The Mind Flayer, The Demogorgon, & The Upside Down

Commander / EDH* BGW (Abzan, Junk) Combo Partner Sacrifice Suicide Black

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Creature (36)

• 1x Archangel of Thune
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Chatterfang, Squirrel General
• 1x Devoted Druid
• 1x Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
• 1x Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
• 1x Emiel the Blessed
• 1x Faeburrow Elder
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Felidar Guardian
• 1x Fiend Artisan
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Heliod, Sun-Crowned
• 1x Karmic Guide
• 1x Kitchen Finks
• 1x Luminous Broodmoth
• 1x Magnanimous Magistrate
• 1x Meren of Clan Nel Toth
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Myrel, Shield of Argive
• 1x Myrkul, Lord of Bones
• 1x Pitiless Plunderer
• 1x Primaris Eliminator
• 1x Protean Hulk
• 1x Puppeteer Clique
• 1x Putrid Goblin
• 1x Queen Allenal of Ruadach
• 1x Reveillark
• 1x Saffi Eriksdotter
• 1x Shalai, Voice of Plenty
• 1x Solitude
• 1x Spike Feeder
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Vizier of Remedies
• 1x Walking Ballista

Instant (5)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Despark
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Land (33)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1x Branchloft Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkbore Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
• 1x Fetid Heath
• 3x Forest
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Grimclimb Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Hall of Heliod's Generosity
• 1x Indatha Triome
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 2x Plains
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Bastion
• 1x Woodland Cemetery
• 1x Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Aura Shards
• 1x Black Market Connections
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Swift Reconfiguration
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x The Meathook Massacre

Commanders (2)

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Ascend from Avernus
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Damn
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Winds of Abandon

Artifact (7)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Blasting Station
• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Sol Ring

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Sideboard

Creature (11)

• 1x Ancient Brass Dragon
• 1x Avacyn, Angel of Hope
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1x Flesh-Eater Imp
• 1x Incubation Druid *f-pre*
• 1x Junji, the Midnight Sky
• 1x Liesa, Forgotten Archangel
• 1x Melira, Sylvok Outcast
• 1x Razaketh, the Foulblooded
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One

Instant (3)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Silence
• 1x Vanishing Verse

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Kaya's Ghostform

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Life / Death
• 1x Three Visits

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Maybeboard

Creature (55)

• 1x Academy Manufactor
• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Aerial Extortionist
• 1x Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit
• 1x Archon of Cruelty
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Bloodthrone Vampire
• 1x Burning-Rune Demon
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Cathar Commando
• 1x Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1x Cruel Celebrant
• 1x Dauthi Voidwalker
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Disciple of Bolas
• 1x Dragonlord Dromoka *f-pre*
• 1x Drumbellower
• 1x Eldrazi Displacer
• 1x End-Raze Forerunners
• 1x Esper Sentinel
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Fell Stinger
• 1x Grim Flayer
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Kathril, Aspect Warper
• 1x Knight of Autumn
• 1x Krav, the Unredeemed
• 1x Liliana, Heretical Healer  ^Flip
• 1x Lurrus of the Dream-Den
• 1x Massacre Wurm
• 1x Old Stickfingers
• 1x Pitiless Plunderer
• 1x Priest of Fell Rites
• 1x Ravos, Soultender *f-etch*
• 1x Restoration Angel
• 1x Reyhan, Last of the Abzan
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Selfless Spirit
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Siege Rhino
• 1x Sister Hospitaller
• 1x Skull Prophet
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Spore Frog
• 1x Triarch Praetorian
• 1x Twilight Prophet
• 1x Tymna the Weaver
• 1x Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
• 1x Vile Entomber
• 1x Village Bell-Ringer
• 1x Voice of Resurgence
• 1x Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger
• 1x Welcoming Vampire
• 1x Woodfall Primus
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Sorcery (25)

• 1x Agadeem's Awakening  ^Flip
• 1x Austere Command
• 1x Beacon of Unrest
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Day of Judgment
• 1x Debt to the Deathless
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Hour of Revelation
• 1x Kaya's Wrath
• 1x Killing Wave
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Merciless Eviction
• 1x Ondu Inversion  ^Flip
• 1x Persist
• 1x Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1x Sevinne's Reclamation
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Victimize
• 1x Vindicate
• 1x Wrath of God

