Budget Sultai Tormod combos

Commander / EDH* Budget BUG (Sultai) Infinite Combo Partner Tokens Zombie

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Creature (19)

• 1x Cephalid Aristocrat
• 1x Cephalid Illusionist
• 1x Containment Construct
• 1x Death-Priest of Myrkul
• 1x Dimir Infiltrator
• 1x Diregraf Captain
• 1x Garruk's Packleader
• 1x Ghostly Pilferer
• 1x Lord of the Accursed
• 1x Nadier's Nightblade
• 1x Riftsweeper
• 1x Sadistic Hypnotist
• 1x Sage of the Falls
• 1x Selhoff Occultist
• 1x Skemfar Shadowsage
• 1x Springbloom Druid
• 1x Tribute Mage
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Curse of the Swine
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Gaea's Blessing
• 1x Mythos of Brokkos
• 1x Notion Rain
• 1x Painful Truths
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Regrowth
• 1x Victimize

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner
• 1x Tamiyo, Collector of Tales
• 1x Vraska the Unseen

Instant (15)

• 1x Autumn's Veil
• 1x Corpse Cobble
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Deglamer
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Harrow
• 1x Memory's Journey
• 1x Plumb the Forbidden
• 1x Roiling Regrowth
• 1x Sacrifice
• 1x Savage Summoning
• 1x Shred Memory
• 1x Sultai Charm
• 1x Unravel the Aether
• 1x You Happen on a Glade

Land (35)

• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Drownyard Temple
• 9x Forest
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 8x Island
• 1x Opulent Palace
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 9x Swamp
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Artifact (7)

• 1x Bag of Holding
• 1x Hall of Triumph
• 1x Heraldic Banner
• 1x Obelisk of Urd
• 1x Shuko
• 1x Simic Signet
• 1x Winged Boots

Commanders (2)

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Bad Moon
• 1x Elemental Bond
• 1x Gaea's Anthem
• 1x Garruk's Uprising
• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Kavu Lair
• 1x Liliana's Mastery
• 1x Muraganda Petroglyphs
• 1x Titans' Nest

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Maybeboard

Creature (17)

• 1x Archghoul of Thraben
• 1x Bladestitched Skaab
• 1x Bloodspore Thrinax
• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Doom Weaver
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Gigapede
• 1x Krav, the Unredeemed
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Phyrexian Plaguelord
• 1x Sanguine Spy
• 1x Skemfar Shadowsage
• 1x Smothering Abomination
• 1x Vengeful Dead
• 1x Wonder
• 1x Zameck Guildmage

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Death Match
• 1x Foster
• 1x Lost in Thought
• 1x Planar Void
• 1x Rooftop Storm
• 1x Vampiric Rites
• 1x Wild Growth

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Ashes to Ashes
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Empty the Laboratory
• 1x Forbidden Ritual
• 1x Life / Death
• 1x Regrowth

Instant (6)

• 1x Back to Nature
• 1x Deglamer
• 1x Kaervek's Spite
• 1x March of Swirling Mist
• 1x Slip Out the Back
• 1x Unravel the Aether

Artifact (3)

• 1x Demonmail Hauberk
• 1x Konda's Banner
• 1x Spawning Pit *list*

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The combo line part 1:

I. Tormod, the Desecrator

II. Containment Construct/Titans' Nest/Bag of Holding/Currency Converter

III. Sage of the Falls/Greater Good

IV. Elemental Bond/Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner/Garruk's Uprising/Kavu Lair/Garruk's Packleader

V. Muraganda Petroglyphs/Obelisk of Urd/Heraldic Banner/Diregraf Captain/Bad Moon/Hall of Triumph/Gaea's Anthem/Death-Priest of Myrkul/Lord of the Accursed/Liliana's Mastery

With I, II and III you can draw/discard your entire deck making zombies.

Same with I,II, IV and V.

How it works:

With II whenever you discard a card the card goes to the graveyard and then is exiled, leaving the graveyard and triggering I making a zombie. Whenever you make a zombie you can either draw and discard with III or have it be big enough to trigger IV with cards from V and discarding to hand size/Sadistic Hypnotist/Ghostly Pilferer. So whenever you discard you make a zombie, draw and discard.

The combo line part 2:

I. Nadier's Nightblade/Zulaport Cutthroat/Selhoff Occultist

II. Corpse Cobble/Plumb the Forbidden/Kaervek's Spite (for extra spice/spite)

Put a creature from I on the battlefield, preferably protected by either Savage Summoning or Autumn's Veil and sacrifice all your zombies as a cost to playing a card from II without giving your opponents a chance to respond.

Observations:

Makeshift Mannequin is a instant speed way to get one of the finishers from the graveyard and Riftsweeper is a way to put a finisher/protection from exile back into the deck where you can loot (draw and discard) till you have it.

Laboratory Maniac/Thassa's Oracle are better ways to deal with infinite life than Selhoff Occultist but much more expensive money wise.

Unsure if needed but Sacrifice is a ritual that is also a way to stop the combo by sacrificing Tormod, the Desecrator if you're worried about a instant speed boardwipe or just need the mana for part 2.

Disclaimer: I don't own the cards and don't currently have a playgroup but I enjoy crafting decks and Tormod, the Desecrator is such a unique card in being one of the few cards that care about cards leaving your graveyard so most of his more synergistic pieces are cheap. I tried building the most competitive very cheap deck possible with him. Cards like Tortured Existence are obviously very good in a generic Tormod deck but a atrition/value oriented rout tends to be more goodstuff and expensive than synergies and combo for the same power-level.

I fell like the only cards this deck is really missing for high powered EDH are better land base, more mana rocks, creature removal and a couple board wipes which is better than I expected for ~$50,00. In goldfish mode this deck usually wins by turn 8 and doesn't really care about graveyard hate so long as cards still go to the graveyard (Planar Void actually helps).

Maybeboard is mostly nonsense.

Date added	2 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 19 - 0 Rares 38 - 0 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.94
Tokens	Assassin 1/1 B w/ Player Killer, Boar 2/2 G, Skeleton 1/1 B, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie */* UB
Folders	CMDR
Based on	Sultai Tormod Zombies OLucas EDH