Gyome’s Cat Sandwiches

Commander / EDH BG (Golgari) Sacrifice Scry

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Creature (42)

• 1x Academy Manufactor
• 1x Ancestral Statue
• 1x Apex Altisaur
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Blossoming Bogbeast
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Cauldron Familiar
• 1x Chatterfang, Squirrel General
• 1x Corpse Connoisseur
• 1x Devoted Druid
• 1x Diligent Farmhand
• 1x Dina, Soul Steeper
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Essence Warden
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Ezzaroot Channeler
• 1x Fangren Marauder
• 1x Fiend Artisan
• 1x Foundation Breaker
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Gilded Goose
• 1x Keskit, the Flesh Sculptor
• 1x King Macar, the Gold-Cursed
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Marionette Master
• 1x Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
• 1x Nadier's Nightblade
• 1x Nether Traitor
• 1x Oriq Loremage
• 1x Pitiless Plunderer
• 1x Reassembling Skeleton
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Silversmote Ghoul
• 1x Thorn Mammoth
• 1x Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
• 1x Wall of Roots
• 1x Willowdusk, Essence Seer
• 1x Woe Strider
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Land (35)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 13x Forest
• 1x Gingerbread Cabin
• 1x Golgari Guildgate
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x High Market
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 8x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Temple of Malady
• 1x Witch's Clinic
• 1x Witherbloom Campus
• 1x Woodland Chasm

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Moldervine Reclamation
• 1x Pattern of Rebirth
• 1x Sanguine Bond
• 1x Trail of Crumbs

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Final Parting
• 1x Jarad's Orders
• 1x Unmarked Grave

Commander (1)

Artifact (9)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Cranial Plating
• 1x Golgari Signet
• 1x Inspiring Statuary
• 1x Nettlecyst
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Resilience
• 1x Witch's Oven

Instant (4)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Costly Plunder
• 1x Rushed Rebirth
• 1x Second Harvest

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The primary focus of this deck is the interaction between Gyome, Cauldron Familiar, and any free sac outlet. By repeatedly sacking the cat and bringing it back with a food token, you can drain your opponents out pretty quickly, especially if you have other payoffs like Dina, Soul Steeper or Zulaport Cutthroat. Then, on your end step, Gyome gives you back all the food that you used, since the cat entered the battlefield each time it used a food.

The deck utilizes many tutors, mostly to the graveyard, to get this combo going. Using a card like Buried Alive, you can get the Cauldron Familiar, as well as a sac outlet in the form of Woe Strider. There are several other creatures that can recur themselves from the graveyard, but Cauldron Familiar and Woe Strider are generally the most valuable ones to get first.

The combo is especially oppressive because it is virtually impossible for your opponents to get rid of the cat if you have a sac outlet and some food, since it can dance back and forth between the battlefield and the graveyard at instant speed, dodging all removal and draining your opponents in the process. Your opponents would need to get rid of your sac outlets and your food before they even had a chance to hit the cat at all, which is no small task considering the Gyome can also protect your board at any time (or they could just use Extirpate).

Along with the cat, Nether Traitor can be sacrificed to Woe Strider and easily retrieved from the graveyard. The traitor basically lets you pay as much black mana as you want to get that many food tokens, all while scrying like crazy. The cat alone also doesn’t actually increase your food token count, but the nether traitor does, allowing you to speed up the death of your opponents.

The best card in the deck is Buried Alive. However, be wary of opposing graveyard hate and don’t be greedy. Once you have a food to grab the cat from the graveyard at instant speed, I suggest casting Buried Alive to get the cat, the strider, and Corpse Connoisseur. This keeps your cat invulnerable to instant speed graveyard hate at all times, while giving you time to set up the Woe Strider on the battlefield to protect the cat there. Once the cat and the strider are on the battlefield, you’re safe to unearth the connoisseur to find the traitor, since you can grab the traitor at instant speed by sacking the cat.

By using this highly defensive strategy, the cat-strider-traitor combo becomes pretty much impossible to interact with, since all three creatures can come back from the grave and all but one can be instantly sacked to avoid exile effects. And Gyome, whose food production is the meat and potatos of this deck, is also the gravy on top, since he can protect any piece of the combo at instant speed by giving it a snack.

Date added	2 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 28 - 0 Rares 26 - 0 Uncommons 20 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.02
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Clue, Food, Goat 0/1 W, Gold, Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B, Servo 1/1 C, Squirrel 1/1 G, Treasure