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Commander / EDH Control Goodstuff Mono-Black Vorthos

Lutachris23

Instant (21)

• 1x Blood Pact
• 1x Cling to Dust
• 1x Cremate
• 1x Crypt Incursion
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Death Pulse
• 1x Empty the Pits
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Fatal Push
• 1x Imp's Mischief
• 1x Liliana's Triumph
• 1x Malakir Rebirth  ^Flip
• 1x Malicious Affliction
• 1x Slaughter
• 1x Slaughter Pact
• 1x Snuff Out
• 1x Spoils of Evil
• 1x Tragic Slip
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Vona's Hunger
• 1x Withering Boon

Artifact (8)

• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Oblivion Stone
• 1x Shadowspear
• 1x Soul-Guide Lantern
• 1x Umezawa's Jitte
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Creature (19)

• 1x Activated Sleeper
• 1x Archon of Cruelty
• 1x Chainer, Dementia Master
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Dauthi Voidwalker
• 1x Draugr Necromancer
• 1x Dread Presence
• 1x Elder Brain
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni
• 1x Lobelia Sackville-Baggins
• 1x Massacre Girl
• 1x Massacre Wurm
• 1x Morbid Opportunist
• 1x Opposition Agent
• 1x Sedgemoor Witch
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Twilight Prophet
• 1x Vilis, Broker of Blood

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Blood on the Snow
• 1x Bubbling Muck
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Increasing Ambition
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Torment of Hailfire

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Liliana of the Dark Realms
• 1x Ugin, the Spirit Dragon

Commander (1)

Land (36)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Barad-dur
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Boseiju, Who Shelters All
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Hive of the Eye Tyrant
• 1x Scrying Sheets
• 1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 23x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Witch's Cottage

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Black Market
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Shadows of the Past
• 1x Tainted AEther

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Maybeboard

Instant (1)

• 1x Tainted Pact

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Virtue of Persistence

Creature (1)

• 1x Sheoldred  ^Flip

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Toshiro Umezawa is my favorite commander deck. I love mono black; the aesthetics, the color philosophy, and most of all, this deck's play style. I find it rewarding to win matches with this deck.

Toshiro as your commander encourages you to accrue value through replaying instants when your opponents' creatures die. This allows some really cool interactions where you can chain removal spells into draw spells. To me, it made me feel like a control deck was the way to go. Once I have the board state I want, I can tutor up whatever card I think will win the game or get me ahead.

I wanted the deck to have a feeling of “Greatness, at any cost.”

Lore summary for anyone who is interested: Toshiro Umezawa was a ronin samurai and kanji magician on the plane Kamigawa, who used his powers to trick and manipulate his enemies. Myoin of Night's Reach entrusted Toshiro to steal That Which Was Taken and keep it away from O-Kagachi. However, Toshiro used That Which Was Taken to bind a mortal woman Michiko Konda and a kami Kyodai into Sisters of Flesh and Spirit, who had defeated O-Kagachi, ending the Spirit War. Later, Toshiro was fatally stabbed, and Myokin of Night's Reach, having forgiven Toshiro's betrayal, spares his life. However, he was transported to Dominaria and had his eyesight taken away from him. Many years later, his ancestor Tetsuo Umezawa would go on to defeat Nicol Bolas in the time of the Mirage War.

Top Ranked	Achieved #19 position overall 2 years ago Achieved #8 position in Commander / EDH 2 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Control 2 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Goodstuff 2 years ago
Date added	6 years
Last updated	1 month
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 45 - 0 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.20
Tokens	City's Blessing, Emblem Liliana of the Dark Realms, Orc Army, Pest 1/1 BG, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B
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