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Commander
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Commander
Size: 100Est cost: $8042.13Salt sum: 63.29
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Commander
Marath, Will of the Wild
Marath enters with a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the amount of mana spent to cast it.
, Remove X +1/+1 counters from Marath: Choose one —
• Put X +1/+1 counters on target creature. X can't be 0.
• Marath deals X damage to any target. X can't be 0.
• Create an X/X green Elemental creature token. X can't be 0.
, Remove X +1/+1 counters from Marath: Choose one —
• Put X +1/+1 counters on target creature. X can't be 0.
• Marath deals X damage to any target. X can't be 0.
• Create an X/X green Elemental creature token. X can't be 0.
Legendary Creature - Beast Elemental
Commander
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Creature
Michelangelo, Weirdness to 11
When Michelangelo enters, create a Mutagen token. (It's an artifact with ", , Sacrifice this token: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.")
If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.
If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.
Legendary Creature - Mutant Ninja Turtle
Vibrance
When this creature enters, if was spent to cast it, this creature deals 3 damage to any target.
When this creature enters, if was spent to cast it, search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. You gain 2 life.
Evoke
When this creature enters, if was spent to cast it, search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. You gain 2 life.
Evoke
Creature - Elemental Incarnation
Creature
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Draw
Professor Hojo
The first activated ability you activate during your turn that targets a creature you control costs less to activate.
Whenever one or more creatures you control become the target of an activated ability, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Whenever one or more creatures you control become the target of an activated ability, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Legendary Creature - Human Scientist
The One Ring
Indestructible
When The One Ring enters, if you cast it, you gain protection from everything until your next turn.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life for each burden counter on The One Ring.
: Put a burden counter on The One Ring, then draw a card for each burden counter on The One Ring.
When The One Ring enters, if you cast it, you gain protection from everything until your next turn.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life for each burden counter on The One Ring.
: Put a burden counter on The One Ring, then draw a card for each burden counter on The One Ring.
Legendary Artifact
Draw
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Land
Boseiju, Who Endures
: Add .
Channel — , Discard this card: Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a land card with a basic land type, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. This ability costs less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
Channel — , Discard this card: Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a land card with a basic land type, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. This ability costs less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
Legendary Land
Gemstone Caverns
If this card is in your opening hand and you're not the starting player, you may begin the game with Gemstone Caverns on the battlefield with a luck counter on it. If you do, exile a card from your hand.
: Add . If Gemstone Caverns has a luck counter on it, instead add one mana of any color.
: Add . If Gemstone Caverns has a luck counter on it, instead add one mana of any color.
Legendary Land
Land
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Protection
Legolas's Quick Reflexes
Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
Untap target creature. Until end of turn, it gains hexproof, reach, and "Whenever this creature becomes tapped, it deals damage equal to its power to up to one target creature."
Untap target creature. Until end of turn, it gains hexproof, reach, and "Whenever this creature becomes tapped, it deals damage equal to its power to up to one target creature."
Instant
Veil of Summer
Draw a card if an opponent has cast a blue or black spell this turn. Spells you control can't be countered this turn. You and permanents you control gain hexproof from blue and from black until end of turn. (You and they can't be the targets of blue or black spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Instant
Protection
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Ramp
Badgermole Cub
When this creature enters, earthbend 1. (Target land you control becomes a 0/0 creature with haste that's still a land. Put a +1/+1 counter on it. When it dies or is exiled, return it to the battlefield tapped.)
Whenever you tap a creature for mana, add an additional .
Whenever you tap a creature for mana, add an additional .
Creature - Mole Badger
Growing Rites of Itlimoc
When Growing Rites of Itlimoc enters, look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
At the beginning of your end step, if you control four or more creatures, transform Growing Rites of Itlimoc.
At the beginning of your end step, if you control four or more creatures, transform Growing Rites of Itlimoc.
Legendary Enchantment
Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
Whenever Ragavan deals combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token and exile the top card of that player's library. Until end of turn, you may cast that card.
Dash (You may cast this spell for its dash cost. If you do, it gains haste, and it's returned from the battlefield to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.)
Dash (You may cast this spell for its dash cost. If you do, it gains haste, and it's returned from the battlefield to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.)
