
from scratch
Muldrotha, the Gravetide Commander Deck
Muldrotha, the Gravetide runs a lands-matter graveyard engine. It fills its own graveyard through self-mill and sacrificed lands, then replays lands, permanents and retrace spells out of it every turn. Extra land drops, land recursion and fetch or bounce lands chain landfall triggers into cards, mana, tokens and direct damage. Leave-the-graveyard payoffs reward the constant recasting that Muldrotha and the other graveyard-casting cards provide. How it wins: The deck builds an overwhelming board of landfall tokens and growing creatures while landfall and graveyard drains chip at opponents, with Laboratory Maniac or Jace self-mill finishes, mass mill and a Glacial Chasm lock as alternate closers. Key roles: - Graveyard filling: Self-mill creatures, enchantments and attack triggers stock the graveyard with lands and permanents for Muldrotha to replay, and also fuel retrace and recursion. (Hedron Crab, Stitcher's Supplier, Return of the Mole Man) - Land recursion and extra drops: Additional land plays, playing lands from the graveyard and mass land returns let the same fetch, bounce and sacrifice lands re-enter turn after turn. (Ancient Greenwarden, Life from the Loam, Azusa, Lost but Seeking) - Landfall payoffs: Each land entering draws cards, makes mana, spawns tokens or drains life, and Ancient Greenwarden doubles these triggers. (Tatyova, Benthic Druid, Greensleeves, Maro-Sorcerer, Ob Nixilis, the Fallen) - Leave-the-graveyard value: Recasting from the graveyard with Muldrotha, retrace or Six creates Treasures, tokens, cards and damage. (Teval, the Balanced Scale, Teval's Judgment, Syr Konrad, the Grim) - Land-count threats and retrace: Spare lands are discarded to retrace token makers and drains whose size scales with lands in play or in the graveyard. (Worm Harvest, Formless Genesis, Lumra, Bellow of the Woods) - Alternate finishes: Infinite self-mill feeds a draw-to-win effect, mass mill empties opponents' libraries, and Glacial Chasm looped with land recursion locks out damage. (Basalt Monolith, Mesmeric Orb, Laboratory Maniac)
from scratch decklist
- 3× Island
- 5× Forest
- 3× Swamp
- Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
- Command Tower
- Syr Konrad, the Grim
- Birds of Paradise
- Brainstorm
- Crop Rotation
- Dark Ritual
- Eternal Witness
- Farseek
- Harrow
- Hedron Crab
- Laboratory Maniac
- Living Death
- Sakura-Tribe Elder
- Sol Ring
- Snap
- Tatyova, Benthic Druid
- The Gitrog Monster
- Tireless Tracker
- Azusa, Lost but Seeking
- Life from the Loam
- Strip Mine
- Basalt Monolith
- Dimir Aqueduct
- Golgari Rot Farm
- Simic Growth Chamber
- Underground River
- Wonder
- Thrasios, Triton Hero
- Llanowar Wastes
- Memorial to Folly
- Yavimaya Coast
- Phyrexian Altar
- Sylvan Safekeeper
- Traumatize
- Breeding Pool
- Watery Grave
- Toxic Deluge
- Morphic Pool
- World Shaper
- Abrupt Decay
- Overgrown Tomb
- Cyclonic Rift
- Misty Rainforest
- Verdant Catacombs
- Polluted Delta
- Mox Diamond
- Syphon Life
- Worm Harvest
- Mindslaver
- Drowned Catacomb
- Lotus Cobra
- Altar of Dementia
- Quirion Ranger
- Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
- Kaya's Ghostform
- Nurturing Peatland
- Spore Frog
- Springbloom Druid
- Waterlogged Grove
- Deadly Rollick
- Fierce Guardianship
- Glacial Chasm
- Mesmeric Orb
- Sink into Takenuma
- Zagoth Triome
- Sporemound
- Burgeoning
- Tortured Existence
- Urborg Elf
- Chain of Vapor
- Hinterland Harbor
- Woodland Cemetery
- Stitcher's Supplier
- Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
- Soul Stair Expedition
- Rejuvenating Springs
- Undergrowth Stadium
- Nissa of Shadowed Boughs
- Ancient Greenwarden
- Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
- Wrenn and Seven
- Black Market Connections
- Ertai Resurrected
- Greensleeves, Maro-Sorcerer
- Entish Restoration
- Spelunking
- Hedge Maze
- Undercity Sewers
- Underground Mortuary
- Aftermath Analyst
- Insidious Roots
- Lumra, Bellow of the Woods
- Wight of the Reliquary
- Six
- Territory Culler
- Horizon of Progress
- Iridescent Vinelasher
- Formless Genesis
- Mossborn Hydra
- Teval, the Balanced Scale
- Awaken the Honored Dead
- Kishla Skimmer
- Floral Evoker
- Teval's Judgment
- Kheru Goldkeeper
- Icetill Explorer
- Planar Engineering
- Mole Man, Moloid Master
- Return of the Mole Man
- Silvan Reveler