Jodah, Polyamorous Partners

Commander / EDH Legendary Matters Partner

JCTenor10

Creature (38)

• 1x Abaddon the Despoiler
• 1x Agatha of the Vile Cauldron
• 1x Animar, Soul of Elements
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Cazur, Ruthless Stalker  ^Flip
• 1x Esika, God of the Tree  ^Flip
• 1x Esper Sentinel
• 1x Faeburrow Elder
• 1x Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit
• 1x Hajar, Loyal Bodyguard
• 1x Kamber, the Plunderer
• 1x Kethis, the Hidden Hand
• 1x Krav, the Unredeemed
• 1x Laurine, the Diversion
• 1x Maelstrom Wanderer
• 1x Marchesa, the Black Rose
• 1x Merry, Warden of Isengard
• 1x Nikara, Lair Scavenger
• 1x Pippin, Warden of Isengard
• 1x Pir, Imaginative Rascal
• 1x Ramos, Dragon Engine
• 1x Ratadrabik of Urborg
• 1x Regna, the Redeemer
• 1x Reki, the History of Kamigawa
• 1x Rona, Herald of Invasion  ^Flip
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Sam, Loyal Attendant
• 1x Samut, Voice of Dissent
• 1x Samwise Gamgee
• 1x Shalai, Voice of Plenty
• 1x Shanid, Sleepers' Scourge
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Thassa, God of the Sea
• 1x Toothy, Imaginary Friend
• 1x Ukkima, Stalking Shadow  ^Flip
• 1x Yannik, Scavenging Sentinel
• 1x Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

Land (36)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 3x Forest
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 2x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 2x Mountain
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 2x Plains
• 1x Plaza of Heroes
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Instant (4)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

Commander (1)

Sorcery (8)

• 1x All Suns' Dawn
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Eerie Ultimatum
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Ruinous Ultimatum
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Urza's Ruinous Blast

Artifact (7)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Heroes' Podium
• 1x Mox Amber
• 1x Relic of Legends
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thought Vessel

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Intruder Alarm
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Survival of the Fittest
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Tortured Existence

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Dihada, Binder of Wills

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Creature (5)

• 1x Chulane, Teller of Tales
• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Pippin, Guard of the Citadel
• 1x Saffi Eriksdotter
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier

Artifact (1)

• 1x Chromatic Lantern

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Welcome to my Jodah, the Unifier cascade deck focused on the "Partner with" mechanic. This deck hopes to create fund cross-partner reactions to great effect (hence the name). Below I hope to explain the crazy concept of the deck and all the wonderfully fun potential this deck has. This deck is a constant work in progress so suggestions are always appreciated!

Deck Concept

Ever since the release of Battlebond and the printing of "Partner with" cards, I have wanted to make an EDH deck revolved around the card advantage that the etb fetch effect of "Partner with" cards can achieve. Jodah, the Unifier's has a anthem ability that wants many legendary creatures in play and a cascade ability to get them there. When casting a "Partner with" card with Jodah out, we can cascade into a legendary and then still fetch their synergistic legendary partner to our hand with the "Partner with" etb trigger. We get bonus points if we cascaded into another "partner with" card because then we are fetching 2 legendary cards to out hand. Casting those cards we just fetched repeats the whole process. This deck is very good at going wide with legendary creatures very fast.

The only problem is that there are 15 legendary "Partner with" pairs. If we ran all of them we would have little room for anything else. On top of that each promote different strategies. I have selected 7 of the pairs that have vary interesting cross-pairing synergies like Pir, Imaginative Rascal + Toothy, Imaginary Friend and Yannik, Scavenging Sentinel + Nikara, Lair Scavenger. The rest of the deck is filled with ramp and legends matters effects like Reki, the History of Kamigawa, Shanid, Sleepers' Scourge, Ratadrabik of Urborg, and Kethis, the Hidden Hand.

Cascading Chaos

The deck is best understood by looking at the legendary cards by their cmc. Because of Jodah's legendary cascade effect, legendary creatures of a cmc of 3 or lower are seen almost every game and going wide with them is super effective. Because of the consistency in which we see our low cmc legendaries, they all need to be very good for inclusion in this deck. We have more liberty with higher cmc legendaries, but the meat and potatoes of the deck is 2 and 3 cmc legendaries.

0 cmc Legendaries

• Mox Amber: This card is the only 0 cmc Legendary we run. It is only included because it is good ramp and it eeks out just a little more value from whenever we get a cascade trigger off of casting a 2cmc legendary creature.

2 cmc Legendaries

• Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit: We don't really care about his effect. What is important is he fetches Sam, Loyal Attendant.
• Hajar, Loyal Bodyguard: Cascading down into something that can protect everything we dumped on the table is insanely good.
• Samwise Gamgee: Multiple creatures will etb each turn so this effect is great graveyard recursion and can go infinite.
• Pippin, Warden of Isengard: This silly bloke fetches Merry, Warden of Isengard and can sack all that food made by Samwise Gamgee and Sam, Loyal Attendant to give haste to the legendaries we just played. Haste granters are good in this deck.
• Rona, Herald of Invasion  : One of the best cards in this deck. The filtering is so good when you can do it six to seven times a turn. You very rarely run out of gas with her down.
• Agatha of the Vile Cauldron: With the Jodah Anthem effect, this effectively reads as give haste and trample for 2 mana. Very often finding haste or trample is the difference between winning and loosing with this deck so having this is great.

