Kathril, Nightmare of Indatha [Keyword Primer]

Commander / EDH Angels BGW (Abzan, Junk) Bracket 3 Counters Discard Midrange Mill Primer Reanimator

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Creature (35)

• 1x Akroma, Vision of Ixidor
• 1x Archangel of Thune
• 1x Avacyn, Angel of Hope
• 1x Bassara Tower Archer
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bontu the Glorified
• 1x Bruna, the Fading Light  ^{Flip  Meld}
• 1x Carnage Tyrant
• 1x Elder Gargaroth
• 1x Emiel the Blessed P
• 1x Eradicator Valkyrie
• 1x Faeburrow Elder
• 1x Fiend Artisan
• 1x Gisela, the Broken Blade  ^Meld
• 1x Glissa Sunslayer
• 1x Icetill Explorer
• 1x Lumra, Bellow of the Woods P
• 1x NIghthawk Scavenger
• 1x Nethroi, Apex of Death
• 1x Oketra the True
• 1x Sanguine Spy
• 1x Shadrix Silverquill
• 1x Sigarda, Host of Herons
• 1x Sire of Seven Deaths
• 1x Slippery Bogbonder
• 1x Sporeweb Weaver
• 1x Stonecoil Serpent
• 1x Sylvan Caryatid
• 1x Thalia and The Gitrog Monster
• 1x Tower Winder
• 1x Underrealm Lich
• 1x Vorinclex  ^Flip
• 1x Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider P
• 1x Winding Constrictor
• 1x Zetalpa, Primal Dawn

Land (34)

• 1x Agadeem, the Undercrypt P  ^Flip
• 1x Ancient TombGC
• 1x Bala Ged Sanctuary P  ^Flip
• 1x Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1x Bountiful Promenade P
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Deathcap Glade P
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Forest
• 1x Forest
• 1x Gavony Township P
• 1x Godless Shrine P
• 1x Hall of the Bandit Lord *list*
• 1x Indatha Triome
• 1x Lush Portico
• 1x Marsh Flats P
• 1x Overgrown Farmland P
• 1x Overgrown Tomb P
• 1x Phyrexian Tower P
• 2x Plains
• 1x Shattered Sanctum
• 1x Shifting Woodland
• 1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swarmyard
• 1x Takenuma, Abandoned Mire P
• 1x Temple Garden P
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Underground Mortuary
• 1x Undergrowth Stadium P
• 1x Verdant Catacombs P
• 1x Windswept Heath P
• 1x Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth P

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Survival of the FittestGC
• 1x Sylvan Library P
• 1x Tortured Existence

Commander (1)

Sorcery (13)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Damn
• 1x Damnation P
• 1x Demonic TutorGC
• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Farseek P
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Nature's Lore P
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Three Visits P
• 1x Traverse the Ulvenwald *f-pre*

Instant (8)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking P
• 1x Assassin's Trophy P
• 1x Beast Within P
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Grapple with the Past
• 1x Grisly Salvage
• 1x Savage Summoning
• 1x Swords to Plowshares P

Artifact (6)

• 1x Arcane Signet P
• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Key to the City
• 1x Lightning Greaves P
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x The Ozolith

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Sideboard

Creature (12)

• 1x Bramble Familiar
• 1x Doom Whisperer
• 1x Kunoros, Hound of Athreos
• 1x Leyline Prowler
• 1x Nullpriest of Oblivion
• 1x Nyxborn Hydra
• 1x Odric, Lunarch Marshal
• 1x Scavenged Brawler
• 1x Shrike Force
• 1x Smeagol, Helpful Guide
• 1x Valentin, Dean of the Vein  ^Flip
• 1x Wilson, Refined Grizzly

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Eerie Ultimatum
• 1x Jarad's Orders
• 1x Malevolent Rumble
• 1x Mulch
• 1x Winding Way
• 1x Wrath of God

Artifact (1)

• 1x Conduit of Worlds

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Walk-In Closet / Forgotten Cellar

Instant (2)

• 1x Gift of the Viper
• 1x Mythos of Nethroi

Land (1)

• 1x Nesting Grounds

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Maybeboard

Creature (5)

• 1x Dragon Sniper
• 1x Nyx Weaver
• 1x Qarsi Revenant
• 1x Seedship Broodtender
• 1x Survey Mechan

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Bleeding Effect
• 1x Resourceful Defense

Instant (1)

• 1x Revitalizing Repast  ^Flip

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"Kathril, a cunning insectile nightmare with powerful shapeshifting abilities, lurks in the peaty marshes of Indatha."

