the raven man

Commander / EDH* Mono-Black

urgumflux

Creature (26)

• 1x Archfiend of Ifnir
• 1x Big Game Hunter
• 1x Blood Scrivener
• 1x Bog Witch
• 1x Daring Fiendbonder
• 1x Dogged Detective
• 1x Erebos, God of the Dead
• 1x Faerie Macabre
• 1x Gloomfang Mauler
• 1x Grim Hireling
• 1x Hoarding Broodlord
• 1x Injector Crocodile
• 1x Necromancer's Familiar
• 1x Olivia's Dragoon
• 1x Pack Rat
• 1x Putrid Imp
• 1x Rampaging Spiketail
• 1x Shadowgrange Archfiend
• 1x Street Wraith
• 1x Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1x Tomb Robber
• 1x Troll of Khazad-dum
• 1x Twisted Abomination
• 1x Undead Gladiator
• 1x Undertaker
• 1x Woebringer Demon

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Dark Suspicions
• 1x Faith of the Devoted
• 1x Illicit Masquerade
• 1x Nihilistic Glee
• 1x Tortured Existence
• 1x World-Weary

Land (33)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Castle Locthwain
• 1x Crypt of Agadeem
• 1x Demolition Field
• 1x Drownyard Temple
• 1x Echoing Deeps
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 15x Swamp
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Vesuva
• 1x Volatile Fault
• 1x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip

Sorcery (11)

• 1x Back for Seconds
• 1x Beseech the Mirror
• 1x Blood for Bones
• 1x Bone Shards
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Infernal Tutor
• 1x Lich-Knights' Conquest
• 1x Minions' Murmurs
• 1x Nightmare Unmaking
• 1x Pact of the Serpent

Commander (1)

Artifact (18)

• 1x Altar of Bhaal
• 1x Anduril, Narsil Reforged
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Currency Converter
• 1x Dowsing Dagger  ^Flip
• 1x Ensnaring Bridge
• 1x Goldvein Pick
• 1x Grimoire of the Dead
• 1x Horn of the Mark
• 1x Matzalantli, the Great Door  ^Flip
• 1x Mox Amber
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Prying Blade
• 1x Slate of Ancestry
• 1x Symmetry Matrix
• 1x Tarrian's Journal  ^Flip
• 1x Thaumatic Compass  ^Flip
• 1x Throne of the God-Pharaoh

Instant (5)

• 1x Bitter Triumph
• 1x Lethal Scheme
• 1x Mausoleum Secrets
• 1x Rowan's Grim Search
• 1x Skeletal Scrying

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Creature (94)

