The Ninth Circle (Original)

Commander / EDH* Demons Lifegain Mono-Black Suicide Black

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Creature (19)

• 1x Bloodgift Demon
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Dimir House Guard
• 1x Disciple of Bolas
• 1x Dross Harvester
• 1x Falkenrath Noble
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Harvester of Souls
• 1x Horobi, Death's Wail
• 1x Magus of the Coffers
• 1x Massacre Wurm
• 1x Mesmeric Fiend
• 1x Myojin of Night's Reach
• 1x Myr Retriever
• 1x Phyrexian Delver
• 1x Reiver Demon
• 1x Sangromancer
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Vampire Nighthawk

Land (37)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Crypt of Agadeem
• 1x Everglades
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 1x Polluted Mire
• 29x Swamp

Artifact (18)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Darksteel Plate
• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Eon Hub
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Glaring Spotlight
• 1x Jet Medallion
• 1x Lashwrithe
• 1x Paradise Plume
• 1x Profane Memento
• 1x Skull of Ramos
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Spine of Ish Sah
• 1x Surveyor's Scope
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Unstable Obelisk
• 1x Whip of Erebos

Instant (8)

• 1x Ad Nauseam
• 1x Crypt Incursion
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Fated Return
• 1x Snuff Out
• 1x Sudden Death
• 1x Sudden Spoiling
• 1x Tribute to Hunger

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Ob Nixilis Reignited

Commander (1)

Sorcery (13)

• 1x Ashes to Ashes
• 1x Beacon of Unrest
• 1x Bubbling Muck
• 1x Damnable Pact
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Dregs of Sorrow
• 1x Fortuitous Find
• 1x Mutilate
• 1x Profane Command
• 1x Promise of Power
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Reign of the Pit
• 1x Sever the Bloodline

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Eternal Thirst
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation

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Kuro, Pitlord , aka The Devil aka Satan unless I am very much mistaken. My case for Kuro being the Satan is simply this: in Dante's inferno Satan resides in the ninth circle of Hell. This guy is a 9-mana 9/9 who can own all your enemies at once... I rest my case.

So the deck is named in honour of that fact, and the fact that when you get to 9 mana - i.e. when you reach the 9th Circle - life gets very tough for everyone... including you!

So obviously the whole game up to the point where you summon Mr Cypher is about preparing the way for the Dark Lord with a number of measures that intensify and benefit from his unlimited power! (cackles wildly)

The mac-daddy (or mummy?) for these purposes is the inimitable Myojin of Night's Reach , who can put paid in advance to virtually all the countermeasures your opponents may have in store right on curve!

Your life-gain is obviously super-essential if you don't want to get drained to death by the Boss (easily done especially against Green haha). The real bomb is the Sangromancer , which turns even medium sized creatures into mere gris to the mill for Bigboy. Dross Harvester and Falkenrath Noble make able deputies.

Even more potent dividends from the Satanic kill spree can be extracted with the Harvester of Souls to raise the stakes yet further, and then there's the mercurial Horobi, Death's Wail - when you absolutely positively gotta kill every muthafucka in the room!

Hexproof and Shroud are a serious problem, alleviated by the presence of the Glaring Spotlight and especially the Arcane Lighthouse . Bojuka Bog and Crypt Incursion help to take care of those horrible recursion strategies. Tribute to Hunger and Reign of the Pit are great for taking down the creatures that are either too big or too well-defended to be dealt with by Kuro, and Sudden Spoiling is the ultimate anti-fatty move in the clutch.

Much of the rest of the deck is dedicated to filling the inevitable holes in an all black strategy (hence such costly expedients as Spine of Ish Sah and Unstable Obelisk .

Yes, this deck does win the odd game. But that is not the point - it is fundamentally a suicide deck, and the question is whether you can take out everyone else before you run out of rope. I find it is most fun when played in that (demon-)spirit! Proper black mentality - plunge to the darkest depths, reach for the ultimate power, pay the ultimate price!

Suggestions welcome!

RATINGS (n/10)

-Offense-

Combat Damage-----------4

Commander Damage-----7

Evasion----------------------2

Direct Damage-------------3*

Mill----------------------------0

Win Condition---------------2

Surprise Factor-------------4

Versatility--------------------4

-Defense-

Combat Defense-----------6

Life Gain---------------------6

Spot Removal---------------8

Wipes-------------------------4

Win-Con Disruption--------5

Versatility---------------------4

Redundancy-----------------6

Date added	7 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 38 - 0 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.79
Tokens	Demon */* B, Emblem Ob Nixilis Reignited, Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B
Folders	1-Colour Decks, Dante