Urgoros, the Empty Hand

Commander / EDH Budget Discard Mono-Black Suicide Black

Ziusdra

Land (37)

• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Blighted Fen
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Crypt of Agadeem
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Howltooth Hollow
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Witch's Cottage

Sorcery (20)

• 1x Arterial Flow
• 1x Bubbling Muck
• 1x Call to the Netherworld
• 1x Dark Deal
• 1x Dark Petition
• 1x Delirium Skeins
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Final Parting
• 1x Fortuitous Find
• 1x Fraying Omnipotence
• 1x Hymn to Tourach
• 1x Ichor Slick
• 1x Ill-Gotten Gains
• 1x Inscription of Ruin
• 1x Profane Tutor
• 1x Razaketh's Rite
• 1x Smallpox
• 1x Syphon Mind
• 1x Unnerve
• 1x Vicious Rumors

Enchantment (11)

• 1x Bottomless Pit
• 1x Elspeth's Nightmare
• 1x Liliana's Caress
• 1x Megrim
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Quest for the Nihil Stone
• 1x Raiders' Wake
• 1x Shrieking Affliction
• 1x The Long Reach of Night  ^Flip
• 1x Underworld Dreams
• 1x Waste Not

Instant (6)

• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Dark Withering
• 1x Flunk
• 1x Funeral Charm
• 1x Hagra Mauling  ^Flip
• 1x Withering Boon

Commander (1)

Creature (12)

• 1x Asylum Visitor
• 1x Cackling Fiend
• 1x Cunning Lethemancer
• 1x Fell Specter
• 1x Guul Draz Specter
• 1x Liliana's Reaver
• 1x Liliana's Specter
• 1x Massacre Girl
• 1x Nightshade Assassin
• 1x Sangromancer
• 1x Tergrid, God of Fright  ^Flip
• 1x Vindictive Lich

Artifact (11)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Bag of Holding
• 1x Charcoal Diamond
• 1x Citanul Flute
• 1x Damping Matrix
• 1x Geth's Grimoire
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mirror Shield
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Davriel, Rogue Shadowmage
• 1x Liliana Vess

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Maybeboard

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Awaken the Erstwhile
• 1x Whispers of Emrakul

Artifact (2)

• 1x Illuminated Folio
• 1x The Rack

Creature (2)

• 1x Gorgon Recluse
• 1x Hypnotic Specter

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A mono-black control-your-enemies by keeping their hands empty. (I say "enemies" and not "friends" because when you play this, you have no friends.) This is obviously a budget deck, and my Maybeboard consists of all the other cards I own that are relevant to this deck. Please make budget-mindful suggestions!

Basically, the win conditions are in the enchantments. Get at least two of those out on the board and keep them there while you keep your opponents' hand sizes down, so that they can't get out their win conditions or destroy yours. The creatures act as support to cause discard, destroy other creatures, or replenish your hand. (Some of the creatures also provide very slow win conditions, such as the specters, Liliana's Reaver, and the Sangromancer.) Having one or more of those enchantments, like Shrieking Affliction, Liliana's Caress, Megrim, Waste Not, or Quest for the Nihil Stone, or one or more of your specters, like Fell Specter or Abyssal Nocturnus on the battlefield when you play a bomb sorcery like Awaken the Erstwhile, Dark Deal, Delirium Skeins or Chain of Smog are the combinations we're looking to execute. A major problem this deck faces is what to do if one of these key enchantments gets discarded, destroyed, exiled, or milled into the graveyard--black has plenty of ways to bring creatures out of the graveyard, but I can't find any cheap options to get my enchantments out of the graveyard (which is why my maindeck self-mill options are few).

Your feedback is very helpful, especially with deciding what to move in and out of my deck and maybeboard! Thanks in advance!

My experience playing this deck is that the deck could use more wheel effects and/or group card draw--because the discard is so good, it stalls the game and that includes stalling out my own win-con. But if I could only make my opponents draw and discard at the same time, I could speed up my win-cons...

Date added	5 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 23 - 0 Rares 30 - 0 Uncommons 18 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.08
Tokens	Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Tryin to competitive