• 1x Archfiend's Vessel
• 1x Archon of Cruelty
• 1x Ayara, First of Locthwain
• 1x Baleful Force
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Blood Operative
• 1x Bloodsworn Squire  ^Flip
• 1x Bone Dragon
• 1x Bone Miser
• 1x Brackish Trudge
• 1x Brainstealer Dragon
• 1x Cabal Initiate
• 1x Champion of Stray Souls
• 1x Containment Construct
• 1x Crypt Lurker
• 1x Deathgreeter
• 1x Defiler of Flesh
• 1x Dimir House Guard
• 1x Dirty Wererat
• 1x Dockside Chef
• 1x Doom Whisperer
• 1x Dreadfeast Demon
• 1x Entrails Feaster
• 1x Erebos's Titan
• 1x Erebos, Bleak-Hearted
• 1x Eye of Duskmantle
• 1x Feaster of Fools
• 1x Fell Beast of Mordor
• 1x Gilt-Blade Prowler
• 1x Gollum, Patient Plotter
• 1x Goremand
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Gutterbones
• 1x Halo Scarab
• 1x Haunted Dead
• 1x Hell Mongrel
• 1x Hoarding Broodlord
• 1x Keeper of the Dead
• 1x Kraul Swarm
• 1x Krav, the Unredeemed
• 1x Lampad of Death's Vigil
• 1x Legion Vanguard
• 1x Lingering Phantom
• 1x Lotleth Giant
• 1x Malevolent Witchkite
• 1x Mirkwood Bats
• 1x Moodmark Painter
• 1x Mortician Beetle
• 1x Nadier's Nightblade
• 1x Nightshade Assassin
• 1x Nirkana Revenant
• 1x Ovalchase Daredevil
• 1x Paragon of Open Graves
• 1x Phyrexian Fleshgorger
• 1x Pitiless Plunderer
• 1x Plague Witch
• 1x Priest of Forgotten Gods
• 1x Rakshasa Debaser
• 1x Raven of Fell Omens
• 1x Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1x Ruthless Sniper
• 1x Sanguine Spy
• 1x Scavenger Drake
• 1x Screeching Buzzard
• 1x Seer of Stolen Sight
• 1x Sepulchral Primordial
• 1x Silumgar Scavenger
• 1x Sinister Starfish
• 1x Skemfar Shadowsage
• 1x Skirge Familiar
• 1x Skirsdag High Priest
• 1x Skirsdag Supplicant
• 1x Smothering Abomination
• 1x Snarling Gorehound
• 1x Souls of the Lost
• 1x Species Specialist
• 1x Starving Revenant
• 1x Torgaar, Famine Incarnate
• 1x Underworld Sentinel
• 1x Unshakable Tail
• 1x Unwilling Ingredient
• 1x Urborg Syphon-Mage
• 1x Vampire Hounds
• 1x Vein Ripper
• 1x Veinwitch Coven
• 1x Viconia, Drow Apostate
• 1x Vilis, Broker of Blood
• 1x Voldaren Bloodcaster  ^Flip
• 1x Whispering Snitch
• 1x Witch of the Moors
• 1x Writhing Necromass
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine
• 1x Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Artifact (51)

• 1x Altar of Bhaal
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Bag of Devouring
• 1x Blood Fountain
• 1x Bloodforged Battle-Axe
• 1x Bloodsoaked Altar
• 1x Buried Treasure
• 1x Carnage Altar
• 1x Ceremonial Knife
• 1x Charcoal Diamond
• 1x Coat of Arms
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Culling Dais
• 1x Demon's Horn
• 1x Dream-Thief's Bandana
• 1x Endless Atlas
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Eye of Ojer Taq  ^Flip
• 1x Fodder Tosser
• 1x Ghost Lantern
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Heirloom Mirror  ^Flip
• 1x Heraldic Banner
• 1x Idol of Oblivion
• 1x Investigator's Journal
• 1x Jar of Eyeballs
• 1x Jet Medallion
• 1x Lotus Ring
• 1x Malefic Scythe
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Netherborn Altar
• 1x Nyx Lotus
• 1x Obelisk of Urd
• 1x Pact Weapon
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Stoneforge Masterwork
• 1x Sword of Light and Shadow
• 1x Sword of Sinew and Steel
• 1x Sword of the Animist
• 1x Tarrian's Soulcleaver
• 1x The Cauldron of Eternity
• 1x The Grim Captain's Locker
• 1x The Underworld Cookbook
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Throne of Eldraine
• 1x Trading Post
• 1x Vat of Rebirth
• 1x Whip of Erebos
• 1x Whispersteel Dagger
• 1x Witch's Cauldron

Instant (29)

• 1x Ad Nauseam
• 1x Altar's Reap
• 1x Collective Nightmare
• 1x Corrupted Conviction
• 1x Culling the Weak
• 1x Deadly Dispute
• 1x Defile
• 1x Dig Up the Body
• 1x Erebos's Intervention
• 1x Foul Renewal
• 1x Ghastly Demise
• 1x Grave Endeavor
• 1x Hellish Rebuke
• 1x Insidious Dreams
• 1x Malakir Rebirth  ^Flip
• 1x Mob
• 1x Nasty End
• 1x Pile On
• 1x Plumb the Forbidden
• 1x Plunge into Darkness
• 1x Reckoner's Bargain
• 1x Rowan's Grim Search
• 1x Shred Memory
• 1x Skeletal Scrying
• 1x Songs of the Damned
• 1x Soul Shatter
• 1x Unmake the Graves
• 1x Urborg Justice
• 1x Village Rites