The general game plan is to either dump creatures into the graveyard or play them and attack/block to get them into the graveyard. Once we've got the necessary keywords, drop Kathril, Aspect Warper and potentially one-shot an opponent. However, we can also spread the keywords around to other creatures and make them even more threatening.

The Keywords that matter for Kathril, Aspect Warper include: Flying, First Strike, Double Strike, Deathtouch, Hexproof, Indestructible, Lifelink, Menace, Reach, Trample, and Vigilance

Cards with 3+ Relevant Keywords

• {W}Akroma, Vision of Ixidor - Flying, First Strike, Vigilance, Trample - This version of Akroma has the same keywords as the original one, but this version we actually want to play on the field as she can massively boost our creatures during our combat step. If Kathril, Aspect Warper and Akroma, Vision of Ixidor are out together, Kathril, Aspect Warper needs fewer keywords to swing for lethal damage.

• {W}Avacyn, Angel of Hope - Flying, Vigilance, Indestructible - Giving all your permanents Indestructible is great. However, she does cost a ton of mana, so she is better off in the graveyard as either a reanimation target or as keyword fodder for Kathril, Aspect Warper.

• {G}Elder Gargaroth - Vigilance, Reach, Trample - 5 mana for a 6/6 beater with three relevant keywords? Awesome. And the module-ability to generate either a 3/3 Beast Token, draw a card, or gain 3 life on attack or block is even more awesome. A great way to build up our defenses or recover some life.

• {B}Eradicator Valkyrie - Flying, Lifelink, Hexproof - Lots of good keywords on a solid body. While this has 'Hexproof from Planeswalkers', it technically still counts as Hexproof for Kathril, Aspect Warper. And it has a good Boast ability, where we can sac a creature to make our opponents sac either a creature or a planeswalker. Good if we want to get something with Indestructible into the graveyard, or if we are up against a Superfriends deck.

• {W}Gisela, the Broken Blade   - Flying, First Strike, Lifelink - One half of Brisela, Voice of Nightmares      , and has a ton of keywords if she ends up in the graveyard. We can basically swing with her constantly to gain life until someone finally decides to deal with her.

• {B}NIghthawk Scavenger - Flying, Deathtouch, Lifelink - Three good keywords for only three mana. Pretty much a better upgrade to Vampire Nighthawk, as it has the same stats if an opponent has a card in the graveyard, such as a fetch land. Anything else just makes this creature bigger and better.

• {C}Sire of Seven Deaths - First Strike, Vigilance, Menace, Trample, Reach, Lifelink - A nice collection of Keywords. Not quite as good as Zetalpa, Primal Dawn, but can still be a good source of Keyword counters, or a powerful beater to drop down. And with Ward - Pay 7 life, any of our opponents who want to interact with him will pay a heavy cost.

• {W}Zetalpa, Primal Dawn - Flying, Double Strike, Vigilance, Trample, Indestructible - Zetalpa's place to shine is in the graveyard for Keyword fodder or as a reanimation target.

Cards with 2 Relevant Keywords

• {W}Archangel of Thune - Flying and Lifelink - Good Keywords but also can pump the board with +1/+1 Counters whenever we gain life. With a few Lifelink creatures, we can easily build up an army of powerful creatures. And if we have The Ozolith in play, if there is a board wipe, we can move all those +1/+1 Counters over to it to pump up another creature later on.

• {G}Bassara Tower Archer - Hexproof and Reach - This is mainly a Buried Alive target, as Hexproof is extremely useful, and Reach counts as one of Kathril, Aspect Warper's keywords, but it can also be a good (potentially one-time) blocker if our opponents have a large Flying creature coming our way.

