Thantis Blighted Woods

Commander / EDH BRG (Jund) Infect Stompy Theme/Gimmick Tokens TurboFog

Immortalys

Land (36)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 3x Forest
• 1x Grim Backwoods
• 1x Hissing Quagmire
• 1x Inkmoth Nexus
• 1x Khalni Garden
• 1x Leechridden Swamp
• 2x Mountain
• 1x Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers
• 1x Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Sapseep Forest
• 1x Savage Lands
• 1x Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep
• 1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 1x Skarrg, the Rage Pits
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Swarmyard
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Undergrowth Stadium
• 1x Vivid Crag
• 1x Vivid Grove
• 1x Vivid Marsh
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Artifact (6)

• 1x Bow of Nylea
• 1x Golgari Keyrune
• 1x Grafted Exoskeleton
• 1x Lifecrafter's Bestiary
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

Creature (17)

• 1x Avatar of Slaughter
• 1x Creakwood Liege
• 1x Hornet Nest
• 1x Hornet Queen
• 1x Hunted Horror
• 1x Hunted Troll
• 1x Permeating Mass
• 1x Phyrexian Swarmlord
• 1x Poison-Tip Archer
• 1x Predator Ooze
• 1x Regal Behemoth
• 1x Slumbering Dragon
• 1x The Scorpion God
• 1x Tree of Perdition
• 1x Vexing Shusher
• 1x Vigor
• 1x Wall of Shadows

Instant (15)

• 1x Arachnogenesis
• 1x Artifact Mutation
• 1x Blinding Fog
• 1x Constant Mists
• 1x Deathsprout
• 1x Fog
• 1x Golgari Charm
• 1x Grisly Salvage
• 1x Gruul Charm
• 1x Obscuring Haze
• 1x Respite
• 1x Sudden Spoiling
• 1x Tangle
• 1x Terrifying Presence
• 1x Wild Ricochet

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Domri, Anarch of Bolas

Commander (1)

Enchantment (16)

• 1x Alpha Authority
• 1x Asceticism
• 1x Canopy Cover
• 1x Cryptolith Rite
• 1x Deathreap Ritual
• 1x Dragon Shadow
• 1x Goblin War Drums
• 1x Guardian Project
• 1x Keldon Mantle
• 1x Lifegift
• 1x Mass Hysteria
• 1x Moldervine Reclamation
• 1x Night Soil
• 1x Rhythm of the Wild
• 1x Shapers' Sanctuary
• 1x Takklemaggot

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Bala Ged Recovery  ^Flip
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Driven / Despair
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Grow from the Ashes
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Three Visits
• 1x Triumph of the Hordes

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Maybeboard

Enchantment (37)

• 1x Aspect of Mongoose
• 1x Assault Formation
• 1x Bedlam
• 1x Blowfly Infestation
• 1x Bower Passage
• 1x Briar Patch
• 1x Cindervines
• 1x Curse of Bounty
• 1x Curse of Predation
• 1x Deadbridge Chant
• 1x Druids' Repository
• 1x Familiar Ground
• 1x Fists of the Demigod
• 1x Glorious Sunrise
• 1x Grand Melee
• 1x Invasion Plans
• 1x Journey to Eternity  ^Flip
• 1x Lethal Vapors
• 1x Leyline of Vitality
• 1x Lurking Predators
• 1x Magistrate's Veto
• 1x Marchesa's Decree
• 1x Nest of Scarabs
• 1x Overwhelming Instinct
• 1x Pattern of Rebirth
• 1x Polluted Bonds
• 1x Predatory Advantage
• 1x Primal Rage
• 1x Quest for Renewal
• 1x Retreat to Hagra
• 1x Retreat to Kazandu
• 1x Revenge of Ravens
• 1x Sight of the Scalelords
• 1x Trove of Temptation
• 1x Unspeakable Symbol
• 1x War Cadence
• 1x War's Toll

Land (5)

• 1x Darkbore Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Field of Ruin
• 1x Fungal Reaches
• 1x Hammerheim
• 1x Holdout Settlement

Creature (37)

• 1x Agitator Ant
• 1x Arasta of the Endless Web
• 1x Archetype of Aggression
• 1x Archetype of Endurance
• 1x Archetype of Finality
• 1x Blightbeetle
• 1x Blightwidow
• 1x Bloodhall Ooze
• 1x Brawn
• 1x Corrosive Mentor
• 1x Deathcap Cultivator
• 1x Dragonlair Spider
• 1x Dread
• 1x Drumhunter
• 1x Engulfing Slagwurm
• 1x Filth
• 1x Haze Frog
• 1x Hunted Nightmare
• 1x Infested Roothold
• 1x Izoni, Thousand-Eyed
• 1x Kheru Mind-Eater
• 1x Klothys, God of Destiny
• 1x Leyline Prowler
• 1x Living Hive
• 1x Manaforge Cinder
• 1x Necropede
• 1x Necroskitter
• 1x Nullhide Ferox
• 1x Scute Swarm
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Spore Flower
• 1x Sporemound
• 1x Sporeweb Weaver
• 1x Stigma Lasher
• 1x Thorn of the Black Rose
• 1x Vorapede
• 1x Wall of Roots

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Vivien, Champion of the Wilds
• 1x Vraska, Swarm's Eminence

