Araumi of the Dead Tide Self Mill ETB/LTB

Commander / EDH Combo Mill Sacrifice Tokens UB (Dimir)

Slarenon

Creature (41)

• 1x Agent of Treachery
• 1x Burglar Rat
• 1x Cavalier of Night
• 1x Champion of Wits
• 1x Cloud of Faeries
• 1x Demon's Disciple
• 1x Deranged Assistant
• 1x Doomwake Giant
• 1x Emry, Lurker of the Loch
• 1x Faerie Miscreant
• 1x Fatestitcher
• 1x Floating-Dream Zubera
• 1x Glasspool Mimic  ^Flip
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Gyruda, Doom of Depths
• 1x Hedron Crab
• 1x Impaler Shrike
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Kokusho, the Evening Star
• 1x Looter il-Kor
• 1x Massacre Wurm
• 1x Merfolk Looter
• 1x Myr Retriever
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Phantasmal Image
• 1x Plaguecrafter
• 1x Priest of Gix
• 1x Reef Worm
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Stinkweed Imp
• 1x Stitcher's Supplier
• 1x Thalakos Deceiver
• 1x Thassa's Oracle
• 1x Tomebound Lich
• 1x Tribute Mage
• 1x Undead Augur
• 1x Vindictive Lich
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Vizier of Tumbling Sands
• 1x Watcher for Tomorrow
• 1x Yarok's Fenlurker

Land (34)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Choked Estuary
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 1x High Market
• 8x Island
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Nephalia Drownyard
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 9x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Isle
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Watery Grave

Instant (6)

• 1x Ancient Excavation
• 1x Drown in the Loch
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Malakir Rebirth  ^Flip
• 1x Thought Scour

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Sinister Concoction

Commander (1)

Artifact (13)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Codex Shredder
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mesmeric Orb
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Awaken the Erstwhile
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Careful Study
• 1x Windfall

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Sideboard

Creature (3)

• 1x Nascent Metamorph
• 1x Obsessive Stitcher
• 1x Pitiless Plunderer

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Grave Pact

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Quasiduplicate

Artifact (1)

• 1x Perpetual Timepiece

Land (2)

• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 1x Phyrexian Tower

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Maybeboard

Creature (18)

• 1x Agadeem Occultist
• 1x Atris, Oracle of Half-Truths
• 1x Broodbirth Viper
• 1x Dire Fleet Ravager
• 1x Doom Whisperer
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Kalastria Healer
• 1x Merciless Executioner
• 1x Mire Triton
• 1x Noxious Gearhulk
• 1x Phyrexian Delver
• 1x Rakshasa Debaser
• 1x Ravenous Chupacabra
• 1x Undead Augur
• 1x Underworld Sentinel
• 1x Wonder
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Stitch Together
• 1x Victimize

Land (1)

• 1x Crypt of Agadeem

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Dictate of Erebos

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Before I get into it, make sure to sort the deck by custom to see the cards for each Strategy/Substrategy in this deck, which is very helpful albeit a bit confusing before you get a first glance at the deck entirely.

Araumi of the Dead Tide caught my attention at first glance since she allows us to put a strong, overpriced, and new ability on ANY creature in our deck for their normal cost. This allows us to abuse that effect for way less than on cards that actually have encore, while also breaking it on things like Floating-Dream Zubera, Plaguecrafter, Massacre Wurm, you get the idea.

This deck features a combination of cheap Self Mill and powerful ETB(enters the battlefield) creatures as well as LTB(leaves the battlefield) creatures that profit from having multiple copies on the board. Also for more power, we're playing an infinite combo with Fatestitcher + Mesmeric Orb , this works by encoring Fatestitcher and then having 3 copies of which 2 will loop to untap each other while the 3rd untaps our commander. This makes Mesmeric Orb mill our entire library so we can encore Thassa's Oracle for the win.

For more conventional wins we have Kokusho, the Evening Star, all-star Gray Merchant of Asphodel, Vindicative Lich, and even Massacre Wurm can chunk for huge amounts, especially if it gets to attack someone without blockers afterwards. Also, Bolas's Citadel allows you to completely go off with this deck if you hit Altar of Dementia or in general enough Self Mill effects to always get a Non-Land back on top of your library, while healing you to more than enough with Kokusho or Gary.

The best Self Mill effects in this deck for sure are Altar of Dementia, also allowing you to pitch creatures with bad ETBs like Floating-Dream Zubera or Faerie Miscreant into the graveyard should you not be able to get rid of them otherwise, as well as Hedron Crab, Mesmeric Orb, and Stinkweed Imp which is tutorable with Entomb and Buried Alive.

As "Side Themes" we have sac outlets in Altar of Dementia, Ashnod's Altar, Viscera Seer and sorta Skullclamp, this card is just too strong especially if you're planning to have lots of creatures die. Also we got a bit of artifact recursion with Myr Retriever, Academy Ruins and Buried Ruin, to help us recover that Mesmeric Orb or Bolas's Citadel should we accidentally mill it or have it destroyed. Lastly we're obviously running Lightning Greaves and Swiftfoot Boots to ensure helping Araumi stay on the battlefield despite a massive target above her head, which will just get bigger once they see the madness we can do!

If you're looking for more or different options for some of the cards, since this list is also reasonably budgeted, check out the sideboard, which contains cards I personally would put in first, and the Maybeboard, which contains cards I could see or saw other people run in their Araumi builds and fit this deck.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Key combos	Fatestitcher + Mesmeric Orb
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 1 Mythic Rares 31 - 4 Rares 30 - 3 Uncommons 20 - 1 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.80
Tokens	Champion of Wits 4/4 B, Copy Clone, Fish 3/3 U, Kraken 9/9 U, Treasure, Whale 6/6 U, Zombie 2/2 B