Food Chain Prossh | Budget Primer

Commander / EDH* Aggro BRG (Jund) Budget Combo Competitive Tokens

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Creature (30)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Boreal Druid
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Elvish Spirit Guide
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Faerie Macabre
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Gatecreeper Vine
• 1x Genesis Hydra
• 1x Goblin Bushwhacker
• 1x Goblin Matron
• 1x Joraga Treespeaker
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Orcish Lumberjack
• 1x Purphoros, God of the Forge
• 1x Reckless Bushwhacker
• 1x Riftsweeper
• 1x Simian Spirit Guide
• 1x Smothering Abomination
• 1x Squee, the Immortal
• 1x Sylvan Ranger
• 1x Vexing Shusher
• 1x Wall of Roots
• 1x Wood Elves
• 1x Xantid Swarm
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Artifact (7)

• 1x Altar of the Brood
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring

Land (30)

• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Forest
• 1x Gemstone Mine
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Grove of the Burnwillows
• 1x Karplusan Forest
• 1x Kessig Wolf Run
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Snow-Covered Forest
• 1x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Tarnished Citadel
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Beastmaster Ascension
• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Food Chain
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Sylvan Library

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Xenagos, the Reveler

Commander (1)

Instant (16)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Autumn's Veil
• 1x Culling the Weak
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Demonic Consultation
• 1x Final Fortune
• 1x Fire Covenant
• 1x Guttural Response
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Plunge into Darkness
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Tainted Pact
• 1x Tainted Strike
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Bitter Ordeal
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Dimir Machinations
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Regrowth
• 1x Seeds of Innocence
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Treasured Find

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Prossh, Skyraider of Kher is an ultra-aggressive commander who thrives on infinite combos and instant win conditions.

Typically, competitive EDH decks cost upwards of $1000 to assemble, which is a bit ridiculous! My goal is to create a highly interactive, competitve deck for under $500 and upgrade and improve it over time.

There are a wide variety of ways to win, the most obvious being the infinite combo powerhouse Food Chain, in conjunction with an outlet like Blood Artist.

If you're interested in learning more about this deck and how it functions, please check out the tabs below!

Thank you to everyone for your support!

+1's are greatly appreciated!

Mana Ramp

With a casting cost of , Prossh, Skyraider of Kher can be challenging to get onto the battlefield. This means quick mana ramp is a necessity!

In total, this deck contains 25 mana ramp spells. When combined with 30 lands, that means over half the cards here are dedicated solely to casting Prossh ASAP.

Mana Dorks:

• Arbor Elf

• Birds of Paradise

• Boreal Druid

• Deathrite Shaman

• Dryad Arbor

• Elves of Deep Shadow

• Elvish Mystic

• Fyndhorn Elves

• Joraga Treespeaker

• Llanowar Elves

• Orcish Lumberjack

• Sylvan Ranger

• Wood Elves

• Gatecreeper Vine

• Elvish Spirit Guide

• Simian Spirit Guide

Orcish Lumberjack and Joraga Treespeaker are particularly great because they allow for loads of extra mana early on.

Deathrite Shaman is a dual-threat dork. He's great at ramping and removing cards from opponents' graveyards.

Dryad Arbor is fetchable on turn one by casting Green Sun's Zenith where = .

Artifact Ramp:

• Chrome Mox

• Lotus Petal

• Mana Vault

• Sol Ring

The artifact ramp in this deck is intended to be cheap to cast and efficient. Chrome Mox and Mana Vault are expensive to purchase but they are invaluable to this deck's success.

Additional Ramp:

• Carpet of Flowers

• Dark Ritual

• Culling the Weak

• Green Sun's Zenith

• Nature's Lore

• Xenagos, the Reveler

Carpet of Flowers is incredible when faced with a table full of players.

Green Sun's Zenith is a muti-purpose card. It can easily fetch mana dorks or other important creatures like Vexing Shusher.

Xenagos, the Reveler is the budget version of Gaea's Cradle. He's here purely to create mana like crazy and make my opponents regret their life decisions.

The Goal:

With all this mana ramp, I expect to cast Prossh turn 2-3. Ideally, with a way to search for and protect Food Chain in hand.

Win Conditions

Food Chain Combo:

Food Chain is the backbone of this deck, it's importance can't be stated enough. Prossh without Food Chain is nowhere close to a competitive deck.

Food Chain is so important that I've added a multitude of ways to tutor for it. The quicker I'm able to get it the higher my odds of winning become.

How to Get Food Chain:

• Diabolic Intent

• Demonic Tutor

• Plunge into Darkness

• Demonic Consultation

• Tainted Pact

• Dimir Machinations

• Necropotence

• Diabolic Intent, Demonic Tutor and Dimir Machinations are self explanatory. Pay their costs and go get Food Chain.

