Tayam, v1

Commander / EDH BGW (Abzan, Junk) Counters Reanimator Zoo

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+1/+1 Counters (12)

• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Pelt Collector
• 1x Shaile, Dean of Radiance  ^Flip
• 1x Abzan Ascendancy
• 1x Boneyard Mycodrax
• 1x Grakmaw, Skyclave Ravager
• 1x Managorger Hydra
• 1x Endling
• 1x Yannik, Scavenging Sentinel
• 1x Vulturous Zombie
• 1x Death's Presence
• 1x Vish Kal, Blood Arbiter

Graveyard Mill (7)

• 1x Stitcher's Supplier
• 1x Golgari Thug
• 1x Grave Strength
• 1x Nyx Weaver
• 1x Splinterfright
• 1x Golgari Grave-Troll
• 1x Deadbridge Chant

Removal (7)

• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Aura Shards
• 1x Banishing Light
• 1x Oblivion Ring
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Frondland Felidar
• 1x Casualties of War

Fetch Lands (4)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Krosan Verge
• 1x Myriad Landscape

Boardwipes (3)

• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Austere Command
• 1x Magister of Worth

Card Draw / Recursion (10)

• 1x Together Forever
• 1x Call of the Death-Dweller
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Nikara, Lair Scavenger
• 1x Deathreap Ritual
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Nethroi, Apex of Death
• 1x Vivien, Monsters' Advocate
• 1x Eerie Ultimatum

Multi Lands (10)

• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Orzhov Basilica
• 1x Sandsteppe Citadel
• 1x Selesnya Sanctuary
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Special Lands (6)

• 1x Gavony Township
• 1x Grim Backwoods
• 1x Karn's Bastion
• 1x Memorial to Folly
• 1x Svogthos, the Restless Tomb
• 1x Bala Ged Recovery  ^Flip

Basic Lands (17)

• 8x Forest
• 4x Plains
• 5x Swamp

Protection (3)

• 1x Dauntless Escort
• 1x Obscuring Haze
• 1x Cauldron of Souls

Commander (1)

Ramp (10)

• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Devoted Druid
• 1x Gyre Sage
• 1x Incubation Druid
• 1x Skull Prophet
• 1x Wall of Roots
• 1x Heartstone
• 1x Ramunap Excavator
• 1x Rishkar, Peema Renegade

Counter Multipliers (5)

• 1x Contagion Clasp
• 1x Huatli's Raptor
• 1x Winding Constrictor
• 1x Evolution Sage
• 1x Keensight Mentor

Other Counters (5)

• 1x Alert Heedbonder
• 1x Ammit Eternal
• 1x Crystalline Giant
• 1x Luminous Broodmoth
• 1x Vitality Hunter

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Maybeboard

Removal (14)

• 1x Retribution of the Ancients
• 1x Seal of Cleansing
• 1x Seal of Primordium
• 1x Abzan Charm
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Lethal Sting
• 1x Merciless Executioner
• 1x Mythos of Nethroi
• 1x Plaguecrafter
• 1x Ruinous Path
• 1x Thrashing Brontodon
• 1x Ruinous Intrusion
• 1x Utter End
• 1x Wanderer's Strike

Boardwipes (7)

• 1x Slaughter the Strong
• 1x Cataclysmic Gearhulk
• 1x Cleansing Nova
• 1x Fracturing Gust
• 1x Kalemne's Captain
• 1x Bane of Progress
• 1x Duneblast

Graveyard Creatures (6)

• 1x Old Stickfingers
• 1x Graveblade Marauder
• 1x Bonehoard
• 1x Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
• 1x Lhurgoyf
• 1x Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis

Too Expensive (5)

• 1x The Ozolith
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Guardian Project
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed

Recursion (4)

• 1x Necropanther
• 1x Unbreakable Bond
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Karador, Ghost Chieftain *f-etch*

Proliferate (3)

• 1x Pollenbright Druid
• 1x Courage in Crisis
• 1x Planewide Celebration

+1/+1 Counters (12)

• 1x Avatar of the Resolute
• 1x Skullbriar, the Walking Grave
• 1x Breathless Knight
• 1x Champion of Lambholt
• 1x Good-Fortune Unicorn
• 1x Grismold, the Dreadsower
• 1x Solemn Recruit
• 1x Rhizome Lurcher
• 1x Awakening of Vitu-Ghazi
• 1x Ghave, Guru of Spores
• 1x Sigarda's Summons
• 1x Vraska, Regal Gorgon

-1/-1 Counters (7)

• 1x Exemplar of Strength
• 1x Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons
• 1x Defiant Greatmaw
• 1x Nest of Scarabs
• 1x Obelisk Spider
• 1x Plague Belcher
• 1x Serrated Biskelion

Counter Multipliers (6)