Legendary Creature - Pirate Monkey
Unbound Flourishing
Whenever you cast a permanent spell with a mana cost that contains , double the value of X.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell or activate an ability, if that spell's mana cost or that ability's activation cost contains , copy that spell or ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell or activate an ability, if that spell's mana cost or that ability's activation cost contains , copy that spell or ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Enchantment
Ramp
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Recursion
Recursion
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Removal
Skyclave Apparition
When this creature enters, exile up to one target nonland, nontoken permanent you don't control with mana value 4 or less.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, the exiled card's owner creates an X/X blue Illusion creature token, where X is the mana value of the exiled card.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, the exiled card's owner creates an X/X blue Illusion creature token, where X is the mana value of the exiled card.
Creature - Spirit Kor
Removal
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Tokens
Tokens
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Tutor
Invasion of Ikoria
(As a Siege enters, choose an opponent to protect it. You and others can attack it. When it's defeated, exile it, then cast it transformed.)
When this Siege enters, search your library and/or graveyard for a non-Human creature card with mana value X or less and put it onto the battlefield. If you search your library this way, shuffle.
When this Siege enters, search your library and/or graveyard for a non-Human creature card with mana value X or less and put it onto the battlefield. If you search your library this way, shuffle.
Battle - Siege
Nature's Rhythm
Search your library for a creature card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Harmonize (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its harmonize cost. You may tap a creature you control to reduce that cost by an amount of generic mana equal to its power. Then exile this spell.)
Harmonize (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its harmonize cost. You may tap a creature you control to reduce that cost by an amount of generic mana equal to its power. Then exile this spell.)
Sorcery
Tutor
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Maybeboard
Agatha's Soul Cauldron
You may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to activate abilities of creatures you control.
Creatures you control with +1/+1 counters on them have all activated abilities of all creature cards exiled with Agatha's Soul Cauldron.
: Exile target card from a graveyard. When a creature card is exiled this way, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
Creatures you control with +1/+1 counters on them have all activated abilities of all creature cards exiled with Agatha's Soul Cauldron.
: Exile target card from a graveyard. When a creature card is exiled this way, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
Legendary Artifact
Archdruid's Charm
Choose one —
• Search your library for a creature or land card and reveal it. Put it onto the battlefield tapped if it's a land card. Otherwise, put it into your hand. Then shuffle.
• Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. It deals damage equal to its power to target creature you don't control.
• Exile target artifact or enchantment.
• Search your library for a creature or land card and reveal it. Put it onto the battlefield tapped if it's a land card. Otherwise, put it into your hand. Then shuffle.
• Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. It deals damage equal to its power to target creature you don't control.
• Exile target artifact or enchantment.
Instant
Archdruid's Charm
Choose one —
• Search your library for a creature or land card and reveal it. Put it onto the battlefield tapped if it's a land card. Otherwise, put it into your hand. Then shuffle.
• Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. It deals damage equal to its power to target creature you don't control.
• Exile target artifact or enchantment.
• Search your library for a creature or land card and reveal it. Put it onto the battlefield tapped if it's a land card. Otherwise, put it into your hand. Then shuffle.
• Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. It deals damage equal to its power to target creature you don't control.
• Exile target artifact or enchantment.
Instant
Basking Broodscale
Devoid (This card has no color.)
: Adapt 1. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put a +1/+1 counter on it.)
Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on this creature, you may create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token with "Sacrifice this token: Add ."
: Adapt 1. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put a +1/+1 counter on it.)
Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on this creature, you may create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token with "Sacrifice this token: Add ."
Creature - Lizard Eldrazi
Benevolent Hydra
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on another creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.
, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on another target creature you control.
If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on another creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.
, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on another target creature you control.
Creature - Hydra
Black Panther, Wakandan King
First strike
Survey the Realm — Whenever Black Panther or another creature you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target land you control.
Mine Vibranium — : Move all +1/+1 counters from target land you control onto target creature. If one or more +1/+1 counters are moved this way, you gain that much life and draw a card.
Survey the Realm — Whenever Black Panther or another creature you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target land you control.
