Bite the Hand that Doesn't Feed You

Commander / EDH* Budget Death and Taxes Discard UBR (Grixis)

IcariumLifestealer

Creature (25)

• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Blazing Specter
• 1x Blizzard Specter
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Dream Devourer
• 1x Dreamstealer
• 1x Fell Specter
• 1x Fog Bank
• 1x Guard Gomazoa
• 1x Hypnotic Specter
• 1x Lavaborn Muse
• 1x Liliana's Reaver
• 1x Liliana's Specter
• 1x Nightscape Familiar
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Scythe Specter
• 1x Sedraxis Specter
• 1x Sire Of Insanity
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Thassa, God of the Sea
• 1x Tourach, Dread Cantor
• 1x Urgoros, the Empty One
• 1x Vampire Nighthawk
• 1x Visara the Dreadful

Instant (6)

• 1x Behold the Multiverse
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Delayed Blast Fireball
• 1x Poison the Cup
• 1x Rakdos Charm
• 1x Saw it Coming

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Angrath, the Flame-Chained
• 1x Davriel, Rogue Shadowmage

Land (37)

• 1x Akoum Refuge
• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Bloodfell Caves
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Dimir Guildgate
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 5x Island
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Maestros Theater
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Rakdos Carnarium
• 1x Rakdos Guildgate
• 1x Rix Maadi, Dungeon Palace
• 12x Swamp
• 1x Swiftwater Cliffs
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Vivid Creek
• 1x Vivid Marsh
• 1x Xander's Lounge

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Crux of Fate
• 1x Deadly Tempest
• 1x Extinguish All Hope
• 1x Haunting Voyage
• 1x Ravenform
• 1x Skull Raid
• 1x Syphon Mind
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Whispering Madness

Commander (1)

Enchantment (11)

• 1x Bottomless Pit
• 1x Court of Ambition
• 1x Liliana's Caress
• 1x Megrim
• 1x Oppression
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Quest for the Nihil Stone
• 1x Raiders' Wake
• 1x Shrieking Affliction
• 1x Waste Not

Artifact (8)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Geth's Grimoire
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sol Ring

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Maybeboard

Creature (3)

• 1x Caligo Skin-Witch
• 1x Scythe Specter
• 1x Shadowmage Infiltrator

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Megrim
• 1x Telepathy

Artifact (1)

• 1x Paupers' Cage

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The goal of this deck is primarily to force opponents to discard constantly, hopefully locking them out of the game and dealing damage to them while this happens.

I need help with how to keep any aggro off me. I have a bit of that now, and I don't really like cards like Propaganda. Maybe curses or something like that? More political. Not sure, but recommendations are welcome.

We win by having cards out like Oppression, Bottomless Pit, or Sire Of Insanity out, along with Quest for the Nihil Stone or Shrieking Affliction, plus Notion Thief to keep card draw away. We can also generate tons of value with cards like Waste Not, Liliana's Caress, and Geth's Grimoire combining with pseudo-wheels like Burning Inquiry. We then try to control the opponent's top deck with cards like Avatar of Woe, and improve our top deck with Aqueous Form on Crosis, the Purger, or with Thassa, God of the Sea.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 27 - 0 Rares 30 - 0 Uncommons 19 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.40
Tokens	Bird 1/1 U, Dreamstealer 4/4 B, Monarch Emblem, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Grixas, Crosis