The Abzan House of Horrors - Teneb EDH

Commander / EDH BGW (Abzan, Junk) Reanimator

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Creature (28)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Anafenza, the Foremost
• 1x Archon of Cruelty
• 1x Disciple of Bolas
• 1x Erebos, Bleak-Hearted
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Genesis
• 1x Golgari Grave-Troll
• 1x Gravebreaker Lamia
• 1x Liliana's Standard Bearer
• 1x Lotleth Giant
• 1x Lotleth Troll
• 1x Luminate Primordial
• 1x Nethroi, Apex of Death
• 1x Phyrexian Delver
• 1x Plaguecrafter
• 1x Ravenous Chupacabra
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Saffi Eriksdotter
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Satyr Wayfinder
• 1x Shalai, Voice of Plenty
• 1x Shriekmaw
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1x Timeless Witness
• 1x Underrealm Lich
• 1x Yahenni, Undying Partisan

Artifact (4)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Perpetual Timepiece
• 1x Sol Ring

Sorcery (19)

• 1x Blood on the Snow
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Dark Petition
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Eerie Ultimatum
• 1x Ever After
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Final Parting
• 1x Grow from the Ashes
• 1x Hour of Revelation
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Migration Path
• 1x Persist
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Unburial Rites
• 1x Unmarked Grave
• 1x Victimize
• 1x Winds of Abandon

Instant (11)

• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Back for More
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Despark
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Fracture
• 1x Infuse with Vitality
• 1x Makeshift Mannequin
• 1x Roiling Regrowth
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Village Rites

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Liliana, Death's Majesty
• 1x Nissa of Shadowed Boughs

Commander (1)

Land (32)

• 1x Arctic Treeline
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Branchloft Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Field of Ruin
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x High Market
• 1x Indatha Triome
• 1x Necroblossom Snarl
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 7x Snow-Covered Forest
• 6x Snow-Covered Plains
• 6x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Snowfield Sinkhole
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Woodland Chasm

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Death's Oasis
• 1x Guardian Project
• 1x Moldervine Reclamation

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With the Abzan, nothing really truly stays dead. At least, that's how it is with this deck. Either build an army to overrun your enemies or strategically sacrifice your troops for bigger gains, the choice really is yours.

General Strategy: This deck has 2 possible routes to victory. Firstly is just by building a massive army of bodies and then sending them all in. The second route is much more fun. The aristocrats/reanimator strategy is typically used in either Mardu or Golgari colours. However, I decided to go with Abzan, thanks in part to their innate ability to screw opposing graveyard decks. Hence, Teneb as my general.

Sac outlets:

The deck isn't a fast combo sacrifice deck. No no, this is more of a value-oriented deck. Things like Ashnod's Altar, Altar of Dementia, and Yahenni, Undying Partisan serve as sacrifice outlets, along with spells that have an additional cost of sacrificing a creature. Yahenni himself can serve as a wincon, especially when tied with things like Butcher of Malakir.

Card draw/leveraging the graveyard:

From one-time use spells like Village Rites, to repeatable effects like Guardian Project, Altar of Dementia, Underrealm Lich, Moldervine Reclamation, and Liliana, Death's Majesty, filling up the graveyard will take some time but it really gets going once I've set up the engine. Liliana also provides a single-use recursion every turn, provided she has enough loyalty on her. Other effects in this category include Death's Oasis, Perpetual Timepiece, Buried Alive, and Gravebreaker Lamia. Once we have a well-stocked graveyard, we need to leverage it. That's where cards such as Golgari Grave-Troll, Colfenor, the Last Yew, Genesis, Makeshift Mannequin, Back for More, Regrowth, and Eternal Witness come into play, allowing me to fill up the bin fast and recur some useful (and sometimes game-winning) spells and creatures.

Ramp: The usual suspects are here. Kodama's Reach, Cultivate, and Skyshroud Claim are all present, along with one mana rock in Sol Ring and small creatures that help find lands like Sakura Tribe Elder and Satyr Wayfinder, all of whom are essentially sac fodder once they hit the board. This was another reason why I picked Abzan to make a reanimator deck with.

Wincons: Control the board with Butcher of Malakir and other sac effects, and then swing in. Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths gave us a strong 7-mana sorcery called Eerie Ultimatum. This spell can allow us to win the game, provided we stack all the triggers properly and we have a full graveyard to utilise.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 32 - 0 Rares 27 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.78
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Timeless Witness 4/4 B, Zombie 2/2 B