Sultai Graveyard Lands

Commander / EDH BUG (Sultai) Combo Lands Loam Midrange

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Creature (30)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Bloodghast
• 1x Coiling Oracle
• 1x Copper Myr
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Dryad Greenseeker
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Fertilid
• 1x Golgari Findbroker
• 1x Golgari Thug
• 1x Grazing Gladehart
• 1x Hostage Taker
• 1x Leaden Myr
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Llanowar Scout
• 1x Meloku the Clouded Mirror
• 1x Meteor Golem
• 1x Mystic Snake
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Phyrexian Delver
• 1x Rampaging Baloths
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Satyr Wayfinder
• 1x Sidisi, Brood Tyrant
• 1x Silver Myr
• 1x Skyshroud Ranger
• 1x Tatyova, Benthic Druid
• 1x Wild Wanderer
• 1x Wood Elves

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Ashiok, Dream Render
• 1x Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver
• 1x Liliana, Death's Majesty

Sorcery (22)

• 1x Animist's Awakening
• 1x Broken Bond
• 1x Commune with the Gods
• 1x Curse of the Swine
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Explore
• 1x Far Wanderings
• 1x Grow from the Ashes
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Ranger's Path
• 1x Ransack the Lab
• 1x Search for Tomorrow
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Spring / Mind
• 1x Sylvan Awakening
• 1x Sylvan Scrying
• 1x Urban Evolution
• 1x Villainous Wealth
• 1x Whelming Wave

Instant (4)

• 1x AEtherize
• 1x Harrow
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Shared Summons

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Khalni Heart Expedition
• 1x Retreat to Coralhelm
• 1x Retreat to Kazandu
• 1x The Mending of Dominaria

Artifact (2)

• 1x Ghirapur Orrery
• 1x Skullclamp

Commander (1)

Land (34)

• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 1x Encroaching Wastes
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 1x Field of the Dead
• 7x Forest
• 1x Glacial Chasm
• 5x Island
• 1x Jungle Hollow
• 1x Quicksand
• 1x Sapseep Forest
• 1x Sunscorched Desert
• 5x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Malady
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Thornwood Falls
• 1x Urza's Factory
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

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Intro

This is the deck I most regularly play in Commander.

Looking to get into the lands archetype but on a budget? Here's a basic land shell that I've designed for roughly $50 -- Budget Tatyova Lands

The Deck

Early Game Show

The focus of the early game is trying to get a large amount of lands in play and trying to get Yarok, the Desecrated out as early as possible. Although the deck does not rely on Yarok, the Desecrated to win, having it out really helps get things rolling. A good open should contain 3-4 lands, some form of acceleration (Llanowar Elves, Rampant Growth, etc.) and either a tutor or some way to get cards into the graveyard. In this deck, graveyard recursion is fairly common, so the graveyard acts as an extension of the hand. Life from the Loam is one of the best cards in a starting hand, especially with Evolving Wilds or Terramorphic Expanse, because it can fill your hand with lands and also get cards into the graveyard.

Card Interactions Show

Once you've got Yarok out, the next part of the game is focusing on preparing your hand for the combo or for a win through combat. The middle part of the game is where the midrange part of the deck really shines and value becomes key. This deck has a lot of card interactions that can get lands into play and shape your hand for the win.

Cards like Liliana, Death's Majesty, Ashiok, Dream Render, Tatyova, Benthic Druid and Sidisi, Brood Tyrant are all good at progressing your game plan while also advancing the board, and Hostage Taker, Villainous Wealth, and Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver are all powerful midrange cards.

Fertilid + Retreat to Kazandu gives you endless rampant growths, and with Yarok, the Desecrated out you can put a bunch of +1/+1 counters on a creature and start swinging.

Fetid Pools + Life from the Loam can help load up the graveyard and get some lands into your hand if you use the cycling from Fetid Pools to trigger the dredge on Life from the Loam.

This deck has 13 creatures with 1 toughness so Skullclamp is usually active, but even when it's not it can but put on any creature to get value if it gets removed. Skullclamp is also good with early mana dorks when mana isn't an issue and cards are needed. It works best with Bloodghast so that whenever you play a land you can draw two cards, and with Golgari Thug which lets you return any creature from your graveyard to your hand as well as put four more cards in the bin (I'm not a judge so I may be wrong about this, but I think if you layer the triggers correctly you put a card on top of your library when Golgari Thug dies, then draw that card with the first draw from Skullclamp and then dredge with the second draw to put Golgari Thug into your hand).

Llanowar Scout or Skyshroud Ranger + Retreat to Coralhelm get all of your lands from hand into play, and if you have Tatyova, Benthic Druid and Yarok, the Desecrated out then each land also let's you scry 1, draw two cards, and gain two life.

