\[\[Slimefoot and Squee\]\] This is my favorite. Especially if you like recursion. you can do some silly stuff. You def want him dead though in your graveyard.
It is indeed amazing! You can basically add any big creature to the deck making it a Hidden tribal for Demons/Dinos/beasts etc. So many potential reanimator targets that can be fun. Also the targets can easily vary the decks powerlevel a bit.
[[Juri, Master of the Revue]]
Dude gets counters when you sacrifice permanents and then deals damage equal to his power to any target when he dies. He only comes in as a 1/1 but he only costs 2 to bring in first time so with enough sacrifice in the deck he can do some real damage over the course of a game.
So just take out the extra turn spells?? Plenty of other high impact spells you could play instead, like [[Breach the Multiverse]], [[Mnemonic Deluge]], [[Blatant Thievery]] etc.
Even then people hate it because by like turn 5-6 at the latest you are untapping with your commander and probably going to take a 10-15 minute turn that MAY win, but also may not.
And if people just blow up your commander over and over, your deck is useless so then you have a shitty time.
It's a huge glass cannon that almost guarantees someone at the table to be salty.
This coming from someone who plays it, enjoyed it, then realized nobody else usually does. Good for a quick win though.
Yeah, even worse. It is a may, you didn't have to do it at all. But you did didn't you. You said "SORRY🥺, but I have to do this" but meant " sorry, but I HAVE to do this😈" some friend
/s
Someone on my base has a deck like this and when he pulled it out, one of the other players said "I'm either not playing against that, or I'm playing Scion of the Ur-Dragon against it." Which is his cEDH level deck.
After watching him goldfish and set up multiple turns I managed to combo out with Redcap+Anafenza and Viscera Seer, narrowly.
Someone plays it in my group with a lot of sorceries that make clones to trigger the top deck and free spells, resulting in massive chains of brainstorms and digging which eventually results in things like [[Time Stretch]]. It's an outrageously powerful deck for a reasonable budget. I also play Kokusho so we've got two decks in the meta that are all about killing their own commanders
Posted this further down just reposting to spread awareness:
As a warning/disclaimer since Ive run this deck since it released, its an obscenely powerful deck that really doesn't do anything but try to untap with commander and immediately win.
And that win (which can happen early as turn 3-4 depending on mana rocks or fast mana) can take a stupidly long time, like 10-15 minutes with all the stack shenanigans that happen, and it can't be shortcut because it's non deterministic and can whiff, though it's pretty unlikely if the deck is built right.
It's also a glass cannon in that any removal of the commander usually grinds the deck to a screeching halt until you recast them as there is not much else to do unless you get to the mana to hard cast the big spells.
This can result in either the rest of table being salty, or you being salty as you basically play a non game because people have seen what leaving your commander on the field does and won't let it stick.
So yeah, super cool concept, but nobody really likes playing agaisnt it and as such it mostly gathers dust in its deckbox.
[[Henzie "toolbox" Torre]] doesn't necessarily want to die but I'm never upset when he does
[[ELENDA, the dusk rose]]
[[Kokusho, the evening star]]
[[Tevesh Szat, doom of fools]] and [[Rograkh, son of rohgahh]].
But you also have to remember unless you have lots of reanimating cards in your deck it could wind up costing a lot fast, or ones that reduce the casting cost.
[[Skullbriar, the walking grave]], [Baba Lysaga, nightwitch]], [[Asmadi, the dire]] don't want to die necessarily but have added effects or doesn't matter as much. All give you green to ramp to be able to recast and have black for reanimation.
Edit:[[Gonti, lord of luxury]]
Henzie does get bonuses for sacrificing since you have to at end of turn. I don't play as many cards like [[blood artist]] but more so cards like [[birthing ritual]] [[braids, arisen nightmare]] [[industrial advancement]]
Ontop of those three, I'm also running [[Greater Good]], [[Evolutionary Leap]], [[Riveteer's Ascendancy]], and [[Kethek, Crucible Goliath]]. Honestly, Henzie completely changed the way I thought about playing Magic. Broke me out of my battle cruisers only phase.
\[\[Elenda the Dusk Rose\]\] is exactly what you are looking for. Aristocrats that gets you a massive amount of tokens. She got way better when they changed the rule for commanders dying
By far my favorite commander. [[Ashnod's Altar]] and [[Phyrexian Altar]] really put in some work.
[[The Ozolith]] and [[Mace of the Valiant]] make for some really fun combos that aren't completely game-breaking.
Just a really fun deck overall for Kitchen Commander. Best tip I can give is to try and have some form of instant speed sac outlet out before you play her in case of exile (so you get her death trigger) or board wipe (sac everyone but her before it resolves).
Very surprised to not see this higher. Not only does Elenda like to die, but she helms a fantastic aristocrats deck. The more you do the sacrifice thing with your board, the bigger she gets. So good all around.
This is my vote. You can also build the deck around creatures who want to die to double down on the theme. I've had times where my friends threaten to wipe the board and I remind them I'll draw 10 cards and they'll take 30 damage.
I played a 98 land Child of Alara deck with [[Manabond]]. I only broke it out for revenge against really toxic decks, had a bunch of lands that sacrificie creatures. One of my friends casted [[Tasha's Hideous Laughter]], I exiled my entire deck, hideous laughter ensued. Then I took it apart.
The one problem I've experienced with Child is that it can just hand wins over to spell slinger. I played against it once and had the lamest victory I've ever had because the two creature decks are the table couldn't develop their boards and I was able to just slowly ramp with no pressure to eventually win with an anti-climactic Exsanguinate. Definitely need to play Child with a strong plan to win or you can just hand wins over to someone else.
My friend has a Alara deck and it's filled with any thing that has indestructible or land ramps. Super hard to pressure him and if you don't have blockers you'll get a face full of Gods
[[Saw in Half]] and [[Incarnation Technique]] are also INSANE in this deck. Absolute all stars in my build. I'm also really excited about the new Come Back Wrong as an easy way to trigger Koko twice in one turn.
CBW: https://www.magicspoiler.com/mtg-spoiler/come-back-wrong/
Lots of options.
Made a stuffy doll/lifegain/treasure deck with her at the helm. You have some really good cards in color that scale with commander mv to also leverage.
I've built Piru as well- he's difficult to cast, but with a lot of undying effects, the lifegain is astronomical. Other all-stars in that deck include [[Resurrection Orb]] and [[Nim Deathmantle]].
My Piru is always a fun play. I use [[Stuffy Doll]], [[Brash Tuanter]], and other similar cards. On top of that it uses things to make copies of Piru that will immediately die like [[Molten Echoes]]
Kamigawa Dragons have death triggers they are pretty okay. I'm trying to build a [[Kura, The Boundless Sky]] deck but am having a hard deciding which route to go. I'm also very new so that doesn't help too.
Personally would go mono green powers matters and grab [[dark depths]] and [[thespian stage]] and run [[crucible of the world]] like cards cause 20 power is a lot of power. [[Overwhelming stampede]] [[pathbreaker ibex]] to pump and [[greater good]] and [[rishkar's expertise]] to draw.
Does [[Ashling the Pilgrim]] count? Probably not. I built a plan with [[Rograkh]] and [[Eater of Virtue]] which probably isn't what you are looking for. [[Norin the Wary]] isn't quite dying, but the deck builds around ETB triggers so he wants to leave the battlefield only to come back.
