Tales from the Bullshit Crypt

Commander / EDH Mono-Black

chriswalt

Creature (32)

• 1x Abhorrent Overlord
• 1x Archfiend of Depravity
• 1x Barrier of Bones
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Dark Impostor
• 1x Dauthi Voidwalker
• 1x Dogged Detective
• 1x Doom Whisperer
• 1x Faerie Dreamthief
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Iname, Death Aspect
• 1x Junji, the Midnight Sky
• 1x Kokusho, the Evening Star
• 1x K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
• 1x Massacre Wurm
• 1x Midnight Banshee
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Mogis's Marauder
• 1x Orcish Bowmasters
• 1x Phyrexian Obliterator
• 1x Pitiless Plunderer
• 1x Puppeteer Clique
• 1x Razaketh, the Foulblooded
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Starving Revenant
• 1x Stinkweed Imp
• 1x Vile Entomber
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Yahenni, Undying Partisan
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Sorcery (16)

• 1x Breach the Multiverse
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Ransack the Lab
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Unmarked Grave
• 1x Victimize
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will

Artifact (9)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Charcoal Diamond
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mox Amber
• 1x Palantir of Orthanc
• 1x Perpetual Timepiece
• 1x Sol Ring

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Contamination
• 1x Gate to Phyrexia
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Out of the Tombs
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x The Meathook Massacre

Commander (1)

Land (32)

• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Crypt of Agadeem
• 1x Deserted Temple
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 19x Swamp
• 1x Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Vesuva

Instant (4)

• 1x Entomb
• 1x Pile On
• 1x Price of Fame
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

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Tales from the Bullshit Crypt

This deck has been my personal magnum opus over the years. It has seen many revisions, and continues to evolve as time moves along. When I began my journey in EDH, I wanted to commander that was underrated, an underdog of the format. Who better than Balthor the Defiled? Not only did I want to build him for his grave recursion, I wanted to push it to the limit. There is a lot going on in this deck, so I will explain all of the synergistic engines to take advantage of, along with the combos.

----- The Spirit Engine -----

This deck runs an Iname engine, the starter beginning with Iname, Death Aspect. The plan is to dump Iname into the grave, then recur them to dump all of your spirits from the deck to the grave, giving you an immediate pool of strong creatures to wreak havoc with, consisting of Crypt Ghast for mana doubling, Entropic Specter, Gravewaker for alternative recursion, Horobi, Death's Wail, Kagemaro, First to Suffer, Keening Banshee, Kokusho, the Evening Star, Kuro, Pitlord, Midnight Banshee, Patron of the Nezumi, Pus Kami, and Spirit of the Night. You also get an amazing synergistic duo here with Kuro, Pitlord and Horobi, Death's Wail, paying two live to instantly kill nearly any creature. Remember, the stack is your friend, you can kill Horobi if things backfire!

----- The Devotion Engine -----

After you ignite the spirit engine, you have a good path towards devotion (28 from spirits alone) to trigger Gray Merchant of Asphodel, Abhorrent Overlord, and Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx for a shit ton of mana, damage/life, and 1/1 flying harpies for aggro or the sacrifice engine. A simple engine.

(TO BE CONTINUED)

Date added	5 years
Last updated	1 month
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	14 - 0 Mythic Rares 40 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.22
Tokens	Harpy 1/1 B, Orc Army, Treasure
Based on	Tales from the Bullshit Crypt OLD chriswalt EDH