This deck has dozens more small interactions, and probably even more that I haven't learned yet. Part of the fun of this deck is seeing how well all of the cards interact with each other, even though they might not be powerful on their own.

Winning the Game Show

This deck primarily wins through either one of two ways: aggro or combo.

In order to win through aggro, having Yarok, the Desecrated out is fairly essential. While every card in this deck is helpful to win through aggro, the best three cards are Rampaging Baloths, Field of the Dead, and Sylvan Awakening. Because this deck is good at surviving, often you won't need a massive board as you will probably be one of the last two left. When you get Rampaging Baloths and Field of the Dead out, in combination with Yarok, the Desecrated, each land gets you two 4/4 beasts and two 2/2 zombies. Then all you have to do is play a bunch of ramp cards and swing. Sylvan Awakening helps push through if the opponent has a lot of creatures, or it can be played defensively if you can't win in one swing.

The primary combo that this deck wins through, though there are certainly several that you can use, is Retreat to Coralhelm, Llanowar Scout or Skyshroud Ranger, Meloku the Clouded Mirror, and Sunscorched Desert. While this may seem difficult to pull off, it often happens fairly naturally and because none of the cards seem too dangerous they can often sit on the board without a threat of them being removed. If more time is needed, Glacial Chasm can give you several extra turns, especially because this deck has several ways of gaining life. AEtherize and Whelming Wave can also buy you a few extra turns.

Another powerful combo in this deck is the interaction between Peregrine Drake and Deadeye Navigator. These two cards can be tutored for on the end-step before your turn with Shared Summons and then all you need is five lands, at least two islands, and a Yarok, the Desecrated (or eight lands, with three islands if you don't have yarok). With the infinite mana these cards produce you can win the game through a variety of ways. With Meteor Golem you can destroy all of your opponent's non-land permanents, with Sapseep Forest you gain infinite life, with Urza's Factory you can make infinite 2/2s, with Villainous Wealth you can either steal somebody's deck or use Archaeomancer to mill all of your opponents. Hostage Taker lets you steal all of your opponent's artifacts and creatures. Mystic Snake let's you counter every spell they try to play. Coiling Oracle let's you draw your whole deck and Satyr Wayfinder Let's you mill your whole deck.

If one of your combo pieces goes into the graveyard, no need to worry; with cards like Phyrexian Delver, Archaeomancer, Liliana, Death's Majesty, Golgari Thug, Golgari Findbroker, Life from the Loam, and The Mending of Dominaria, it's possible to get anything back from your graveyard.

While this deck has countless lines for the combo, my favorite is with seven lands (two green, one black, two blue) and the only card you need in hand is a Demonic Tutor. Play Yarok, the Desecrated from the command zone, play Demonic Tutor searching for Shared Summons. Next turn cast Shared Summons for Archaeomancer and Peregrine Drake. If you already had Yarok, the Desecrated out then this could happen a turn earlier. Then play the drake, untap 5 lands twice, so you have 5 mana floating and at least 7 untapped lands, then play Archaeomancer, get back the Summons and the DT, DT for Deadeye Navigator, play Deadeye and get infinite mana with the loop with drake. Then play the Summons, getting Coiling Oracle and Mystic Snake then draw your whole deck. The snake can act as protection against shenanigans from this point on. With your whole deck you can loop Villainous Wealth with card:Archeomancer to exile your opponents' libraries.

Of course this may seem a little janky, but because this deck has so many possible combos and so many possible lines for each of those combos, just about any hand can get you the win if you have a good middle stage. If one line doesn't seem viable enough then there are probably four more that you could take. The most fun part of this deck for me is figuring out all the cool interactions between cards and learning all the different ways to win. When I first designed this deck with my primer (located at the top of this description) I didn't even intentionally put in these cards due to their combo capabilities (with the exception of Deadeye + Drake) and it's been an adventure finding out the ways these cards work together and figuring out what cards would make the other ones more powerful.

Upgrades Show

I haven't been able to buy cards recently so I haven't been able to change much with the deck, but during each new set release I will go try to make an update post to show what cards I've changed. Here is a list of cards that I think would work well in this deck that I just don't have yet. If anyone has any recommendations for cards that I should add I would be very thankful for suggestions and I will probably add them to this list. - Bojuka Bog - Cyclonic Rift - Leechridden Swamp - card:Courser of Kruhpix - Crucible of Worlds - card:Alter of Dementia - Laboratory Maniac - Azusa, Lost but Seeking - Trade Routes - Growth Spiral

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 22 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 32 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.15
Tokens	Assembly-Worker 2/2 C, Beast 4/4 G, Boar 2/2 G, Illusion 1/1 U w/ Flying, Zombie 2/2 B