Araumi of the Dead Tide is among our top-tier favorite creatures from Commander Legends to build around. Encore is an amazing multiplayer mechanic and we can abuse a ton of cool graveyard and enters-the-battlefield abilities.
Let’s start by taking a look at some of our favorite creatures to target with Araumi. There seem to be an abundance of options.
The next important category to consider is graveyard enablers, since Araumi asks us to fill our graveyard more than just a normal game would generate. The best options are creatures that fit into both the prior category and this one, but we’ll need to supplement a bit to get ourselves off the ground.
Now that we’ve established our engine and payoffs, let’s look for some options to give Araumi haste and repeated uses:
Finally, here are a couple of cards with cool additional synergy that we found:
Below is our list of notable lands to include. It’s worth noting that any lands that help fill your graveyard (e.g. fetchlands) are even more desirable than normal.
There really are far more options for this strategy than you can fit even in a 100 card deck, which is part of why Araumi is such a fun Commander to play with! This deck is sure to be one of our favorites to bring to the table for years to come. We’ve built a custom version of this deck which we have for sale if you want to jump right in to playing with Araumi! Check it out here:
