Baba Lysaga by Maximator

Format: Commander

Commander: Baba Lysaga, Night Witch

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 51

Deck overview

This deck is a Golgari Lands and sacrifice engine commanded by Baba Lysaga, Night Witch. The strategy revolves around converting multi-type permanents—such as artifact lands, enchantment creatures, and animated man-lands—into massive card advantage and life drain through Baba Lysaga's activated ability. The deck rapidly ramps and fills the graveyard with lands, then uses recursion engines like Crucible of Worlds, Six, and Life from the Loam to replay them. Once the resource engine is established, it pivots into game-ending token swarms using Titania, Protector of Argoth, Field of the Dead, and Scapeshift, finishing opponents with an overwhelming combat wave or a tutored Craterhoof Behemoth. Defensively, the deck protects its life total with Glacial Chasm and restricts opposing development through recurring Strip Mine land denial.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 Arachnogenesis
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • 1 Baba Lysaga, Night Witch
  • 1 Baloth Prime
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blinkmoth Nexus
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conduit of Worlds
  • 1 Constant Mists
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Crucible of Worlds
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dryad Arbor
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Elvish Reclaimer
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Exploration Broodship
  • 1 Festering Thicket
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Frostwalk Bastion
  • 1 Gilded Goose
  • 1 Glacial Chasm
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Inkmoth Nexus
  • 1 Legolas's Quick Reflexes
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Loot, Exuberant Explorer
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mishra's Factory
  • 1 Mishra's Foundry
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mole Man, Moloid Master
  • 1 Natural Order
  • 1 Nissa, Resurgent Animist
  • 1 Nurturing Peatland
  • 1 Oracle of Mul Daya
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Realms Uncharted
  • 1 Scapeshift
  • 1 Scouring Swarm
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Snow-Covered Forest
  • 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Splendid Reclamation
  • 1 Springheart Nantuko
  • 1 Squandered Resources
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Sylvan Scrying
  • 1 Talon Gates of Madara
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Titania, Protector of Argoth
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tree of Tales
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vesuva
  • 1 Walk-In Closet // Forgotten Cellar
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 World Shaper
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zuran Orb