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Liliana, Death Mage

Sorcery (37)

• 1x Bankrupt in Blood
• 1x Blood for Bones
• 1x Bone Splinters
• 1x Call to the Netherworld
• 1x Command the Dreadhorde
• 1x Crippling Fear
• 1x Dead Revels
• 1x Demonic Collusion
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Dimir Machinations
• 1x Disturbing Plot
• 1x Eaten Alive
• 1x Edgar's Awakening
• 1x Eliminate the Competition
• 1x Endless Obedience
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x From the Catacombs
• 1x Grave Strength
• 1x Grim Discovery
• 1x Haunting Misery
• 1x Incarnation Technique
• 1x Innocent Blood
• 1x Macabre Reconstruction
• 1x Macabre Waltz
• 1x Midnight Recovery
• 1x Mutilate
• 1x Persist
• 1x Pitiless Carnage
• 1x Pointed Discussion
• 1x Razaketh's Rite
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Reprocess
• 1x Soul Exchange
• 1x Syphon Life
• 1x Unearth
• 1x Victimize
• 1x Wander in Death

Enchantment (33)

• 1x Agent of the Iron Throne
• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Arguel's Blood Fast  ^Flip
• 1x Attrition
• 1x Bad Moon
• 1x Black Market
• 1x Blood Funnel
• 1x Carnival of Souls
• 1x Criminal Past
• 1x Cultist of the Absolute
• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Dark Prophecy
• 1x Demonic Embrace
• 1x Dying to Serve
• 1x Endless Whispers
• 1x Exquisite Blood
• 1x Fallen Ideal
• 1x Feast of Sanity
• 1x Greed
• 1x Mortiphobia
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Necromantic Thirst
• 1x Necrosynthesis
• 1x Oath of Ghouls
• 1x Oblivion Crown
• 1x Oversold Cemetery
• 1x Palace Siege
• 1x Revenge of Ravens
• 1x Sadistic Glee
• 1x Soul Enervation
• 1x The Meathook Massacre
• 1x Thran Vigil
• 1x Vampiric Rites

Land (25)

• 1x Blasted Landscape
• 1x Castle Locthwain
• 1x City of Shadows
• 1x Dakmor Salvage
• 1x Desert of the Glorified
• 1x Everglades
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Guildless Commons
• 1x Hidden Necropolis
• 1x High Market
• 1x Hive of the Eye Tyrant
• 1x Hostile Hostel  ^Flip
• 2x Lake of the Dead
• 1x Lotus Field
• 1x Lotus Vale
• 1x Petrified Field
• 1x Polluted Mire
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1x Tectonic Edge
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Voldaren Estate
• 1x War Room

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SELF DISCARD ONLY!! use reliable self-discards to make 4 birds per round of the table, use them as sac fodder. likely reanimate strategy.

ive moved away from the sac fodder strat. the math simply doesnt seem like it will work. discard 1 card, make 1 bird. sac 1 bird, draw one card. youre right back where you started. the only thing you gained was putting a reanimate target in the gy, i guess?? this strategy only works if you have ANOTHER payoff on top, for example, having a zulaport cutthroat makes it "break even" so to speak, but arguably not really much more than simply attacking with the bird... having 2 dark prophecy effects would work, but, turns out there are only like 2 of those effects that work with tokens.

so the new strategy is to just lean in to the strengths i do have. putting cards in graveyards, and having birds that can only really attack.

change tacks to steer more towards reanimator. but first, get down to 100 cards.

Date added	3 weeks
Last updated	2 weeks
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 46 - 0 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 17 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.22
Tokens	Bird 1/1 B, City's Blessing, Copy Clone, Human Cleric 1/1 BW, Incubator, Phyrexian 0/0 C, Plant 0/2 G, Rogue 2/2 B, Skeleton 4/1 B, Treasure