
Also, since we try to keep a high creature count in our graveyard, their will be fewer cards in our graveyard that we'll want to exile through those cards' escape cost. However I would recommend the flashback mechanic over the two others, since discarding lands for retrace can be a pretty steep cost if we don't have access to Life from the Loam, and the flashback cards like Unburial Rites are just generally better than the cards with the escape mechanic in my opinion. Taigam, Sidisi’s Hand replaces your draw step with the opportunity to do some Strategic Planning.
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We can play some cards that can be cast from our graveyard through mechanics like flashback, retrace and possibly even escape. Eric’s bugging out about Grist in EDH/Commander, brewing up a thematic Grist Mill list full of creepy crawlies and other insects Sidisi, Brood Tyrant gets cards into the yard with ease as does Tasigur, the Golden Fang and Grist, the Hunger Tide. Cards can have all types of use in the graveyard, just like we explained that a single keyword like dredge can change a card in our graveyard into an entire self milling engine. However, a card in your graveyard doesn't necessarily mean that card is gone. Glissa, the Traitor was our first taste of BG Zombies, thankfully avoiding Infect and having the potent First strike & deathtouch combination to compliment her acceptably-costed stats. This is a misconception that many people, especially newer players have. Dredge, the Golgari mechanic, suggested it already and Green fills a nice hole in fat, acceleration and resilience that black doesn’t cover very well alone. Milling cards into your graveyard is a disadvantage.

All you need is to draw a card (can be during the draw step), so just filling your graveyard with other dredge cards will also get you there. This seemingly harmless 2 mana card can cause for fast self milling in combination with lands that have a cycling ability (preferably as cheap as possible) by constantly dredging until you find what you need. My personal favourite dredge engine is Life from the Loam. Another very good way of doing this is through a dredge engine, these aren't one-card engines like the previous mentioned two, however, since a large portion of our deck will be focussed on filling the graveyard, these won't be hard to set up. However, we won't always draw in one of these two cards, so we'll need other ways of filling our graveyard. Both can empty your deck at extremely high speeds like no other cards can, and this very early in the game, thanks to their low mana costs. In my opinion the two best single cards to do this are Hermit Druid and Mesmeric Orb. Now, I have to find somewhere more secure to keep Blex until I’m ready to use them.Besides ramping, we want to fill our graveyard with as many creatures as possible as fast as we can, so that we can go for an early explosive Nethroi play.

280 Merfolk 190 Dredge 170 Titanshift 260 Jeskai Control 180. If you want to give it a shot yourself, there’s nowhere better than ChannelFireball to pick up all the cards you need to round it out. EDH Recommendations and strategy content for Magic: the Gathering Commander. Personally, I’m looking forward to sitting down across from this list and seeing just how it plays out. Culling Ritual in particular is a new toy that both clears out small creatures and can fuel a powerful turn to put you far ahead of the others at the table and at the mercy of your pests.Īh! Looks like the threat of extermination scared Blex out of hiding! Now, you just snag the problem critter, just add a good little seasoning of ramp, some spells to help you dig through your library for lands, creatures, or both, all while dumping the rest into the graveyard, and you have a list that should handily pester casual tables. Between ours and, worse, other players’, we need to have a few options to make sure we aren’t just overrun.Ī robust suite of removal ensures you’re able to swat any pesky permanents that pop up. Well, we haven’t turned up Blex yet, but we’re stirring up all sorts of other critters at this point. 1 Valentin, Dean of the Vein/Lisette, Dean of the Rootġ Yawgmoth, Thran Physician (Timeshifted)ġ Agadeem's Awakening/Agadeem, the Undercrypt
