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Commander / EDH Combo Mono-Black Storm

JohnMichaelBushman

Land (30)

• 11x Swamp
• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Blast Zone
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Emergence Zone
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Lake of the Dead
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x War Room
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Artifact (9)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Jeweled Lotus
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Shadowspear

Sorcery (15)

• 1x Beacon of Unrest
• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Bubbling Muck
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Doomsday
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Peer into the Abyss
• 1x Secret Salvage
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Tendrils of Agony
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Creature (29)

• 1x Blood Celebrant
• 1x Dauthi Voidwalker
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Opposition Agent
• 1x Rune-Scarred Demon
• 20x Shadowborn Apostle
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Razaketh, the Foulblooded
• 1x Vilis, Broker of Blood
• 1x Erebos, God of the Dead

Commander (1)

Instant (10)

• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Culling the Weak
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Erebos's Intervention
• 1x Imp's Mischief
• 1x Rain of Filth
• 1x Sacrifice
• 1x Songs of the Damned
• 1x Tragic Slip
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Contamination
• 1x Desolation
• 1x Greed
• 1x Leshrac's Sigil
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Vampiric Link

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The moment K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth was revealed during C19's preview season, brewers from near and far saw his Phyrexian mana cost and immediately knew he was made to be broken. I was also intrigued by this card but could not find a build that interested me.

And then I saw this list. Check this first so that you have a basic idea of how this deck works.

It's definitely something. However, it lacked back-up plans should the main combo ever become hated out. So I made some modifications and the list you see here is what I think is a good sweet spot to highlight K'rrik's absurd power level.

The main combo of the deck involves K'rrik himself with Aetherflux Reservoir and Bolas's Citadel. That alone is powerful enough as it will come to a point where the life gained through the Reservoir will outpace the life lost through the Citadel. However, you can only play so many cards off the top of your deck until you hit a land.

That's where two cards come in: Sensei's Divining Top and Necropotence. These two cards will allow you to filter the top of your deck to ensure you can keep storming off and kill the table with a Kaladeshian Death Laser (or with Tendrils of Agony if you're feeling nasty).

Sadly, being in Mono-Black means you don't have much in terms of protecting your combo pieces. So, this deck has the likes of Contamination and Desolation to keep the rest of the table off of your back as you storm off.

An alternative win con is through a card that seems to have been built to be abused by the scion of Phyrexian technology: Doomsday. By cutting out over 95% of the deck, this powerful sorcery all but ensures the demise of the table.

The most basic pile is as follows (from the top of the deck to the bottom):
1. Sacrifice (Yes, you'll use K'rrik to provide the mana to cast the next card in the pile)
2. Bolas's Citadel
3. Viscera Seer
4. Gray Merchant of Asphodel
5. Beacon of Unrest

How this works is you need to cast Beacon of Unrest off of Bolas's Citadel in order to resurrect Gray Merchant of Asphodel that has been sacrificed to Viscera Seer to drain the table to death. There are other lines, but I'm sadly not smart enough to list EVERY line possibility, so I'll leave it to all of you to weave your way through this.

Shadowspear and Vampiric Link are in the deck as cheap ways to recoup all of the life loss brought about by the commander.

Glory to Phyrexia.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	11 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 33 - 0 Rares 13 - 0 Uncommons 33 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.26
Folders	Noice decks, EDH