Nethroi, Apex of Death

Gameplan

Nethroi fills the graveyard with creatures, then mutates to reanimate a wave of bodies totaling 10 power, often picking up creatures that cheat the power-10 cap or chain into game-ending combos. You self-mill and sacrifice early, then deploy Nethroi mid-game to flood the board and snowball value. Many builds aim to assemble an infinite combo or a single overwhelming reanimation turn.

Key Cards

• Necrotic Ooze — With its 0 power it dodges the cap and enables activated-ability combos from the graveyard.
• Dance of the Dead — Cheap reanimation backup, but the real combo is reanimating creatures whose printed power totals 10.
• Devoted Druid — A 0-power-after-untap piece that combos with Swift Reconfiguration and Necrotic Ooze for infinite mana.
• Walking Ballista — Enters with 0 power so it's always reanimatable, and serves as a damage-based wincon.
• Buried Alive — Stocks the graveyard with the exact creatures you want Nethroi to return.
• Eternal Witness — Reanimated to rebuy a key spell, and a low-power value engine.

Upgrade Path

Add fast self-mill (Stitcher's Supplier, Golgari Grave-Troll, Hermit Druid) and tutors (Buried Alive, Entomb, Final Parting) to set up the perfect reanimation pile, then lean into a compact infinite combo like Necrotic Ooze + Devoted Druid + Walking Ballista that Nethroi assembles in one trigger. Include ways to reduce big creatures' power to 0 or reuse mutate (Cauldron of Souls, blink), and protect the line with graveyard recursion and counter/disruption to beat hate.