Echo of Eons => Timetwister
Nature's Claim => Imperial Seal
Thrasios and Tymna Reanimator (aka Razakats [aka Kats])
Initially created by ShaperSavant, this is a midrange deck that can out-grind the table while having low-entry combo potential at any stage in the game. So why do I love this deck so much? Because this deck is never out of the game. This deck is like the mongoose of cEDH decks. Razakats was partially created to deal with traditional stax and blood-pod. While not as fast as the Flash-Hulk decks, what you do gain is some of the best top-deck quality in the format. Kats has so many avenues to wins, or soft-locking the table.
Plan A. Razaketh
Razaketh, the Foulblooded
is an absolute monster. 2 life + sac a creature for a
Demonic Tutor
effect... in a deck that runs 25 creatures and every 1 mana color-producing creature is down-right nutty. In fact, papa Raza is so ding-dang nutty that all he needs is floating, any 2 lands, 1 creature on board to win the game. And that's the minimum needed. Anything more than that is just added protection and flexibility. Once you land
Razaketh, the Foulblooded
you have a few options. You can:
Plan A.1
This is option is usually my go-to line when I happen to stick the big buy. and all you need is any 2 creatures +
Razaketh, the Foulblooded
on board and no extra mana (but if you have more you can skip a loop or 2).
You can now begin the "bomberman" combo back recurring and casting LED over and over gaining one
each time. Then once you have infinite white mana you can start cracking LED for the other colors and "snap" you have infinite mana of all your colors!
Plan A.2 This line has the potential to be a lot more low to the ground and is general your bet if you land Razaketh, the FoulBlood as early as turn 2 or 3.
From here you have as many to-hand tutors as your life-total allows (Remember all that green mana you made earlier). You can tutor up some rocks and go for infinite mana. You could go for notion thief + a wheel and soft-lock the game, you can kinda do anything, but most of the time what you want to do is assemble the above loop with a
Blood Artist
also on the battlefield. You actually don't need Razaketh to sacrifice Warder for that loop to occur. So once you assemble it, you can drain all your opponents of their life (as long as they don't have hexproof)
Bonus Line
So this one is a bit of a combo of the above 2 to really showcase what some of the options are. Start with Razaketh in play + 2 creatures + 2 lands + floating.
- Sac a creature, get
Life / Death
, cast Life (no mana in pool, 1 creature, 2 lands)
- Sac a creature, get
Gaea's Cradle
, play Cradle, tap Cradle ( in pool, 0 non-raza creatures, 3 lands)
- Sac a land, get
Lion's Eye Diamond
, cast LED, crack LED ( in pool, 2 lands left)
- Sac a land, get
Auriok Salvagers
, cast Salvagers ( in pool, 1 land left)
- Enter bomberman loops
So for 2 creatures, 2 lands, and a floating we have Eternal Witness-less win WITH Pact/Silence for protection
Plan B. Early Jin
So it often may be the case where you have a tutor and a reanimate spell, but no setup for the Plan A win. This is where just jamming a
Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
and clenching your buttcheeks that it wheels to your next turn is a pretty impactful, yet pretty non-committal play. The nut draws let you do this turn 1 at the low-low cost of 10 life.
Plan C. Notion Wheel
As you might have picked up already, this deck just really like drawing more cards than anyone else at the table. Through
Tymna the Weaver
beats, to Trasios, Triton Hero activations, and several other engines in the deck. In addition to all these incremental advantages, we can find our way into some absolute haymakers being the form of:
Notion Thief
or
Consecrated Sphinx
+
Windfall
or
Timetwister
(if you play online or with proxies)
Plan D. Kederekt Soft-lock
Like I mentioned, this deck is reallllly good at dealing with most kinds of stax. The real cards you need to watch out for are
Rest in Peace
effects,
Stranglehold
effects, and to a lesser extent
Blood Moon
and
Cursed Totem
.
Kederekt Leviathan
represents a way to wipe the board like a symmetrical overloaded
Cyclonic Rift
for 3 mana at instant speed through
Necromancy
. And not only that, but you can do that every turn cycle... or more.
This particularly helpful against creature strategies or big artifact stax decks. This works as a fine way to clear a path to go for a Razaketh or Bomberman win.
But no, seriously, go read Shaper's primer too Razakats
if you have any questions feel free to hit me up on discord (Snax#3258) or drop a comment (might not see it right away)
