Small Merrows Cut Deep

Commander / EDH* Budget Cruel Control Enchantment Multiplayer UB (Dimir)

Yoshiya

Enchantment (30)

• 1x Baneful Omen
• 1x Blood Reckoning
• 1x Circle of Affliction
• 1x Contaminated Bond
• 1x Contaminated Ground
• 1x Cruel Reality
• 1x Curse of Wizardry
• 1x Exquisite Blood
• 1x Festering Wound
• 1x Forsaken Wastes
• 1x Gibbering Descent
• 1x Hissing Miasma
• 1x Liability
• 1x Marchesa's Decree
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Pillar Tombs of Aku
• 1x Polluted Bonds
• 1x Pooling Venom
• 1x Power Taint
• 1x Ragged Veins
• 1x Relic Bane
• 1x Soul Bleed
• 1x Stab Wound
• 1x Subversion
• 1x Tainted Remedy
• 1x Torment of Scarabs
• 1x Trespasser's Curse
• 1x Triskaidekaphobia
• 1x Visions of Brutality
• 1x Wound Reflection

Creature (25)

• 1x Archfiend of Despair
• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Bone Picker
• 1x Consulate Skygate
• 1x Cursecatcher
• 1x Deathgaze Cockatrice
• 1x Fog Bank
• 1x Gifted Aetherborn
• 1x Hover Barrier
• 1x Keepsake Gorgon
• 1x Malakir Familiar
• 1x Nirkana Cutthroat
• 1x Ogre Slumlord
• 1x Ophiomancer
• 1x Ruthless Ripper
• 1x Smolder Initiate
• 1x Soulcage Fiend
• 1x Tidehollow Strix
• 1x Vampire Nighthawk
• 1x Vela the Night-Clad
• 1x Wall of Air
• 1x Wall of Bone
• 1x Wall of Frost
• 1x Wall of Souls
• 1x Wall of Tears

Commander (1)

Instant (11)

• 1x Banishing Knack
• 1x Blink of an Eye
• 1x Boomerang
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Compelling Deterrence
• 1x Consign / Oblivion
• 1x Fate Transfer
• 1x Kiora's Dismissal
• 1x Repeal
• 1x Rescue
• 1x Retraction Helix

Land (32)

• 9x Island
• 23x Swamp

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Soul Reap

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The basic idea with this deck is to bleed my opponents with various life loss enchantments, then take advantage of Sygg's draw trigger. I've included a heavy assortment of instant bounce that can allow me to recover my best enchantments when the player decides to get rid of the cards they're enchanting; these spells can double as stall tactics when necessary, while my creatures with deathtouch hopefully keep most of the heat off of me and encourage my opponents to focus on one another. I really wanted to run Zur as my commander and leave Sygg among the 99, to open up white and allow me to search for just the right enchantment each time, but my playerbase hates Zur and his usual Voltron shenanigans, and I expect this deck to be irritating enough on its own without inviting that additional hate.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 15 - 0 Rares 29 - 0 Uncommons 21 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.09
Tokens	Rat 1/1 B, Snake 1/1 B, Monarch Emblem