• {B}Bontu the Glorified - Menace and Indestructible - A powerful beater on her own, but also allows us to sacrifice any creatures with Indestructible and get them into the graveyard for Kathril, Aspect Warper.

• {W}Bruna, the Fading Light     - Flying and Vigilance - While Bruna costs a lot, there are several Angel or Human reanimation targets that we can look for when playing her, notably her sister counterpart Gisela, the Broken Blade   to meld together to form Brisela, Voice of Nightmares      . Other good targets include Avacyn, Angel of Hope, Archangel of Thune, Sigarda, Host of Herons, Eternal Witness, and Slippery Bogbonder.

• {G}Carnage Tyrant - Trample and Hexproof - Another powerful beater that will serve us well no matter where it is. If we play Kathril, Aspect Warper and give it Indestructible or Double Strike, this dino becomes quite terrifying.

• {B}{G}Glissa Sunslayer - First strike and Deathtouch - The combo of First strike and Deathtouch is very powerful, enabling us to swing out basically every turn without fear of being blocked, allowing us to get one of her three possible effects almost every combat unless our opponents have a good number of chump blockers. If we do connect with an opponent, we can either draw a card, destroy an enchantment (The enchantment doesn't even have to belong to the player we attacked!), or remove up to 3 counters from target permanent (Planeswalker/Saga hate or other counters our opponents might be using).

• {G}Lumra, Bellow of the Woods - Vigilance and Reach - This elemental bear does quite a lot for us. She has two good keywords, she can be a powerhouse if we have enough lands, and when she enters, we mill four cards, then return all lands from the graveyard to our battlefield. Great mid-late game play to catapult us to the finish line.

• {W}{B}{G}Nethroi, Apex of Death - Deathtouch and Lifelink - This delightfully terrifying Cat Nightmare Beast is one of my favorite cards from the Ikoria set, and I almost built a deck around him. He is one of our alternate Win-Cons, as when we Mutate him, we can return creatures with total power {10} or less to the battlefield. We can go get things like Carnage Tyrant and Archangel of Thune.

• {W}Oketra the True - Double Strike and Indestructible - She is another good target for Buried Alive or Entomb, as she has the all-important Double Strike plus Indestructible, both of which can make Kathril, Aspect Warper very difficult to deal with.

• {B}Sanguine Spy - Menace and Lifelink - In addition to having some good keywords, she is a sacrifice outlet and source of card draw. For {1} and sacrificing another creature, we can Surveil 1, potentially dumping two powerful keyword creatures into the graveyard for a single mana. And on our end step, if we have five or more mana values among cards in our graveyard, we can pay two life and draw a card.

• {W}{B}Shadrix Silverquill - Flying and Double Strike - Gives us another Double Strike, which is very important to make Kathril, Aspect Warper a 1-Hit-KO, but if we play it out first, we get a variety of useful options and some political power. At the beginning of combat on your turn, we may choose two out of the following three modes (Each mode must target a different player): 1. Target player creates a 2/1 white and black Inkling creature token with flying, 2. Target player draws a card and loses 1 life, or 3. Target player puts a +1/+1 counter on each creature they control. The +1/+1 counters option would be the most beneficial for us, since those counters can be saved/stored on The Ozolith, but being able to either draw a card or create a Flying blocker could also be beneficial.

• {W}{G}Sigarda, Host of Herons - Flying, Hexproof - Sigarda works great in the graveyard, as she can provide Hexproof to Kathril, Aspect Warper, but having her on the field eliminates one possible way to remove an Indestructible and Hexproof Kathril, Aspect Warper, by an opponent forcing us to sacrifice Kathril, Aspect Warper.

• {G}Sporeweb Weaver - Hexproof and Reach - Essentially another Bassara Tower Archer, this provides some good defensive Keywords. Plus, we can generate tokens and gain some life while using it as a blocker, and if it dies and ends up in the graveyard, that's good for us too.