Mine Vibranium — : Move all +1/+1 counters from target land you control onto target creature. If one or more +1/+1 counters are moved this way, you gain that much life and draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Human Hero Noble
Dawn's Truce
Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects.)
You and permanents you control gain hexproof until end of turn. If the gift was promised, permanents you control also gain indestructible until end of turn.
You and permanents you control gain hexproof until end of turn. If the gift was promised, permanents you control also gain indestructible until end of turn.
Instant
Emiel the Blessed
: Exile another target creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.
Whenever another creature you control enters, you may pay . If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on it. If it's a Unicorn, put two +1/+1 counters on it instead. ( can be paid with either or .)
Whenever another creature you control enters, you may pay . If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on it. If it's a Unicorn, put two +1/+1 counters on it instead. ( can be paid with either or .)
Legendary Creature - Unicorn
Enduring Innocence
Lifelink
Whenever one or more other creatures you control with power 2 or less enter, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.
When Enduring Innocence dies, if it was a creature, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. It's an enchantment. (It's not a creature.)
Whenever one or more other creatures you control with power 2 or less enter, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.
When Enduring Innocence dies, if it was a creature, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. It's an enchantment. (It's not a creature.)
Creature Enchantment - Sheep Glimmer
Fanatic of Rhonas
: Add .
Ferocious — : Add . Activate only if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.
Eternalize (, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Snake Druid with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)
Ferocious — : Add . Activate only if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.
Eternalize (, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Snake Druid with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)
Creature - Druid Snake
Galadriel's Dismissal
Kicker (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.)
Target creature phases out. If this spell was kicked, each creature target player controls phases out instead. (Treat phased-out creatures and anything attached to them as though they don't exist until their controller's next turn.)
Target creature phases out. If this spell was kicked, each creature target player controls phases out instead. (Treat phased-out creatures and anything attached to them as though they don't exist until their controller's next turn.)
Instant
Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes
When Minsc & Boo enters and at the beginning of your upkeep, you may create Boo, a legendary 1/1 red Hamster creature token with trample and haste.
+1: Put three +1/+1 counters on up to one target creature with trample or haste.
−2: Sacrifice a creature. When you do, Minsc & Boo deals X damage to any target, where X is that creature's power. If the sacrificed creature was a Hamster, draw X cards.
Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes can be your commander.
+1: Put three +1/+1 counters on up to one target creature with trample or haste.
−2: Sacrifice a creature. When you do, Minsc & Boo deals X damage to any target, where X is that creature's power. If the sacrificed creature was a Hamster, draw X cards.
Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes can be your commander.
Legendary Planeswalker - Minsc
Sowing Mycospawn
Devoid (This card has no color.)
Kicker (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.)
When you cast this spell, search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
When you cast this spell, if it was kicked, exile target land.
Kicker (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.)
When you cast this spell, search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
When you cast this spell, if it was kicked, exile target land.
Creature - Fungus Eldrazi
Springheart Nantuko
Bestow
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may pay if this permanent is attached to a creature you control. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that creature. If you didn't create a token this way, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token.
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may pay if this permanent is attached to a creature you control. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that creature. If you didn't create a token this way, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token.
Creature Enchantment - Monk Insect
Tadeas, Juniper Ascendant
Reach
Tadeas has hexproof unless it's attacking.
Whenever a creature you control with reach attacks, untap it and it can't be blocked by creatures with greater power this combat.
Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, draw a card.
Tadeas has hexproof unless it's attacking.
Whenever a creature you control with reach attacks, untap it and it can't be blocked by creatures with greater power this combat.
Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Human Monk
Taii Wakeen, Perfect Shot
Whenever a source you control deals noncombat damage to a creature equal to that creature's toughness, draw a card.
, : If a source you control would deal noncombat damage to a permanent or player this turn, it deals that much damage plus X instead.
, : If a source you control would deal noncombat damage to a permanent or player this turn, it deals that much damage plus X instead.
Legendary Creature - Human Mercenary
The Cabbage Merchant
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with ", , Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
Whenever a creature deals combat damage to you, sacrifice a Food token.
Tap two untapped Foods you control: Add one mana of any color.
Whenever a creature deals combat damage to you, sacrifice a Food token.
