That Just Sounds Like Ghavery With Extra Steps

Commander / EDH* BUG (Sultai) Infinite Combo Reanimator

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Mana (48)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Blooming Marsh
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Botanical Sanctum
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crypt of Agadeem
• 1x Dakmor Salvage
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Escape Tunnel
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 3x Forest
• 1x Hedge Maze
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 3x Island
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Necroblossom Snarl
• 1x Opulent Palace
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Satyr Wayfinder
• 1x Shigeki, Jukai Visionary
• 1x Shipwreck Marsh
• 1x Skull Prophet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Songs of the Damned
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 6x Swamp
• 1x Sylvan Caryatid
• 1x Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Underground Mortuary
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Woodland Cemetery
• 1x World Shaper
• 1x Yavimaya Coast
• 1x Zagoth Triome

Sac (4)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Viscera Seer

Buff (1)

• 1x Shambling Shell

Mill (19)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Archghoul of Thraben
• 1x Dakmor Salvage
• 1x Embalmer's Tools
• 1x Extractor Demon
• 1x Golgari Grave-Troll
• 1x Golgari Thug
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Raul, Trouble Shooter
• 1x Satyr Wayfinder
• 1x Shambling Shell
• 1x Shigeki, Jukai Visionary
• 1x Skull Prophet
• 1x Snarling Gorehound
• 1x Stinkweed Imp
• 1x Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1x Tato Farmer
• 1x World Shaper
• 1x Zellix, Sanity Flayer

Answer (9)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Alpha Deathclaw
• 1x Cabal Therapy
• 1x Dread
• 1x Ertai Resurrected
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Overcharged Amalgam
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Sultai Charm

Bomb (7)

• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Dread
• 1x Golgari Grave-Troll
• 1x Gravespawn Sovereign
• 1x Necrotic Ooze
• 1x Zellix, Sanity Flayer
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Flashback (6)

• 1x Cabal Therapy
• 1x Deep Analysis
• 1x Diregraf Rebirth
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Extractor Demon
• 1x Wonder

Tribal (3)

• 1x Cryptbreaker
• 1x Graveborn Muse
• 1x Gravespawn Sovereign

Commander (1)

Reanimate (12)

• 1x Apprentice Necromancer
• 1x Diregraf Rebirth
• 1x Doomed Necromancer
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Gravespawn Sovereign
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Muldrotha, the Gravetide
• 1x Phyrexian Delver
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Twilight's Call
• 1x Victimize
• 1x Whisper, Blood Liturgist

Recur (8)

• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Muldrotha, the Gravetide
• 1x Raul, Trouble Shooter
• 1x Scholar of the Lost Trove
• 1x Shigeki, Jukai Visionary
• 1x Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1x Tato Farmer
• 1x Timeless Witness

Cards (7)

• 1x Cryptbreaker
• 1x Deep Analysis
• 1x Graveborn Muse
• 1x Hoarding Broodlord
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Sultai Charm

Discard (4)

• 1x Cryptbreaker
• 1x Haunted Dead
• 1x Lotleth Troll
• 1x Phantasmagorian

Other (1)

• 1x Vigor

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Other (3)

• 1x Brutalizer Exarch
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Spiketail Hatchling

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I've slowly started modding this deck to be more consistent, and hopefully it will be able to assemble one of its rube goldberg infinite combos more often. The deck has gone through a lot of iterations, beginning as value reanimator, moving through zombie tribal, then ending on this combo-centric build.

I'd describe this deck's current state as "Bad Ghave." It's like Ghave but with fewer pieces available to make the combos work. For reference, the most important pieces are:

A way to make zombies: Sidisi, Brood Tyrant

A way to use zombies: Embalmer's Tools, Altar of Dementia, Snarling Gorehound

A way to sac zombies: Altar, Viscera Seer, Carrion Feeder

A way to get value: Extractor Demon, Gravespawn Sovereign, any anthem effect with Altar

A way to win the game: Gary, Blood Artist, Syr Konrad, the Grim

...With Necrotic Ooze and reanimation to assemble it.

And once you start comboing, Cabal Therapy and Dread Return are effectively free to help you along.

With combinations of these cards and others, I mill myself out and win with Dread & Vigor as my remaining cards in library. To reiterate: This isn't a competitive deck, but due to its ability to play a straightforward gameplan it can usually keep up pressure and do well at my lgs.

Seeing when to go off is a skill I'm trying to improve on. In general, 3 mills across 2 triggers is the minimum required, and might be rocky unless you start with some zombies. For instance, if you have Carrion Crawler, Extractor Demon, and Embalmer's Tools out, you may need 6+ zombies to reliably gain traction when comboing. If you have more than that, you're home free. Path of Discovery + Altar of Dementia gives about 3.6 mills across 2 triggers, and you can usually go infinite starting with 1-3 zombies.

(This deck has a theoretical T3 infinite combo... Like many fast lines, it requires Sol Ring. T1 Land + Sol Ring + Altar, T2 Land + Path of Discovery, T3 Land + Sidisi. Gives you 2 chances to make your first zombie across 4 cards, and each further zombie mills you over 3.5 cards down.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	4 weeks
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 46 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.34
Tokens	Horror, Radiation, Spirit 1/1 W, Timeless Witness 4/4 B, Zombie 2/2 B