Rayami's Soul Food

Commander / EDH BUG (Sultai)

jasonkrivera

LandRampFix: (48)

• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Botanical Sanctum
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Deathsprout
• 1x Dimir Guildgate
• 1x District Guide
• 1x Edge of Autumn
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Farfinder
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 1x Foul Orchard
• 1x Golgari Guildgate
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Leyline Prowler
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Mwonvuli Acid-Moss
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Opulent Palace
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Reap and Sow
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Scroll of Fate
• 1x Simic Guildgate
• 6x Snow-Covered Forest
• 3x Snow-Covered Island
• 2x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Spring / Mind
• 1x Submerged Boneyard
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 1x Sylvan Scrying
• 1x Thornwood Falls
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Woodland Stream
• 1x Yavimaya Coast
• 1x Zagoth Triome

HexIndes: (16)

• 1x Bassara Tower Archer
• 1x Bontu the Glorified
• 1x Creepy Doll
• 1x Darksteel Myr
• 1x Invisible Stalker
• 1x Kefnet the Mindful
• 1x Nightveil Predator
• 1x Rhonas the Indomitable
• 1x Sagu Mauler
• 1x Slippery Bogbonder
• 1x Slippery Bogle
• 1x Stormsurge Kraken
• 1x Stuffy Doll
• 1x Sylvan Caryatid
• 1x Toski, Bearer of Secrets
• 1x Troll Ascetic

Sacrifice: (9)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Grim Backwoods
• 1x High Market
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

Control: (4)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Spreading Plague

ProFrom: (3)

• 1x Malakir Bloodwitch
• 1x Narwhal
• 1x Phyrexian Crusader

Commander (1)

KeywordSoup: (9)

• 1x Elder Gargaroth
• 1x Eradicator Valkyrie
• 1x Questing Beast
• 1x Ramunap Hydra
• 1x Rankle, Master of Pranks
• 1x Skullwinder
• 1x Untamed Kavu
• 1x Vampire Nighthawk
• 1x Vengeful Reaper

TutorDraw: (6)

• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Mwonvuli Beast Tracker
• 1x Primordial Mist
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Sylvan Library

Mutate: (3)

• 1x Gemrazer
• 1x Mindleecher
• 1x Sawtusk Demolisher

Planeswalker: (1)

• 1x Tamiyo, Collector of Tales

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Sideboard

Equip: (7)

• 1x Dowsing Dagger  ^Flip
• 1x Explorer's Scope
• 1x Fireshrieker
• 1x Grappling Hook
• 1x Inquisitor's Flail
• 1x Pariah's Shield
• 1x Worldslayer

HexIndes: (2)

• 1x Carnage Tyrant
• 1x Sapling of Colfenor

Lands: (2)

• 1x Llanowar Reborn
• 1x Polluted Delta

Destroy: (1)

• 1x Pernicious Deed

ProFrom: (6)

• 1x Anurid Scavenger
• 1x Cerulean Drake
• 1x Crypt Angel
• 1x Nantuko Blightcutter
• 1x Scryb Ranger
• 1x Skylasher

Control: (2)

• 1x Pestilence
• 1x Sudden Substitution

Sacrifice: (2)

• 1x Attrition
• 1x Evolutionary Leap

Planeswalker: (1)

• 1x Ugin, the Ineffable

KeywordSoup: (5)

• 1x Indulgent Aristocrat
• 1x Mirri the Cursed
• 1x Mowu, Loyal Companion
• 1x Vampire of the Dire Moon
• 1x Warden of Geometries

TutorDraw: (5)

• 1x Defense of the Heart
• 1x Pestilence
• 1x Prime Speaker Vannifar
• 1x Razaketh, the Foulblooded
• 1x Sudden Substitution

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Maybeboard

KeywordSoup: (39)

