All things must die

Commander / EDH Aristocrats BGW (Abzan, Junk)

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Creature (29)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Champion of Lambholt
• 1x Cliffhaven Vampire
• 1x Cruel Celebrant
• 1x Crystalline Crawler
• 1x Darien, King of Kjeldor
• 1x Deathbringer Liege
• 1x Emrakul's Evangel
• 1x Forgotten Ancient
• 1x Ghalta, Primal Hunger
• 1x Leyline Prowler
• 1x Loxodon Lifechanter
• 1x Maw of the Obzedat
• 1x Meren of Clan Nel Toth
• 1x Murderous Rider
• 1x Noosegraf Mob
• 1x Phyrexian Ghoul
• 1x Realm-Cloaked Giant
• 1x Reaper of the Wilds
• 1x Royal Assassin
• 1x Smothering Abomination
• 1x Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1x Tendershoot Dryad
• 1x Teysa Karlov
• 1x Trostani Discordant
• 1x Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
• 1x Victory's Envoy
• 1x Yahenni, Undying Partisan
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Instant (5)

• 1x Dawn Charm
• 1x Despark
• 1x March of the Multitudes
• 1x Return of the Wildspeaker
• 1x Settle the Wreckage

Land (33)

• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 6x Forest
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Murmuring Bosk
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 5x Plains
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Sandsteppe Citadel
• 1x Scoured Barrens
• 1x Shambling Vent
• 1x Sungrass Prairie
• 5x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Temple of Silence
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Enchantment (11)

• 1x Anointed Procession
• 1x Beastmaster Ascension
• 1x Cathars' Crusade
• 1x Dawn of Hope
• 1x Defense of the Heart
• 1x Ethereal Absolution
• 1x Fecundity
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Growing Ranks
• 1x Pernicious Deed
• 1x Sandwurm Convergence

Commander (1)

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Camaraderie
• 1x Casualties of War
• 1x Citywide Bust
• 1x Duneblast
• 1x Gaea's Blessing
• 1x Kaya's Wrath
• 1x Merciless Eviction
• 1x Nissa's Expedition
• 1x Profane Command
• 1x Sublime Exhalation
• 1x Sylvan Scrying
• 1x Triumph of the Hordes

Artifact (6)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Dragon Throne of Tarkir
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x The Great Henge

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Elspeth, Knight-Errant
• 1x Garruk, Cursed Huntsman
• 1x Sorin, Grim Nemesis

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Sideboard

Artifact (5)

• 1x Bow of Nylea
• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Cauldron of Souls
• 1x Eldrazi Monument
• 1x Sword of the Animist

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Exsanguinate

Creature (5)

• 1x Decimator of the Provinces
• 1x Korlash, Heir to Blackblade
• 1x Mirror Entity
• 1x Mortivore
• 1x Mycoloth

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Dreadhorde Invasion
• 1x Ooze Garden

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This deck is vaguely an aristocrats deck with Ghave, Guru of Spores as a commander for some Abzan dominance because instead of just hitting your enemies with the succ, it can also go wide or win with commander damage on your 4th turn if all goes well. So lets break down this deck:

Creature Spells

Mana dorks

• Birds of Paradise: Fixing for cheap.
• Leyline Prowler: Fixing that can work as an emergency blocker.
• Crystalline Crawler: the best mana rock in the deck, it is potentially a free spell if need be that fixes your next spell. It also can be a filter mana in an infinite combo with your commander which will be explained later.

Dudes that make Dudes

• Noosegraf Mob: it will usually fill up your board before your next turn, synergises well with Cathars' Crusade.
• Darien, King of Kjeldor: Works as a deterrent to people trying to damage you.
• Tendershoot Dryad: Makes a token for free on every turn, usually 3/3's. I don't really consider this a lord card because its for a single creature type, and the token output is far more impressive.