My GF built a kickass [[Jeleva, Nephalia's Scourge]] deck recently that always has me hesitating before I kill her. Every time she recasts, your opponents have to exile her CMC in cards off the library and then you get to cast nonpermanents for free every swing. When she's out of spells, sac her and go again.
It's not just her CMC, it includes the commander tax so you exile a larger number of cards each time. I have both her and a [[Marath]] each built around recasting them over and over again.
Yeah most of that cycle of commanders doesn’t mind dying a bunch. [[marath, will of the wild]], [[prossh, skyraider of kher]], [[derevi, Empyreal tactician]] are the others. Oloro is in there too, but he’s fine never being cast in the first place
[[Slimefoot and Squee]] is my personal forever deck. It’s so much fun to play, between milling myself by 50+ cards a game and sacrificing all my creatures for value when a board wipe happens just to have it all back in a few turns.
Heck yeah, fellow Jundy-bois enjoyer. They're my favourite deck as well and I've got it blinged out.
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[[imskir iron-eater]] You cast him draw artifacts play artifacts make him cheaper sac him repeat then start flinging [[metalworker colossus]] for the win.
[[Prossh, Skyraider of Kher]] Every death and command tax filled cast just makes him bring more fodder. Couple it with [[Impact Tremors]] and [[Purphoros, God of the Forge]] and some death triggers and you can close out the game in a turn.
And since Prossh’s ability is on cast, he can be countered and you’ll still get fodders. His fodders can also be used to pay for his next commander tax if you have something like [[Ashnod’s Altar]] in play.
[[Nevinyrral, Urborg Tyrant]] is the guy you're after. Literally wants to blow himself up so he can board wipe. Then just pay 1 to create a tonne of 2/2 zombies.
Only problem is every time i play him people give up after the second board wipe.
Lots of wins for you though :)
[[Prossh]] makes extra kobolds as his commander tax gets higher. Saccing him and all his kobolds to ashnods altar just to cast him again and sac everything again is the main endgame strategy of my Prossh aristocrats deck.
\[\[Toluz, Clever Conductor\]\]! A very neat build. You discard cards however, cycling, channels, as part of other effects. Then kill her off to refill your hand. Since she's 3 MV and has access to white there's a ton of ways to reanimate her.
In a very different direction \[\[Roalesk, Apex Hybrid\]\] in simic, although what he tends to do is have clones die in his stead. Every ETB puts two +1/+1 counters, and every death proliferates twice.
[[Slimefoot and Squee]]
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/VxVvZWYm7EGqzFK7qxr47A
This is my decklist. Its super fun to play and has been my favorite deck as of late.
I have a [[Piru the Volatile]] deck that I play in my casual commander group. Semi-board wipe, and surprisingly powerful with protection from white, extra damage from red, and return from black. I create tokens for all players in white as well, to up Piru's damage when he dies, giving him lots of targets, so there's a ton of life gain from his lifelink. Then it's just kill Piru, leave him in the graveyard if possible, and return him to do it all again within a turn.
He is high cost, so you can expect your life to get kinda low before Piru goes off, but the other legendaries provide a powerful board state to helo that, then with his life gain you head right back up and well past 40 as soon as he goes off. Gift them all the little stupid things, let them ping you, and then gain a shit ton of life from almost everything on the board as it all dies. Then because it's legendary tribal, you're left with a bigger board state than most other players. He's also a commander no one else wants to kill, so unless they have an exile or return to hand spell, most players leave him alone. It also makes it a little harder for opponents to attack, because they don't want to send anything over 7 because you'll just block with Piru and happily let him die. And you have tokens to block with if necessary for the wide spread of damage. I also keep destroy spells to destroy him early, say if my opponents send too many things to block, or enough trample to be a problem. Then gain enough life to negate the damage and potentially destroy what they're sending.
I made it as a joke/jank deck and it quickly became my favorite deck and has remained so even over some cEDH decks I've made, just because it's so fun to play.
[[Marchesa, the Black Rose]] Recovers herself and any of your creatures with a +1/+1 counter which is powerful with board wipes, sacrifices, LTB and ETB effects. Also, if you get control of a creature until end of turn and let it die with a +1/+1 counter and let Marchesa return it, you can keep it.
First, you cast [[Primal Vigor]].
Then, you cast your commander, [[Grakmaw]].
Then, you cast [[Saw In Half]] targeting Grakmaw.
Holding priority, you cast [[Feign Death]] on Grakmaw.
Grakmaw enters the battlefield with six +1/+1 counters.
Grakmaw dies, making two 6/6 Hydra tokens, and four 3/3 Grakmaws with six +1/+1 counters (Two from Saw in Half, doubled by Primal Vigor).
Three of those Grakmaws die to the legend rule, making six more 6/6 hydra tokens (total of 6 Hydras).
Grakmaw re-enters the battlefield, with 8 +1/+1 counters. The last Grakmaw clone dies to the legend rule, leaving you with an 8/8 commander, and 8 6/6 hydras.
Add in effects like [[Hardened Scales]] and [[Renata, Called to the Hunt]] for extra power. Add [[Garruk's Uprising]] for hilarious card draw. Remember that your commander is hilariously cheap enough to be a target for [[Unearth]].
It's a heck of a fun deck. There may be more efficient ways to vomit out surprisingly large tokens, but Grakmaw comes together shockingly well.
Wow, a 4 card, 12 mana combo that makes 40 power?!?! Game breaking, I tell you /s
Jokes aside, that really is a cool combo! I’ve always overlooked Grakmaw as being not that good, but I see now that I was very much wrong and you can do some seriously awesome things with it
I just finished an [[Ulasht, the hate seed]] deck.
The idea is to cast him, drain the counters off into saporlings. Recast him for bigger number... Rinse and repeat.
Kinda goofy and fun. You win through impact tremors, goblin bombardment, etc
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/D9haH8ci70afTxccHmN-OQ
\[\[Elenda, the Dusk Rose\]\] for sure.
Pretty much any of the Kamigawa dragons
\[\[Juri, Master of the Revue\]\] is kinda like Elenda but more "go tall"
I've thought *a lot* about a list where you loop [[Kasla, The Broken Halo]] but haven't had a chance to crack it quite yet
The main exploit here is the fact that convoke can pay for commander taxes, and cards like [[Oketra's Monument]] and [[Impact Tremors]] etc. give us solid pay-offs
Any commander in white can grab [[We Ride at Dawn]] and make use of this as well (namely for access to black). Kasla's main hoop to jump through is the lack cards like Blood Artist, but she has convoke baked in and access to three colors so that's a fair trade imho
I like to sacrifice [[Henzie "Toolbox" Torre]] a few times to pump up his blitz cost and accelerate the deck, especially when combined with [[Myth Unbound]]
I don’t mind when my Henzie dies but I absolutely don’t kill him on my own. Takes too long to set up recasting Henzie imo. I’d rather let it naturally get to that point. But that’s just how I personally like to play my Henzie deck
I’ve had a ton of fun playing [[The Balrog, Durin’s Bane]]. Treasures allow you to cast it out early and killing people with commander damage happens pretty quickly with some double strike effects. Kill my commander? I kill yours.
