A Mordant Liquor of Tears

Commander / EDH Control Group Hug Group Slug Mono-Black Stax

Kasls

Artifact (19)

• 1x Charcoal Diamond
• 1x Cursed Totem
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Extraplanar Lens
• 1x Font of Mythos
• 1x Helm of the Host
• 1x Howling Mine
• 1x Icy Manipulator
• 1x Iron Maiden
• 1x Jet Medallion
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Meekstone
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Null Brooch
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Static Orb
• 1x Teferi's Puzzle Box
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Winter Orb

Creature (6)

• 1x Archfiend of Ifnir
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Fate Unraveler
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Master of the Feast
• 1x Psychosis Crawler

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Liliana of the Dark Realms
• 1x Ob Nixilis Reignited

Sorcery (15)

• 1x Ashes to Ashes
• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Damnable Pact
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Dark Deal
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Ill-Gotten Gains
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Mutilate
• 1x Profane Command
• 1x Repay in Kind
• 1x Temporal Extortion
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Instant (8)

• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Darkness
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Stunning Reversal
• 1x Terror
• 1x Ultimate Price
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Victim of Night

Land (35)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Lake of the Dead
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 30x Snow-Covered Swamp

Commander (1)

Enchantment (14)

• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Bottomless Pit
• 1x Exquisite Blood
• 1x Infernal Darkness
• 1x Liliana's Caress
• 1x Megrim
• 1x Oppression
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Pestilence
• 1x Price of Knowledge
• 1x Sanguine Bond
• 1x Tainted AEther
• 1x Underworld Dreams
• 1x Withering Wisps

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An overbearing vice deck bent on controlling the board and forcing excessive card draw.

Generally, there's three lines of play, depending a lot on what you draw and where the game goes:

1. Drawing/hand size penalty from Seizan/Font + Underworld/Fate Unraveler. This is the general focus of the deck. Underworld and Seizan will hit each opponent for 5 during their upkeep, while Price of Knowledge, Iron Maiden and Psychosis Crawler just double down on this strategy.

2. Discard via Bottomless Pit/Oppression/Painful Quandary + Megrim/Caress/Bloodchief. Alternate Commander-less strategy swaps out card drawing for forced discard. This is a little more complicated and requires set up, but can steal a game from nowhere with Dark Deal. This is the more cautious approach when combo decks take too much advantage from your commander.

3. Surprise upkeep kill. Probably the most consistently lethal card in the deck is Repay in Kind. Lay low, let people draw cards and take passive damage from Seizan, then drop Repay when someone is in single digits and let upkeep damage kill each opponent before they can draw for the turn.

This deck evolved into a mono-black, speed stax deck due to the amount of hate it receives. The biggest inclusion being Infernal Darkness, which essentially every mono-black deck should run on principal due the how hard it shuts down any deck that isn't 60% black. Always tutor for Infernal darkness early on because it buys you free turns and locks your opponent's hand for easy damage. Similarly, Pestilence and the snow-dependent Withering Wisps are particularly devastating with Seizan out, allowing you board-sweep anything under 4 toughness repeatedly and wear down everyone's life total. The age-old Winter Orb/Static Orb morass also will crush most decks and buy you turns.

Expect a lot of hate fast and strategically place enchantments so they're not removed the same turn without having any effect. Low-impact spells like Megrim and Underworld Dreams, generally stay under radar until draw/discard engines ramp the damage. Tainted Aether, Oppression, Infernal Darkness and Winter Orb however draw fire and provide cover for the damage engines.

Some additional win-cons include Helm of the Host to multiply Seizans or Crypt Ghasts for silliness, a few X damage late game burn spells and the dreaded Sanguine Bond/Exquisite Blood combo.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 40 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 5 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.17
Tokens	Copy Clone, Emblem Liliana of the Dark Realms, Emblem Ob Nixilis Reignited
Folders	EDH, Following, Black deck
Based on	Tragedy of Dr Faustus Kasls EDH