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Izoni, Golgari Aristocrat

Commander / EDH Aristocrats BG (Golgari) Dredge Tokens

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Artifact (4)

Commander (1)

Commander: Izoni, Thousand-Eyed

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Enchantment (1)

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A Golgari dredge/reanimation deck that wins through draining out opponents with Syr Konrad, the Grim, Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, or Poison-Tip Archer. Izoni loves to bury creatures alive to be recycled later! Click on the dropdown menus for more info. Please provide feedback and upvote if you like!

The deck has a large graveyard theme as we want lots of creatures in our graveyard to maximize on Izoni's ability to create insect tokens. The deck includes multiple ways to put cards in and take cards out of our graveyard.

Dredgers: Life from the Loam, Golgari Grave-Troll, Shambling Shell, Dakmor Salvage, and Stinkweed Imp all have the broken Dredge mechanic which allows us to bring these cards back to the hand at the "cost" of filling up our graveyard more.

Self-Mill and Discard: Altar of Dementia, Grisly Salvage, Grapple with the Past, Underrealm Lich, Glowspore Shaman, Satyr Wayfinder, World Shaper and Stitcher's Supplier allow us to pitch cards from the top of our library into our graveyard.

Reanimation: Reanimate, Bala Ged Recovery  , Eternal Witness, Stitch Together, Regrowth, Dread Return, Victimize, Animate Dead, Life from the Loam, and Phyrexian Delver all bring important pieces back from our graveyard while Living Death, Rise of the Dark Realms, Agadeem's Awakening   and Command the Dreadhorde act as mass reanimation spells once our yard is full.

It can take a while for Izoni's graveyard engine to get going. The deck includes a lot of removal to help keep the board under control while we set up. Most of the removal is attached to creatures which can be recycled to be on theme with the deck.

Plaguecrafter, Merciless Executioner, and Fleshbag Marauder are a trio of "edict" creature removal that can send themselves to the graveyard.

Ravenous Chupacabra ETB destroys a creature.

Foundation Breaker, Caustic Caterpillar, and Reclamation Sage for artifact/enchantment destruction.

Assassin's Trophy + Beast Within for instant-speed removal.

Living Death, Toxic Deluge, and Damnation for boardwipes.

The deck aims to win through draining out our opponents Aristocrat style. The deck also includes some token makers in addition to Izoni to ensure we have enough of a critical mass of tokens to drain opponents out or sacrifice for value. Sacrifice outlets help us to instant-speed drain opponents if Izoni is offline or if we don't have enough + to repeatedly sac.

Aristocrat Package: Poison-Tip Archer, Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, and Syr Kondrad, The Grim all help us drain out opponents.

Sacrifice Outlets: Ashnod's Altar, Phyrexian Altar, Altar of Dementia and Viscera Seer are free sac outlets that give us value.God-Eternal Bontu and Krav, the redeemed draw cards.

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Kamigawa and Fewer Tutors — March 6, 2022
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From Kamigawa Neon Dynasty I've added Takenuma, Abandoned Mire to the land base as it synergizes with the self-mill of the deck. I may end up adding Boseiju, Who Endures but it's just so damn expensive.

I've also reduced the number of tutors in the deck as it crept up to 6. I typically like to have 3-4 tutors max in the deck to keep it a bit more casual. I've removed Natural Order and Sidisi, Undead Vizier and put back in Golgari Findbroker who had been cut in a previous update. I've also added in The Gitrog Monster as I finally picked up a copy.

I've replaced Bane of Progress with Foundation Breaker from MH2. I typically only need targeted artifact/enchantment removal and the evoke ability synergizes better with the deck.

War of the Spark — April 25, 2019
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Revision 50 See all

(3 years ago)

+1 Acolyte of Affliction main
-1 Bane of Progress main
+1 Deathcap Glade main
-1 Deathrite Shaman main
-1 Elvish Rejuvenator main
-1 Fleshbag Marauder main
-2 Forest main
+1 Foundation Breaker main
+1 Golgari Findbroker main
+1 Grim Haruspex main
+1 Llanowar Elves main
-1 Natural Order main
+1 Old Stickfingers maybe
-1 Sengir Autocrat main
-1 Sidisi, Undead Vizier main
+1 Skull Prophet main
-1 Swamp main
+1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire main
-1 Temple of Malady main
+1 Undergrowth Stadium main