Artifact (8)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Golgari Signet
• 1x Halo Fountain
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Perpetual Timepiece
• 1x Selesnya Signet
• 1x The Great Henge

Planeswalker (5)

• 1x Grist, the Hunger Tide
• 1x Kaya, Ghost Assassin
• 1x Liliana Vess
• 1x Liliana, Dreadhorde General
• 1x Vivien on the Hunt

Enchantment (13)

• 1x Abzan Ascendancy
• 1x Attrition
• 1x City of Solitude
• 1x Cryptolith Rite
• 1x Cultist of the Absolute
• 1x Debtors' Knell
• 1x Journey to Eternity  ^Flip
• 1x Mirari's Wake
• 1x Moldervine Reclamation
• 1x Pernicious Deed
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Smuggler's Share
• 1x Spirit-Sister's Call

Instant (11)

• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Fracture
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Lethal Scheme
• 1x Mortality Spear
• 1x Plumb the Forbidden
• 1x Saw in Half
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Teferi's Protection
• 1x Utter End

Land (8)

• 1x Gavony Township
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Silent Clearing
• 1x Tainted Field
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold

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Stranger things EDH, work in progress. Meant to be an Aristocrats/suicide black combo sort of list. Help is appreciated! The goal is to send creatures to the Upside down and bring them back to win!

Commander choice: Mike, the Dungeon Master: He is a combo piece in a couple of combos and allows me to get value out of some sac and ETB effects. I am debating adding Lightning Greaves and Swiftfoot Boots for him to give some protection and have him out and ready to reanimate as fast as possible.

Will the Wise: I was actually surprised by his strength, my friends seemed to usually take the life loss than let me build up clues but he still proved to be a good draw source and good for the grind of the match making my opponents lose a life when he entered and left.

I have tested it some and it works well as a sort of synergistic reanimator/midrange list even if you never pull off a combo. I had one game where panharmoncion, reveillark, Karmic guide, and Mikaeus made a very difficult to handle board state. I am still trying to catalog the combos but most of them are below and more or less you can see some redundancy built in with other cards. I updated some stuff after losing to a friend's Brago list and realized I needed some disruption prevention (added Shalai, abolisher, and teferi's protection) and a bit more tutoring for getting comb pieces as I have had situations where I almost had a combo set up and needed it for an out (added enlightened tutor and Fauna shaman)It is proving to be super strong and a contender for one of my strongest lists.

Combos:

Mikaeus, the Unhallowed and Walking Ballista: infinite damage

Sac outlet + Protean Hulk: fetch Mikaeus, the Unhallowed and Walking Ballista: infinite damage

Heliod, Sun-Crowned + Walking Ballista / Spike Feeder: Infinite life and infinite damage

Archangel of Thune + Spike Feeder: Infinite life and +1/1 counters

Mike, the Dungeon Master + Bloom Tender/Faeburrow Elder + Sac Outlet + Village Bell-Ringer: Infinite mana

Mike, the Dungeon Master + Mana guy + Ashnod's Altar + Village Bell-Ringer" Infinite mana

Sac outlet + Kitchen Finks + Archangel of Thune/The Great Henge: Infinite life

Mike, the Dungeon Master + Blood Artist/Zulaport Cutthroat/Cruel Celebrant + Village Bell-Ringer + Ashnod's Altar: Infinite life and damage

Blasting Station + Reveillark + Karmic Guide: Infinite damage

Above combo + Acidic Slime: machine gun lands, enchants, Artifacts

Above combo + Village Bellringer + Bloom Tender/Faeburrow Elder Infinite mana

Infinite mana combo outlets Debt to the Deathless Finale of Devastation

Infinite sac loops + Zulaport Cutthroat, Blood Artist, Cruel Celbrant, The Meathook Massacre

Sac outlet + Kitchen Finks + The Great Henge = infinite life

Sac outlet + Woodfall Primus + The Great Henge = Machine gun everything.

ugghhh, there are a lot of combos, I am still trying to list them.

Looking to add more and up the synergy and power of the list. Let me know if you have any suggestions or see a combo I missed!

Date added	2 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	19 - 6 Mythic Rares 56 - 7 Rares 14 - 3 Uncommons 3 - 1 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.09
Tokens	Clue, Copy Clone, Experience Token, Shapeshifter 3/2 C, Soldier, Soldier 1/1 W, Squirrel 1/1 G, Treasure
Folders	EDH Decks