Old Phyrexia's Return

Commander / EDH* Mono-Black

Kebukai

Creature (24)

• 1x Ascendant Evincar
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Butcher Ghoul
• 1x Chainer, Dementia Master
• 1x Commander Greven il-Vec
• 1x Gravecrawler
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Ichor Rats
• 1x Liliana, Heretical Healer  ^Flip
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Order of Yawgmoth
• 1x Phyrexian Battleflies
• 1x Phyrexian Broodlings
• 1x Phyrexian Debaser
• 1x Phyrexian Defiler
• 1x Phyrexian Delver
• 1x Phyrexian Denouncer
• 1x Phyrexian Dreadnought
• 1x Phyrexian Ghoul
• 1x Phyrexian Plaguelord
• 1x Sanitarium Skeleton
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Volrath the Fallen
• 1x Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Bitterblossom
• 1x Enslave
• 1x Glistening Oil
• 1x Nest of Scarabs
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Phyrexian Scriptures
• 1x Underworld Connections

Land (35)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Detection Tower
• 1x Karn's Bastion
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 21x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold
• 1x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip

Instant (10)

• 1x Cast Down
• 1x Death Denied
• 1x Dismember
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Grasp of Darkness
• 1x Imp's Mischief
• 1x Sudden Spoiling
• 1x Tainted Strike
• 1x Tragic Slip
• 1x Withering Boon

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Liliana of the Dark Realms
• 1x Liliana, the Last Hope

Commander (1)

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Bitter Ordeal
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Death Cloud
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Morbid Plunder
• 1x Pox
• 1x Smallpox
• 1x Temporal Extortion
• 1x Tempt with Immortality
• 1x Yawgmoth's Vile Offering
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will

Artifact (8)

• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Jet Medallion
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Phyrexian Processor
• 1x Phyrexian Vault
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1x Whip of Erebos

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Sideboard

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath

Creature (1)

• 1x Reassembling Skeleton

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Maybeboard

Creature (35)

• 1x Blistergrub
• 1x Blood Vassal
• 1x Bloodsoaked Champion
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Eastern Paladin
• 1x Erebos, God of the Dead
• 1x Geth, Lord of the Vault
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Hex Parasite
• 1x K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
• 1x Nether Traitor
• 1x Noxious Gearhulk
• 1x Phyrexian Colossus
• 1x Phyrexian Gargantua
• 1x Phyrexian Hulk
• 1x Phyrexian Ironfoot
• 1x Phyrexian Rager
• 1x Phyrexian Scuta
• 1x Phyrexian Snowcrusher
• 2x Phyrexian Soulgorger
• 1x Phyrexian Walker
• 1x Pontiff of Blight
• 1x Priest of Yawgmoth
• 1x Sanguine Guard
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Skirge Familiar
• 1x Sleeper Agent
• 1x Stronghold Taskmaster
• 1x Tsabo Tavoc
• 1x Unworthy Dead
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Western Paladin
• 1x Xantcha, Sleeper Agent
• 1x Yawgmoth Demon

Enchantment (17)

• 1x Dark Suspicions
• 1x Darkest Hour
• 1x Death Pit Offering
• 1x Gate to Phyrexia
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Lurking Evil
• 1x No Mercy
• 1x Oppression
• 1x Parasitic Bond
• 1x Phyrexian Boon
• 1x Phyrexian Etchings
• 1x Planar Void
• 1x Relic Putrescence
• 1x Scavenged Weaponry
• 1x Subversion
• 1x Tainted AEther
• 1x Yawgmoth's Agenda

Artifact (5)

• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Nim Deathmantle
• 1x Phyrexian Splicer
• 1x Puppet Strings
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Instant (9)

• 1x Annihilate
• 1x Darkness
• 1x Death Bomb
• 1x Fatal Push
• 1x Grim Affliction
• 1x Hatred
• 1x Hero's Demise
• 1x Shred Memory
• 1x Virulent Wound

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Life's Finale
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Phyrexian Purge
• 1x Praetor's Grasp
• 1x Reprocess
• 1x Spread the Sickness

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When Yawgmoth was spoiled I decided to build a deck around him and I went through many different ideas before I finally settled on this one. The deck has an overwhelming Old Phyrexia theme with some other cards to make the deck better and work a bit more.

So what this particular deck is trying to do, is really just Mono Black beatdown. There are ways to gain card advantage and reanimate, but honestly just beat people's faces in with the phyrexian army. If that doesn't work, well time to do what Yawgmoth is known for, kill them through poison. Ichor Rats and thematic cards like Pox, Smallpox, and Death Cloud ensure that your enemies will be dying through much more than you beating their face if needed.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 37 - 1 Rares 19 - 1 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.08
Tokens	Demon 5/5 B, Emblem Liliana of the Dark Realms, Emblem Liliana, Defiant Necromancer, Emblem Liliana, the Last Hope, Emblem Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath, Faerie Rogue 1/1 B, Human Cleric 1/1 BW, Insect 1/1 B, Minion X/X B, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Commander