When Lands Become Your Worst Nightmare

Commander / EDH* Casual Combo Four Color Infinite Combo Multiplayer Primer

Enral

Land (40)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Blighted Fen
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cabal Pit
• 1x Cephalid Coliseum
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dakmor Salvage
• 1x Dark Depths
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Drownyard Temple
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 2x Forest
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Glacial Chasm
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Horizon Canopy
• 1x Irrigated Farmland
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Scattered Groves
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold
• 1x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Creature (27)

• 1x Admonition Angel
• 1x Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Budoka Gardener  ^Flip
• 1x Emeria Angel
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Knight of the Reliquary
• 1x Lotus Cobra
• 1x Meloku the Clouded Mirror
• 1x Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Patron of the Moon
• 1x Quirion Ranger
• 1x Ramunap Excavator
• 1x Ruin Ghost
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Scout
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Selfless Spirit
• 1x Skyshroud Ranger
• 1x Stone-Seeder Hierophant
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Sylvan Safekeeper
• 1x The Gitrog Monster
• 1x Tideforce Elemental
• 1x Tireless Tracker
• 1x Walking Atlas

Enchantment (10)

• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x Exploration
• 1x Mirari's Wake
• 1x Pernicious Deed
• 1x Retreat to Coralhelm
• 1x Retreat to Hagra
• 1x Solemnity
• 1x Survival of the Fittest
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Training Grounds

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Nissa, Vital Force

Commanders (2)

Instant (10)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Capsize
• 1x Constant Mists
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Forbid
• 1x Realms Uncharted
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Scapeshift
• 1x Splendid Reclamation

Artifact (5)

• 1x Amulet of Vigor
• 1x Cloudstone Curio
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Sol Ring

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Maybeboard

Artifact (3)

• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Zuran Orb

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Sylvan Scrying
• 1x Worm Harvest

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Introduction

Who would have thought that something as innocuous as lands can become everyone's worst nightmare. They kept coming, relentless, and with dreadful side effects. This is a landfall-reanimator combo deck that aims to control the board through land/creature recursion and win the moment an infinite mana combo is assembled.

Thrasios, Triton Hero (let's call him Tim) is the main landfall guy as well as the combo finisher to draw out my entire deck with infinite mana. Tim is like that guy at the bar who is desperately trying to get laid but can't do it without his wingman. Yeah, you gotta agree that Tim is pretty pathetic by himself and that's why he has Ravos, Soultender (let's call him Alex) as his wingman to help him get laid. Alex is a pretty good wingman, he helps Tim get important creatures back from the yard as well as pump some steroids into those landfall generated tokens.

This is my pet deck and I just build it to satisfy my immense love for landfall and its shenanigans. Seeing landfall triggers is as satisfying as eating a sundae icecream on a hot summer afternoon. The real question is...

...did Tim get laid in the end? Show

...I'm gonna leave that conclusion to your own imagination

Goal of Deck

1. Work towards getting infinite mana
2. Cast Thrasios, Triton Hero to draw entire deck
3. Win by assembling any of the landfall combos below

Combos

Primary Infinite Combos

• Retreat to Coralhelm + Sakura-Tribe Scout / Skyshroud Ranger / Walking Atlas + ravnica karoo / Oboro, Palace in the Clouds in hand / Meloku the Clouded Mirror = Infinite Landfall triggers (and tokens with Meloku)

• Tideforce Elemental /Retreat to Coralhelm + Cloudstone Curio + Sakura-Tribe Scout / Skyshroud Ranger / Walking Atlas + Any land in hand = Infinite Landfall triggers (infinite mana with Retreat to Coralhelm only

• Patron of the Moon + Amulet of Vigor/ Stone-Seeder Hierophant + Any of the ravnica karoos in hand = Infinite Landfall triggers + Infinite mana of the karoo's colors

