Legendary Creature — Zombie Snake

Sidisi, Undead Vizier

Mana value5EDHREC#2,663

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The Commander

Deathtouch

Exploit (When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a creature.)

When Sidisi exploits a creature, you may search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Guide

Gameplan

Sidisi turns one creature sacrifice into a Demonic Tutor stapled to a 4/6 deathtouch body, letting you assemble combos or grab answers on demand. You ramp into Sidisi by turn 4-5, exploit a token or expendable creature for the tutor, and recur her with reanimation to repeat the effect. Close the game by tutoring up a combo piece or finisher.

Strengths

Repeatable unconditional tutoring fixes consistency and finds combos
Deathtouch makes a strong defensive blocker that trades up
Synergizes with cheap tokens and sacrifice-fodder for free value
Mono-black gives access to the best tutors, ramp, and reanimation

Weaknesses

Single color limits ramp speed, card draw, and interaction breadth
Tutoring telegraphs your plan and invites removal
Relies on having fodder to exploit, so empty boards weaken her
Commander tax and removal can make recasting expensive

Key Cards

Demonic Tutor — Mirrors Sidisi's effect and helps find any combo piece or answer.
Phyrexian Tower — Provides reliable sac fodder synergy and ramp off the creature you exploit.
Reanimate — Cheaply returns Sidisi for repeated exploit tutors after she dies.
Pitiless Plunderer — Generates treasures off exploited creatures to fuel further plays.
Victimize — Doubles as recursion and fodder generation to retrigger exploit.

Upgrade Path

Add fast mana like Dark Ritual and Cabal Coffers/Nykthos to deploy Sidisi early and recast her cheaply. Tighten the deck around a compact combo (Mikaeus + Ballista, or Karmic Guide loops) so every tutor finds a winning line. Improve recursion and protection with cards like Sheoldred, Whispering One, Malakir Rebirth, and counterspell-style protection via Imp's Mischief to defend key turns.

Core Cards

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Win Conditions

▸Tutor and assemble an infinite combo such as Mikaeus, the Unhallowed with Walking Ballista
▸Reanimate large threats and beat down with deathtouch and evasion
▸Aristocrats drain via Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, and repeated sacrifices
▸Exsanguinate or Torment of Hailfire as a tutorable mana-sink finisher

Archetypes

Combo — Repeatable tutoring assembles two-card combos like Mikaeus plus a sac outlet.
Reanimator — Sidisi cheats big threats into play and exploits them for value loops.
Aristocrats — Exploit fits a sacrifice-and-drain shell with tokens and death triggers.
Control — Tutoring lets you reliably find removal and stax pieces to grind out games.