Instant (19)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Carrion Call
• 1x Grim Contest
• 1x Guttural Response
• 1x Harrow
• 1x Jund Charm
• 1x Moment's Peace
• 1x Outmaneuver
• 1x Respite
• 1x Savage Summoning
• 1x Signal the Clans
• 1x Tainted Strike
• 1x Undergrowth
• 1x Veil of Summer
• 1x Vines of Vastwood
• 1x Vitality Charm
• 1x Winds of Qal Sisma
• 1x Word of Seizing
• 1x Wrap in Vigor

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Allure of the Unknown
• 1x Disrupt Decorum
• 1x Harmonize
• 1x Infest
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Last One Standing
• 1x Lavalanche
• 1x Mob Rule
• 1x Predatory Focus
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Sylvan Scrying
• 1x Violent Ultimatum

Artifact (6)

• 1x Crawlspace
• 1x Decimator Web
• 1x Dolmen Gate
• 1x Dowsing Dagger  ^Flip
• 1x Skyclave Relic
• 1x Trigon of Infestation

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By now this is the deck that has changed the most since I've had it. At first it was like a Spider Tribal deck, but Spider creatures don't have any synergy with each other (with the exception of Ishkanah, Grafwidow) so that meant I had to supplement that synergy with different cards like Steely Resolve and Kindred Summons, but that didn't really work out well.

What did work from this stage were the fogs. With everyone being forced to attack, using fog effects in this deck seemed like a very good idea and it still is. I just don't want to turn it into a true turbofog deck, because that would seem too one-note and boring. Nevertheless, one cornerstone of this deck are the fogs and will probably stay that way. Some notable fogs are: - Constant Mists - Arachnogenesis - Obscuring Haze

After the whole Spider theme failed, I broadend this by theming the deck with a blighted woodlands feel. Like you walked into a tainted forest where Thantis lives and you have to fight all the critters under her control. So I started adding creatures that would synergize well with Thantis' ability to force every creature to attack. Hornet Queen seems perfect, with the deathtouchers she creates. Predator Ooze also really seems to fit, as well as Slumbering Dragon.

From this point on I really started to focus more on synergizing with Thantis' forced combat ability. Deathreap Ritual, for example, fits really well in a game where lots of creatures die because they are forced to attack into one another. Mass Hysteria is a prime example as well. Giving all your opponents creatures haste so they are forced to attack the turn they are played? Yes, sign me up. This is also when I found out about the "hunted" cards, which seem like a perfect fit. Hunted Troll and Hunted Horror both give your opponent creatures they can attack you or your opponents with, so fun all around!

So what's next? Well, I started leaning deeper into Thantis herself. She is after all another cornerstone of this deck. Her ability is what the deck revolves around, so naturally I want her on the board as much as possible, so I started looking at ways to protect her. Asceticism, Alpha Authority and Canopy Cover are added, the latter two also giving Thantis some nice evasion. So I don't want to turn this into a voltron deck, but it does have a bit of that voltron-y style. Other enchantments like Goblin War Drums or Primal Rage give her a keyword without the fear of the enchantment getting blown up alongside Thantis.

So the first two cornerstones are Thantis herself as an almost Voltron-y style commander, and the fogs that emulate a turbofog deck, but not quite. The third cornerstone is that of tokens and especially that of incidental or repeatable token creation. So Artifact Mutation is a great example of artifact removal that incidentally also creates creature tokens for you. Something like Night Soil is repeatable token creation with the benefit of graveyard hate and Predatory Advantage just keeps churning out tokens if your opponents refuse to play creatures (which, lets be honest, they might be inclined to do if they know their creature won't even survive combat).

Now, as you've probably seen already, this deck has a massive Maybeboard. This is partially because, as described above, this deck went through several changes and every card I got for those previous itterations can be found in the maybeboard (except for the Spiders and other tribal cards). Themes you might find in here are whither and infect. I especially like the infect theme for this deck, as I run Triumph of the Hordes as a finisher, but you could, say, switch out the fog-theme for an infect theme, adding in Decimator Web (mostly because the "web" aspect adds flavour with Thantis), Blightwidow and Carrion Call for example. If you lean heavier into the -1/-1 counters theme, you could also add Nest of Scarabs and Blowfly Infestation, all still really in the Blighted Woodlands theme.

So, a couple of closing words: Lifegift is an amazing and quite underrated card. Especially in the Thantis deck where attacks are much more likely to happen, having a cheap and repeatable source of lifegain is amazing. Leyline of Vitality also works for this. My decks always include at least one card that grants the Monarch, which is Regal Behemoth in this deck, but you could also add Marchesa's Decree if you want to go the more pillowfort-y route (Revenge of Ravens also fits nicely in that category) and/or even Thorn of the Black Rose if you want a deathtoucher.

I hope this decklist can serve as a basis for any of your Thantis decks. There are lots of themes to lean into; turbofog, voltron, forced combat, tokens, infect/wither, big beaters and/or pillowfort-drain. Pick one or two you like and see which Mayboard cards fit your personal deck.

Any suggestions are of course very much welcome!

Date added	3 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 43 - 0 Rares 29 - 0 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.16
Tokens	Centaur 3/3 G w/ Pro Black, Faerie 1/1 U, Insect 1/1 G w/ Flying, Deathtouch, Phyrexian Insect 1/1 G, Plant 0/1 G, Saproling 1/1 G, Spider 1/2 G, Monarch Emblem, Worm 1/1 BG