Turn 1 Hogaak

Commander / EDH* BG (Golgari)

Strangelove

Land (32)

• 1x Ancient TombGC
• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Blooming Marsh
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dakmor Salvage
• 1x Ebon Stronghold
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 6x Forest
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Havenwood Battleground
• 1x Hickory Woodlot
• 1x Khalni Garden
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Nurturing Peatland
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Peat Bog
• 6x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Tranquil Thicket
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Undergrowth Stadium

Removal (7)

• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Drown in Filth
• 1x Druid Lyrist
• 1x Flaxen Intruder
• 1x Ulvenwald Tracker

Discard (4)

• 1x Noose Constrictor
• 1x Putrid Imp
• 1x Wild Mongrel
• 1x Zombie Infestation

Evasion (1)

• 1x Sylvan Safekeeper

Draw (16)

• 1x Asylum Visitor
• 1x Baleful Force
• 1x Blood Scrivener
• 1x Cryptbreaker
• 1x Disciple of Bolas
• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Hunter's Insight
• 1x Life's Legacy
• 1x Momentous Fall
• 1x Morbid Curiosity
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Vilis, Broker of Blood

Dredge (8)

• 1x Commune with the Gods
• 1x Gather the Pack
• 1x Golgari Thug
• 1x Grisly Salvage
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Satyr Wayfinder
• 1x Stinkweed Imp
• 1x Stitcher's Supplier

Tutor (6)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Crop RotationGC
• 1x Demonic TutorGC
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Traverse the Ulvenwald

Wipe (2)

• 1x Force of Despair
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Wishlist (1)

• 1x Fiend Artisan

Commander (1)

Ramp (10)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Boreal Druid
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Metamorphosis
• 1x Sacrifice

Combo (7)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Become Immense
• 1x Bone Miser
• 1x Feed the Pack
• 1x Ghoulcaller Gisa
• 1x Korozda Guildmage
• 1x Phytoburst

Recursion (5)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Life / Death
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Reanimate

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Sideboard

Recursion (4)

• 1x Forgotten Lore
• 1x Riftsweeper
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Shrouded Lore

Ramp (1)

• 1x Songs of the Damned

Tutor (1)

• 1x Razaketh, the Foulblooded

Combo (2)

• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x The Gitrog Monster

Dredge (1)

• 1x Golgari Grave-Troll

Removal (1)

• 1x Elvish Lyrist

Discard (1)

• 1x Rites of Spring

Draw (1)

• 1x Tome of Legends

Swarm (1)

• 1x Spontaneous Generation

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Maybeboard

1 (27)

• 1x Barrier of Bones
• 1x Blood Pet
• 1x Bloodsoaked Champion
• 1x Chatter of the Squirrel
• 1x Diligent Farmhand
• 1x Druid Lyrist
• 1x Elvish Lyrist
• 1x Elvish Pioneer
• 1x Elvish Reclaimer
• 2x Elvish Scrapper
• 1x Essence Warden
• 1x Fungal Infection
• 1x Gravecrawler
• 1x Greenseeker
• 1x Krosan Wayfarer
• 1x Lab Rats
• 1x Llanowar Mentor
• 1x Qarsi High Priest
• 1x Ruthless Sniper
• 2x Scavenger Folk
• 1x Sprout
• 2x Sylvan Safekeeper
• 1x Tukatongue Thallid
• 1x Vitality Charm

Draw (12)

• 1x Arguel's Blood Fast  ^Flip
• 1x Fruit of the First Tree
• 1x Garruk, Primal Hunter
• 1x Glint-Sleeve Siphoner
• 1x Grothama, All-Devouring
• 1x Mindblade Render
• 1x Mindstorm Crown
• 1x Momentous Fall
• 1x Necromancer's Stockpile
• 1x Return of the Wildspeaker
• 1x Rishkar's Expertise
• 1x Soul's Majesty

Recursion (9)

• 1x Body Snatcher
• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Genesis
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Meren of Clan Nel Toth
• 1x Phyrexian Delver
• 1x Skullwinder
• 1x Tortured Existence

Tutor (7)

• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Defense of the Heart
• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Garruk Relentless  ^Flip
• 1x Infernal Tutor
• 1x Protean Hulk

Engine (2)

• 1x Ragamuffyn
• 1x Viscera Seer

Cog (1)

• 1x Nether Spirit

Evasion (1)

• 1x Lightning Greaves

Dredge (15)

• 1x Avenging Druid
• 1x Benefaction of Rhonas
• 1x Darkblast
• 1x Doom Whisperer
• 1x Glowspore Shaman
• 1x Gorging Vulture
• 1x Hermit Druid
• 1x Mulch
• 1x Oath of Druids
• 1x Relentless Pursuit
• 1x Rot Farm Skeleton
• 1x Scout the Borders
• 1x Undercity Informer
• 1x Vessel of Nascency
• 1x Winding Way