Combo Payoffs with Infinite Landfall Triggers

• Infinite Mana of any color: Lotus Cobra / Stone-Seeder Hierophant

• Infinite Removal: Admonition Angel

• Infinite Life: Retreat to Hagra

• Infinite Tokens: Emeria Angel

• Infinite Life Loss: Ob Nixilis, the Fallen /Retreat to Hagra

Other Notable Combos

• Retreat to Coralhelm + Ruin Ghost = Infinite landfall

• Lotus Cobra + Ruin Ghost + Tideforce Elemental + Plains/Island = Infinite landfall

• Ruin Ghost + Tideforce Elemental + Amulet of Vigor + Azorius Chancery = Infinite landfall

• Dark Depths + Thespian's Stage = 20/20 Indestructible flying token (tutor with Scapeshift)

Thrasios and Ravos

Thrasios, Triton Hero

Thrasios could be played as early as turn 1 and can start generating card advantage the longer it stays in play. There are a few cards that makes him great:

• Training Grounds: Draw a card or free ramp for just
• Seedborn Muse: Allows me to draw as many cards as my mana allows each round
• Vampiric Tutor: Draw the card I tutor for on the same turn (this also works any tutors that put cards on top of library)
• Stone-Seeder Hierophant : Untapping a ravnica karoo is often enough to activate Thrasios again
• Volrath's Stronghold: Gets dead creature back to hand with

Ravos, Soultender

With Ravos out, every discard effect turns into +1 CA if a creature is discarded. This essentially turns every creature into Squee, Goblin Nabob. The following are cards which Ravos can exploit with:

• Survival of the Fittest: Tutoring a creature by discarding another creature each round (only to have the discarded creature go back to hand)
• Eternal Witness + Phyrexian Tower: Getting a Regrowth effect every turn by sacrificing E.Wit to tower only to have E.Wit return to hand next turn

Tips and Tricks

The following are tips and tricks that I feel are important to know in this deck:

• Sun Titan + Pernicious Deed literally destroys everything X= or less every round
• Admonition Angel's delayed two part trigger lets me abuse it to permanently exile any non-land permanents by saccrificing it to Phyrexian Tower with landfall triggers on the stack (repeat every turn with Ravos, Soultender or Volrath's Stronghold in play)
• Admonition Angel can be used to save my nonland permanents from boardwipes/removals with instant speed landfall triggers
• Generate additional landfall triggers by bouncing lands back to hand with cards Meloku the Clouded Mirror only to have it cheated back into play with cards like Sakura-Tribe Scout; sacrifice a land to play it from the graveyard with cards like Crucible of Worlds; flicker it with Ruin Ghost
• Cycle lands like Scattered Groves could be used to save Life from the Loam from getting exiled in the graveyard (can also be used to get loam back to further abuse)

Footnotes

My love for landfall started with Omnath, Locus of Rage (now retired and converted to this deck). Being in gruul really limits my possibility of abusing landfall triggers and I wanted to see what I can do if colors wasn't a problem. The introduction of partner commanders is Godsend and has provided me with a great pair to helm my new landfall deck. Losing wasn't easy, having no access to my old trusty Omnath, Locus of Rage and Mina and Denn, Wildborn does hurt. However, having really opens up to a whole new world of landfall shenanigans that I can abuse and having access to The Gitrog Monster is a sweet bonus.

UPVOTE TO KEEP THE LANDS AWAY AND HELP TIM GET LAID!!!

Top Ranked	Achieved #6 position overall 6 years ago
Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Key combos	Dark Depths + Thespian's Stage Retreat to Coralhelm + Ruin Ghost Lotus Cobra + Ruin Ghost + Tideforce Elemental
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	14 - 0 Mythic Rares 57 - 0 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.72
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Bird 1/1 W, Clue, Elemental X/X G, Emblem Nissa, Vital Force, Human Cleric 1/1 BW, Illusion 1/1 U w/ Flying, Marit Lage
Folders	My EDH Brews, Great Ideas, Cool Ideas, Primers, Interesting EDH decks, Interesting EDH, maybe, cool decks, Commander, EDH