The deck fills its graveyard with defensive, low-power, high-toughness creatures, then mutates Nethroi onto a creature to bring back a pile of them at once. Because zero-power walls and 0/5s barely count against the 10-power cap, a single mutate can return many bodies. Those creatures turn their toughness into combat damage, life loss and value, while sacrifice outlets and death-drain creatures recycle them for more pressure and repeated reanimation. How it wins: It reanimates a board of huge-toughness creatures and wins by attacking with toughness-based damage, by Betor's half-life drain at 40 total toughness, by entry and death life-loss triggers, or by sacrificing Jumbo Cactuar to Altar of Dementia to mill an opponent out. Key roles: - Graveyard stocking: Tutors that bin creatures, plus self-mill engines, set up a big Nethroi mutate or other reanimation early (Buried Alive, Hermit Druid, Vile Entomber) - Mass reanimation: Nethroi's mutate trigger and other recursion return several zero- or low-power creatures at once, and the cap rarely matters for this list (Eerie Ultimatum, Smile at Death, Cauldron of Essence) - Toughness matters: Static effects make creatures deal combat damage equal to their toughness and let defenders attack, turning walls into a lethal army (Doran, the Siege Tower, Felothar the Steadfast, Bedrock Tortoise) - High-toughness payoffs: Big-butted bodies punish opponents just for entering or existing, by swapping life totals, draining on entry, or crossing Betor's toughness thresholds for cards, untaps and half-life drain (Tree of Perdition, Jaws of Defeat, Betor, Kin to All) - Sacrifice and drain: Free sacrifice outlets feed death triggers that drain each opponent and draw cards, and they reset creatures for repeated reanimation or Pod chains (Ashnod's Altar, Zulaport Cutthroat, Birthing Pod) - Mill finisher: A sacrificed attacking Jumbo Cactuar mills a player for its enormous power, and Nethroi can return it because its printed power is only 1 (Altar of Dementia, Jumbo Cactuar, Crashing Drawbridge)

Nethroi, Apex of Death decklist

• Altar of Dementia
• Anguished Unmaking
• Arcane Signet
• Ashnod's Altar
• Assassin's Trophy
• Assault Formation
• Baldin, Century Herdmaster
• Bedrock Tortoise
• Betor, Kin to All
• Birds of Paradise
• Birthing Pod
• Blood Artist
• Blooming Marsh
• Bojuka Bog
• Branchloft Pathway
• Brushland
• Buried Alive
• Cauldron of Essence
• Caves of Koilos
• Clever Concealment
• Command Tower
• Crashing Drawbridge
• Cruel Celebrant
• Darkbore Pathway
• Deathcap Glade
• Deathrite Shaman
• Devoted Druid
• Dina's Guidance
• Doran, Besieged by Time
• Doran, the Siege Tower
• Drannith Magistrate
• Eerie Ultimatum
• Eladamri's Call
• Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
• Elves of Deep Shadow
• Entomb
• Erode
• Exotic Orchard
• Fauna Shaman
• Felothar the Steadfast
• Flawless Maneuver
• 2× Forest
• Generous Gift
• Giver of Runes
• Godless Shrine
• Grim Haruspex
• Hermit Druid
• Heroic Intervention
• High Market
• Indatha Triome
• Inkshield
• Isolated Chapel
• Jarad's Orders
• Jaws of Defeat
• Jumbo Cactuar
• Krosan Verge
• Llanowar Wastes
• Lush Portico
• Mole Man, Moloid Master
• Nature's Lore
• Ornithopter of Paradise
• Overgrown Farmland
• Overgrown Tomb
• Path to Exile
• Phyrexian Altar
• Plains
• Plaza of Heroes
• Polukranos, Unchained
• Reflecting Pool
• Selfless Spirit
• Shadowy Backstreet
• Shattered Sanctum
• Shifting Woodland
• Six
• Smile at Death
• Snow-Covered Forest
• Snow-Covered Plains
• 2× Snow-Covered Swamp
• Sol Ring
• Spore Frog
• Stitcher's Supplier
• Sunpetal Grove
• 2× Swamp
• Swords to Plowshares
• Temple Garden
• The Walls of Ba Sing Se
• Toxic Deluge
• Tree of Perdition
• Twilight Mire
• Undergrowth Stadium
• Vile Entomber
• Viscera Seer
• Wight of the Reliquary
• Windswept Heath
• Woodland Cemetery
• Zulaport Cutthroat