Chainer – In the Darkness of Dreams

Commander / EDH Combo Control Mono-Black Multiplayer Suicide Black

lyonhaert

Creature (31)

• 1x Abhorrent Overlord
• 1x Agent of Erebos
• 1x Bloodghast
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Deathgreeter
• 1x Disciple of Bolas
• 1x Disciple of Griselbrand
• 1x Doom Whisperer
• 1x Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief
• 1x Dross Harvester
• 1x Erebos, God of the Dead
• 1x Faceless Butcher
• 1x Gonti, Lord of Luxury
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Harvester of Souls
• 1x Kagemaro, First to Suffer
• 1x Massacre Wurm
• 1x Myojin of Night's Reach
• 1x Myr Retriever
• 1x Noxious Gearhulk
• 1x Pawn of Ulamog
• 1x Pitiless Plunderer
• 1x Plaguecrafter
• 1x Sadistic Hypnotist
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Sifter of Skulls
• 1x Slum Reaper
• 1x Smothering Abomination
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine
• 1x Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed

Land (36)

• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Crypt of Agadeem
• 1x Deserted Temple
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Petrified Field
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 19x Swamp
• 1x Thawing Glaciers
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Vesuva
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Font of Agonies
• 1x Infernal Tribute
• 1x Mind Slash
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Oppression
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Vampiric Rites

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Head Games
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Mutilate
• 1x Praetor's Grasp
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will

Commander (1)

Artifact (15)

• 1x Aetherworks Marvel
• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Helm of Possession
• 1x Memory Jar
• 1x Mesmeric Orb
• 1x Mirage Mirror
• 1x Oblivion Stone
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sword of the Animist
• 1x Unstable Obelisk
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1x Whip of Erebos

Instant (3)

• 1x Entomb
• 1x Sudden Spoiling
• 1x Withering Boon

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Liliana of the Dark Realms

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The dark that you find, can come out of your mind — Dio

The Chainer deck I've had to together for some time. Still undergoes changes: main thread on MTGS.

There are thematic and gameplay restrictions I've set for myself because Exsanguinate and Gary got kinda boring as win conditions.

• There's a theme in this build centered on what dementia casters do: controlling and manifesting their fears/nightmares into reality. In Chainer's storyline he reached a point where he use Mirari to manifest nightmares out of all the other dementia caster's minds.
• That theme shows up in an overall sense in the win conditions that involve milling: either stealing everybody's libraries by looping Gonti, Lord of Luxury , repeating Praetor's Grasp with a XHD loop, or just milling everybody out (hopefully with a finishing touch of exiling those graveyards). Might switch out Praetor's Grasp for Bitter Ordeal at some point.
• The theme also shows up in a flavor sense in some of the card choices, such as running Slum Reaper instead of Fleshbag Marauder or having run Sifter of Skulls before I also added Pawn of Ulamog . Individual card flavor is a soft requirement and function sometimes overrules it, though very functional cards like Head Games still have a heavy nod to it. Most black cards have a nod to fears and madness, really.
• Combat is also an acceptable win condition, especially when it's with somebody else's creatures, but life draining is a bit too easy to fall back on and I try to keep that from being an easily accessible win condition. The only available way to do it in this build right now is with Crypt Ghast and a storm loop. Pestilence Demon would be great in this deck, but giving him lifelink would make it too easy, I think.
• There are certain cards I just don't run in any deck with very few exceptions, though the only relevant one here is Sol Ring .
• I'm also trying to stick to mostly draw with very few tutors so that each game has a better chance of playing out differently.
• Self-sustaining loops should require 4 cards or more. I want to have to work at putting my "doomsday device" together and don't want it to happen every game. Draw over tutors should help with this, too.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 53 - 0 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 2 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.66
Tokens	Eldrazi Scion 1/1 C, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Emblem Liliana of the Dark Realms, Harpy 1/1 B, Morph 2/2 C, Treasure, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Deathtouch, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Lifelink
Folders	EDH Decks - Active