Dark Stalker

Commander / EDH

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Artifact (23)

• 1x Butcher's Cleaver
• 1x Darksteel Plate
• 1x Dowsing Dagger  ^Flip
• 1x Elbrus, the Binding Blade  ^Flip
• 1x Fireshrieker
• 1x Grappling Hook
• 1x Hammer of Nazahn
• 1x Hero's Blade
• 1x Inquisitor's Flail
• 1x Lashwrithe
• 1x Loxodon Warhammer
• 1x Mask of Memory
• 1x Nightmare Lash
• 1x Obsidian Battle-Axe
• 1x Planar Portal
• 1x Prying Blade
• 1x Quietus Spike
• 1x Rogue's Gloves
• 1x Scytheclaw
• 1x Shield of Kaldra
• 1x Spellbinder
• 1x Veteran's Armaments
• 1x Worldslayer

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Diabolic Tutor

Land (38)

• 38x Swamp

Instant (17)

• 1x Annihilate
• 1x Consume the Meek
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Echoing Decay
• 1x Fated Return
• 1x Foul Renewal
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Grip of Desolation
• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 1x Rapid Decay
• 1x Reaping the Graves
• 1x Scarab Feast
• 1x Scour from Existence
• 1x Succumb to Temptation
• 1x To the Slaughter
• 1x Vraska's Contempt
• 1x Wretched Confluence

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Bad Moon
• 1x Blessing of Leeches
• 1x Endless Scream
• 1x Larceny
• 1x Midnight Covenant
• 1x Raiders' Spoils
• 1x Soul Channeling
• 1x Vampiric Link

Commander (1)

Creature (12)

• 1x Ascendant Evincar
• 1x Bog Witch
• 1x Drana, Liberator of Malakir
• 1x Dread Drone
• 1x Ebonblade Reaper
• 1x Fell Shepherd
• 1x Frightcrawler
• 1x Midnight Banshee
• 1x Necropolis Regent
• 1x Pawn of Ulamog
• 1x Skeletal Vampire
• 1x Toshiro Umezawa

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Magic: the Gathering has been around a long time now. As a result, there is a healthy supply of X is just a colorshifted version of Y cards as you make your way through different discussions or hypothetical deck ideas. Sometimes its a literal colorshift like Planar Chaos had en masse; or its something more subtle, like when Godo, Bandit Warlord was described as Stoneforge Mystic, but it can be your general on an old-school episode of Commander Cast.

Today is one of those days where random searching allowed me to stumble upon my vision of the Black Invisible Stalker. This week were going to explore Cao Ren, Wei Commander.

Cao Ren, Wei CommanderCalling Cao Ren an Invisible Stalker variant is a little sensational, as there is no hexproof and any of the creatures with Horsemanship from Portal: Three Kingdoms could have that acclaim. But while Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed, Lu Meng, Wu General, or Lu Xun, Scholar General could fill a similar role, I feel Cao Ren is built more aggressively than Lu Meng or Xiahou Dun the latter being more of a Reanimator deckand inspires more creatively than Lu Xun.

We want to pack our deck with saboteur effectscombat damage triggersso we can reasonably assume they will trigger every turn. My goal for this deck is to be a mono-black Voltron deck that isnt winning through Infect damage.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 28 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.58
Tokens	Bat 1/1 B, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Morph 2/2 C, Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B, Plant 0/2 G, Treasure