Izoni, Golgari Aristocrat

Commander / EDH Aristocrats BG (Golgari) Dredge Tokens

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Creature (39)

• 1x Acolyte of Affliction
• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Beast Whisperer
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Dawntreader Elk
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Farhaven Elf
• 1x Foundation Breaker
• 1x Glowspore Shaman
• 1x God-Eternal Bontu
• 1x Golgari Findbroker
• 1x Golgari Grave-Troll
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Krav, the Unredeemed
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Merciless Executioner
• 1x Midnight Reaper
• 1x Phyrexian Delver
• 1x Plaguecrafter
• 1x Poison-Tip Archer
• 1x Ramunap Excavator
• 1x Ravenous Chupacabra
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Satyr Wayfinder
• 1x Shambling Shell
• 1x Skull Prophet
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Springbloom Druid
• 1x Stinkweed Imp
• 1x Stitcher's Supplier
• 1x Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1x The Gitrog Monster
• 1x Underrealm Lich
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Wood Elves
• 1x World Shaper
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Land (34)

• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Blooming Marsh
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dakmor Salvage
• 1x Deathcap Glade
• 8x Forest
• 1x High Market
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 9x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Undergrowth Stadium
• 1x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Instant (5)

• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Grapple with the Past
• 1x Grisly Salvage

Artifact (4)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Skullclamp

Commander (1)

Sorcery (16)

• 1x Agadeem's Awakening  ^Flip
• 1x Bala Ged Recovery  ^Flip
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Command the Dreadhorde
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Regrowth
• 1x Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1x Stitch Together
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Victimize

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Animate Dead

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Creature (1)

• 1x Old Stickfingers

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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!

Dredge

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.

Death

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.

Drain

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 {G} + {B} 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.

Top Ranked	Achieved #6 position overall 5 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Aristocrats 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Dredge 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Tokens 4 years ago
Date added	5 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 33 - 0 Rares 28 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.18
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Human Cleric 1/1 BW, Insect 1/1 BG, Morph 2/2 C, Plant 0/1 G
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Based on	Slimefoot's Saproling Supper MegaMatt13 EDH