Tap two untapped Foods you control: Add one mana of any color.
Legendary Creature - Human Citizen
The Cabbage Merchant
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with ", , Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
Whenever a creature deals combat damage to you, sacrifice a Food token.
Tap two untapped Foods you control: Add one mana of any color.
Whenever a creature deals combat damage to you, sacrifice a Food token.
Tap two untapped Foods you control: Add one mana of any color.
Legendary Creature - Human Citizen
Underworld Breach
Each nonland card in your graveyard has escape. The escape cost is equal to the card's mana cost plus exile three other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast cards from your graveyard for their escape cost.)
At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this enchantment.
At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this enchantment.
Enchantment
Urza's Saga
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — This Saga gains ": Add ."
II — This Saga gains ", : Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with 'This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control.'"
III — Search your library for an artifact card with mana cost or , put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
I — This Saga gains ": Add ."
II — This Saga gains ", : Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with 'This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control.'"
III — Search your library for an artifact card with mana cost or , put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land Enchantment - Saga Urza's
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{"ops":[{"insert":"PRIMER (disclosure: not my primer nor original list: https://moxfield.com/decks/IF-Eb17Bt02fG8KlaNfVzg)\n\nTable of Contents:\nIntroduction\nTerms and Concepts\nCombos/ Wincons\nNotable Inclusions and Exclusions\nChange Log\nSpecial Thanks & Discord Link\n\n1. INTRODUCTION\nThe goal of Marath Evolution is more proactive than the \"sit back and grind advantage\" gameplan of old. This Marath build focuses on the popular turbo Gaea's Cradle plan to push an X tutor like finale of devastation to get Brightglass Gearhulk to assemble a Cryptic Trilobite and Hardened Scales combo (more on that later). Alternatively, we can pivot into an Evolution Witness combo line with LED loops or land a Cacophodon for overwhelming mana advantage.\n\nIt also needs to be mentioned up front that Marath is a removal engine on a stick and is hands down the most resilient green deck against Orcish Bowmasters. For green players frustrated by the blowouts OBM can cause, Marath is the answer. With the threat of a Marath ping looming, those OBM arrowa will go elsewhere.\n\nBefore we dive into the deck even more, let's look at the toolbox that Marath brings:\n\nThe true glory of THE LORD (Oracle Text)\nMarath, Will of the Wild enters the battlefield with a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the amount of mana spent to cast it.\n\n, Remove X +1/+1 counters from Marath: Choose one —\n\nPut X +1/+1 counters on target creature. X can't be 0.\nMarath deals X damage to any target. X can't be 0.\nCreate an X/X green Elemental creature token. X can't be 0.\nMarath immediately gives us three angles to play across:\n\nMoving +1/+1 counters. This says \"target creature\" and that includes Marath. Buff your creatures, increase counters on Marath with a Hardened Scales in play, guarantee Esper Sentinel draws, save your creatures from damage-based removal.\nDeal damage. Never fear Orcish Bowmasters again, ping opposing mana dorks or weak commanders, strap on some Deathtouch and shoot everything.\nMake Elemental tokens. Do you like Gaea's Cradle? Do you like Enduring Vitality? Do you like Earthcraft? This deck easily turns tokens into mana.\nWhy to play this deck | Strengths\nMarath Evolution might be the perfect deck for you if:\n\nYou enjoy creature heavy strategies\nYou like your decks to have depth to their resource management\nYou like to control the board with direct damage.\nYou enjoy cEDH decks that still have a lot of room for testing and innovation\nWhy not to play this deck | Weaknesses\nYou might not like to play Marath Evolution if:\n\nYou don't want to rely on your opponents to stop early wins from other players\nYou want to be the table police (i.e., you want blue)\nYou want something straightforward where it's hard to mess up your decisions too badly\nYou want to play turbo and win in early turns (we can kinda do this sometimes)\n\n2. TERMS AND CONCEPTS\nBefore we get into it, here are some terms that will come up a lot in this primer.