Sultai Best Stuff (Gerlander)

Highlander BUG (Sultai) Competitive Goodstuff Midrange

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Land (36)

• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Blooming Marsh
• 1x Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1x Botanical Sanctum
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Creeping Tar Pit
• 1x Darkslick Shores
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 1x Hive of the Eye Tyrant
• 1x Karakas
• 1x Lumbering Falls
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Nurturing Peatland
• 1x Otawara, Soaring City
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Snow-Covered Forest
• 1x Snow-Covered Island
• 1x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Wasteland
• 1x Waterlogged Grove
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Woodland Cemetery
• 1x Zagoth Triome

Creature (26)

• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Courser of Kruphix
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Endurance
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Hostage Taker
• 1x Hullbreacher
• 1x Ice-Fang Coatl
• 1x Ignoble Hierarch
• 1x Kitchen Finks
• 1x Ledger Shredder
• 1x Leovold, Emissary of Trest
• 1x Murderous Rider
• 1x Nimble Obstructionist
• 1x Noble Hierarch
• 1x Opposition Agent
• 1x Questing Beast
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Sedgemoor Witch
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Sylvan Caryatid
• 1x Tarmogoyf
• 1x Thragtusk
• 1x Tireless Tracker
• 1x Vendilion Clique

Planeswalker (4)

• 1x Grist, the Hunger Tide
• 1x Jace, the Mind Sculptor
• 1x Liliana, the Last Hope
• 1x Oko, Thief of Crowns

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Search for Azcanta  ^Flip
• 1x Sylvan Library

Instant (19)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Baleful Mastery
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cryptic Command
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Drown in the Loch
• 1x Fatal Push
• 1x Force of Negation
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Lose Focus
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mana Leak
• 1x Miscalculation
• 1x Remand
• 1x Spell Snare
• 1x Tainted Indulgence
• 1x Tainted Pact

Sorcery (13)

• 1x Abundant Harvest
• 1x Bloodchief's Thirst
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Duress
• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Hymn to Tourach
• 1x Inquisition of Kozilek
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Serum Visions
• 1x Thoughtseize
• 1x Toxic Deluge

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Maybeboard

Creature (22)

• 1x Aven Heartstabber
• 1x Brazen Borrower
• 1x Coiling Oracle
• 1x Custodi Lich
• 1x Elder Gargaroth
• 1x Fallen Shinobi
• 1x Gilded Goose
• 1x Jace, Vryn's Prodigy  ^Flip
• 1x Jadelight Ranger
• 1x Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
• 1x Lotus Cobra
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Opposition Agent
• 1x Paradise Druid
• 1x Plague Engineer
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Tasigur, the Golden Fang
• 1x The Scarab God
• 1x Thief of Sanity
• 1x Thrun, the Last Troll
• 1x Venser, Shaper Savant
• 1x Wall of Roots

Instant (10)

• 1x Countersquall
• 1x Decisive Denial
• 1x Dismember
• 1x Eliminate
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Heartless Act
• 1x Pulse of Murasa
• 1x Spell Pierce
• 1x Sultai Charm
• 1x Tyrant's Scorn

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Collective Brutality
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Maelstrom Pulse
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Thought Erasure
• 1x Unearth

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Court of Ambition

Land (10)

• 1x Barkchannel Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Castle Vantress
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 1x Hissing Quagmire
• 1x Lair of the Hydra
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Planeswalker (6)

• 1x Garruk Relentless  ^Flip
• 1x Kaito Shizuki
• 1x Liliana of the Veil
• 1x Mu Yanling, Sky Dancer
• 1x Nissa, Voice of Zendikar
• 1x Teferi, Master of Time

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What is this deck?

This deck is a Sultai good stuff or in more simple way of saying, play every good card that you can find and that isn't even a joke. This deck in my opinion has the best color combination because:

• Blue: Card draw, card selection, counter spells and 2 Best planeswalkers (Oko and Jace)
• Green: Best beater and mid range creatures, combined with black you get the best removal and combining with blue you get Oko and Uro
• Black: Best removal, hand attack and sweep effect or effects
• And all colors combined you get Leovold one of my favorite cards in magic

So basicly you get everything.Deck

What is this decks goal?