• 1x Acid-Spewer Dragon
• 1x Aetherborn Marauder
• 1x Banehound
• 1x Bay Falcon
• 1x Bitterbow Sharpshooters
• 1x Bloodline Necromancer
• 1x Cairn Wanderer
• 1x Cavalier of Night
• 1x Daggerdrome Imp
• 1x Diamond Knight
• 1x Dimir Spybug
• 1x Dreadmalkin
• 1x End-Raze Forerunners
• 1x Gifted Aetherborn
• 1x Gorm the Great
• 1x Horizon Chimera
• 1x Hovermyr
• 1x Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper
• 1x Iron Bully
• 1x Kheru Mind-Eater
• 1x K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
• 1x Loyal Subordinate
• 1x Majestic Myriarch
• 1x Night Incarnate
• 1x Noxious Gearhulk
• 1x Pestilent Spirit
• 1x Putrefax
• 1x Sadistic Skymarcher
• 1x Serra Sphinx
• 1x Soulflayer
• 1x Stonecoil Serpent
• 1x Thief of Blood
• 1x Thorn of the Black Rose
• 1x Thornweald Archer
• 1x Tomebound Lich
• 1x Vault Skirge
• 1x Virtus the Veiled
• 1x Woodland Wanderer
• 1x Zephyr Falcon

Other (1)

• 1x Koskun Falls

Destroy: (18)

• 1x Anowon, the Ruin Sage
• 1x Archfiend of Depravity
• 1x Butcher of Malakir
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Death Pits of Rath
• 1x Demon of Wailing Agonies
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Grimgrin, Corpse-Born
• 1x Last Laugh
• 1x Pendrell Mists
• 1x Ruthless Deathfang
• 1x Savra, Queen of the Golgari
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Sorin, Imperious Bloodlord
• 1x The Eldest Reborn
• 1x The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
• 1x Vile Consumption

HexIndes: (15)

• 1x Darksteel Sentinel
• 1x Drove of Elves
• 1x Eldrazi Monument
• 1x Erebos, God of the Dead
• 1x Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
• 1x Lumberknot
• 1x Nylea, God of the Hunt
• 1x Pharika, God of Affliction
• 1x Phenax, God of Deception
• 1x Phylactery Lich
• 1x Predator Ooze
• 1x Silumgar, the Drifting Death
• 1x Spearbreaker Behemoth
• 1x Thassa, God of the Sea
• 1x Vine Mare

Exileproof: (3)

• 1x Eternal Scourge
• 1x Misthollow Griffin
• 1x Torrent Elemental

Control: (2)

• 1x Putrefy
• 1x Spark Double

Planeswalker: (1)

• 1x Vraska, Golgari Queen

ProFrom: (18)

• 1x Aven Smokeweaver
• 1x Black Knight
• 1x Cemetery Gate
• 1x Cerulean Wyvern
• 1x Coast Watcher
• 1x Emrakul, the Promised End
• 1x Enemy of the Guildpact
• 1x Harbinger of Spring
• 1x Horizon Drake
• 1x Karoo Meerkat
• 1x Knight of Malice
• 1x Master of Waves
• 1x Ronom Hulk
• 1x Sea Sprite
• 1x Shifting Ceratops
• 1x Treetop Sentinel
• 1x Wall of Putrid Flesh
• 1x Weatherseed Faeries

Sacrifice: (10)

• 1x AEther Barrier
• 1x Call to the Grave
• 1x Culling Dais
• 1x Diamond Valley
• 1x Flash
• 1x Perilous Forays
• 1x Perilous Research
• 1x Quagmire Druid
• 1x Shifty Doppelganger
• 1x Yahenni, Undying Partisan

TutorDraw: (6)

• 1x Coastal Piracy
• 1x Guardian Project
• 1x Lu Xun, Scholar General
• 1x Thieving Magpie
• 1x Vivien's Arkbow
• 1x Whisperwood Elemental

Utility: (3)

• 1x Aluren
• 1x Ulamog's Nullifier
• 1x Void Attendant

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Welcome to the Soul Kitchen!

Eat Here! if...

1. You like Soulflayer-esque decks, stacking abilities

1. You like to hate on graveyard/dying strategies

2. You like to get in there Voltron-style

3. You like to imprison the souls of the damned and feed on their essence

4. You like green vampires

Don't Eat Here if...

You like durdle until you can pull off an infinite combo

You like to play solitaire by yourself in your MTG games

You like aristocrats-style decks (Rayami eats death triggers for dessert!)

