Vilis, Broker of Blood

Legendary Creature — Demon

Flying

{B}, Pay 2 life: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Whenever you lose life, draw that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Legality

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

Discussion (48)

TheoryCrafter on 5c Bridge Walkers

3 months ago

Considering you have no basic lands in your deck, having those mana rocks in there is a good move since cards like Blood Moon can hobble your deck. Also, if you choose to add Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge, that would make for extra ramp.

I've noticed you have a lot of mana and draw cards with lifeloss. If this was intentional, I would recommend any combination of Font of Agonies, Vampire Scrivener, and Vilis, Broker of Blood. Otherwise, the lifeloss seems like an unnecessary risk even with all the control you have.

If not, replacing the Talismans with Signets(including, but not limited to, Azorius Signet and Dimir Signet) and replacing some of the other nonland cards with the "Oath of..." Cards (especially Oath of Nissa and Oath of Liliana) would also help to benefit not only from card and mana advantage, but ETB triggers as well.

I hope this helps. Happy Hunting!

Flarhoon13 on Lazav and Gyruda (Companion): Doom Mind

5 months ago

May 3, 2024, I started a new quest. Having built 52 decks, I endeavoured to play them all, in roughly the same order as I created them.

Aug 15

Lazav and Gyruda (Companion): Doom Mind win, long game vs Evan's The Fifth Doctor, Rob's Bruenor Battlehammer and Blaine's Gods, bringing my record to 22-26-1. Bringer of the Last Gift finally won a game after my early Vilis, Broker of Blooddrew me a ton of cards, like 20, plus Kairi, the Swirling Sky held down the fort; and a late Altar of Dementia for self-mill sealed the deal for Bringer of the Last Gift to bring out an overwhelming number of powerful creatures. Win percentage goes to .458

Felipix on What commander should I run?

8 months ago

I see my self in the following situation, I build an deck for each color of the game, I did {B} Vilis, Broker of Blood (to play self-lifeloss, as a monoblack thing), Sasaya, Orochi Ascendant  ^Flip big {G}'s, Evra, Halcyon Witness (as mono {W} life gain) and mono {R} Krenko, Mob Boss goblins

What should I do in mono-blue

1. Budget, less than 4$ (the commander)

2. Casual, so not an thing like stax or extra turns

3. An bomb in the command zone (like an {INFINITY}/{INFINITY} creature or like that)

4. Some core strategy for the color (like counterspells)

And I need to keep this thread so someone else can come here and say "I want an commander that way"

mtgApprentice21 on The Lich

1 year ago

Vilis, Broker of Blood would also be hilarious.

Belfore on Healing Therapy with Mr. Oloro

1 year ago

Things that can be useful with life gain. Kuro, Pitlord, Doom Whisperer, Greed, Staff of Compleation, Unspeakable Symbol, Vilis, Broker of Blood, Vona, Butcher of Magan. Just a few of the things I found with a quick search that could be interesting.

Headers13 on Omnath

1 year ago

Cut / Ribbons

Dregs of Sorrow

Dread

Vilis, Broker of Blood

Azoth2099 on Kaalia Kicks Vast Ass

1 year ago

The best way I've found to help Kaalia of the Vast cheat all of those big ole chonkers creatures into play is by running a solid Reanimator package so that your deck doesn't rely solely on it's Commander to function. Entomb, Reanimate, Buried Alive, Victimize, Animate Dead, Necromancy, Phyrexian Reclamation & Final Parting do a lot of work.

I'd also recommend looking through the recent Dominaria Remastered & Commander Masters sets for spicy, cheap reprints like Razaketh, the Foulblooded, Sneak Attack & Gamble. Oh, don't forget to get Vilis, Broker of Blood in there at some point as well.

Here's my own Kaalia list if you wanna check it out: ANCIENT DRAGON TEMPEST (KAALIA)

Azoth2099 on [KFC] Kaalia Friended Chickens

1 year ago

jameswarlord

No problem dude! Glad to help, truly.

As a longtime brewer of this particular Commander, I'm definitely seeing a few cards here that I would cut in favor of more card draw, Ramp, Tutors, & Interaction to get you to your power pieces like Vilis, Broker of Blood. Please don't take this the wrong way, but it will be a shorter list to include the things that I would personally keep in the list, sans Lands. Here we go:

Creatures: Vilis, Broker of Blood, Rune-Scarred Demon, Burning-Rune Demon, Ancient Gold Dragon, Drana and Linvala, Mother of Runes, Giver of Runes, Grand Abolisher & Serra's Emissary

Artifacts: All Mana Rocks CMC 2 or less, Swiftfoot Boots & Lightning Greaves.

Enchantments: Dragon Tempest, Phyrexian Arena & Phyrexian Reclamation.

Instants: Boros Charm, Swords to Plowshares, h Path to Exile.

Sorceries: Damn, Diabolic Tutor & Seize the Spoils.

Everything outside of these ones should be replaced with value pieces imo! I'd also heavily recommend that you pick up a copy of Razaketh, the Foulblooded. It was just reprinted in Commander Masters, and is hovering around ~$8 at the time of this post! It was just like $25-$30 a little while ago. Insane. I'd also recommend looking through the Dominaria Remastered set, lots of spicy reprints in there that have taken a price plunge & could be great here like Sneak Attack & Gamble.