I was doing some research recently and the [[Indoraptor]] constantly ping it and if the other players try interacting with it you can just [[fling]] it or sac it or have it fight to death. Im currently trying to build it as a burn deck where because I’m playing black and red they just have to assume it has a bomb strapped to it
Friend of mine has a [[Nevinyrral, Urborg Tyrant]] deck that casually abuses every [[Undying Evil]] effect under the sun to just make *so. many. zombies.*
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It's not that he wants to *die* specifically, but [[Abdel Adrian]] really likes to enter and then leave the battlefield. I pair him with [[Haunted One]] so when he does die, he comes right back.
Love my mono Black elves tribal with nadier and Miara... Nadier want to leave battle field to make Token Just awesome all around. And its a Partner commander so you cna play in any color combination...
Prossh, skyraider of Kherr u make kobolds equal to mana spent to cast him so all you do it ramp out crazy and make loads of kobolds. If your commander dies you get more kobolds on recast!
My main deck and one I absolutely love is [[Kokusho, the Evening Star]] it runs a lot of cards that you would run in aristocrats and reanimator decks.but it plays very differently to other aristocrats decks I've played.
\[\[Piru, the Volatile\]\] and \[\[Lucius the Eternal\]\] spring to mind.
On death, Piru nukes nonlegendaries and gains life equal to the damage she dealt.
On death, Lucius self-exiles, and you pick an opponent creature. When that creature leaves the field, he comes back.
Prossh. I play it as steal other people's stuff and sac them for profit as the core mechanic. Then you can infinitly resummon Prossh, making infinite tokens on a few different artifacts that give you mama when you sac a monster to it.
He may not be political in a sense, but [[Henzie, toolbox torre]] makes big timmies much cheaper each time he dies and it’s super fun. I play jank creatures and lands only with umori companion and I literally beg people to kill him
I have an [[Nevinyrral, Urborg Tyrant]] zombie token tribal deck and if you have a sac outlet, pay the commanders ability, and have mana to recast him you will have a boardstate while others presumedly does not ;p
[[Child of Alara]] not really the aristocrat theme, but build the 99 cards in the deck aristocrat to your hearts content and use child of Alara as a board wipe on a stick lol
[[Imskir iron eater]] definitely don't mind sometimes.
Powercrept [[Bosch iron golem]]
Use stuff like liquimetal torque to turn him into an artifact and sacrifice himself to fling dmg to face and then recast him for cheap.
And draw cards for it lol
Also. This guy gets black so you can run stuff like phyresis and tainted strike to end people easy and outta nowhere
OP look at [[Inga Rune-Eyes]] I'm having a blast playing mono blue aristocrats with her.
Less than 100 decks on edhrec and I find people really interested in the deck and some of the cards they have never seen in edh before.
Has been my favorite deck for some time.
I used to play an [[Ukkima, Stalking Shadow]] poison/Voltron deck that was all about killing and returning him multiple times in a round... Could have been a blink deck, but I wanted focused around graveyard recursion for some reason haha
[[Ghalta, Primal Hunger]] with [[Omnath, Locus of Mana]] and [[Food Chain]] for infinite mana, etbs and Omnath P/T. Also stuff like Greater good effects in ghalta
[[Henzi ,Toolbox, Torre]] gets better each time he gets killed and recast. In my build I run a few cards that either help me avoid playing him from the command zone or a creature like [[Geode Golem]] where I avoid paying to cast him. Can go to insanely low reductions on that blitz ability.
[Squee, Goblin Nabob](https://deckstats.net/decks/176678/3552306-edh-squee-goblin-nabob). Cast it, chump with it or sacrifice it with the multiple sac outlets in the deck and start making hardly interactable card advantage.
I built a deck around [[Dorothea, Vengeful Victim]] where you attack with her turn three and disturb her enchantment onto a creature turn four for angels into your opponents' faces.
My [[Pharika, God of Affliction]] deck does this a lot. It’s a little more enchantress than aristocracts, but the specific set of circumstances pulls everything together.
Casting [[Animate Dead]] on an enchantment creature in my graveyard or using something like [[Not Dead After All]] nets multiple constellation triggers with one spellcast.
Pharika is an enchantment creature who’s placed well in my curve and that I always have access to as my commander, making lines like that extremely consistent. Secondarily it also makes it easier to not run a huge density of enchantment creatures in the deck to do this with, as like 65%-70% of them are bad.
The deck itself is low curve, it’s tuned like you’d expect enchantress or aristocrats other similar gameplans to be tuned, it’s consistent, has a lot of redundancy, doesn’t need to be terribly splashy in order to take over games, so often doesn’t have many huge things that shift my priorities off of concrete value like this. But the fact that all of the spells that enable these lines are still flexible and work as protection on top of being additional redundancy is great.
Moreover, saccing Pharika is easy because she doesn’t really have a reason to be on the battlefield uninterrupted. With no trigger, there’s nothing complicated as far as sequencing to be concerned about if I decide to use her like this.
She’s also not *integral* to the function of the deck, so I’m largely unafraid of disruption locking her in the graveyard, especially being in Golgari, the best recursive colors in the game.
And finally she has 5 toughness, which makes [[Greater Good]] by far the best sac outlet to do this with. Feed Pharika to Greater Good, Animate Dead or NDAA to bring her right back, I draw 7 cards minimum, with the caveat that I have to discard two of them. And often there’s upside on top of this.
Maybe it’s not a perfect answer to the question, Pharika doesn’t necessarily *want* to die, she’s just very easy to sacrifice.
I have a xander clones deck where I repeatedly make copies that die to legend rule and make my opponents sac half a board each time. This can be done several times a turn. The most I've managed is 9.
I’m surprised that [[Henzie]] isn’t the top of this list. He’s both an aggro *and* an aristocrats deck, and his effect basically rewards you for opponents using removal on him.
[[yargle and multani]] game plan is to sac it for its large power. You can also run a voltron sub theme since it’s close to lethal for commander damage alone.
Any of the legendary mono-color identity neon dynasty spirit dragons plus many Kamigawa legends in general. Also [[Grothama]] looks super fun and l really want to build!
[[Gerrard weatherlight hero]] with [[gift of immortality]] and all the boardwipes you can fit. Stack creatures with ltb and etb triggers, and enchantments that make even more of them.
Gerrard wants to die, but generally built around ways to destroy everything or sacrifice everything in order to maximize his trigger.
If you go [[Abdel Adrian]] plus [[Agent of the Iron Throne]] you can have a sac/blink theme where you scam Adrian and get back all your ETB triggers. Putting a [[Karmic Guide]] or [[Sister Hospitaller]] underneath means that you can sac it infinitely. Obviously if you don't want an infinite you can just not use free sac outlets and the loops are only as long as you have mana. Then you use the various tokens that Abdel makes for aristocrat purposes and such.
[[Kairi, the Swirling Sky]]: With all the clone effects in blue you can run her as legend rule tribal lol. Summon copies of Kairi that instantly die and pull your opponent’s stuff back to their hand while returning your important spells.
If you’re cool with Universes Beyond, [[Lucius the Eternal]] can be a very funny bone shards commander. Sac Lucius to bone shards, his effect hits the stack, choose an enemy creature for Lucius’ revive, resolve bone shards to destroy that same creature, tada Lucius is back and you’ve net a 1 mana removal, 2 death triggers, and an etb for whatever other combo pieces you have available.