• 1x Hardened Scales
• 1x Conclave Mentor
• 1x Corpsejack Menace
• 1x Cathars' Crusade
• 1x Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
• 1x Victory's Envoy

Persist (5)

• 1x Lesser Masticore
• 1x Putrid Goblin
• 1x Safehold Elite
• 1x Kitchen Finks
• 1x Restless Apparition

Protection (4)

• 1x Ollenbock Escort
• 1x Golgari Charm
• 1x Martyr's Cause
• 1x Gyome, Master Chef

Devour (3)

• 1x Skullmulcher
• 1x Feaster of Fools
• 1x Ravenous Gigantotherium

Special Lands (3)

• 1x Dakmor Salvage
• 1x Llanowar Reborn
• 1x Nesting Grounds

Graveyard Mill (8)

• 1x Glowspore Shaman
• 1x Grim Flayer
• 1x Lotleth Troll
• 1x Reap
• 1x The Binding of the Titans
• 1x Crow of Dark Tidings
• 1x Shambling Shell
• 1x Stinkweed Imp

Ramp (8)

• 1x Channeler Initiate
• 1x Priest of Forgotten Gods
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Fertilid
• 1x Jiang Yanggu, Wildcrafter
• 1x Somberwald Sage
• 1x Springbloom Druid
• 1x World Shaper

Card Draw (6)

• 1x Elemental Bond
• 1x Fecundity
• 1x Mentor of the Meek
• 1x Painful Truths
• 1x Ulvenwald Mysteries
• 1x Moldervine Reclamation

Outlast / Bolster (6)

• 1x Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit
• 1x Arcus Acolyte
• 1x Abzan Falconer
• 1x Tuskguard Captain
• 1x Elite Scaleguard
• 1x Sandsteppe Mastodon

Ability Counters (4)

• 1x Duskfang Mentor
• 1x Grimdancer
• 1x Slippery Bogbonder
• 1x Avenging Huntbonder

Undying (4)

• 1x Butcher Ghoul
• 1x Endling
• 1x Evernight Shade
• 1x Vorapede

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Gameplay Mission: [Add]

Power Cards ($5-10): Luminous Broodmoth, Black Sun's Zenith

Sleeper Cards: Pelt Collector, Cauldron of Souls, Vish Kal, Deadbridge Chant, Splinterfright

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Possible Edits

REMOVE Yannik, Nikara, A Eternal, F Felidar, A Heedbonder, C Clasp

CHANGE M Worth to G Charm (can also be used for other modes)

CONSIDER P Truths

ADD N Ground to help move counters where needed

CHANGE O Ring and B Light back to U End and M Nethroi to have instant-speed removal? (play more games first)

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During Game

Use Tayam's recursion effect to fetch lands from graveyard if mana is lacking

Remember that Tayam's effect can be used at instant speed (e.g. for Ammit Eternal on opponents' turns)

Be aware of where you put counters since -1/-1 and +1/+1 counters cancel one another

Remember that Heartstone affects all players' creature abilities, not just your own

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Stats

45 cards support main strategy (recurable non-land permanents <4 CMC + graveyard mill + boardwipes)

30 cards provide or multiply counters (e.g. Persist)

14 cards interact with or multiply existing counters (e.g. Proliferate)

20 cards care about # of creatures in graveyard or creatures dying (secondary strategy)

8 lands that ETB tapped (22% of total)

4 colorless non-fetch lands (11% of total)

3 of the 4 fetch lands help with ramp

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Deck Notes

Rebuild of "Symbiotic Swarm" pre-con to focus entirely on Tayam

Prioritized permanents with CMC 3 or less to make sure those can be recurred with Tayam

Uses mill in addition to creatures dying from the battlefield to fill up graveyard, but minimizes boardwipes to enable go-wide boardstate strategy

Commander's Quarters Tayam deck is much more focused on cheap creatures (52) with much lower CMC (2.44) - 25 cards provide counters, but 15 of those are one-time ETB or LTB triggers; 12 ramp, 11 removal, 7 card draw / recursion

Has some additional cards with $5-10 market value but all of these were bought for <$5

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Card Notes

See Kathril deck's Maybeboard for other cards from shared categories (e.g. ramp, removal, recursion, mill, etc)

Tayam can be used to bring additional lands into play for ramp

Vish Kal and Contagion Clasp can also be used for removal

Luminous Broodmoth, Deadbridge Chant, and Magister of Worth also help with recursion

Skull Prophet also helps with mill

Originally included Mazriek and Corpsejace Menace, but both of those cards don't have enough triggers in this build

Didn't include one-time graveyard mill instants or sorceries since these aren't as useful as permanents in this deck

Ditto for one-for-one recursion spells

Date added	2 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 39 - 0 Rares 31 - 0 Uncommons 6 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.30
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Hydra */* BG, Morph 2/2 C, Spirit 1/1 W