3 cmc Legendaries

• Ukkima, Stalking Shadow: Because of the Anthem from Jodah, the Unifier, this is often a 10+ damage unblockable attacker or an amazing target for card:1x Krav, the Unredeemed, Yawgmoth, Thran Physician, Yannik, Scavenging Sentinel, or Laurine, the Diversion. He is a combo piece with our reanimators like Samwise Gamgee or Kethis, the Hidden Hand.
• Esika, God of the Tree  : Tapping legendary cards for mana is great ramp and help keep the cascade train going. If we already have this effect through something like Relic of Legends then we can instead cast her flip side for even more legendary chaos.
• Kethis, the Hidden Hand: A cost reducer and a recursion engine. Both of those effects are very good for us.
• Laurine, the Diversion: Goad wins games. Sacrificing creatures wins games. Therefore, Laurine wins games.
• Merry, Warden of Isengard: Admittedly not a good card by itself for us. But fetching Pippin, Warden of Isengard while also cascading into one of our other 2 cmc legendaries is worth it. The 3cmc to 2cmc "Partner with" cards from the LOTR set just help the curve of this deck so much.
• Sam, Loyal Attendant: Same deal as Merry, Warden of Isengard except that food generation and making them cheaper to eat are actually useful effects.
• Animar, Soul of Elements: The holy grail of cost reducers. Even better in cascade. This dude gets so big that it can often one-shot people the turn it his the battlefield or the turn after. One of the best cards in the deck.
• Pir, Imaginative Rascal: My favorite boi. Besides the obvious effects for Toothy, Imaginary Friend, this dude has insane cross-pair synergy with Yannik, Scavenging Sentinel, Ramos, Dragon Engine, Krav, the Unredeemed, Cazur, Ruthless Stalker  , and Animar, Soul of Elements.
• Reki, the History of Kamigawa: Cascade is still casting. Great card draw.
• Nikara, Lair Scavenger: Situational card draw. Feeds well off of all our +1/+1 synergies. More importantly it fetches Yannik, Scavenging Sentinel which goes nutty in this deck.
• Thassa, God of the Sea: Unblockable is one of the best ways for us to win the game. This card is a win-condition.

4 cmc Legendaries

• Cazur, Ruthless Stalker  : Not the most valuable effect but it does pair well with Nikara, Lair Scavenger and Marchesa, the Black Rose. More important is that it fetches Ukkima, Stalking Shadow.
• Kamber, the Plunderer: Alright card filtering but it is more valuable he fetches a 3cmc and cascades down into a or lower.
• Marchesa, the Black Rose: Plays well into the +1/+1 subtheme of the deck and offers a lot of stability for the heat this deck draws.
• Ratadrabik of Urborg: Similar to Marchesa that is just makes the board harder to kill except that also is a combo piece.
• Shalai, Voice of Plenty: Even more protection. Most of our engine is 3cmc and below so I like having multiple 4cmc protection pieces like this.
• Toothy, Imaginary Friend: Bonkers Card draw. Even ignoring Pir, Imaginative Rascal, cards like Reki, the History of Kamigawa, Rona, Herald of Invasion  , Shanid, Sleepers' Scourge, and Yannik, Scavenging Sentinel can allow him to draw absolutely ridiculous amounts of cards.
• Shanid, Sleepers' Scourge: Basically a Reki, the History of Kamigawa that gives legendary cards menace. Card draw is great and evasion abilities like menace can win games in this deck.
• Yannik, Scavenging Sentinel: A secret superstar. Bouncing out Toothy, Imaginary Friend, or Ukkima, Stalking Shadow, or even a large Animar, Soul of Elements can be game winning. His ability is strengthened by Jodah, the Unifier's anthem. He can also put all those tokens on a single unblockable creature for a win or spread them out for insane benefit from Pir, Imaginative Rascal or Marchesa, the Black Rose.
• Yawgmoth, Thran Physician: One of the best sacrifice outlets in mtg history. Many creatures in this deck like to die and he offers some much needed interaction in this deck.
• card: 1x Dihada, Binder of Wills:Everything Dihada does is great for our game plan. Being able to protect Jodah, being able to continue to give us gas, and giving us a very powerful ult. My only complaint is that she does not add to our Jodah anthem ability because she is not a creature.

5 cmc Legendaries

• Abaddon the Despoiler: Better than Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder because it does not have to be combat damage. This means Ukkima, Stalking Shadow now can give everything cascade. Would like to add more instant damage effects to make this even better.
• Heroes' Podium: Basically another legendary anthem ability.
• Krav, the Unredeemed: I have a love/hate relationship with this card. This deck would much rather play 2 or 3 low cmc legendaries than expensive ones. He and his partner Regna, the Redeemer are the high cmc so I often find myself just holding them in my hand. At the moment he stays but he and his partner might not be long for this deck for too much longer.
• Samut, Voice of Dissent: A double striker that gives everything haste is well worth 5 mana. With both the anthem effect and double strike, she is also a good target for Thassa, God of the Sea to make unblockable.
• Urza's Ruinous Blast: This is basically a onesided boardwipe that exiles. Very hard to rebuild when everything went to exile instead of graveyard.

6 cmc Legendaries

• Ramos, Dragon Engine: With all the multicolored spells we run, Ramos can often serve as good ramp or just a huge flyer. We rarely cast legendary spells of 6 cmc or higher so having one like this is nice.
• Regna, the Redeemer: This card and their partner is always on and off the chopping block. The addition of all our food synergies does help their cause because she specifies each end step and not just our end step.

8 cmc Legendaries

Maelstrom Wanderer: He is a haste enabler who does his own cascading. Whenever he hits the total power on the board jumps dramatically. He is basically our version of Craterhoof Behemoth.

Date added	2 years
Last updated	7 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	21 - 0 Mythic Rares 55 - 0 Rares 5 - 0 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.20
Tokens	Blood, Food, Soldier 1/1 W w/ Lifelink, Spirit 1/1 C, The Ring, The Ring Tempts You, Treasure, Warrior 1/1 W, Zombie 2/2 B