Nethroi, Ruler of Pride Rock

Commander / EDH BGW (Abzan, Junk) Casual Creature Cheat Midrange Mutate Reanimator Sacrifice Stompy Toolbox

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Lands (34)

• 1x Blossoming Sands
• 1x Bonders' Enclave
• 1x Branchloft Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkbore Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Fetid Heath
• 1x Forest
• 4x Forest
• 1x Forest
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Horizon Canopy
• 1x Indatha Triome
• 1x Jungle Hollow
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 2x Plains
• 1x Plains
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Rupture Spire
• 1x Sandsteppe Citadel
• 1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 1x Snow-Covered Plains
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Field
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Witch's Cottage
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Graveyard Retrieval (8)

• 1x Boneyard Lurker
• 1x Death's Oasis
• 1x Golgari Findbroker
• 1x Necropanther
• 1x Palace Siege
• 1x Teneb, the Harvester
• 1x Undertaker
• 1x Witch's Cottage

Life Gain (5)

• 1x Cruel Celebrant
• 1x Cubwarden
• 1x Insatiable Hemophage
• 1x Palace Siege
• 1x Vampiric Rites

Self Mill (5)

• 1x Death's Oasis
• 1x Egon, God of Death  ^Flip
• 1x Golgari Thug
• 1x Skull Prophet
• 1x Stitcher's Supplier

Life Loss (4)

• 1x Cruel Celebrant
• 1x Insatiable Hemophage
• 1x Palace Siege
• 1x Syr Konrad, the Grim

Ramp (15)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Earthcraft
• 1x Fertilid
• 1x Humble Naturalist
• 1x Leyline Prowler
• 1x Migratory Greathorn
• 1x Paradise Druid
• 1x Pitiless Plunderer
• 1x Realm Seekers
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Skull Prophet
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Utopia Tree
• 1x Veteran Explorer
• 1x Yavimaya Elder

Mutators (11)

• 1x Boneyard Lurker
• 1x Cavern Whisperer
• 1x Chittering Harvester
• 1x Cubwarden
• 1x Gemrazer
• 1x Glowstone Recluse
• 1x Insatiable Hemophage
• 1x Migratory Greathorn
• 1x Mysterious Egg
• 1x Necropanther
• 1x Vulpikeet

Beaters (9)

• 1x Custodi Soulbinders
• 1x Noosegraf Mob
• 1x Oathsworn Knight
• 1x Phantom Nishoba
• 1x Realm Seekers
• 1x Shanna, Sisay's Legacy
• 1x Soul of the Harvest
• 1x Teneb, the Harvester
• 1x Yorvo, Lord of Garenbrig

Card Draw (7)

• 1x Bonders' Enclave
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Harvester of Souls
• 1x Horizon Canopy
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Soul of the Harvest
• 1x Vampiric Rites

Sacrifice Outlet (5)

• 1x Dreadmalkin
• 1x Fiend Artisan
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Merciless Executioner
• 1x Vampiric Rites

Board Protection (1)

• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed

Commander (1)

Utility (14)

• 1x Cavern Whisperer
• 1x Essence Symbiote
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Fiend Artisan
• 1x Gaddock Teeg
• 1x Joiner Adept
• 1x Nighthowler
• 1x Ogre Slumlord
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 1x Triskelion
• 1x Undertaker
• 1x Zagoth Mamba

Free Revival With Nethroi (10)

• 1x Custodi Soulbinders
• 1x Fertilid
• 1x Nighthowler
• 1x Noosegraf Mob
• 1x Oathsworn Knight
• 1x Pentavus
• 1x Phantom Nantuko
• 1x Phantom Nishoba
• 1x Realm Seekers
• 1x Yorvo, Lord of Garenbrig

Removal (8)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Chittering Harvester
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Gemrazer
• 1x Merciless Executioner
• 1x Notorious Assassin
• 1x Shriekmaw
• 1x Sorceress Queen

Tokens (5)

• 1x Cubwarden
• 1x Custodi Soulbinders
• 1x Noosegraf Mob
• 1x Ogre Slumlord
• 1x Pentavus

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This deck is all about the Circle of Life. You're born, you do what you were born to do, you die...Then later on you're either born again, or you are mutated into something else. Isn't that how it went? Nature is always evolving, always changing, and this deck does exactly that with the creatures doubling as utility kits.

This is a more casual deck, and it is going to show. But that doesn't mean it can't pull weird stunts on folks. This deck is roughly 61% creatures, which is much higher than normal. ETB, Mutate, Leaves the Battlefield are the name of the game with this setup, and Nethroi makes sure you're creatures can keep coming back to trigger their abilities again. And again. And again. Like one big wheel spinning on an axis.

What are we talking about here? We got land fetch, mana ramp, creature tutoring, card draw, sacrifice outlets, reusable graveyard revival not only for yourself, but with your opponents' graveyard as well. Creature kill, life drain, high CMC spell denial...We even mill our own library to have more bodies hit the floor before we begin the cycle anew. All of this on creatures that can be revived and reused.

How does Nethroi work into this? His Mutate ability makes it so we can revive a lot of utility creatures, some high power heavy hitters like Teneb, Mikaeus, or Phantom Nishoba, or a mix as we see fit. There are many creatures that are 0/0 that ETB with +1/+1 counters with great utility, which means they just come back for the ride as a pure bonus while you're mutating up other creatures. And with a deck running as much Mutate as I could get into it, It's not hard to Mutate Nethroi more than once while he's on the battlefield.

Even if he dies a few times, you have the mana ramp, the land ramp, and a powerful enchantment that allow you to get him to mutate multiple times back from the Command Zone. Or retrieve him from the graveyard to your hand to Mutate for less.

It's one huge Circle of Life with this deck, and Nethroi is the Rule of Pride Rock.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 41 - 0 Rares 26 - 0 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.42
Tokens	Cat 1/1 W w/ Lifelink, Morph 2/2 C, Pentavite 1/1 C, Rat 1/1 B, Spirit 1/1 W, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Commander