\n\nScales Effect:\nAny effect that increases +1/+1 counters as they are placed. Hardened Scales is the classic here.\n\nCounters:\nLeave the counter spells in blue. We're talking +1/+1 counters! The most critical resource in this list is the number of counters on Marath. It is the lens through which we evaluate new combos and new cards. It is often what makes or breaks a combo win, as you will see in the sections below.\n\nREFILL: 👇👇👇This is the most critical interaction in the deck! 👇👇👇\nWith a Scales effect in play, Marath can target himself with the +1/+1 counter ability, remove a +1/+1 counter from himself, and place TWO +1/+1 counters back on himself. This nets +1 counter. This is how you Refill Marath.\n\nWarning: If Marath is at ONE +1/+1 counter, you are dead in the water as Marath will die to state-based actions when you remove that last counter. You CANNOT refill if you're at a single +1/+1 counter.\n\nPing:\nUsing Marath's damage ability. This is almost always used in increments of 1 damage. There aren't any situations where you would want to ping in higher increments. It rarely happens, but people will cast a Deflecting Swat on a critical damage ping.\n\nBattery:\nA combo piece that generates mana to power our Scales wincons. Cryptic Trilobite and Mana Echoes are our two primary batteries. Cacophodon is a pseudo-battery when paired with a big mana source. More on these later.\n\nBrightglass Gearhulk:\nLet's talk quickly about Brightglass Gearhulk. This card is insane in Marath. The Brightglass ETB gets Cryptic Trilobite and Hardened Scales to hand which allows us to immediately assemble out combo with Marath (as described in the next section). It is the closest we can get to a one card wincon, and as such a lot of play is centered around getting Brightglass into play.\n\n3. COMBOS / WIN CONS\nThere are a lot of combos with Marath. Some better than others. A typical Marath list will run 2 to 4 combo lines with varying efficiency. This primer lists out the main combos in this deck as well as some ancillary combos that other Marath players run.\n\nMy list is currently on the following:\n\nCryptic Trilobite Combo\nEvolution Witness + LED Combo\nCacophodon Combo\nBomberman (started testing in Feb 26)\nI have found these to be the most flexible and complimentary combos for my style of play, but there are other combos such as Rosie Cotton with Basking Broodscale or Kiki Jiki lines that other Marath pilots favor. I'll talk about Marath variants in a section later in this document.\n\n\"But what if Marath isn't accessible?\" Many of these combos need Marath which can be frustrating when a Drannith Magistrate is on the board. Some players are testing Bomberman with Vexing Bauble as a way to make infinite mana and then draw your deck to find interaction to unlock Marath and then win.\n\nMarath wins through two primary board states:\nInfinite Colored Mana: Cast Marath, burn out opponents with direct damage until Marath dies, recast Marath, and repeat. Marath needs to be recast.\nInfinite +1/+1 counters: Using one or two Scales effects along with a Battery, we can generate infinite +1/+1 counters and mana to burn the board with direct damage. Marath does not need to be recast.\nCryptic Trilobite + Scales\nThis combo is the bread and butter of Marath. It is mana efficient, stax resilient, and will have your opponent asking \"WTF is a Cryptic Trilobite?\" This should be in every Marath deck.\n\nPrerequisites:\n\nCards: Marath + Cryptic Trilobite + any Hardened Scales effect\nMana: WRG for Marath, 2 for Trilobite, G for our cheapest Scales, 1 to start the combo. 2 if Marathon starts at 2 counters.\nCounters: Marath needs at least 2 counters. Cryptic Trilobite needs at least 1 counter.\nSequence:\n\nIf Marath has only 2 counters, first activate Marath for to refill Marath to 3 counters.\nActivate Marath for to put a +1/+1 counter on Cryptic Trilobite (Scales makes it 2 counters bringing Trilobite to 3 counters with the first instance).\nRemove a counter from Cryptic Trilobite to add \nActivate Marath for to and refill to 3 counters.