X-emplary X-cost

Commander / EDH BUG (Sultai) Combo

iNinjy

Sorcery (25)

• 1x Animist's Awakening
• 1x Battle at the Bridge
• 1x Bond of Agony
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Curse of the Swine
• 1x Damnable Pact
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Revelation
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Genesis Wave
• 1x In Garruk's Wake
• 1x Increasing Confusion
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Migration Path
• 1x Mind Grind
• 1x Piper's Melody
• 1x Profane Command
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Renewing Touch
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Uncage the Menagerie
• 1x Villainous Wealth

Instant (6)

• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Erebos's Intervention
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Plasm Capture
• 1x Putrefy
• 1x Thassa's Intervention

Creature (17)

• 1x Corpsejack Menace
• 1x Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
• 1x Endless One
• 1x Feral Hydra
• 1x Hooded Hydra
• 1x Hungering Hydra
• 1x Hydroid Krasis
• 1x Kruphix, God of Horizons
• 1x Lifeblood Hydra
• 1x Polukranos, Unchained
• 1x Primordial Hydra
• 1x Protean Hydra
• 1x Steelbane Hydra
• 1x Stonecoil Serpent
• 1x Vigor
• 1x Vorel of the Hull Clade
• 1x Walking Ballista

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Elemental Bond
• 1x Freed from the Real
• 1x Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip
• 1x Parallel Lives
• 1x Pemmin's Aura
• 1x Simic Ascendancy
• 1x Unbound Flourishing

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner

Commander (1)

Land (35)

• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 13x Forest
• 7x Island
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 7x Swamp
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Witch's Cottage
• 1x Zagoth Triome

Artifact (7)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Astral Cornucopia
• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Perpetual Timepiece
• 1x Primal Amulet  ^Flip
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x The Ozolith

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Since I’m buying the new sultai precon and won’t be using Zaxara, the Exemplary anyways, even if I decide not to build this list I’m designing it anyways.

Ignore the land base, I’ll fix it later on.

X-cost tribal

Zaxara, the Exemplary enchanted by either Pemmin's Aura or Freed from the Real makes infinite mana... follow it up with any of the following:

• mill: Increasing Confusion/Mind Grind

• theft: Villainous Wealth

• multi-purpose: Torment of Hailfire/Damnable Pact

• drain life: Exsanguinate/Profane Command

• ping: Walking Ballista

Cards combos:

• Battle at the Bridge/Erebos's Intervention+Bond of Agony = gain life then drain everyone

• Genesis Wave+Perpetual Timepiece/Piper's Melody/Renewing Touch = dump all permanents onto the field then shuffle all those dead X cost creatures back into the library

• Aetherflux Reservoir+Bolas's Citadel+Sensei's Divining Top = x cost spells are always cast as X=0 with the citadel, so with Aetherflux, spend 1 or 2 life then gain a ton of life right back. Especially good after casting a huge Animist's Awakening or the Genesis Wave combo right above, though the Top is used to draw off the lands after your land drop for turn and the “x can’t be zero” cards that you can’t play with the Citadel.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Exclude colors	WR
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 42 - 0 Rares 14 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.63
Tokens	Boar 2/2 G, Hydra 0/0 G, Morph 2/2 C, Snake 1/1 G