Chancellor of the Dross

Creature — Phyrexian Vampire

You may reveal this card from your opening hand. If you do, at the beginning of the first upkeep, each opponent loses 3 life, then you gain life equal to the life lost this way. Flying, lifelink

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
PreDH	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (51)

eggforsail on Turn 0 win vs Chancellor of dross (100%)

3 weeks ago

burferking you make some really interesting points i really like vexing shusher but it’s so mana intensive and in order for the combo to work you can’t have more than 9 non ante cards in the deck. this deck also gets shut down by Leyline of the Void so i’m working on a control freeform deck with that and Leyline of Sanctity which shuts down Chancellor of the Dross i think there’s some interesting applications of Angel's Grace as well.

Cloudy2024 on Bordello of Blood

3 weeks ago

Chancellor of the Dross works well with sorin

greyninja on Ghidorah, King of the Beasts (Beast Tribal)

7 months ago

Love to see Wirewood Savage in use {G}

Your avg cmc is pretty high at 4+ so my suggestion might be a few more 1-2 drops; like Bloom Tender, Arcane Signet, etc

Krosan Warchief & Chancellor of the Tangle are interesting ideas too

Have fun!

Sliverguy420 on Turn 0 win vs Chancellor of dross (100%)

7 months ago

burferking i've played this format once in paper magic. didn't realize it would allow more than 4 copies of a card. left after 1 game to 60x Chancellor of the Dross

Cloudy2024 on 101% Mono Black Burn

9 months ago

hey Balaam__, such a cool deck! don't know if it would work but you could use Chancellor of the Dross both as an early game and late play.

Cloudy2024 on Mono Black Devotion

9 months ago

nice! maybe look at using Chancellor of the Dross as its some early aggression and works with sorin.

legendofa on Beating a turn 0 win …

2 years ago

Beat 60x Chancellor of the Dross with 30x Nourishing Shoal and 30x Elvish Spirit Guide. In response to to the upkeep trigger, exile a card to cast Shoal, gain 2-4 life, and stock up on ESG until you can cast one. You can cut this to just the Shoals and a few mulligans if you don't mind the gameplay being 100% draw-go.

Beat the Shoal Spirit Guide combo with 60x Chancellor of the Forge. Start off with seven Goblins and attack hard and fast, outpacing their defenses and lifegain.

Beat CotForge with CotDross.

All of these will probably lose to Thoracle Combo.

Something like 15x Plains, 25x Force of Will, and 20x Angel's Grace would have a strong matchup against Thoracle. Counter the key cards, Grace in response to Thoracle, and wait a turn.

Kazierts on Monoblack Burn [Budget/Casual/Jank]

3 years ago

wallisface, in regards to your thoughts:

• Yes, Fruit of Tizerus isn't great, just as Shock isn't for {R}. However, {B} doesn't have many equivalents to Lightning Bolt.

• Following on the topic of a Bolt equivalent, I considered Chancellor of the Dross, but it's a problematic card. It's really only useful on the first turn, becoming even worse on later turns, since its only utility would be Smallpox fodder.

• Again I have to agree with your assessment, but just with Sword-Point Diplomacy. 3 mana is kinda slow for burn decks, but I also know one of the main problems with burn decks is they tend to run out of gas. Sword-Point Diplomacy can burn and provide card advantage. Sign in Blood on the other hand is a bit better, being 2 mana. Probably the better option would be Night's Whisper, but it's a bit out of budget.

• Clawing Torment, as well as some cards like Sinister Possession and Contaminated Bond, can be pretty decent against more aggressive decks, but useless against more control decks. For this reason I opted to run card draw. I'll still consider you suggestion and add the Chancellor to the maybe, just to playtest and see how well it works.

The deck isn't meant to be aggro. I'm just dumb and wrote something in the descprition that isn't what I wanted to meant. I'll change it to aggressive.

Really appreciate the suggestions!