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At a glance
- Format: cEDH (Commander)
- Commander: Muldrotha, the Gravetide
- Colors: Black / Green / Blue (BGU)
- Archetype: Sultai graveyard value / recursion midrange with an infinite-combo top end (bracket 4)
- Power tier: high-power (bracket 4)
Strategy
Muldrotha, the Gravetide — Sultai Recursion (Bracket 4)
This is the paper Commander mirror of the Arena Brawl deck brawl-sultai-muldrotha. 15 cards are kept by name from that list, plus most of its ideal_cards wishlist. Some — Sidisi, Regent of the Mire and Cauldron of Essence — were kept for fidelity rather than raw power, because they are the signature sac-and-return engines that make the deck read as the operator’s.
Gameplan. Mulligan toward accelerants. Muldrotha lands turn 4-5 behind Sol Ring / Birds / Nature’s Lore, and from then on you play a land plus one permanent of each type out of the yard every turn. Self-mill is card selection, not a cost: everything milled is a card Muldrotha can cast.
The Brawl→Commander conversion. At 40 life against three opponents a 1-for-1 kill spell leaves two boards untouched, so the Brawl deck’s nine-card single-target removal wall was cut to six flexible answers plus six sweepers. A graveyard deck rebuilds after a wipe faster than anyone, which is the actual reason this beats a pod. Correction worth knowing: only The Meathook Massacre, Massacre Wurm and Pernicious Deed are permanents Muldrotha can recast — Toxic Deluge, Damnation and Living Death are sorceries and are genuinely one-shot. Don’t fire them at a board you could beat anyway.
Two cards deliberately NOT carried over from the Brawl list: Mesmeric Orb (fills three opponents’ graveyards in a pod) and Bringer of the Last Gift (its second clause returns creatures from EVERY graveyard — it hands three opponents their yards back; it was a 1v1 card).
Play notes. Hold Deadly Rollick and Veil of Summer for the turns you’re tapped out on Muldrotha. Keep Lightning Greaves down — a six-mana commander removed twice is how this deck loses. Bojuka Bog replayed every turn off the land clause is repeatable graveyard hate against the other yard decks. Emet-Selch’s back face (Hades) exiles everything that would hit your graveyard, which shuts Muldrotha off — the transform is a ‘may’ and you should almost always decline it. Muldrotha grants no EXTRA land drop; playing a land from the yard uses your one drop for the turn.
Cards
Decklist
Paste straight into MTG Arena (or Moxfield/Archidekt):
Commander
1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
Deck
1 Sol Ring
1 Arcane Signet
1 Talisman of Dominance
1 Birds of Paradise
1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
1 Wood Elves
1 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Nature's Lore
1 Stitcher's Supplier
1 Hedron Crab
1 Eternal Witness
1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
1 Sidisi, Regent of the Mire
1 Emet-Selch, Unsundered
1 Cauldron of Essence
1 Defiled Crypt // Cadaver Lab
1 Awaken the Honored Dead
1 Overlord of the Balemurk
1 Animate Dead
1 Necromancy
1 Bala Ged Recovery
1 Woe Strider
1 Phyrexian Altar
1 Ashnod's Altar
1 Nim Deathmantle
1 Bastion of Remembrance
1 Blood Artist
1 Rhystic Study
1 Phyrexian Arena
1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
1 Midnight Reaper
1 Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
1 Bolas's Citadel
1 Underrealm Lich
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Sidisi, Undead Vizier
1 Buried Alive
1 Assassin's Trophy
1 Beast Within
1 Go for the Throat
1 Deadly Rollick
1 Ravenous Chupacabra
1 Noxious Gearhulk
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Damnation
1 The Meathook Massacre
1 Massacre Wurm
1 Living Death
1 Pernicious Deed
1 Drown in the Loch
1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
1 Veil of Summer
1 Cyclonic Rift
1 Lightning Greaves
1 Grave Titan
1 Koma, Cosmos Serpent
1 Vein Ripper
1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
1 Walking Ballista
1 The Gitrog Monster
1 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
1 Command Tower
1 Zagoth Triome
1 Underground Sea
1 Bayou
1 Tropical Island
1 Watery Grave
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Breeding Pool
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Polluted Delta
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Windswept Heath
1 Prismatic Vista
1 Woodland Cemetery
1 Drowned Catacomb
1 Hinterland Harbor
1 Botanical Sanctum
1 Darkslick Shores
1 Llanowar Wastes
1 Yavimaya Coast
1 Underground River
1 Gloomlake Verge
1 Wastewood Verge
1 Nurturing Peatland
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
1 Boseiju, Who Endures
1 Otawara, Soaring City
4 Swamp
2 Forest
1 Island
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