Budget Nightmare

Commander / EDH Aristocrats Attrition Budget Mono-Black Sacrifice

Crivaro

Creature (28)

• 1x Ayara, First of Locthwain
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Bloodghast
• 1x Brood of Cockroaches
• 1x Cavalier of Night
• 1x Cult Conscript
• 1x Defiler of Flesh
• 1x Erebos, Bleak-Hearted
• 1x Falkenrath Noble
• 1x Gravelighter
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Gutterbones
• 1x Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
• 1x Magus of the Will
• 1x Marionette Master
• 1x Massacre Girl
• 1x Nether Traitor
• 1x Nezumi Graverobber  ^Flip
• 1x Pawn of Ulamog
• 1x Pitiless Plunderer
• 1x Prowling Geistcatcher
• 1x Reassembling Skeleton
• 1x Scrap Trawler
• 1x Sifter of Skulls
• 1x Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1x Woe Strider

Artifact (17)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Blasting Station
• 1x Bontu's Monument
• 1x Ghost Lantern
• 1x Ichor Wellspring
• 1x Inspiring Statuary
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Liquimetal Torque
• 1x Mimic Vat
• 1x Mycosynth Wellspring
• 1x Relic of Legends
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Spawning Pit *list*
• 1x Strionic Resonator
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Witch's Oven

Land (35)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Drownyard Temple
• 1x Dunes of the Dead
• 1x High Market
• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 27x Swamp
• 1x Terrain Generator
• 1x Witch's Cottage

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Crux of Fate
• 1x Deadly Tempest
• 1x Victimize

Commander (1)

Enchantment (10)

• 1x Agent of the Iron Throne
• 1x Blight Mound
• 1x Chime of Night
• 1x Despondency
• 1x Fallen Ideal
• 1x Glistening Oil
• 1x Kaya's Ghostform
• 1x Parallax Dementia
• 1x Tortured Existence
• 1x Treacherous Blessing

Instant (5)

• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Malakir Rebirth  ^Flip
• 1x Snuff Out
• 1x Supernatural Stamina
• 1x Tragic Slip

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Creature (73)

• 1x Armix, Filigree Thrasher
• 1x Bellowing Mauler
• 1x Bloodsoaked Champion
• 1x Body Launderer
• 1x Bone Shredder
• 1x Bontu the Glorified
• 1x Butcher of Malakir
• 1x Carrier Thrall
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Chain Devil
• 1x Corpse Augur
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Dauthi Voidwalker
• 1x Demon's Disciple
• 1x Dimir House Guard
• 1x Disciple of the Vault
• 1x Dockside Chef
• 1x Drana, the Last Bloodchief
• 1x Draugr Necromancer
• 1x Dreadhound
• 1x Elder Brain
• 1x Endless Cockroaches
• 1x Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder
• 1x Fain, the Broker
• 1x Fell Stinger
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Geth, Lord of the Vault
• 1x Ghoulcaller Gisa
• 1x Gisa, Glorious Resurrector
• 1x Golgari Thug
• 1x Gonti, Lord of Luxury
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Herald of Anguish
• 1x Josu Vess, Lich Knight
• 1x Junji, the Midnight Sky
• 1x Leaden Myr
• 1x Liliana's Standard Bearer
• 1x Liliana, Heretical Healer  ^Flip
• 1x Lorcan, Warlock Collector
• 1x Massacre Wurm
• 1x Merciless Executioner
• 1x Midnight Reaper
• 1x Morbid Opportunist
• 1x Murderous Rider
• 1x Myr Retriever
• 1x Nadier's Nightblade
• 1x Necroplasm
• 1x Nested Shambler
• 1x Nether Shadow
• 1x Nightmare Shepherd
• 1x Ogre Slumlord
• 1x Order of Midnight
• 1x Pentavus
• 1x Persistent Specimen
• 1x Plaguecrafter
• 1x Priest of Forgotten Gods
• 1x Ravenous Chupacabra
• 1x Sepulchral Primordial
• 1x Shambling Ghast
• 1x Skyclave Shade
• 1x Sly Requisitioner
• 1x Smothering Abomination
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Tenacious Dead
• 1x Tenacious Underdog
• 1x Underworld Hermit
• 1x Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
• 1x Viconia, Drow Apostate
• 1x Vindictive Vampire
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Wandering Archaic  ^Flip
• 1x Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Enchantment (34)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Attrition
• 1x Bastion of Remembrance
• 1x Bereavement
• 1x Black Market
• 1x Black Market Connections
• 1x Blessing of Leeches
• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Braids's Frightful Return
• 1x Dark Prophecy
• 1x Dawn of the Dead
• 1x Demonic Lore
• 1x Demonic Pact
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Elspeth's Nightmare
• 1x Ghoulish Procession
• 1x Hecatomb
• 1x Liliana's Contract
• 1x Necrosynthesis
• 1x No Rest for the Wicked
• 1x Omen of the Dead
• 1x Open the Graves
• 1x Ordeal of Erebos
• 1x Oubliette
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Phyrexian Scriptures
• 1x Polluted Bonds
• 1x Rite of Belzenlok
• 1x Sleeper's Guile
• 1x The Eldest Reborn
• 1x The Long Reach of Night  ^Flip
• 1x The Meathook Massacre
• 1x Underhanded Designs
• 1x Vampiric Rites

