For the Void

Commander / EDH Aristocrats Combo Eldrazi Infinite Combo Mono-Black Multiplayer Reanimator Sacrifice Tokens

MrKillStar

Creature (23)

• 1x Ayara, First of Locthwain
• 1x Bog Witch
• 1x Cavalier of Night
• 1x Doom Whisperer
• 1x Dread Drone
• 1x Dream Devourer
• 1x Emrakul, the Promised End
• 1x Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder
• 1x Ghoulcaller Gisa
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x It That Betrays
• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1x Lord of the Void
• 1x Massacre Wurm
• 1x Nether Traitor
• 1x Pathrazer of Ulamog
• 1x Pawn of Ulamog
• 1x Priest of Forgotten Gods
• 1x Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
• 1x Vilis, Broker of Blood
• 1x Void Winnower
• 1x Whisper, Blood Liturgist

Artifact (9)

• 1x Altar of the Brood
• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Desecrated Tomb
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mimic Vat
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Thornbite Staff
• 1x Trading Post

Land (34)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Crypt of Agadeem
• 1x Emergence Zone
• 1x Everglades
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Lake of the Dead
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 20x Swamp
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Witch's Cottage

Instant (11)

• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Eat to Extinction
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Erebos's Intervention
• 1x Force of Despair
• 1x Insidious Dreams
• 1x Malakir Rebirth  ^Flip
• 1x Price of Fame
• 1x Sudden Spoiling
• 1x Tainted Strike
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Liliana of the Dark Realms

Commander (1)

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Beacon of Unrest
• 1x Bitter Ordeal
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Life's Finale
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Profane Command
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Sadistic Sacrament
• 1x Victimize

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Attrition
• 1x Bastion of Remembrance
• 1x Black Market
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Haunted Crossroads
• 1x Oubliette
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Shadows of the Past
• 1x Tortured Existence

Maybeboard

Creature (9)

• 1x Carrier Thrall
• 1x Dread Presence
• 1x Gravecrawler
• 1x Matter Reshaper
• 1x Nadier, Agent of the Duskenel
• 1x Sengir Autocrat
• 1x Twilight Prophet
• 1x Voldaren Pariah  ^Flip
• 1x Woe Strider

Instant (5)

• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Culling the Weak
• 1x Malicious Affliction
• 1x Tragic Slip
• 1x Village Rites

Land (2)

• 1x Dark Depths
• 1x Thawing Glaciers

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Behold the Beyond
• 1x Bubbling Muck
• 1x Exhume
• 1x Increasing Ambition

Artifact (2)

• 1x Nim Deathmantle
• 1x Whip of Erebos

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Mortuary

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INTRODUCTION:

I originally started this deck as mass-reanimator with Whisper, Blood Liturgist as a commander with most creatures being Eldrazi. But later on, I changed many things, switched to Syr Konrad, the Grim for some interesting and unsual shenanigans. This is mostly combo deck, but I heard beating someone with big annihilator Eldrazi works just fine.

Recent changes - removed and added cards: Show

Reason why I took out cards below are in maybeboard section.
Reason for added cards will be in Meaning of used cards.
15/12/2020 changes:
out: Mortuary ; in: Skullclamp
out: Sol Ring ; in: Attrition
out: Spawnsire of Ulamog ; in: Priest of Forgotten Gods
out: Geier Reach Sanitarium ; in: Phyrexian Tower
out: Agadeem's Awakening  ; in: Grave Titan
out: Oblivion Sower ; in: Dread Drone
out: Myriad Landscape in: Buried Ruin
out: Cabal Ritual in: Carnival of Souls
out: Matter Reshaper in: Ayara, First of Locthwain
out: Village Rites in: Ghoulcaller Gisa
out: Whip of Erebos in: Thornbite Staff
out: Dread Presence in: Whisper, Blood Liturgist
out: Carrier Thrall in: Bog Witch
out: Scheming Symmetry in: Vampiric Tutor
out: Artisan of Kozilek in: Lord of the Void
15/02/2021 changes:
out: Behold the Beyond in: Nether Traitor
out: Carnival of Souls in: Dream Devourer

Notes to a synergy between cards: Show

1) Tortured Existence + Desecrated Tomb - great way to get big creatures into graveyard to reanimate them early on and to get small and cheap creatures to your hand and re-cast them. The ability to instantly generate a 1/1 flying creature token black (with Ayara, First of Locthwain in play) can be very important too.

