Kethis, Oath of Druids Combo

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Land (41)

• 1x Bountiful Promenade
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Eiganjo Castle
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Field of the Dead
• 1x Flagstones of Trokair
• 2x Forest
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Gods' Eye, Gate to the Reikai
• 1x Hall of Heliod's Generosity
• 1x Horizon Canopy
• 1x Indatha Triome
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
• 1x Nurturing Peatland
• 1x Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Pendelhaven
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Plains
• 1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 1x Silent Clearing
• 1x Snow-Covered Forest
• 1x Snow-Covered Plains
• 1x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Tomb of Urami
• 1x Undergrowth Stadium
• 1x Urborg
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Vault of Champions
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Woodland Cemetery
• 1x Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Sorcery (20)

• 1x Culling Ritual
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Damn
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Edge of Autumn
• 1x Eerie Ultimatum
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Harmonize
• 1x Kamahl's Druidic Vow
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Painful Truths
• 1x Peer into the Abyss
• 1x Primevals' Glorious Rebirth
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Sevinne's Reclamation
• 1x Three Visits
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Urza's Ruinous Blast

Instant (8)

• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Harrow
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Silence
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Veil of Summer

Artifact (8)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Blackblade Reforged
• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Golgari Signet
• 1x Mox Amber
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Selesnya Signet
• 1x Sol Ring

Commander (1)

Planeswalker (12)

• 1x Garruk, Cursed Huntsman
• 1x Karn, Scion of Urza
• 1x Karn, the Great Creator
• 1x Kaya the Inexorable
• 1x Nissa of Shadowed Boughs
• 1x Nissa, Who Shakes the World
• 1x Ob Nixilis Reignited
• 1x Professor Onyx
• 1x Sorin Markov
• 1x Vraska, Golgari Queen
• 1x Vraska, Relic Seeker
• 1x Wrenn and Seven

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Journey to Eternity  ^Flip
• 1x Oath of Druids
• 1x Oath of Kaya
• 1x Oath of Liliana
• 1x Oath of Nissa
• 1x Squandered Resources
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x The Meathook Massacre

Creature (2)

• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Timeless Witness

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Maybeboard

Artifact (3)

• 1x Gonti's Aether Heart
• 1x The Chain Veil
• 1x Ugin's Nexus

Instant (1)

• 1x Beast Within

Sorcery (1)

• 1x The Elderspell

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The main goal of the deck is to get out Oath of Druids and dump half your library into your finding a witness to usually get back a mass reanimation spell like Primevals' Glorious Rebirth or Eerie Ultimatum to return everything to the battlefield and usually find lethal from there. Most of the time it is possible to win on the same turn. The most common winning patterns are sacrificing legendary lands to Squandered Resources then activating Kethis to recast Primevals' Glorious Rebirth to return the lands to the battlefield and repeating that process to make a lot of mana but not infinite mana Using that mana and the Primevals' Glorious Rebirths to continually use the second ability on Bolas's Citadel to sacrifice itself and a few planeswalkers getting extra planeswalker activations and Bolas's Citadel drains when they are returned each time you cast Primevals' Glorious Rebirth. It sounds like a lot but it is more reliable than it seems at first glance.

That interaction is barely dipping into the massive amount of complexities of what the deck can do in practice. When I last played the deck it was before Timeless Witness was printed and I was only on Eternal Witness. Which meant that it was very possible to draw my one creature and almost entirely shut off the Oath of Druids plan so I was running Peer into the Abyss as a backup way to get half of my library into my hand then discarding to hand size so I could follow up with a mass reanimation spell. I left it in the list because it is still very possible for your opponents to remove Oath of Druids while you wait for your turn to come around again.

I put Gonti's Aether Heart and Ugin's Nexus in the maybeboard because I haven’t actually tested them in games before and while I’m not sold on Gonti's Aether Heart I am more heavily considering Ugin's Nexus because it is very easy for the deck to destroy it and even very possible for Karn, the Great Creator to return it to hand from exile, an ability that has proven to be very relevant because of Kethis being able to exile cards from your graveyard. Also in the maybeboard were The Chain Veil and The Elderspell which both could be easily used to ultimate a planeswalker after a mass reanimation spell but in testing The Elderspell felt unreliable and The Chain Veil just seemed to “win-more” when it would be actually useful in helping me win a game. Lastly I want to mention cards like Beast Within, Generous Gift, and Forbidden Orchard that give your opponents creatures to help trigger Oath of Druids but in testing they seemed unnecessary.

Date added	2 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	15 - 0 Mythic Rares 55 - 0 Rares 11 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.10
Tokens	Construct 0/0 C, Emblem Garruk, Cursed Huntsman, Emblem Kaya the Inexorable, Emblem Nissa, Who Shakes the World, Emblem Ob Nixilis Reignited, Emblem Vraska, Golgari Queen, Emblem Wrenn and Seven, Pirate 2/2 B, Spirit 1/1 C, Spirit 1/1 W, Timeless Witness 4/4 B, Treasure, Treefolk */* G w/ Reach, Urami, Wolf 2/2 BG, Zombie 2/2 B