Count the Blinks (Symbiotic Swarm Upgrade)

Commander / EDH BGW (Abzan, Junk) Blink Combo Counters Infinite Combo Multiplayer Partner Sacrifice

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Land (36)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fetid Heath
• 4x Forest
• 1x Gavony Township
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Grim Backwoods
• 1x Indatha Triome
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Krosan Verge
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Nesting Grounds
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 3x Plains
• 1x Scattered Groves
• 1x Sungrass Prairie
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Undergrowth Stadium
• 1x Vault of Champions
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Bastion
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Artifact (7)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Sword of Hearth and Home
• 1x Sword of Truth and Justice
• 1x The Great Henge

Creature (28)

• 1x Abzan Falconer
• 1x Archangel of Thune
• 1x Athreos, Shroud-Veiled
• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Champion of Lambholt
• 1x Corpsejack Menace
• 1x Crystalline Crawler
• 1x Emiel the Blessed
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Ghave, Guru of Spores
• 1x Good-Fortune Unicorn
• 1x Gyre Sage
• 1x Incubation Druid
• 1x Kalonian Hydra
• 1x Knight of Autumn
• 1x Managorger Hydra
• 1x Reyhan, Last of the Abzan
• 1x Rishkar, Peema Renegade
• 1x Shadrix Silverquill
• 1x Shaile, Dean of Radiance  ^Flip
• 1x Shalai, Voice of Plenty
• 1x Skyclave Shadowcat
• 1x Soul of the Harvest
• 1x Spike Feeder
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Walking Ballista
• 1x Winding Constrictor
• 1x Yahenni, Undying Partisan

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Bala Ged Recovery  ^Flip
• 1x Cleansing Nova
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Damn
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Overwhelming Stampede
• 1x Three Visits
• 1x Triumph of the Hordes

Commanders (2)

Instant (12)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Deadly Rollick
• 1x Eerie Interlude
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Ephemerate
• 1x Inspiring Call
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Semester's End
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Cathars' Crusade
• 1x Guardian Project
• 1x Hardened Scales
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Rite of Passage
• 1x Smothering Tithe

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Decklist Last Updated: 08/02/2021

Description Last Updated: 05/02/2021

Power Level: 7/10

This is an upgrade of the Symbiotic Swarm Pre-Con Deck for Commander 2020. I chose to use Nikara, Lair Scavenger and Yannik, Scavenging Sentinel for the commandars because they represent the neatest combo element in my opinion, and seem the most fun from the command zone. The deck is built around a +1/+1 counter theme, with a sacrifice/bounce sub-theme.

The main win condition of this deck is either combat with large creatures buffed up by the +1/+1 counters, or by infinite combo. The playstyle is pretty straight forward, with most pieces of the deck providing value in the form of card-draw or recursion while generally sticking to the +1/+1 counter them to get maximum value from Nikara, Lair Scavenger.

Cards to help trigger Nikara, Lair Scavenger's ability include Ephemerate, Eerie Interlude, Yannik, Scavenging Sentinel, Skyclave Shadowcat, and Eldrazi Displacer. Cards that like being bounced by the above are Massacre Wurm, Sun Titan, Avenger of Zendikar, Burning-Rune Demon, and Eternal Witness.

Combos:

1. Any counter increaser (Winding Constrictor, Corpsejack Menace, Hardened Scales, ) + Walking Ballista with three or more +1/+1 counters on it + Rite of Passage. This combo works by having the Walking Ballista remove one counter from itself to deal 1 damage to itself. This triggers Rite of Passage to add a +1/+1 counter to the Walking Ballista, which gets increased by our counter increasers to add 2 +1/+1 counters to it instead. This lets you remove on of those counters and repeat the process, resulting in an infinitely large Walking Ballista. At the next turn's upkeep you can remove counters from the Walking Ballista to kill your opponents. Be careful not to do that on the same turn you did the combo because the Walking Ballista will be at 1 hp and die when you remove a single +1/+1 counter from it.

2. Archangel of Thune + Spike Feeder. This combo gives you infinite life by removing a counter from Spike Feeder to gain 2 life, and then triggering Archangel of Thune to put a +1/+1 counter on each of your creatures. It also makes all of your creatures (except Spike Feeder) infinitely large, so you can use them to kill your opponents as well. If you add Crystalline Crawler to the mix, you get infinite mana as well.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	2 years
Exclude colors	UR
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	13 - 0 Mythic Rares 54 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 4 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.27
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Inkling 2/1 WB, Plant 0/1 G, Saproling 1/1 G, Treasure