[EDH / Commander] Saskia Infect & Extra Combats

[WWolfe]

Saskia Infect & Extra Combats

Hit your opponent with Infect through bloodrush combat tricks & extra combat steps.

Working on the mana base now- it will not end up all basics, primarily was focused on making the functionality of the deck itself work. May make a change or two to add more extra combat steps.

As always, suggestions are welcome.

ETA- also going to add more proliferation effects.

[WWolfe]

Saskia Infect & Extra Combats

Added Maybeboard of cards I'm considering working in, which include a few ways to make creatures unblockable, another extra combat card, and some more proliferate engines.

[Acromos]

With the unblockable maybeboard, a card I personally find underrated and unexpected is Outmaneuver .

Also your infect creatures are usually rather small when you don´t have Mirror Entity on the field. So they will find themselves in the graveyard pretty quick, so maybe you should add a way to help them out of there. Getting back a
Phyrexian Swarmlord or Hand of the Praetors lategame is worth pure gold sometimes.

But the Saskia-Infect combo is pretty neat, when one player has an opening you get to kill another one for free!

What about Blade of Selves ? creates many problems if there are 4 Blightsteel Colossus attacking everyone.

Proliferate is difficult as it is one way to add poison to your enemies instead of making them unblockable. I think a focus on one of those strategies would benefit you more than both at the same time.

Have a nice day!

[WWolfe]

Blade of Selves is likely to make the final cut, at this point I'm fine-tuning the mechanics of the deck to sort out some of the underperformers.

Outmaneuver is kinda like Siege Behemoth which I have in the deck, nice suggestion as is adding some recursion. I have a couple reanimate spells laying around that I don't currently have in a deck so I may need to look at them.

I'm torn on proliferate and unblockable. You're right, at the end of the day I need to pick one and go with it. Once I've play-tested some more it probably will be clear cut which one is the better option. The slots of the other will likely go to a recursion package.

[Acromos]

If you have good packages for both maybe make one of them sideboard and switch between unblockable and proliferate.

(personally I would choose unblockable in this case, as it benefits saskia directly although I like proiferate more)

With Outmaneuver and siege behemoth is the thing, one you can see coming and the other one is an instant which may only take 3 mana to kill someone, especially with the extra dmg from saskia. and it is cheap as dirt.

[WWolfe]

After play-testing, I'm leaning more towards unblockable at this point. Proliferate is ok in the deck, but the unblockable with Saskia is just nasty.

[WWolfe]

Revision 3

Added/removed cards:
-1 Contagion Engine
-1 Farseek
-1 Glistener Elf
-1 Phyrexian Vatmother
-1 Spread the Sickness
+1 Glaring Spotlight
+1 Outmaneuver
+1 Relentless Assault
+1 Rogue's Passage
+1 Trailblazer's Boots
+1 Whispersilk Cloak

Changed amounts:
-1 Forest
+1 Mountain
-1 Swamp

[WWolfe]

Revision 4

Added/removed cards:
+1 Ancient Tomb
+1 Blood Crypt
+1 Canopy Vista
+1 Cinder Glade
+1 Clifftop Retreat
+1 Dragonskull Summit
+1 Fetid Heath
+1 Fire-Lit Thicket
+1 Godless Shrine
+1 Graven Cairns
+1 Grove of the Burnwillows
+1 Isolated Chapel
+1 Overgrown Tomb
+1 Rootbound Crag
+1 Rugged Prairie
+1 Sacred Foundry
+1 Scorched Ruins
+1 Smoldering Marsh
+1 Stomping Ground
+1 Sunpetal Grove
+1 Tainted Field
+1 Tainted Peak
+1 Tainted Wood
+1 Temple Garden
+1 Twilight Mire
+1 Wooded Bastion
+1 Woodland Cemetery

Changed amounts:
-9 Forest
-8 Mountain
-2 Plains
-8 Swamp