I can only count to three (duplicated from WelderZE) by GRIEF

Format: Commander

Commander: Tayam, Luminous Enigma

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 63

Deck overview

This deck is an Abzan cEDH stax and combo list commanded by Tayam, Luminous Enigma. Its primary strategy is to deploy early asymmetric stax pieces—such as Archon of Emeria, Drannith Magistrate, and Null Rod—to slow down fast opposing strategies. While opponents struggle under casting and artifact restrictions, Tayam breaks parity by using its activated ability to mill cards and return low-cost permanents directly from the graveyard to the battlefield at instant speed. The deck accelerates using efficient creature mana dorks and powerful lands like Gaea's Cradle. Once ready, it executes an infinite recursion loop using counter engines like Devoted Druid paired with pump lands or sacrificial counter synergies. This mills the entire library, reanimates all low-mana permanents, and eliminates all opponents on the same turn using repeated Orcish Bowmasters damage triggers. Supporting protection from Ranger-Captain of Eos and Sylvan Safekeeper ensures safe combo execution.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abigale, Eloquent First-Year
  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arbor Elf
  • 1 Archon of Emeria
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
  • 1 Aven Interrupter
  • 1 Aven Mindcensor
  • 1 Badgermole Cub
  • 1 Bartolomé del Presidio
  • 1 Basking Broodscale
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloodflow Connoisseur
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Brigid, Clachan's Heart // Brigid, Doun's Mind
  • 1 Caller of the Claw
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Centaur Garden
  • 1 Chord of Calling
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Cryptolith Rite
  • 1 Deafening Silence
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Devoted Druid
  • 1 Disruptor Flute
  • 1 Drannith Magistrate
  • 1 Eidolon of Rhetoric
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Enduring Vitality
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Ethersworn Canonist
  • 1 Felothar, Dawn of the Abzan
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Gaea's Cradle
  • 1 Gavony Township
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Ghost Quarter
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hashep Oasis
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Horizon Canopy
  • 1 Icatian Moneychanger
  • 1 Incubation Druid
  • 1 Knight of Autumn
  • 1 Lazotep Quarry
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Metastatic Evangel
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Moonshadow
  • 1 Nature's Chosen
  • 1 Nature's Rhythm
  • 1 Null Rod
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Patrolling Peacemaker
  • 1 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Ranger-Captain of Eos
  • 1 Rishkar, Peema Renegade
  • 1 Savannah
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Seal of Primordium
  • 1 Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu
  • 1 Skyclave Apparition
  • 1 Stony Silence
  • 1 Strangleroot Geist
  • 1 Summon: Ixion
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Talon Gates of Madara
  • 1 Tayam, Luminous Enigma
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 The Queen of Dale
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Touch the Spirit Realm
  • 1 Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Wall of Roots
  • 1 Warden of the Grove
  • 1 Weathered Wayfarer
  • 1 White Plume Adventurer
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Young Wolf