2) Bolas's Citadel - There is just too many things you can do with this awesome card. Really nice example is Vampiric Tutor (or any other tutor that put fetched card on top of library). We can use Bolas's Citadel to cast our entire combo with Insidious Dreams .

3) Very sneaky Emergence Zone can easily enable to cast Bitter Ordeal anytime after someone wipes the board filled with permanents to exile X cards from target opponent's library, search that opponent's library to exile their either win conditions cards or big threat cards. This is also an additional card/win-con for Desecrated Tomb + Phyrexian Altar + Tortured Existence engine and more.

4) Syr Konrad, the Grim + Tainted Strike . Cast Tainted Strike as response to someones board-wipe or before activation of our Desecrated Tomb + Tortured Existence engine to make sure all opponents die to infect.

Quick combo overview: Show

Syr Konrad - infinite engine:

Activating Tortured Existence triggers Syr Konrad, the Grim - twice!
Add Desecrated Tomb and we get a 1/1 token with flying for every activision of Desecrated Tomb + Tortured Existence engine.
So far, this is just a slow beat down, but add Phyrexian Altar for an infinite loop.
In case Syr Konrad isn't able to to kill someone who is still alive, casting Bitter Ordeal , after we activated our previous infinite loop enough times, to exile all cards from our opponent's library to mill all of their cards and they should lose to drawing from an empty library.
If you either don't have Bitter Ordeal in your hand or don't run it, Altar of the Brood mills every opponent upon each activision of Tortured Existence .

Bolas's Citadel - infinite Gray Merchant of Asphodel:

I figured out a different way to use Bolas's Citadel , instead of Aetherflux Reservoir with Sensei's Divining Top combo:
With Bolas's Citadel , Phyrexian Altar and Haunted Crossroads on board, we have exactly 4 devotion to black (most likely more)... And everyone knows, who loves devotion to black in mono-black decks the most, right? Our guy, Gray Merchant of Asphodel !
Cast Gary out of your hand, or reanimate him from our graveyard or manage to cast him from the top of our library. Gary's ETB triggers, we get at least 6 devotion to black, so 6 life per each opponent back! Then sacrifice Gary to Phyrexian Altar ( floating), spend the floating to Haunted Crossroads (or keep the mana if you decide to use Mortuary instead), put Gary on top of our library and recast him again and again and again until everyone else is dead. If no opponent somehow manages to interrupt our combo, we can do this infinitely times and drain everyone out.

If our opponent(s) manages to survive with zero life, casting Bitter Ordeal should finish the job to exile their entire library; or Altar of the Brood to mill everyone out.

