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Crow_Umbra

Creature (30)

• 1x Hope of Ghirapur
• 1x Deep Gnome Terramancer
• 1x Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
• 1x Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
• 1x Athreos, God of Passage
• 1x Boromir, Warden of the Tower
• 1x Braids, Arisen Nightmare
• 1x Breena, the Demagogue
• 1x Commissar Severina Raine
• 1x Thalia, Heretic Cathar
• 1x Tymna the Weaver
• 1x Yahenni, Undying Partisan
• 1x Elenda, the Dusk Rose
• 1x Erebos, Bleak-Hearted
• 1x Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
• 1x Mondrak, Glory Dominus
• 1x Myrel, Shield of Argive
• 1x Teysa Karlov
• 1x Whisper, Blood Liturgist
• 1x Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
• 1x Ao, the Dawn Sky
• 1x Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
• 1x God-Eternal Bontu
• 1x Junji, the Midnight Sky
• 1x Liesa, Forgotten Archangel
• 1x Ravos, Soultender
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1x Kokusho, the Evening Star
• 1x Yosei, the Morning Star

Land (35)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Demolition Field
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 10x Plains
• 1x Plaza of Heroes
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Shattered Sanctum
• 11x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Silence
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x War Room

Artifact (9)

• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Idol of Oblivion
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Liquimetal Torque
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1x Thought Vessel

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Flowering of the White Tree
• 1x Fanatical Devotion
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Smothering Tithe

Commander (1)

Instant (12)

• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Village Rites
• 1x Brought Back
• 1x Deadly Dispute
• 1x Plumb the Forbidden
• 1x Vanishing Verse
• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Generous Gift
• 1x Rootborn Defenses
• 1x Saw in Half
• 1x Teferi's Protection

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Damn
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Dismantling Wave
• 1x Victimize
• 1x Farewell

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Maybeboard

Creature (23)

• 1x Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful
• 1x Daxos, Blessed by the Sun
• 1x Ornithopter of Paradise
• 1x Wernog, Rider's Chaplain
• 1x Ayara, First of Locthwain
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Kambal, Consul of Allocation
• 1x Morbid Opportunist
• 1x Reidane, God of the Worthy  ^Flip
• 1x Sigrid, God-Favored
• 1x Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
• 1x Balthor the Defiled
• 1x Gisa, Glorious Resurrector
• 1x Gonti, Lord of Luxury
• 1x Mangara, the Diplomat
• 1x Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
• 1x Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle
• 1x Arvad the Cursed
• 1x Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
• 1x God-Eternal Oketra
• 1x Thalisse, Reverent Medium
• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One

Artifact (6)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Blade of Selves
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Phyrexian Altar

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Heartless Summoning
• 1x Anointed Procession
• 1x Song of the Worldsoul

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Wake the Reflections
• 1x Ashes to Ashes
• 1x Search for Glory
• 1x Urza's Ruinous Blast
• 1x Primevals' Glorious Rebirth

Instant (2)

• 1x Rebuff the Wicked
• 1x Baleful Mastery

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We've all seen it at some point. An iconic celeb tragically passes away, perhaps far younger than expected. As an added twist of tragedy, their legacies are exploited by an estate for the purpose of making money off of strange, posthumous projects. Artists like Bob Ross and Selena Quintanilla have had their likenesses used to sell merchandise, biopics, or even strange posthumous albums using unreleased audio cuts. Others may point to things like the Tupac Hologram as cashing in using the likeness of a celebrity that can't protest against the project.

With all that in mind, Ratadrabik of Urborg seeks to exploit the deaths of some of Magic's most famous Legends, and use their legacies to advance their ambitions towards victory. Much like exploitative estates, Ratadrabik leaves behind a wake of hollowed out projects which lack the luster and soul of their once-living counterparts, in the form of 2/2 Black Zombie token copies of these dead legends. Ratadrabik's strategy is simple: make the most out of all of these legends in life, death, and all states in between to win.

The deck currently lacks any combo wincons, and instead primarily seeks to sacrifice Legends for value and reanimate them repeatedly, or play aggressively and force the table to block Legends in combat.

Ramp

This category is dominated primarily by mana rocks with a couple of miscellaneous effects that help with mana acceleration in early to mid game.