\nRepeat steps 2 through 4 netting counters on Cryptic Trilobite with each loop.\nWith infinite trilobite counters, we get infinite mana and can infinitely refill Marath to ping the board down for the win.\nTips If your Cryptic Trilobite dies, pop it into your Agatha's Soul Cauldron and make any creature a Trilobite. Heck, make Marath a Trilobite!\n\nWith a scales effect in play, you can use Savage Summoning to drop Trilobite into play at instant speed (with two counters) and go for the win!\n\nMana Echoes + Scales (not currently in the deck)\nMana Echoes is the Albatross of Marath combos in my opinion. While Mana Echoes is technically a second copy of Cryptic Trilobite, it is 4 mana (ew), needs two red pips (yuck), and is only found by one tutor in our deck (gross). That said, it still wins games, and it is nice to have the redundancy with the Trilobite line. Not that nice though, as I have cut this line.\n\nPrerequisites:\n\nCards: Marath + Mana Echoes + any Hardened Scales effect\nMana: for Marath, for Mana Echoes, for our cheapest Scales, to start the combo.\nCounters: Marath needs at least 3 counters.\nSequence:\n\nActivate Marath using , removing a counter and creating a 1/1 Elemental token.\nMana Echoes trigger, generating for each Elemental in play (Marath and the token) for a total of .\nActivate Marath using and refill back to 3 counters.\nRepeat Steps 1 through 3 netting additional colorless mana as the number of elementals increases and get infinite mana.\nWith infinite colorless, we can infinitely refill Marath to ping the board down for the win.\nTips: Mana Echoes can double as some psuedo ramp if you manage to land it early. This deck has a fair amount of humans and elves so it isn't unheard of to get some extra floating mana from time to time.\n\nWhy am I not running this? Mana Echoes is a challenging card. At 4 mana with two red pips, casting this can be very resource consuming so its often a dead card in hand. Plus we can't tutor it easily.\n\nCacophodon + Scales + Big Mana\nCacophodon is about as close as we can get to a third Battery effect in Marath. Use Cacophodon as a Gaea's Cradle untapper with a Scales in play to generate infinite mana and win the game. Alternatively use Kami of whispered hopes to fill the role of the scales effect and Cradle.\n\nCredit to SkoomaPuma for showing me this card! Credit to my Gaea's Cradle-pilled brain for finding this combo.\n\nPrerequisites:\n\nCards: Marath + Cacophodon + any Hardened Scales effect + a Gaea's Cradle that taps for \nMana: for Marath, for Cacophodon, for our cheapest Scales, to start the combo. if Marath starts at 2 counters.\nCounters: Marath needs at least 2 counters.\nSequence:\n\nIf Marath has only 2 counters, first activate Marath for to refill Marath to 3 counters.\nActivate Marath for to ping Cacophodon. Cacophodon has 5 toughness and this marks 1 damage with 4 toughness remaining.\nResolve the Cacophodon trigger and untap your Gaea's Cradle. Retap it for .\nActivate Marath for to and refill to 3 counters.\nActivate Marath for to put a +1/+1 counter on Cacophodon. This will give it 2 counters. (on the first iteration of this loop, Cacophodon will be at 7 toughness with 1 damage marked and 6 toughness remaining)\nActivate Marath for to and refill to 3 counters.\nRepeat steps 2 through 6 in a loop ignoring steps 5 and 6 every other iteration. The +1/+1 counters placed on Cacophodon will pace with the damage applied by pings so that it will never die, and the loop will net 2 green mana every other cycle. Repeat this for infinite green mana.\nUse the infinite green mana to refill Marath with infinite counters and then ping the table for the win.\nTips: As said before, Kami of whispered hopes can fill the role of the scales effect and a Cradle effect. Both Cradle and Kami only need to tap for 3 to start the combo, but you will need to eat away at Cacophodon's toughness a bit more and use the excess mana to either grow Kami or make tokens for Cradle. Once at 4 mana (or more) you can start the loops presented above.\n\nBomberman\nA tried and true combo. Eats it to a lot of stax, but with Dockside dead this is one of our easiest two card infinite mana combos.\n\nPrerequisites:\n\nCards: Marath + Lion's Eye Diamond + Auriok Salvagers\nMana: for Auriok Salvagers\nSequence:\n\nCrack LED for .\nActivate Auriok Salvagers spending to get LED back to hand. We net .