Why are those cards in here? Show

Creatures: Show

Ayara, First of Locthwain : Great aristocrat card, a possible switch with Syr Konrad, the Grim as a commander, part of infinite combos and also source of devotion to black to Gray Merchant of Asphodel .
Bog Witch - Bog Witch works as several things here - discard outlet for our big creatures; discarding a creature triggers our Syr Konrad's ability; and works as a Dark Ritual on creature, which gives us to reanimate our discarded big creatures with Victimize / Reanimate , etc.
Cavalier of Night : Really awesome card in black. Provides almost anything we need - lifelink, sacrifice activator, creature removal and reanimator for creatures with converted mana cost or less.
Doom Whisperer : Only for , this card is powerhouse. Flying and Trample is nice on its own, but with "Pay 2 life: Surveil 2" at insant speed, we can filter our deck, manipulate the top card of our library and fill our graveyard very easily. Oh, and also.. Vilis, Broker of Blood says hello.
Dread Drone : Smaller version of Grave Titan , but Dread Drone and its tokens die instantly to Skullclamp and the tokens can help us to get some extra mana if needed.
Dream Devourer : Small demon that can enables us to exile any of our combo cards or big creatures for and cast it later on for generic mana less. By doing this, Dream Devourer 'protects' our cards from wheels, discards and any other kind of hand-hate. Even when Dream Devourer leaves the battlefield, exiled cards by D.D. still have foretell.
Emrakul, the Promised End : Eldrazi theme. Just as most Eldrazi, especially Eldrazi titans, Emrakul is great reanimator target and with our ability to fill our graveyard and our possible ramp, it should be hard to hard-cast her to mind-control an opponent.
Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder : Endrek is here to make as many tokens to sacrifice as possible. Sacrificing Endrek due to having 7 or more Thrull tokens shouldn't be a problem, since we can always either reanimate him or put back on top of our library/into our hand.
Ghoulcaller Gisa : Amazing general in token decks and a really cheap and easy way to generate big amount of tokens, which we have plenty of ways to use.
Gray Merchant of Asphodel : Iconic card in many mono-black decks. Possibly huge mass lifegain and is also part of our infinite combo.
Grave Titan : Grave Titan is a big body that makes us two 2/2 Zombie tokens with his ETB ability, so it makes him really good reanimator target. Its also decent to equip Grave Titan with Lightning Greaves to make another two tokens in the same turn. Equipping tokens with Skullclamp won't kill them, but we have some of ours sacrifice effects, it shouldn't bother us that much. Grave Titan's deathtouch is just a bonus, but might be useful too.
It That Betrays : Eldrazi theme. Powerhouse card on its own. Either beat your opponents with big body or make them sacrifice cards to take control over them (to either beat your opponents with their own cards or just as sacrifice fuel).
Kozilek, Butcher of Truth : Eldrazi theme. Again, reanimator target for instant speed reanimators with huge body and annihilator 4, which can just put an opponent few turns back and even end the game on its own. Can also be used as discard/mill way to get our graveyard back if needed.
Lord of the Void : Decent 7/7 body for is pretty fair. LotV doesn't do anything right away and can be easily blocked by anything with flying/reach, which will cancel his ability, but it's a decent creature to reanimate early; imprint target for Mimic Vat or equip LotV with Lightning Greaves . LotV's efficiency can vary a lot, depending on what creature it can give us from among those seven exiled cards, but even if LotV hits some bad creature (really depending on oppnent's deck), it can easily exile some important or strong cards.
Massacre Wurm : Great way to decimate your opponent's tokens and low toughness creatures or simply delay board wipes. Combos well with Sudden Spoiling .
Nether Traitor : Great and cheap creature thats ideal as a sacrifice target, since it can easily bring itself back to the battlefield whenever any other of our creatures die. Pairs well with Ayara, First of Locthwain , Pawn of Ulamog , Desecrated Tomb and Skullclamp .
Pathrazer of Ulamog : Eldrazi. Another good reanimator target with massive body and annihilator 3. Enough said.
Pawn of Ulamog : Small dude providing us with tokens as sacrifice fuel.
Priest of Forgotten Gods : Another great way to use our generated tokens to make ANY player lose life and sacrifice a creature to give us and a card draw. Priest's ability can even target us, to sacrifice an additional creature (to get extra value from something like Grave Pact ) and lose our 2 life to draw additional two cards with Vilis, Broker of Blood . Her only downside, aside of tap requirement is that she can't sacrifice herself, just like Whisper, Blood Liturgist can.
Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger : Eldrazi theme. Removal, another huge reanimator target with Indestructible, which can decimate our opponent's deck whenever it attacks.
Vilis, Broker of Blood : Vilis doesn't really fit that well, but he's pretty strong on his own, providing us with big card draw and removing small creatures with his ability. Also, 8/8 flying.
Void Winnower : Eldrazi theme. Probably one of the most annoying Eldrazi creatures out there, with big body as reanimator target which also provides protection against even spells (0, 2, 4, 6..). Also has totally badass art.
Whisper, Blood Liturgist : Another reanimator on a creature, together with a sacrifice outlet. Whisper can sacrifice herself together with another creature to reanimate our big creature, which we easily discarded. Whisper can also be part of our infinite combo.