• {C}Stonecoil Serpent - Reach and Trample - This artifact snake provides us with one of the rare instances of Reach in this deck. And since it costs {X} to play, we can either pump it up with a bunch of +1/+1 counters that could then be stored on The Ozolith, or we could just cast it for {0}, effectively discarding it so we can send those two keywords to the graveyard for Kathril, Aspect Warper.

• {W}{B}{G}Thalia and The Gitrog Monster - First strike and Deathtouch - Another powerful keyword combination similar to Glissa Sunslayer. This dynamic duo gives up a lot of benefits, starting with an additional land drop on each of our turns. They also make creatures and nonbasic lands our opponents control enter the battlefield tapped, and when they attack, we must sacrifice a creature or land, then draw a card. A great way to put some of our Indestructible creatures into the graveyard and draw a card at the same time.

• {G}Tower Winder - Reach and Deathtouch - A tutor for Command Tower, plus a powerful defensive option.

• {G}Vorinclex   - Trample and Reach - A 6/6 for five mana is already nice, but add on Trample and especially Reach, along with an enter the battlefield effect to fetch two Forest lands to our hand, and we've got a sweet addition. Plus, if we have enough mana, we can pay {6}{G}{G} to flip him into The Grand Evolution  , which Mills, Reanimates, Pumps, and acts as a pseudo boardwipe with Fight.

Cards with 1 Relevant Keyword

• {G}Birds of Paradise - Flying - A nice 1-drop mana dork that ramps us and provides one of our best evasion keywords.

• {G}{W}Faeburrow Elder - Vigilance - A mana dork that can potentially tap for three mana once we get some of our creatures out. At a minimum, it taps for {G}{W} when we untap with it.

• {G}Slippery Bogbonder - Hexproof - This card is amazing. For {3}{G} and with enough counters in play, we could easily KO an opponent by instant speed by moving +1/+1 or ability counters over to Kathril, Aspect Warper or another powerful creature.

• {G}Sylvan Caryatid - Hexproof - Another mana dork that also provides Hexproof for Kathril, Aspect Warper if it's in the graveyard.

• {G}Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider - Trample - Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider has a replacement effect of "If you would put one or more counters on a permanent or player, put twice that many of each of those kinds of counters on that permanent or player instead." So let's say we have 5 keywords in our graveyard when we cast Kathril, Aspect Warper and Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider is in play. We would put the 5 keyword counters on Kathril, which Vorinclex would double to 10 total counters. Then the second part of Kathril, Aspect Warper's ETB ability would resolve, putting 10 +1/+1 counters on him. But Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider would see this too, doubling those to 20 +1/+1 counters. With the full keyword suite of 11 Keywords in the graveyard, we would end up with 22 ability counters and 44 +1/+1 counters. Just add in something to give our God Bug Haste and we could attack for 94 damage!

No Keywords, but still useful creatures

• {W}Emiel the Blessed - This is an all-star in my The Harvesttide Festival [Human Primer] deck, and I think it has a good place here. This allows us to easily switch our strategy from Voltron with a huge Kathril, Aspect Warper to a Go-Wide strategy, allowing us to spread out the Keyword counters among our other creatures.

• {B}{G}Fiend Artisan - A slightly more flexible but more mana-intensive tutor than Birthing Pod. For {X}{BG}, we can sacrifice a creature and go get another one. A good way to get some of our Indestructible creatures into the graveyard.

• {G}Icetill Explorer - A Crucible of Worlds stapled to an Exploration with a Landfall ability to mill cards. What a fantastic card!

• {B}{G}Underrealm Lich - Looks at the top three cards, we select the one we want and discard the rest to provide fuel for Kathril, Aspect Warper. Also is part of the Underrealm Lich + Sylvan Library combo, which can help us get a ton of good cards into the graveyard.

• {B}{G}Winding Constrictor - Similar effect to Vorinclex. When Kathril, Aspect Warper enters the battlefield, this will add an additional counter to each creature getting a counter from Kathril, Aspect Warper. While this doesn't actually help the creature (Double Trample doesn't do anything), Kathril, Aspect Warper gets a +1/+1 counter for each ability counter placed on a creature. So we basically double the number of +1/+1 counters added to Kathril, Aspect Warper to make it an even larger threat.

