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Ygra, Eater of All, is one of the legendary creatures included inMagic: The Gathering’sBloomburrow set. Ygra is a Goldari (black/green) commander with a heavy focus in a sacrifice and removal theme thanks to its unique effects relating to Food.
If you’re planning on making a Ygra, Eater of All deck, prepare to learn a few combos, as there are a lot of easy ways to create infinite combos thanks to Ygra’s effect to make everything a Food. If infinite combos aren’t your speed, you can play Ygra a little more casually and focus on growing its stats instead.
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The decklist contains one planeswalker, 32 creatures, seven sorceries, seven instants, 12 artifacts, six enchantments, and 34 lands. Most of the creatures in the decklist benefit from Food, or canact as a sacrifice outletfor your main combo pieces and strategies.
Key Cards
Ygra, Eater Of All
The commander of the deck,Ygra, Eater of All,is the main card of the deck. As a static ability, it turns allother creatures into Food, and grows in stats whenever a Food goes into the graveyard.
This even plays into its ward cost, as it requires any opponent targeting it to sacrifice a Food. This meansunless they have a Food token, they’ll have to sacrifice one of their creatures.
Ygra makes all other creatures into Foodartifacts, socards that destroy artifacts will double as creature removalso long as Ygra is on the battlefield.
There are many cards that care about Food, and since Ygra makes creatures into Food, it becomes even easier to take advantage of these effects. With how many sacrifice outlets are available, it’seasy to give Ygra +1/+1 counters, as this triggered ability is not once per turn.
Camellia, The Seedmiser
Camellia, the Seedmiseris one of your ways to set up infinite combos. So long as both it, Ygra, and any sacrifice outlet are on the battlefield, you’re able to sacrifice as much as you want.
Since all creatures are Food with Ygra, Camellia will make a 1/1 Squirrel token when you sacrifice one, giving you another creature to sacrifice to infinitely loop for infinite sacrifice.
Thiscombo gives Ygra an infinite number of +1/+1 counters, and gives you infinite death triggersfor cards that deal burn damage whenever a creature dies. While there’s a decent static effect for Squirrels, there’s not enough in the deck for it to be relevant.
Blood Artist
Since a lot of creatures will be dying,Blood Artistis a vital card to the deck. You will gain life while making someone else lose life. It does require you to target the player, so if for some reason an opponent is protected, you won’t get the burn damage off (but this is a very rare occurrence).
So long as Blood Artist is on the battlefield when a creature dies, its effect will trigger even if it dies too. As such, a board wipe can cause massive burn damage and lifegain since Blood Artist will see so many creatures die at once.
Blood Artist is one of the ways you accomplish your wind condition. With how many combo enablers there are in the deck for infinite sacrifice,Blood Artist is a way to turn that into proper damage to win off the combo.
Kill Switch
WhileKill Switchwon’t make you any friends, it is one of the best cards in the deck at slowing everyone else down. It forces all other artifacts to be tapped and stay tapped so long as Kill Switch is tapped.
This effect is just two mana, and shuts down everyone’s battlefield to allow Ygra to attack freely (assuming no one can flash in a creature).
Kill Switch’s effect only applies to artifacts that were on the battlefield when you activated its effect. Any artifact that enters after you use it will be treated as normal.
SinceYgra makes every other creature Food artifacts, Kill Switch taps them,but it will also cause your artifacts to be tapped. You don’t have the option to keep Kill Switch tapped, so you’ll need to pay the two mana on each of your turns (something that’s a small price to pay).
Ashnod’s Altar
With how much sacrificing you’ll be doing, you’ll need a good outlet for it.Ashnod’s Altaris one of the best, as it lets you turn your creatures into colorless mana. If you have a way to infinitely create more creatures, Ashnod’s Altar cannet you infinite colorless mana.
What makes Ashnod’s Altar so good is even if you’re not planning on doing anything with the mana, it’s asacrifice outlet you don’t actually have to pay mana to use. Outlets like these arevital to sacrifice decks, as they’re how you start off your main combo lines.
How To Play The Deck
A Ygra, Eater of All commander deck isabout assembling an infinite combo and burning out your opponents. There are a lot of ways to do this, thanks to Ygra’s static ability to make all creatures into Food artifacts.
Infinite combo enablers includeYgra with Camellia, the Seedmiser,Cauldron Familiarwithany way to make more tokensandScavenger’s Talent at level twowithany infinite sacrifice loopthat will mill all your opponents out.
The deck foregoes most traditional board wipes. Instead, it uses cards that will destroy all artifacts. This not only takes care of creatures, but your opponents' artifacts as well.
Creeping CorrosionandFade From Historyboth get rid of all artifacts, with the latter taking care of enchantments as well. While you do lose yours as well, you don’t fully need yours around, thanks to your powerful creatures.
The deck is a slow build-up until your combo lines are ready. You’renot going to be winning in combat, as your creatures are on the weaker side of things. You do have a lot of great chump blockers, especially creatures with recursion built-in, likeCauldron Familiar.
Instead, you willwin through slow burn damagewith all ofyour cards that burn when creatures die, something that will happen a ton over the course of a game.