Ramp (13)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Devoted Druid
• 1x Edge of Autumn
• 1x Gilded Goose
• 1x Harrow
• 1x Ilysian Caryatid
• 1x Millikin
• 1x Rain of Filth
• 1x Soldevi Adnate
• 1x Songs of the Damned
• 1x Surveyor's Scope
• 1x Whisperer of the Wilds

Swarm (12)

• 1x Arasta of the Endless Web
• 1x Awaken the Erstwhile
• 1x Bridge from Below
• 1x Carrion
• 1x Cobra Trap
• 1x Fungal Sprouting
• 1x Kessig Cagebreakers
• 1x Plague of Vermin
• 1x Spider Spawning
• 1x Tendershoot Dryad
• 1x Turntimber Sower
• 1x Worm Harvest

Discard (8)

• 1x Ayula's Influence
• 1x Last Rites
• 1x Manabond
• 1x Olivia's Dragoon
• 1x One with Nothing
• 1x Oona's Prowler
• 1x Saproling Cluster
• 1x Skirge Familiar

2 (3)

• 1x Fists of Ironwood
• 1x Saproling Migration
• 1x Sylvan Offering

Voltron (3)

• 1x Overwhelming Stampede
• 1x Phytoburst
• 1x Stonewood Invocation

Land (1)

• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Fatty (15)

• 1x Apex Altisaur
• 1x Avatar of Woe
• 1x Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1x Doomgape
• 1x End-Raze Forerunners
• 1x Ghalta, Primal Hunger
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Impervious Greatwurm
• 1x Liege of the Tangle
• 1x Massacre Wurm
• 1x Ravenous Gigantotherium
• 1x Stonehoof Chieftain
• 1x Symbiotic Wurm
• 1x Verdant Force
• 1x Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger

Wishlist (13)

• 1x Berserk
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Mox DiamondGC
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 1x Squandered Resources
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Removal (11)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Big Game Hunter
• 1x Force of Despair
• 1x Force of Vigor
• 1x Ghastly Demise
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Necrotic Wound
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Sinister Concoction
• 1x Snuff Out
• 1x Vendetta

Combo (8)

• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Desecrated Tomb
• 1x Grafted Exoskeleton
• 1x Lesser Masticore
• 1x Melira, Sylvok Outcast
• 1x Path of Discovery
• 1x Skyshroud Cutter
• 1x Syr Konrad, the Grim

0 (6)

• 1x Allosaurus Rider
• 1x Basking Rootwalla
• 1x Reverent Silence
• 1x Rushwood Legate
• 1x Street Wraith
• 1x Vine Dryad

Wipe (1)

• 1x Kenrith's Transformation

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Art:Spoils of Blood

...Work in progress. Suggestions welcome!

Turn 1 Hogaak

...Mox Diamond/Lotus Petal/Dark Ritual + Zombie Infestation

...Putrid Imp + [0 Drop]

...Putrid Imp + Lotus Petal + [1 Drop]

...Putrid Imp + Mox Diamond + Stitcher's Supplier

...[Fetch Land]>Forest + Crop Rotation>[Fetch Land]>Swamp + Dark Ritual/Mox Diamond/Lotus Petal + [1 Drop] + [1 Drop]

...[Fetch Land]>Forest + Crop Rotation>[Fetch Land]>Swamp + [0 Drop] + [1 Drop]

...Mox Diamond/Lotus Petal + Stitcher's Supplier + Metamorphosis/Songs of the Damned + [1 Drop] + [1 Drop]

...[0 Drop] + Metamorphosis/Sacrifice + Stitcher's Supplier + [1 Drop]

Turn 2 Hogaak

...Zombie Infestation(discard:6)

...(1)[1 Drop] + ...(2)Noose Constrictor/Wild Mongrel/Putrid Imp(discard:5)

...(2)Dark Ritual + ...(2)Spontaneous Generation(cards:5)

...(1)[Fetch Land]>Swamp + Darkblast + ...(2)Stitcher's Supplier + [1 Drop]

...(1)Stitcher's Supplier + ...(2)Metamorphosis/Sacrifice/Songs of the Damned + [1 Drop] + [1 Drop]

Combos

Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis + Zombie Infestation/Desecrated Tomb + Greater Good

Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis + Korozda Guildmage + Phyrexian Altar

Living Death + Eternal Witness/Skullwinder + Phyrexian Altar

[discard:] + The Gitrog Monster + Dakmor Salvage

[discard:] + Bone Miser + Darkblast/Life from the Loam

Reference

SueMe's Hogaak Combo

Hogaak EDH Index

Date added	6 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 3 Mythic Rares 36 - 4 Rares 24 - 5 Uncommons 26 - 1 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.34
Tokens	Bear 2/2 G, On an Adventure, Plant 0/1 G, Saproling 1/1 G, Wolf 2/2 G, Zombie 2/2 B