Artifacts: Show

Altar of the Brood : For drop, it can be truly powerful card, especially if used in some combo.
Bolas's Citadel : Powerhouse card on its own with many different ways how to abuse it. In our way, its part of our clunky infinite combo.
Desecrated Tomb : Averge token generator in any reanimator or other graveyard recovery. Here, it is part of our infinite engine, together with Tortured Existence and Phyrexian Altar . Generated black tokens can be also used as fuel for Ayara, First of Locthwain as already mentioned.
Lightning Greaves : Just a common EDH piece to simply protect Syr Konrad or any other big creature that could swing right away with given Haste for big damage. Haste on Syr Konrad isn't so important, since we dont aim for commander damage and Syr Konrad's activated ability can still be activated while he has summoning sickness anyway.
Mimic Vat : Probably one of my most favorite artifacts ever printed. Can imprint any creature we sacrifice, any opponent's creature that dies, or just keep reanimating some big and strong creatures.
Phyrexian Altar : Most of the time, Phyrexian Altar is going to be only a part of our Desecrated Tomb + Tortured Existence combo, enabling it to go infinite.
Skullclamp : I decided to put this nasty thing back in simply to easily draw more cards out of tokens generated by either Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder , Desecrated Tomb combo or any other generators of x/1 creatures or other creatures whenever they would die.
Thornbite Staff : Really amazing artifact which can be used in so many different decks. Its mainly part of our infinite combo with Priest of Forgotten Gods ; or to help us with generating a lot of tokens with Ghoulcaller Gisa or just infinite etb/die triggers with Phyrexian Altar ; or draw a lot of cards depending on how many creatures we can sacrifice to Ayara, First of Locthwain 's ability. Another creature that could use it really well would be Whisper, Blood Liturgist .
Trading Post : Trading Post is pretty flexible card on its own. Works as discard into life gain (which helps to keep casting stuff with Bolas's Citadel ); paying life (Vilis says hello again) to creature 0/1 goat tokens as a sacrifice fuel; sacrifice ability to put our combo artifacts back from GY to our hand. The last ability isn't really that useful here, but we can activate it after someone tries to destroy our artifacts to at least get an extra card out of it (Trading Post can even sacrifice itself).

Instant spells: Show

Dark Ritual : Cheap and instant ramp spell to speed up our combo or just to get advantage, help to cast removal spells, etc. Extra option could be Cabal Ritual .
Eat to Extinction : Pretty nice way to exile opponent's creatures or planeswalkers and "filter" our deck with surveil 1. Eat to Extinction could be replaced for any other removal, depending on your taste or decks you're going to play against.
Entomb : Old school card for any reanimator deck, which can be only for very powerful, especially in combination of Reanimate during early turns. Entomb works for ANY card, not just creatures, so it can be used for many different shenanigans if you play it right. Might be also used "defensively" when your opponent either names a card in your deck to remove it or searches your deck for some big threat.
Erebos's Intervention : Another really nice and flexible cards that offers either creature removal that passes Indestructible (-X/-X) with life gain as a bonus; or targeted graveyard hate.
Force of Despair : Probably not the best board wipe out there, in fact Force of Despair is very situational, BUT it can easily deal with some massive token armies generated in the same turn, some big reanimator effects ( Rise of the Dark Realms and similar cards) or just big and dangerous creatures, most of the time for free (during our turn).
Insidious Dreams : Pretty unique tutor in black I really like, which can be either used to fetch our combo and cast it with Bolas's Citadel (as already written above) or just discard useless stuff to get what we need at the moment.
Malakir Rebirth  : Additional protect to any of our creatures or as a tapped land in some bad opening hand. Malakir Rebirth can be used either to protect Syr Konrad, or any creature with ETB effect (Massacre Wurm, Cavalier of Night, Gray Merchant, etc.). With it we can basically choose any creature we control to sacrifice, just to get it back right after. It also triggers Syr Konrad twice - once when chosen creature dies, second when it leaves the graveyard right after. Very strong card in black decks.
Price of Fame : Most of the time this is just going to be a way to remove opponent's commanders or other legendary creatures with Surveil 2 as a nice bonus to filter our deck and fill our graveyard a little bit more.
Sudden Spoiling : Sudden Spoiling can be used either defensively to save yourself from taking a lot of damage or with a bit of politics and deals, you can save someone else. It can also be used with Massacre Wurm being reanimated by Sheoldred, Whispering One or other similar effects.
Tainted Strike : Sneaky infect to quickly finish our opponents out of nowhere with either one of our big creatures or use it for Syr Konrad, the Grim after someone decides to wipe the board.
Vampiric Tutor : Just a higher-budget replacement of Scheming Symmetry . Powerful, instant speed tutor for only and 2 life (two card-draw with Vilis). With Bolas's Citadel on board, we can cast the tutored card right away.

