Sidisi's City of the Damned (Sidisi, brood Tyrant)

[pokken]

So this is an old deck idea modeled off my buddy's zombie-free Sidisi deck that believes in turning other things into zombies, not using zombies to make zombies. Sidisi provides a powerful engine that vomits out creatures and then we use them to kill people. The idea of the deck is to not rely too much on the graveyard as a resource while forcing people to worry about it - grave hate other than Rest in Peace doesn't really mean much to the deck. We mostly just want to put stuff in the yard to make zombies and don't really spend much energy recurring things. We can tutor for the creatures we actually want that finish the game like Archetype of Imagination and Sun Quan, Lord of Wu if needed.

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Sidisi's City of the Damned

DecklistCMCManaPricesChartsDraw 7

Commander

1 Sidisi, Brood Tyrant

Creatures (37)

1 Birds of Paradise

1 Deathrite Shaman

1 Diligent Farmhand

1 Elves of Deep Shadow

1 Fyndhorn Elves

1 Hedron Crab

1 Oashra Cultivator

1 Bloom Tender

1 Den Protector

1 Golgari Thug

1 Gyre Sage

1 Incubation Druid

1 Sakura-Tribe Elder

1 Satyr Wayfinder

1 Sylvan Caryatid

1 Wall of Roots

1 Eternal Witness

1 Hullbreacher

1 Opposition Agent

1 Ramunap Excavator

1 Reclamation Sage

1 Thrashing Brontodon

1 Notion Thief

1 Ravenous Chupacabra

1 World Shaper

1 Elder Gargaroth

1 Golgari Grave-Troll

1 Gravebreaker Lamia

1 Syr Konrad, the Grim

1 Ancient Greenwarden

1 Archetype of Imagination

1 Burning-Rune Demon

1 Consecrated Sphinx

1 Pathbreaker Ibex

1 Sire of Stagnation

1 Sun Quan, Lord of Wu

1 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth

Artifacts (1)

1 Sol Ring

Enchantment (7)

1 Cryptolith Rite

1 Earthcraft

1 Survival of the Fittest

1 Sylvan Library

1 Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun

1 Greater Good

1 Path of Discovery

Instants (9)

1 Entomb

1 Vampiric Tutor

1 Assassin's Trophy

1 Cyclonic Rift

1 Grapple with the Past

1 Mana Drain

1 Chord of Calling

1 Fierce Guardianship

1 Dig Through Time

Sorceries (7)

1 Green Sun's Zenith

1 Traverse the Ulvenwald

1 Demonic Tutor

1 Finale of Devastation

1 Life from the Loam

1 Echo of Eons

1 Seasons Past

Land (38)

1 Bayou

1 Bazaar of Baghdad

1 Bloodstained Mire

1 Breeding Pool

1 Castle Garenbrig

1 Command Tower

1 Dakmor Salvage

1 Dryad Arbor

1 Fabled Passage

1 Flooded Strand

4 Forest

1 Gaea's Cradle

4 Island

1 Marsh Flats

1 Misty Rainforest

1 Nurturing Peatland

1 Overgrown Tomb

1 Phyrexian Tower

1 Polluted Delta

1 Prismatic Vista

2 Swamp

1 Tranquil Thicket

1 Tropical Island

1 Underground Sea

1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

1 Verdant Catacombs

1 Volrath's Stronghold

1 Waterlogged Grove

1 Watery Grave

1 Windswept Heath

1 Wooded Foothills

Approximate Total Cost:

Still working on fine-tuning so happy to hear your thoughts and ideas. The main rules are:

1. No Zombies Allowed
2. No zombie-specific synergy allowed
3. No graveyard engines that are not land related**

A notable exclusion I need to find a slot for at some point is Intuition I think, man that card's good.


** Things like Burning-Rune Demon are there to enable Life from the Loam not reanimate stuff.


Stuff I might like to add:

• Intuition
• ulvenwald hydra
• toxic deluge
• the gitrog monster
• Phenax, god of deception
• collector ouphe
• timetwister
• spark double
• sakashima of a thousand faces
• stinkweed imp

[Ruiner]

I've never seen this sort of deck in action, but if you are not actually reliant on your graveyard other than triggers from cards hitting the grave, but want some grave hate, would Planar Void have a place here? I could see it clashing with some of the recursive elements but you don't seem to be utterly reliant on those.

[pokken]

I've never seen this sort of deck in action, but if you are not actually reliant on your graveyard other than triggers from cards hitting the grave, but want some grave hate, would Planar Void have a place here? I could see it clashing with some of the recursive elements but you don't seem to be utterly reliant on those.

I kinda want to twister/echo/kozilek them back into the library to make more zombies in longer games. The deck can go kinda bananas with Ancient Greenwarden and Hedron Crab at the self-milling.

[umtiger]

Seems like your deck is a good candidate to eschew Sol Ring all together. Why not just play another sweet card in the slot instead?

[pokken]

Seems like your deck is a good candidate to eschew Sol Ring all together. Why not just play another sweet card in the slot instead?

I'm not sure, my experience has been that it creates too many powerful sequences, but I could put Collector Ouphe in that slot I guess

Not a bad idea.