Your Creatures, My Kimchi by user1595896

Format: Commander

Commander: Nemata, Primeval Warden

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 46

Deck overview

This Golgari deck helmed by Nemata, Primeval Warden combines token swarm mechanics with aristocrat drain and asymmetric graveyard attrition. The early turns focus on accelerating mana through low-cost mana elves, ramp spells, and land-fetch effects. By Turn 4, the deck deploys its commander or a major token engine, taking advantage of Nemata's static ability to exile opposing creatures while amassing 1/1 Saprolings. The mid-game converts these disposable tokens into immense card advantage and mana through cards like Skullclamp, Yawgmoth, Thran Physician, and Phyrexian Altar. The deck restricts opposing game plans using Braids, Cabal Minion and efficient removal spells while breaking parity with creature tokens. On Turn 6, the deck establishes critical onset, stacking multiple drain triggers from Mirkwood Bats, Blood Artist, and Bastion of Remembrance. It steadily drains all three opponents to zero life by Turn 8, maintaining strong resilience through recursion and redundant token payoffs.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Braids, Cabal Minion
  • 1 Cankerbloom
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Chatterfang, Squirrel General
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cryptolith Rite
  • 1 Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Deathreap Ritual
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Fungal Rebirth
  • 1 Golgari Germination
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Grim Backwoods
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 1 Life and Limb
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 1 Mycoloth
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Natural Order
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Necrogenesis
  • 1 Nemata, Grove Guardian
  • 1 Nemata, Primeval Warden
  • 1 Nurturing Peatland
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Poison-Tip Archer
  • 1 Psychotrope Thallid
  • 1 Rot Shambler
  • 1 Saproling Migration
  • 1 Saproling Symbiosis
  • 1 Second Harvest
  • 1 Shroofus Sproutsire
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Slimefoot, the Stowaway
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spore Swarm
  • 1 Sporemound
  • 1 Sporesower Thallid
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Tendershoot Dryad
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The Mycotyrant
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Utopia Mycon
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Verdant Embrace
  • 1 Verdant Force
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat