Azusa, The Withered (Infect EDH)

Commander / EDH* Budget Counters Infect Mono-Green

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Creature (16)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Blightsteel Colossus
• 1x Core Prowler
• 1x Corpse Cur
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Glistener Elf
• 1x Phyrexian Swarmlord
• 1x Plague Myr
• 1x Putrefax
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Spike Weaver
• 1x Spinebiter
• 1x Tel-Jilad Fallen
• 1x Terastodon
• 1x Tireless Tracker
• 1x Viridian Corrupter

Land (46)

• 39x Forest
• 1x Inkmoth Nexus
• 1x Karn's Bastion
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Artifact (13)

• 1x Adventuring Gear
• 1x Animation Module
• 1x Contagion Clasp
• 1x Contagion Engine
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Decimator Web
• 1x Grafted Exoskeleton
• 1x Horn of Greed
• 1x Mind's Eye
• 1x Seer's Sundial
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x The Great Henge
• 1x Trigon of Infestation

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Aspect of Wolf
• 1x Bear Umbra
• 1x Blanchwood Armor
• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Lost in the Woods
• 1x Rancor
• 1x Recycle
• 1x The Mending of Dominaria

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Garruk, Primal Hunter
• 1x Nissa, Vital Force

Commander (1)

Instant (8)

• 1x Bounty of Might
• 1x Constant Mists
• 1x Early Harvest
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Primal Bellow
• 1x Return of the Wildspeaker
• 1x Stonewood Invocation
• 1x Strength of Cedars

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Bala Ged Recovery  ^Flip
• 1x Harmonize
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Rishkar's Expertise
• 1x Rude Awakening
• 1x Soul's Majesty

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Sorcery (1)

• 1x Bala Ged Recovery  ^Flip

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Why Azusa?

I've tried the classic infect commanders Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon and Atraxa, Praetors' Voice but

1. The manabase just was really annoying and it would always take too long to build up a proper board state
2. The commanders are very essential to the game plan and it would get removed too often for it to do any proper work for the deck except to use it as a mana sink.

Then I thought of mana, because Azusa, Lost but Seeking just wants to be on the battlefield and it's at such a low mana cost that if you get it out on turn 3 nobody would really want to counter or instantly remove Azusa, Lost but Seeking from the field on the turn that it is played because everybody else is trying to ramp into their own game plans. If I get only 2 extra lands because of Azusa, Lost but Seeking then its all good because now I am ahead of the board and I will always have a reason to have spare mana left over so that I can cast an unexpected Primal Bellow for 10 infect on somebody on turn 5.

FAQ

1. Why are you not playing (such and such expensive card)
I don't want to play such expensive cards like Mana Crypt or Gaea's Cradle because I want this deck to be actually accessible to the sort of middle class of EDH where they can spend money but they aren't going to be spending upwards of $1,000 for one deck.
2. Why so many instants with give target creature +x/+x?
I did this on purpose because the modern version of infect has a surplus of pump spells and I wanted to take inspiration from that but in a way that would actually benefit the transition of modern to EDH so with the large amount of mana that I have, I put in pump spells like Untamed Might that normally would be terrible in EDH except with about 15 lands on the battlefield, you can cast Untamed Might x = 10 on an infect creature and knock somebody out of the game in one blow.

How do I play this deck?

Honestly I have no idea. I'm not going to tell you how to play it. Just do what you want to do with it.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 29 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 6 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.00
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Clue, Elephant 3-3 G, Emblem Nissa, Vital Force, Phyrexian Insect 1/1 G, Servo 1/1 C, Wurm 6/6 G