Seizan's Bargain

Commander / EDH* Discard Group Slug Mono-Black Multiplayer Suicide Black Theme/Gimmick

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Sorcery (16)

• 1x Beacon of Unrest
• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Consume Spirit
• 1x Consuming Vapors
• 1x Crux of Fate
• 1x Dark Deal
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Ill-Gotten Gains
• 1x Increasing Ambition
• 1x Life's Finale
• 1x Mutilate
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will

Artifact (14)

• 1x Armillary Sphere
• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Font of Mythos
• 1x Gauntlet of Power
• 1x Howling Mine
• 1x Library of Leng
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Spine of Ish Sah
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Trading Post
• 1x Venser's Journal
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Creature (16)

• 1x Bloodgift Demon
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Erebos, God of the Dead
• 1x Fate Unraveler
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Kokusho, the Evening Star
• 1x Massacre Wurm
• 1x Master of the Feast
• 1x Merciless Executioner
• 1x Mindslicer
• 1x Nezumi Graverobber  ^Flip
• 1x Phyrexian Obliterator
• 1x Sangromancer
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Leyline of the Void
• 1x Liliana's Caress
• 1x Megrim
• 1x No Mercy
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Underworld Dreams

Instant (6)

• 1x Dismember
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Silence the Believers
• 1x Slaughter Pact
• 1x Snuff Out
• 1x Suffer the Past

Commander (1)

Land (36)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Phyrexia's Core
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 1x Springjack Pasture
• 22x Swamp
• 1x Tectonic Edge
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Liliana of the Dark Realms
• 1x Sorin Markov

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Creature (8)

• 1x Archfiend of Depravity
• 1x Crypt Rats
• 1x Cunning Lethemancer
• 1x Indulgent Tormentor
• 1x Liliana, Heretical Healer  ^Flip
• 1x Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1x Withered Wretch
• 1x Yixlid Jailer

Land (2)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Strip Mine

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Delirium Skeins
• 1x Ghastly Conscription
• 1x Necromantic Selection
• 1x Profane Command
• 1x Syphon Flesh
• 1x Syphon Mind

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Bottomless Pit
• 1x Necrogen Mists
• 1x Pestilence
• 1x Price of Knowledge
• 1x Waste Not

Instant (5)

• 1x Fated Return
• 1x Malicious Affliction
• 1x Sudden Spoiling
• 1x Surgical Extraction
• 1x Tendrils of Corruption

Artifact (4)

• 1x Journeyer's Kite
• 1x Memory Jar
• 1x Nihil Spellbomb
• 1x Unstable Obelisk

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This is my Seizan, Perverter of Truth mono-black EDH deck. It focuses on playing a highly political game of pillowfort/group slug. The main theme of the deck is to offer additional cards to everyone at the table at the cost of life. Essentially, everyone will be playing black card draw!

The catch is that even if your opponents are wise to your game, you'll be providing fuel to the fire for every other deck at the table. You'll soon be the smallest threat on the table when everyone else starts dropping their biggest creatures and spells. At the same time, you'll also be providing everyone else potential access to their removal. In the end, you'll fade as a target since the table will be busy fighting each other.

Eventually, their mana curve fails to keep up and the table ends up slowly discarding and taking damage from Seizan, Liliana's Caress, Megrim, Fate Unraveler, and Underworld Dreams. In the meantime, you'll be gaining life from Ivory Tower and Venser's Journal and other black drain effects.

Games with Seizan do not last long. Most players are unwilling to remove Seizan since he provides so much draw. Occasionally, players will even defend Seizan in order to protect the draw effect. The game ultimately ends as you kill off crippled opponents with an Exsanguinate or simply as players kill each other for you while you remain pristine from the fighting.

My favorite part of the deck is its inevitability. Given enough time, the deck will prevail and drain down its opponents with very little mana investment. However, piloting the deck requires a fair bit of politics. Come on too hard and fast, and the deck draws too much attention to itself. Helping out players who missed land drops with additional cards from Seizan will make you many friends early on as well as being able to convince the table that you are not a major threat at the current stage of the game.

Date added	10 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 41 - 0 Rares 25 - 0 Uncommons 5 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.58
Tokens	Emblem Liliana of the Dark Realms, Goat 0/1 W, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Deathtouch, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Lifelink
Folders	liked