Muldrotha's Sultai Graveyard Engine
BrawlDeck Strategy
A Sultai (Black-Green-Blue) midrange graveyard-value Brawl deck built around Muldrotha, the Gravetide, which lets you recast a land, creature, enchantment, and artifact from your graveyard every turn for an overwhelming grind engine, now topped with Emrakul, the World Anew as an unstoppable finisher.
- Muldrotha + self-mill (Stitcher's Supplier, Glowspore Shaman, Mire Triton, Skull Prophet): every permanent you mill becomes a card you can replay, so milling is pure card advantage.
- Muldrotha + Binding the Old Gods / Wolfwillow Haven / Grave Pact / Phyrexian Arena: enchantments (including sagas) are recastable, so you can loop removal and ramp every turn.
- World Shaper + Ancient Greenwarden + Rampaging Baloths: World Shaper returns all lands from your graveyard when it dies, Ancient Greenwarden doubles your landfall triggers and lets you replay lands from the graveyard, and Rampaging Baloths turns each land drop into a 4/4 Beast.
- Doubling Season + Liliana, Dreadhorde General: Doubling Season doubles the loyalty counters Liliana enters with and every Zombie token she creates, enabling a fast ultimate.
- Emrakul, the World Anew + ramp: Emrakul's cost reduction and enormous body give the deck a game-ending threat that ignores most removal, and casting it off lands recycled by Muldrotha feels free.
- Village Rites / Deadly Dispute + Muldrotha: sacrificing a permanent you can recast again is essentially free card draw every turn.
Keep hands with 3-4 lands, at least one green source, and an early play such as Paradise Druid, Druid of the Cowl, or Leafkin Druid. Keep any hand with Muldrotha plus ramp even if it lacks other action, since she refills herself. Mulligan hands with fewer than 3 lands, no green source, or no turn-1/turn-2 play. Do not go below 6 unless the hand is unplayable - this deck wins by grinding.
Early (turns 1-3): ramp and fix with mana dorks and Cultivate, Migration Path, or Circuitous Route, while milling yourself with Stitcher's Supplier, Glowspore Shaman, Mire Triton, and Skull Prophet to stock the graveyard. Mid (turns 4-7): resolve Muldrotha with Swiftfoot Boots attached and start looping permanents out of the bin each turn, grinding with Phyrexian Arena, Midnight Reaper, and Morbid Opportunist while removing threats with Assassin's Trophy, Infernal Grasp, Hero's Downfall, Fatal Push, and Bloodchief's Thirst; Binding the Old Gods doubles as removal and ramp you can replay. Late (turns 8+): deploy Emrakul, the World Anew as a hard-to-answer finisher, or close with Ancient Greenwarden plus Rampaging Baloths and World Shaper for a lethal token wave, Doubling Season into a Liliana ultimate, or Rise of the Dark Realms to reanimate both graveyards.
Heavy graveyard hate (Rest in Peace, Leyline of the Void, Grafdigger's Cage, or an opposing Scavenging Ooze) turns off Muldrotha and most of the engine. Muldrotha costs six mana and is a magnet for removal, counterspells, and exile effects, so protect her with Swiftfoot Boots or cast her once the opponent taps out. Exile-based removal (Swords to Plowshares, Farewell, Sunfall) permanently denies recursion, Emrakul can still be countered on the stack, and fast aggro or combo decks can race you before the value engine comes online if you stumble on mana.
| Type | Rarity | Card Name | Mana |
|---|---|---|---|
| Creatures (34) | Mythic Rare | Ancient Greenwarden | |
| Rare | Arcanis the Omnipotent | ||
| Mythic Rare | Clever Impersonator | ||
| Mythic Rare | Dina, Essence Brewer | ||
| Common | Druid of the Cowl | ||
| Mythic Rare | Emrakul, the World Anew | ||
| Rare | Ghalta, Primal Hunger | ||
| Uncommon | Glowspore Shaman | ||
| Uncommon | Golgari Findbroker | ||
| Common | Ilysian Caryatid | ||
| Rare | Kiora, the Rising Tide | ||
| Rare | Kona, Rescue Beastie | ||
| Rare | Lathril, Blade of the Elves | ||
| Common | Leafkin Druid | ||
| Common | Llanowar Visionary | ||
| Mythic Rare | Massacre Wurm | ||
| Rare | Midnight Reaper | ||
| Uncommon | Mire Triton | ||
| Uncommon | Morbid Opportunist | ||
| Rare | Mossborn Hydra | ||
| Mythic Rare | Muldrotha, the Gravetide | ||
| Uncommon | Paradise Druid | ||
| Uncommon | Plaguecrafter | ||
| Mythic Rare | Questing Beast | ||
| Rare | Rampaging Baloths | ||
| Uncommon | Ravenous Chupacabra | ||
| Uncommon | Reclamation Sage | ||
| Rare | Scavenging Ooze | ||
| Uncommon | Skull Prophet | ||
| Rare | Solemn Simulacrum | ||
| Uncommon | Stitcher's Supplier | ||
| Mythic Rare | Vein Ripper | ||
| Mythic Rare | Vizier of the Menagerie | ||
| Rare | World Shaper | ||
| Planeswalkers (1) | Mythic Rare | Liliana, Dreadhorde General | |
| Instants (10) | Rare | Assassin's Trophy | |
| Common | Consider | ||
| Common | Counterspell | ||
| Common | Deadly Dispute | ||
| Uncommon | Fatal Push | ||
| Uncommon | Hero's Downfall | ||
| Uncommon | Infernal Grasp | ||
| Common | Opt | ||
| Mythic Rare | Vampiric Tutor | ||
| Common | Village Rites | ||
| Sorceries (8) | Rare | Blasphemous Edict | |
| Uncommon | Blood for Bones | ||
| Uncommon | Bloodchief's Thirst | ||
| Uncommon | Circuitous Route | ||
| Common | Cultivate | ||
| Uncommon | Migration Path | ||
| Mythic Rare | Rise of the Dark Realms | ||
| Uncommon | Victimize | ||
| Artifacts (3) | Common | Arcane Signet | |
| Uncommon | Swiftfoot Boots | ||
| Mythic Rare | The Great Henge | ||
| Enchantments (7) | Uncommon | Binding the Old Gods | |
| Mythic Rare | Doubling Season | ||
| Mythic Rare | Grave Pact | ||
| Rare | Phyrexian Arena | ||
| Mythic Rare | Primeval Bounty | ||
| Rare | Training Grounds | ||
| Uncommon | Wolfwillow Haven | ||
| Lands (37) | Rare | Blooming Marsh | |
| Rare | Deathcap Glade | ||
| Common | Evolving Wilds | ||
| Rare | Fabled Passage | ||
| Basic Land | Forest | ||
| Rare | Great Hall of the Biblioplex | ||
| Basic Land | Island | ||
| Rare | Llanowar Wastes | ||
| Rare | Multiversal Passage | ||
| Rare | Nesting Grounds | ||
| Rare | Overgrown Tomb | ||
| Rare | Phyrexian Tower | ||
| Rare | Restless Cottage | ||
| Common | Snow-Covered Forest | ||
| Common | Snow-Covered Island | ||
| Common | Snow-Covered Swamp | ||
| Basic Land | Swamp | ||
| Rare | Temple of Deceit | ||
| Rare | Temple of Malady | ||
| Rare | Temple of Mystery | ||
| Rare | Woodland Cemetery |