Misc

• Myriad Landscape

• Deep Gnome Terramancer

• Smothering Tithe

Rocks and Dorks

• Sol Ring

• Arcane Signet

• Fellwar Stone

• Liquimetal Torque

• Mind Stone

• Ornithopter of Paradise - I like it as an early defender as needed. A potential slot to cut for something more synergystic. This is also a spot I've been considering for Heartless Summoning, since Legendaries can get mana intensive quickly.

• Talisman of Hierarchy

• Though Vessel

Draw

I am especially excited for the sac-based effects in this section that can help kill Legends for tokenification. As always, I have a mix of cantrip and repeatable effects on permanents.

• War Room

• Village Rites

• Deadly Dispute - One of my favorite draw spells printed in the past couple years.

• Idol of Oblivion

• Mind Stone

• Night's Whisper

• Plumb the Forbidden - Helps to avoid board wipes and rebuild afterwards.

• Wernog, Rider's Chaplain - I'm interested in trying this out in-game to see how often my friends will choose to Investigate vs taking the 1 damage ping.

• Breena, the Demagogue - A card my friends and I often re-read a couple times each game to make sure we aren't missing out on the triggers.

• Tymna the Weaver - Rewards the aggressive play I'd like to throw my Legends into to help them die.

• Erebos, Bleak-Hearted - Helps squeeze a little extra value out of Aristocrats opportunities.

• Mangara, the Diplomat - One of the draw pieces I've been a bit skeptical about since trying it out. I tried this out in my Isshin deck initially, but it felt like my friends played around it to avoid giving me the draws.

• Yawgmoth, Thran Physician - Chef's kiss

• Ao, the Dawn Sky - Not truly draw, but I do like the potential here for cheating stuff into play. Card advantage!

Under consideration

• Grim Haruspex

• Morbid Opportunist

• God-Eternal Bontu

Interaction & Protection

I split this from removal, since I tend to see these effects as ones that are intended to prevent my opponents from interacting their own resources or mine as they would want to. It's a bit of a hair split, but I do see board/permanent protection effects working in tandem with Interaction to keep my resources working as intended.

Protection

• Rebuff the Wicked

• Lightning Greaves - I almost included Swiftfoot Boots as well, but instead opted to include......

• Fanatical Devotion - I figured Fanatical Devotion would be a slightly better fit than Swifties since it is another Sac Outlet that I can utilize to protect Ratadrabik primarily, and enable my token creation.

• Rootborn Defenses - This is here mostly for the Populate, but this could also be a slot for something like Akroma's Will or Flawless Maneuver

• Teferi's Protection - Peace out for a rotation and hopefully hatch up a plan while things play themselves out.

Interaction

• Bojuka Bog

• Scavenger Grounds - This is here mostly as an additional resource against more combo-based graveyard strats. Sometimes you have to keep the threat dangled over them instead of just dropping a Bojuka Bog.

• Hope of Ghirapur - Another means to get combo strats to sit back for a turn rotation or two. The best part is that Hope of Ghirapur self-sacs

• Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim - Cushions life up a bit and stings opponents. Should be fun to get a token copy or two.

• Liquimetal Torque - I still want to turn something into an artifact in response to a Vandalblast

• Athreos, God of Passage - Gives my opponents the decision to eat a bit of damage or recur a creature back to hand.

• Breena, the Demogogue - Allows for political wheeling and dealing by opening the draw up to everyone.

• Erebos, Bleak-Hearted - Not really removal, but it helps soften up aggro swings a bit, and also enables sacrificing.

• Gisa, Glorious Resurrector - Seems kinda funny to kill an opponent's commander or other legendary value piece, get my own Decayed copy, then get an additional copy from Ratadrabik once the Decayed version dies.

• Smothering Tithe - "Are you going to pay the 2?"

• Yawgmoth, Thran Physician - I like that he can stack the -1/-1 counters which can eventually turn into removal.

• Junji, the Midnight Sky - With hopefully multiple copies, I can force opponents to discard multiple times, or perhaps steal a dead creature of theirs.

• Liesa, Forgotten Archangel - Another recursion engine that also exiles opponents' dead creatures. Take that, other graveyard decks!

