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Commander / EDH BUG (Sultai) Counters Infect

Poly_raptor

Lands (37)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 3x Forest
• 1x Grasping Dunes
• 1x Inkmoth Nexus
• 3x Island
• 1x Llanowar Reborn
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Nesting Grounds
• 1x Novijen, Heart of Progress
• 1x Opulent Palace
• 1x Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Ruins of Oran-Rief
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Isle
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Control (3)

• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Willbreaker

Counterspells/board wipes/removal (12)

• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Casualties of War
• 1x Corrupted Resolve
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Essence Capture
• 1x In Garruk's Wake
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Putrefy
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Syncopate
• 1x Windgrace's Judgment

Fun Counters (10)

• 1x Blood Curdle
• 1x Bounty Hunter
• 1x Call of the Death-Dweller
• 1x Crystalline Giant
• 1x Musician
• 1x Oblivion Stone
• 1x Slippery Bogbonder
• 1x Tetzimoc, Primal Death
• 1x That Which Was Taken
• 1x Xathrid Gorgon

Creatures to put counters on (8)

• 1x Altered Ego
• 1x Blighted Agent
• 1x Bouncing Beebles
• 1x Cephalid Constable
• 1x Cold-Eyed Selkie
• 1x Dimir Doppelganger
• 1x It That Betrays
• 1x Mistblade Shinobi

Consistent counters (7)

• 1x Biting Tether
• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Chevill, Bane of Monsters
• 1x Forgotten Ancient
• 1x Master Biomancer
• 1x The Great Henge
• 1x Unspeakable Symbol

Commander (1)

Ramp (11)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Channeler Initiate
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Cryptolith Rite
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Incubation Druid
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x New Horizons
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sylvan Caryatid

Counter trickery (9)

• 1x Bioshift
• 1x Cauldron of Souls
• 1x Experiment Kraj
• 1x Fate Transfer
• 1x Hunter of Eyeblights
• 1x Leech Bonder
• 1x Necromantic Summons
• 1x Razorfin Abolisher
• 1x Venarian Gold

Wincons (2)

• 1x Phyresis
• 1x Tainted Strike

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Other (1)

• 1x Generous Patron

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Second draft

I’ve updated the list now, since we’ve had a few previews from the new set.

I’m going to tweak it over the next few days, I really like the look of Hexproof/indestructible counters.

Volrath

So, ever since this guy came out to play last year I thought he looked pretty interesting.

The obvious build would be a -1/-1 counter deck, but I’ve already done that.. twice.

I do like the wording of his second ability, as it allows us to abuse any type of counter. So I went to the web to look up every single type of counter there is. Now you might think, “oh, but that’s lots of counters”, and you’d be right, and that really appeals to the Johnny in me.

The other interesting thing about his ability, if I have understood it correctly is, that it can be used multiple takes a turn at instant speed.

For example, before combat, make it a copy of an umblockable creature and swing through, but then before damage activate it again to turn it into a copy of something else that has a trigger upon damage being dealt. For example: Pay {1} targeting Blighted Agent and attack, no blocks declared, before damage is dealt pay {1} and target Cephalid Constable bouncing 7 permanents back to hand.

So sit back, get a cup of tea, and have a read.

Consistent Counters

These are one of the easier ones to distribute. We’re running several options that just add them to all our creatures; - Master Biomancer - Bloodspore Thrinax - Oran-Rief, the Vastwood

These make our creatures instant targets for Volrath.

Another great card in this section is Experiment Kraj which puts counters on any target we want.

Unspeakable Symbol targets any creature on the battlefield, a good way to politically do someone a favour to then target later with Volrath.

Volrath also puts -1/-1 counters on creatures consistently, but a good way to hit everything at once is Black Sun's Zenith

Cauldron of Souls is another excellent political tool, to save certain creatures to gain favours and target them later.

Funky Counters

This is my favourite section, where we look at abusing some of Magics more sparse counters.

The cards detailed in this section are political, we want to use them to gain favours with people and create ominous threats that we can hold over people without having to press the trigger.

• That Which Was Taken

• Oblivion Stone

• Tetzimoc, Primal Death

• Musician

• Bounty Hunter

• Xathrid Gorgon

Sneaky counters

Once we’ve got counters on lots our opponents creatures we can start really messing with them.

razofrin abolishor lets us bounce things that come our way, on the other hand we can use it to save peoples creatures too, gaining a political favour back later in the game.

Leech Bonder can move counters round if we have no way of placing counters on to new creatures.

Hunter of Eyeblights can kill anything we need to kill once it has a counter on it.

Top Ranked	Achieved #1 position overall 4 years ago
Date added	4 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 48 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.43
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U
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