MTG Salvation

Hi all,

This is one of my favorite EDH decks, based around Savra, Queen of the Golgari and her built-in Grave Pact effect. I love her ability, I love the numerous synergies in the deck, and I love her color combination. The general idea is to control the board, ramp up, make some tokens, then start killing everything on the board by sacrificing your tokens and other creatures.

Never tried her before? If you want to really stick it to those Uril, the Miststalker and Zur the Enchanter decks, then Savra is the general for you!

But I need some advice: I know that there are some sub-optimal (though thematic and synergistic) card choices here, and I'd like some advice on what should cut, what I should add, and so on.

Here's a list of some cards that I just picked up and some that I've had in my binders for a while that I thought might fit in the deck:


And here is the deck in its current incarnation:




Thanks folks.

Quote from CUB3X

The only reason I don't like Savra is that she is so dependent on having her in play to do anything good. If anyone just keeps you off your general then the deck is so much worse. Do you find people hate on you and ur general for basically messing every single player up? Do you also find it that you can't win against creature low combo decks?

Thanks for the comment,

I feel the same way about Savra, to a certain extent. The deck is dedicated upon her ability somewhat, but fortunately I have A.) plenty of other methods of benefiting off of sacrificing and B.) plenty of other routes to force sacrificing to happen outside of Savra. A lot of Savra decks put too much emphasis on her, but I have ways to search up Butcher of Malakir and Grave Pact just in case I can't play her. But even if I don't have those pieces, I can still focus on generating tokens and maintaining a board presence.

But out of the other B/G generals, I like having Savra in this build for her life-gaining ability because my meta sees a lot of games ending in pure damage, not just general damage. My next choice would definitely be Nath of the Gilt-Leaf; but the deck would certainly be different in many respects.

As an aside, here is the new list:

Seems like a fairly solid list, but I would make a few include suggestions.

Skullclamp is nuts with lots of tokens and gives you a sac outlet for Savra's triggers to boot.

Bloodghast for free, evergreen sac/clamp fodder.

Genesis should be auto-include.

Victimize is insane in here. Not only is it a sac outlet and "recur 2 creatures" it will recur itself if one of those creatures is Eternal Witness.

Phyrexian Tower as still another sac outlet.

Mimic Vat has so many amazing targets in here it's just a must have. Trade, Beg, Borrow, Steal to get one in there. Almost every creature you're running is a ripe, abuseable target for it, and team it up with a sac outlet on-board and the abuse rises to absurd levels.