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Commander / EDH Bracket 3 Mill Mono-Black Sacrifice

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Creature (28)

• 1x Angel of Suffering
• 1x Ayara, First of Locthwain
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Bloodghast
• 1x Bloodletter of Aclazotz
• 1x Bog Witch
• 1x Braids, Arisen Nightmare
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Doomed Necromancer
• 1x Filth
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Gorging Vulture
• 1x Gravecrawler
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Millikin
• 1x Palladium Myr
• 1x Reassembling Skeleton
• 1x Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Stinkweed Imp
• 1x Stitcher's Supplier
• 1x Tree of Perdition
• 1x Twilight Diviner
• 1x Tymaret, Chosen from Death *ser*
• 1x Undead Butler
• 1x Undercity Informer
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Liliana of the Dark Realms
• 1x Sorin Markov

Land (36)

• 1x Ancient TombGC
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Castle Locthwain
• 1x Crypt of Agadeem
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Lake of the Dead
• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 1x Peat Bog
• 1x Phyrexian Tower *list*
• 21x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold
• 1x Witch's Cottage

Artifact (9)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Eldrazi Monument
• 1x Jet Medallion
• 1x Mesmeric Orb
• 1x Mindcrank
• 1x Nyx Lotus
• 1x Perpetual Timepiece
• 1x Sol Ring

Instant (7)

• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Crypt Incursion
• 1x Culling the Weak
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Death Denied
• 1x Gravepurge
• 1x Songs of the Damned

Commander (1)

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Black Market
• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Exquisite Blood
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Kaya's Ghostform
• 1x Oversold Cemetery
• 1x The Meathook Massacre
• 1x Tortured Existence

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Demonic TutorGC
• 1x Forever Young
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Morality Shift
• 1x Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1x Victimize

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from the crypt death is less of a boundary and more of a resource.

this is not a reanimator deck in the traditional sense. this is a deck about circulation.

things enter the graveyard. things leave the graveyard. things remember being alive. things don’t stay buried the second time.

how the deck works

the gameplan is simple:

• fill the crypt
• exploit the crypt
• empty the crypt onto the battlefield
• repeat until the board state becomes historically inaccurate

creatures are not threats here — they’re inventory.

we cycle bodies through sacrifice outlets, self-mill, and discard effects to stock the graveyard with future material, then leverage recursion engines to convert that stockpile back into board presence or direct life-drain.

key exhumation events include:

Living Death → equalize the living and the dead

Victimize → trade something temporary for something inevitable

Reanimate → ignore paperwork

Living Death + Phyrexian Altar → controlled demolition followed by mass resurrection

Blood Artist + Sacrifice Outlet → death becomes measurable

Grave Pact + Sacrifice Outlet → nobody else gets to keep their creatures either

the ideal turn cycle often looks like:

sacrifice your board drain the table collapse the ecosystem resolve Living Death return everything that mattered do it again later

☠️ win conditions (or long-term outcomes)

aristocrat bleed — incremental drain via death triggers recursion burst — mass reanimation turns board attrition — forced sacrifice loops combat — whatever crawled back up swings now

looking for feedback on:

• additional recursion engines
• efficient self-mill options
• sac outlets with upside
• ways to protect graveyard access
• whether the deck needs more instant-speed reanimation

nothing stays buried. some things just take longer to come back wrong.

Top Ranked	Achieved #12 position overall 1 year ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Bracket 1 1 year ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Mill 1 year ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Mono-Black 1 year ago
Date added	1 year
Last updated	1 month
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	14 - 0 Mythic Rares 32 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.02
Tokens	Copy Clone, Emblem Liliana of the Dark Realms