Lords

• Deathbringer Liege: Gives a boost to a lot of your creatures while adding targeted removal to many spells.
• Victory's Envoy: Boost your entire board each of your turns, +1/+1 counter synergies with many cards.
• Trostani Discordant: Boost board, brings friends, shuts down thief Zedruu the Greathearted decks.
• Maw of the Obzedat: Temporary boost as well as a sacrifice outlet.

Sac Outlets

• Phyrexian Ghoul: Sometimes boost is important but it's here for the free sac.
• Yahenni, Undying Partisan: Literally Phyrexian Ghoul but better, synergises well with every board wipe. Can sac itself if that ever becomes important.
• Emrakul's Evangel: Make all your 1/1's bigger while triggering all the aristocrats.
• Smothering Abomination: Free mandatory sac outlet and payoff.

Sac Payoffs

• Cruel Celebrant: For dat succ.
• Zulaport Cutthroat: For dat succ.
• Syr Konrad, the Grim: Everything triggers the Succ.
• Reaper of the Wilds: Allows better draws while being a hard to remove blocker.

Pseudo Sac payoffs

• Teysa Karlov: Makes It so you only need half as many life drain triggers to win, the token boost is also nice.
• Cliffhaven Vampire: Doubles the effectiveness of all drain triggers and makes single target triggers hit all opponents.

Cool powerful and Synergistic singles

• Meren of Clan Nel Toth: A lot of things die so you can bring a lot of things back.
• Ghalta, Primal Hunger: 12/12 that costs 2, good target for Dragon Throne of Tarkir.
• Loxodon Lifechanter: Under the right circumstances it can gain you life or one-shot opponents.
• Forgotten Ancient: Disgustingly powerfull card. Can make your commander lethal on the first turn it attacks, will instantly make your entire board unblock-able with Champion of Lambholt, give you enough mana to do anything you want with Crystalline Crawler, or just be big and make everything else big.
• Champion of Lambholt: Makes your board unblock-able and can be part of an infinite combo with your commander.
• Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger: Very easy to cast in this deck, its Ulamog, he big,... Abzan mill?

Creature Removal - Murderous Rider: Just a kill-spell on a creature. - Royal Assassin: Removal on a stick, acts as an attack deterrent, can kill itself. - Realm-Cloaked Giant: Board wipe on a creature.

Non-Creature Spells

Mana Rocks

• Sol Ring: No description needed
• Chromatic Lantern: Perfect fixing for all mana.
• The Great Henge: "It's like the Ghalta of Mana rocks" ~some dude at my lgs.
• Ashnod's Altar: Sacrifice outlet that grants mana, very abuse-able in this deck, part of infinite combo explained below.

Ramps spells

• Sylvan Scrying: Good targets are; Command Tower, Reliquary Tower, Temple of the False God
• Nissa's Expedition: Good for getting you un-mana screwed because of convoke.

Draw

• Skullclamp: Pseudo sac outlet as well as draw value, increases the draw power of Return of the Wildspeaker by three.
• Camaraderie: Mass draw with a temporary buff.
• Fecundity: Draws you cards, drawing cards for others is a downside but it de-incentify players targeting you.
• Return of the Wildspeaker: Boost for lethal or draw Many many cards.
• Defense of the Heart: Strictly speaking this isn't draw, but it is better (free-casting is broken).

Anthems

• Beastmaster Ascension: Three mana for +5/+5 is very aggressive/efficient.
• Ethereal Absolution: Anthem that weakens enemy creatures while also being a mana sink to create more tokens.
• Cathars' Crusade: Its a new anthem every-time a creature enters the battlefield, can be used in an infinite combo.
• Dragon Throne of Tarkir: Turns all of your tokens into pseudo copies of your biggest creature.

Token Generaters

• March of the Multitudes: Good amount of dudes for the mana put in, can be used as a defensive combat trick.
• Dawn of Hope: Mana sink and card draw from one source.
• Growing Ranks: Makes one token on your for free.
• Anointed Procession: Doubles the effectiveness of each card that makes tokens, can be used in an infinite combo.