Sorcery spells: Show

Beacon of Unrest : Since our combo works with artifacts, a card that can reanimate an artifact or a creature from ANY player's graveyard is pretty BiS.
Behold the Beyond : BtB is kinda unusual tutor for , but it can tutor for three cards, which is just enough for any our combos.
Bitter Ordeal : Very cool card on its own. Part of our combo if needed, or simply remove everyone's library with some big previous board wipe.
Buried Alive : Just an iconic card to prepare our reanimation targets.
Diabolic Intent : Fairly cheap tutor card just for with a sacrifice effect and tutoring any card directly into our hand.
Grim Tutor : Slightly more expensive tutor card, more expensive than Diabolic Intent, but doesn't require sacrificing a creature, so its more flexible.
Life's Finale : Not the best board wipe black can offer, but I really like to spy an opponent's deck and remove any creatures that could either hurt us or win them the game.
Living Death : Another iconic black board wipe with mass reanimator on it. In combination with It That Betrays , we gain control of all creatures an opponents sacrificed. We can even make Living Death better, if we pre-exile either all or good creatures from an opponent's graveyard with Erebos's Intervention or another graveyard hate card.
Profane Command : Very flexile and strong card to either finish our opponents by life lose or give our big creatures Shadow and hit their faces. Also works as either another reanimator spell or -X/-X removal to get rid of an indestructible creature.
Reanimate : The most iconic reanimator spell in MtG history for only and utilizing our life as a resource. Works even better if we control Vilis, so we reanimate any creature we want and even X some cards.
Sadistic Sacrament : Probably another card that could be replaced, but I prefer to keep it in, since its not really hard to ramp up and play it with Kicked cost to remove up to fifteen cards, which can be devastating.
Victimize : Being able to sacrifice small token without zero chance to survive in mono-black deck to reanimate giant threats? Enough said, BiS in any reanimator deck, no matter the fact that those two reanimated creatures will enter the battlefield tapped, which is just a very small downside. Reanimating cards like Grave Titan and Dread Drone which both give us two tokens is simply great value.

