Abzan Farm - Tymna Ikra Turbo Nauseam

Commander / EDH Leptys

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The New Sets & Land Ramp —Nov. 28, 2019

Cuts: Zulaport Cutthroat, Elvish Mystic, Llanowar Elves, Fyndhorn Elves, Priest of Titania, Myr Moonvessel, Grim Tutor, Entomb, Mana Tithe, Swords to Plowshares Nihil Spellbomb, Altar of the Brood, Pernicious Deed, Vault of Whispers

Adds: Corpse Knight, Elvish Reclaimer, Cabal Therapist, Ranger-Captain of Eos, Tithe Taker, Overeager Apprentice, Nature's Lore, Three Visits, Arcane Signet, Fellwar Stone, Wishclaw Talisman, Blasting Station, Squandered Resources, Prismatic Vista

Been a while since I updated this list, and due to the fact that Farm decks keep getting new toys to play with in pretty much every set, there's a ton of new includes that have increased the power level of the deck by a decent margin. A lot of the additions mirror ones made by RiverMayCry in deck:Mad Farm recently, but there are a couple of additions that emphasize the strengths green provides to the strategy.

The most novel additions are protection creatures like Cabal Therapist, Ranger-Captain of Eos and Tithe Taker. All three are incredibly useful in a list like this, and when accompanied by Grand Abolisher and Hope of Ghirapur, they provide us with uninterrupted combo attempts with highly increased consistency. Elvish Reclaimer also works as a piece of functional protection, as it can tutor us a Boseiju or a Cavern of Souls if it sticks on the field, and can also easily connect for additional Tymna cards if it happens to grow in size.

When it came to the increased creature suite, some things had to go, and those are the mana dorks once again, at least the ones that don't fix any mana for us. The meta I play in runs multiple Pyroclasm effects, so while dorks have their place in some builds, I focused on balancing the mana sources between the permanent types in the deck. The adds are the best 2CMC mana rocks including Fellwar Stone and the new Arcane Signet, as well as Nature's Lore and Three Visits for some extra resiliency to Null Rod and Collector Ouphe. Squandered Resources completes the land ramp package by making your land drops storages of fast mana during Ad Nauseam turns à la Rain of Filth.

Grim Tutor gets replaced by arguably the new best 3-mana black tutor in cEDH, that being the new Wishclaw Talisman. Wishclaw is the best 3-costed tutor in that it often costs only 1 mana, as you can play it out on the early turns and crack it whenever you're looking to go off. The downside of giving it to your opponents is negligible if you've already won before they untap with it, but be careful of who you're gonna give it to in case you get disrupted or fizzle your lines.

Finally, the combo outlets also got swapped, this time both of them. Blasting Station is back in the menu due to its utility as removal, as well as the applicability against decks that have Eldrazi Titans or shuffle effects in them (Gitrogs are pretty much in every meta these days, also Shuffle Hulk so Altar becomes pretty sub-par). The new kid on the block is Corpse Knight, which converts creature ETBs to life loss instead of death triggers. This is huge for us in the Squirrelcraft department, allowing us to kill the table with Knight on the field without relying on sacrifice outlets or board wipes to achieve death triggers. The deck doesn't really need more than two outlets in the list, so Zulaport Cutthroat is obviously out.