Life Through Death

Commander / EDH* BG (Golgari) Casual Forest Sacrifice Tap/Untap

MrGeoghagan

Land (31)

• 4x Forest
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Castle Locthwain
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crypt of Agadeem
• 1x Darkbore Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Gingerbread Cabin
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x High Market
• 1x Hissing Quagmire
• 1x Jungle Hollow
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Lotus Field
• 1x Necroblossom Snarl
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Sapseep Forest
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Temple of Malady
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Vastwood Thicket  ^Flip
• 1x Witch's Cottage
• 1x Woodland Cemetery
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Artifact (10)

• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Pristine Talisman
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Venser's Journal
• 1x Well of Lost Dreams
• 1x Alhammarret's Archive
• 1x Bontu's Monument
• 1x Helm of the Host

Instant (20)

• 1x Baleful Mastery
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Commencement of Festivities
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Harness Infinity
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Infuse with Vitality
• 1x Mortality Spear
• 1x Natural State
• 1x Plumb the Forbidden
• 1x Putrefy
• 1x Reckless Spite
• 1x Return to Nature
• 1x Rushed Rebirth
• 1x Supernatural Stamina
• 1x Tainted Pact
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Veil of Summer
• 1x Vines of Vastwood

Sorcery (16)

• 1x Bala Ged Recovery  ^Flip
• 1x Casualties of War
• 1x Consume Spirit
• 1x Culling Ritual
• 1x Damnable Pact
• 1x Deadly Brew
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Final Parting
• 1x Harvest Season
• 1x Profane Command
• 1x Reshape the Earth
• 1x Revival Experiment
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Splendid Reclamation
• 1x Three Visits
• 1x Zof Consumption  ^Flip

Commander (1)

Creature (18)

• 1x Accomplished Alchemist
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Fertilid
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Jaspera Sentinel
• 1x Leafkin Druid
• 1x Loam Dryad
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Timber Protector
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Wandering Archaic  ^Flip
• 1x Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
• 1x Ayara, First of Locthwain
• 1x Dina, Soul Steeper
• 1x Savra, Queen of the Golgari
• 1x Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
• 1x Yedora, Grave Gardener

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Moldervine Reclamation
• 1x Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Nissa, Who Shakes the World
• 1x Nissa, Vital Force

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This deck is intended to be more on the casual EDH side and go for those big, splashy plays. My goal is to lean heavily into Beledros' ability to untap lands for 10 life and go for some big turns. Ashaya will turn our nontoken creatures into forests, Yedora turns our sac'd creatures into forests (can make for some easy mana in a pinch with a couple creatures and a sac outlet), Urborg will make all those lands into swamps (obviously pairs nicely with Cabal Coffers) and Timber Protector can give all of our nontoken creatures indestructible in combination with Ashaya since they're all forests. The deck packs a pretty significant amount of interaction since it can be a bit slow to get going and once Beledros is out, we want to keep it that way until we can reach critical mass. Tainted Pact can speed things up exponentially, and even if we're unlucky and managed not to pull out an option that gives us no maximum hand size, Harness Infinity is there as a back up to get any key pieces back, and Elixir of Immortality can shuffle our graveyard back into our library to avoid decking ourselves.

• 1. Restriction - No infinite combos is the main restriction along with the deck intending to be more on the casual side so not a lot of tutors.
• 1. Main win con - Get out a ton of lands and and utilize the untap ability of Beledros to sink a ton of mana into cards like exsanguinate, damnable pact, consume spirit, and/or profane command. With a sac outlet and cards like Supernatural Stamina, we can trigger Beledros multiple times per turn. Helm of the Host is another option since we then have a Beledros token.
• 1. Alt win con(s) - Death by 1000 cuts via artistocrat type abilities and/or swinging in for lethal with something like Ashaya or Dina.

Feedback is welcome and if you see a card in there that you would like my reasoning for including, then don't hesitate to ask!

Date added	2 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 39 - 0 Rares 25 - 0 Uncommons 21 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.04
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Copy Clone, Emblem Nissa, Vital Force, Emblem Nissa, Who Shakes the World, Food, Pest 1/1 BG
Folders	My Decks