Instant (13)

• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Defile
• 1x Doom Blade
• 1x Feign Death
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Infernal Grasp
• 1x Mausoleum Secrets
• 1x Shred Memory
• 1x Songs of the Damned
• 1x Szat's Will
• 1x Vampiric TutorGC
• 1x Village Rites
• 1x Wake the Dead

Land (12)

• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Dakmor Salvage
• 1x Gods' Eye, Gate to the Reikai
• 1x Haunted Fengraf
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 1x Memorial to Folly
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Polluted Mire
• 1x Tectonic Edge
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold

Artifact (30)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Blood Fountain
• 1x Charcoal Diamond
• 1x Claws of Gix
• 1x Coldsteel Heart
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Cranial Plating
• 1x Crowded Crypt
• 1x Demonmail Hauberk
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Grafted Exoskeleton
• 1x Grafted Wargear
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Nim Deathmantle
• 1x Nimblewright Schematic
• 1x Noble's Purse
• 1x Nyx Lotus
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Phyrexian Vault
• 1x Prismatic Lens
• 1x Prized Statue
• 1x Servo Schematic
• 1x Soul-Guide Lantern
• 1x Spine of Ish Sah
• 1x Sword of the Meek
• 1x Ugin's Nexus
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1x Weatherlight Compleated

Sorcery (16)

• 1x Agadeem's Awakening  ^Flip
• 1x Ancient Craving
• 1x Bone Splinters
• 1x Command the Dreadhorde
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x In Garruk's Wake
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Mutilate
• 1x Persist
• 1x Profane Command
• 1x Profane Tutor
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Unearth

Planeswalker (5)

• 1x Karn, Scion of Urza
• 1x Liliana Vess
• 1x Liliana, Dreadhorde General
• 1x Lolth, Spider Queen
• 1x Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools

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My budget casual Braids deck to play against friends, with quite the political streak. Try to keep it at the same budget as the opposing decks of this playgroup. I love that it is super interactive, a bit political, a bit aristocrats, and a lot of turning wheels with solid draw. Overall a very rounded fun deck that features some old callbacks I loved back in the day.

Maybe at some point I'll expand on the artifact aristocrats sub-theme to make it front and center (for my personal reference: https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/budget-nightmare-copy-1/?cb=1664833390).

Top Ranked	Achieved #10 position overall 3 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Budget 3 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Mono-Black 3 years ago
Date added	3 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 25 - 0 Rares 29 - 0 Uncommons 17 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.77
Tokens	2/2 C Artifact Creature Spawn, Copy Clone, Eldrazi Scion 1/1 C, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Food, Goat 0/1 W, Morph 2/2 C, On an Adventure, Pest 1/1 BG, Servo 1/1 C, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie 2/2 B w/ Decayed
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