Overview:

This Sultai (BGU) deck helmed by Muldrotha, the Gravetide focuses on incremental value through graveyard recursion, leveraging its commander to replay permanents like Spore Frog, Animate Dead, and planeswalkers from the yard. The strategy combines attrition-based control (Grave Pact, Toxrill, the Corrosive) with value engines like Thassa, Deep-Dwelling + Agent of Treachery and reanimation payoffs. While it can generate overwhelming board states, its win conditions are slow, relying on incremental theft, combat, or saga-based bombs like Sheoldred // The True Scriptures.

Primer:

Core Strategy Execution:

1. Early Setup (Turns 1-4): Mill with Stitcher's Supplier, Doom Whisperer, or Gravebreaker Lamia. Ramp with Sol Ring, Skull Prophet, and fetchlands. Protect life total with Spore Frog recursion.
2. Midgame Value (Turns 5-7): Cast Muldrotha and begin recurring key permanents:
   • Lock down combat with infinite Spore Frog activations
   • Steal permanents via Thassa, Deep-Dwelling + Agent of Treachery
   • Control the board with Toxrill, the Corrosive or Massacre Girl
3. Endgame (Turns 8+): Close with transformed sagas (Sheoldred // The True Scriptures’s army of stolen creatures) or Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord sacrificing Demon of Catastrophes.

Mulligan Priorities:

• Ensure 3+ lands with at least two colors
• Prioritize early mill (Stitcher’s Supplier), recursion (Animate Dead), or protection (Spore Frog)
• Avoid hands without graveyard setup or ramp

Key Tips:

• Use Oubliette as reusable removal by sacrificing/replaying it with Muldrotha
• Palantír of Orthanc pressures opponents while fueling your graveyard
• Shifting Woodland can copy key sagas or Deadbridge Chant from the yard
• Likeness Looter clones your best dead creatures while filtering draws

Weaknesses:

Critical

• Graveyard hate (Rest in Peace, Leyline of the Void) completely shuts down recursion engines
• Struggles to close games quickly; vulnerable to combo decks outpacing its attrition

Moderate

• Limited stack interaction (only 3 counterspells in 99)
• High dependency on Muldrotha – tax beyond {8} mana cripples the deck

Minor

• Slow mana base with 11+ tapped lands delays critical turns
• Low instant-speed interaction for noncreature threats

Most Important Cards:

1. Muldrotha, the Gravetide (Engine enabling all graveyard recursion)
2. Animate Dead (Low-cost reanimation, recurrable)
3. Thassa, Deep-Dwelling (Flicker engine for ETB value)
4. Toxrill, the Corrosive (Board control and token generation)
5. Sheoldred // The True Scriptures (Recurring wipe and game-ending saga)
6. Spore Frog (Recurrable fog effect)
7. Gravebreaker Lamia (Tutor-to-graveyard enabler)
8. Deadbridge Chant (Value engine and recursion)
9. Oblivion Stone (Universal answer)
10. Palantír of Orthanc (Card advantage + mill synergy)

Attribute Ratings:

Speed: 4/10
Primarily a grindy deck; earliest impactful plays (T3-4 Muldrotha) don’t threaten wins until T8+ without setup.

Resilience: 7/10
Multiple recursion engines and Muldrotha’s redundancy mitigate removal, but folds to graveyard exile.

Consistency: 6/10
Strong self-mill and land-based tutors (Elvish Reclaimer-like effects via sagas), but lacks focused combo lines.

Interaction: 5/10
Robust creature/artifact removal (Kogla, Haywire Mite), but minimal counterspells and slow board wipes.

Rating Justification:

This deck excels at outvaluing opponents in prolonged games but lacks the speed (T8+ wins) and combo density of optimized lists. Its resilience against conventional removal is offset by critical vulnerabilities to graveyard hate, placing it in the upgraded precon-to-focused casual range.

Power level: 5.0 - 5.5