Bontu z-tax

Commander / EDH Discard Mono-Black Stax

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Land (35)

• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Blighted Fen
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Cradle of the Accursed
• 1x Desert of the Glorified
• 1x Dunes of the Dead
• 1x Endless Sands
• 1x Field of Ruin
• 1x Grasping Dunes
• 1x Hostile Desert
• 1x Ifnir Deadlands
• 1x Lake of the Dead
• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 1x Polluted Mire
• 1x Spawning Pool
• 1x Survivors' Encampment
• 10x Swamp
• 3x Swamp
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip

Instant (6)

• 1x Altar's Reap
• 1x Costly Plunder
• 1x Dismember
• 1x Shred Memory
• 1x Slaughter Pact
• 1x Snuff Out

Artifact (5)

• 1x Geth's Grimoire
• 1x Jet Medallion
• 1x Relic of Progenitus
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Sorcery (20)

• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Bontu's Last Reckoning
• 1x Call to the Netherworld
• 1x Chain of Smog
• 1x Dark Deal
• 1x Dark Salvation
• 1x Delirium Skeins
• 1x Despise
• 1x Distress
• 1x Duress
• 1x Heartless Pillage
• 1x Hymn to Tourach
• 1x Ill-Gotten Gains
• 1x Raven's Crime
• 1x Smallpox
• 1x Syphon Mind
• 1x Tasigur's Cruelty
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Unnerve

Enchantment (16)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Bottomless Pit
• 1x Dark Tutelage
• 1x Genju of the Fens
• 1x Liliana's Caress
• 1x Megrim
• 1x Oppression
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Quest for the Nihil Stone
• 1x Raiders' Wake
• 1x Shrieking Affliction
• 1x Waste Not
• 1x Words of Waste

Commander (1)

Creature (17)

• 1x Asylum Visitor
• 1x Big Game Hunter
• 1x Bloodghast
• 1x Cackling Fiend
• 1x Cunning Lethemancer
• 1x Dreamstealer
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Liliana, Heretical Healer  ^Flip
• 1x Liliana's Specter
• 1x Miasmic Mummy
• 1x Mindslicer
• 1x Rotting Rats
• 1x Ruin Raider
• 1x Sadistic Hypnotist
• 1x Sangromancer
• 1x Sibsig Icebreakers
• 1x Watchers of the Dead

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Creature (6)

• 1x Bone Dancer
• 1x Bone Miser
• 1x Enemy of Enlightenment
• 1x Liliana's Reaver
• 1x Rankle, Master of Pranks
• 1x Thoughtrender Lamia

Instant (3)

• 1x Liliana's Triumph
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Vona's Hunger

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Capital Punishment
• 1x Profane Command
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Strongarm Tactics
• 1x Unmask

Land (3)

• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 1x Temple of the False God

Artifact (4)

• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Relic of Progenitus
• 1x Wanderer's Twig

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Dreadhorde Invasion
• 1x Elspeth's Nightmare

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Davriel, Rogue Shadowmage

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This is going to be an awkward attempt on discard-based stax with a commander that could be replaced by something waaaaay better. (But i love Bontu the Glorified too much...)

Though I have a few cards that make everyone (including me) discard cards on my upkeep, like Cunning Lethemancer , this will hardly be problematic. I’ll just choose to resolve those triggers before my (approximately) six thousand Phyrexian Arena s.

I have a crazy low mana curve for an EDH deck, but that was also one of my goals. I need as many cards as possible to make this work in multiplayer, so I also had to cut lands. By doing so, I needed to further cut my average CMC, and it's now well below 3.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	2 years
Exclude colors	WURG
Splash colors	B
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 26 - 0 Rares 28 - 0 Uncommons 26 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.58
Tokens	Dreamstealer 4/4 B, Emblem Liliana, Defiant Necromancer, Human Cleric 1/1 BW, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Mono Commander, Mono Black Collection