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"Many a monster hunter, seeing only a big bug, has ventured after what he thought was easy prey, only to meet his end at Kathril's mandibles."

For a One-Hit KO with Kathril, Aspect Warper, we need at least 9 keywords in the graveyard, one of which has to be Double Strike so Kathril, Aspect Warper can become at least an 11/11. Once it's a huge threat, we have a few ways to make sure it connects with an opponent and wipes them out.

• {C}Key to the City - Provides a Discard outlet, makes a creature unblockable, and can provide Card draw if we have available mana. All great things.

• {B}Shizo, Death's Storehouse - While not true Unblockable, we can give a legendary creature Fear, which makes it only able to be blocked by Black and Artifact creatures.

• {G}Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider/{B}{G}Winding Constrictor - As stated above, these two creatures can mess with the counters and math a little to make it easier to swing out for lethal damage.

Tutors and getting Creatures into the Graveyard

Obviously, we want creatures in the graveyard, so we have plenty of spells and tutors to get cards into our hands and, more importantly, the graveyard.

• {GP}Birthing Pod - One of the best creature tutors around, especially in a deck like this that wants creatures in the graveyard. For {1}{GP}, or basically just {1}, we can sacrifice one of our creatures to go find another one with CMC + 1. This can be a useful way to 'chain' together creatures and get all the keywords we need into the graveyard. One of the best chains is: Bassara Tower Archer/Sylvan Caryatid -> NIghthawk Scavenger/Bontu the Glorified -> Oketra the True -> Any Five Drop. This puts multiple keywords into our graveyard for Kathril, Aspect Warper to use.

• {B}Buried Alive - Probably one of the best cards in this deck. You go get three creatures and put them into the graveyard for Kathril, Aspect Warper. Of course, this will telegraph what your game plan is to the rest of the table, so you should be careful about incoming graveyard hate. One of the best three-card combos to look for are: Zetalpa, Primal Dawn + Bassara Tower Archer + NIghthawk Scavenger = 9 keywords with Hexproof, Double Strike, and Indestructible. If no one stops this and Kathril gains these abilities, it will become a true monster that can One-Hit KO any opponent who doesn't block.

• {B}Demonic TutorGC - Go grab any card at Sorcery Speed and put it into our hands.

• {B}Entomb - Instant Speed get a card a puts it into the graveyard. Great if you are casting Kathril, Aspect Warper and still missing a keyword or two. Since it's an Instant, we can cast Kathril, Aspect Warper, and if there isn't a response or counterspell, we can then in response to casting Kathril, Aspect Warper, we cast Entomb to go get something like Zetalpa, Primal Dawn or Akroma, Vision of Ixidor.

• {BG}{BG}Fiend Artisan - A slightly more flexible but more mana-intensive tutor than Birthing Pod. For {X}{BG}, we can sacrifice a creature and go get another one. A good way to get some of our Indestructible creatures into the graveyard.

• {G}Grapple with the Past - Put the top three cards into the graveyard then return a creature or land. Great if you accidentally binned something like Fauna Shaman or Nethroi, Apex of Death that you actually want to cast.

• {G}Green Sun's Zenith - For {G}{X}, we can go grab any green creature costing {X} or less, and put it onto the battlefield. With this, we can ramp and get Dryad Arbor, Birds of Paradise, or Faeburrow Elder; we can pull out creatures with powerful keywords such as Carnage Tyrant, Elder Gargaroth, or Nethroi, Apex of Death; or we could get value pieces such as Icetill Explorer or Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider.

• {B}{G}Grisly Salvage - Look at the top five cards and take either a creature or land, then put the rest into the graveyard.

• {C}Key to the City - Provides a Discard outlet to drop a creature from our hand into the Graveyard, as well as making a creature unblockable.

• {G}Life from the Loam - The Dredge legend. We can return up to three lands from our graveyard to our hand, then the next time we draw a card, we can instead Mill three cards and return Life from the Loam to our hand, making this a fairly repeatable Self-Mill.

