MTG Combo: Animate Dead + Blood Artist + Leonin Relic-Warder

YmPrat on Ayli: Recursive Power!

7 years ago

Crypt Ghast will generate good mana for you, and you can use that extra mana to extort your cards. Your opponents won't be too upset at losing 1 life per extorted spell, but gaining 3 (assuming it's a 4 player pod) is pretty good.

To help with reanimation you should consider Necromancy, Debtors' Knell. Day of The Dead, Coffin Queen, Marshal's Anthem, Nim Deathmantle and Reveillark.

Blood Artist and Falkenrath Noble are both cards you might consider. They slowly whittle down your opponents down by themselves, make boardwipes cause someone a lot of pain, and can help you combo out. Take for instance Animate Dead + Blood Artist + Leonin Relic-Warder , by repeatedly exiling Animate Dead with the Relic-Warder you can kill off everyone else. (Necromancy or Dance of the Dead also work in place of Animate Dead. The Relic-Warder can also permanently exile an artifact or enchantment if you sacrifice it in response to it's enter the battlefield ability, which is nice since it's much easier to combo out with it in the graveyard.)

A couple of creatures that are fantastic to sacrifice to Ayli are False Prophet and Yosei, the Morning Star, and if you manage to put a Gift of Immortality on either of them it will likely win you the game.

Mimic Vat can stop some infinite combos your opponents try to use, and can alternatively be used to give you additional useage of your own creatures.

Sword of the Animist is a card you might overlook at first, but it's surprisingly good in an Ayli deck. I often get 4+ additional lands out of it before some finds a way to get rid of it. Viridian Longbow is also really good with Ayli since it can repeatedly kill off enemy creatures due to Ayli's deathtouch.

Since your deck seems a bit light on card draw you might consider running Erebos, God of the Dead, Well of Lost Dreams, and Bloodgift Demon.