You like creatures to stay on the battlefield

You don't like green vampires

The Menu

Rayami's Soul Food took a poll and found their most flavorful, customers' favorites to be:

1. Indestructible
2. Hexproof
3. Vigilance
4. Lifelink
5. Haste

Hexproof and Indestructible are first priority. Make Rayami untouchable so he can maintain board presence and help dying creatures pass into the afterlife. (Read: Into the Soup)

After some play testing, I've realized you'll want vigilance and lifelink next. Because when you have an indestructible hexproof commander, people will start trying to sack you in order to take out your creature. The target on your head grows bigger with each ability Rayami absorbs. Vigilance (and deathtouch/reach/flying) helps deter attacks in your direction and lifelink helps you race.

Protection adds resilience, but not against board wipes.

Pick your Protection flavor:

Protection from white

Protection from red

Protection from lands

Protection from artifacts

Protection from instants

Protection from Humans

Protection from Zombies?

Protection from Beasts

Protection from snow

Flavor Combinations to Note

Indestructible, of course, negates destruction from Spreading Plague, Damnation, or Pernicious Deed.

Protection from Black will prevent damage that would be done to your commander by Pestilence. Also noteworthy, is because Rayami survives these cards, you should be able to keep this enchantment on the battlefield. (Last Laugh is a bit of a non-bo, since Rayami cancels out Last Laugh's death trigger)

If you can stick and defend Tamiyo, Collector of Tales, your opponents can't make you sacrifice Rayami. With Hexproof, Indestructible, and Tamiyo, the only way your opponents can deal with Rayami will be mass bounce (such as Cyclonic Rift), mass exile (such as Merciless Eviction), or mass negative toughness.

In response to destroy spells, don't forget to sacrifice a creature (if possible) to give Rayami the protection he needs to survive. Because Rayami's first ability is a static replacement effect, no one gets a chance to respond to the creature being exiled with a blood counter on it. The Stack is (usually) your friend!

First to Fall, Last to Go

You craft your own ingredients with tutors and with sacrifice outlets - preferably repeatable and instant-speed - such as Greater Good, Phyrexian Altar, and kin. Ideally you'll have such a sacrifice outlet before planting Rayami so you can respond to your opponents' (feeble) attempts to uproot the First of the Fallen.

Invite Everyone to the Party

The soup empowers Rayami, and the bigger the net the larger the catch! Help masses of creatures join the soup party with cards like Pestilence, Last Laugh, Spreading Plague, and Vile Consumption.

Beware Imposters

Because all Rayami commander players or clone effect players each see all exiled cards with blood counters on them, you'll need to race to kill your opponent!

In particular, Volrath, the Shapestealer is a hefty threat. However, once you have hexproof or protection from blue, black, or green, your opponents' Volraths can no longer target Rayami.

Mutate and M21 Rules Change

Upon the release of M21, commanders will now die or be exiled, and then you can move the commander into the command zone.

Previously, Ikoria didn't bring too much to the table (other than ability counters, which helps you and the rest of the table keep track of Rayami's current suite of abilities.) Now, we can take advantage of the Mutate ability on Rayami. If Rayami somehow dies, or you sacrifice him, all your mutated creatures can be exiled with a blood counter to empower Rayami's soul soup!

The Perfect Recipe

If you can exile each of these creatures from your own deck with a blood counter on them, you get a gold star for the game!

Bontu the Glorified = Menace, Indestructible

Invisible Stalker = Hexproof

Vampire Nighthawk = Flying, Lifelink, Deathtouch

Ramunap Hydra = Vigilance, Reach, Trample

Mistcutter Hydra = Haste, Protection from Blue

Phyrexian Crusader = First Strike, Protection from White, Protection from Red

Great Sable Stag = Protection from Blue, Protection from Black

Blightbeetle = Protection from Green

Please feel free to suggest and discuss, and +1 if you like what you see!

*Cards in the sideboard need to be tested once I acquire them.

Constructive Contributions (Thank you!)

Bloodsucker1211

Date added	4 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 4 Mythic Rares 41 - 15 Rares 25 - 10 Uncommons 14 - 2 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.60
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Manifest 2/2 C, Morph 2/2 C, Plant 0/2 G, Spirit 2/2 C
Folders	Soul soup checklist