Tayam, Reanimator

Commander / EDH* BGW (Abzan, Junk) Combo Midrange

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Creature (45)

• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Mother of Runes
• 1x Scute Mob
• 1x Spore Frog
• 1x Stitcher's Supplier
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit
• 1x Collector Ouphe
• 1x Cruel Celebrant
• 1x Drannith Magistrate
• 1x Ethersworn Canonist
• 1x Gaddock Teeg
• 1x Incubation Druid
• 1x Leonin Relic-Warder
• 1x Remorseful Cleric
• 1x Safehold Elite
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Satyr Wayfinder
• 1x Skull Prophet
• 1x Spirit of the Labyrinth
• 1x Wall of Roots
• 1x Winding Constrictor
• 1x Archon of Emeria
• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Bloodflow Connoisseur
• 1x Dauntless Escort
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Evolution Sage
• 1x Fiend Hunter
• 1x Good-Fortune Unicorn
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Hallowed Spiritkeeper
• 1x Kitchen Finks
• 1x Knight of Autumn
• 1x Managorger Hydra
• 1x Midnight Reaper
• 1x Plaguecrafter
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Rishkar, Peema Renegade
• 1x Skyclave Apparition
• 1x Woe Strider
• 1x Wood Elves
• 1x Luminous Broodmoth
• 1x Shalai, Voice of Plenty
• 1x Genesis

Land (36)

• 1x Brushland
• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Field of the Dead
• 3x Forest
• 1x Gavony Township
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Murmuring Bosk
• 1x Nurturing Peatland
• 1x Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 3x Plains
• 1x Silent Clearing
• 4x Snow-Covered Forest
• 2x Snow-Covered Plains
• 3x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Windswept Heath

Artifact (1)

• 1x Sword of Truth and Justice

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Nissa, Voice of Zendikar

Commander (1)

Enchantment (11)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Song of Freyalise
• 1x Abzan Ascendancy
• 1x Attrition
• 1x Aura Shards
• 1x Banishing Light
• 1x Bastion of Remembrance
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip
• 1x Oblivion Ring
• 1x Promise of Bunrei

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Farseek
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Search for Tomorrow

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Creature (3)

• 1x Phyrexian Revoker
• 1x Kambal, Consul of Allocation
• 1x Plague Mare

Land (1)

• 1x Riftstone Portal

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Aura of Silence
• 1x Contamination

Artifact (2)

• 1x Idol of Endurance
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine

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This is my take on Tayam. I've decided to stick to GY strategy and use it as a toolbox to have responses on anything my opponents will do until I assemble my combo. The deck has a very slow start, so we're leveling the field with rule of law-like effects and light stax. This is not meant as a competitive list, and it's quite budget-friendly (just cut some at the manabase) but will probably win you some games.

Note that you don't really want a lot of taplands (bosk is here because it's a fetchable 3-color land), because you're already slow enough. What else could be cut? We have a lot of expensive enchantments, which can be cut as well, however attrition should be your last cut, because of how much value it can provide, but that depends on your playgroup, of course, because of its restriction. It's not advised to cut Nissa due to her doing everything the deck wants, and her recent mystery booster reprint helps meeting budget requirements. Sword spiked in price recently, so I guess it can be a reasonable cut.

The easiest infinite combo to assemble is Animate Dead into Leonin Relic-Warder with any of our two aristocrats on board. The harder ones are persisters with unicorn/vizier, which also need a sac outlet and an aristocrat. However, in the late game you can win with a Hallowed Spiritkeeper and an aristocrat with a sac outlet, provided you didn't have your GY exiled beforehand.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	3 years
Exclude colors	UR
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 40 - 0 Rares 26 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.58
Tokens	Goat 0/1 W, Human Soldier 1/1 W, Illusion */* U, Morph 2/2 C, Plant 0/1 G, Spirit 1/1 C, Spirit 1/1 W, Zombie 2/2 B