\nRepeat steps 1 and 2 until you have infinite white mana.\nRepeat steps 1 and 2 creating green mana and red mana with the LED until we have infinite mana in all three colors.\nWith infinite colored mana, we can infinitely cast Marath, ping the table until Marath dies, and repeat for a win.\nTips: Use your Birthing Pod to make your Marath or any three drop into Auriok Salvagers! If you want to run Vexing Bauble, you can make infinite mana with Bomberman and then loop Bauble to draw your deck.\n\nEvolution Witness Loops\nFirst of all, Evolution Witness is a CRACKED card. Put a +1/+1 counter on EvoWitness and you get a permanent card back from your graveyard to hand. This has changed how we play Marath. Get your fetches back, get combo pieces back if they get destroyed, and it can even help us get around Drannith Magistrate in some situations. We found this when dockside was banned and we haven't looked back. This card is so good.\n\nMarath + Evolution Witness + Lion's Eye Diamond\nWith the right set up, we can use Marath to power our Evo Witness loops with LED generating infinite mana and casting Marath infinitely from the CZ. Shout out to Lord Vesuvius for doing the Mar-Math.\n\nPrerequisites:\n\nCards: Marath + Evolution Witness + Lion's Eye Diamond\nMana: for Marath, for Evolution Witness\nCounters: Marath needs at least 3 counters and zero commander tax (sort of... see Tips)\nSequence:\n\nCrack LED for .\nSpend to activate Marath and put a counter on Evolution Witness.\nResolve Evolution Witness' ability to return LED to hand from the graveyard.\nRecast LED.\nRepeat steps 1 through 4 creating and spending Red mana.\nRepeat steps 1 through 4 creating and spending Green mana.\nAt this point Marath will die going back to the Command Zone, our mana pool contains , and we will have Evo Witness and LED still on the battlefield.\nRecast Marath for 5 mana leaving one mana in our mana pool.\nRepeat steps 1 through 6 and continue looping LED with Evo Wit until Marath dies again. Each loop generates 2 mana and removes a counter from Marath. After killing your 5 cost Marath in this way, you will be left with 11 mana in your mana pool with Evolution Witness and LED on the battlefield. Recast a 7 cost Marath and continue this loop generating more and more excess mana with each interation.\nEventually you will accumulate infinite mana.\nWith infinite colored mana, we can infinitely cast Marath, ping the table until Marath dies, and repeat for a win.\nTips: Generally this works best with zero commander tax as the 3 mana Marath loop produces the least excess mana. Having additional mana on board to power this combo can help initiate the loop. By the time we have burned through our 5 mana Marath, the excess mana is more than enough to overcome 4 commander tax if we have it.\n\nEvolution Witness + Lotus Petal/LED + Tarrian's Soulcleaver (Not currently in the deck)\nEquip Evo Witness and loop Petal or Lion's Eye Diamond for infinite colored mana.\n\nPrerequisites:\n\nCards: Evolution Witness + Tarrian's Soulcleaver + Lotus Petal or Lion's Eye Diamond\nMana: for Evolution Witness, to cast and to equip Soulcleaver to Evolution Witness.\nSequence:\n\nEquip Tarrian's Soulcleaver to Evolution Witness.\nSacrifice Lotus Petal (or LED) for mana.\nResolve Soulcleaver's ability to put a +1/+1 counter on Evolution Witness.\nResolve Evolution Witness' ability to return Lotus Petal (or LED) to hand from the graveyard.\nCast Lotus Petal (or LED)\nRepeat steps 2 through 5 until you have infinite colored mana.\nWith infinite colored mana, we can infinitely cast Marath, ping the table until Marath dies, and repeat for a win.\nTips: Obviously LED has a higher risk here as you will have to lose your hand. LED combos run a higher risk of blow out so make sure you have your silence effects up!\n\nWhy am I not running this? Tarrian Soulcleaver is a lovely card. It refills Marath pretty easily. But at 3 mana to use (1 to cast and 2 to equip), it just doesn't do enough for the cost and is a bit slow. That said, if I saw this in a Marath list, I wouldn't bat an eye. Back in Dockside days when everyone was cracking treasures, it was insanely good. These days I think its playstyle and meta dependent.