Do You Join The Unity? (The Master Primer)

Commander / EDH BUG (Sultai) Creature Cheat Mill Mutant Primer Reanimator

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Creature (38)

• 1x Aftermath Analyst
• 1x Alpha Deathclaw
• 1x Angel of Suffering
• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Bane of Progress
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Canoptek Tomb Sentinel
• 1x Demon of Dark Schemes
• 1x Diligent Farmhand
• 1x Dreamborn Muse
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Foundation Breaker
• 1x Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
• 1x Kagha, Shadow Archdruid
• 1x Kiora's Follower
• 1x Kodama of the East Tree
• 1x Lorcan, Warlock Collector
• 1x Masked Vandal
• 1x Massacre Wurm
• 1x Millikin
• 1x Muldrotha, the Gravetide
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Neverwinter Dryad
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Ornithopter of Paradise
• 1x Raul, Trouble Shooter
• 1x Ravenous Chupacabra
• 1x Screeching Scorchbeast
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Shriekmaw
• 1x Skull Prophet
• 1x Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1x Thassa's Oracle
• 1x Timeless Witness
• 1x Toxrill, the Corrosive
• 1x Void Winnower
• 1x Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger

Land (37)

• 1x Agadeem, the Undercrypt  ^Flip
• 1x Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 4x Forest
• 4x Island
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Malakir Mire  ^Flip
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Otawara, Soaring City
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 6x Swamp
• 1x Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1x Tangled Vale  ^Flip
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Watery Grave

Instant (5)

• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Commander (1)

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Command the Dreadhorde
• 1x Cut Your Losses
• 1x Incarnation Technique
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Nuclear Fallout
• 1x Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1x Traumatize
• 1x Treasure Cruise

Artifact (7)

• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mesmeric Orb
• 1x Palantir of Orthanc
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sting, the Glinting Dagger

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Black Market Connections
• 1x Intruder Alarm
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Sylvan Library

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Creature (23)

• 1x Agent of Treachery
• 1x Archetype of Endurance
• 1x Armored Scrapgorger
• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Damia, Sage of Stone
• 1x Daring Fiendbonder
• 1x Dauthi Voidwalker
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Golgari Thug
• 1x Krosan Restorer
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Nyxbloom Ancient
• 1x Phyrexian Delver
• 1x Precursor Golem
• 1x Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Sidisi, Brood Tyrant
• 1x Soul of the Harvest
• 1x Sphinx of the Second Sun
• 1x Tato Farmer
• 1x Vilis, Broker of Blood
• 1x Yarok, the Desecrated
• 1x Young Necromancer

Instant (3)

• 1x Darkblast
• 1x Drown in the Loch
• 1x Tainted Indulgence

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Insidious Roots
• 1x Retreat to Coralhelm

Land (2)

• 1x Hall of the Bandit Lord
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Breach the Multiverse
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Notion Rain

Artifact (2)

• 1x Perpetual Timepiece
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler

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Do You Join The Unity?

The general strategy is to turbo self mill with cards like Traumatize to find strong cards like Void Winnower and reanimate it with your commander or play/recur cards like Eternal Witness to recur a mass reanimation spell. You can use Eternal Witness or Muldrotha, the Gravetide to find Intruder Alarm after milling your library which makes it so that when you use The Master, Transcendent you can untap him and use his ability as much as possible.

Self Mill

While you can go for milling your opponents and their are good cards for that such as Bloodchief Ascension and Maddening Cacophony I prefer a self mill strategy. This way, you have an better idea of what you are reanimating with The Master. There are still some universal mill effects like Mesmeric Orb, but using Traumatize on yourself gives you a huge host of options. As well, an alternative strategy to win with self mill is using Thassa's Oracle. If you want, Laboratory Maniac may be slotted in as well. Card draw like Treasure Cruise is also a lot better when our graveyard is filled.

Using The Master

The Master allows us to tap him to reanimate milled creatures albeit at a fixed power and toughness of 3/3. Remember that he only reanimates milled cards so when choosing mill effects look at the errate of the card to make sure the keyword mill is being used. This is a pretty powerful effect, however cards that are milled in previous turns cannot be reanimated with The Master. In order to make use of a filled graveyard that cannot be reanimated with The Master, I have included mass reanimate spells which I will go into more detail later. As well, cards like Archaeomancer, Eternal Witness, and Noxious Revival allow us to recur some noncreature spells that have been milled. Scroll Rack also helps if our hand is filled with cards we would rather mill and reanimate.

What To Reanimate

The Master turns creatures into 3/3 mutants, so we are looking for strong effects and not big bodies. Cards like Void Winnower and Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur are ideal. Lorcan, Warlock Collector allows use to reanimate any creature our opponent has milled or we have destroyed as well by paying life so its a particularly strong target to reanimate. This deck relies on creatures for card draw, removal and ramp as well since we are going for a creature reanimation strategy. Evoke cards like Mulldrifter are useful as they are similar to spells when in our hand or can be reanimated for value with The Master.

Untapping The Master

We have several ways to untap The Master to use his ability multiple times. Kiora's Follower acts as both a manadork and a way to untap The Master as it can untap a land as well. Seedborn Muse is an incredibly strong option to reanimate with The Master as it allows us to untap on everyone's turn. Especially with Mesmeric Orb or Syr Konrad, the Grim you can reanimate a lot of times. Sting, the Glinting Dagger is very good with the master, giving us an extra untap on our turn and one one each of your opponent's turns which great when paired with the aforementioned Mesmeric Orb or Syr Konrad. Intruder Alarm allows us to recur all the creatures that are milled as The Master's ability now untaps him for a loop.

Mass Reanimate

Now to use our filled yard, mass reanimate spells like Rise of the Dark Realms allows us to recur every creature we had milled. When combined with cards Archaeomancer we can continuously mass reanimate and threaten this spell after boardwipes.

Date added	1 month
Last updated	4 weeks
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	20 - 0 Mythic Rares 41 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.13
Tokens	Radiation, Shapeshifter 3/2 C, Slug 1-1 B, Timeless Witness 4/4 B, Treasure, Zombie Mutant 2/2 B
Folders	fallout self mill/ new upgrades, Decks To Annoy My Friends With, Funny