• Tainted Pact, Demonic Consultation and Plunge into Darkness are a bit more complicated. They are the "Food Chain or bust" cards. They work by exiling away portions of my library in order to reach Food Chain. Victory at any cost!

• Necropotence allows me to use my life as a resource to sculpt the perfect combo hand. Getting this on the battlefield early on and paying 30-35 life into it should put Food Chain, or a way to find it, directly into my hand.

How Food Chain Works:

If you don't know how exactly Food Chain combos with Prossh, Skyraider of Kher, I'll explain:

• When Prossh is cast for the first time he creates 6, 0/1 Kobold tokens.

• Food Chain allows you to exile creatures and generate mana of any one color, equal to + that creatures mana cost.

• Exiling Prossh with Food Chain generates you mana of any one color. Each Kobold you exile generates you mana of any color (creature tokens have a CMC of 0).

• When Prossh is exiled with Food Chain,put him back in the command zone, then exile two Kobolds. This will generate seven , one and one , for a total of mana.

• Use the mana to recast Prossh from the command zone, creating eight new Kobold tokens.

• Repeat this process: exile Prossh and more Kobold tokens, to generate mana. Recast Prossh again to recreate more tokens. You now have an infinite loop.

Combos with Prossh & FC:

The following cards create win conditions with the Prossh/FC combo:

Infinite Damage/Life Loss:

• Blood Artist

• Falkenrath Noble

• Purphoros, God of the Forge

• Zulaport Cutthroat

Infinite Mill:

• Altar of the Brood

Exile Someone's Entire Library:

• Bitter Ordeal

Mutiplayer Combat Damage:

• Goblin Bushwhacker

• Reckless Bushwhacker

Infinite Card Draw:

• Smothering Abomination

Search Until You Find a Win-Con:

• Genesis Hydra

Make Infinite Mana Without Prossh:

• Squee, the Immortal

As you can see, Food Chain and Prossh together are quite powerful. So it's only natural that your opponents will do everything they can to disrupt this combo.

For this very reason, I've included several ways outside of FC to win.

Additional Win Cons:

Overrun:

• Beastmaster Ascension

Infect:

• Tainted Strike

Commander Damage:

• Kessig Wolf Run

In the next section I'll discuss how I disrupt other decks and protect Prossh Boi and his Food Chain combo...

Disruption/Protection

Competitve metas are filled with blazing fast, combo-tastic, stax, and storm decks. The removal, and several creatures, in this deck serve two purposes:

1. Protect Prossh and my win cons.

2. Cripple my opponents ability to win, or slow them down enough to create a window for me to win.

Disruption:

• Abrupt Decay

• Fire Covenant

• Toxic Deluge

• Nature's Claim

• Seeds of Innocence

• Pyroblast

• Red Elemental Blast

• Guttural Response

• Autumn's Veil

• Faerie Macabre

• Vexing Shusher

These cards are great at disrupting my opponent's ability to counter my spells or bounce/destroy my permanents. You'd be surprised how often I'm able to catch my people off guard with spells like Pyroblast!

I play in an oppressive, stax heavy meta so my deck contains a lot of "anti-blue/artifact" cards.

If you assemble this deck be sure to tailor your removal to fit your meta!

Conclusion

Prossh, Skyraider of Kher is not a commander for casual players or playgroups. He is tailor made to combo out ASAP and terrorize your opponents!

Sadly, cEDH is financially inaccessible to the average Magic player. Spending thousands of dollars on a deck of cards is simply out of the question for many people, myself included.

More people should feel like they have the ability to play cEDH games without having to spend an arm and a leg, hopefully this primer has motivated you to be the next great Prossh player!

This deck is far from perfect, there are a host of expensive upgrades out there, such as:

• Gaea's Cradle

• Bayou

• Taiga

• Badlands

• Mana Crypt

• Vampiric Tutor

• Imperial Seal

• Wheel of Fortune

Someday these cards will make their way onto this list. For now, I'm content with what I've assembled and sincerely hope you've enjoyed it too!

If you have any comments, stories, or card suggestions please post them below!

Thank you for checking out my primer, don't forget to +1!

My Other Decks

Follow the links below to check out my other EDH deck lists:

Make Zendikar Great Again | Tazri Ally Tribal EDH

Heart of Darkness | Kess Grixis Twin EDH

Top Ranked	Achieved #12 position overall 6 years ago
Date added	6 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 40 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 23 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	1.89
Tokens	Kobolds of Kher Keep 0/1 R, Satyr 2/2 GR, Spirit 1/1 C
Folders	me, Unique EDH, Budget, Stuff, EDH Gauntlet, Commander, dragon crap, Jund EDH, Sample, EDH