"Savra is slowly gathering her army... try not to join it"

Here is my take on a Golgari token based (mainly) aristocrat Commander deck. It's my first finished deck and it has a special place in my heart even though it's definitely not perfect.

I chose Savra, Queen of the Golgari as my commander. I used to run Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord but I quickly felt that was sometimes difficult to pull out consistently. Also, as much as possible, I prefer free sac outlets and Jarad's activated ability cost felt too high (I still included it in the 99 for the massive damages it can throw with the help of Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest or Beastmaster Ascension. Also the passive abilities of Savra make her less of a target to removals.

This deck is a pretty common aristocrats deck, centered around sacrificing creatures with an outlet like Phyrexian Altar to get some advantage out of it. A few cards give recursion like Storrev, Devkarin Lich or Mikaeus, the Unhallowed, others like Izoni, Thousand-Eyed or Avenger of Zendikar create tokens to always have a sacrifice fodder. Finally some creatures like Blood Artist or Butcher of Malakir and enchantments like Moldervine Reclamation or Dictate of Erebos are there to take advantage of the sacrifices.

COMBO : The deck includes only one real infinite damage combo : Nether Traitor + Blood Artist + Phyrexian Altar + Golgari Germination

It's a 4 pieces combo, so not extremely efficient, but I mainly see it as an alternate wincon if I get Razaketh, the Foulblooded out to assemble it.

Hope you like it!

I'm totally open to criticism or ideas, but I'm pretty happy with the way it works in my play group at the moment!

NB: I linked my Commander decks to a universe I created, based around a Lost City a traveller wakes up in. It was a way to try to link all my decks under a storyline. It's a fun exercise to work on my writing and create something special around the card game that is Magic the Gathering. It's a great way to work on my english also (I'm french). I'm aware of the novels and the storyline that exist behind the MTG products, but I thought it was a fun idea to reinterpret that in my way. If you're interested, I have a Facebook page where I write the notes that expand the universe and an Instagram account where I talk about Commander in general.

Recent changes :

  • I used to run Revel in Riches in the deck, but I changed it for Black Market. First of all, it's a much more efficient mana generator in general, but the real reason I took Revel in riches out is that my play group mainly plays focused decks, without much target removals, especially when it comes to enchantments, and I would win by accident with the alternate win condition from Revel in riches, which was not I was looking for, and became less fun after it happened several times (my friends didn't really complain, but I decided to take it out anyways).

  • I added Heroic Intervention into the deck, taking out Life / Death. I liked Life/Death for its Reanimate like effect and the possibility to animate the lands for a big swing (after sacrifing creatures with Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest on the field or sacrificing the lands for an unexpected turn of events, hopefully winning you the game by draining your opponents' last life points. But protection from wrath when I have no sac outlet on the board is much more important I feel. Also, since I included Storrev, Devkarin Lich and Mikaeus, the Unhallowed recently, I don't feel as much the need for a sorcery speed reanimate. That let us with the second effect of animating lands, and it's not really an important alt wincon for the deck.

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Revision 4 See all

(3 years ago)

-1 Altar of Dementia main
+1 Spawning Pit main
Date added 4 years
Last updated 3 years
Legality

This deck is Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

6 - 0 Mythic Rares

39 - 0 Rares

23 - 0 Uncommons

12 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 3.72
Tokens 2/2 C Artifact Creature Spawn, Beast 3/3 G, Copy Clone, Goat 0/1 W, Harpy 1/1 B, Insect 1/1 BG, Ooze 1/1 G, Ooze 2/2 G for Mitotic Ooze, Plant 0/1 G, Rat 1/1 B, Saproling 1/1 G, Thrull 1/1 B, Treasure, Worm 1/1 BG, Zombie 2/2 B
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