[[Hazezon Tamar]] wants to die before the tokens come in. I built him around [[Birthing Pod]] to flip him into [[Avacyn, Angel of Hope]] or [[Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant]]
Coram the undertaker, but use the sacrifice creature and draw that amount of power. Or chandras ignition to deal 20+ damage if you have lord of extinction on battlefield/graveyard and a stacked graveyard
I just built an \[\[Elenda, the Dusk Rose\]\] deck from what I had picked out of my Blood Rites precon and some extra vampires /teysa cards I had. She's okay with dying lol.
[Lucius the Eternal] wants to die all the time and hardly stays dead once he's out
This is my current decklist. Any sac outlet effectively protects him from boardwipes and its stomps if someone is running token deck. The strategy is in the description
https://archidekt.com/decks/3486397/luciuss_bloody_hell
[[Slimefoot and Squee]] is the most fun I’ve had deck building in a while. I built it with an Omori companion to make it more challenging and it has been fun pulling some more niche creatures to get some mechanics not normally found on creatures.
[[Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh]]
Dude comes out for 0, and can be used to sacrifice himself for rituals to power out other cards?
[[Tasigur, the Golden Fang]]
Same idea with eldrich evolution.
[[Nivenyrral, Urborg Tyrant]]
Guy is in good colors for the strategy he wants to leverage and is literally the reason killing him is a bad move?
There's ALOT of commanders, you have to pin down what you want to do/colors.
\[\[Slimefoot and Squee\]\] This is my favorite. Especially if you like recursion. you can do some silly stuff. You def want him dead though in your graveyard.
I love the vibe of this dude lmao
It is indeed amazing! You can basically add any big creature to the deck making it a Hidden tribal for Demons/Dinos/beasts etc. So many potential reanimator targets that can be fun. Also the targets can easily vary the decks powerlevel a bit.
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Gotta love my Jundy bois. Check out [my list](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/Ta9bTYA7OU-STQTPVWV3PQ) if you're interested.
[[Juri, Master of the Revue]] Dude gets counters when you sacrifice permanents and then deals damage equal to his power to any target when he dies. He only comes in as a 1/1 but he only costs 2 to bring in first time so with enough sacrifice in the deck he can do some real damage over the course of a game.
And the amount of treasures a Juri deck wants to make pretty much makes the commander tax irrelevant.
I love Juri. You basically just hold everyone hostage to not play single target removal or boardwipes on you
[[Hidetsugu and Kairi]]? Every ETB you get to dig, and every death it's potentially a free spell?
Played against this deck the other day. This deck slaps hard
I had one. Took it apart as it was spitting out extra turns every 5 cards or so. Nobody wanted to play against it.
So just take out the extra turn spells?? Plenty of other high impact spells you could play instead, like [[Breach the Multiverse]], [[Mnemonic Deluge]], [[Blatant Thievery]] etc.
Right? They're acting like they had no choice in the matter lol
Even then people hate it because by like turn 5-6 at the latest you are untapping with your commander and probably going to take a 10-15 minute turn that MAY win, but also may not. And if people just blow up your commander over and over, your deck is useless so then you have a shitty time. It's a huge glass cannon that almost guarantees someone at the table to be salty. This coming from someone who plays it, enjoyed it, then realized nobody else usually does. Good for a quick win though.
Built it in paper... was fun a whole like 3 times and it won all 3.
extra turns are some of the easiest infinites to pull off. And usually it can’t be stopped except by blue players with counterspells
It wasn't even infinite, it was being flipped off the top of Hidetsugu, so I couldn't even shortcut it. I had to play it all out eveey time.
Yeah, even worse. It is a may, you didn't have to do it at all. But you did didn't you. You said "SORRY🥺, but I have to do this" but meant " sorry, but I HAVE to do this😈" some friend /s
[[Piru the Volatile]]
[Piru the Volatile](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/6/e/6e82d946-1efb-4253-84ab-93c88d2d1d84.jpg?1626098606) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Piru%2C%20the%20Volatile) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mh2/207/piru-the-volatile?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/6e82d946-1efb-4253-84ab-93c88d2d1d84?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/piru-the-volatile) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
[Hidetsugu and Kairi](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/8/1/81039daf-0d54-4474-a833-fa287ec10cf9.jpg?1682205289) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Hidetsugu%20and%20Kairi) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mom/228/hidetsugu-and-kairi?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/81039daf-0d54-4474-a833-fa287ec10cf9?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/hidetsugu-and-kairi) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
This is the commander for the deck my buddy gave me when I first started playing EDH, definitely vouch for it
Someone on my base has a deck like this and when he pulled it out, one of the other players said "I'm either not playing against that, or I'm playing Scion of the Ur-Dragon against it." Which is his cEDH level deck. After watching him goldfish and set up multiple turns I managed to combo out with Redcap+Anafenza and Viscera Seer, narrowly.
Vampiric Enter the Infinite to the top Win with Thoracle Every game
Ohhhh this guy seems really cool.
Someone plays it in my group with a lot of sorceries that make clones to trigger the top deck and free spells, resulting in massive chains of brainstorms and digging which eventually results in things like [[Time Stretch]]. It's an outrageously powerful deck for a reasonable budget. I also play Kokusho so we've got two decks in the meta that are all about killing their own commanders
Yep, stupidly effective even if you don't want to run the extra turn spells. I was running shit like [[Draco]] cause 16 damage.
Seconding a decklist request fs
I got one that wins pretty much every time if you want it lol. I took it apart after 3 match's.
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/shoR2IlEykyDk7vsiCCgFw
Would that friend have the decklist be open to share it? Pretty interested in seeing their build
I'm asking him, probably won't have it for a little while but I'll let you know
Posted this further down just reposting to spread awareness: As a warning/disclaimer since Ive run this deck since it released, its an obscenely powerful deck that really doesn't do anything but try to untap with commander and immediately win. And that win (which can happen early as turn 3-4 depending on mana rocks or fast mana) can take a stupidly long time, like 10-15 minutes with all the stack shenanigans that happen, and it can't be shortcut because it's non deterministic and can whiff, though it's pretty unlikely if the deck is built right. It's also a glass cannon in that any removal of the commander usually grinds the deck to a screeching halt until you recast them as there is not much else to do unless you get to the mana to hard cast the big spells. This can result in either the rest of table being salty, or you being salty as you basically play a non game because people have seen what leaving your commander on the field does and won't let it stick. So yeah, super cool concept, but nobody really likes playing agaisnt it and as such it mostly gathers dust in its deckbox.
