Tayam aristocrats/counters

Commander / EDH Aristocrats BGW (Abzan, Junk) Casual Combo Counters Reanimator

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Creature (36)

• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Champion of Lambholt
• 1x Corpse Knight
• 1x Devoted Druid
• 1x Dross Harvester
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Ghave, Guru of Spores
• 1x Good-Fortune Unicorn
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Grimdancer
• 1x Huatli's Raptor
• 1x Kitchen Finks
• 1x Knight of Autumn
• 1x Krav, the Unredeemed
• 1x Liliana's Standard Bearer
• 1x Luminous Broodmoth
• 1x Lurrus of the Dream-Den
• 1x Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
• 1x Midnight Reaper
• 1x Mycoloth
• 1x Plaguecrafter
• 1x Pollenbright Druid
• 1x Renegade Rallier
• 1x Rishkar, Peema Renegade
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Scute Mob
• 1x Skull Prophet
• 1x Skullbriar, the Walking Grave
• 1x Spore Frog
• 1x Stitcher's Supplier
• 1x Strangleroot Geist
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Vitaspore Thallid
• 1x Vizier of Remedies
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Land (35)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Castle Garenbrig
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 6x Forest
• 1x Gavony Township
• 1x Hashep Oasis
• 1x Karn's Bastion
• 1x Krosan Verge
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Murmuring Bosk
• 5x Plains
• 1x Sandsteppe Citadel
• 1x Sungrass Prairie
• 5x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Field
• 1x Temple of Malady
• 1x Temple of Plenty
• 1x Temple of Silence

Artifact (7)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Indatha Crystal
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Perpetual Timepiece
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Nissa, Voice of Zendikar

Commander (1)

Enchantment (11)

• 1x Abzan Ascendancy
• 1x Angelic Renewal
• 1x Awakening Zone
• 1x Cathars' Crusade
• 1x Dark Tutelage
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Kaya's Ghostform
• 1x Martyr's Cause
• 1x Oversold Cemetery
• 1x Promise of Bunrei
• 1x Seal of Primordium

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Kaya's Wrath
• 1x Primal Growth
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Wrath of God

Instant (4)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Mythos of Nethroi
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

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Instant (1)

• 1x Cauldron Haze

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This is here mainly so I can keep track of the mana curve, but I'll throw in my thoughts behind the deck while I'm here.

Not the first deck I ever built, but I'm still learning. This deck is budget friendly I would say, so the power level is a bit lower as well. Keep in mind I'm in Europe where cards are sometimes almost half the price of those in US.

It's far from perfect, and it's obviously not a competitive deck. But once it gets going it can be over fast for your opponents. This is because there are some combos in the deck. As you know, Abzan is great for such things.

The combos are pretty typical:

• Vizier of Remedies + Devoted Druid for infinite mana
• Vizier of Remedies + Kitchen Finks for infinite life
• Renegade Rallier + Angelic Renewal or Kaya's Ghostform + sac outlet to infinitely recur a creature and abuse ETBs or LTBs, and if you have any pingers like Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat or Corpse Knight your opponents get slapped around till the end of time. And if you don't have any of those, you can always draw out your entire deck with Liliana's Standard Bearer or Grim Haruspex. Dross Harvester can also give you infinite life in this scenario
• Renegade Rallier + Angelic Renewal or Kaya's Ghostform + sac outlet + Grave Pact to clear opponents boards

Since counters matter a lot for Tayam, I put in cards like Scute Mob and Vitaspore Thallid to get some free counters on each upkeep in case I can't get anything else out. They might seem a bit meh but I think they work ok. Plus, Vitaspore Thallid can give stuff haste (not very common in these colors) if you have Mycoloth out, though I'm thinking about also adding Golgari Germination.

Since Tayam, Luminous Enigma ability is not the cheapest ability out there, I'm definitely looking to get my hands on Heartstone. I might have to think about adding either mana dorks or mana rocks as well for some mana fixing, we'll see. The deck also needs protection from graveyard hate, so stuff like Aegis of the Gods or Solitary Confinement should be included.

There are still things I want to put in the deck, like Gift of Immortality and Animate Dead for more recursion, Pawn of Ulamog for more sac tokens and mana, Yawgmoth, Thran Physician as a great value engine. Also invest into the mana base.

Well, I don't wanna turn this into an essay, so that's that. If there are any recommendations feel free to comment :)

Date added	3 years
Last updated	1 year
Exclude colors	UR
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 36 - 0 Rares 30 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.72
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Companion Zone, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Morph 2/2 C, Plant 0/1 G, Saproling 1/1 G, Spirit 1/1 C, Spirit 1/1 W