The Cycle of Life & Death

Commander / EDH BG (Golgari) Combo Lands Ramp Tap/Untap

Cloudius

Creature (20)

• 1x Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Dimir House Guard
• 1x Dread Presence
• 1x Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Farhaven Elf
• 1x Lotus Cobra
• 1x Nyxbloom Ancient
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Ramunap Excavator
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Springbloom Druid
• 1x Temur Sabertooth
• 1x Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger
• 1x Wayward Swordtooth
• 1x Wood Elves
• 1x Yavimaya Dryad

Tutor (13)

• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Dark Petition
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Dimir House Guard
• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Natural Order
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Untap Lands (5)

• 1x Early Harvest
• 1x Nissa of Shadowed Boughs
• 1x Nissa, Who Shakes the World
• 1x Rude Awakening
• 1x Woodland Guidance

Land Synergy (4)

• 1x Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
• 1x Lotus Cobra
• 1x Prismatic Omen
• 1x Scapeshift

Lifegain (2)

• 1x Dread Presence
• 1x Professor Onyx

Land (39)

• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Command Tower
• 13x Forest
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Nurturing Peatland
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Strip Mine
• 8x Swamp
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Undergrowth Stadium
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Wasteland
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Woodland Cemetery
• 1x Woodland Chasm
• 1x Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Removal (9)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Binding the Old Gods
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Dread Presence
• 1x Pernicious Deed
• 1x Professor Onyx
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Wasteland

Mana Booster (7)

• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Mana Reflection
• 1x Nissa, Who Shakes the World
• 1x Nyxbloom Ancient
• 1x Vernal Bloom
• 1x Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger
• 1x Zendikar Resurgent

Card Draw & Filtering (4)

• 1x Dread Presence
• 1x Nurturing Peatland
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Zendikar Resurgent

Inflicting the Pain (2)

• 1x Professor Onyx
• 1x Torment of Hailfire

Commander (1)

Ramp (14)

• 1x Binding the Old Gods
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Farhaven Elf
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Harrow
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Roiling Regrowth
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Springbloom Druid
• 1x Wood Elves
• 1x Yavimaya Dryad

Recursion (8)

• 1x Bala Ged Recovery  ^Flip
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Nissa of Shadowed Boughs
• 1x Ramunap Excavator
• 1x Regrowth
• 1x Seasons Past
• 1x Woodland Guidance

Play Additional Land (5)

• 1x Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• 1x Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
• 1x Exploration
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Wayward Swordtooth

Utility (3)

• 1x Dimir House Guard
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Temur Sabertooth

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Maybeboard

Creature (6)

• 1x Courser of Kruphix
• 1x Elvish Reclaimer
• 1x Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
• 1x Tireless Provisioner
• 1x Tireless Tracker
• 1x Ulvenwald Hydra

Land (1)

• 1x Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Ramp (1)

• 1x Tireless Provisioner

Tutor (3)

• 1x Elvish Reclaimer
• 1x Reshape the Earth
• 1x Ulvenwald Hydra

Utility (2)

• 1x Courser of Kruphix
• 1x Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Lifegain (1)

• 1x Exsanguinate

Recursion (1)

• 1x Splendid Reclamation

Inflicting the Pain (2)

• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Ob Nixilis, the Fallen

Land Synergy (2)

• 1x Reshape the Earth
• 1x Splendid Reclamation

Card Draw & Filtering (1)

• 1x Tireless Tracker

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Objective of the Deck

This deck aims to ramp hard and get as many lands onto the battlefield as possile during early to mid game, then summon our Commander Beledros Witherbloom to untap our massive land bases for tons of mana and march to victory from there using one of our victory lines!

Synergy

1) Scapeshift + Splendid Reclamation = Lands Galore! Splendid Reclamation synergize well with the self mill sub-theme in the deck too. (Currently in Maybeboard)

2) Ob Nixilis, the Fallen + Scapeshift / Reshape the Earth = Ultra painful for our opponents! Ancient Greenwarden doubles the pain! (Currently in Maybeboard)

3) Lotus Cobra + Scapeshift / Reshape the Earth = Tons of mana to fuel our march to victory!

4) Dryad of the Ilysian Grove / Prismatic Omen + Nissa, Who Shakes the World / Vernal Bloom = All our lands are "Forest" in addition to their other types, and generate an additional {G} when tapped!

5) Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth / Dryad of the Ilysian Grove / Prismatic Omen + Crypt Ghast = All our lands are "Swamp" in addition to their other types, and generate an additional {B} when tapped!

6) Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth / Dryad of the Ilysian Grove / Prismatic Omen + Cabal Coffers = Coffers will be able to generate tons of {B} when activated!

7) Azusa, Lost but Seeking, Exploration and other permanents that allow us to play additional lands each turn + Strip Mine / Wasteland + crucible of world / Ramunap Excavator / Ancient Greenwarden = Severely cripple your opponents' mana sources and lose all your friends...

8) Nissa of Shadowed Boughs + Sidisi, Undead Vizier = Repeatable tutor every turn. Refilling Nissa's loyalty counter isn't hard for this deck.

9) Temur Sabertooth + Eternal Witness + Early Harvest / Rude Awakening = With sufficient lands, we can generate infinite mana. Alternatively we can win through Magecraft via Professer Onyx.

10) Beledros Witherbloom + Path of Discovery = Explores every turn when our Pest token comes into play!

11) Beledros Witherbloom + Temur Sabertooth = Repeated use of Beledros' untap lands ability if our lands are able to tap for more than {6}{B}{G}{G} and we can afford to pay the life.

Victory Lines

Seasons Past Package

Seasons Past Package to generate infinite mana and win from there. It interacts well with Magecraft too.

The key cards for this combo:

1) Seasons Past

2) Tutors with different Mana Value - 2 MV Demonic Tutor, 4 MV Diabolic Tutor, 5 MV Sidisi, Undead Vizier & Dark Petition, 6 MV Beseech the Queen. Vampiric Tutor works only if we've consistent way to draw the card we tutor for from the top of library.

3) Generate tons of mana - The combo is very mana hungry. Fret not... Beledros Witherbloom and the suite of Mana Boosters to the rescue!

4) Untap our Lands - Early Harvest & Rude Awakening

Then we loop Seasons Past repeatedly, replaying tutors to assemble the key cards above and march towards our wincon!

Hail of Horror

The game plan here is simply - Generate tons of mana and pump them into a gigantic Torment of Hailfire and listen to the wail of your opponents as they scoop it up!

Stampede of Devastation

Turn your pests and creatures into a lethal army with Finale of Devastation, when {X} is greater than or equal to 10, and unleash a devastating stampede against your opponents!

Date added	2 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 40 - 0 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.57
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, City's Blessing, Emblem Nissa, Who Shakes the World, Pest 1/1 BG
Folders	Witherbloom Upgrades, commander, Cool Ideas
Based on	The Cycle of Life & Death (Landfall) Cloudius EDH