Fresh Fish for Cheap ($250 Budget Araumi)

Commander / EDH Infinite Combo Jank Mill Primer Reanimator Tokens UB (Dimir)

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Creature (32)

• 1x Agent of Treachery
• 1x Aphetto Alchemist
• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Body Double
• 1x Cavalier of Night
• 1x Cloud of Faeries
• 1x Demon's Disciple
• 1x Dreamscape Artist
• 1x Emry, Lurker of the Loch
• 1x Fatestitcher
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Floating-Dream Zubera
• 1x Golgari Thug
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Magus of the Bazaar
• 1x Massacre Wurm
• 1x Obsessive Stitcher
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Pitiless Plunderer
• 1x Plaguecrafter
• 1x Ravenous Chupacabra
• 1x Scholar of the Ages
• 1x Spellseeker
• 1x Stinkweed Imp
• 1x Stitcher's Supplier
• 1x Teardrop Kami
• 1x Tribute Mage
• 1x Undead Augur
• 1x Undercity Informer
• 1x Vizier of Tumbling Sands
• 1x Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

Instant (11)

• 1x Ancient Excavation
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Darkblast
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Forbid
• 1x Lazotep Plating
• 1x Makeshift Mannequin
• 1x Price of Fame
• 1x Songs of the Damned
• 1x Tolarian Winds
• 1x Wake the Dead

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Final Parting
• 1x Glimpse the Unthinkable
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Unearth
• 1x Victimize
• 1x Whispering Madness

Artifact (9)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mesmeric Orb
• 1x Perpetual Timepiece
• 1x Sol Ring

Commander (1)

Land (34)

• 1x Agadeem, the Undercrypt  ^Flip
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dakmor Salvage
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Glasspool Shore  ^Flip
• 1x Ipnu Rivulet
• 12x Island
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 13x Swamp
• 1x Watery Grave

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Heartless Summoning

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Ashiok, Dream Render

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Maybeboard

Land (16)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Cephalid Coliseum
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold

Instant (3)

• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Intuition
• 1x Mana Drain

Artifact (2)

• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Talisman of Dominance

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Necromancy

Creature (3)

• 1x Gilded Drake
• 1x Hullbreacher
• 1x Jace, Vryn's Prodigy  ^Flip

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Windfall

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This is a budget version of my full-strength Araumi list that can be found here:

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To Drown the World in Death: Araumi EDH [PRIMER]

Commander / EDH Daedalus19876

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Compared to that list, the budget one has gained the Mesmeric Orb/Basalt Monolith combo, but lost Hullbreacher and Phyrexian Altar. Other expensive cards (particularly the landbase) have been adjusted, but these are the most critical changes to the deck's functionality.

The central combos are as follow:

FOUR PRIMARY COMBO LINES

1. Cavalier of Night + Glasspool Mimic   + sac outlet = infinite uses of any sac outlet

2. Gray Merchant of Asphodel + copy effects (or multiple reanimation spells)

3. Mesmeric Orb + untappers (or Basalt Monolith) = Dread Return into any of the other combos

4. Complex reanimation loops = infinite mana, ETBs, sac outlet uses.

This last category is the most complex. Fundamentally they have 4 components:

A. Reanimation spell capable of recurring at least two creatures (Living Death, Agadeem's Awakening  , Wake the Dead, Victimize)

B. Creature capable of recurring an instant or sorcery (Archaeomancer or Scholar of the Ages, Scholar is necessary if Songs fits in category C)

C. Some combination of cards to generate break-even mana (Peregrine Drake, Songs of the Damned, Pitiless Plunderer, Ashnod's Altar)

D. A sac outlet to return the targets to graveyard to restart the loop (Yawgmoth, Thran Physician, Undercity Informer, any of the two Altars)

The goal is to chain the same reanimation spell an infinite number of times, and harvest infinite uses of any sac outlet and ETBs. Some cards can fill multiple roles (particularly Ashnod's Altar, but also Wake the Dead / Living Death / Victimize as conditional sac outlets). There’s MANY combinations here (approximately a hundred), some of which work better than others. There’s a lot of hidden conditions, and generating enough mana to "break even" can happen several ways -- with some combination of death triggers, ETB triggers, rituals, and sacrifices.

Top Ranked	Achieved #1 position overall 3 years ago
Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 19 - 0 Rares 38 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.94
Tokens	Copy Clone, Morph 2/2 C, Treasure, Zombie Army 0/0 B
Folders	Deck Primers, Commander Legends Ideas, Blueprints, Want to Build
Based on	To Drown the World in Death: Araumi EDH [PRIMER] Daedalus19876 EDH