• {B}Sanguine Spy - For {1} and sacrificing another creature, we can Surveil 1, potentially dumping two powerful keyword creatures into the graveyard for a single mana.

• {W}{G}{B} Surveil Lands - Lush Portico and Underground Mortuary are both Dual lands that, while they enter tapped, also let us Surveil 1, which is much more useful than Scrying in this deck. We can quickly and easily dump target creatures into the graveyard, without relying on Sacrifice or Discard outlets to get them where we need them to be for Kathril, Aspect Warper.

• {G}Survival of the FittestGC - For just {G}, we can discard a creature card to go find another and put it into our hand. Very useful for searching for a missing keyword before dropping Kathril, Aspect Warper, or even activating at instant speed in response to us casting Kathril, Aspect Warper!

• {B}Takenuma, Abandoned Mire - This can be an untapped land if we need it, or we can Channel it to mill three cards, then return a creature (or planeswalker) from the graveyard to our hand. Great for retrieving a utility creature and filling our graveyard with important keywords.

• {B}Tortured Existence - For just {B}, we can effectively swap a creature card in our hand with one in the graveyard. A good way to selectively add keywords to the graveyard, or get a good utility creature back like Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider or Underrealm Lich that has more value on the battlefield rather than in the graveyard. And like Survival of the FittestGC, we can activate this at instant speed in response to casting Kathril, Aspect Warper and adding more keywords. Thanks to KBK7101 for the recommendation!

• {G}Traverse the Ulvenwald *f-pre* - Go get a basic land card, but if Delirium is active, we can go get any creature or any land card. A good way to go get Shizo, Death's Storehouse, to help make Kathril, Aspect Warper effectively unblockable.

• {B}{G}Underrealm Lich - We can dump cards straight into the graveyard for Kathril, Aspect Warper to use.

• {B}{G}Underrealm Lich + {G}Sylvan Library - Due to the wording between these two, it basically comes down to this process: Look at the top three, keep 1 card, put the other two into the Graveyard, pay no life to Sylvan Library, and then repeat for a total of 3 times (Equal to the number of cards you would have drawn with Sylvan Library). So it basically becomes you look at the top NINE cards of your library, keep three of them, and put the rest in the graveyard, and no extra life is spent. Pretty awesome in this deck to fuel Kathril, Aspect Warper.

Backup Plans

• {B}Living Death - Another great way to turn the tides if Kathril, Aspect Warper is killed, exiled, or countered when coming into play and you have a graveyard full of powerful creatures.

• {W}{B}{G}Nethroi, Apex of Death - By Mutating this Apex monster, we can get back a bunch of powerful creatures out of our Graveyard. Zetalpa, Primal Dawn only has 4 Power, so he's an easy target, leaving you with 6 Power to fill out with strong creatures like Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider or Carnage Tyrant.

Weaknesses

• Graveyard Hate is our number one problem/counter to this deck. If we run across lots of cards like Bojuka Bog, Tormod's Crypt, or Leyline of the Void, we are going to be in for a rough time.

• Forced Sacrifice/Edict Effects - All the Hexproof and Indestructible counters in the world won't stop something like Soul Shatter or Dictate of Erebos. We do run Sigarda, Host of Herons to prevent that, but she's just one card to counter all that, and she has Hexproof, so there's a decent chance she'd be in the graveyard for Kathril, Aspect Warper to utilize.

• Mass Exile - Cards like Farewell or Merciless Eviction would be extremely problematic since we usually prefer board wipes like Wrath of God or Damn to at least fill up our graveyard.

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Cards Considered

• Akroma, Angel of Wrath - This is a usual staple in Kathril, Aspect Warper decks, but I've found that I usually either get Zetalpa and other creatures and don't target her, or I draw her and she sits in my hand until I can cast her, then she doesn't do that much. Akroma, Vision of Ixidor has the same keywords, and is so much better on the field than Akroma, Angel of Wrath.