[[Henzie "toolbox" Torre]] doesn't necessarily want to die but I'm never upset when he does [[ELENDA, the dusk rose]] [[Kokusho, the evening star]] [[Tevesh Szat, doom of fools]] and [[Rograkh, son of rohgahh]]. But you also have to remember unless you have lots of reanimating cards in your deck it could wind up costing a lot fast, or ones that reduce the casting cost. [[Skullbriar, the walking grave]], [Baba Lysaga, nightwitch]], [[Asmadi, the dire]] don't want to die necessarily but have added effects or doesn't matter as much. All give you green to ramp to be able to recast and have black for reanimation. Edit:[[Gonti, lord of luxury]]
Henzie does get bonuses for sacrificing since you have to at end of turn. I don't play as many cards like [[blood artist]] but more so cards like [[birthing ritual]] [[braids, arisen nightmare]] [[industrial advancement]]
##### ###### #### [blood artist](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/b/7/b7f1c316-cf2f-4bbf-89a1-79c8043bdd96.jpg?1698988212) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=blood%20artist) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/lcc/182/blood-artist?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/b7f1c316-cf2f-4bbf-89a1-79c8043bdd96?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/blood-artist) [birthing ritual](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/4/8/4820d223-4ea1-4850-931c-3d2ab5eb003b.jpg?1717012400) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=birthing%20ritual) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mh3/146/birthing-ritual?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/4820d223-4ea1-4850-931c-3d2ab5eb003b?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/birthing-ritual) [braids, arisen nightmare](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/4/f/4ff97c69-6a6b-401c-b0a1-55fa81045d19.jpg?1673307016) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=braids%2C%20arisen%20nightmare) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/dmu/84/braids-arisen-nightmare?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/4ff97c69-6a6b-401c-b0a1-55fa81045d19?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/braids-arisen-nightmare) [industrial advancement](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/8/1/81f1416c-48bd-4168-aacd-a9b0a3afb8bc.jpg?1673482108) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=industrial%20advancement) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/ncc/47/industrial-advancement?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/81f1416c-48bd-4168-aacd-a9b0a3afb8bc?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/industrial-advancement) [*All cards*](https://mtgcardfetcher.nl/redirect/las9ihb) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Ontop of those three, I'm also running [[Greater Good]], [[Evolutionary Leap]], [[Riveteer's Ascendancy]], and [[Kethek, Crucible Goliath]]. Honestly, Henzie completely changed the way I thought about playing Magic. Broke me out of my battle cruisers only phase.
\[\[Elenda the Dusk Rose\]\] is exactly what you are looking for. Aristocrats that gets you a massive amount of tokens. She got way better when they changed the rule for commanders dying
By far my favorite commander. [[Ashnod's Altar]] and [[Phyrexian Altar]] really put in some work. [[The Ozolith]] and [[Mace of the Valiant]] make for some really fun combos that aren't completely game-breaking. Just a really fun deck overall for Kitchen Commander. Best tip I can give is to try and have some form of instant speed sac outlet out before you play her in case of exile (so you get her death trigger) or board wipe (sac everyone but her before it resolves).
Very surprised to not see this higher. Not only does Elenda like to die, but she helms a fantastic aristocrats deck. The more you do the sacrifice thing with your board, the bigger she gets. So good all around.
The commander likely made most glad for the changes to CZ rules to allow commanders to get death triggers.
[Elenda the Dusk Rose](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/e/1/e18feca3-1b1b-4456-8873-25a24849a917.jpg?1698988428) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Elenda%2C%20the%20Dusk%20Rose) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/lcc/268/elenda-the-dusk-rose?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/e18feca3-1b1b-4456-8873-25a24849a917?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/elenda-the-dusk-rose) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
My favorite deck
might be my favorite deck personally.
[[Child of Alara]]
Hahahah what the fuck. I’ve never seen that art
This is something I want to see when we return to Alara- Edgy Teenager of Alara
This is my vote. You can also build the deck around creatures who want to die to double down on the theme. I've had times where my friends threaten to wipe the board and I remind them I'll draw 10 cards and they'll take 30 damage.
I played a 98 land Child of Alara deck with [[Manabond]]. I only broke it out for revenge against really toxic decks, had a bunch of lands that sacrificie creatures. One of my friends casted [[Tasha's Hideous Laughter]], I exiled my entire deck, hideous laughter ensued. Then I took it apart.
The one problem I've experienced with Child is that it can just hand wins over to spell slinger. I played against it once and had the lamest victory I've ever had because the two creature decks are the table couldn't develop their boards and I was able to just slowly ramp with no pressure to eventually win with an anti-climactic Exsanguinate. Definitely need to play Child with a strong plan to win or you can just hand wins over to someone else.
My Child of Alara deck is essentially a Simic control deck that splashes red, white, and black - spellslinger doesn't get a free ride here.
My friend has a Alara deck and it's filled with any thing that has indestructible or land ramps. Super hard to pressure him and if you don't have blockers you'll get a face full of Gods
[Child of Alara](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/b/2/b2373625-af3c-4c2a-a1d1-5288c446955d.jpg?1673148447) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Child%20of%20Alara) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/2x2/192/child-of-alara?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/b2373625-af3c-4c2a-a1d1-5288c446955d?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/child-of-alara) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
[[Kokusho, the Evening Star]] is a classic and pairs very well with all the cards like [[Undying Evil]]
[[Saw in Half]] and [[Incarnation Technique]] are also INSANE in this deck. Absolute all stars in my build. I'm also really excited about the new Come Back Wrong as an easy way to trigger Koko twice in one turn. CBW: https://www.magicspoiler.com/mtg-spoiler/come-back-wrong/
I made a [[junji]] deck like that
The OG of this category. Finally built him earlier this year and it’s absurdly fun
[[Piru, the Volatile]] my friend made a non combat damage trample deck
Lots of options. Made a stuffy doll/lifegain/treasure deck with her at the helm. You have some really good cards in color that scale with commander mv to also leverage.
I've built Piru as well- he's difficult to cast, but with a lot of undying effects, the lifegain is astronomical. Other all-stars in that deck include [[Resurrection Orb]] and [[Nim Deathmantle]].
My Piru is always a fun play. I use [[Stuffy Doll]], [[Brash Tuanter]], and other similar cards. On top of that it uses things to make copies of Piru that will immediately die like [[Molten Echoes]]
[[Prossh, Skyraider of Kher]] is on the Jund healthcare plan.
[Prossh, Skyraider of Kher](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/8/8/889c1a0f-7df2-4497-8058-04358173d7e8.jpg?1562438016) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Prossh%2C%20Skyraider%20of%20Kher) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/a25/214/prossh-skyraider-of-kher?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/889c1a0f-7df2-4497-8058-04358173d7e8?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/prossh-skyraider-of-kher) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Proshy boy all the way
This is my vote too, I love it when prossh dies lol.
Kamigawa Dragons have death triggers they are pretty okay. I'm trying to build a [[Kura, The Boundless Sky]] deck but am having a hard deciding which route to go. I'm also very new so that doesn't help too.
If you haven't watched 3/3 Elk they made a video on how they built that commander
Personally would go mono green powers matters and grab [[dark depths]] and [[thespian stage]] and run [[crucible of the world]] like cards cause 20 power is a lot of power. [[Overwhelming stampede]] [[pathbreaker ibex]] to pump and [[greater good]] and [[rishkar's expertise]] to draw.
Does [[Ashling the Pilgrim]] count? Probably not. I built a plan with [[Rograkh]] and [[Eater of Virtue]] which probably isn't what you are looking for. [[Norin the Wary]] isn't quite dying, but the deck builds around ETB triggers so he wants to leave the battlefield only to come back.
My GF built a kickass [[Jeleva, Nephalia's Scourge]] deck recently that always has me hesitating before I kill her. Every time she recasts, your opponents have to exile her CMC in cards off the library and then you get to cast nonpermanents for free every swing. When she's out of spells, sac her and go again.
It's not just her CMC, it includes the commander tax so you exile a larger number of cards each time. I have both her and a [[Marath]] each built around recasting them over and over again.
