Budget Food Chain First Sliver

Commander / EDH* Budget BUG (Sultai) Competitive Five Color Infinite Combo

Milkspy

Land (29)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bountiful Promenade
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Forest
• 1x Gemstone Caverns
• 1x Gemstone Mine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Island
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Tarnished Citadel
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Waterlogged Grove
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Extract
• 1x Foresight
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Manipulate Fate
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will

Instant (28)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Ad Nauseam
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Delay
• 1x Demonic Consultation
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Dovin's Veto
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Negate
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Plunge into Darkness
• 1x Reap
• 1x Silence
• 1x Spell Pierce
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Tainted Pact
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Veil of Summer

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Food Chain
• 1x Goblin Bombardment
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Sterling Grove
• 1x Sylvan Library

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Jace, Wielder of Mysteries

Commander (1)

Creature (20)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Boreal Druid
• 1x Dark Confidant
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Eternal Scourge
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Gilded Drake
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Misthollow Griffin
• 1x Noble Hierarch
• 1x Squee, the Immortal
• 1x Thassa's Oracle
• 1x Vexing Shusher
• 1x Wall of Roots

Artifact (6)

• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Sol Ring

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Sideboard

Instant (4)

• 1x Fire Covenant
• 1x Force of Vigor
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Pongify

Artifact (1)

• 1x Grafdigger's Cage

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Regrowth
• 1x Windfall

Creature (2)

• 1x Destiny Spinner
• 1x Oakhame Adversary

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Rest in Peace
• 1x Rhystic Study

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Maybeboard

Land (10)

• 1x Bayou
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs

Instant (3)

• 1x Culling the Weak
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Misdirection

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Timetwister

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Budget Food Chain The First Sliver

Budget deck, based on ShaperSavant's list. See his version of the deck: Food Chain Sliver

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Future upgrades

In chronological order:

• Flooded Grove -> Mana Crypt
• Misdirection -> Force of Will
• Counterspell -> Mana Drain
• Culling the Weak -> Mox Diamond
• Expensive fetchlands
• Sterling Grove -> Imperial Seal
• OG dual lands
• Goblin Bombardment -> Timetwister

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Gameplans

• Ad Nauseam rush (with the use of rituals)
• Necropotence slam (with the use of rituals)
• Tainted Pact/Demonic Consultation/Plunge into Darkness to exile Squee, the Immortal/Eternal Scourge/Misthollow Griffin while finding Food Chain or a tutor to find it.
• Tutor missing pieces for consultation win (mostly Thassa's Oracle)
• Tutor the missing pieces for Food Chain win.

In a vacuum, when I don't know how much interaction my opponents have, I often prefer one of the first two gameplans. Those gameplans don't let you tunnel-vision and gives you a good amount of interaction and backup value if things don't go the way you plan.

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Possible winconditions

After infinite food chain mana

Twister loop: Memory's Journey/Timetwister + Noxious Revival + spells you want to loop

• Loop Lotus Petal/Wall of Roots/Dockside Extortionist/Dark Ritual/Culling the Weak for infinite mana which results in new winconditions.
• Loop Extract to exile opponents' libraries.
• Loop tutors and cantrips to mill yourself
• With the help of tutors and infinite noncreature mana Swan Song can be looped for infinite birds
• Loop Assassin's Trophy to destroy opponents' permanents for beatdown strategy

Consult lines: Uses Jace, Wielder of Mysteries/Thassa's Oracle/Laboratory Maniac to win Remove library: Demonic Consultation/Tainted Pact Draw effect: Any cantrip in hand/modern horizons lands

Without food chain

Jace, Wielder of Mysteries/Thassa's Oracle/Laboratory Maniac + Demonic Consultation/Tainted Pact

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 2 Mythic Rares 53 - 2 Rares 13 - 6 Uncommons 20 - 1 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	1.65
Tokens	Ape 3/3 G, Bird 2/2 U, Spirit 1/1 C, Treasure
Based on	Food Chain Sliver ShaperSavant EDH