• Cataclysmic Gearhulk - It is a nice board wipe with a Keyword, and it could help get some of my creatures into the graveyard, but I don't currently have too many issues doing that.

• {W}{B}{G}Eerie Ultimatum- If we've filled up our graveyard enough and Kathril, Aspect Warper can't be utilized as a win, we can empty our graveyard to refill the board with big threats that should help us win. Also, a flavor win since Kathril, Aspect Warper lurkes within the Indatha Triome of Ikoria. Removed because I never actually use it. I'm more likely to use Living Death to get everything back.

• Fanatical Devotion/Martyr's Cause - These could be useful to keep Kathril, Aspect Warper around, but I usually don't even cast him until I know I've got either Indestructible or Hexproof in the graveyard, so these effects aren't as important for me. Thanks to bushido_man96 for the recommendation!

• {B}{G}Jarad's Orders - Searches our deck to get one creature card into our hand and one creature card into the graveyard. Can grab or bin a variety of creatures depending on the situation.

• {W}{B}Kunoros, Hound of Athreos - A good three keyword creature, but a good portion of this deck goes through the graveyard, so his ability can sometimes interfere with our game plan.

• Luxior, Giada's Gift - Feels like a bit of a win-more type effect, and I'd rather spend some mana to equip Lightning Greaves to give Haste.

• Odric, Lunarch Marshal - This originally seemed like such a good back-up for a combat-based win, but more often than not it either just sat in my hand or wasn't very effective on the field.

• {B}Doom Whisperer - Flying and Trample - Provides two good keywords and gives us Surveil for two life, which we can use to smooth out draws or put creatures into the graveyard for Kathril, Aspect Warper.

• Reprocess - This could be a useful way to draw cards and get some of my Indestructible creatures into the graveyard for Kathril, Aspect Warper, but currently, I don't need it.

• Resourceful Defense - Another great way to manipulate and move our counters around to either save them from a board wipe or pile them onto a creature and swing in for the win.

• The Great Henge - It's powerful, and we have a lot of strong creatures to reduce the cost, but it also seems like a bit of a win-more type card. If I need more card draw I could sub it in for something, but right now it's a strong Maybe.

• {B}Valentin, Dean of the Vein   / {G}Lisette, Dean of the Root   - Menace and Lifelink - Valentin is a cheap source of Graveyard hate in the early game, exiling our opponents creatures when they die or enter the graveyard. Once we have enough mana, we can start paying {2} to create Pest creature tokens, which could be used as cheap blockers. On the flip side, Lissette acts like a more restrictive/pseudo Archangel of Thune, as whenever we gain life, we can pay {1}, and all our creatures get a +1/+1 counter and gain Trample until end of turn.

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I've opted to remove some tutors like Vampiric TutorGC and Grim Tutor because I feel like I can find my cards without the extra help, and this deck wants to slowly assemble its pieces to attack, so speeding things up isn't always necessary. Plus, I'd rather tutor cards to the graveyard rather than to my hand, since I'd then have to find another way to get that card to the graveyard.

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Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths is one of my favorite places in the Multiverse, and out of all the legendary creatures introduced to us, Kathril, Aspect Warper stood out above the rest to me. Such an interesting mechanic, it has some of my favorite colors, and as someone with a passion for wildlife ecology (Ikoria, Lair of Behemoths actually came out while I was working on my Master's in Wildlife Ecology), I just had to build it. Definitely a plane I'd like to visit (assuming I could survive longer than a few minutes there haha).

Thank you for taking the time to look at my deck. If you have any suggestions or feedback, I'd greatly appreciate it.

Top Ranked	Achieved #18 position overall 2 years ago Achieved #16 position in Commander / EDH 2 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Reanimator 2 years ago
Date added	5 years
Last updated	1 week
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	28 - 2 Mythic Rares 54 - 13 Rares 7 - 4 Uncommons 4 - 5 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.24
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Inkling 2/1 WB, On an Adventure, Pest 1/1 BG, Saproling 1/1 G, The Ring, The Ring Tempts You, Warrior 1/1 W w/ Vigilance
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