• Syr Konrad, the Grim - Things will be leaving and entering the graveyard plenty in this deck.

• Kokusho, the Evening Star - The original Gray Merchant of Asphodel. Another pretty silly option for token copies and reanimation.

• Yosei, the Morning Star - Keep a problematic board state tapped down for a bit.

Removal

A mix of single target removal and wipe effects. A category that feels a little light at the moment. Might see if I need to include 1-2 more options.

• Field of Ruin

• Swords to Plowshares

• Baleful Mastery - I almost always pay 2 for it and use the donated draw to incentivize some political exchanges.

• Damn

• Vanishing Verse

• Anguished Unmaking

• Dismantling Wave - One of my favorite removal options in White. I love hitting multiple permanents with one card.

• Generous Gift

• Sigrid, God-Favored - She's basically a fancy Fiend Hunter / Banisher Priest

• Yawgmoth, Thran Physician - Surely, Yawgmoth will be able to stack enough counters on a single target to remove it.

• Farewell

Sacrifice Enabling

A handful of effects which will allow us to sacrifice legends at our own leisure. A mix of single cantrip and repeatable value effects:

• Village Rites

• Deadly Dispute

• Plumb the Forbidden

• Fanatical Devotion

• Victimize

• Yahenni, Undying Partisan

• Erebos, Bleak-Hearted

• Whisper, Blood Liturgist

• Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

Under Consideration

• Altar of Dementia

• Ashnod's Altar

• Phyrexian Altar

• God-Eternal Bontu

Token Support

Unfortunately, we don't have Green or Red to help us make more tokens than we should be able to. We will have to make do with:

• Kaya, Geist Hunter

• Rootborn Defenses

• Anointed Procession

• Elenda, the Dusk Rose

• Thalisse, Reverent Medium

Under consideration

• Wake the Reflections

• Saw in Half

Legacies to exploit

The legends we will be looking to exploit most. I've mentioned Exploit this entire primer like some kind of Chekov's Gun. This category is for Legends that have either an Enter the Battlefield trigger, or a trigger when they Leave the Battlefield, either through dying or just leaving by any means.

ETB Triggers

• Wernog, Rider's Chaplain

• Sigrid, God-Favored

• Sidisi, Undead Vizier - Sidisi is going to be absolutely bonkers in this deck, since she can EXPLOIT herself, and essentially tutor twice with her new Ratadrabik provided token copy.

Death Triggers

• Wernog, Rider's Chaplain - Will, I mean, Wernog just has to leave the battlefield. Doesn't even have to be through dying.

• Elenda, the Dusk Rose - She gets counters when stuff dies. Huh, look at that.

• Erebos, Bleak-Hearted - Procs when my things die, not necessarily when it dies

• Teysa Karlov - Nothing like a Death-harmonicon to help get extra token copies or other death triggers

• Ao, the Dawn Sky - Team anthem and has an option for card advantage/cheating something(s) into play

• Junj, the Midnight Sky

• Kokusho, the Evening Star

• Yosei, the Morning Star

Recursion & Reanimation

A mix of effects which can reanimate creatures directly to the battlefield, or help recur creatures back to hand

Recursion

• Athreos, God of Passage

• Liesa, Forgotten Archangel

• Ravos, Soultender

Reanimation

• Reanimate - Wow, it's almost like the namesake card for this category /s

• Animate Dead

• Dance of the Dead

• Necromancy

• Victimize - Flavor wise, I like how this fits the overall theme of the deck lol.

• Whisper, Blood Liturgist

• Junji, the Midnight Sky

Top Ranked	Achieved #59 position overall 1 year ago Achieved #50 position in Commander / EDH 1 year ago Achieved #2 position in Commander / EDH Reanimator 1 year ago Achieved #2 position in Commander / EDH WB (Orzhov) 1 year ago
Date added	1 year
Last updated	10 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	15 - 0 Mythic Rares 36 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.03
Tokens	Copy Clone, Eldrazi 10/10 C, Elephant 3-3 G, Soldier, The Ring, The Ring Tempts You, Treasure, Vampire 1/1 W, Zombie 2/2 B
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