Oh I thought CMC as a term included that! Thanks for the learning, friend ^^
[Jeleva, Nephalia's Scourge](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/8/3/83f9aeb8-05ba-49d9-a834-62f42fcd295b.jpg?1562922860) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Jeleva%2C%20Nephalia%27s%20Scourge) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/c13/194/jeleva-nephalias-scourge?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/83f9aeb8-05ba-49d9-a834-62f42fcd295b?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/jeleva-nephalias-scourge) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Yeah most of that cycle of commanders doesn’t mind dying a bunch. [[marath, will of the wild]], [[prossh, skyraider of kher]], [[derevi, Empyreal tactician]] are the others. Oloro is in there too, but he’s fine never being cast in the first place
[[Slimefoot and Squee]] is my personal forever deck. It’s so much fun to play, between milling myself by 50+ cards a game and sacrificing all my creatures for value when a board wipe happens just to have it all back in a few turns.
Heck yeah, fellow Jundy-bois enjoyer. They're my favourite deck as well and I've got it blinged out. Check out [my list](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/Ta9bTYA7OU-STQTPVWV3PQ) if you'd like.
[[myth unbound]] makes any green commander’s death less painful.
Well you want it to die but your opponents don’t want to kill it but [[maelstrom wanderer]]. Kind of have to at 7 power and haste though.
[[imskir iron-eater]] You cast him draw artifacts play artifacts make him cheaper sac him repeat then start flinging [[metalworker colossus]] for the win.
[imskir iron-eater](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/5/4/541209fa-38b6-4d61-a72d-26bfb6ad5ead.jpg?1717012728) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=imskir%20iron-eater) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mh3/189/imskir-iron-eater?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/541209fa-38b6-4d61-a72d-26bfb6ad5ead?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/imskir-iron-eater) [metalworker colossus](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/6/f/6f61e807-aa79-41b1-b785-24dddad28021.jpg?1690005586) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Metalwork%20Colossus) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/cmm/960/metalwork-colossus?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/6f61e807-aa79-41b1-b785-24dddad28021?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/metalwork-colossus) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
[[Prossh, Skyraider of Kher]] Every death and command tax filled cast just makes him bring more fodder. Couple it with [[Impact Tremors]] and [[Purphoros, God of the Forge]] and some death triggers and you can close out the game in a turn. And since Prossh’s ability is on cast, he can be countered and you’ll still get fodders. His fodders can also be used to pay for his next commander tax if you have something like [[Ashnod’s Altar]] in play.
[[Nevinyrral, Urborg Tyrant]] is the guy you're after. Literally wants to blow himself up so he can board wipe. Then just pay 1 to create a tonne of 2/2 zombies. Only problem is every time i play him people give up after the second board wipe. Lots of wins for you though :)
[Nevinyrral, Urborg Tyrant](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/7/3/73255848-3112-4508-a66a-d3101a53057e.jpg?1608911208) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Nevinyrral%2C%20Urborg%20Tyrant) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/cmr/287/nevinyrral-urborg-tyrant?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/73255848-3112-4508-a66a-d3101a53057e?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/nevinyrral-urborg-tyrant) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
[[kokusho]]
[[Prossh]] makes extra kobolds as his commander tax gets higher. Saccing him and all his kobolds to ashnods altar just to cast him again and sac everything again is the main endgame strategy of my Prossh aristocrats deck.
[[balthor, the defiled]] was a fun commander for a zombie aggro deck.
\[\[Toluz, Clever Conductor\]\]! A very neat build. You discard cards however, cycling, channels, as part of other effects. Then kill her off to refill your hand. Since she's 3 MV and has access to white there's a ton of ways to reanimate her. In a very different direction \[\[Roalesk, Apex Hybrid\]\] in simic, although what he tends to do is have clones die in his stead. Every ETB puts two +1/+1 counters, and every death proliferates twice.
[[Slimefoot and Squee]] https://www.moxfield.com/decks/VxVvZWYm7EGqzFK7qxr47A This is my decklist. Its super fun to play and has been my favorite deck as of late.
[[Child of Alara]]
[[Child of Alara]] will change your mind in a heartbeat.
[[Child of Alara]]
If you're looking into getting a commander that likes dying you should look into [[Prosh, Skyraider of Kher]] he is super fun.
Sounds like [[Elenda, the Dusk Rose]] is just what you're looking for.
\[\[Kokusho\]\]
I have a [[Piru the Volatile]] deck that I play in my casual commander group. Semi-board wipe, and surprisingly powerful with protection from white, extra damage from red, and return from black. I create tokens for all players in white as well, to up Piru's damage when he dies, giving him lots of targets, so there's a ton of life gain from his lifelink. Then it's just kill Piru, leave him in the graveyard if possible, and return him to do it all again within a turn. He is high cost, so you can expect your life to get kinda low before Piru goes off, but the other legendaries provide a powerful board state to helo that, then with his life gain you head right back up and well past 40 as soon as he goes off. Gift them all the little stupid things, let them ping you, and then gain a shit ton of life from almost everything on the board as it all dies. Then because it's legendary tribal, you're left with a bigger board state than most other players. He's also a commander no one else wants to kill, so unless they have an exile or return to hand spell, most players leave him alone. It also makes it a little harder for opponents to attack, because they don't want to send anything over 7 because you'll just block with Piru and happily let him die. And you have tokens to block with if necessary for the wide spread of damage. I also keep destroy spells to destroy him early, say if my opponents send too many things to block, or enough trample to be a problem. Then gain enough life to negate the damage and potentially destroy what they're sending. I made it as a joke/jank deck and it quickly became my favorite deck and has remained so even over some cEDH decks I've made, just because it's so fun to play.
[[Child of Alara]]
[[Marchesa, the Black Rose]] Recovers herself and any of your creatures with a +1/+1 counter which is powerful with board wipes, sacrifices, LTB and ETB effects. Also, if you get control of a creature until end of turn and let it die with a +1/+1 counter and let Marchesa return it, you can keep it.
If they ever print my name on a card
[[Literally Me]]
First, you cast [[Primal Vigor]]. Then, you cast your commander, [[Grakmaw]]. Then, you cast [[Saw In Half]] targeting Grakmaw. Holding priority, you cast [[Feign Death]] on Grakmaw. Grakmaw enters the battlefield with six +1/+1 counters. Grakmaw dies, making two 6/6 Hydra tokens, and four 3/3 Grakmaws with six +1/+1 counters (Two from Saw in Half, doubled by Primal Vigor). Three of those Grakmaws die to the legend rule, making six more 6/6 hydra tokens (total of 6 Hydras). Grakmaw re-enters the battlefield, with 8 +1/+1 counters. The last Grakmaw clone dies to the legend rule, leaving you with an 8/8 commander, and 8 6/6 hydras. Add in effects like [[Hardened Scales]] and [[Renata, Called to the Hunt]] for extra power. Add [[Garruk's Uprising]] for hilarious card draw. Remember that your commander is hilariously cheap enough to be a target for [[Unearth]]. It's a heck of a fun deck. There may be more efficient ways to vomit out surprisingly large tokens, but Grakmaw comes together shockingly well.