You are a slow grind deck that tries to out vale your opponent with 1 for 1 trades like removing permanents or countering spells and you have answer to multiple situations because your answers have multiple types of use. Almost every card does something when it enters the battle field so you aren't going to lose much value even if it gets destroyed.

Even though I just wrote that you are slow deck that can change fast depending on match up and cards that you draw because you can have really fast hands like Turn 1 can trip/hand attack, Turn 2 Tarmo, Turn 3 Leovold, Turn 4 Questing beast and something like mono red is in deep shit because you have Goif and Questing Beast that are hard to kill or against staxx hand like that can be too fast if you have little bit disruption with those.

So how are those match ups?

Funny thing is that you really don't have good or bad match ups. Most match ups are just 50/50 so knowing your deck and importantly knowing your opponents main goal and how to disrupt it as best as you can will get you far.

But if I have to say best and worst match ups on my opinion Rock styled decks are the best possible match ups because being able to pressure them while having counterspells is just nightmare to them (also when I was playing The Scarab God I lost 0 rounds to Rock).

The worst match ups with his deck are big mana decks hands down. Almost every time I play against Eldrazi ramp, Gx Hoof, Big Red or something like that their top decks are just better and your 1 for 1 trades aren't good enough. Only difference are staxx and academy combo decks decks because their game plan can usually be disrupted rather easily but still they are hard match ups

What if you don't like some cards?

So you don't like 10 cards and you wan't to play few different lands? Well go on and do those changes. This deck has so many building choices because you are a good stuff deck and you can't fit them all in 100 deck even though you would wan't to do it.

• Example:
• You could take few 5 and 4 drops out and add 1, 2 or 3 drops to make this deck more aggressive or you could add cheap interaction to make this more tempo styled mid range.
• Or you could take out mana dorks for more lands and answer cards to make this deck more controlling
• Or you don't like dump cards like Sultai Charm or Poison the Cup and you wan't to change them to actually good cards.... you can do it but I won't do it because I like my pet cards and the can bring that surprise element (so I recommend 1-3 pet cards. It makes the deck much more fun)

Best example that I have tested with this deck is when I tried build with Narset, Parter of Veils and Vivien, Champion of the Wilds in mind.

• Biggest difference with these build were that other had:
• 21 creatures 38 lands and 41 hits for narset and had more controlling elements with cards like Mystic Confluence Venser, Shaper Savant and Damnation
• and other build had 28 creatures 36 lands and 36 noncreature spells more focus on getting to the board with cards like Lotus Cobra Hydroid Krasis and more mana producing guys
• Both were fine builds but in the end those didn't fill my play style so I tried different cards and builds and so I have ended in this build that you are seeing and yes it is still changing because new cards come and old cards go.

Building a sultai mid range has almost infinity possibilities because it just has everything

This sounds too good to be real. What's the catch?

Yeah there are small catches.

• This deck is really really mana hungry and at the same time really greedy with its land base. Because of this sometimes you can stumble because your mana base has few lands that you usually don't want to play right away (karakas, mystic sanctuary, wasteland) and cards like Blood Moon Price of Progress Ruination and Back to Basics can feel crushing from time to time
• Your answers to turn 1 mana producing creatures are limited and there aren't really many options and that can be huge problem when you are on a draw and if your opponent is a hyper mana deck like Craterhoof Behemoth based deck

Maybe board

Every card in maybe board has been tested in this deck against multiple different decks. I have only listed cards that have had some success or potential in different build, some work more in control and others in heavier creature mid range but every card is playable.

The one worst thing about good stuff deck is that you can't play each good card because everything is just so amazing and game winning but some don't make the cut sadly.

Want to see other Gerlander decks?

There is an account that has started collecting and making example lists of Gerlander decks and here is link to it. It is little underwhelming at the moment but I am sure that it will grow eventually.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	1 year
Exclude colors	WR
Legality	This deck is Highlander legal.
Rarity (main - side)	30 - 0 Mythic Rares 51 - 0 Rares 9 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.38
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Clue, Elk 3/3 G, Emblem Liliana, the Last Hope, Food, Insect 1/1 BG, Pest 1/1 BG, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Highlander