Bite the hand that feeds you

Commander / EDH* Control Discard Mono-Black

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Creature (34)

• 1x Abyssal Nocturnus
• 1x Archfiend of Depravity
• 1x Archfiend of Ifnir
• 1x Asylum Visitor
• 1x Avatar of Woe
• 1x Big Game Hunter
• 1x Bloodghast
• 1x Bloodsoaked Champion
• 1x Burglar Rat
• 1x Butcher of Malakir
• 1x Chittering Witch
• 1x Coffin Queen
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Cryptbreaker
• 1x Fell Specter
• 1x Grave Scrabbler
• 1x Hell's Caretaker
• 1x It That Betrays
• 1x Liliana's Reaver
• 1x Liliana's Specter
• 1x Magus of the Will
• 1x Meteor Golem
• 1x Nezumi Bone-Reader
• 1x Ogre Slumlord
• 1x Pack Rat
• 1x Plaguecrafter
• 1x Reassembling Skeleton
• 1x Sadistic Hypnotist
• 1x Sanitarium Skeleton
• 1x Sepulchral Primordial
• 1x The Haunt of Hightower
• 1x Vindictive Lich
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Yahenni, Undying Partisan

Land (38)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Desert of the Glorified
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x High Market
• 1x Karn's Bastion
• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 1x Polluted Mire
• 1x Sea Gate Wreckage
• 24x Swamp
• 1x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip
• 1x Witch's Cottage

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Beacon of Unrest
• 1x Call to the Netherworld
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x From Under the Floorboards
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Settle the Score
• 1x Syphon Mind
• 1x Torment of Hailfire

Instant (4)

• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Liliana's Triumph
• 1x Murder
• 1x Tragic Slip

Commander (1)

 ^Flip

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Attrition
• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Open the Graves
• 1x Oversold Cemetery
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Quest for the Nihil Stone
• 1x Waste Not

Artifact (5)

• 1x Endless Atlas
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Unstable Obelisk

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted

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Maybeboard

Creature (8)

• 1x Banshee of the Dread Choir
• 1x Cabal Interrogator
• 1x Cao Cao, Lord of Wei
• 1x Dread Wanderer
• 1x Gonti, Lord of Luxury
• 1x Harvester of Souls
• 1x Herald of Anguish
• 1x Miasmic Mummy

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Bite of the Black Rose
• 1x Capital Punishment
• 1x Dark Deal
• 1x Necromantic Selection
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Rise from the Grave

Land (1)

• 1x Miren, the Moaning Well

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Honden of Night's Reach
• 1x Liliana's Caress
• 1x Mind Slash

Instant (1)

• 1x Fated Return

Artifact (1)

• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

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force players to discard cards from their hand then steal from their graveyards and kill them with their own monsters MUH HA HA HA HA!!!!

Phase 2

After play testing it a bit I found it was too slow. the key to this deck is flipping Liliana as fast as possible. I feel that if you can get your discard going strong before other players set up their boards you have a chance. so I've added 6 total sacrifice outlets and 6 easily recurring creatures to help flip liliana on turn three if i'm lucky and turn four or five if i'm going to have a chance. i'm working to reduce the overall casting cost of the deck as I want to empty my hands for two reasons. I need to get things out of my hands and on the board so I don't have to discard something I want to use. The second reason is its all about capturing early control by having opponents not being able to respond because of empty hands.

I've noticed if your on point with forcing discard other players tend to discard down to only what they can do next turn. sometimes I can get lucky and have a player discard a huge creature card that they can't play for another three or four turns then my plan would be to steal it from the graveyard and use it against them.

I feel this build is amplifying what Liliana is trying to do on her card. discard to slow and limit opponents options to retaliate or improve opponents boards. rotating door graveyard for sacrifice fun and then steal everyone's creatures in a grand finale to win the game.

please let me know what you think and any ideas

Date added	6 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 38 - 0 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.44
Tokens	Copy Clone, Emblem Liliana, Defiant Necromancer, Human Cleric 1/1 BW, Rat 1/1 B, Zombie 2/2 B