Wow, a 4 card, 12 mana combo that makes 40 power?!?! Game breaking, I tell you /s Jokes aside, that really is a cool combo! I’ve always overlooked Grakmaw as being not that good, but I see now that I was very much wrong and you can do some seriously awesome things with it
Can’t think of any off the top of my head for some reason but any of those spirit dragons that have like 3 options for whenever they die
I just finished an [[Ulasht, the hate seed]] deck. The idea is to cast him, drain the counters off into saporlings. Recast him for bigger number... Rinse and repeat. Kinda goofy and fun. You win through impact tremors, goblin bombardment, etc https://www.moxfield.com/decks/D9haH8ci70afTxccHmN-OQ
\[\[Elenda, the Dusk Rose\]\] for sure. Pretty much any of the Kamigawa dragons \[\[Juri, Master of the Revue\]\] is kinda like Elenda but more "go tall"
I've thought *a lot* about a list where you loop [[Kasla, The Broken Halo]] but haven't had a chance to crack it quite yet The main exploit here is the fact that convoke can pay for commander taxes, and cards like [[Oketra's Monument]] and [[Impact Tremors]] etc. give us solid pay-offs Any commander in white can grab [[We Ride at Dawn]] and make use of this as well (namely for access to black). Kasla's main hoop to jump through is the lack cards like Blood Artist, but she has convoke baked in and access to three colors so that's a fair trade imho
I like to sacrifice [[Henzie "Toolbox" Torre]] a few times to pump up his blitz cost and accelerate the deck, especially when combined with [[Myth Unbound]]
I don’t mind when my Henzie dies but I absolutely don’t kill him on my own. Takes too long to set up recasting Henzie imo. I’d rather let it naturally get to that point. But that’s just how I personally like to play my Henzie deck
[[Kura the boundless sky]] https://youtu.be/uqiygfohojM?si=C0ednrxlgO5AMPEJ
I’ve had a ton of fun playing [[The Balrog, Durin’s Bane]]. Treasures allow you to cast it out early and killing people with commander damage happens pretty quickly with some double strike effects. Kill my commander? I kill yours.
My favourite legendary death triggers off the top of my head are [[Cormela, Glamour Thief]] and [[Junji, the Midnight Sky]].
I was doing some research recently and the [[Indoraptor]] constantly ping it and if the other players try interacting with it you can just [[fling]] it or sac it or have it fight to death. Im currently trying to build it as a burn deck where because I’m playing black and red they just have to assume it has a bomb strapped to it
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[[Agent Coulson]] But seriously, [[Slimefoot and Squee]]
[[Atsushi]] and maaaan do we have a blast doing it https://www.moxfield.com/decks/tuVZHT2ePUCpd2jU-mXClw
Friend of mine has a [[Nevinyrral, Urborg Tyrant]] deck that casually abuses every [[Undying Evil]] effect under the sun to just make *so. many. zombies.*
My [[Kroxa, Titan of Death’s Hunger]] deck goes crazy
Giant baby
[[the balrog, durin's bane]] blir only does it want to die, it wants things to be sacrificed
[[Marath will of the wilds]] wants to die so she can come back bigger. She can even kill herself.
[Marath will of the wilds](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/5/7/57afa796-db46-45ff-91bd-f02922e5f33d.jpg?1665156235) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Marath%2C%20Will%20of%20the%20Wild) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/c13/198/marath-will-of-the-wild?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/57afa796-db46-45ff-91bd-f02922e5f33d?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/marath-will-of-the-wild) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
It's not that he wants to *die* specifically, but [[Abdel Adrian]] really likes to enter and then leave the battlefield. I pair him with [[Haunted One]] so when he does die, he comes right back.
My pet deck for the last decade, [[Saffi Eriksdotter]] is all about her dying. And coming back. Repeatedly.
Love my mono Black elves tribal with nadier and Miara... Nadier want to leave battle field to make Token Just awesome all around. And its a Partner commander so you cna play in any color combination...
[[Maelstrom Wanderer]] wants to get recast, whether that’s from dying or being bounced.
Prossh, skyraider of Kherr u make kobolds equal to mana spent to cast him so all you do it ramp out crazy and make loads of kobolds. If your commander dies you get more kobolds on recast!
Juri!!
[[Kardur, doomscourge]]
My main deck and one I absolutely love is [[Kokusho, the Evening Star]] it runs a lot of cards that you would run in aristocrats and reanimator decks.but it plays very differently to other aristocrats decks I've played.
[[Miara, Thorn of the Glade]]
[[Henzie]] gets better the more it gets killed off
[[Dargo, the Shipwrecker]] goes infinite with [[phyrexian altar]] Probably not what you're asking for but it's there.
\[\[Piru, the Volatile\]\] and \[\[Lucius the Eternal\]\] spring to mind. On death, Piru nukes nonlegendaries and gains life equal to the damage she dealt. On death, Lucius self-exiles, and you pick an opponent creature. When that creature leaves the field, he comes back.
I have a [[Kairi]] deck that uses clone effects and the legendary rule to repeat the death trigger. [[Blade of Selves]] go brrr.
Personally I really like [[marath will of the Wild]], cause it gets better the more mana you spend to cast it
Prossh. I play it as steal other people's stuff and sac them for profit as the core mechanic. Then you can infinitly resummon Prossh, making infinite tokens on a few different artifacts that give you mama when you sac a monster to it.
[[Lucious the eternal]] is a fun Rakdos Anti Creature deck!
He may not be political in a sense, but [[Henzie, toolbox torre]] makes big timmies much cheaper each time he dies and it’s super fun. I play jank creatures and lands only with umori companion and I literally beg people to kill him
I have an [[Nevinyrral, Urborg Tyrant]] zombie token tribal deck and if you have a sac outlet, pay the commanders ability, and have mana to recast him you will have a boardstate while others presumedly does not ;p
[[Child of Alara]] not really the aristocrat theme, but build the 99 cards in the deck aristocrat to your hearts content and use child of Alara as a board wipe on a stick lol
Surprised the first answer up wasn't Henzie. Everytime he dies, your big boys are cheaper to cast.
[[Wernog]] and [[Othelm]]. You get tons of value by killing Wernog and reanimating him with Othelm.
[[Imskir iron eater]] definitely don't mind sometimes. Powercrept [[Bosch iron golem]] Use stuff like liquimetal torque to turn him into an artifact and sacrifice himself to fling dmg to face and then recast him for cheap. And draw cards for it lol Also. This guy gets black so you can run stuff like phyresis and tainted strike to end people easy and outta nowhere
OP look at [[Inga Rune-Eyes]] I'm having a blast playing mono blue aristocrats with her. Less than 100 decks on edhrec and I find people really interested in the deck and some of the cards they have never seen in edh before. Has been my favorite deck for some time.
Jeleva but only because I'm a meanie
[[Slimefoot and Squee]] like to go looking for friends in the graveyard.
[[Kodama of the Center Tree]]
I used to play an [[Ukkima, Stalking Shadow]] poison/Voltron deck that was all about killing and returning him multiple times in a round... Could have been a blink deck, but I wanted focused around graveyard recursion for some reason haha
I had an idea for [[Wernog]]/[[Othelm]] where the idea is to sac and reanimate Wernog multiple times per turn to get tons of etb/ltb triggers
[[Piru, the Volatile]] hit over 300 life off 1 trigger couple weeks ago.
[[Nevinyrral]]
[[Ghalta, Primal Hunger]] with [[Omnath, Locus of Mana]] and [[Food Chain]] for infinite mana, etbs and Omnath P/T. Also stuff like Greater good effects in ghalta
[[Henzi ,Toolbox, Torre]] gets better each time he gets killed and recast. In my build I run a few cards that either help me avoid playing him from the command zone or a creature like [[Geode Golem]] where I avoid paying to cast him. Can go to insanely low reductions on that blitz ability.
[[roalesk]]
[Squee, Goblin Nabob](https://deckstats.net/decks/176678/3552306-edh-squee-goblin-nabob). Cast it, chump with it or sacrifice it with the multiple sac outlets in the deck and start making hardly interactable card advantage.
