Category: Syndicated

Yep, you loop Muldrotha, Phantasmal Image, Lion’s Eye Diamond and Animate Dead to make infinit mana.

That’s one important one in my Muldrotha deck, as the combo involves Phantasmal Image and Animated Dead and is based on one Muldrotha killing the other, so you can loop them from your graveyard. Get’s people by surprise quite often.

Does top-decking Dramatic Reversal and Walking Ballista with Isochron Scepter in hand count as mastery? 😉 I mean, it’s better to be lucky than good, right?

A real answer would be to actually play according to the tempo dictated by active stax pieces and managing your ressources correctly, so that you still have the answers and options ready you need, when you need them. A big thing people do wrong is overextending into active stax, be it Back to Basics, Winter Orb, Narset or even just the Thalias. You need to know what your deck can cough up when you are working under restricted mana and restricted draws, so you need to make sure you can actually play your outs the turn you need them.

1. Kenrith Elfball (5c) – cEDH, infinite mana into Kenrith for the win
2. Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain (UR) – cEDH, artifact combo, stax, storm
3. Teshar, Ancestor’s Apostle (W) – fringe cEDH, artifact combo, graveyard loops
4. Lavinia, Azorius Renegade (UW) – fringe cEDH, very hateful bears, prison lock
5. Grenzo Doomsday (BR) – fringe cEDH, Doomsday suicide combo
6. Emry, Lurker of the Loch (U) – high power, artifact combo
7. Muldrotha the Gravetide (BUG) – high power, infinite mana into Jarad for the win
8. The Locust God (UR) – high power, wheels into hasty insects
9. Kykar Helm (WUR) – mid power, equipments and vehicles matter, Godo/Aurelia Helm combo
10. Grenzo Goblins (BR) – mid power, Grenzo as a combo slot machine
11. Syr Konrad (B) – mid power, self-mill into table drain
12. Saheeli (UR) – mid power, hidden commander Brudiclad, lots of token synergies
13. Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer (BUG) – low power, spiced up precon
14. Sliver Overlord (5c) – low power, all slivers, actual slivers (no combo, only aggro slivers and a super budget 5c manabase)
15. Slimefoot the Stoaway (GB) – low power, Pauper EDH deck, so all cards in the 99 are commons, aristocrat style and even a dumb infinite token combo in there

Those are the ones I can pull out directly without having to sort through cards and pull cards from other decks, at least if people are ok with small amounts of proxies on the higher end decks (because owning one of each duals should be enough with the price they run at).

Only real exception is deck 5 (Grenzo Doomsday), as that is just a hilariously dumb combo deck that really is far too risky to spend actual mana on, so it runs proxies for all the expensive cards (I do own them, though, so could pull it togehter, too).

The thing is though: if they spend enchantment removal on your wild growth, you might actually like that, as that’s one removal less to worry about. And if they strip mine your basic forest, that’s probably better than later on strip mining your cabal coffers.

I see it show up quite often in base-green cEDH decks lately, because it is just another cheap piece of ramp that can be dropped T1 or T2, where people usually won’t waste turns to remove it, so it helps you early turns. And mid game it is often just to inconsequential to remove over something else more threatening (like a Rhystic Studies or Smothering Tithe).

My Muldrotha list runs Null Rod and Collector Ouphe, so it keeps the number of artifacts low. It’s fine to have some of the card draw baubles disabled by Null Rod, but cutting off your own mana just feels bad, man.

One big problem is that a lot of whites ways to do it’s thing are based on hampering and catching up – but the hampering part is what is poo-poo’ed on. White needs taxing elements and even hard stax elements and land destruction to pull opponents back on it’s own level to be able to use it’s catchup-mechanisms to actually catch up. But EDH neuters a big part of it’s game plan by making it socially not acceptabale.

Play against a mono white stax MLD deck once and you see how mono white can be an actual menace.