Competitive-As-Possible Hazezon Tamar

Commander / EDH Competitive Loam Ramp RGW (Naya) Tokens Weenie

Hazelton

Land (42)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x City of Shadows
• 1x Endless Sands
• 8x Forest
• 1x Gavony Township
• 1x High Market
• 1x Horizon Canopy
• 1x Jungle Shrine
• 1x Krosan Verge
• 1x Mirrorpool
• 1x Mosswort Bridge
• 4x Mountain
• 1x Mystifying Maze
• 1x Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
• 4x Plains
• 1x Plateau
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Taiga
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Terrain Generator
• 1x Thawing Glaciers
• 1x Tranquil Thicket
• 1x Wasteland
• 1x Windbrisk Heights
• 1x Winding Canyons
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Instant (2)

• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Shields of Velis Vel

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Chandra, Flamecaller
• 1x Nissa, Vital Force

Creature (23)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Anger
• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• 1x Chancellor of the Forge
• 1x Courser of Kruphix
• 1x Eldrazi Displacer
• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1x Farhaven Elf
• 1x Flame-Kin Zealot
• 1x Galepowder Mage
• 1x Imperial Recruiter
• 1x Kamahl, Fist of Krosa
• 1x Lovisa Coldeyes
• 1x Mirror Entity
• 1x Ramunap Excavator
• 1x Saffi Eriksdotter
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Wood Elves
• 1x World Shaper
• 1x Yavimaya Dryad
• 1x Yavimaya Elder

Enchantment (10)

• 1x Anointed Procession
• 1x Assemble the Legion
• 1x Beastmaster Ascension
• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x Cathars' Crusade
• 1x Fires of Yavimaya
• 1x Flameshadow Conjuring
• 1x Goblin Bombardment
• 1x Khalni Heart Expedition
• 1x Rites of Flourishing

Commander (1)

Sorcery (15)

• 1x Boundless Realms
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Hour of Promise
• 1x Hour of Reckoning
• 1x Hunting Wilds
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Martial Coup
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Overrun
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Shamanic Revelation
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Titanic Ultimatum
• 1x Wheel of Fortune

Artifact (5)

• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring

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Sideboard

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Outpost Siege

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I am trying to build a competitive-as-possible Tamar deck. I have been playing this deck for a couple of years and am looking for expert level guidance/suggestions to make it better. As it stands, in a vacuum can do 40+ damage consistently by turn 8 but I want to make it 1) faster and 2) more resilient for interference.

A couple of things ( to guid advice and/or that I've learned over the years of playing Hazezon Tamar:

1. I want to focus on making him/his sand warriors as the wincon.
2. The main priority is land-ramp. I want to get as many lands out as fast a possible. It helps Hazezon get out faster and (as opposed to artifact or creature ramp) is resilient to board-wipes and makes Hazezon’s trigger go off bigger. I am pretty sure that this is the right way to do Hazezon but it could also be that bringing him out sooner with fewer lands (i.e. adding sol-rings and other non-land ramp) is correct. I’m pretty sure that, because everything else in the deck synergizes around land-ramp, that's the way to go, but I’d be curious to hear from other experienced Hazezon players.
3. He has a lot of moving parts (high mana-cost, flickering/doubling token production, needing to get sac’ed before the 1st upkeep, giving tokens haste, boosting the tokens, etc.) so there is a HUGE fight for space in the deck. Unfortunately, this means that spot removal, card-draw (although I’d argue that ramp & recursion are a form of card advantage) and to a lesser extent, board wipes are extremely limited.
4. Because of #3, if you have a card you think I should include, also be sure to let me know what card I should take out (i.e. specifically what you’d replace it from).

Please also take a look at the maybeboard (stuff I have and want to include but just can't seem to find the space for) and let me know if you have a strong case for any of them to be included (mind point #3!).

Thanks, I really appreciate the help!

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 48 - 1 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.78
Tokens	Copy Clone, Elemental 3/1 R, Emblem Nissa, Vital Force, Goblin 1/1 R, Plant 0/1 G, Sand Warrior 1/1 RGW, Soldier 1/1 RW, Soldier 1/1 W, Zombie 2/2 B