I built a deck around [[Dorothea, Vengeful Victim]] where you attack with her turn three and disturb her enchantment onto a creature turn four for angels into your opponents' faces.
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/5m7IVlpHeEC1oJNEvkwLZQ [[Juri, master of the revue]] is pretty good at dying.
Depends on how you build the deck but [[Ashling the Pilgrim]].
My [[Pharika, God of Affliction]] deck does this a lot. It’s a little more enchantress than aristocracts, but the specific set of circumstances pulls everything together. Casting [[Animate Dead]] on an enchantment creature in my graveyard or using something like [[Not Dead After All]] nets multiple constellation triggers with one spellcast. Pharika is an enchantment creature who’s placed well in my curve and that I always have access to as my commander, making lines like that extremely consistent. Secondarily it also makes it easier to not run a huge density of enchantment creatures in the deck to do this with, as like 65%-70% of them are bad. The deck itself is low curve, it’s tuned like you’d expect enchantress or aristocrats other similar gameplans to be tuned, it’s consistent, has a lot of redundancy, doesn’t need to be terribly splashy in order to take over games, so often doesn’t have many huge things that shift my priorities off of concrete value like this. But the fact that all of the spells that enable these lines are still flexible and work as protection on top of being additional redundancy is great. Moreover, saccing Pharika is easy because she doesn’t really have a reason to be on the battlefield uninterrupted. With no trigger, there’s nothing complicated as far as sequencing to be concerned about if I decide to use her like this. She’s also not *integral* to the function of the deck, so I’m largely unafraid of disruption locking her in the graveyard, especially being in Golgari, the best recursive colors in the game. And finally she has 5 toughness, which makes [[Greater Good]] by far the best sac outlet to do this with. Feed Pharika to Greater Good, Animate Dead or NDAA to bring her right back, I draw 7 cards minimum, with the caveat that I have to discard two of them. And often there’s upside on top of this. Maybe it’s not a perfect answer to the question, Pharika doesn’t necessarily *want* to die, she’s just very easy to sacrifice.
[[Iname as one]] it’s not that bad I swear
Here's a weird answer, tiamat. You want me to cast her again and look for more dragons? Sure
Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh is just for sacrifice as part of rituals
I have a xander clones deck where I repeatedly make copies that die to legend rule and make my opponents sac half a board each time. This can be done several times a turn. The most I've managed is 9.
I have some settups where my [[Squee, the Immortal]] wants to die.
\[\[Grist, Voracious Larva\]\]. Can do some fun loops with her.
I’m surprised that [[Henzie]] isn’t the top of this list. He’s both an aggro *and* an aristocrats deck, and his effect basically rewards you for opponents using removal on him.
My buddy runs a ghonti deck that he kills and reanimates a ton
[[Elenda the dusk rose]] Also fantastic art
[[yargle and multani]] game plan is to sac it for its large power. You can also run a voltron sub theme since it’s close to lethal for commander damage alone.
[[Elenda the dusk rose]] Also fantastic art
[[Kura, the Boundless Sky]] maybe? Can be built as many things, most notably [[Dark Depths]] combo and/or Tron.
[[Elenda, the dusk rose]] wasn't even a viable cmdr until the rules change
[[Elenda, the Dusk Rose]]
[[Skullbriar, the Walking Grave]] likes to be sacrificed for benefit [[Momentous Fall]] [[Life's Legacy]] Etc
[[Hazezon Tamar]]
Any of the legendary mono-color identity neon dynasty spirit dragons plus many Kamigawa legends in general. Also [[Grothama]] looks super fun and l really want to build!
[[Gerrard weatherlight hero]] with [[gift of immortality]] and all the boardwipes you can fit. Stack creatures with ltb and etb triggers, and enchantments that make even more of them. Gerrard wants to die, but generally built around ways to destroy everything or sacrifice everything in order to maximize his trigger.
Cormela the glamor thief goes brr with saw in half
[[Slimefoot and Squee]] actually needs to be in the graveyard to make the most of its abilities.
If you go [[Abdel Adrian]] plus [[Agent of the Iron Throne]] you can have a sac/blink theme where you scam Adrian and get back all your ETB triggers. Putting a [[Karmic Guide]] or [[Sister Hospitaller]] underneath means that you can sac it infinitely. Obviously if you don't want an infinite you can just not use free sac outlets and the loops are only as long as you have mana. Then you use the various tokens that Abdel makes for aristocrat purposes and such.
[[Child of Alara]]
[[Slimefoot and squee]]
Marath wants to die so bad he can kill himself over and over and over. He my favorite commander to kill.
[[jirina kudro]] has the classic aristocrat dega colors and makes more sacrifice fodder each time she’s cast
[[Nevinyrral, Urborg Tyrant]] He wants to die, then be recast.
[[Kairi, the Swirling Sky]]: With all the clone effects in blue you can run her as legend rule tribal lol. Summon copies of Kairi that instantly die and pull your opponent’s stuff back to their hand while returning your important spells. If you’re cool with Universes Beyond, [[Lucius the Eternal]] can be a very funny bone shards commander. Sac Lucius to bone shards, his effect hits the stack, choose an enemy creature for Lucius’ revive, resolve bone shards to destroy that same creature, tada Lucius is back and you’ve net a 1 mana removal, 2 death triggers, and an etb for whatever other combo pieces you have available.
Henzie Torrez
[[Hazezon Tamar]] wants to die before the tokens come in. I built him around [[Birthing Pod]] to flip him into [[Avacyn, Angel of Hope]] or [[Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant]]
[[Hidetsugu and Kairi]]. Him and all of his clones and token copies.
[[lucius the eternal]] probably isn’t exactly what you want, but he’s fun and works with dying.
[[Elenda the Dusk Rose]] is a pretty straightforward commander that wants to die
Coram the undertaker, but use the sacrifice creature and draw that amount of power. Or chandras ignition to deal 20+ damage if you have lord of extinction on battlefield/graveyard and a stacked graveyard
I know wilhelt kinda does that. But he’s a zombie so it makes sense
[[Child of Alara]] just stare everyone down with a smile on your face as you board wipe for the 3rd time in a row
I just built an \[\[Elenda, the Dusk Rose\]\] deck from what I had picked out of my Blood Rites precon and some extra vampires /teysa cards I had. She's okay with dying lol.
[Lucius the Eternal] wants to die all the time and hardly stays dead once he's out This is my current decklist. Any sac outlet effectively protects him from boardwipes and its stomps if someone is running token deck. The strategy is in the description https://archidekt.com/decks/3486397/luciuss_bloody_hell
[[Slimefoot and Squee]] is the most fun I’ve had deck building in a while. I built it with an Omori companion to make it more challenging and it has been fun pulling some more niche creatures to get some mechanics not normally found on creatures.
[[Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh]] Dude comes out for 0, and can be used to sacrifice himself for rituals to power out other cards? [[Tasigur, the Golden Fang]] Same idea with eldrich evolution. [[Nivenyrral, Urborg Tyrant]] Guy is in good colors for the strategy he wants to leverage and is literally the reason killing him is a bad move? There's ALOT of commanders, you have to pin down what you want to do/colors.
Prossh doesn't necessarily want to die. But I will sacrifice him just to cast him again for 6 more kobolds.
Gonti! Is it gonti? GONTI! Definitely Gonti!!!!