Removal

• Despark: Can usually remove the worst thing from the board from the game, for just 2 mana.
• Casualties of War: Either spread it round or set one player back to the start of the game.
• Kaya's Wrath: Board-wipe that gains you life
• Sublime Exhalation: Usually a 4 mana board-wipe, can cost 1.
• Merciless Eviction: Remove Whatever non-land permanent that is hard to deal with.
• Citywide Bust: Boardwipe that hits everyone worse than it hits you.
• Duneblast: Board-wipe That saves your most important/biggest creature, good way to finish off opponents.
• Pernicious Deed: People will play differently with the threat of a board-wipe ever present.
• Settle the Wreckage: Use this card to save yourself from lethal, you can also use it to ramp all of the land out of your deck if you have enough disposable creatures.

Plansewalkers

• Sorin, Grim Nemesis: Life-drain and card draw on a +1, his ult makes a frankly ridiculous amount of dudes.(daddy<3).
• Garruk, Cursed Huntsman: Token generation, killspell-draw, anthem effect. literally every support card effect in the deck in one card.
• Elspeth, Knight-Errant: Token generator with an amazing ult.

Powerful Single Effects

• Sandwurm Convergence: Removes fliers as a threat while ensuring that you always have a blocker
• Grave Pact: Makes your sac outlets that much better.
• Triumph of the Hordes: Game winning card that makes everyone hate you.
• Profane Command: Has three ways to do lethal and can bring something back.
• Dawn Charm: White counter-spell and model option.
• Gaea's Blessing: Mostly just an anti mill card.

The Combo TM

So this combo at minimum gives you infinite ETB triggers and infinite death triggers, witch is great for a aristocrats deck. At best it can give you infinite mana of any colour and infinite tokens.

For this to work you need Ghave, Guru of Spores, Ashnod's Altar and one other depending on what you want from the combo (Anointed Procession, Champion of Lambholt, Cathars' Crusade).

Anointed version

If Anointed Procession is on the board, create a token with Ghave, Guru of Spores (making 2 saproling tokens), sacrafice one to Ashnod's Altar to make two colourless mana. Use one mana and sacrifice the remaining saproling to Ghave, Guru of Spores to put a counter back on it, ust the remaining mana to repeat the process.

Champion version

If Champion of Lambholt is on the board, create a token with Ghave, Guru of Spores this will put a +1/+1 counter on Champion of Lambholt, sacrifice the token to Ashnod's Altar to make two colourless mana. Use one mana with Ghave, Guru of Spores remove the +1/+1 counter from Champion of Lambholt to create one toke saproling. Now that you have one token and one mana you can make either infinite colourless mana or infinite 1/1 tokens.

Cathars' Version

Exactly the same as Champion version except you remove the counters from Ghave, Guru of Spores, if you have a Crystalline Crawler on the board you now have infinite coloured mana. This is the most powerfull version of the combo because ontop of doing everything else the other versions do, the tokens it makes are infinitely big.

A quick note on the side-board

Its just a bunch of stuff that I haven't found a place for yet, have removed recently for something else, or in the case of Korlash, Heir to Blackblade was removed because the deck is no longer one big reference to Beserk.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Exclude colors	UR
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 2 Mythic Rares 52 - 11 Rares 20 - 1 Uncommons 2 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.31
Tokens	City's Blessing, Eldrazi Horror 3/2 C, Emblem Elspeth, Knight-Errant, Emblem Garruk, Cursed Huntsman, Experience Token, Ooze */* G, Saproling 1/1 G, Soldier 1/1 W, Soldier 1/1 W w/ Lifelink, Spirit 1/1 WB, Vampire Knight 1/1 B, Wolf 2/2 BG, Wurm 5/5 G, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie Army 0/0 B
Folders	commander decks