet to once again deal infinite damage through pings.

The deck is ingrained with a fair amount of combo protection. Silence effects prevent interference outright. Force of Will and Pact of Negation make sure dread return resolves. Apprentice Necromancer returns Hermit to the field and gives him haste if he gets countered. Memory's Journey saves the day if the combo is interrupted after Hermit goes off.

If the combo still somehow doesn't go off, Scion makes himself an excellent stand-alone win condition. Not only can he be cast to one-hit one opponent thanks to the Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon + Moltensteel Dragon combo. He can also be used to entomb Worldgorger Dragon. The deck runs three enchantment-based reanimator effects. Having any one of those in hand allows me to reanimate Worldgorger, once again generating infinite mana, which once again allows me to entomb Niv and ping everyone to death.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 62 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.04
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Spirit 1/1 C
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