\n\nMarath + Evolution Witness + Lion's Eye Diamond + Scales AKA \"you won't need to do this one often\"\nWith the addition of a scales effect, we can combo through Drannith Magistrate provided Marath is already out. This is very convoluted and I'm sorry lol\n\nPrerequisites:\n\nCards: Marath + Evolution Witness + Lion's Eye Diamond + any Hardened Scales effect\nMana: for Marath, for Evolution Witness, for our cheapest Scales\nCounters: Marath needs at least 3 counters.\nSequence:\n\nCrack LED for .\nSpend to activate Marath and put a counter on Evolution Witness.\nResolve Evolution Witness' ability to return LED to hand from the graveyard.\nRecast LED.\nRepeat steps 1 through 4 again this time making and spending green mana. At this point, we have Marath at 1 counter, LED in play, and floating.\nSpend to activate Marath and put a counter on Evolution Witness.\nMarath will die. Send him to the graveyard.\nCrack LED for .\nResolve Evolution Witness' ability to return Marath to hand from the graveyard. We have floating.\nSpend to recast Marath. Marath enters with 4 counters due to the Scales effect. We have floating.\nRepeat steps 2 through 5 three times choosing and spending a different color of mana with each iteration.\nWhen Marath is at one counter, follow steps 6 through 10. Each iteration will yield three excess mana.\nOnce you have infinite mana from this loop, begin using Marath to ping your opponents but always do the Marath Evolution Witness recursion trick with Marath's last counter. Loop this and win!\nTips: Using LED is already risky. Putting Marath in the graveyard is even riskier! Unbound Flourishing technically works here, but not in the same way as a Scales effect. Unbound will copy your Marath triggers and let you get twice as many LED recursions which simplifies the line.\n\n4. INCLUSIONS AND EXCLUSIONS (WIP)\nSection WIP\nWhy Aren't You Playing...\nOther Scales Effects:\nThere are currently over 15 \"Scales\" effects in magic. Some of these add an additional counter and others double the number of counters. I'm only going to mention a few here that are very close to making the cut but don't quite get there. I currently run four scales effects: Hardened Scales, Michelangelo Weirdness to 11, Kami of Whispered Hopes, and Unbound Flourishing. If you want to run more than 4 scales, consider what is listed below (listed in order of best to worst). This list doesn't include 4+ mana cost scales or the really terrible 3 cost scales.\n\nConclave Mentor: This is the classic creature Scales and served this list well for years. With the release of Michelangelo to 11, I swapped this out. That said, this is what you should grab if you want a third creature scales.\nBenevolent Hydra: Old Benny used to be a classic for Marath and some lists may still run it. As a 1/1 for two green pips, we just have better options, but I wouldn't be shocked to see this in a list.\nOzolith, the shattered spire: While the cost is right at 2 mana and cycling ability is interesting, this is a Scales effect that we struggle to tutor as artifact tutors are quite limited in Marath.\nBranching Evolution: 3 CMC enchantment that isn't busted (like Unbound Flourishing). Counter doubling is good but very niche as all Marath activations are typically in increments of 1.\nLae'zel Vlaakith's Champion: An extra mana for no other bells and whistles. Not worth it.\nEverything beyond these are either too expensive, don't do enough on their own, or both.\nTrap Cards:\nA lot of Marath brewers look at these cards when they first pick up the list. These cards are traps and should not be included in Marath cEDH imo.\n\nRunaway Steam-kin: Most new Marath players look at this and a Scales effect and assume it can go infinite with Marath, but it doesn't. Its just mana neutral and needs a second Scales to go off. Its a trap.\nCrystalline Crawler: This might look like a second copy of Trilobite with a quick read, but similar to steam-kin, crawler doesn't do what you want it to do until you have two scales effects in play.\nFood Chain: Lots of players read Marath and assume that going infinite with food chain lets you win, but you can't spend that mana on Marath's activated abilities. This needs Mana Echoes or another card to make it truly infinite, which makes it a bad choice for the deck. Food Chain isn't any more efficient than our other combos, and its harder to tutor.\nZirda, the Dawnwaker: You may look at Zirda and consider the cost reduction to be a boon to Marath, but it is very rarely useful. Marath activations are almost always in 1 mana increments so\n"}]}