Enchantments: Show

Attrition : Another great way how to use our generated tokens to destroy any nonblack creature.
Bastion of Remembrance : New aristocrat card, giving us a 1/1 token, which we can use to sacrifice later on. Pretty useful card.
Black Market : Kinda pseudo ramp card. Costs , so its not so cheap, but can easily give us an insane amount of mana or bait an enchantment removal.
Grave Pact : Grave Pact is pretty great to remove a lot of opponents creatures if you go bananas, for example our Desecrated Tomb + Phyrexian Altar + Tortured Existence combo. Dictate of Erebos could replace Grave Pact, if you don't mind higher mana cost by one and can utilize its Flash ability.
Haunted Crossroads : One of the old but gold cards. We can either use it as part of our junky combo or just to simply return any creature back on top of our library from our graveyard to either draw it or cast right away with Bolas's Citadel just for .
Phyrexian Arena : One of the most iconic card draws in Black color. Its not so fast, drawing us only one card each turn, but better to draw one extra card than none cards at all. I decided to keep Phyrexian Arena over Necropotence , since Necropotence, as op as it is, it messes up our infinite combo with Tortured Existence . It could be viable to run Necropotence, but with something that can get rid of it, such as the new creature/enchantment removal: Feed the Swarm .
Shadows of the Past : Just a cheap card that helps us to filter our deck via scrying 1 whenever a creature dies. We can increase its effectivity with our Desecrated Tomb + Phyrexian Altar + Tortured Existence combo to find whatever we need to cast with Bolas's Citadel .
Tortured Existence : Cheap, insane card and one of the most important cards in our deck. Works very well in any reanimator / discard / madness decks. In our case, we can either use it to put some big creature into our graveyard to reanimate later and return any small creature to re-play. It also works amazingly with already mentioned Desecrated Tomb , insantly making us a 1/1 black bat token with flying just for anytime we need it.

Planeswalkers: Show

Liliana of the Dark Realms : Definitely not the best Liliana PWs out there, maybe even one of the weakest ones, but she can easily help us even a little bit with our land management. Fetching a basic Swamp with her +1 to make sure we'll have a land drop every turn, but also reducing our chance to top-deck a basic Swamp later on. Her -3 is something we don't really need, but it can become handy to either finish someone off or remove an indestructible creature. Her -6 ability is something we would love to reach asap, enabling us to easier cast our big creatures, spells and artifacts, to pretty much win the game.

Utility lands: Show

Bojuka Bog : Graveyard hate card. Fairly cheap to get, very useful to have in most decks running black.
Buried Ruin : An utility land that can return us an artifact combo piece, in case anyone blows them up.
Cabal Coffers : Expensive card to get, but it can ramp us so damn well. Works well with Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth . You can abuse it if you run some copy-land cards, such as Vesuva , land untaps, etc.
Cabal Stronghold : Worse for ramping than Cabal Coffers, since Stronghold only counts BASIC swamps, but it can be tapped for on its own and doesn't ETB tapped.
Crypt of Agadeem : Very useful land to ramp up in creature orientated decks with graveyard synergies. Downside is, it ETB tapped.
Emergence Zone : In my opinion, one of the best utility lands you can run in probably most decks. Giving our spells Flash can be huge.
Everglades : Taps for which is nice to have later on, so its better to play it during mid-game when you won't suffer from less lands.
Homeward Path : Anti-mind control utility land. It is good depending on what decks you're playing against. Homeward Path isn't friendly with us reanimating our opponent's stuff, so watch out for that.
Lake of the Dead : Expensive card to get, Reserved List piece. LotD can help us to one-time ramp us to cast some big stuff early on.
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx : More expensive land for mono-colored decks, but it can tap itself for and ramp a lot, depending on our devotion to Black.
Phyrexian Tower : Another card to use with our generated tokens to get some extra mana early on.
Reliquary Tower : Just a handy utility land to give us no maximum hand size.
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth : Great land that makes all lands you control Swamps, which enables us to tap UToY for as well, but also helps our Cabal Coffers to be tapped for even more mana.
Witch's Cottage : Pretty nice utility land to have. It is a Swamp so it counts towards Cabal Coffers , can ETB untapped and returns a creature card from our graveyard back on top of our library, which we can use to cast with Bolas's Citadel .

Top Ranked	Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Eldrazi 5 months ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Mono-Black 5 months ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Reanimator 5 months ago
Date added	1 year
Last updated	6 days
Key combos	Desecrated Tomb + Phyrexian Altar + Tortured Existence Desecrated Tomb + Tortured Existence
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	14 - 0 Mythic Rares 38 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.00
Tokens	1/1 Human Soldier, 2/2 Zombie, Liliana, 1/1 Bat, 0/1 Eldrazi Spawn, 1/1 Thrull, 0/1 Goat, Copy Clone